does it mean that the conversations just not conversations have been going. different moods but with physical presence you get to your ideas across britain. now in basketball so i ask how moscow was stunned by galaxy are soaring in the euro league as the istanbul outfit handed the army men their first loss on the continent this season the irish sixty eight sixty four when ending the russian's thirteen game winning streak the home teams set the early time with a vicious fast break down. the twenty seven year old would finish with the second most points for his side scoring sixteen joshua shit was the man leading the way with twenty two points the army men were determined to make the game come down to the final moments under two out of three crucial free throws with six seconds left which gave the home team another chance ship would then close out the sixty eight sixty four win from the foul line himself the young men do however still top their top sixteen group despite the loss. while in the n.b.a.

the denver nuggets under coach george karl have slumped to their fate straight defeat the golden state warriors winning one hundred ninety one hundred one thanks in part to amazing display by stephen curry who was red holton finished with thirty six points in his many minutes it's the not just worst one of two thousand and three the one hundred nine one hundred one final score not a fair reflection of how dominant the visitors were the lawyers have now won three out of the last five. 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 friday. his first up again. before alex bottom all of julia 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 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 a second up later on friday against american john isner before the takes on lot of fish. over to ice hockey where russia have moved top of the overall standings in the euro hockey till off a total when i have a local favorites finland in helsinki the women coming here think game of the swedish leg of the tool the reigning champions of followed closely by the czech republic who had a much tougher way in over twenty eleven runs out sweden president but the heroes he scored a regulation gold and was the only play on either taken to convert in a post not shootouts in the czechs one two one russia are in action again on saturday and they battle sweden in stockholm. meanwhile lympics skating gold medalist by de mello has been evaluating the slopes which will host the world's best during the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics the thirty four year old was preparing for a world cup of ent and says the krasnaya polyana course is world class however the

american believes that a few changes all needed ahead of the showpiece event. maybe six or seven places in the whole course. it's. just the direction it's getting through the course even. if it's very easy for. the. long haul. but the way itself. is. going to receive. it so it's not long. now in boxing i'm a car has been given the chance to win back the two well titles he lost to lamont peterson in december khan's count of confirmed the remark will take place in las vegas on may the nineteenth he said won the i.b.s. and w b a light welterweight titles following a controversial points victory over the americans hometown of washington the w b i ordered a rematch earlier this month claiming that what multiple irregularities in the

first contest. now if you have thought you had three gold medals you might be content to gracefully retire however russia's wrestling champion. t.f. is having none of it so he could be in line to appear at a record fifth some of games in london as our correspondent reports. three time olympic champion bull vice our side 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. 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 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 would 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 house i do it with a population of around one hundred thousand this place probably has more or less big champions per capita than any other in the world eager to keep that tradition going by star satie have opened his second gym in dagestan to make the path to success a little easier for the next generation. of id wrestling is very strong in our city because of traditions we have many sports 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 pick up on him when training alongside his older brother is the two thousand the olympic champion. who also made a comeback at the beginning of twenty 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 with. 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 sport 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 that insists on them 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 shape in case of a culture national team or noticing a brand new talent in their own gym despite being an active athlete side see it is already ensuring that fine wrestling for additions can see you over here in pakistan and this gym is his legacy for the next generations to follow him on cost free forty in house of your russian republic of dagestan. now finally in goal tiger

woods has got his twenty twelve p.g.a. season off to a steady start and the first round of the pebble beach national pro am woods he's playing in the tournament for the first time in ten years finished with a four under par sixty eight before but world number one appeared to be back to his best at 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 way are all finished finished the first round of. american johnson could have been the outright made this eagle attempt on the eighteenth just wouldn't. close but no cigar that's the sport for now dimitri will have more for you in a couple of hours time joining that. issue is that so much of anything you should be finishing my mark with the feet and the battle for syria the international community is divided as the syrians

themselves when it comes to resolving the situation. will get the. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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video on demand. and. in the palm of your. question. the u.s. gathers a coalition of nations to help bring down the syrian regime indirectly as american weapons reportedly find their way to assad forces. stage a two day strike in response to the latest wave of austerity cuts which they say are pushing workers on the economy towards a financial abyss. politically proactive a group of public figures from russia's civil society gather widespread support on their quest to keep the presidential elections fair and transparent.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. this hour straight to syria where the armed wing of the opposition has claimed responsibility for two car bombs in the major northern city of aleppo according to state media the attack left at least twenty five people dead more than one hundred and seventy. the targets were military intelligence and security service headquarters this is the first of its kind of an incident in the city's been rather quiet since the uprising began in the cunt. last march the government claims it's fighting a foreign funded insurgency and blamed terrorists for several recent bombings in the capital damascus well as are the violence in syria escalates the u.s. is setting up an international coalition aimed at supporting the rebels the

so-called friends of democratic syria will involve countries willing to prop up the opposition and pour more pressure on the regime to go direct military action is. with 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 from american lawmakers to arm the opposition as artie's marina pornography the region's already been flooded with firepower 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 they've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us sold the store really 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 so you're ok in france they are thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been

overseas the duplicity in apocrypha 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. eastern countries is aimed at iran and extending u.s. dominance in the region with. that is going on. against your own it's not a rule of you know human rights. it's all about 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 but it's not some kind of. simultaneously op risings situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously armed 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 is 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 they make and so much for the defense department around the world there are federal contractor and many other levels there 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. and our russia has been trying to mediate a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict for months now and wants to host talks between the warring sides but one middle east expert told all of us here at our see that negotiations will be hard to bring about as long as the syrian opposition continues to simply rally for regime change. after 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 ations and are setting preconditions or saying in order to enter negotiations last fall and i think that is part of a what's to those on the the whole thing for the west is not about negotiations is about overthrowing a regime which is a part of a 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 this is r t it's good to have you with us today a great politicians last minute agreement on fresh austerity plans not exactly being greeted with open arms a forty eight hour strike is being called by the country's two major labor unions and eurozone members states say they will even put more conditions on greece before handing over a second bout after a struggle athens did manage to broker a multi-party austerity deal which has been demanded by creditors was in place just a matter of hours before euro ministers met in brussels but they are still unhappy and unwilling to hand over one hundred thirty billion euro the greek parliament now has to pass a package of cuts and reforms by sunday the journalist still on those crystals that what this says the situation in the country is deteriorating and the consequences could be disastrous. 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 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 situation is getting worse and worse 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 the situation to be changed second they have been wondering who's recipe are we following at the moment increases i mean the greek government recipe comes from the i.m.f. and their secret simply doesn't work. it's going to free speech all views that 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. but also the chair of the london based think tank the bruges group believes that it's the european currency itself pushing greece to the edge. greece is in severe economic difficulties and it's failed to meet many of the targets that the eurozone in 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 and that so basically greece cannot survive while it is in the euro and the more austerity measures which are being forced upon it will just hurt the greek economy even further wages have been cut by thirty percent on average in greece pensions are being carved people are finding it very

hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures in the problems caused by the euro and 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. ten minutes past the hour this is r t live from moscow coming your way just a bit later in the program separating balances why israel are stopping thousands of palestinians from living with their israeli families. and the robin hood tax your own son expensive cars could soon cost of their own homes as russia's prime minister wants the wealthy to pay for their luxuries. civil society run or 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 proctor figures are joining forces and crucially they

seem to have the support of the candidates and the voters. as the story. 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 years of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the only reasons are still to be proven in court tens of thousands of people have been taking to the street demanding fair elections with marches presidential vote is just around the corner events are unfolding quickly where. people want to vote responsibly internet where their villages go they want political competition independent courts in media forming the voters league is not meant the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists already reuters and other public figures i stay with us blake t.v.

host and now activist but one of the ladies. or the head of a charity fund and blogger elizabeth also known as dr lisa. ordinator of the blue book its 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 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 years ago i'm willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers was also arranged to put together a unified database to keep track of the election protocols 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 clearly important not to cross the line and observers not only are a position 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 voters league to establish ties with both the authorities and the opposition and with the help of 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. to bear in mind you can always get to the latest news on updates online just by logging on to our teeth dot com here are some of the stories waiting for their right iran. drove down. to the united states but now it's pink. oh excuse me an. original. germany is forced to switch back to nuclear energy just one year after declaring it was giving it up find out why that .

time is the business but for now russia has over one hundred billionaires many of whom made their fortunes when state property was privatized in the one nine hundred ninety s. but after decades of reaping the profits they may soon have to give a share back. proposed russia's very. sacks which would also apply to one of his rivals for the present president of billionaire. business pool explains the details. this is very can be very difficult to enact it's very difficult to implement. case in point in this regard because he didn't nickel for two hundred fifty million dollars sold it for around about ten billion but he has sold it so how do you know tax nor is nickel in order to get profit off it was bought out by a series of other people you can't really tax them so if you impose the windfall tax on oil you're getting the wrong guy and you can't go an empty mr prohack ross bank account cosmonauts of problems. with the idea for luxury tax which was

actually on things like. he's quite explicit about the idea that this is not going to be a tax on the middle class it's just for this very small minority of wealthy people now it's difficult to generalize about. any population feels but i think it's a safe bet say that they don't really like the tycoons because the oligarchs and taxing them not likely to be a vote loser let's put it that way. all right let's get to some other global news for you in brief this hour with the world up to germany's finance minister has been caught on tape saying that. bailout plan may need to be revised once a second bailout for greece has been finalized the comments came in a meeting with other eurozone ministers the first acknowledgement from a high level you are official the portugal may need more time and money to get its economy back on track the country received

a seventy eight billion euro bailout last april and has since fallen into a deep recession. pakistan's supreme court has rejected an appeal by the prime minister against a contempt of court charge. will be charged unless he agrees to reopen a corruption case against the country's president. has refused claiming the president has immunity from prosecution while in office if found guilty the prime minister could face up to six months in prison and be disqualified from holding public office. under central bank is literally money to help keep people in europe deadly cold snap the bank has been transforming the bold notes into bundles with me burned by those in need of heat by being provided as a free source of warmth for the past four years now the need is particularly acute now as hundreds of people have died from cold across eastern europe in just the past few weeks.