from three one down in the second six four six miles to their. football now where in the english premier league manchester united have lit rivals managed to city at the summit following a two one victory over liverpool at old trafford double from wayne rooney in the second hargate since man in essential win on the scoreboard for the visitors red devils are now a point about city in the table with roberto mancini charges not playing until sunday. in other football news final preparations are taking place ahead of this year's african cup of nations final ivory coast will be the overwhelming favorite one they take on sunday in the decisive clash in the born to booked their place in the final with a one mil victory over mali in the samis on wednesday the tournament favorite haven't reached the showpiece final since back in two thousand and six but forward

kalu says the elephants team spirit could be the secret to their success. and team spirit. and you can see with every game we played even destro don't. you know. so i think that the spirit those who are we looking for we want to win. most importantly to google we do to feel that's where we. reached the final after a surprise one nil win over ghana in the semifinals they'll be huge underdogs ahead of the game despite that victory it but kept saying crisco is convinced it can cause an upset. their favorite at the moment the big buzz and everything but i think i want to be a little bit what i want to be when this is the moment that. can shine all the guys

together as a team if we can shine one of the top as we did it for nobody expected it but we believe in ourselves that we're going to do it and i think this is our moment. now russian athletes are says are becoming a major force at the paralympics of their way into games countries strongpoint russia is slowly climbing up the rankings and some of disciplines as well correspondent remark or serve has met one of the leading russian palin pants. while the russians dominated the winter paralympics it's the chinese who are unquestionable leaders when it comes to the summer portion of the games however the biggest country on earth could put up a decent fight against the world's most populated nation as soon as this summer their all these great opportunities but russia like china may look at china look at china tops the summer games table russia tops the winter well let's see what happens in london there's a big team coming from russia by two hundred eighty s.

weights you know you could do very very well with the upcoming paralympics in london could become the visually impaired as a call was third successful podium attempt to study and they did want her maiden paralympic gold at the two thousand and four athens games but failed to repeat that feeds four years later in beijing settling for bronze but london is slowly dawning on me as she dreams of ending her career with another piece of paralympic silverware. i was thinking of retiring after the two thousand and four games i told myself this is it this is the last time but then i got to go to the games again but this time i'm definitely going to retire that there's. a sports world is mostly famous for its multiple freestyle wrestling olympic champions this russian republic is predominantly muslim and the majority of athletes are male. as example good proper right. in demand for women in sports who

are already becoming a regular sight in that stuns gems. i don't get negative comments that often of course some people say that girls should stay at home and cook dinner but none of my friends or fellow athletes would ever say such a thing they always treat me with respect they're always happy for me none of them think that i'm doing something inappropriate. muddiness success in life spans far beyond her sporting glory until recently she had the full support of her family and friends but that circle has now been complemented by another to die hard supporters her husband and new born son who will hopefully witness their favorite woman reach the top of the paralympic podium once more room on call sort of artsy russia's republic of dagestan. over two winter sports nowhere in this series do you have to thomas one part or have claimed the world cup title that's after clinching

victory at the final stage of the season in calgary in the two men but with have to end the part of the cane germany's shot and. one hundredth of a second now that german crew finished third. sunders of call for russia came fifth here to take third place overall. in formula one team for i received a much needed boost as if another lawyer was fast on the final day of the time to twelve pre-season tests in spain the spaniard clocked the best time of one minute eighteen point eight seven seven seconds to finish just ahead of french driver when their result was almost a second slower. defending world champions of us and fattal finished third on the day with one minute nineteen point six zero six seconds in the road while mcclaren hamilton was fourth fastest. want to wild racing now where you are a lot for

a lot of finland has taken the lead at the grand prix of sweden despite winning just one of the ten special stages completed so far but to his fourth to a stage win and three second place finishes to overhaul compared to make him in it by seventeen seconds claimed three of the day's stages but some troubles on course let him to second place overall of norway currently lies twenty seconds behind the leader a time world champion sebastian up came off route stage seven to finish the day in seventh place with almost a two minute gap. and finally cycling frenchmen not tomorrow has won this sixth and final stage of the twenty eight twelve tour of qatar tom boonen of belgium sued over all victory there at the last competition boon and came home just fifteenth but this was enough to secure first support overall for the belgian while britain's

mark cavendish suffered some bad luck i say went down during the finishing sprint this left him in sixth place overall but it was demar who celebrated victory in qatar as a final stage out printed russian denise. and mark pressure off the finnish frenchman is yet to get used to plait on the podium admitting there is still a lot to improve. well i am very happy i have reached another level of great circumstances . good the result i still have a lot to learn the whole week has been a very enjoyable despite the strong wind in my teammates of teaching me a lot that's important. ok you have to do not think so watching us where there is next goodbye. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency

department beds and not enough nurses to man those that seek to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to tear your ass so i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical i've got a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for bit i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

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a free media party. egypt's streets and squares or a rally in crowds once again a year after president mubarak was forced from power. people here are calling the military council to step down immediately saying they're blocking reforms in the country more from tahrir square just ahead. greek lawmakers pander to brussels with more cuts in exchange for cash while people vent their frustration on the streets of athens also. europeans demand internet freedom and no censorship speaking out against the global and piracy act governments want the top stories.

international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day egyptians are staging a general strike in a day of civil disobedience to mark the first anniversary of the toppling of former leader hosni mubarak they're calling for the military to step down immediately accusing them of hindering reform going to reports now from the iconic square if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has really been seized in the years since the bark has been ousted as a matter of fact there is thing. things have gotten worse because now they have to do with the military council the scouts and head of the country's government right now forces him to step down or say they're going forth with democratic reforms but most people here believe that is not the case and that is why they're calling for

this massive act of civil disobedience the people who are at the at the at the source of this call are the you to serve illusionary alliance which is comprised of more than the fifty political groups six of the six of them are the most probably revolutionary groups in the country a lot of them are university students for whom it is the first day of the semester and they're staging sit ins and walk outs they're not going to lectures they're not going to classes they're boycotting exams they're saying that they want to see some real changes towards democracy in the country which they haven't seen yet they're also calling on workers for a massive strikes to go on indefinitely until the military council steps down but a lot of the parties that have made it into the parliament. during the recent elections are actually not supporting the strike primarily or we should note that the muslim brotherhood who are saying that these are the does these calls for a massive strike are actually destructive to the country because that will only judge egypt into further poverty and disarray also the religious leaders in the

country are not supporting the strike as well but students the young people who work behind this are really sharon with the workers who wanted to see some real differences there are saying that things must be chasing mediately more on why it's absence are going to strike here's my colleague mary snow snow. around a thousand killed at least six thousand injured and even more still missing egypt's people have paid a high price to leave in a new country but despite all the sacrifices the shadow of the old regime still lose launch during mubarak thirty years of mubarak's rule the limited number of people try them under. in military tribunals where one to two thousand now you know within about ten months or eleven miles we have twelve thousand which is of course a humongous number for a country ruled by the military the supreme council of the armed forces or scaf that's no surprise but surprisingly enough those discomforted over from who'd

previously run the country are not themselves before military tribunals nor for. suspected killer was. thought. to be through a court system. where ordinary people there may be. medical records this is a better way and this is illegal hasty with no proper investigation usually with no lawyer and behind closed doors and with no right of appeal human rights activists complain military trials provide no justice and violate human rights you know you have a nineteen year old getting a twenty five year old son to your centers because he walks i'm out of cocktails and people who are found guilty of killing somebody by brutally beating him up and torturing him until he died these are getting seven years in jail so i mean there

obviously there's something wrong with this picture a lot of these people are trying for absolutely no reason i mean someone just just being in the wrong place at the wrong time is enough to get you in trouble that's exactly what a man says is his case september the time these really embassy in cairo the place. the young screenplay writer was present and clashes between the army and demonstrators and began how to lean jered arrested he was brought to military barracks after summary trial which lasted just twenty minutes he was taken straight to prison to serve almost four months for terrorists and he says the minute. chewy dishes out a very rough justice. emerging a seventy year old who's been in the army for at least thirty years it must be hard for him to take off his uniform and this lifestyle and this was the only way they know how to deal with problems. for several days one did know her son's whereabouts

who were the one who says when his sister came to me and said i have to talk to you i knew it was about him hoping for the best i prepared myself for the worst. a month after ahmed was released he now faces yet another trial from the same incident at these really embassy. goal is to intimidate people the message is clear if you go to trial really you'll be arrested and it makes us even stronger how is it they don't understand that matter is now working on a book he wants to title you must shut up he explains if people didn't give up after been beaten and humiliated they'll never give up until their voices ahead of . the citadel in cairo egypt a medieval symbol of power and strength it was fortified centuries ago to protect the region from his enemies at that time crusades and crusaders today egypt's

rulers are doing the same striving to defend themselves and to keep power with thousands in jails and dozens killed the concern here is that they may have been working too hard. griffin optionality cairo. bell truing a freelance journalist based in cairo says that human rights violations on the streets of the capital have led to concerns has been replaced by another dictatorship. people are unsure about whether they'll actually transfer power in gene and so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters where people are expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is birdshot and maiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police i was simply fired by the football disaster

a few weeks ago which saw seventy four people die so essentially we've seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are basically anxious that nothing will change and that will just slip into a new a new dictatorship i think most people here would say or do you say that the revolution never ended but it's called the continuance of the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes in egypt security forces pushing the protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yes. bill true talking to be a little earlier here on r.t. a draft resolution on syria has been circulated that the u.n. general assembly by saudi arabia it's similar to the turks vetoed in the security council last week while calling for an interview by all sides blamed primarily on the syrian authorities meanwhile state t.v. says government of assassination of an army general in the capital damascus the first killing of a high ranking military officer since protests began amid reports of ongoing

fighting in the country the city of aleppo suffered twin blasts on friday that killed twenty eight the free syrian army initially claimed responsibility for the attacks but later denied involvement and blame the government meanwhile syria's opposition says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states later this week with no u.n. mandate to intervene in the crisis the u.s. is no said to be gathering a coalition of states to. support your position with calls from washington to the rebels. so recuse university told me a little earlier that she thinks imposing a new regime in syria would lead to an even deeper cross. it's been very well known that united states and european allies are interested in regime change in syria and they won't stop at anything that. does not deliver a different government that they hope will be more sympathetic to western interest which is quite naive really when you think about it because the people in syria are

likely not going to be more sympathetic to american and israeli aggression throughout the region the free syrian army is the armed opposition it's conducting very violent acts against civilians in syria against both the government and some serious we don't know who the body counts you know what politics people have were killed i don't think the syrian people are really going to appreciate an outside exile group arming and training these people in different quote unquote democracy exercises and it's just great for the think of what could be coming next externally forced power is suddenly implanted in syria is not at all representative of the people and the violence is just not going to end syria could lead into another iraq so it's just really quite devastating right now the way things are progressing. the technocrat prime minister of greece has cleared one major hurdle on the way towards

more easy rescue cash as his cabinet approved the deep cuts needed to secure it however he lost six ministers who resigned in protest at the deal now the plan is to be given the green light by parliament some m.p.'s from two major coalition parties are threatening to vote against the deal conservatives are calling for an early election the new deal includes firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage it's being pushed by e.u. leaders who've put the next one hundred thirty billion euro bailout on hold trade unions are in the second day of their forty eight hour strike with crowds outside the parliament and friday protesters clashed with police who used tear gas in response to stones and firebombs economic analysts nick scrapers believes greece could already be in a state of unofficial default. it looks highly likely that the parliament will get enough votes to pass this package it only maids a majority of the three hundred members of deputies it's

a unicameral system here what we have at the moment is a structured default in fact almost seventy percent of the net present value of all outstanding bugs which will reduce how dead but by a hundred billion now that isn't such a terrible deal i'm not sure that all of the investors will take it up it may not get one hundred percent take up but it may get seventy or eighty percent and even that helps the european leaders face some difficulties because while in greece there is a lot of austerity wariness over there there is a lot of buy outs that they had so they can't be seen as giving away money even though most of this is in the form of loans they have to impose some strict conditionality for two reasons so please their local electorates and also to make sure that this money can eventually be repaid by a more sustainable breaks like they have six and very rough conditions that great politicians find very hard to stomach and there are also other issues in the say

expect. you can't really cost anything and everything willy nilly and they have at the beginning of this whole process so to make an example of greece so others don't go down the same road and if they don't disperse the money quickly which they haven't done it increases their leverage of the great politicians in the greek government to pass the kind of measures they want. more analysis on europe's debt woes on our web site r.t. dot com and while you're there here's what else you can find on line. about how the cia website has become the latest victim in a series of hacker attacks from the enormous group after suffering a crash on friday night. and despite some wild rumors north korea's new leader kim jong un is not dead turns out the stories about an assassination that sparked a social network frenzy simply a joke. about that in full r.t. dot com. thousands of rallied across europe against the

international anti piracy accord it's known as actor people in the u.k. germany poland and lithuania have voiced their fear that the treaty would harm freedom of speech and lead to online censorship artes nor smith has more from london. in line with hundreds of thousands of people all over europe today these people here in london behind me are demonstrating against this act or the anti counterfeiting trade agreements and disagreements which would make it so that serviced by the same city responsible if they used was pirating cities have to find these activists in the streets with no mo monitoring all of the kids there not me i mean very nice anonymous. here and none of this is very often where they've got banners weeding to shut down instead they're saying no actor culture is made of these and stop internet censorship and one of the main objections to the at truth

remit is that if we negotiate the message entirely in secret say much to the main mickey you negotiate resign didn't originally say that the document was secretive and undemocratic has been negotiated in secret by people who you know are not less civil society and they have a delight to see your comments and say that this will affect our civil liberties this will reduce freedom of speech this will stop us in being able to comment and hold people to crank the results of the treaty is incredibly dangerous one of the main complaints about this document is it's unclear wording that it would be easy to make an intentional copyright infringement going to be liable and also criminalizes what used to be a civil offense so that means we'd see a lot more cases tenchi like the one of a minister you've been with and you shared twenty four songs on the internet and found herself liable for one and a half million dollars' worth of damage and eventually sixty two thousand five hundred dollars that each song that she had to share and the threat was to bork and

since the threat to science suits the threat to internet service providers your experience a few chub of facebook a flicker could become very different but it's also that even innocently conic talking to copyrighted material. it actually increase with criminal sanctions this is not just about the internet either it would also like to close electronics and also it's a message that we should make it more difficult for the poor countries to buy generic on trademarks cheap drugs making it more expensive for actually to feed their people healthy basically what these people are saying is that this this and that have been made behind closed doors fundamentally affect the economies the privacy and the civil liberties of everyday people and the fact that it's been done in secret means that they can only assume that this is it in their best interest.

the campaigner for the open rights group or told me a little early here in r.t. that the treaties biggest danger is in giving too much power to uncontrolled private interests i think what we and the protests today in europe were concerned about is that there are some fine words about respecting fundamental principles but in practice the very broad wording wording in the agreement does create some real concerns about how and where exactly handing control and power over what happens online far too easily to private interests and that will have inevitable consequences for freedom of expression for people's privacy or for innovation in many of the benefits we enjoy from the internet when it's done through mechanisms and treaties that are overly broad and give too much power that's too unchecked to private interests if you give businesses the power to have content taken down and have the users effectively surveilled by their internet service providers and.