it could all come down to the fifth and final rubber when you go can it same types of undress by the mouth or. the more the usa have booked their place in the quarter finals with a comprehensive three no way over roger federer in switzerland might draw in a muddy fish winning the doubles rubber against federer and stanislav in four sets . six three six three six three the final school. feels pretty good doing. 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 the final of the series open in paris will be between home favorite mario balotelli on the issue up with. a bunch. of her czech opponent as a couple over in straight sets seven six six love seven final twelve followed a win over sharapova with a straight sets victory over belgium's in and out with miles. now in ice

hockey russia have lost a home favorite sweden in the swedish round of games in the euro hockey tall but i'm side right now comfortable for one winners in stockholm but not before school. at hold power play goal late in the second goal things going for the hosts russia's attack came alive when they were two one down but the swedes capsulized on the russian mistakes to seal the victory with still wasn't enough to not brush off a top spot in the overall euro tour standings meanwhile in the other game finland france the bottom sides the czech republic with seven them. while the next generation of russia's ice hockey stars have been showcasing their. battle the n.h.l. showcase pits the best of the aist and the best of the west and it was the west which came from behind to win a second challenge cup title in a row over daniel was that. these men are all about twenty years old. in 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 chill holding an all-star game tradition once a year the peak of them a chill eastern conference plays the best from the west in a so-called challenge move showing this is far from just an it is a game of skill from the very beginning to the joy of a packed arena in one of russia's main us hockey centers. it was these what to believe and don't come out of spall played guild three minutes from the first intermission the opening of the second period saw the eastern team extend their lead and said got him of turning the shootout effort into duel with confidence to make it two nil nevertheless that because the west proved to have wanted to to produce a stunning comeback. inspired by their skipper. and

continued by maxime creature. to two by the second in their mission. and they come back turned into triumph of scored his second on the night to give his side the three to lead the eastern stars were giving their best to cool was by it was the western netminder or months media again who stole the show when then producing saves and them to net their advantage setting the final score for two. everybody was cheering for the east but the crowd support did not help their team we didn't have time to build any sort of chemistry with some of my teammates before the challenge cup. an emotional comeback when. so the league of the young has showcased its biggest moments with the western conference team lifting the twenty twelve challenge cup although it's

a safe bet these initial stars still have some bigger challenges and trophies ahead of them. robert carlin known party among the drug lords central russia. now. taking place ahead of sunday's africa cup of nations final the ivory coast will be overwhelming favorites when they take on zambia and gather on the ivorians put their place in the final with a one mil victory over mali in the seventies on wednesday the pre-tournament favorite having reached the showpiece final since two thousand and six and forward salomon kalou says the elephant team spirit to be the secret to their success. cannot be on the team spirit and working together and you can see with every game we played even destroyed came down to defend you know and. defend so i think that the spirit does who are we looking for we want to win together and that the motto was. most important is to go home with it to feel

and that's what we are for well zambia reach the final after a surprise one nil win over garnett in the semifinals that we huge underdogs ahead of the game despite that victory and captain chris catanzaro 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 we're going to be in 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 in the english premier league manchester united leapfrog rivals manchester city at the summit following a dramatic two one victory over liverpool at all trafford all the pretty much talk about luis suarez and patrick following the euro requires a game ban for racially abusing the frenchman the liverpool striker refused to shake every time before the game on the pitch they were quick fire second half

brace from wayne rooney was enough for the victory although suarez did pull one back to the visitors the red devils are now a point above city in the table with about a man cheney side of aston villa later on sunday. elsewhere russia strike up have scored his first goal for falling on his debut in the two one win over. their title hopes with a five nil hammering of newcastle also moved into the top four with a come from behind win at sunderland but chelsea an ar fifteen points off the top of the table after a total defeat at everton. but you know we are in no performance today. we are sure of anything positive. difficult to 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 fake up and champions league. over in the n.b.a.

hall of word the denver nuggets have won the for just the second time this month after holding off a late rally by the indiana pacers one hundred thirteen one hundred nine the final school tie lawson's game high twenty seven points with cake as denver ended their five game losing streak danny granger was the man is setting the tone for the bases scoring a team high twenty six points while the nuggets lawson showed off his marksmanship to hitting two out of three attempts from long range. neither team led by more than six until denver jumped out to a ten point lead in the fourth quarter indiana's paul george though helping to cut that deficit to fool late in the game are an awful o.-port in twenty three points of his own including a three pointer which make the square one hundred and eleven one hundred five in denver's favor. he would clutch free throws with eight point two seconds left while turnovers doomed indiana one hundred thirteen one hundred nine the final score was

the pacers lose three straight for the first time this season in golf tiger woods is perfectly poised going into the final round of the pebble beach national he's four shots behind leader charlie way woods hit five birdies in six holes to make a late surge up the leaderboard the former world number one carded a five under sixty seven to win the third round on eleven on into south korea as charlie way is the outright leader of fifteen under after three sixty nine american is in second place three shots further but. that's all the sport for now here we're not saying a lot more for you in a couple of hours time join me then weather's next.

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latest news on the week's top stories here in r.t. the arab league is set to the sign to future of its efforts on serious violence there escalate the u.s. gathers a coalition of the willing against damascus. the spirit of revolution returns to egypt on the first anniversary of mubarak's ousting with thousands of 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 cuts as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat by security and now their bailout. and russian civil society takes center stage in politics as a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential elections

the backing of all the candidates. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with josh the arab league will hold a series of meetings later 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 xpect official recognition from some of the arab states meanwhile violence escalates across the country with does. ordered 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 boarded leave on boring homes and several other areas although the regime denies this meanwhile the u.s. is reportedly setting up a coalition of countries willing to support the rebels and pressure damascus into

submission so now it's believed washington's desire to bring down president bill 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 the american and israeli aggression and throughout the region the free syrian army is the armed opposition conducting very violent acts against civilians in syria against both the government and you know in a sense to 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 for power is suddenly implanted in syria that 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 damascus as it's conducting an anti terror operation in the city of homs aimed at rooting out what it calls armed gangs opposition activists disagree and say the army is shelling residential areas indiscriminately but serious deputy foreign minister alleges that the massacre is actually being orchestrated by opposition groups to once international opinion. believe it or not i mean those people who are who have been killed are people who support the government and people who are could know it by the armed groups and they were massacred i believe that and then sure that the instructions were given to these armed groups to commit this massacre. to mobilize. the international public opinion and to encourage

those counters 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 bought a group of republican lawmakers in washington is now calling on the white house to arm the opposition in syria and authorities marine up ordinary ports 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 we've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us sold the story quickly more than four hundred billion dollars worth of since the one nine hundred sixty s. have gone to. middle east and you can argue. seriously that it's made the 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 you know 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 box 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. against your own. you know human while. some geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blower sibel edmonds has accused america of playing particularly dirty

while leading a campaign for regime change in syria this is not some kind of. simultaneously op risings situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously armed and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from cherokee who who is providing this arms nobody is 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. it's interest 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 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 marina what ny r.t. new york i think it was find more news and await us updates on the situation in syria on our website here's what else is waiting for you there. 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 a salvage plan a growl why argentina's u.s. military threats from the u.k. around the disputed open islands. in cairo thousands of people joined a general strike in protest against the ongoing military rule exactly a year after president obama stepped down demonstrators want the supreme council of the armed forces to see power to a civilian government they are unhappy with how the generals have been running the

country with few reforms made and escalated repression of yop a zation dozens of protesters were killed over the past month and clashes with police across the country and you parliament's been elected and drawing up a constitution while the military says it won't step down before the end of june but freelance journalist bill true says egyptians expect the deadline to be broken . people are unsure about whether the transfer. so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters with people expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is shots i'm aiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police as it exemplified 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 basically anxious that nothing

will change and that will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would put that would say they do 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 with egypt's security forces pushing for protestors pushing for change they haven't seen yet. in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt senior general defended the clampdown on international non-governmental organizations in cairo the country's armed forces want to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and have ordered a probe into their conduct claiming some are working to destabilize a country where if enough narry force 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 the notion that they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous world the rhetoric of this is special 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 funds to promote unrest in the post mubarak country activists how would claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights with the scaf looking for. some agent 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. living at all in the thing at all so this is a game and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious though has been quick to condemn this car when in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the day the continued on flowing that the provide the support also continued on flowing we don't buy or washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to step in laws the situation as much as possible in order to get on 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 engine whose motives the usa has had a hand in tips policy making for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story takes 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 celebrate 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 is in council of the armed forces or scaf 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. here if. cairo. so with on this hour shooting itself in the food some member states expressed concerns that

the e.u. could end up losing out of its own bargain on a rainy you know oil. saint or center the man accused of being weaken the source of american secret his brand of a terrorist by some while others nominated him for the nobel peace price. the great pm locust papademos has warned of uncontrollable economic chaos if parliament does not approve a plan for fresh cuts on sunday new austerity measures have already been adopted by the greek cabinet to secure one hundred and thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and the international monetary fund without it the country could default in march six ministers have already resigned in protest over the new cuts package and some m.p.'s from two major coalition parties are threatening to vote against it in parliament the draft bill suggest firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage greece's two biggest trade unions have held a forty hour strike against the new measures while demonstrators clashed with

police on friday margaret bergen raef of the financial advisory firm a.c.m. partners in chicago believes that a new bailout will merely delay a greek economic collapse. greece is either going to commit the measures which i and many economists argue still is not it now to guarantee that deep balls 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 nor greece is going to allow that to occur but frankly i think the markets have been fooling themselves the last six months by thinking that there is a better or third option i think what you're first going to see much like reconnaissance have been saying is the shrinking the economy who are just by percent this year think about what that means for a country already on the brink you know social not necessarily collapse we definitely definitely instability. and economic not ruined but certainly you know

it's certainly not growing at things certainly aren't getting better a decrease of war to fight for signs of growth combined with the measures combined the political pressures that the european union will definitely does europe disrupt greece significantly in two thousand and twelve. financial analyst max kaiser believes greece has become a convenient scapegoat for some other countries the credit serves who are going to take a haircut on their debt already have 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 and the u.k. and the u.s. have been put onto the balance sheet of greece and now the government of greece wants the people of greece to pay for this toxic debt the debt in greece did not originate in greece it originated in these other countries that have used greece as a toxic debt don't don't they're dead. would love to know your opinion on the

situation in greece so why don't you log on to our website r.t. dot com to have your say in our latest poll today we're asking what impact will the latest rescue measures have on the greek economy but here are the votes so far exactly half of you believe that the new measures will do nothing as the greek economy is already doomed and over a third think it will only mean further hardship for the greek people well nine percent of you think the e.u. won't allow the greek economy to collapse and the minority for now believes bailouts are the only way reece will survive those are the figures for now but all that can change just add your thoughts to the debate. now is greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing iranian oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud of my.