and six four six miles from their. football now where in the english premier league manchester united have lit rivals managed to sit at the summit following a two one victory over liverpool at old trafford double from wayne rooney in the second hargate since men in essential win on the scoreboard for the visitors red devils are now a point about city in the table with roberto mancini's charges notts playing until sunday. when other football news final preparations are taking place ahead of this year's african cup of nations final ivory coast will be the overwhelming favorites one they take on sunday in the decisive clash in the bourne. booked their place in the final with a one mil victory over mali in the samis on wednesday the tournament favorites 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 the 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 we. always go. most important to google we do to feel that's where we. reached the final after a surprise one nil win over garner in the semi final selby huge underdogs ahead of the game despite that victory at but kept saying crisco is convinced it can cause an upset. but at the moment the big buzz and everything but i think i want to be fulfilled if you but i want to be the one this is the moment that we can show all the guys. together as

a team if we can shine we're going to be in 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 efforts are says are becoming a major force at the paralympics although their way into games other countries strongpoint russia is slowly climbing up the rankings and some are disciplined says while a correspondent or mark or serve has met one of the leading russian palin parents. in a cause a coma. 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 you study and they did won 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 she dreams of ending her career with another piece of paralympics so there were a lot of this if 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. douglas dons a sports world is mostly famous for its multiple freestyle wrestling and big champions this russian republic is predominantly muslim and the majority of athletes are male called as example good proper rising demand for women in sports who are already becoming irregular sites in vegas towns 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 women reach the top of the paralympic podium once more room on call sort of artsy russia's republic of dagestan. over to winter sports nowhere in bought sleigh the swedes do have to end thomas one part or have claimed the world cup title that's after clinching victory at the final stage of the season in calgary the two men but we

won't have to end the part of the cane germany's when a shot and. one hundredth of a second now that german crew finished third. son is of course for russia came fifth here to take third place overall. in formula one team for i received a much needed boost as fernando alonso was fastest 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 in their result was almost a second slower. defending world champions of us finished third on the day with one minute nineteen point six zero six seconds in the road while mcclaren says hamilton was fourth fastest. want to world 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 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 finish the day in seventh place 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 sealed overall victory there at the last competition boon and came home just fifteenth but this was enough to secure first spot 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 of australia at the finish. is yet to get used to plate on the podium admitting there is still a lot to improve. well i'm very happy to 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. fifty. fifty.

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video. and. now with the palm of your. machine. a journal strike in egypt marks the fast about the ousting of dictator hosni mubarak with protesters calling for the country's military rulers to stand down accusing him of dring reforms. greece's prime minister just parliament approved cards in return for a one hundred and thirty billion euro bailout from the i.m.f. and do you warning the country faces economic terrio sidewise thousands have rallied in athens however angry at the hard part of a story including slashing the minimum wage it's also. the. europeans demanding freedom censorship is speaking out against the global

anti piracy government's. use of russia and around the world this is all see with me here thanks for joining us first egyptians are staging a general strike and a day of civil disobedience to mark the fast anniversary of the toppling of former leader hosni mubarak calling for the military rulers to step down immediately accusing them of pain during reform. reports now from to hit square. if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has released me in the years since the bark has been ousted as a matter of fact there is thing that things have gotten worse because now we have to deal with the military council the scouts which is and head of the country's government right now for refusing to step down for saying that they're going forth

with democratic forms but most people here believe that is not the case they're also calling on workers for massive strikes to go on indefinitely until the military council steps down 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 kludge egypt into further poverty and disarray also the religious leaders in the country are not supporting the strikers well but students the young people who work behind this are really sharon with the workers who wanted to see some real differences they are saying that things must be changed to mediately more on why it's ins are going to strike here's my colleague mary snow. around a thousand killed at least six thousand injured and even more still missing egypt's people have paid a high price to live in a new country but despite all the sacrifices the shadow of the old regime still looms large during mubarak thirty years of mubarak's rule to make

a number of people try them under military tribunals where one to two thousand now you know within about ten months or eleven months 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 scaf that's no surprise but surprisingly enough those discomforted over from who'd previously run the country are not themselves before military tribunals you cannot have four. suspected killers. thought. to be civil court system. the ordinary people i'm a big. medical records this is a. 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 had a box of mouth of cocktails and people who were 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 it there obviously there's something wrong with this picture a lot of these people are trying for absolutely no reason i mean some more 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 at clashes between the army and demonstrators and began helping the injured arrested but 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 terrorism he says the military dishes out

a very rough justice. emerge in 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 what did know her son's whereabouts . 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 words around a month after ahmed was relieved he now faces yet another trial from the same incident at these really embassy. they go is to intimidate people the message is clear if you go to tory you'll be arrested and it makes us even stronger how is it they don't understand the matter is no working on a book he wants a title you must shut up he explains if people didn't give up after being beaten

and humiliated they'll never give up until their voices are heard. 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 cross aides and pro seders 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. and true freelance journalist based in cairo says that human rights violations on the streets of the capital have led to concerns mubarak has been replaced by another dictatorship people are unsure about whether you actually transferred power in june 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 or people 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 has been absolutely no reform of the police and i was simply fired by the local disaster a few weeks ago which saw over 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 it will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would say or do you say the revolution never ended but it's called the continuous or 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 with egypt's security forces pushing the protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yet. a draft resolution on syria has been circulated at the u.n.

general assembly by saudi arabia it is similar to the chance to veto it in the security council last week while calling for an end to violence by all sides that lays blame primarily on this. meanwhile state t.v. says gunmen have assassinated and army general in the capital damascus deserts killing of a high ranking military officer since approach has began and amid reports of ongoing fighting in the country the city of aleppo suffered twin blasts inside a that killed twenty eight people the free syrian army initially claimed responsibility for the times but later denied involvement and blames the government in a while see results. it expects official recognition from arab gulf states later this weekend and there's no you on monday to intervene in the crisis the glass is now said to be gathering a coalition of studies to support the opposition with calls from washington to arm the rebels are sorry members from of the cyber quds university based in beirut says imposing regime in syria would lead to even an appliance. it's been

very well known the 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 the innocent syrians we don't know who the body counts you know what politics people have who are 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 grateful to think of what could be coming next externally forced power is suddenly implanted in syria that 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. this is ration in syria has triggered fierce clashes in neighboring lebanon two people died and dozens were injured as soon as hostile to syria's regime have clashed with who supported in the northern city of tripoli ten of the wounded were liberties soldiers including a sergeant who was in a critical condition the two sides fired guns and rocket propelled grenades at each other clashes have continued since friday and are the bloodiest since june when six people died in demonstrations against syria's government. greek prime minister lucas papademos has warned of uncontrollable economic chaos of parliament does not approve a plan for fresh cuts on sunday measures have already been dropped adopted rather

by the greek government to secure one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the euro and international monetary fund without the country could default in march six ministers have already resigned in protest over the news conference some m.p.'s from two major coalition parties are threshing to vote against it in parliament the draft bill suggested far in fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage is to biggest trade unions have held a forty eight hours trying to gain new measures while demonstrators clashed with police inside a as margaret bogan grieve for the financial advisor if a c.m. partners in chicago believes that a new bailout. to further greek economic collapse. even going to commit the measures which i and many argue still is not enough to guarantee that more or it will do just sooner rather than later a lot of people are talking about disorderly default i don't think the european union or more grief is going to allow that to occur we frankly i think the markets

have been like them throughout the last six months by thinking that there is a better or option i think what your first point is the much like greek economy thing is a shrinking the economy or to five percent this year. think about what that means for a country already on the brink of you know social not necessarily collapse but definitely definitely instability and economic not through it but certainly you know it's certainly not growing at things certainly aren't getting better a decrease of more to five percent of growth combined with us gerrity measures combined with the political pressures that the european union will definitely just to have disrupt raise significantly in two thousand and twelve. thousands of hundreds rather thousands have rounded across europe against international and to parse a chord known as people in the u.k. germany poland and lithuania her voice fear that the treaty would hold freedom of speech and lead to

a line censorship. possible home london for us. in line with hundreds of thousands of people all over europe today these people here in london behind me demonstrating against this act or the anti counterfeiting trade agreements and disagreements which would make it so that serviced by such a response if they used the pirates it takes a few days to police activity to shoot meets with no mo monitoring all of it there looks to be the timing very nice anonymous. here and none of this is very often where they've got bandits reading to shut down instead they're saying new actor culture is made of copies and stop internet censorship one of the main objections to the actress remake is that it's the negotiate in which entirely in the secrets to much to the main mickey you negotiate resign didn't exactly say that the document was secretive and undemocratic says renegotiated in secret people

who are not let cities assigned to you they have a delight to see your way to say that this will affect our civil liberties this will reduce freedom of speech this will stop us from being able to comment to hold people to account the result is a 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 mentally liable and to criminalize what used to be a civil offense so that means we see a lot more cases tenchi like the one of a minister you can with a new sheriff twenty four songs on the internet and found herself liable for one another half a million dollars worth of damage and eventually sixty two thousand five hundred dollars for each song that she. had to share and the thread was to bork and since the threat to silence it's the threat to internet service providers your experience of you chuba facebook a flicker could become very different but it's also felt even innocently

collectively to copyrighted material could actually learn in credit with criminal sanctions this is not just about the internet either it would also apply to clothes electronics and also to medicine which would make it more difficult for poor countries to buy generic own trademarked cheap drugs making it more expensive for the poorer countries to keep their people healthy basically what these people are saying is that decisions that have been made behind closed doors fundamentally affect the economies in the privacy and the civil liberties of ordinary everyday people and the fact that it's been done in secret means that they can only assume that this isn't in their best interest. rodwell a campaigner for the oakland rides crew who took part in the london protest told r.t. that they treat his biggest danger isn't giving too much power to uncontrolled private interests. i think what we and the protests today or any are concerned are out

is that there are some fine words about respecting fundamental principles but in practice the very broad wording wording of the agreement does create some real concerns about how and where effectively handing control and power over what happens online fastidiously to private interests and that will have inevitable consequences for freedom expression for people's privacy innovation in many of the of the benefits we enjoy from the internet when it's done through mechanisms and 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 users effectively surveilled by their or an internet service providers and you're creating a system there that can be abused and when mistakes can happen and that's why it's such a dangerous agreement. plenty more to come. through the snow so take a look at how russia's president dmitry medvedev shows his skin skills in sochi.

also progress and leaps and bounds find out how a dog from ukraine has become something of a legend and if you look at. some world news in brief you this hour and news just in singer whitney houston has died at the age of eight the cause of her death is not have known but she had suffered from previous drug abuse and we'll bring you more on that story when we get it. also darling please have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters in the capital manila around two hundred people gathered at the diplomatic coup unsettle toward the center of it uprising a garret it's still unclear whether anyone was injured but witnesses say at least one protester was detained tensions in bahrain are rising ahead of tuesday's one of us fueled the first large protests against them.