with austria dramatic doubles win on saturday has made the score two one going into the final day of action. mikhail youzhny for you a defeat would mean russia facing a playoff to keep their place in the world great however they can through a five set epic against alexander and olivia march three of down in the final set the russians completed a remarkable comeback seven six six seven seven five three six six four the final score. what that means is that russia needs to win both their reverse singles on sunday first up alex bubble of junior faces. looking for his first win representing russia and it could all come down to the fifth and final rubber when they go in it's in takes on and the rest hide him out of. the more the usa have put their place in the quarterfinals with a comprehensive three no win over roger federer switzerland marc bryan and mardy fish winning the doubles rubber against federer and stanislav voting time in four sets four six six three six three six three the final score and that was.

very good doing. i certainly know what it feels like to lose. and it's not a great feeling and. you know play with these guys guys the best doubles player of all time are here and i understand you my part. meanwhile the final of this year's open in paris will be between home favorite marion bartoli maria sharapova is conqueror actually. czech opponent clare as a couple over in straight sets seven six six o'clock in the semifinal followed up her win over sharapova with a straight sets victory over belgium's you nine a whitmire. now in ice hockey russia have lost one hundred favorite sweden in the swedish round of games in the euro hockey tour the home side ran out comfortable for one winners in stockholm but not before school his first thirty eight minutes and called power play goal late in the second goal things going for the hosts russia's attack came alive when they were two one down this

week capitalized on russia in the states to seal the victory their feet still wasn't enough though to not brush off the top spots in the overall euro tour standings meanwhile in the other game finland thrust the bottom side the czech republic winning seven zero. while the next generation of russia's ice hockey stars have been showcasing their talents in an all star battle the m.h.l. showcase pits the best of the a students the best of the west and it was the west which came from behind to win its second challenge cup title in a row robert downey and was there. these men are all about twenty years old but they will regain the skills to assure the young hopefuls will present a youth hockey league they make chill at tellme factory producing players for a year of strongest league the k.h. ill holding an all-star game tradition once a year at the peak of the eastern conference phase the best from the west in

a so-called challenge cup with every 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 the rushes main us hockey centers. it was the east who took the lead through our. play go three minutes from the first intermission the opening of the second period saw the eastern team extend their lead on said 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. 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 star swore giving their best to cool eyes it was

the western netminder that are months media and who stole the show in then and producing to him a zing saves and them to net their advantage setting the final score of four 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 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 twelfth challenge cup although it's safe bet these m.h.l. stars still have some bigger challenges and trophies the head of them. robert fall in your own party among your drug lords. now in other football news preparations are taking place ahead of sunday's africa cup of nations final the ivory coast will

be overwhelming favorites when they take on zambia and gab on the ivorian put their place in the final with a one zero victory over molly and sally's on wednesday in plutonic private haven't reached the showpiece final since two thousand and six but for salomon kalou says the elephants team spirit could be the secret to their success. on the team spirit and working together and you can see with every game we played even destro came down. in. defense so i think that the spirit does we're looking for we want to win together and there's a motto was. most important is to go with it we'll feel that's what we. well zambia reached their third final after a surprise one zero win over ghana in the seventies there were huge underdogs ahead of the game despite that victory they have reached the final twice before finishing

as runners up in one thousand nine hundred seventy four and one thousand nine hundred ninety four and. now in the english premier league manchester united leapfrog rivals manchester city at the summit following a dramatic two one victory over liverpool at old trafford all the pretty much talk about luis suarez and patrice evra following the year requiring eight game ban for racially abusing the frenchman liverpool striker refused to shake every hand before the game on the page of quickfire second half brace from wayne rooney was enough for the victory although suarez did pull one back for the visitors direct devils are now a point above sitting in the table with roberto mancini's side with aston villa later on sunday. elsewhere russia striker scored his first goal for follow on his debut in their two one win over stove top notch kept up their title hopes with a five nil hammering of newcastle also moved into the top four with a come from behind win at sunderland the chelsea are now fifteen points off the top of the table after

a two no defeated everton. you know were in no performance today. we are sure of anything positive. if you go to a lot of. little negatives to take from this game. and the little things to to improve bearing in mind a free cup and champions league. now over in the n.b.a. hard with the denver nuggets of one for just a second time this month after holding off a late rally by the indiana pacers one hundred thirteen one hundred nine the final score towson's game high twenty seven points with kate as denver ended their five game losing streak danny granger was the man setting the tone for the crisis scoring a team high twenty six points while the nuggets lorson showed off his marksmanship to hitting two alto. three attempts from long range six mos it got 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 cut

that deficit to four late in the game six hours after low point in twenty three points of his own including a three pointer which made the score one hundred eleven one hundred five in denver's favor one hundred thirteen one hundred nine was the final score as the pacers lose three straight for the first time this season. but now a golfer tiger woods is perfectly poised going into the final round of the pebble beach national he's four shots behind leader charlie way woods have five birdies in six holes to make a late surge up the leaderboard. the former world number one carded a five under sixty seven two in the third round on eleven under. perfect approach south korea's charlie way is the outright leader on fifteen and after a bogey free sixty nine american ken jude is in second place three shots karabakh.

now finally moscow's luzhniki arena was the place to be for daredevils an adrenaline junkies on saturday the fifth annual breakthrough extreme sports festival featuring a full range of heart pumping activities thrills and spills aplenty delighted spectators and competitors who showed off skills on roller skates bikes and skateboards others took to displaying their combination of speed strength and agility by navigating the obstacles and at for batek fashion. fifty nations in all were represented and russia's alexei kolesnik off was among the masters on two wheels a sign that extreme sports are indeed star rocketing popularity here in russia. you never catch me doing that that's all the sport for now here we're not saying the weather is next.

the arab league is set to decide the future of its efforts in syria as the violence there escalates and the united states gathers a coalition of the willing on its efforts against a mass because more and that's just ahead. the spirit of revolution returns to egypt on the first anniversary of mubarak sousing 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 part of a government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat by security at another bailout. and russian civil society takes center stage in politics as a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential elections

with the backing of all the candidates. in the russian capital you watching r.t. with me arena joshie now is no u.n. mandate to act on syria the u.s. is gathering a coalition of nations willing to help bring about regime change in damascus indirectly meanwhile the arab league is meeting to mull over what further action to take on the crisis in syria and this comes as the country's violence continues to escalate was no end in sight or desire in a village who has the details. the arab league did have an observer solution in syria. in december of last year but they pulled out in january citing an increase in violence earlier the arab states how proposed their own view on the on the solution to the crisis in syria which was to be part of the u.n. draft resolution which was vetoed by russia and china at the u.n.

security council last week right now they of course the situation in syria continues to be extremely violent acts it is claimed that hundreds of people were killed in the country just over the past week and this is what syrian the deputy foreign minister hostis say on the matter those people who have been. people who supported the government. people who were kidnapped by the two groups and they were massacred on the. the. order due to the exact time of the meeting of the security council the. syrian government insists that the rebels in the country are met managed to to survive and carry out their violence because of the foreign at least at least financial support from from abroad but they are also saying that there are insurgents coming in from various arab countries who also provide military and

human support to the rebels in the country rosco housing has repeatedly insisted on the fact that the situation in syria needs to bring results peacefully and by diplomatic solutions and time and time again reminded that it should be syrian matter that is the two opposing sides in the conflict in syria should. discuss the situation should sit down at the talks between them without any foreign intervention i let's have a listen to rush is on boy to the united nations. as the morning during mission of that when he was there and as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain. quarters in the city is that he was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the. armed confrontation will continue. at the same time you have increasingly no interest

rate from washington or other host of excerpt from washington who say they're not going to sit down for any talks with assad or insist that the syrian president step down and that is the situation in which the league of the arab states is meeting you know whether to discuss what is going to happen with the country and how the situation there should be solved here in english to reporting there from cairo now 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 our report. the middle east is already awash with five power 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 that the us sold the story really 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 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 they fear are so you're

ok in france they are thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity in apocrypha 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 since. why 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 boy. you know human rights. f.b.i.

whistle blowers sibel edmonds has accused america of playing particularly dirty while leading a campaign for regime change in syria but it's not some kind of. simultaneously op rising situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously arms and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey who was providing this arms nobody's asking in the u.s. 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 there are some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only do they make and so much for the defense department around the world there are 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 arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit. new york. well you know always find more news and the latest updates on the situation in syria on our web site which is actually dot com and 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 and dozens of cities across the planet also online a south atlantic rao why argentina sees military threats from the pay around. in cairo thousands of people joined a general strike in protest against the young going military rule exactly a year after president obama stepped down demonstrators want the supreme council of

the armed forces to cede power to a civilian government they are unhappy with how the generals have been running the country with the reforms made and escalated repression of the opposition dozens of protesters were killed over the past months in the clashes with police across the country and you 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. gyptian expect the deadline to be broken. unsure about whether you actually 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 the people expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is. maiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police was exemplified by the local 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 new dictatorship i think most people here would post i would say they do say that the revolution never ends 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 protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yet. and in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt's senior general the fan of 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 the country but if a 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 this. that are quoting people who they are working on those and they are the ones that evolution they have. to live there this is very much the u.s. war there are two girls 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 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. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. the thing that so this is america has military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious though has been quick to condemn the 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 that support also continue flowing we don't buy or washington's so-called support for democracy

get 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 share 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 your story to 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 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. cairo. and still to come this hour here on our t.v. shooting itself in the food some member states expressed concerns doubt that you could end up at the losing end of its embargo on arabian oil. saint or sinner the man accused of being wiki leaks source of american secrets is branded a terrorist by some while others nominate him for the nobel peace prize. the grief . 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 a hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and the international monetary fund without its 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 eight hour strike against the new measures while demonstrators clashed with police on friday margaret bovary of the financial advisory firm a.c.m. partners in chicago believes that a new bailout will merely delayed a greek economic collapse. greece is either going to commit to last thirty 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 but frankly i think the markets have been fooling themselves the last six months by thinking that there is a better or option i think what you're first going to see much like greek economists have been saying is the strength in the economy who are to buy percent this year think about what that means for a country already on the break you know social not necessarily collapse definitely

definitely instability and economic not ruined but certainly you know it's certainly not growing and 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 distort disrupt significantly in two thousand and twelve. parties financial analyst max kaiser really is greece has become a convenient scapegoat for some other countries. the credits are going to take a haircut on their 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 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 their debt i would love to know your opinion on the situation in greece a log on to a website or to come to have you are saying our latest poll well today we are asking what impact will the latest rescue measures have on the greek economy the second look now at the side vote so 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 third think it will mean only more hardship for the greek people on the one percent of you think they want to greece's economy to collapse and the minority who are now believes the bailouts are the only way the country can survive so those are the figures for now but all that could change of course so do log on to our website r.t. dot com and let us know what you think. and disagrees struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the.