it was time for a new man to get in place and do what he needs to do building up towards the competition so no i think we're actually in a much better place than the black appeared to be what i'm sorry to see fabby ago i think he was a good coach and a good man i liked him i don't think he was right about the john terry issue you can't be captain with that question mark that needs to be answered but england needs a new coach and a new captain and i hope we can get on with that and make sure we make the best of the opportunities this summer. well meanwhile the f.a. say a british manager would be preferable and harry redknapp has emerged as the favorite candidate after the top manager was found not guilty of tax evasion by a london court just hours before capello quit the sixty four year old had been accused of concealing nearly three hundred thousand dollars of transfer bonuses while in charge of portsmouth however read that now says he is currently focusing on tottenham while newcastle manager alan pardew has already ruled himself out as his side prepares to go just burst on saturday. you know. they've been

fantastic to me. in the last week we've guided credible reception like i. wouldn't be right to them to even focus anything else but talk that's mildly interesting talk about it's not for me you know might not quite clear or more even in the running this was on consent i'm very very happy here. we're on a little project it's going really well and we want i want to see it for the passion and everything about this place is what i want to study. well meanwhile here in russia. he has signed a deal to stay at the st petersburg side until twenty fifteen the news is a bid for the russian champions who are preparing to face benfica in the last sixteen of the champions league next week this is the furthest the club have ever reached in the conversation and continues the successful as he had since joining from roma back in two thousand and nine winning the domestic title in his second

year in charge so need a car a six points clear at the top of the table with the league set to resume on march the. same with global africa cup of nations final will be between favorites ivory coast and surprise package some bia also struck as you know score the ivory coast win on the stroke of pop time i think we can lawley one you know while some of the lead missed an eight minute penalty for going out and zambia then base one nil emmanuel with the strike behind his teammates a dream final. this is the. you know as it popped into playing the final thing for the players i think this is that this is moving to a playoff run competition final this is fantastic we are happy everybody is happy we proved the people room. we are a good team we win today so i think we are we were the best today despite whatever they want to see. for me while i was playing ball so now have reached the coverdell were a final of at least third time in four seasons after a two no home with over ten thousand volunteers to go in each often sets fabregas

the job ensuring boss goes through the three one i get. was sent off to the visitors with fifteen minutes left side of all my face and let it build in the final boss rashmi run this. time in one innings in stephan says in your sport deep into extra time a song and one that f.a. cup full foundry thanks to one of the local rivals middlesbrough set up a last sixteen tie at home to arsenal. well it was also a cup night in germany where the country's most decorated side by in munich which took got two nil to even to the semifinals and staying in the hunt for red trouble toni kroos twice came agonizingly close to breaking the deadlock in the twentieth minute but it was france winger frank rebury who opened the bye and on the whole found a mark thomas mueller feeding in the cross and miller was once again the provider as mario gomez added another right after the restart the prolific strike of keeping

his cool and using his left foot to hurry the rebound and his former size two to no defeat fine a second in the german we will face in the champions league round of sixteen. on the basketball and russian side unix have suffered their first defeat in the year only top sixteen after losing sixty three fifty eight to emporio armani in milan because on team defeated armani in week three but this time the italian after it was unstoppable an impressive three pointer from kramer giving the home side a twenty eleven lead line. in the first quarter well in export back of the second and even call the deficit back to four points by half time it was not enough to stop armani from claiming their first win in the top sixteen again sixty three fifty eight the result however unix still top group with three wins and just that one defeat. to winter sport now and the russian city of sochi will host the winter olympics in exactly two years time and it's nearly built by as long course has been

described as one of the toughest in the world the course of course now by the owner is set to host its first serious test event this weekend and the president of the russian biathlon union believes the athletes will find it tough millionaire mea culpa rocket of inspecting the venue ahead of the russia cup and warned that high differences of up to sixty meters between peaks and troughs will make it exhausting while the climbers will also take its toll. at the start of the is good but it's the most difficult course in the world the temperature differential between the snow in the air is only four degrees celsius we don't have this anywhere else in the world for the ski lubricator for the people who prepare the students this is a huge problem but this makes the competition all the more unpredictable by city and finally to boxing where unbeaten russian welterweight ballack but they have sealed well number sixteen by defeating colombian and not human those are on a successful night for russian fighters here in moscow michael crushing copas ringside. many here are saying that the fight between allen and windows is going to

be a big case in the first round simply because both have a lot at stake. as the undefeated until now mendoza who loses the. belt will see indeed that was the case in the first couple of rounds mendoza a sprightly books and matched everything alex have had to offer he even seemed to be edging the fight through the judges' eyes but after seeing his fellow compaction it's when all of the bouts prior to the night's main event the russian light welterweight turned up the heat in the fourth increasingly mendoza was put on the back foot by some nifty flurries of jabs and punches from our dear but it was the twenty nine year old russian who was carrying the open wounds and splashing the ring with blood at the end of the fifth round and then in the sixth spot the animal came out seeing an opportunity unleashed a vicious number of punches to put mendoza against the ropes. the russian

fighter thought it was all over at one point raising his arms in the am only to be brought down to earth by the bell mendoza now looks half the man that had entered the ring and with another savage onslaught by his opponent had to be protected by the referee bringing the end to the brout in a technical knock out. of the of gladly receive the w b a federal latin belts but seemed more pleased in retaining his unbeaten status and the manner of his victory i don't really know where the telling blow came from that came on its own. but of course a famous time off after the beaten opponent ignacio mendoza was of course disappointed with the defeat even though it was only his seventh loss in forty two bouts but the twenty eight year old colombian did offer reasons behind his downfall i couldn't when you saw the fight he was strong he had a great garden i really could left hook. there were three other ballots on the

night that also managed to bring the crowd alive ukraine's nichol occurred in your spot up with russia's oleg lisi of but after a full eight rounds the bout had to be decided by the judges who were unanimously in favor of lucy if. in the second fight professional debutantes gave us not made light of things showing no signs of jitters as he dispatched to make his former two time heavyweight title challenger zero in back after four rounds and the third bout involves russia's grigori draws to challenge form a w b a light heavyweight champion richard hole but after eight rounds the jamaican could no longer and surrendered in his corner plenty of celebrities were also on hand to enjoy the thrills of the evening including russian boxing legend dennis limit of i came down here to support my friends my fighting colleagues i think this event as well organized and it will only get better also in the ranks with deputy prime minister alexander and renowned director nikita mikel cough who seemed to really appreciate

the efforts of the russian boxes so one could say alex their deeds emphatic when coupled with a clean sweep by the remaining russian boxes must be a sign that boxing is alive and well in russia mark of chunk of party moscow. i've missed so.

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syria's forces bombed the city of use with reports of more deaths but with conflicting numbers of casualties coming from the country it's almost impossible to get a true picture of events on the ground. as the e.u. plans to bring iran to its knees with an approaching oil embargo there are fears of the move could backfire and european countries the hardest. plus u.s. drone attacks rained down on pakistan with hundreds of civilian deaths in collateral damage as the country's foreign minister tells our t.v. that such measures are counterproductive to the war on terror. the us markets

nothing is today's trading session in the red meanwhile the u.s. markets open up in the black i'll have the exact figures in twenty minutes time and a. very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow i'm wrong. the u.n. says it plans to team up with the arab league and restart a monitoring mission in conflict in syria president assad's forces say they are conducting anti terror operations shelling several areas including the one city of alms but activists are accusing the government of a massacre saying hundreds of civilians have been killed over the past week something still hard to verify and with conflicting opposition reports of casualties there are those who believe the figures are being manipulated to push

a regime change agenda parties i've attended has details. the syrian observatory for human rights syrian observatory for human rights the syrian observatory for human rights it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures but it's not always telling the truth and the syrian observatory for human rights. several media outlets quoting false information as two rivals fight for the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists to posting military deaths alongside civilian one both sides claim they're the official observatory this is the original site in arabic with an english version on facebook and this is the fake site launched in the center and mostly in english several foreign news outlets have assume they are one and the same thing quoting the fake sites casualty figures the consequence of a very different perspective of the crisis the original sites latest figures show

just over five thousand one hundred civilian deaths against almost two thousand military casualties the rival site claims well over six and a half thousand civilians have been killed and barely six hundred troops a difference many claim suggests this is a lot more than just a numbers game i don't think even the people using these figures are have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is the just the fire by any means possible that assad regime is a brutal massacring regime and it needs to fall a soon as possible and we can see if the united nations security council when that human rights strategy for regime change doesn't work how annoyed western governments are how have got arab league monitor the original observatory strickly opposes military intervention the man who hijacked it's name disagrees. used to translate at the real observatory he was fired after falsely claiming to be an official spokesman and using a live interview to call for

a no fly zone since then he's launched a smear campaign against the original group claiming they're the impostors as are we and these figures have been quoted by the b.b.c. c.n.n. and a.b.c. australia the other groups say they tried to pass some political the itself. calling for no fly zone for international intervention and we made it clear i see don't deserve a three for human rights. origin organization is that we are i guess an interventional we are against the no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed that is going on in syria as always and his group refused to speak on camera stating i cannot waste my time talking about this is the moment whilst people are dying in homs they're my priority right now he did refer us to another opposition group based in london and they too refused to comment on the ownership of the observatory but they did confirm that reporting military deaths was not in their

interest it's not our position to report the casualties of. government troops the b.b.c. and the guardian had to withdraw material after falsely quoting as always the human rights observatory the un stop counting the death toll claiming it's too difficult to keep track of but it's human rights chief also said five thousand civilian deaths should be enough to provoke international action the real observatory still documents the deaths civilian or otherwise but it may be too late for the numbers to matter i've been it r t london. and it's ready website reports that the british and the qatari special forces are already in syria assisting the rebels risk a middle east expert says if the claims prove to be true it won't help bring peace to the region. but this will probably mean more escalation on the ground some more covert military operations and on the political level we've also heard that some

arab league countries all the arab league in very little is intending on the officially recognizing the syrians are additional council leader syrian political opposition body so i think that is something which is widely expected and of course really i see that more violence will be in the making however we also do hear that the russians for example are providing the most assistance is possible they can to the syrians to deal with this issue now don't forget that the russian side has cautioned time and again of the rise of islamic fundamentalists so the presence of islamic fundamentalists inside syria those who oppose a syrian regime and syria has also spoken all of them as well the son of a sudden the members of al qaida and the syrian ambassador to lebanon made it very clear one week ago when he said that most of the weapons and most of even filtration most of the smuggling is coming in from the level and unfortunately as the escalation from opponents into the increases i think that we are going to

discover more and more smuggling and more and more of a negative role from some lebanese in the syrian issue. you're watching are to you it's good to have you with us europe has become more dependent on oil imports from iran new research suggests the e.u. countries brought more oil from the islamic republic in two thousand and eleven with the biggest customers being spain and italy but with the e.u. planning to cut off trade in july in line with the international sanctions against iran many on the continent of oil and concerns the move will backfire serranos also warn europe that it's shooting itself in the foot in the view is shared by spain's ambassador to iran who says his country suffers the most from the continuing e.u. pressure against the islamic republic and some in madrid believe the oil embargo has actually been forced upon europe that we will be. with we're seeing here is not at the station that comes actually from the european countries to spain never want to disembark go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes

externally from the united states pressure on the european union european union actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was retrieved in the last twenty years the connections that have been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to these new tension and he's not just to spain and italy also greece imports lots of oil from iran and it could be part of it in a way that would break the bank in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the u.s. and that can happen because of the. political move it has now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effects if the iranians decide to say cut of the strait of hormuz or even if they now decide to beat europe to it by. by by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find

alternative supplies if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. well still to come for you this hour here on r.t. financial troubles prove a health hazard in the u.s. as manufacturers and gamble on america's caffeine dependency often with disastrous results and that story coming your way a little bit later on in the. school the sky high ambitions of the russian region and a pioneer of the country's aviation industry that's to come in our close up series . now ten minutes past the hour here in moscow one of the most senior al-qaeda chiefs in pakistan has been killed by an american drone strike along with at least three other suspected militants the attack took place in the north waziristan tribal area close to the border with afghanistan but that it monsoor is suspected of killing dozens of people in that country and abroad it comes after the bureau of

investigative journalism found hundreds of civilians died because of similar cia ordered aerial attacks chris woods who compiled the report thinks the u.s. is simply ignoring the condemnation over its deadly drone policy. and the cia has been saying for some time now that it hasn't killed a civilian in pakistan since at least two thousand and ten every news agency now pakistan every credible news organization that's looked at this is not the case we know that civilians are being killed in pakistan with these drone strikes seem to be an indication that these drone strikes are happening despite what pakistan wants not because of what pakistan wants because of causing huge problems within pakistan united states court has ever looked at the legality of these drone strikes and there's a reason for that every time a case has been brought in the united states that has attempted to look at work that these strikes are legal or not the united states is claiming something called state secrets privilege but that's where they say actually this is

a covert operation and we can't discuss it well it's somewhat been blown out of the water by the president himself going on google recently and talking to americans about the existence of this so-called program. pakistan's foreign minister told us here at r.t. that instead of helping to fight the insurgency u.s. drone strikes are actually hindering the war on terror. the region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than for sort of unity approaches. in how we want to rid this region in our view. not only completely illegal and awful and had north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and

extremism because if one straight leads to getting you target number one or target number three to be you're creating five more targets with ten more targets in the militancy that is in the in the for doing that it gets to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks. and you can watch that interview unfold in just over an hour's time here a lot. let's get to some other global news for you in brief this hour with the r.t. world off then we'll start with greece where the leaders there have finally reached an agreement on new austerity measures without the cuts the country wouldn't be able to get the crucial one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and voted to fold a spokeswoman for the prime minister's office said the deal with allow alternative cuts to those rejected early thursday the main sticking point was proposed deep

cuts into pensions. a criminal court in the mall d. has issued an arrest warrant for ousted president mohamed nasheed this comes a day after the leader was among dozens injured when a riot police used force against protesters as unrest deepens. resulting resulted from a police mutiny and popular protest over a controversial decision to arrest of top judge nasheed claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint and promises to return to office. turkish troops have killed thirteen kurdish insurgents in two separate clashes in turkey nine people died near the town of being goal and four others near the town of cork could occur after rebels attacked a military station there it's less than a week since turkish warplanes bombed through suspected rebel targets in northern iraq tens of thousands have died since nine hundred eighty four in the kurds continue to fight for autonomy in turkey's southeast. britain could soon start using chemical weapons for domestic law enforcement

a group of experts from the national academy of sciences believes the government intends to develop nerve agents for the police to use against rioters mark book field from the education activist network says it's part of an intensifying crackdown on shows of public discontent. the income passive. nerve gas as it is as it is called has been used against protesters in the june general strike in greece and amnesty international condemned the use of tear gas in normal language it's called choking gas and has said that the greek government has waged a chemical warfare upon its very own citizens now you can actually die from the from the gases be being used against protesters against larger crowds and what we have seen is that the police time and time again has lost control of the streets and thus it doesn't come as a surprise in the context of global revolutions and revolt that now the u.k.

is starting to use the same measures as countries as mubarak has done in egypt or even the greek government has done to its very own citizens over the general strike so it wouldn't surprise me if these chemicals are being used on british streets that similar a cure and so this would happen but we need to say is that the police have overextended the use of force on previous demonstrations so far they have curtailed the right to protest by threatening students to use rubber bullets and water cannons and the latest announcement actually makes very clear the intentions of the police to further curtail our right to protest. well you watching our life from also a quarter past the hour now here and you can always get more news online just by going to our dot com some of the stories waiting for you right now including the anniversary all me why egypt's new government is deploying more troops across the country just a year after the fall of the former president mubarak's regime. also the painful

aftershocks of the war heavily armed fighters carry out a bloody attack on a refugee camp on the outskirts of tripoli i read more on that online. in the u.s. when the economy needs a fix so do the people the country is now the world's largest consumer of coffee and this addiction to caffeine is being exploited by some one scrupulous producers who are looking to boost their profit. reports. in the city that never sleeps are perpetual craving for energy never eases i nearly every man has street you'll find two things a coffee shop and customers cupping their fix a liquefied legal stimulant that most can't envision quitting i feel like you know i get it wrong. so i go to be three oh yes. and i don't know if i could give a week i love. it five or six cups

a day yes i'm not good to much of anything but you're still going to drink three cups definitely. americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us believe in consumer of coffee in the world according to medical experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three hundred milligrams or fifteen ounces of coffee one large cup of starbucks contains more caffeine than the daily maximum recommendation however in recent years the country's addiction to caffeine has grown both in portion size and means of consumption consumers no longer have to down twenty ounces of starbucks or sixty four ounces of soda to get an energy high. unconventional products such as five hour energy drinks and stimulant least gum have made caffeine america's most marketable legal drug because of the work and heritage animal.