terry gross last year and i believe that question from a lake with hello with a great challenge if they decide to take the reins and well it's worked just for the arts. it was a great experience. to work with these people it's what you learn yourself when you talk about the great experience only learn a lot you. could muster city have. been in the news a lot so much i missed but i just was on spec and yeah and somebody yeah i didn't expect that. way before i'm not a coach before the the world cup of the european cup. it's difficult being these don't know themselves what they want to do i want to for another word in english before there was an english that was not good so it's like a foreign english for the english i hope that they will do well it's going to be tougher of course also for them but he's been links with the head coach job with

angie i mean what do you recommend to him about all i don't know i don't know. he had a coach but they're in talks about is making oh i don't know i don't know you know or the russian competition is good most teams are in moscow and she's also a more skilled player i just. i don't know who's going to be the coach but i mean. what you could you recommend by training in russia as it is a big high call to most people expect it is a high quality very much make sure you fly with the flights. because you know that was for me they did issue you know the flying was and the type of airplanes you fly which we know would happen with ice hockey teams so for that reason but the competition is strong and you see a lot more of the world then you ever see then it was a great experience for me. two other football news now in the english premier league manchester city have regained to the top sports that's after one zero victory at aston villa. and then out. rivals manchester united meanwhile.

mistake chance to haul themselves away from the relegation zone as they were fresh wild west brom atoned five one. in wirthlin russia. has claimed bronze in the. eighth world cup staging to finland the twenty four year old athlete missed only twice on all the shooting ranges political off start to mark time for car to france by five seconds to finish it took silver with three mysterious world gold and went to the legendary beyond all of which beat his closest rival by eighteen seconds and two misses during shooting. staying with winter sports where. zuckoff school has won the world cup in this competition the russian team led by support finished third at the final stage in calgary but that result was enough to top the overall standings though the day belonged to germany

as the group of maximum on one of the stage he's bought the bench in the second in the final standings in germany to lead by the shuttle finished second on the night and third overall. let's now move to the ice way russia has failed to win the third stage of the euro haka to this swedish games in a loss to the republic on the final day of the competition for mail it was sweden who won the tournament as graining world champions finland three one on sunday the swedes are now on top of the euro pocket or with one ton of mint left. in youth ice hockey the n.h.l. showcase put the pick of the eight. against the best of the west it was the west which came from behind to win its second challenge cup title and heroes. explains.

these men are all about twenty years old but they will regain the skills to show off the young hopefuls who present a youth hockey league they may kill at tellme factory producing players for europe strongest league the chill pulling in north star game tradition once a year at the peak of the image eastern conference plays the best from the west in a so-called challenge cup with every move showing this is far from justin it is a game of skill from the very beginning to the joy of a packed arena in one russia's main us hockey centers. it was these two to go through and don't get bored of spoke play guild three minutes from the first intermission the opening of the second period saw the eastern team extend their lead on said glimmer of turning the shootout effort into goal with confidence to make it two nil nevertheless the pick of the west proved to have to

to produce a stunning comeback. inspired by their skipper. and continued maxime kitchen to two by the second in their mission. and the comeback turned into triumph lubin of scored his second on the night to give his side the three to lead the eastern stars were giving their best to call was it was the western netminder or months media again who stole the show in then and producing to save us and them to net their advantage setting the final score before two. we just lost our concentration of to take it to no lead we fought with the main job is done which. your company's goals and when the game easily becomes completely opposite and we were made to pay for overconfidence talkie we still have

a lot to learn. there was no pressure we know each other very well and it was fun to meet on the ice once again and settle scores at such a high level of competition. everybody was cheering for the east but the crowd support did not help their c.v. we didn't have time to build any sort of chemistry with some of my teammates before the challenge called but we still pulled out an emotional comeback. so the league of the young has showcased its biggest dillon's with the western conference team lifting the twenty twelve challenge cup although it's a safe bet these m.h.l. stars still have some bigger challenges and trophies and ahead of them. robert carlin jaan party. rally racing now where finish drive. has claimed the second grand prix of the season who was leading. off to the previous two days managed to carry the crowd to drive

sunday's stages ok enough to secure the top sports of the comic his compatriot make him in fifteen seconds that we didn't match or thank him for the four. seconds behind the winner rushes it good enough to thank him in face of a time well champ and sebastian of france who was six in the final standings. the heartbreak the reality of all if they bought me maybe and feeling like i was in do about was in a diver so excited when i had to do got to the finish and that might be a very first big very diverse as a male i meant when i got the banter and somebody from the bible. and within it where we started with interest. sports chinese athletes terminated the freestyle skiing what's their home countries event in the men's competition. clinched his first win of the season. in one. country may as

a young points last. world cup. bronze that result lead over. fifty points in the overall standings. in the women's event the entire pool then went to the junk seeing. the final. mannish second place after claiming four world cup victories in a row at previous events while. two bronze points adrift the winner in the overall standings. over. ok that's all the sports news for me for the moment more. on our goodbye.

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phone these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are old today. the arab league is calling on the u.n. to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria as the group aims to meld pressure on president assad we go live shortly for an update from cairo where the league has been meeting . but these five buildings have been set on fire a mass protest in athens as lawmakers debate new austerity cuts in return for one hundred thirty billion euro bailout with a vote expected in just one hour from now. we'll be going live to athens shorty for reaction on that and iran promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program which insists it is for peaceful energy purposes despite the long list of western

sanctions imposed against it our top stories this hour. with a look back at the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. the arab league is calling on the u.n. security council to pass a resolution creating a joint peacekeeping force for syria the group also wants more international support for the opposition and hopes to pile further pressure on the regime well for more on this i'm now joined by our correspondent. she's in caro where the power of bodies be meeting and what does this resolution mean for syria well basically it means that syria will probably see un peacekeepers most likely to arrive in the country in order to try and reinstall peace in the country again the arab league

was meeting in cairo on sunday took them about eleven hours to come up with a decisive response to the situation in that country which has seen a lot of bloodshed over the past eleven months we started in march and of course the arab league has asked for tightening sanctions which. i have already been imposed on syria they have. basically hold to their. program which was they didn't hold they aborted the observers program which was halted in january of this year and so now they're again calling for the un peacekeepers mission in order to try and reach stalled peace in syria and the country has been escalating very soon for it's coming very conflicting numbers as to how many people have been killed and ending on whom you ask really the opposition says hundreds of people are being killed on a weekly basis of the same time the authorities are saying that around two thousand

syrian military officers have been killed since the unrest have begun also you have the mounting pressure from washington from the white house who have put together a sort of a coalition of the so-called friends of syria who are going to meet in february twenty fourth to be precise in tunisia which is part of the arab league in order to further details about what exactly they're going to do about the bloodshed that's going on in syria. the resolution from the arab league was postponed because reportedly two countries zero zero and. lebanon have actually not have actually waste their concerns as to whether it was a good idea to stand for an intervention into syria. as it were a liver it looks like there probably will be more intervention from the u.n. in the grass because. he's been calling for donald between the opposition and the government is there any chance this may happen now as the gap between the two sides

widens. yes that's right russia has been adamant about the fact that it's up to syrians in order to. put it all together in order to weaken sow their differences they were. to do their best to get the opposition and the syrian authorities to. lay down their arms and come together and sit down for peace talks but unfortunately even though the. syrian president bashar. actually did say that he was ready for talks especially following his meeting on tuesday with russian delegation he did say that he was willing to sit down for talks with the opposition and to implement. reforms in the country unfortunately the opposition isn't so keen on those at negotiations also russia did support the arab league plan for reinstating peace in the country unfortunately they said that

plan and the observers mission wasn't quite as successful let's have a listen to you in about two russians in basad or to the united nations we can on the matter. as the mission of that i believe was there and as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain. or sort of quarters and it is that was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the. armed confrontation will continue. by those armed rebel groups because as you can has just mentioned were actually. a lot of have actually provided to be a lot of concern for the syrian authorities they claim that those groups are supportive by unknown until now and from abroad however there are concerns of those that the rebels are being supported by by al qaida and the statement from the al

qaeda leader and somebody who did a voice you support for the syrian opposition who did encourage all muslims the world over to come and join forces and that reinforced by the information from the iraq intelligence who said that. the fighters who are being transported from iraq into syria in order to fight on the rebel side all of those all of these facts put together really point to the fact that al qaeda right now is strongly supporting the syrian rebel fighters and when you put all of that together with the fact that washington d.c. is absolutely adamant about coming into talks with the syrian president they have essentially dismissed him as a leader and they encourage him to they don't just encourage him they insist that. bashar lesson step down when you put all of that together to end up with a very volatile situation which really is incredibly hard to solve so again right now all we can do is observe and you know thanks very much indeed for that.

reporting live there from colorado well the author and journalist afshin rattansi has told me a little earlier here in r.t. that the u.s. and fighting side by side in syria to protect common interests. the arab league is being used presumably as some kind of proxy because we know the united states and the european union have. eventually. could happen should have some sources even saying british special forces already in the ground so maybe there is already foreign intervention we have heard about al-qaeda in syria now and they could police the guns and weapons going into syria now that would be a great thing and could do although as you know the truth once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al-qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven u.s. troops and al qaeda side by side fighting against the sunni this really shows what exactly americans are up to they are not protecting the interests of u.s.

citizens and nor european union leaders our very statement to back any attacks we saw with lethal consequence in aleppo twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus this is this is getting out of hand it is getting dangerous. action returns you talking about little early here and still ahead for you this hour a year since the toppling of mubarak but instead of celebrations across egypt a general strike has people feel betrayed by the military rulers change that still hasn't come. and a group of politically active russians take the matter of election transparency into their own hands by organizing voters in the. story still to come first iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the thirty third anniversary of the islamic revolution president ahmadinejad said tirant would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear

program has to serve its domestic energy needs but united states and its allies the e.u. and israel suspect iran could be pursuing nuclear weapons they've been piling up sanctions against iran but. that europe's planned all embargo will backfire on political analysts coming i wasn't says washington and brussels want to weaken the islamic republic but fail to see the danger their actions are creating. they've taken into consideration that iran is going through election. and probably the thing this is kind of backfire in terms of the population of iran against. america and the european being going 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 weaponized their system

this point they are actually following the nuclear treaty agreement there is no violation. 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 say coming at you no matter what they are just a fine opening their facility there is some judgment already been rendered against you ran. on 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 will transfer power in june when the presidential elections that many people fear they will remain in power beyond this

date based journalist build true says egyptians have every right not to trust the military. 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 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 there's been absolutely no reform of the police i was simply fired by the football disaster a few weeks ago which saw over 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 a new dictatorship i think most people here would post it 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 the protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yet. in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt's senior general defended the clampdown on international governmental organizations and car of the country's armed forces want to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and have ordered an investigation into their conduct claiming some a working to destabilize the country from ocean to reports now from cairo. egypt's new government crackdown on and you know is has raised many questions and they may want to is right now the groups many we wondered by washington have been on the ground here for a while we were at the vanguard of the uprising against the barak 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 don't have that their criticism to the new military leadership lehmann's car or the slow pace of reform some of them are used by this of the. they are quoting people they are working. and they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous world the radicals this is especially 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 fines to promote and arrest 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. some agent against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also noted the sun if you asked mr

taishi secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo and washington. wasn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. at all in the things. so this is a game 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 the day the continued on flowing that the provides support also continue flowing we don't buy or 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 share the council's concerns about the engineer's 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 of 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 were a lot of 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 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 you are to cairo. fair and transparent that's how people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election in march polling stations across the country are being equipped with webcams to avoid any wrongdoing but

a group of proactive citizens has decided using technology alone is not enough you want this kind of explains how they're planning to secure honest fighting. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough and scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in court tens of thousands of people have been taking to the street demanding fair elections with marches presidential votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly where. people want to vote responsibly and with the internet where their billets go what they want political competition independent courts and media forming voters league is not our achievement the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures

and statements made tedious like t.v. host and now activist. lady advocate or the head of a charity fund and blogger it is a view of the bianca also known as dr lisa. or other school martha ordinator of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone was moved to our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a similar position there are the better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections is published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be a part of public discussions and online votes are the key instruments and letters have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the league and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including pledging little to.