more school or worse stand by guards in the euro league as the turkish seem handed the muscovites first loss on the continent the season the narrow sixty eight sixty four victory and in the russians thirteen game winning streak the home team's looks and reach that the air with a fast break dunk over. the twenty seven year old finish with the second most points for his side scoring sixteen joshua ship was the man leading the way with twenty two men were determined to take the game down to the final moments and missed two out of three crucial free throws with six seconds left which gave the home team another chance chip with a close out the sixty eight sixty four win from the foul line himself to iscar are still top of group b. despite that loss. in tennis russia has started their davis cup campaign where they take on in the first round in the world group bigger connection is the first up

against. the players are currently in the deciding fifth set with all of junior next he's rushing to the competition haven't switched from the united states he plays against and. now you'd have thought if you had three olympic gold medal surname you might be content to gracefully retire russia's wrestling champ and if he is having none of it we could be in line to record fifth summer games in london as our correspondent or our quarter of now reports. three time olympic champion by cyrus eighty of these already a living legend in russia's republic of dagestan but he's all the potential to become reachable if you will in the london games as the thirty seven year old three star wrestler prepares for his experience. what you would call my actions today.

whether i get on the team or not all done for the benefit of wrestling here 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 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 an entirely different challenge in his hometown of hearts 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 it's 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 times like we had to practice in a vehicle repair workshop which we reapply it with some models or let me pick up on

them when training alongside his older brother is the two thousand the olympic champion a damn sight 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 guard for younger i'd 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 worth if you want to work eats we had no t.v. or internet and didn't see any famous restless our own competition. the abundance of freestyle wrestling trendsetters and i guess. stance

a day is the result of 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 not one that the but it's very important to develop sport among you and we're not confined to sports of my ment's we want them to be accompanied by development of. the average age is twenty seven and we kids make up half the population of the our task is to create suitable athletic conditions for these young people for them to develop physically culturally morally so sport is able to our routine our policy. so while the government is doing its board to get youth into gyms local and big champions buboy soar and are busy juggling a couple of hats each in order to stay in top shape in case of a kind of national team or noticing a brand new talent in their own gym despite being an active athlete. is already

ensuring that fine wrestling preditions can see you over here in dagestan and this gym is his legacy for the next generations to follow him on cost for a forty in hostile view of russia's republic of dagestan. in the meantime south african sprinter oscar pistorius is yet to qualify for his first of. four time 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. to qualify. is a goal that i've been trying to turn since two thousand and five in my twenty living season i managed to run seven b. qualification times and one of the qualifications. i have to do that again true in the code in the run one and one and one more qualifications on so it's something. that's been on my cards 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. now in mixed martial arts the russian capital looks set to host a new international tournament the event named verdict will include a number of talk about involving many world well recognized athletes why their main match up with the knights will be the clash between russian fighter and brazilian jiu-jitsu expert corners apart cut off patent. this is a great all of for me to face a seven time world champion in jujitsu because just to gain a black belt in this board is hard to become a seven time world champion is something extraordinary still for me it's a great all or indeed to fight cornel. let's move to the world of high octane engines wastes planet johnny sauda has taken the onus of the rally sweden on day one clinching his victory on this special stage in can't start despite severe weather conditions it was the spanish driver who talked to the podium at the opening rate of the grand prix came home just three tenths of

a second out of norway's. and he's turned this kind in of and beat tonic of a store near by the same speed second time current season leader and eight time world rather champion sebastian loeb finished fourth crossing the line at the same time with sweden. now thomas stuart has won the annual rate of the empire state building run up in new york for a record seventh year in a row the german outlast all his rivals as he ran up the stairs to cross the finish line first after surpassing one thousand five hundred and seventy six steps finished in an impressive time a ten minute and twenty eight seconds which is eighteen seconds slower than his winning time from last year. that was the first time i put all these things on one table and see oh my goodness that's really a huge part of your life and right now i have put an additional one in of seven right now oh dead seven. yeah. that's

a huge i don't maybe the first heard is always this something special. for sevens in a row so. you know one has done it before. in the women's event it was many soon over new zealand who won the race the. flip finish off to twelve minutes and thirty nine seconds which is a walsham kind one second followed closely by chris say one in ten. is a lot of pressure the whole way because it was a group of about three or four of us pretty much to give up for about the face forty four was and then there were two of us who were to get the four up at least of the seventy four sorry i didn't have it good i had the and i think so yeah that pressure foot for the majority of the rice but you know it's a whole new different dimension to a good night keeping your head together when you don't think everything done in it . ok that's all the sports news for today for me thanks for watching us goodbye.

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a split within the ranks of syria's opposition fighters but first they claimed they were behind twin blasts in the country's largest city of aleppo which killed at least twenty eight people but another spokesman denied responsibility just hours later. gassing for bombs on the streets of athens as protesters clashed with police angry at another set of looming cuts to please credit as we get live reaction from athens a little later here on r.t. . also this hour observing political change russia's public figures come together to ensure a fair and free presidential vote while striving not to take sides. gold

is losing value because the stronger dollar and disappointment from the eye of the greek that still time in the business but i thin for more details later on this hour. internationalising common live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day there are conflicting reports over whether the free syrian army wing of the opposition was behind the attacks in the city of aleppo an hour after one f.s.a. spokesman confirmed this another plane the government the blasts of killed at least twenty eight and injured more than one hundred seventy people joining this done and there may reports now 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 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 group of friends of democratic syria will involve countries willing to prop up the opposition and pile more pressure on the regime although direct military action is has been ruled out some reports suggest the british are cuts or a special forces are already in the conflict so 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. we're at the united nations security council america holds one permanent seat but when it comes to weapons the world's largest arms exporters 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 that doesn't change it morality of supplying a dictatorial regime that is killing its people in massive numbers every day and we are deeply concerned about that as u.s. officials continue publicly schooled in countries over relations with syria critics say the accusations are being thrown from a tremendous glasshouse the us. this is a hugely difficult in this regard because we've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons that the us sold the story quickly 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're ok in france they're thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity in a park or sea 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. you know it's not a. you know human why do. 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 a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously arms and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from. sharky well who who is providing this arms nobody's asking in the u.s. 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 or 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 contractors and many other levels there are going bald 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. meanwhile reports of emerge that support is on its way to aid assad's forces chinese media claim iran has sent fifteen thousand of its elite revolutionary guard troops to help maintain order in syria but professor side mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says despite being an ally of syria iran wouldn't 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 in the syrian political order 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 in 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. iran might have every right to be worried over the developments in syria though because by pushing for action against the massacres the u.s. and its allies are ultimately pursuing regime change in tehran so believes constantine cause a charge from the foreign affairs committee in the russian state duma. this is not

about democracy in syria this is not about internal developments in this country this is about syria and foreign policy because syria is considered in reality he is one of the closest allies. and removing the regime as it is now would mean very address changes in the foreign policy over syria and iran probably will be the next goal of the syrian regime to be forcefully removed from power something similar. happening in iran this is a global game this is a geopolitical and geo economic interests unfortunately countless like syria are being called as a kind of poster just towards the geopolitical in jewett canonical interests of the western countries. greeks are venting their anger at even more planned cuts which the e.u. is demanding in return for vital funds the country's deputy foreign minister has

quit over the deal making the fourth resignation since its announcement police clashed with protesters in athens firing tear gas in response to stones and firebombs that the reports of some injuries around seven thousand people gathered outside parliament while ten thousand communist supporters marched in another part of athens that's as of today 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 from athens where without it athens will go bust in march let's not talk to economists. he's live there in the greek capital where we've already seen four greek ministers resign the previous government collapsed because of the debt crisis how likely is it that the greek politicians can reach an agreement on sunday or could indeed this. government collapsed before

then. well let me say that this government was always expendable the point of putting it in place was to ensure that this deal goes through. it's my prediction that it will go through and there is govern with the lapse once it. is done brussels is of course questioning whether greece can implement these measures you say it could well go through an agreement with the greek politicians but we're seeing such strong opposition and the current general strike in the fall and the moment in athens will people allow these cuts to be implemented. it's not up to the people the people have been demonstrating consistently for eighteen twenty months now and we had a series of such cuts and impositions upon. the very weak greek population these days it's been happening every other month now for almost two years it will happen again there is absolutely no way. this is going to be stopped

this agreement is going to go through for a very simple reason and that simple reason is that unless it does go through then the banking system of northern europe is going to have serious serious difficulties the from an economist point of view and many are saying that the cuts will actually stifle economic growth and it's the economic boost that the country really needs at the moment so why is it that this is being pushed through and no alternative to austerity is being investigated. i think. you're making the wrong assumption that these measures have been put in place in order to help save the good economy. such thing these measures are part of a loan package the purpose of which is to delay. the steady this is the gratian of the euro zone and give more time to germany's politicians to find out what they're going to do with their with the german and the french banks which are insolvent. so

greece is being sacrificed on the altar of the european procrastination so if greece the sacrifices are not mean that it could eventually default be thrown out of the eurozone that would not be what the e.u. leaders really want is it. no it's all what they want it really isn't what they want but on the other hand political leaders in europe have been clueless now in the last two years as to exactly what they want they know that the only way of killing this crisis throughout the eurozone not just in greece but in ireland in portugal and spain either everywhere is by bringing about the degree of unification in europe public debt of the banking sector and so on and so forth but there are very important vested interests that are going against that and they're resisting those changes that they only change that could destroy this or that the only change that will end this crisis on the other hand they know that unless they do that then the crisis will continue so all they're doing is they're using sellotape or plaster

on a festering wound which is greece today ireland portugal italy and so on so this is what europe is doing it is creating a very severe medical issue by means of course we are in a little bit of ice cream ok and what about the greek people there you are in athens that the measures agreed upon. further cuts of fifteen thousand jobs learn the minimum wage obviously pensions being affected can you give us an illustration of what sacrifices greeks are really having to make to remain in the eurozone from your point of book point of view being forced to remain in the euro zone. now that these sacrifices are being made for them to stay that you can stay in the euro zone very easily while while be faltering you don't have to get out of the eurozone if you default but what is happening here is that greeks are being threatened less they keep borrowing money from germany from france from the i.m.f. from the e.c.b. we know that the keep repaying of the northern european and greek banks then they're going to be through another years of the. this is of course an empty threat

the tragedies of our political class the political establishment that is in their pockets so they are. threatening blackmailing the greek people that unless they're big they're driven to the ground for the benefit of the banker banks then they're going to be thrown out but to give an example here we have people on six hundred euros a month who would have to live on for the fifty euros a month while at the same time inflation is increasing and taxation is going through the roof. very much indeed for your perspective on this yanis varoufakis joining us now for a just joining us there from the university of athens thank you very much for your thoughts thank you. people in russia are becoming more and more involved in the political structure in the country ahead of next month's presidential election a group of journalists bloggers and proactive figures have created a league of voters in a bid to make the upcoming vote fair and transparent has this report. 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 of these files 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 street demanding fair elections with marches presidential votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly where. people want to vote responsibly and with the internet where their votes go they want political competition independent courts and media fooling 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 reuters and other public figures and statements wayne g.d.s. blake t.v. host and now activist. or the head of a charity fund and blogger. also known. as dr lisa.

or other school martha 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 to more people with a similar position there are 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 little 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 track of the election for two post according to its

founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure a fair election in moscow alone. it's great that the siegle society wants to be more active but it's really important not to cross the line and observers not on their position it is serious so if the mutations are not to take sides in the political process. he's got the league's 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. well this.