and six points off a champions league spot general director alan sorts has already been sacked fully fueling speculation could be next an announcement will be made on monday now to tennis team russia have been given a lifeline in the davis cup tie with austria a dramatic doubles win on saturday has made the school to one going into the final day of action looked like a don't care no use nate mueller defeat would mean russia facing a playoff to keep their place in the world group however they came through a five set epic against alexander higher on the libya at three of down in the final set the russian gio completed a remarkable comeback seven six six seven seven five three six six for the final score. well what it all means is that russia needs to win both their reversing goals rubbers on sunday first up alex vogel below them all of junior faces european meltzer looking for his first win representing russia and it could all come down to

the fifth and final rebuff when the eagle gets in takes on and responded now or. meanwhile the usa took their place in the quarterfinals with a comprehensive three nil win over roger federer switzerland mark bryan and marty fish winning the doubles rubber against federer and started sliding in four sets four six six three six three six three the final school. in the final of the series open in paris will be between home favorite marion bartoli reassurance of the congress and julie brothel a surefire check opponent claros a couple over in straight sets seven six six seven final will be followed up her win over sharapova with a straight sets victory over belgium's. in ice hockey russia have lost two home favorites sweden in the swedish round of games in the euro hockey tour the home side before is in stockholm but not before school as

first thirty eight minutes in the tires at home power play goal late in the second got things going for the hosts russia's top came alive when they were three one down but the swedes capitalized on russian mistakes to seal the victory to defeat still wasn't enough to not rush off a top spot in the overall direct or standings they were yet again for the russians bottom side the czech republic winning seven l. russia but interruption later on sunday when they face the czech republic. while the next generation of russia's ice hockey stars have been showcasing their talents in an all star battle the n.h.l. showcase pits the best of the east against the best of the west and it was the west which came from behind to win its second challenge cup title in a row daniel was there. these men are all about twenty years old but they will regain the skills to show off the young hopefuls represent a youth hockey league game a chill at their own factory producing players for europe strongest league the

carry chill pulling in north star game tradition once a year at the peak of the image of eastern conference plays the best from the west in the 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 that backed out middle corrina in one of russia's main us hockey centers. it was the east who took the lead through anton cup water spout play go three minutes from the first intermission the opening of the second period saw the eastern team extend their lead and 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 to be well off and continued by maxime creature. to 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 call eyes but it was the western netminder that are months media again who stole the show in then and producing to the mazing saves and them to net there at them and setting the final score off 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 twelfth challenge cup although it's a safe bet these m.h.l. stars still have some bigger challenges and trophies ahead of them. robert falling

on party among you douglas. now another football news preparations are taking place ahead of sunday's africa cup of nations final ivory coast will be overwhelming favorites when they take on zambia and gab on the ivorians book their place in the final with a one nil victory over mali in the semi's on wednesday the pre-tournament favorites haven't reached the showpiece final since two thousand and six before solomon closers the elephant team spirit could be the secret to their success with working on the. team spirit and working together and you can see with every game we played even destro came down to defeat in you know. the defense so i think that the spirit does where we're looking for we want to win together doesn't matter would go. most important is to go home with it to feel that's what we. well zambia reached their third final after a surprise

a one mil win over gondor in the semi there were huge underdogs ahead of the game despite that victory they had reached the point of twice before finishing as runners up in one thousand nine hundred seventy four hundred ninety ninety four. now over 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 trouble was about luis suarez and patrick's evra following the euro why is a game ban for racially abusing the french when liverpool striker refused to shake every hand before the game on the pitch a point five second half brace from wayne rooney was enough for the victory of suarez did pull one for the visitors. the red devils are now of point above city in the table with roberto mancini's side of aston villa later on sunday a win would reestablish that two point cushion meanwhile at the bottom wolves have the chance to pull themselves away from the relegation zone if they're able to beat

local rivals west brom. now over on the n.b.a. hardware at the denver nuggets of one 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 score tie lawson's game high twenty seven points with cage as denver ended their five game losing streak well danny granger was the man setting the tone for the pacers scoring a team high twenty six points while the nuggets lost and showed off his marksmanship to hitting two out of three attempts from long range so the team led by more than six until denver jumped out to a ten point lead in the fourth quarter indiana's george help in cup deficit to four late in the getting out an awful live reporting twenty three points of resigning including a three pointer which my disk will one hundred eleven one hundred five to denver one hundred thirteen one hundred nine the final score surprises me is twenty straight the first time this. things are. now 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 on the leaderboard the former world number one carded a five under sixty seven twenty third round on eleven and south korea charlie ways the out right leader won fifteen under after a bogey free sixty nine and energy is in second place three shots further back. finally moscow's nikki arena was the place to be for daredevils in 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 like so unstable it's obvious to displaying that combination of speed strength in the gym by

navigating the obstacles in an acrobatic fashion fifty nations in all were represented in russia select cyclists because it was among the last is on two wheels a sign that extreme sports are skyrocketing popularity here russia. oh. well that's all the sport for now dimitri will be here in a couple of hours time to join in that.

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or see some other part of it and realize everything you. welcome to the big picture . the arab league is set to decide the future of its efforts in the syria as the violence to escalate and the u.s. is gathering the coalition of the willing to put more pressure on them more and that in just a few moments. the spirit of revolution returns to egypt on the first anniversary of mubarak's ouster with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council. the people of greece a march on the streets over a new set of cuts the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat by securing yet. the russian civil society takes center stage and

politics as a group of public figures steps up someone and so the upcoming presidential elections with the backing of all. the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me will receive show the arab league is mulling over what further action in might decide to take on the crisis in syria comes as the country's violent escalates with no apparent and in sight. is meeting today. the arab league did have an observers mission in syria which began in december of last year but they stopped their mission there in january already saying that the violence was escalating there are hopes that this time the arab league will team up with the united nations observer mission and they will start their proceedings over

in syria to order to reestablish peace in the country now of course over the past several weeks have seen a rise in a rise of violence in syria particularly the city of holes that house has been hit heavily according to the activists are who are siding with the opposition they say hundreds of people have been killed just over the past week however if however the official damascus has a different point of view on the matter let's have a listen. those people who are who are have been. people who supported the government. people who were kidnapped by the two groups and they were massacred on the. of to. order due to the exact time of the meeting of the security council in new york of course

syrian officials say that the armed rebels are being supported both financially and militarily forces from abroad who want to see foreign intervention in the country russian says that the only people who really can bring a solution in this crisis are the syrians syrians themselves in fact russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov i was in what was in damascus for talks with the syrian president bashar assad after those talks says syrian president looked looked like he was ready to sit down for talks with the syrian opposition but the opposition refuses for those talks they do however say that if those talks are to happen if negotiations between the opposition and the syrian government are to take place then russia must play and mediating role meanwhile russia's envoy to the united nations security council tell you took him told our t. that the only solution in this case it will be for all sides in syria to lay down the arms as the morning during mission of that i believe 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 territory was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the. armed confrontation will continue and escalate on sunday al-qaeda leaving you with al-qaeda leader said that he also supports a syrian opposition he actually called on all muslims in the arab world to unite come into syria and support those who are fighting against the syrian the syrian regime at the moment and of course you also have to keep an eye on washington for trying to gather a coalition of the willing so to speak hoping to put more pressure on the regime of president assad and they're hoping that if they continue to press their point and the united nations. and among their allies they will reach their goal. is ridiculous you're reporting there from cairo well the mounting death toll in syria

is hard to verify because of an almost a blanket of foreign media blackout even the u.n. is still trying to estimate the body count and making matters worse syrian opposition groups themselves are often split over accounts of what's really happening the story belongs to ban it. the syrian observatory for human rights syrian observatory for human rights the syrian observatory for human rights it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures but it's not always telling the truth and ownership the syrian observatory for human rights is left several media outlets quoting false information as two rivals fight the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists to posting military deaths alongside civilian ones both sides claim that the official observatory this is the original site in arabic with an english version on facebook and this is the fake site launched in the center and mostly in english several foreign news outlets

have assume they are one and the same thing quoting the fake sites casualty figures the consequence of a very different perspective of the crisis the original sites latest figures show just over five thousand one hundred civilian deaths against almost two thousand military casualties the rival site claims well over six and a half thousand civilians have been killed and barely six hundred troops a difference many claim suggests this is a lot more than just a numbers game i don't think even the people using these figures are have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is there just the fire by any means possible that assad regime is a brutal massacring regime and it needs to fall a soon as possible and we can see the united nations security council when that human rights strategy for regime change doesn't work how annoyed western governments are how have got arab league monitors the original observatory strickly

opposes military intervention the man who hijacked it's name disagrees. used to translate at the real observatory he was fired after falsely claiming to be an official spokesman and using a live interview to call for a no fly zone. since then he's launched a smear campaign against the original group claiming they're the impostors as are we and these figures have been quoted by the b.b.c. c.n.n. and a.b.c. australia the other groups say they tried to pass some political views so far by calling for no fly zone for international intervention and we made it clear that sit on their victory for human rights. origin organization is that we are i guess an interventional we are against the no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed in that is going on in syria as always and his group refused to speak on camera stating i cannot waste my time talking about this is the moment whilst

people are dying in homs they're my priority right now he did refer us to another opposition group based in london and they too refused to comment on the ownership of the observatory but they did confirm that reporting military deaths was not in their interest it's not our position to report. these awful for government troops the b.b.c. and the guardian had to withdraw material after falsely quoting as always the human rights observatory the un stopped counting the death toll claiming it's too difficult to keep track of but its human rights chief also said five thousand civilian deaths should be enough to provoke international action the real observatory still documents the deaths civilian or otherwise but it may be too late for the numbers to matter either bennett's party london. and you can always find much more news on the latest. situation in syria all to be

found. what else is waiting for you on our website well it's. other day of rage against the new and. the world there with protests taking place in dozens of cities all across the planet. also online. military threats from the u.k. around the disputed. past the hour here in the russian capital in cairo thousands of people joined a general strike in protest against the ongoing military rule comes exactly a year after the asking of the former president mubarak demonstrators want the supreme council of the armed forces to cede power to a civilian government there are happy 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 classrooms with police all across the country and you parliament's been elected and is drawing a constitution or the military says it won't step down before the end of june but freelance journalist true suggestions expect a deadline to be broke. people are unsure about whether they'll actually transfer power in jean and so far the military the ruling military council 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 birdshot maiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police was fired by the local disaster a few weeks ago which saw the seventy four people die so essentially we've seen

very little reform since the barak 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 put that would say they do say in the revolution never ended but it's called the continuance of the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes in egypt security forces pushing protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yet. and in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt's senior general defended the clampdown on international governmental organizations in cairo the country's armed forces want to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and i've ordered the probe into their conduct claiming that some were working and are continuing to work to destabilize the country in cairo as r.t. is more of a national egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions

and they may want 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 because. they had a quote in people of your work and their gender they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous war there are two girls this is especially led to prosecutors really 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 scarf looking for enjoy. some agent against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the sun if you asked mr taishi 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. at all in the thing at all so this is it and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been weeks 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 that the continued on flowing that the provide that support also continued flowing we don't order washington's so-called support for democracy

here in the middle east and 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 engine whose motives the usa has had a hand in chips 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 for the rate 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. cairo. is coming to you live from the heart of moscow and are still on the way in the program here shooting itself in the foot some member states expressed concerns that you could end up with them losing it if it's a bargirl on iranian oil. saint or sinner the man accused of being wiki leaks source of american secrets is branded a terrorist by. some of us nominated him for the nobel peace prize. the greek prime minister lucas papademos has warned of a quote 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 one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and international monetary fund without it the country could default in march six

ministers have in the meantime 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 suggests 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 market a book on roof of the financial advisory firm a.c.m. partners in chicago believes the new belt will merely delay and then inevitable greek economic collapse. greece is either going to commit to last year or the measures which i and many economists argue still is not enough to guarantee that recent default 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 there are an option i think what your first point is the much like reconnaissance been saying is a shrinking the economy oh poor to buy percent this year think about what that means for a country already on the brink of you know so-so not necessarily collapse that 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 more to five percent of growth combined with us here are the measures combined the political pressures of the european union will definitely distort disrupt greece significantly in two thousand and twelve. and off he's a financial analyst next kaiser believes that greece has become a convenient scapegoat for some of the countries the credits or sue are going to take a haircut on their debt already have that fully insured in the credit the fall slot market and they're going to make money no matter what they don't take any risk that's why greece is in this.