place and do what he needs to do building up towards the competition so no i'll think we're actually in a much better place than the blood appears to be now chelsea manager andre villas boas has played down the significance of roman move its presence of the club's training ground this week the russian owner is normally absent from the training complex but is made two appearances in recent days feeling speculation pressure could be increasing on the last blow us. just because he is physically present doesn't mean that the conversation is just not conversations that have been going. different modes. because you could present syria to your ideas across britain who. were stunned by galaxy asteroids in the euro league as the istanbul outfit handed the army men their first loss on the continent this season the marriage sixty eight sixty four when ending the russian's thirteen game winning streak that i'm teams that looks underage set the early tone with a vicious fast break dunk. 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 points the all the men were determined to make the game come down to the final moments. two out of three crucial free throws with six seconds left which gave the hunting another chance chip would then close out the sixty eight sixty four win from the foul line himself the army men do however still top their top sixteen group despite the loss. now over to ice hockey where russia has moved top of the overall standings in the euro hockey toll after eternal win over local favorites finland in helsinki the win coming in the opening game of the swedish leg of the tour the reigning champions are followed closely by the czech republic not a much tougher way over twenty eleven runners ups waited. to hear as he scored a regulation goal and was the only player on either team to convey in a post not shootouts meaningless checks one to one russia are in action again on

saturday and they do battle with sweden in stockholm. meanwhile olympic skiing gold medalist buddy miller has been evaluating the slopes which will host the world's best year in the twenty fourteen sochi olympics the thirty four year old was preparing for a world cup a vent and says the krasnaya polyana course is world class however the american believes that a few changes are needed ahead of the showpiece event. maybe six or seven places in the whole region it's. just the direction it's the course is easy so. it's very easy for. the big thing along. the way so it. is. good to see. it's it's not long. now in tennis russia are preparing to take on austria in the first round of the davis cup in the world group play gets underway

in austria later on friday eagle commits in his first up against. the four alex bought them all of germany and makes his russian debut in the competition having switched from the united states meanwhile roger federer is taking part in the first round of the competition for the first time in a is the switzerland host the usa the davis cup is the only major owner to evade the thirty year old in his prestigious career he second up late on friday against american john is now before the stanislav but in ca takes on modern fish. now you'd have thought if you had three in a pick gold medal c.n.n. you might be content to gracefully retire however russia's wrestling champion. is having none of it he could be in line to appear at a record fifth summit games in london as our correspondent roman culture of reports . three time olympic champion bull vice are sites already a living legend in russia's republic of dagestan but his achievements have all the potential to become near unreachable if he qualifies and wins at the london games

as the thirty seven year old freestyle wrestler prepares for his fifth olympic experience. all 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's colors is still his primary task but i saw our faces and it's a different challenge in his hometown of house i do it with a population of around one hundred thousand this place probably has more or less be champions per capita than any other in the world eager to keep that tradition going by star sides he have opened his second gym in dagestan to make the path to success a little easier for the next generation. but i do 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 re a quip with some more let me think of him when training alongside his older brother is the two thousand the limbic champion dumpsites here who also made a comeback at the beginning of the twentieth twelve following a four year struggle with a spinal injury while 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 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 the north wasn't aware 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 time 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 part to get youth into gyms local and big champions build eyesore and are busy juggling a couple of hats each in order to stay in top shape in case of

a call to the national team or noticing a brand new talent in their own gym despite being an active athlete have said see it is already ensuring that fine wrestling preditions will continue over here in pakistan and this gym is his legacy for the next generations to follow him on cost free for r.t. in hostile view of russia's republic of dagestan. now in boxing i'm a cohen has been given the chance to win back the two well titles he lost to the man pages and in december cannes can confirm that a rematch will take place in las vegas on may nineteenth just one of the i.b.s. m w b a light welterweight titles following a controversial points victory over card and the americans hometown of washed. the w.p.a. ordered a rematch earlier this month claiming there were multiple irregularities in the first contest. in goals tiger woods has got his twenty year old p.g.a. season off to a steady start in the first round of the pebble beach national pro am woods who's

playing in the tone of 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 of times as evidenced by this approach shot on the tenth it was 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 but this eagle attempt on the eighteenth just didn't work to draw. finally in formula one it was a mix of the old and new as pre-season testing continued in spain nico rosberg was quickest in last year's car on day three or among groser on set the fastest time among twenty twelve race models two time defending champion sebastian vettel was taking his eight for a spin around the head of track the twenty four year old would go on to second third fastest time goes on the wall went around the track a full one hundred seventy seven times and was second quickest in his new lotus. at

the time suit in last year's miss avies the stable will leave testing early to work on a new vehicle for the march the eighteenth season opener in melbourne. well that's all the sport for now i'll have more for you in a couple of hours time join me then. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

to much brighter than if you knew me by phone from phones to permission. for stunts on t.v. don't comb. us gathers a coalition of nations to help bring down the syrian regime and there were actually as american weapons reportedly find their way to and to us and forces. greek labor unions stage a two day strike in response to the latest wave of a steady cuts which they say is pushing workers and the economy towards a financial abyss. political you proactive a group of public figures from russia's civil society gather a widespread support of beer quest keep the presidential elections fair and transparent. and in business this hour russia's second largest lender v t v will by chose from the minority show the shareholders at a price they paid during the tide b.-o.

in two thousand and seven find out how much this will cost the backing of this world. what you are going to live from moscow now first as our syrian state media is reporting several large explosions in the country's second largest city aleppo blasts are being blamed on what's being referred to as terrorist and there are a number of casualties reported the first time something like this has happened in aleppo it has been relatively quiet during the uprising that began in the country last march the government. is fighting a foreign funded insurgency and also blamed terrorists for several bombings in the capital damascus late last year. as violence in syria ask of forces across the world are seeking indirect means to topple the president of the us setting up an international coalition and supporting rebels in their struggle well 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 call for example and while the u.s. and its allies criticize russia for supplying military hardware to damascus there are now calls from american lawmakers to arm the opposition as our partner reports the indians already been flooded with firepower and made in the usa. 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 it's 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 the 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 they fear are you ok friends they're thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity and barker city 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 strategic arming of middle eastern countries is aimed at iran and extending u.s. dominance in the region. is going on. against your own. you know human wide. geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blowers 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 arms and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey well who who is providing this arms nobody is 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 there are some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only do they make and so much for the defense department around the world there are federal contractor and many other levels there. a little actually 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. new york. russia has been trying to mediate

a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict for months and wants to hold stocks between the warring sides and 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. meeting with the russian foreign minister sort of a love of 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 ations setting preconditions or something in order to enter negotiations last fall and i think that is part. of the whole thing for the west is not about negotiations it's about overthrowing a regime which is a part of my bro brought up block which washington or which some western states western powers want to get rid of including israel also wants to get rid of them. politicians last man agreement on freshest already plans hasn't exactly been

greeted with open arms 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 broker a multi-party austerity deal which has been demanded by creditors it was in place just a matter of hours before you were ministers met in brussels but we're still unhappy and unwilling to hand over one hundred thirty billion euros the greek parliament now has to pass a package of cuts and reforms by sunday the journalists the media sas the situation in the country is deteriorating and the consequences could be dangerous. what we get from all these measures. if we have all the fault then we. where we have to face the death from starvation in greece this situation in greece you six three not that woman we have children playing in their school because they

don't have proper breakfast and because they don't they don't have enough food and you realize that the she traced and she's getting water should or should 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 change. they have been wondering who are we forming at the moment increases and i mean the greek government there should be comes from the i.m.f. and there should be simply wasn't sure. how it's going to trade each old view that troika gets their main. orders and you know that we get more and more see in the last two years. as they say and i agree with them easier to see this time to morrow rice from the west than to see all of 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 bruges group believes that it's the european currency itself pushing

greece to the air. 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 by thirty percent on average in greece pensions are being caught 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. coming your way later in the program in a sense lost in afghanistan find out why the latest airstrike has left afghanistan president condemning foreign troops. and separated spouses why israel is stopping thousands of palestinians from permanently living with israeli families. our 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 going after 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 street demanding fair elections with marches presidential votes 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 bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures and statements made g.d.s. clegg t.v. host and now activists. have already asked for the head of a charity fund and blogger it is idea that bianca also known as dr elisa. cordoning of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for

everyone or smoothness of our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a civil 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 pledging middleton another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak you have to go on willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers we've also arranged to put. together unified database to keep it from the election 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 limitations 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 the 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 can always get all the latest news and updates on line by logging on to here's what's waiting for you there today iraq iran returns to argue one hundred seventy drowned that was downs last december

to the united states only now it's playing at about eighty if that's the regional sides. also online spoke too soon germany's forced to switch back to nuclear energy just one year after declaring he was giving it up find out why on r.t. dot com. the afghan president has ordered an investigation into an airstrike that killed eight children on wednesday in a statement of karzai can damage the aerial bombing by foreign troops but just a week ago the united states announced it could hold combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected this strike could worsen them already strained relationship between karzai and washington amid a mounting afghan death toll documentary filmmaker claiborne's things despite

condemnation civilian casualties will continue to rise. he. have any viability in the sea as an afghan war 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 french troops working i think because the us he was playing a pull out of the movie next day for him because of the injured are moving their troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan we already saw two thousand and eleven april. 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 it's. just over a month before we're out of the presidential vote itself sadia one of the candidates is in hospital alan joyce is recovering from a stroke she suffered on thursday when prosecutors arrived to take her and for questioning which is being called as a witness to a raid on the government offices of the late last year to have a claim victory in of ambers disputed presidential election which was a nod by the a city and supreme court the country's capital was gripped by protests for weeks after the vote so i was planning to state her own inauguration as president this friday which the acting head of the republic or with an attempted coup. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world germany's finance minister has been caught on tape saying portugal's bailout plan may need to be revised once a second bailout for greece has been finalized the comments came at a meeting with other eurozone ministers and are the first acknowledgement from a high level euro official that portugal may need more time and money to get its

commie back on track the country received a seventy eight billion euro bailout last april and has since fallen ten. deep recession. pakistan's supreme court has rejected an appeal by the prime minister against a contempt of court charge yousuf raza gilani will be charged unless he agrees to reopen the corruption case against the country's president has refused claiming the president has immunity from prosecution while in office if found guilty the private history could face up to six months in prison and be disqualified from holding public office. a planned strike by police in rio over a low paid could put next week's famed brazil carnival at risk despite an agreed pay rise of thirty nine percent over the next two years law enforcers want to double similar industrial action in the city of salvador saw the murder rate doubled with one hundred twenty people killed during the nine day police strike the army could be deployed in rio to provide security.