who threw you for your fringe of we sure. are more school were stand by god to do your really. handed the muscovites their first loss on the continent this season their narrow sixty eight sixty four victory and in the russian's thirteen game winning streak their home teams and reach center with their fast break dunk over and drake kurylenko 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 take the game come down to the final moments and maced two out of three crucial free throws with six seconds left which gave the home team another chance to prevent close out the sixty eight sixty four win from the foul line. are still top of good despite that loss. in tennis russia has started the davis cup campaign where they take off in the

thirst round in the world group because it's in the best of the notes and in. the top. five four in the second set. jonathan makes he's rushing to get in the competition having switched from the united states played against first head and later on. russia have successfully started the third stage of the euro hug this what is gained. over reigning world champ and finland at the open air a limp in helsinki goals from things stuff. getting made the game for the russians and the other match of the day the czech republic needed a shutout to the think tweeting to one that's mad but with the winning shot that russia veteran on saturday in their battle sweet taste at home while the czechs take home. now you'd have thought if you had three gold medals

to a name you might be content to retire russia's resting champ and boy is having none of it he could be in line to record faith summer games in london as our correspondent now reports. three time olympic champion bull by cyrus eighty of is already a living legend in russia's republic of dagestan but he's achieved all the potential to become a near and reachable equal applies and wins the london games as the thirty seven year old three star wrestler prepares for his olympic experience. what you would call my actions today with regrets 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 or what if i prove stronger than the other guys then i will make the team if not well i've never been afraid to lose and i will turn around and go home. where i would be welcomed in any case whether i win or lose yes. while defending russia scullers is still his

primary task but i saw our faces and entirely different challenge in his hometown of as 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 and little easier for the next generation. of id wrestling is very strong in our city because of traditions we have many sports clubs and our kids have many opportunities which we didn't have back in our times like we had to practice in a vehicle repair workshop which we read a quip with some models or let me pick up on him when training alongside his older brother is the two thousand the olympic champion a downside who also made a comeback at the beginning of twenty 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 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 but 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 you and we are not confined to sports of high achievements we

want them to be accompanied by development of children sport average age 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 pick champions book by store and are busy juggling a couple of hats each in order to stay in top shape in case of a call to action or noticing a brand new talent in their own gym despite being an active athlete with us have saidi of is already ensuring that by wrestling preditions will can see you over here in pakistan and this gym is his legacy for the next generations to follow. forty five yard russian republic of dagestan. in the meantime south african sprinter oscar pistorius is yet to qualify for his first ever game four

time paralympic champion also known as blade runner failed to take part in the previous games in beijing and now the goal of his life lies in making the london olympic. qualifying. is a goal that i've been trying to atone since two thousand and five in my twenty living season i managed to run seven b. qualification times in one qualification time i have to do that again during the calendar year run one and one and one more qualification time so it's something that that's been on my cards for for many many years and you know in the last two three years i've been able to get closer and closer to those times. let's now move to the world of high octane engines why spend money sold the house taking the owner of the sweden on day one clinching his victory on the stage in base stage in constant despite severe weather conditions it was a spanish driver who took the podium at the opening race of the grand prix sort of

came just three tenths of a second out of no waist. and he's turned the scandinavian beat tunick off a store near by the same split second time current season leader and eight time world champion sebastian love finished fourth course in the line at the same time with just hold the sweden. thomas dog has won the enya race of the empire state building run up in new york for iraq seventh in a row the last his rivals as he ran up the stairs to cross the finish line first after supposing one thousand five hundred and seventy six steps finished an impressive time with ten minutes and eight seconds which is eighteen seconds slower than winning time from last year. there was the first time i put all these things on one table and three oh my goodness that's really a huge part of your life right now i have got an additional one in seven right now

we'll get seven. yeah. that's a huge i don't maybe the first third is always something special. for sevens in a row. no one has done it before. in the women's event was minister moon of new zealand who won the race the forty two year old athlete finished after twelve minutes and thirty nine seconds suzy welch in pain her second to look closely by chris see what. it was about a patient i'm away because it was a group of about three or four of us pretty much to give up for about the face. forty four was i mean there were two of us who were together for at least of the seventy four sorry i didn't have it yet i had the and i that sat yeah that's pretty shameful for the majority of the rice which you know it's a whole new different i need to try to you know i keep it you need to get away and

you've got people breathing down your neck. ok up today no i'll be back with more sports news from around the globe into ice time by phil. culture is that so much definitely a huge musician on the mark with the feet and the battle for syria the international community is as divided as the syrians themselves when it comes to resolving the situation.

a split within the ranks of syria's opposition fighters but first they claimed they were behind. in the country's largest city of aleppo which killed at least twenty five but now another spokesman has denied responsibility that coming just an hour later only tear gas and fire bombs on the streets of athens as protesters clashed with police. another set of looming cuts to please creditors. and observing political change russia's public figures come together to ensure a fair and free presidential vote while striving not to take sides. there are some markets have finished up today's trading session and the reds following on from

losses across the globe join me for the figures on the details in twenty minutes time and i'll business been there for. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow i'm shy there are conflicting reports over whether the free syrian army and the wing of the opposition was behind the attacks in the city of aleppo an hour after one f.s.a. spokesman confirmed this and other blamed the government for the blasts of killed at least twenty five and injured nearly two hundred journalists never reports from syria. aleppo a northern city in syria has been relatively quiet since the anti-government protests took place and march the government claims it's fighting a foreign funded insurgency and as well as it blames terrorist groups for the

several bombings that took place in damascus of last year the violence has escalated in syria for the past week opposition forces claiming assad's forces are shelling on several areas including the city of homs activists are accusing the government of a massacre saying that hundreds of civilians here have been killed it something that's hard to verify meanwhile the u.s. is setting an international coalition aimed at supporting rebels and their struggle these so-called proof friends of democratic syria will involve countries willing to proffer the opposition and pile more pressure on the regime although direct military action is has been ruled out some reports suggest the british are in concert responsible forces are already in the conflict. there are now calls from washington to arm the opposition and as our teams merino portnoy i reports that the

region has been flooded with weapons from the u.s. . 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 historically 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 know ok in france they are thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity in a boxer say 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. is aimed at iran and extending u.s. dominance in the region. that is going on. against your own. you know human rights. it's all about some geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blowers 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 rising situation where people are rebelling and then suddenly they are mysteriously arms and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey well who was providing this arms nobody's asking in the us media all 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 there are some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only do they making 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 what ny r.t. new york. meanwhile reports of a most of that support is on its way to assad's forces chinese media claim that it iran has sent fifteen thousand of its elite revolutionary guard troops to help maintain order in syria but professor mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says that despite being an ally of syria iran would not interfere in its domestic problems. iran has no troops in the country iran has never had troops

involved in the problems within syria this is basically western propaganda someone in the chinese media has been receiving information that is completely false well definitely iran does support the syrian government and it supports reforms and the syrian political order in iran is completely foreign countries imposing their will on the syrian people iran's position is based upon a moral principle and that is non interference of neighboring countries and the syrian internal affairs the syrian people have to make their own decisions there doesn't need to be any funding for weapons coming outside the country. well iran might have every right to be worried over the developments ongoing in syria because regime change in tehran is the reason why the u.s. and its allies are pushing for action against damascus the so-called into constantine crutch or from the foreign affairs committee and the russian state duma

. and this is not about democracy in syria this is not about any internal developments in this country this is about syrian foreign policy because syria is considered in the reality is one of the closest allies of certain countries in the region in the first here and iran and removing the regime as it is now would mean the address the changes in the foreign policy towards syria and iran probably will be the next goal after syrian regime would be forcefully removed from power or something similar will start happening in iran this is a global game this is a geopolitical and geo economic interests unfortunately countries like syria are being called it was kind of forced to just talk to the geopolitical in jewett canonical interests of the western countries. i was a constant in charge from the foreign affairs committee in the russian state duma

talking to us about the developments ongoing in and around syria. you're watching r.t. and greeks are venting their anger at even more planned cuts which the e.u. is demanding in return for vital funds police fired tear gas to protesters in athens who threw stones and fire bombs at them they're also been some reports now incoming of people being injured around seven thousand people gathered outside parliament while ten thousand communist supporters marched in another part of athens as a two day union strike brought the country to a standstill after a tough multi-party deal the parliament is expected to vote on the austerity package on sunday but a junior coalition partner says it won't back the new plan euro zone finance ministers put the second bailout worth one hundred thirty billion euros on hold saying they want to see concrete action first without it athens will go bust in march natural analyst max kaiser says the debt athens has to pay off was forced

upon at. all of the toxic debt that has been accumulated on banks' balance sheets around the world in germany and the u.k. and the u.s. have been put onto the balance sheet of greece and now the government of greece wants the people of greece to pay for this toxic debt the debt in greece did not originate in greece it originated in these other countries that have used greece as a toxic debt dump to dump their debt now they want the greeks to pay the debt the greeks of course will be on able to pay the debt the greek government is in place by the bankers the previous greek government was put there by the bankers he was trained in chicago the same place christine legarde was trained the greeks have not had representational government in quite some time they need to take a page out of the arab spring they need to stage a revolution they need to become self-sufficient and regain their sovereignty again

by staging some kind of coup. i thought he is coming to you live from the heart of moscow still for you this hour in the program innocence lost in afghanistan find out why the latest airstrike spog the afghan president's condemnation of foreign troops also separation anxiety. they are now living under the tangible threat of being forcibly separated from their spouses from their children from their parents palestinians married to israelis fear the citizenship law in the jewish state could end up tearing their families apart. just after ten past the hour here in moscow people in russia becoming more and more involved in the political structure in their country ahead of next month's presidential election a group of journalists bloggers and productive figures have created a league of voters in a bid to make the upcoming vote fair and transparent. you've got

a piece going off reports. it doesn't take long to find videos of the alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough years of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in court tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets 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 votes go if you want political competition independent courts in media feeling the voters league she wouldn't be idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists reuters and other public figures and stay with sweden g.d.s. like t.v. host and now activist. or the head of

a charity fund and blogger. he does appear to be also known as dr lisa. or other school martha ordinator of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone. in our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening to more people with a similar position there are just better the leagues 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 that appeal to another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak you have to go i'm willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers was also arranged to put together

a unified database to keep the check and 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 clearly 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. the leagues founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement claiming there 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. now i do remember plenty of news and eye catching videos always standing by for you twenty four seven a dot c dot com a quick look at what's waiting for you online to right now at our website hungry for power the muslim brotherhood demanded that egypt's military rulers sock the appointee of prime minister and replace him with their own candidate. and the cia spy jailed a former engineer from the police military cost cosmodrome that gets thirteen years behind bars for selling secret data on a russian intercontinental ballistic missiles to the united states certainly more of that story at all to talk. he.

down the official t. allocation. from the. video. feed now in the palm of your. on the dot com. it is good to have you with us you're watching r.t. life from moscow and afghan president hamid karzai has ordered an investigation into a nato air strike that killed eight children on wednesday this comes a week after the united states and i'll say it would hold combat operations or certainly could try to hold them in afghanistan earlier than expected but this

strike could worsen already tense relations between karzai and washington and it a mounting civilian death toll journalist for things that foreign actions are to blame for the continuing to grow numbers of casualties that this is the price that afghanistan pays for having foreign troops on its soil troops which carry out operations that are based on at best imperfect intelligence and at worse simply lack of fundamental knowledge of of local situations and mistakes that are made which will result in innocent people being killed completely unnecessarily the numbers are growing clearly because the telephone has continued to expand its operations in response to the growth of u.s. nato troops and part of the taliban response and i would say the single biggest part of that response.