always do it's 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 what appeared to be now chelsea manager andre villas boas has played down the significance of owner roman abramovich as a parent of the club's training ground this week the russian owner is normally absent from the training ground but is made to appearances in recent days fueling speculation pressure could be increasing on the last bus just because he is a physically present does it mean that the conversations just not conversations have been going in different modes but with physical presence you get your ideas across better so it was good. now on the hardwood sas car moscow was shocked by galaxy asteroid in the year early as the istanbul outfit handed the army men their first loss on the continent this season the now of sixty eight sixty four when ending the russians thirteen game winning streak the home team's looks underage set

the early tone with a vicious fast break dunk of andre kirilenko up the twenty seven year old would finish with the second most points for his side scoring sixteen joshua ship was the man leading the way with twenty two the army men were determined to make the game come down to the final moments. missed two out of three crucial free throws with six seconds left which gave the hunting another chance ship would then close out the sixty eight sixty four win from the foul line himself the army men do however still top that top sixteen group despite that the fifth. talkie where russia have moved top of the overall standings in the euro hockey talk after a turn away and over local favorites finland in helsinki the way in the opening game of the swedish leg of the tall the reigning champions of followed closely by the czech republic you had a much tougher win over two thousand and eleven runners up sweden that's an advantage the heroes he scored a regulation goal i was the only player on i've attained to convert in the post not

shoot out in the chest one two three one rush hour in action again on saturday and they'd bartle sweden in stockholm. now in tennis roger federer is preparing for his first appearance in the davis cup first round in eight years as switzerland host the usa the davis cup is the only major owner to evade the thirty year old in his prestigious career and he hasn't played in the first round of the competition since two thousand and four federer is second up on court later on friday against american john isner before that stanislav takes on muddy fish. not a whole lot it's just another tie for me doesn't matter what when and where and how it is it's all a matter of our sort of priorities and. my team is. you know all of us great friends and that's what i enjoy about it is that i can spend some time with them and hopefully try to win but if we don't it doesn't matter it's about trying trying very best having a good time now you'd have thought if you had three olympic gold medals t.n.a.

mia might be content to gracefully retire however russia's wrestling champion but if i saw sight e.f. is having none of it he could be in line to appear at a record faith summer games in london as a correspondent reports. three time olympic champion bull by sar sites already a living legend in russia's republic of dagestan but his achievements have all the potential to become near and reachable if he qualifies and wins the london games as the thirty seven year old freestyle wrestler prepares for his fifth olympic experience. to what you might call my actions today whether i get on the team or not all done for the benefit of wrestling i have a very clear objective and i understand what is required of me but if i prove stronger than the other guys then i will make the team if not well i've never been afraid to lose i will turn around and go home where i will be welcomed in any case whether i win or lose. while defending russia scullers is still his primary task

but i saw our faces and entirely different challenge in his hometown of hearts i do it with a population of around one hundred thousand this place probably has more really big champions per capita than any other in the world eager to keep that tradition going by star satie have opened his second gym and done to make the path to success a little easier for the next generation. wrestling is very strong in our city because of traditions we have many sports schools and our kids have. many opportunities which we didn't have back in our time like we had to practice in a vehicle repair workshop which we read a quip with some more let me think of. training alongside his older brother is the two thousand the limbic champion. of who also made a comeback at the beginning of the twentieth twelve following a four year struggle with a spinal injury while bored by sar is yet to showcase his current form younger already proved that he's on his way back to the summit after finishing in second

place at a high profile event in europe in tournaments earlier this month is obviously also a regular at the gym which bears his family name. what we have is wrestling and that was always the only gym available when we were growing up if you wanted to spend your time well or compete with friends of your age you had to come to the gym and try to show what you were when we were kids we had no t.v. or internet and didn't see any famous restless we were our own competition. the abundance of freestyle wrestling trendsetters in dagestan today is the result of the locals decades long drive to excel in this sport the republic's leadership is naturally open to any initiatives that compel you to join wrestling groups or any other sports activities for that matter. that the but it's very important to develop sport among youth and we're not confined to sports of high achievements we

want them to be accompanied by development of children sport average age and i guess dan is twenty seven and kids make up half the population our task is to create suitable athletic conditions for these young people for them to develop physically culturally morally so sport is a priority in our policy. so while the government is doing its sport to get youth into gyms local and big champions book by sar and are busy juggling a couple of hats in order to stay in top shape in case of a national team or noticing. a brand new talent in their own gym despite being an active athlete with us have sightsee it is already ensuring that find wrestling for additions who can see you over here in dagestan this gym is his legacy for the next generations to follow on calls for a forty in hostile view of russia's republic of dagestan. now a goal for tiger woods has got his twenty twelve p.g.a. season off to a steady start in the first round of the pebble beach national pro am world series

playing in the tournament for the first time in ten years finished with a four under par sixty eight the former world number one appeared to be back to his best at times as evidence by this approach shot on the tenth as a three way tie at the top of the leaderboard dustin johnson charlie way and danny lee all finished the first round or nine under american johnson could have been outright leader for this eagle attempt on the eighteenth just didn't want to drop. now it was a mix of the old and new was formula one continuous pre-season testing in spain make a roseburg was quickest in last year's car on day three john set the fastest time among the twenty twelve race models to time the champion sebastian vettel has taken his all the way for a spin around the helots track the twenty four year old for the seventy third fastest time of the day completing ninety six laps in his first f one driver in two months was only while interim the try for one hundred seventy seven times and the

second quickest to his new lotus topped the time sheets and lost his mercedes. leave testing early to work on the vehicle martin march the eighteenth season in mobile. and finally it was seventh heaven for one man at the top of the empire state building as german run up thomas dold won the annual race up the stairs of new york's tallest skyscraper for a record seventh time there more than fifteen hundred steps from the lobby up to the observation deck and it took the whole just ten minutes and twenty eight seconds to cover the distance still not quite his personal best afterwards the twenty seven year old compared his collection of titles to cyclist lance armstrong seven tour de france grounds. rather him than me that's the sport and i'll have more for you in a couple of hours time join me then. download

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u.s. gathers a coalition of nations to help bring down the syrian regime and directly as american weapons reportedly find their way to and forces. greek labor unions stage a two day strike in response to the latest wave of hysteria cuts which they say is pushing workers and the economy towards a financial abyss. politically proactive a group of public figures from russia's civil society gather widespread support of their quest to keep the presidential elections fair and transparent. and in business russian markets a lower and morning trading following those losses in asia declines in the wires accel led by banking and energy stocks but bring you more on this in our business

bulletin. what did i see coming to you live from moscow it's eleven am in the russian capital arena joshie violence in syria is escalating and there's no u.n. backing for foreign intervention so and to ask forces across the world are seeking other means to topple the president the u.s. is setting up an international coalition aimed at supporting rebels in their struggle against damascus the so-called friends of democratic syria will involve countries willing to prop up the opposition and pile more pressure on the regime direct military action is ruled out but reports suggest british and qatari special forces are already in the conflict zone and while the u.s. and its allies criticize russia for supplying military hardware to damascus there are now calls for american lawmakers to arm the opposition in response your troops

are trying to stem the flow of weapons already being smuggled in from neighboring countries but as archie's marine of ordinary forts the region's been flooded with american arms for years. at the united nations security council america holds one permanent seat. but when it comes to weapons the world's largest arms exporter is often seen as sitting on two chairs they say there isn't an international embargo on arms preventing them from doing that that is a fact but that doesn't change the immorality of supplying a dictatorial regime that is killing its people in massive numbers every day and we are are deeply concerned about that as u.s. officials continue publicly scolding countries over relations with syria critics say the accusations are being thrown from a tremendous glasshouse the us is a hugely difficult in this regard because they've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us sold the store equally more than four hundred

billion dollars worth of since the one nine hundred sixty s. have gone to the middle east and you can't argue. seriously that it's made that region any more stable in the past few years nearly fifty percent of u.s. weapons exports have been flowing to the middle east many countries with the biggest appetite for american weapons have also made headlines for carrying out brutal crackdowns against dissidents and opposition groups if you are are you know ok in france they are thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity and. of american foreign policy is painfully. evident according to congressional figures america has sold one point four billion dollars worth of weapons to bahrain since two thousand and america struck its single biggest arms deal when saudi arabia ordered sixty billion dollars worth of arms the

us has long subsidize the israeli military and recently supplied them with bunker buster bombs experts say this strict teacher car maker of middle eastern countries is aimed at iran and extending u.s. dominance in the region. he's going on boy. you know you don't. you know you man why do. some geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blower sibel edmonds has accused america of playing particularly dirty while leading a campaign for regime change in syria and it's not some kind of. simultaneously op rising situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously armed and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey who who is providing this arms nobody's asking in the us media well these are u.s. arms shipped to turkey this as the u.s.

military complex flush with record revenue continues to lobby its interests on capitol hill arms manufacturers are some of the biggest companies in america they're some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only do they make an so for the defense department around the world they're a federal contractor and many other levels are going to vote in elections this statue outside the u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york russia has been trying to mediate a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict for months and wants to host talks between the warring sides but one middle east expert told r.t. that negotiations will be hard to bring about as long as the syrian opposition is rallying for regime change. the meeting with the russian foreign minister sergei

lavrov expressed his readiness however the other side is not expressing its readiness there are some members of the syrian opposition who are expressing readiness however there are other sides a lot including the muslim brotherhood who actually don't seem to want to participate in the gauche asians setting preconditions or sitting in other parts to enter negotiations for that i think that is part of. the whole thing for the west is not about negotiations is about overthrowing a regime which is a part all of. which washington or which some western states western powers want to get rid of including israel also wants to get rid of the. greek politicians last minute agreements on fresh plans has exactly been greeted with open arms the forty eight hour strike has been called by the country's two major labor unions and eurozone member states say they will put even more conditions on greece before handing over a second bailout after a struggle athens did manage to program multi-party assyria the deal which has been

demanded by creditors it was a place just a matter of hours before you were ministers met in brussels but they're still unhappy and i'm willing to hand over a one hundred thirty billion euros the greek parliament now has to pass a package of cuts and reforms by sunday the journalist crisis to media says the situation in the country is deteriorating and the consequences could be dangerous. what we get from all these measures. if we have all had to be fought then we are in this situation where we have to face a slow death from starvation in greece the situation in greece is extreme at the moment we have children playing ping 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 she is getting worse and of course we have a lot of people as i told you that they are hungry at the moment first of all they demand the election which i have to tell you here and now they want elections they

want to see trace and to be seen to check on they have been wondering whose recipe are we following at the moment increases i mean the greek government 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 more see 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. robert oulds chair of the london based think tank bros group believes that it's the european currency itself pushing greece to the at. greece is in severe economic difficulties and it's failed to meet many of the targets that the eurozone and the i.m.f. has set it for what it has to do in terms of to be able to reform its finances to

be able to pay back some of the debts that it so that has been largely caused by issues to do with the euro itself and the problem that the euro creates and how it makes the greek economy competitive so basically greece cannot survive while it is in the euro and the more austerity measures which are being forced upon it or just hurt the greek economy even further wages have been cut thirty percent on average in greece pensions are being kept people are finding it very hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures and the problems caused by the euro what they're doing at the moment is just throwing more money at the problem and really putting back the day when greece will have to deform will have to leave the euro. now coming your way here in r.t.e. innocence lost in afghanistan find out why the latest strike has left afghanistan the president can downing foreign troops. and separate its powers as why israel is

stopping thousands of palestinians from permanently living with the entering of the family its. civil society in russia is moving to the forefront of politics with a mission to keep the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent a group of leading public and pro active figures are joining forces and crucially they seem to have the support of the candidates and the voters are just going off has more. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough since scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in courts tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding fair elections but marches presidential vote is just around the corner events are unfolding quickly where. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their villages go they

want political competition independent courts and media forming the voters' league is not our achievement the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists and bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures and statements made in tedious like t.v. host and now activist but one of the ladies that he or the head of a charity fund and blogger he does any of the bianca also known as dr liza. ordinator of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone. our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a similar position there are the better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections is published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be

a part of public discussions and online votes are the key instruments and letters have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the league and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including prime minister and presidential candidates pledging middleton we fully share your view on the necessity to hold a fair election of the president of russia march fourth we are thankful for your offer. we're sure by uniting our efforts will be able to ensure. we accept your proposal to. another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak years ago and willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers would also arrange to put together a unified database to keep track of the election points because according to its founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure a fair election in moscow alone. it's great that the civil society wants to be more

active but it's really important not to cross the line and observers not only are positioned it is serious so if the mutations are not to take sides in the political process. it is the league's founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement claiming they are keen to work with all candidates equally there's no doubt society has changed more people want to have more influence on russia's political life perhaps that's why it took less than one month for the vote was leaked to establish ties with both the authorities and the opposition and with the help promise from candidates the league just may secure enough access to effectively monitor the vote in march as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its neutrality is going off r t moscow and get all the latest news and updates on line by logging onto r.t. dot com here's what's waiting for you there today. returns to argentina one hundred

seven drowned that was downed in december last year to the united states only now it's paying about an atheist of its original size. it also online spoke too soon germany was forced to switch back to greener energy just one year after declaring it was giving it up find out why on r.t. dot com. just over a month before rerun of the presidential vote in south city one of the candidates is in hospital alan joyce is recovering from a stroke she suffered on thursday when prosecutors arrived to take her in for questioning she's been called as a witness to the raid on government offices late last year joy to claim victory in of amber as disputed presidential election which was an old five year sitting in

supreme court the country's capital was gripped by protests for weeks after the vote joyal is planning to stage her own inauguration as president this friday which the acting head of a republican and a tampa cool artichokes on a boy who has the latest from south of the city. in the remember last year the city held its first postwar presidential elections the results of later canceled by the central election commission of the violations of the new elections and now scheduled to take place on march twenty fifth and earlier on thursday police security services have raided sure it was housed in the capital of south sudan during that raid herself conscious and she's now in the hospital being treated for a minor according to the. interim authorities the main reason for these unexpected a raid of george's house was bring her in for questioning to the prosecutor's

office and i'm going to reporting there now the afghan president has ordered an investigation into the airstrike that killed eight children on wednesday in a statement hamid karzai can dam the aerial bombing by foreign troops just a week ago the united states announced it could hold combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but this strong i could worsen an already strained relationship between karzai and washington and a mounting afghan death toll documentary filmmaker claire bourne sings that despite condemnation civilian casualties will continue to rise. have any viability any legitimacy as an afghan when something like this happens but he is basically a tool of the american occupation there so we can expect any real demands to change from here this kind of thing obviously doesn't win hearts and minds this happened in the same area were afghan soldiers recently killed by french troops important i

think because the u.s. was playing a pull out of the movie next day for him because of the injured are moving your troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan you are a start two thousand and eleven eight percent above two thousand and ten in terms of civilian casualties i'm afraid we're going to see that trend continue in two thousand and twelve precisely because they know that they have to pull out safely because they noted again. now take a look at some other stories from around the world germany's finance minister has been caught and saying more details bailout plan may need to be devised one second bailout for greece has been finalised the comments came at a meeting with other eurozone ministers and are the first acknowledgement from a higher level here official the particle may need more time and money to get its back on track a country or see the seven billion euro bailout last.