looking for his first win representing russia and it could all come down to the fifth and final run when a girl commits in takes on andras fight them out. meanwhile the usa have put their place in the quarterfinals with a comprehensive three nil win over roger federer switzerland mike bryan and marty fish winning the doubles rub against federer understand in four sets six six three six three six three the final school. feels pretty good doing those i certainly know what it feels like to lose. and it's not a great feeling and. you know playing with these guys guys the best doubles player of all time right here and understanding my part. meanwhile in the final game she was i've been powers that will be between home favorite marion bartoli and maria sharapova as contra. czech opponent clare as a couple over in straight sets seven six six love followed up her win over sharapova with a straight sets victory over belgium's nina whitmire. in ice hockey russia

have been beaten by home favorites sweden in the swedish round of games in the euro hockey toe the home side ran out comfortable for one winners in stockholm although the defeat wasn't enough to not rush off a top spot in the overall standings meanwhile in the other game finland hundred out of thrashing the bottom side of the czech republic winning seven mil. in football preparations are taking place ahead of this year's africa cup of nations final ivory coast will be the overwhelming favorites when they take on zambia and the decisive clash in gaborone later on sunday the ivorians book their place in the final with a one nil victory over mali in the seventies on wednesday the pre-tournament favorite haven't reached the showpiece final since back in two thousand and six before with salomon kalou says the elephant team spirit could be the secret to less success. we're working on the. team spirit and working together and you can see with every game we played even destroy came down.

you know and. defend so i think that the spirit does well we're looking for we want to win together and the motto was go. most important is to go home with it to feel that's where we are for well zambia reach the final after a surprise one zero win over garner in the same means they'll be huge underdogs ahead of the game despite that victory the captain chris congo is convinced his side can cause an upset. their favorite at the moment no papers and everything but i think i want to be fulfilled to feel what i want to be true when this is the moment that we can shine all the guys together as a team if we can shine. as we did for nobody expected it but we believe in ourselves that we're going to do it and i think this is our moment now in the english premier league manchester united have late front rivals manchester city at the summit following a dramatic two one victory over liverpool at old trafford all the pretty much told

it was about luis suarez and patrick several following the year with winds and racially abusing the french meant little paul striker refused to shake every hand before the game on the pitch a quick second half brace from wayne rooney was enough for the victory although suarez did pull one back from the visitors direct devils are now a point above city in the table with roberto mancini's side of aston villa later on sunday elsewhere tottenham kept up their hopes of the title with a five nil hammering of newcastle also moved into the top four with a come from behind win at sunderland sunderland bottom side wigan picked up a much needed win a bolton chelsea and now fifteen points off the top of the table after a channel to think that. they know are in no performance today. we are sure of anything positive. difficult for us a lot of a lot of negatives to take from this game. and the little things to to improve

bearing in mind a free cup and champions league. now the next generation of russia's ice hockey stars have been showcasing their talents in an all star battle the m.h.l. showcase once again proving that the best reside in the west as the side has won its second challenge cup title in a row and come back fashion dani and was there. these men are all about twenty years old but they will regain the skills to show off the young hopefuls who present a youth hockey league they make chill at tellme factory producing players for your strongest league the kid chill pulling in north star game tradition once a year at the peak of the eastern conference plays the best from the west in a so-called challenge cup with every move showing this is far from just an exhibit game no end of skill from the very beginning to the joy of a packed arena in one of the rushes main us hockey centers. it

was the east who took the lead through on. goal three minutes from the first intermission the opening of the second period saw the eastern team extend their lead on said glimmer of turning the shootout effort into goal with confidence to make it two nil nevertheless the pick of the west proved to have wanted to to produce a stunning comeback. inspired by their skipper of and continued by maxime creature. two two by the second in their mission. and they come back turned into triumph lubin of scored his second on the night to give his side the three to lead the eastern stars were giving their best to cool eyes but it was the western netminder that are months media and still the show in then and producing to him a zing saves and them to net there at the end setting the final score for two.

everybody was cheering for the east but the crowd support did not help the team we didn't have time to build any sort of chemistry with some of my teammates before the challenge cup but we still pulled out an emotional comeback win so the league of the young has showcased its biggest airlines with the western conference team lifting the twenty twelve challenge cup although it's a save bet these m.h.l. stars still have some bigger challenges and trophies ahead of them robert carlin neon party. central russia. now engulfed tiger words as perfectly poised going into the final round of the pebble beach national he's four shots behind leader charlie way words hit five birdies in six holes to make a late surge of the late aboard a former world number one caught in a five under sixty seven two in the first round on the eleven under. south korea's

charlie way as the outright leader on fifteen and after a bogey free sixty nine american kenji is in second place free shots for the pack. now and they have to. have claimed the world cup title after clinching victory at the final stage of the season in calgary in the two month bob event russia's defending champion alexander came fifth to take third place overall. in biathlon timothy his claim silver in the men's ten kilometer sprint race at the stage of the world cup in finland the russian was perfect on both shooting ranges and lost only eight tenths of a second to martyn forte you eventually won the race the frenchman topped the podium despite one mess benjamin vega of switzerland finished third. and finally cycling frenchman has won the six and final stage of the twenty twelve tour of qatar meanwhile tom boonen of belgium sealed overall victory on the last stage

bringing him home fifteenth this was enough to secure top spot overall for the belgian all questions mark cavendish suffered some bad luck as he went down during the finishing sprint has left him in sixth place overall but it was demobbed who celebrated victory in qatar's final stage. of the mark renshaw of australia at the finish however he's yet to get used to a place on the podium admitting this still needed to come. well i'm very happy to have reached another level and great circumstances though i got the result i still have a lot to learn the whole week has been a very enjoyable despite the strong wind in my teammates teaching me a lot that's important that's all the sport for now i'll have more for you in a couple of hours time to join me.

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latest news and the week's top stories here on r t the arab league is set to decide the future of a tap for its own serious violence escalates the u.s. gathers a coalition of the willing against damascus. the spirit of revolution returns to get you on the first anniversary of a barge counting down the protesters calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council. the people of greece have marched on the streets in anger over a new set of cards as a government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat by securing another bailout. and russian a civil society takes center stage in politics as

a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential elections with backing from all of the candidates. it is not out of the russian capital you're watching r t a marine and josh they would take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news now the arab league will hold a series of meetings on sunday to decide what further action to take on the crisis in syria the body will consider resuming its observer mission and the syrian opposition expects official recognition from some of the arab states meanwhile violence escalates across syria with dozens reported killed over the past twenty four hours an army general was assassinated in damascus on saturday following deadly twin bombings of the security service headquarters in the city of aleppo

government forces are reportedly bill martin homes and several other areas although the regime denies this while the u.s. is reportedly setting up a coalition of countries willing to. support the rebels and pressure damascus into submission. some analysts believe washington's desire to bring down president asad would spell disaster for syria. 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 interests 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 in conducting very violent acts against civilians in syria against both the government and you know this in syria and i don't think the syrian people are really going to

appreciate you know an outside exile group arming and training these people and it's grateful to think of what could be coming next if an externally force power is is suddenly implanted in syria is not at all representative of the people and syria could lead into another iraq so it's just really quite devastating right now the way things are progressing. at damascus as it's conducting an operation in the city of homs aimed at rooting out water cold armed gangs opposition activists disagree and say the army shelling residential areas indiscriminately but series deputy foreign minister alleges that the massacre was actually orchestrated by armed opposition groups to influence international opinion. believe it or not i mean those people who are who have been killed are people who supported the government. people who were killed no. by the armed groups and they were massacred i believe that i'm sure that the instructions were

given to these armed groups to commit this message. to mobilize. the international public opinion and to encourage those countries to use such a thing in their statements before the security council because everybody in the world or those who are at least interested in following the developments in the region could listen to them. the u.s. and its allies criticize countries who supply military hardware to damascus but a group of republican lawmakers in washington is now calling on the white house to arm the opposition in syria and as artie's maria port now reports the middle east is already awash with firepower made in the usa. at the united nations security council america holds one permanent seat but when it comes to weapons the world's largest arms exporter is often seen as sitting on two chairs

they say there isn't an international embargo on arms preventing them from doing that that is a fact but that doesn't change the immorality of supplying a dictatorial regime that is killing its people in massive numbers every day and we are are deeply concerned about that as u.s. officials continue publicly scolding countries over relations with syria critics say the accusations are being thrown from a tremendous glasshouse the us is a hugely difficult in this regard because they've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us has sold the store equally 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 here are so you're ok in france they're a thug you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity in a park or city 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 who. is going on the war. against your own.

you know human while. geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blower sibel edmonds has accused america of playing particularly dirty while leading a campaign for regime change in syria and 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 turkey well who was providing this arms nobody's asking in the us media well these are u.s. arms shipped to turkey this is the u.s. military complex flush with record revenue continues to lobby its interests on capitol hill arms manufacturers or some of the biggest companies in america they're some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only do they make it so for the defense department around the world they're a federal contractor and many other levels 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. new york and you can always find more news and the latest updates on the situation in syria on our website r.t. dot com here's what else is waiting for you there right now the day of rage against new anti-piracy laws has rocked the world with protests taking place in dozens of cities across the planet. also online as south atlantic round why argentina sees military threats from the u.k. around this beautiful and islands.

in cairo thousands of people joined a general strike in protest against the ongoing military rule exactly a year after president mubarak stepped down demonstrators one of the supreme council of the armed forces to cede power to civilian government they are unhappy with how the generals have been running the country with fewer forms made and escalated repression of the opposition dozens of protesters were killed over the past month in clashes with police across the country and new parliament's been elected and is drawing up a constitution while the military says it won't step down before the end of june but freelance journalist del truce says egyptians expect the deadline to be broken . unsure about whether the transfer. so far the military really meant you can't so it has yet to fulfill any of its promise is 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 shorts and maiming protesters has been absolutely no reform of the police as it exemplified by the local disaster a few weeks ago which saw seventy four people dying so essentially we've seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are basically anxious that nothing will change and they will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would post i would say they do say the revolution never end but it's called the continuous or the ongoing revolution really since january even off to mubarak step down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing for protestors pushing for change they haven't seen yet. now governmental organizations across egypt are trying to keep a low profile to avoid provoking a clampdown by authorities the military wants to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and

has ordered a probe into their car they're claiming some are working to destabilize a country very few national reports from cairo egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want to is why now the groups many of which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while now they were at the vanguard of the uprising against mubarak that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces to power last february and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that is until they directed their criticism to the new military leadership blaming skaf for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. that are quoting people of the world. and they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much younger a sort of the rhetoric of this is specie led to prosecutors raiding seventeen

offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign finds to promote unrest in the post mubarak country activists however claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights but the scaf looking for. some against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the son of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in washington shows and simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything at all so this is america whose military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been quick to condemn car one in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at

the end of the day it continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue flowing we don't buy or washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east washington wants to step in always the situation as much as possible in order to get in to its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car sharing the council's concerns about the ngos motives the usa has had a hand into its policy making for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries you authorities cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which will last so the right any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing have a bigger you can see it over there this isn't how some of the armed forces are called now running egypt is in

a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. cairo. well still to come this hour here on our t.v. shooting itself in the food some states expressed surprise that the e.u. could end up at the losing out of its embargo on iranian oil. saints or sinners the man accused of being without a source of american secrets is branded a terrorist by some while others nominate him for the nobel peace prize. the greek family has warned of uncontrollable economic chaos if parliament does not approve a plan for fresh cuts on sunday new measures have already been adopted by the greek cabinet to secure one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and international monetary fund without it the country could default and march six

ministers have already resigned in protest over of the new cuts package and some employees from two major coalition parties are threatening to vote against it in parliament the draft bill suggests firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage grease is too big a strain unions have held a forty eight hour strike against the new measures while demonstrators clashed with police on friday margrave open rays of the financial advisory firm a.c.m. partners in chicago believes that a new bailout will barely delay a greek economic collapse. greece is either going to commit the measures which i and many economists argue still is not it no guarantee that the fault or it will default just sooner rather than later a lot of people are talking about disorderly default i don't think the european union nor greece is going to allow that to occur which frankly i think the markets have been calling themselves the last six months by thinking that there is a better or option i think what your first point is the much like rick economists

have been saying is the shrinking the economy who are to buy percent this year think about what that means for our country already on the brink of you know social not necessarily collapse we definitely definitely instability and economic not ruined but certainly you know it's certainly not growing things certainly aren't getting better a decrease of or to five percent of growth combined with the measures combined with the political pressures of the european union will definitely just to have disrupt raise significantly in two thousand and twelve. our chief financial analyst next guy is there believes greece has become a convenient scapegoat for some other countries. the credits are going to take a haircut on their debt already have that fully insured in the credit default swap market and they're going to make money no matter what they don't take any risk that's why greece is in this problem to begin with all of the toxic debt that has

been accumulated on banks' balance sheets around the world in germany in the u.k. in 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 don't don't their debt i would love to know your opinion of course on the situation in greece so why don't you log on to r.t. dot com it's our website to have your say and our latest poll well today we're asking what impact will the latest rescue measures have on the greek economy let's take a look at what's happening on the site now. so here the vote so far almost half of you believe that the new measures will do nothing as the greek economy has already do over a third of the respondents think it will only mean further hardship for the greek people nine percent of you saying that won't allow.