actually in a much better place than black pittsburgh what i'm sorry to see i think he was a good coach and a good but i liked him i don't think he was right about the john terry issue you can't be captain with that question 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 as a mouse is the favorite down to this after the top the 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 conceding nearly three hundred thousand dollars of transfer bonuses while in charge of portsmouth however read that says he is now focusing on spurs while newcastle manager alan pardew has already ruled himself out as his side prepares to go to white hart lane on saturday. tottenham he's. been fantastic to me. in the last week we are going to be credible the reception they

gave me so i wouldn't be right today and to even focus anything else but talking that's my only interest is talking about it's not for me you know might not quite clear or even in the running as far as i'm concerned i'm very very happy here. we're on a little project here it's going really well and we won i want to see it for the passion and everything about this place is why i want to stay here. call me while here in russia as an occasional china spotlight he has signed a deal to stay at the st petersburg side until twenty fifteen the news is a boost 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 competition and continues the successful at least since joining from roma back in two thousand and nine winning the domestic title in his second year in charge and it's a county six points clear at the top of the table within the set to resume on march the. then staying with football and the africa cup of nations fine. will be between

favorites ivory coast and surprise package zambia arsenal striker engineer school of the ivory coast we're on the stroke of half time as the elephants beat mali one nil while asamoah guyon missed an eight minute penalty for ghana and zambia then one mil emmanuel by yuko with the striker to hand his team mates to training final . this is the thing you know as it popped into play in the final thing for the players i think this is that this is moving to a playoff run cup with nation final this is one dusty we are happy everybody is out the we prove that people room is do we have a good team we win today so i think we we read that this today despite whatever they want to see. one of the main saw it was a cup night in germany too where the country's most decorated side by in munich reached it got two mil to move into the semifinals and stay in the hunt for a rare trouble toni kroos twice went agonizingly close to breaking the deadlock in the twentieth minute but it was france when franco for buying the whole found mark

thomas mueller feeding in the cross. was once again the provider as mario gomez added another right after the restart the prolific striker keeping his cool and using his left foot somewhere in the rebound and condemned his former side to the two no defeat find our second in the germany and will face basel in the champions league round of sixteen. now two ice hockey and russia are without forward maksim would even as they take on finland in their first ever open air match in how siggy the two face each other in the opening game of the swedish leg of the euro hockey tour or the home nation is up against the czech republic in the light match of russia both defending champions and overall leaders in this four nation competition . cycling now just days after alberto contador was stripped of his twenty ten total france title another former champion has also been handed a two year ban for doping offense the court of arbitration for sport has ruled that the retired german was linked to a doping probe in spain in two thousand and six. the verdict means the thirty eight

year old will also have his third place finish at the two thousand and five tour de france taken from him already was the first german to triumph at the world's most famous cycling race back in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven he also won the spanish welter two years later. 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 aslam course has been described as one of the toughest in the world the course of 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 billionaire mikhail blocking off inspecting the venue ahead of the russia cup and while the height difference is of up to sixty meters between peaks and troughs will make it exhausting while the climate will also take its toll. on the cyber war 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 doesn't it and finally to boxing where unbeaten russian welterweight where they have sealed winning number sixteen by defeating colombian ignacio mendoza on a successful night for russian fighters here in moscow and walk across is ringside . many here are saying that the fight between their beer and windows is going to be a big case in the first round because both have a lot at stake like their dear undefeated until now whereas mendoza could lose his double in a bed that lands in jail we'll see indeed that was the case in the first couple rounds mendoza spritely books and matched everything our d. of had to offer even seemed to be edging the point through the judges eyes but after seeing his fellow compactor it's all of the doubt prior to the night 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 dia 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 the animal came out seeing an opportunity alice ready it unleashed a vicious number of punches to put mendoza against the rope in 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 windows and now look half the man that had entered the ring and with another savage onslaught by his opponents had to be protected by the referee bringing an end to the browns in a technical knockout. like the d. of gladly received the w b a federal latin belts but seemed more pleased in retaining his unbeaten status and the manner of his victory was that i didn't really know where the felling blow came from came on its own back of course a famous time off after them beaten opponents 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 him. there were three other ballots on the night that also managed to bring the crowd alive ukraine's mikol occurred in your spot up with russia's oleg e.c. of but after a full eight rounds the bout had to be decided by the judges who were unanimously in favor of lissie if. in the second fight professional debutantes gave us enough made light of things showing no signs of jitters as he dispatched to make his former two time heavyweight title challenger owen back after a full rounds. and the third bout involves rushes the drawers to challenge form a w b a light heavyweight champion richard hole but after a rounds the jamaican could no longer answer ended in his corner plenty of

celebrities were also on hand to enjoy the thrills of the evening including russian books in legend dennis livid if i came down here to support my friends my fighting colleagues i think this event is well organized and it'll only get better also in the ranks with deputy prime minister alexander and renowned director nikita mcculloch 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 market chunk of the moscow. for the saving i had.

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u.n. arab league want to work together to stop the bloodshed in syria but the conflicting numbers of deaths coming from the country make it hard to get a true picture on the ground live analysis on the syrian crisis a little later on r.t. . greece agrees on a new series of a watering cuts to secure yet another e.u. bailout amid public fury we get live reaction from athens very shortly. and as the e.u. plans to bring iran to its knees with an approaching all embargo their affairs the move could backfire and hit european countries the hardest.

russia's second largest lender the tepee has decided to fight back it says from minority shareholders to double the market price and join me in about twenty minutes with more details on the business but at that. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day the u.n. says it plans to team up with the arab league and restart a monitoring mission in conflict on syria president assad's forces say they are conducting anti terror operations shelling several areas including the flashpoint city of homs but activists are accusing the government of a massacre saying hundreds of civilians have been killed over the past week something 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 bodies are the bennett report from 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 is not always telling the truth for ownership the syrian observatory for human rights is live several media outlets quoting the false information as to rivals fight the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists to posting military jets alongside civilian one that's both sites 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 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. i don't think even the people using these figures have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is there 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 the united nations security council when that human rights strategy for regime change doesn't work how annoyed western governments are how got arab league monitor the original observatory strictly 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 views censored by calling for no fly zone for international intervention and we made it clear that sit on their victory for human rights. or regional organization is that we are i guess an interventional we are against the no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed in that is going on in syria as are we 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 homes there are 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. 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 either bennett's r.t. london. and israeli website is reporting that british and qatari special forces are already in syria assisting the rebels well let's get more on this latest development from journalist joining us from new york well if the claims of those foreign troops on the ground prove to be true considering nato states and its gulf

allies say they are against a libyan star scenario in syria where could this lead. well it's a very dangerous situation because if there are troops on the ground and nato is denying any involvement or authorization for there. the possibility of an escalation of terrorist action is much greater. also reminiscent of what happened in libya reports that the u.s. and its allies are looking into supporting the syrian opposition including the arming of the rebels and creating a humanitarian corridor that was a world of course we heard during the libyan crisis this does sound suspiciously like that no fly zone doesn't it but we saw over libya. well any attempt to justify many military intervention. and it opening of a humanitarian corridor could very easily be. distorted and used for other

purposes. this is a very very delicate area very delicate moment it's a very dangerous situation and i think it's imperative that all sides exercise complete restraint and reason and i think russia's call for dialogue is the only approach which will prevent this from escalating beyond anyone's ability to control will that happen if the opposition of being encouraged by nato states not to enter into any negotiations. while i think the likelihood of the dialogue happening under those circumstances is very slight what happened in libya where nato was actively supporting the opposition led to regime change and if that is the goal here it is

unlikely that dialogue will be encouraged although officially that is what the obama administration is. is discussing if the goal is regime change what all after the fall of assad what is the aim of this what do the nato countries and indeed gulf states some arab countries want in replacement what do they expect. well this is a very very disturbing question because. in the event that this falls we don't know who will replace him we don't know whether it will be religious extremists that seems to be the case in a great many of the so-called arab spring countries the muslim brotherhood has taken power what does what would nato countries want well there's a lot of oil in that area there is a lot of belligerent commentary about iran that's another very very.

dangerous it's the well it's probably the most dangerous question of all just very briefly you're saying this could be a precursor to putting pressure on iran we're going to see this not just as a domestic problem in syria but it's going to stretch beyond that and indeed include iran just very briefly. yes that's seems to be the path this being that's being laid out libya syria and then iran and i think this is an extremely reckless and dangerous course of action thanks very much we thought to leave it there callista from the center for research on globalization joining us live there in new york. greek leaders have reached an agreement on new austerity measures the country needs the cost to get the one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and the international monetary fund to avert a default would be the second such cash handout and no details have been revealed

yet but the public have already started to voice their anger let's discuss this now with. me this he's a journalist in athens now the previous round of cuts led to huge rest in greece we are learning that the unions are now threatening a forty eight hour strike and indeed one union leader saying expect social uprising so we're going to see violence once again then are we in athens. good evening from athens i can really hardly hear you because at that moment the main body of that demonstration. from the hotel where we are. now and it's extremely difficult to listen to you but i have to tell you that increase their protest or spend a majority of people i'm not sure about peace agreement because maybe their main three leaders are greek about these measures but the thing is that. a lot of people in greece for their leadership of those three parties of the coalition they

already call them employees whole thing international monetary fund sure. if somebody has to celebrate something i am the last person to understand why he has to celebrate because for example what we get from all these measures. if we have all as you said before default then we. in this situation where we have to face a slow death from starvation in which case and this is simply the truth. if you can hear me clearly protest there are very loud protests in the streets behind you what about the political implications now we understand that greece's deputy labor minister has just resigned over the new austerity measures we're going to see more political upheaval now in greece bearing in mind of course the previous government collapse over those first round of austerity measures. and i'm afraid that this is the case because apart from mr coutts are fairly sure yesterday changed his

attitude towards this agreement one hour ago one minister for the greek government the vice minister often follow him and he designed he said i am not going to support this agreement it's beyond my. power and i can see the situation going on and here and i'm afraid. he will be followed by other members of the parties and off the government i have to let you know also in russia that. the situation in greece these extreme at the moment we have children playing pink in their school because they don't have proper breakfast and because they don't they don't have enough food so you realize that the situation is greece is getting worse and worse all right if the social implications of that bad what can protesters and unions offer as an alternative. i can i really can't hear you well because the main body of the demonstration i repeat to you he's under the hotel now

so i would like you to repeat the last question please you are clearly saying that these social conditions now a very harsh for many great people what do the protesters and the union suggest as an alternative. ok ok i will tell you at the moment they see the protesters and a lot of people in greece that we have a recession is a mess. bring us more deep to recession we have taxes and taxes we have layoffs and we have a lot of people as i told you that they are hungry at the moment so what they say is that first of all they demand the election which i have to tell you here and now they want elections they want the situation to be changed second they they have been wondering and i also have to pass this. question to you whose recipe are we following at the moment increases i mean the greek government the recipe comes from the i.m.f.

and the recipe simply doesn't work. it's going to do three each old view of the troika gives their main. orders and you know that we get more and worse in the last two years so far as they say and i agree with them easier to see this time to morrow rice from the west than to see all these orders and all these measures bring us to growth and bring us back to normal life still around also very honest we'll leave it there thank you very much indeed for your live analysis and an account of what's happening there in athens at the moment to be honest chrysostom one more talking to us from our. guy please ask. for one second to add something i have to read something very important to you because you asked me what they propose what is the alternative very quickly so they say a lot of us are very quickly they believe their money oh many hundreds of billions of euros to greece from the money that now is he stole from greece they called it

forceful loan from occupied greece to nasa germany and others and we know that this is a truth so the next government of germany they say that they don't have to pay greece anything and they are mounted together with all i repeat all recognize german finance our obligation towards greece sorry passes seven hundred billion euros in today's prices. if we take into account date interest rates so there is no exaggeration in this and this is money their money really this is the at that give anyone an interesting point there ok thanks very much indeed still there are lots thank you for joining us live. this is r.t. here in moscow with you with the twenty four hours a day still to come for you this are sky high ambitions we explore the russian region the part of the country's aviation industry in our close up series. still to come but first europe has become more dependent on oil imports from iran

new research suggests the e.u. countries bought 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 and on the continent of voicing concerns that the move will backfire to run as also warned europe that it's shooting itself in the foot 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 southern madrid believe the oil embargo has been forced upon europe. what we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from 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 the 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 hard hit in a way that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of these of these 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. not update you on some world news in brief for you this one of the most senior al qaeda chiefs in pakistan.