my shutter finished second on the night and the third overall. that's what i saw in our way to russia plays on the final day of the third stage of the euro hockey swedish games remember. lost to host sweden on saturday the russians still have a chance of winning this stage they need to beat the czech republic and hope they will defeat sweden in sunday's other game so the russians are currently in action the latest score there is three nil to the czechs in the third period. while the next generation of russia's ice hockey stars have been displaying their talents in an all star battle the amateur showcase put 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 but for now it was their. these men are all about twenty years old but they

will regain the skills sure the young hopefuls will present a youth hockey league then material at thirty three producing players for your strongest league hill holding 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 of skill from the very beginning to the joy that backed out arena in one of russia's main centers. it was these who took the lead on the board of spoke. three minutes from the first intermission the opening of the second period saw these three extender lead and said glimmer of turning the shootout effort into goal with confidence to make it to nil nevertheless that because the west proved to have wanted too. produced

a stunning comeback. inspired by their skipper. and continued simply. due to the second in their mission. and the comeback turned into triumph of scored his second on the night to give his side the three two lead the eastern stars were giving their best to call eyes but it was the western netminder that are months media and still the show in the end producing to him a zing saves an empty netter at them and setting the final score of who are 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 of emotional combat with. 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 save bet these stars still have some bigger challenges and trophies ahead of them. than your own party. to tennis now where team russia have been given a lifeline in the davis cup tie with dramatic doubles win on saturday has made this call to one going into the final day of action. and usually knew the thing to have made russia facing a play off to their place in the world group they came through at five set against alex on a pair and all of them are at three down in the final set the russians completed a remarkable comeback seven six six seven seven five three six six for the final score there. that means the rush to win both singles on sunday first up alex. of junior looking for his first win representing russia who faces.

the latest score there is four two in favor of the austrian athlete that it could all come down to the fifth and final rubber when you can it soon takes on andrus hayden. football reports in both the russian and british press claim that former england manager fabio capello could be in line for a move to the russian premier league with big spenders capello resigned from his job as manager of the three lines this week after the english football association went against his wishes and stripped john terry of the captaincy and reports claim the telling could be in line to replace a manager you're a christian as shown at the club with the russian resuming this march seventh in the table and six points of champions league sports clubs. has already been sacked filling speculation could be next and announcement is to be made on monday.

you know me time preparations are taking place ahead of sunday's africa cup of nations final ivory coast will be overwhelming favorite so when they take. on the book their place in the final with a one zero victory over mali in the samis on wednesday the tournament favorites haven't reached the showpiece final since two thousand and six but for what salomon kalou says the elephants team spirit could be the secret to their success. and team spirit. and you can see with every game we played even destro. you know. so i think that the spirit those who are we looking for we want to win. most important to google.

that's where we. reached their third final after a surprise one zero win over ghana in the semi's they'll be huge underdogs ahead of the game despite their victory there have reached the final twice before finishing as well as up in one thousand nine hundred four and one nine hundred ninety four. now in the english premier league united have leap frogged rivals manchester city at the summit following a dramatic two one victory over liverpool at old trafford double from wayne rooney was enough for the victory of the gold skein in the second half in the forty six and forty ninth minute then lose a one vote for the visitors. the red devils are now a point about city in the table with roberto mancini's side at aston villa later on sunday a victory would really stablished a two point advantage meanwhile at the wolves have the chance to hold themselves away from the relegation zone if they're able to beat local rivals west brom it's home head of this ahead of his side's trip to villa park city boss roberto mancini

. these teams away form will have to improve if they're to win the title. i think that is impossible to ignore. the disease or the noise the future is going to difficult for us for. humanity for the board enough. but we have the same game. we need to win three or four games with. to a finish where we started with winter sports chinese athletes dominate in the freestyle skiing what's come up at their home countries event in the men's competition who cleaned his first win of the season as he recorded a score of more than one hundred forty points his country men young posted points less acclaim silver car played out of a shot of canada bronze that result cut his lead over so young to fifty points in

the overall standings. in the women's events of the entire portion went to china came first as she was the only affleck to break the one hundred point mark in the final managed second place after claiming for what cup victory in a row at previous events while showing song. over ten points adrift of the where. is still on top with one hundred points over. ok that's all the sports from me for now more in toss time how not to wear those next stay with us. world. science technology innovation all the list of elements around russia we've got the future covered.

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from steve. starts on t.v. dot com. the arab league debates how to bring stability back to syria as pressure on the ground with speculation that western states could actually be propping up al-qaeda through their support of the opposition. iran promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program which it insists is for peaceful energy purposes despite the long list of western sanctions imposed against it. and an impoverished population or a bankrupt country the greek parliament is set for a tough choice more public summit angry protests on the streets.

top stories of today and over this week you're watching the weekly with me will receive showing the arab league is mulling over what further action to be taken should be taken on syria with reports of escalating violence meanwhile the head of the group's observer mission has resigned just as a proposal was be considered to again send monitors from the league and the u.n. to the country these are really good reports from cairo where the pan arab body is meeting as we speak. 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 side 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 on the whole house has been hit heavily according to activists there who are siding with the opposition they say hundreds of people have been killed just over the past week however. however the official damascus has a different point of view on the matter 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. evening after the. 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 by of 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 series of serious themselves in fact russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov was in damascus for talks with the syrian president bashar al 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 to tell you to 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 of 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 a 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 for fighting against the syrian the syrian regime or at the moment and of course you also have to keep an eye on washington for trying together 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. he's really going to score reporting that from carwell meantime talk to his shop from the center for middle east studies says that it washington and al qaida are fighting against a common enemy in syria. it seems that the west are working in the same

way and they have the same target is to destroy the regime in syria. personally i was not surprised to hear a statement of. an american. behind that terrorist operation and then we heard. that many groups. from iraq and never denied that supply and. then i did support and. the opposition also united states denied that the united states or the western block provide what. america is not. but everybody and children in

syria financed by some arab countries it's a clear nobody can deny this. and i would ongoing violence reports of growing casualties in syria to verify the u.n. stopping trying to estimate the body count but there are those who believe the figures are being manipulated to push a regime change and as our reports 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. telling the truth . the syrian observatory for human rights is left several media outlets coaching false information to rival the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists to posting. alongside civilian one both sites 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're one and the same thing quoting the fake cites casualty figures the consequence of a very different perspective of the crisis the original cites 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 the 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 monitor the original observatory strictly 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 his 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 of the is censored like calling for no fly zone for international intervention and we made it clear i sit on their victory for human rights. original organization is that we are i guess an intervention we are against the no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed in that is going on in syria as. and his group refused to speak on camera stating i

cannot waste my time talking about this is the moment people are dying in homes 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 the. government's troops the b.b.c. and the guardian had to withdraw material after falsely quoting as always the human rights observatory the un stop counting the death toll claiming it's too difficult to keep track of but it's human rights chief also said five thousand civilian deaths should be enough to provoke international action the real observatory still document the deaths civilian or otherwise but it may be too late for the numbers to matter i've been it r t london. ten minutes past the

hour here in moscow you're watching r.t. iran says that it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the thirty third anniversary of the islamic revolution president ahmadinejad said tehran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear program is to serve its domestic energy needs of the united states and its allies the e.u. and israel suspect iran could be pursuing nuclear weapons they feared piling up sanctions against iran but where the majority warns that europe's oil embargo will backfire political analysts to come was a name says that washington and brussels want to weaken the islamic republic but fail to see the danger that their actions are creating. they've taken into consideration that iran is going through election parliamentary election probably the thing this is kind of backfire in terms of the population of iran against.

america and the european they go in very far because this is kind of an implication for the world economy especially this escalate to a military showdown and everything is going to be on the table all the inspection by the nuclear agency. found that iran is actually weaponize in their system their aim in this point they are actually following the nuclear treaty agreement there is no violation to that and they ran said very clearly they're willing to cooperate with the international community but you have to wonder what really the international community at this point and what the american one at that point and as i said there's a lot of politics in it no matter what they saying that sanction are coming at iran no matter what they are just a fine or opening their first there is some judgment already been rendered against iran. it's good to have you with us today are you watching r t just ahead of you in

the program here it's a year since the toppling of mubarak but instead of celebrations across egypt a general strike as people feel betrayed by the military rulers and want to change it still hasn't come. by the group of politically active russians take the matter of election transparency into their own hands by organizing a vote has leave. its tough new cuts on already struggling greeks or an imminent default as the country's prime minister warns failing to get more bailout cash will be catastrophic the parliament is set to vote on the unpopular new austerity bill that e.u. creditors want passed in return for the one hundred thirty billion. your rescue package the cabinet has cleared the plan after a tough debate last six ministers or deputies in the process some coalition m.p.'s have threatened to vote against it if it goes ahead though fifteen thousand civil

servants will lose their jobs and the minimum wage will be slashed thousands of creeks have been protesting the deal throughout the week they have been clashes with police who fired tear gas to disperse crowds and more rallies are expected later on sunday when the parliament votes on the bill investment advisor patrick young says people in stronger economies are tired of fixing the blunders of greek politicians the european union has certainly adopted the politics of the insane and because after decades of ignoring these sorts of things they just suddenly realise that actually all greek thought government figures are a complete and utter fiction that the greek economy is based upon the complete not true disorganization were ultimately nobody has any incentive to pay their taxes etc the problem is for the greeks themselves if you're in northern germany you don't see why your local swimming pool should be closed on in order to pay for things that are happening right now in greece we've got the deputy chairman of the deputy commissioner of the european commission mrs crewe only crew she's from

holland she's one of the few commissioners who really has a huge how little on the political mood she dropped the bombshell she said we'd like to keep you in the euro but you know while we don't have to keep you in the euro that's incredible it's a seismic move finally in brussels it is being talked to by perhaps it's being whispered or more than shy to but the truth is the european union has finally realized that greece is not going to manage to reform itself or doesn't seem to want to and ultimately that's why we're on the brink and those people who are striking god love them i'm sorry for them but they're losing money out of their pay packets but there is no way that this farce can continue we're greece can be bailed out by the rest of the world that's the simple true. the economics of the martyr unfortunately. quarter past the hour now here in the russian capital or the first anniversary of the ousting of former president hosni mubarak egypt's activists have called for a general strike to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council they

want the council to step down immediately saying they're blocking reforms the military said it won't accept any ultimatum and will transfer power in june when the presidential election is assured but many people fear they will remain in power beyond this day cairo based journalist bel true gyptian solve every right not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether they actually transfer power in jean and so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters 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 and maiming protesters has been absolutely no reform of the police and i was simply fired 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 a new dictatorship i think most people here would post i would say they do you say 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 yes. in the meantime the crackdown on western funded pro-democracy groups in cairo has been discussed by america's top general with egypt's martial ton over four dozen of foreigners have been arrested and are now facing trial for fund. unrest in the country but as art is more if a national reports it's the timing of the climb down that is raising questions. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may

want is why now the groups many which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while 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 quote in people of the world. and they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much there are two goals this is species 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.