it's difficult the english don't know themselves what they want to be able to for another word in english before there was an english and there was no good so it's like a foreign english for the english i hope that they you know will do well it's going to be tougher of course also for them but he's been links with the head coach have a job with angie i mean what do you recommend to him about oh i don't know i don't know i thought that he had a coach yeah they're in talks about is making now 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 in moscow although they play in the you know and i just want to i don't know who's going to be a culture i mean what what what you could you recommend by training russians it is a big high culture to most people expect that 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 team so for that reason but the

competition is strong and it is and you see a lot more of the world than you are ever seen and it was a great experience for me. now to other football news in the english premier league manchester city have regained top spot after a one nil victory at aston villa lobos in mancini's men and now two points ahead of rivals manchester united following a solitary goal from joleon lescott meanwhile in the bottom missed the chance to hold themselves away from the relegation zone as they were thrashed at home by rivals west brom five one in the score a minute as for manchester city their boss now believes they're all set for the title run in. you know that. december in general. difficult because we had players injury players players away for these reasons but now we are in february we are still on the top i didn't anyway next week or the players and this is very important for.

meanwhile there was a dramatic conclusion to this is africa cup of nations underdog zambia one on penalties against overwhelming favorites the ivory coast the shootout finished eight seven in zambia's favor after a goal is draw ivory coast captain didier drogba had the chance to win the title for his team but missed a penalty in normal time it's obvious first africa cup of nations title. to tennis where russia's davis cup team will face a relegation playoff following defeat to austria the surprise last means austria through to the quarterfinals for the first time in seventeen years well trailing two one going into the final day russia knew they couldn't afford to lose any of sunday's rubbers first up was alex problem all of jamia imagine in or special start to his davis cup career with russia he went down in straight sets to. the man that ego commits in straight sets where nobody under arrest high demand was academic last year one was high three to and face spain in the next round. now in ice hockey

russia have lost for the second time in the swedish games the third stage of the year at home. dinos men lost four nil to the czech republic on the final day of competition and it was sweden who won the tournament as the host the reigning world champions finland three one. top of the overall standings with one tournament left . now russian marshall mixed arts fighter more so most alive took took on seven times jujitsu champion cornell's apotheker in moscow on saturday nights the fi was one of ten and kicked off the inaugural verdict m.m.a. championship michael was ringside. splitting the evening's ten flights into two the main event certainly sapped up everything he could in the build up the lives entry into the ring was baffling as it was astounding with girls dressed in a traditional tack to stand gowns flanking him from left and right as the bemused

the particle looked on indeed the almost over the top presentation was in line with the lives of the claim to fame he's one of the official ambassadors for the two thousand and thirteen universe yard games to be held in the crowd was in the mood for a good fight having seen blood hit the canvas in the early abouts but despite such a fantastic match up the fight flattered to deceive the two opponents in the first minute of the fight tousling it out on the arena floor before most eliab dispatched a couple of left footed kicks to sit back this side i the menacing pole grimaced and after the medics examined him deemed him no longer a fight worthy to a broken rib but it seems that was a live game plan all along but when you don't ask why i'm not taking you tell me plight i can fight two rounds with this guy is a really serious opponent i have to break something or i want to get anything out of the fight but the manner in which the fight ended didn't put

a damper on with the live celebrations calling out anyone who wished to challenge him. there were a host of other bouts during the mixed martial arts extravaganza with fighters from all over the world competing tonight's event is undoubtedly a display of real power and aggression so it's a little bit strange to be seeing women entering the ring the cage behind me. indeed the knights entertainment included an all female bout but there wasn't much to see as disposed of opponents within minutes of the first round when asked whether more women should participate younus position was interesting. i actually prefer fewer women in the sport i prefer it to be just me among all these men but seeing a radiant blonde sparring it out i'm sure there are plenty out there who wouldn't mind more women getting in the ring the remaining fights were contrast of quick victories and slow tiresome wrestling duels and although the main event was over before it had really begun the crowd's approval of the night was resoundingly. mike

of genco. now in golf phil mickelson overturned a six shot deficit to win the pebble beach national in california he's now ninth on the all time list of career wins with forty titles to his name this after a flawless final round for an eight hundred sixty four after birdies at two am for all placed he shot the faith perfect and set up another birdie. mickelson as well on the road to winning the one point one million dollars first prize tell you woods was one poised going into the final round but three straight bogeys ended his hopes of victory despite this lovely bunker shot for a birdie on the twelfth which finished nine shots off the pace while overnight leaders south korea's charlie ray finished on fifteen and that's two shots behind the venture when a nickel said. it's i mean it's really cool don't get me wrong i mean but whatever with number it was and wherever timeless it was a meeting for when for me because of where it took place and the fact that i

haven't i haven't played as well as i would like these last few months i knew i was close but i wasn't getting the results and this just gives me a big boost of confidence that the things that that i've been working on are archana now finally to motor sport where ya the valar overcame plenty of adversity on his way to winning the rally of sweden the thing is surviving a tire puncture to take top spot at the second rally of the year beating make a hive in an instant into second vala came into the final day with a twenty three second rate of eventual runner up covenant the twenty six year old to deal with the state's twenty two tie a puncture and still maintain an eight second advantage meanwhile russians have going nobody called push a time defending champion sebastian loeb out of the top five the reigning champion still maintains a ten point zero ruling despite boxing place finish incredibly precious solberg lost third place also bug off to damaging his ties on the same rock as his fourteen

. well that's all the sport for now will have more than a couple of hours' time to join me next. culture is the same of arkansas you love her for most of your self-worth tough to see in these hard times there's no shortage of austerity in the slashing of budgets and the shrinking of the welfare state generate jobs in return is to.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. on. the news today violence is once again flared up.

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approves draconian new austerity measures as the city explodes with rage and for protesters out of national sovereignty to foreign interests. syria brushes off fresh arab league initiatives targeting the assad regime while washington is thoughts within bring up full military action. taking care of the basics health care education and housing a roundabout route and scrutiny as he outlines his plans for social reform but his latest prediction article. tainted by association the ethics of london's twenty twelve olympic games undermined

a controversial sponsor deal by the chemical giant the infamous disaster which claimed tens of thousands of lives in india. well news and much more twenty four hours a day this is out. and on the press isn't it humiliating sellout of greece's sovereignty and future that's the view of greek protesters to the approval of a massive new austerity package that goes past running battles tore through the capital with hundreds of buildings looted or set ablaze by rage moms out of three hundred m. pays one hundred ninety nine vote in favor of many of those who rebelled thrown out of their party's staring measures were demanded by greece's international creditors in return for a second one hundred thirty billion euro bailout things that need the cash to pay

off interest on its massive debts to keep its rapidly shrinking economy from defaulting on greek journalist and he is open to the explains more now from the capital. the grieco make years finally passed this austerity package it was a crucial vote so if you have seen violence toward violence in the streets of athens it was the worst day since the violence we had the in two thousand and eight we have seen i guess young people who did who did the use of breaking marbles throwing molotov cocktails and then their police men answering or throwing tear gases we have seen fires all in the streets are around the scene that must wear our own greek parliament they have also looted many many stores around around the streets and these harsh measures include even lowering the

minimum wage by twenty percent this is very hard because the net wage. that somebody will receive it's four hundred euros and with unemployment being being much higher than twenty percent so people say that they will not stay at home they will continue to riyadh and they will continue to demonstrate but on the other hand people are really angry and we expect more violence well germany's finance minister wolfgang schauble has declared that promise is on to the offer anymore saying that greece will have to implement reforms to prove it's not a bottomless pit but investment adviser patrick says whatever happens in greece there's no saving it from a collapse that will be felt across europe. in every possible respect greek greece is not a tragedy and it is due and the reason for that is simply because the reason no way

that they are going to be able to implement whatever austerity they're talking a fight against such a backlash of public opinion whatever happens there the problem for the rest of the euro zone is that not only we have to basically be prepared to defend the whole integrity of the euro and actually if you read what's been said behind the behind closed doors you can see there's a spirit that you know what we may have to do three things we may even have to end up ditching portugal from the euro zone but we're we have to defend now it is italy and that's really going to fall on the shoulders of the technocrat mario monti and this is going to be our cataclysmic event during the course of at the latest april does the euro survive at the moment i think probably a shrunken euro it's sixty forty it can do but ultimately we're going to see swinge in recession even worse than the recession really down to we've already been receiving through why do european union and that's bad for everybody in the world ultimately within the next maybe it weeks greece is going to be forced to default

and that's going to be quite cataclysmic. what artie's across talk program also focuses on the greece's financial predicament coming your way at seven thirty hidden costs of the bailout rescue. the change is clear in germany you give me the cash to survive given my debt problem i'll give you my sovereignty but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of this austerity and will they agree to submit the most important sovereign aspect which is your this goal your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not answerable to your population through. they're not managing the greek economy there's nothing and that's i might's i might be provocative here but that's all it is the. monetary funds. the

maskers has swiftly rejected a brand new arab league package of initiatives on syria the proposal backs the opposition and calls for a joint un peacekeeping force in the country the group has also said its cutting all diplomatic ties with the us government says the un general assembly is set for more talks on the syrian issue later on monday or teasing of the school reports from cairo. syria will probably see un peacekeepers most likely to arrive in the country in order to try and remain stalled peace in the country again the arab league meeting in cairo on sunday took them about eleven hours to come up with a decisive response to the situation in the 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 have already been imposed on syria they aborted the observers program which was in january of this year very

conflicting numbers as to how many people have been killed depending 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 february twenty fourth to be precise in tunisia which is part of the arab league in order to figure out further details about what exactly they're going to do about the bloodshed that's going on in syria there are concerns that the rebels are being supported by by al qaida and these statements from the al qaeda leader and something who did a voice his 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 iraq

intelligence. fighters boruc being transported from iraq into syria. i will side when you put all of that together with the fact that washington d.c. is absolutely adamant about coming to talks with the syrian president they have a centrally dismissed him as a leader you end up with a very volatile situation which really is incredibly hard to salt so again right now all we can do is observe. by the author and journalist action returns he thinks the u.s. and al qaida could end up fighting side by side in syria to safeguard common interests we know the united states and the european union. all but military intervention. could happen should happen some sources even saying british just special forces already in the ground so maybe there is already foreign intervention we know there is some grounds of foreign intervention we have heard about al-qaeda . in syria now once again the united states and european union states as

usual supporting al-qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven will they never learn it is shocking to hear a american statesman like that of john mccain calling for intervention presumably u.s. troops and al qaeda side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows up what exactly americans are doing are not protecting the interests of u.s. citizens and the european union leaders over here a 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 this is getting dangerous but the u.s. has continued its calls for regime change saying it's only a matter of time before the assad government collapses and as history shows washington may find a way around the barriers including the u.n.

if it decides to push through its agenda on syria. what's in a mandate having failed to reach international consensus on syria it's been a complete waste of time washington prepares to act around the u. way for the time being the administration firmly rules out any form of u.s. military intervention in syria but the pentagon is busy laying out an attack strategy on syria just in case should the president call for action experts say history shows the absence of international consensus would not be an obstacle to washington if it decides to go ahead with intervention the united states sees the u.n. as a tool of convenience of the u.n. is supple and going along with the united states then the united states is fine to have a u.n. sanction for its actions but when the u.n. and the people of the world or the countries of the world resist then the united states says the u.n. is unwilling to do its job and then uses other instruments like nato or other

military arrangements they did that in the case of yugoslavia they did that in the case of the iraq war whenever the u.n. doesn't go along the u.s. then says well to heck with you one will use some other instrument for the exercise of american power last year the u.n. security council authorizes nato to protect civilians in libya but the mission resulted in regime change the libyan authorization of force was very specific and it didn't authorize regime change in the countries that partook in their operation clue you know actually it's for exceeded the u.n. mandate and their operation i think that's symbolic of the fact that these limits that these u.n. mandates really are meaningful in the terms of international law and it's just the reality of nato countries have flooded libyan rebels with weapons despite a u.n. arms embargo u.s. government wants to you one but they want the u.n. to do the u.s. bidding way in the united states uses the united nations in regard to be israeli palestinian question is very emblematic when the united nations passed resolutions which it has done repeatedly demanding that the israelis get out of the west bank

and earlier gaza and earlier this hour. the united states didn't enforce those resolutions they didn't demand that they be enforced when it came to the united nations saying the palestinians have a right to be a recognized state the united states acted as if there was a crime against humanity that the united nations there take up the issue of palestinian rights we can see here a manipulation of the united nations when it does what the united states wants fine but when it stands with the palestinian people which it has repeatedly over and over again then the united states government republican or democrat found a way to condemn the united nations. the u.s. also did not support the resolution on syria put forward by russia which would call for all sides in the conflict to stop the violence and to start a dialogue instead it chose to take sides in a civil war. one might describe the u.s. attitude towards the u.n.

as use it if needed go around it if you don't like it but while an almost carte approach to the world body might suit washington it makes for a bad recipe for both ability i'm going to check on reporting from washington. more in-depth discussion on the standoff in syria coming up in the next hour investigative journalist a so when stanley says there's no unity in the opposition and the calls for military intervention are supported by solid facts is a taste of that. although both sides deny differences in in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between people who support outside intervention and the protest. so you've got groups like the syrian national council which are now openly in favor of a no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because you know there isn't any even claimed that i know the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claim that

it's people so no fly zone just seems a political pretext to invade. now it will be assessing the country's education system examining its health care and laying the foundations for new housing policies but there are thirteen outlined his vision of a better life for the average russian and this latest pre-election manifesto before more on his proposed changes that story r.t. correspondent peter all of the life and. life changes can the average russian expected hootenannies elected as president. vladimir putin was outlining his plan for social change in russia should he be elected president in march the main areas he's been looking at the education system in the country saying that everybody should have the ability to be able to to raise their social standing to education to work also paying those who educate teachers and doctors are long being among

the groups in russia that don't really get the the levels of pay we see in other countries is this something a lot of if you want to put it right he was a c. teacher the doctor's given. pay increase so in turn. as of those teaching it higher education facilities those university professors outlined a plan that could see them. a two hundred percent pay increase by twenty eight team no pensions is always an issue a key issue when it comes to elections and in russia vladimir putin praising the fact that russia hasn't had to raise the age a person can receive their pension however he does acknowledge that with one in eight russians living below the poverty line the vast majority of those are pension age and that the fact that the pension in russia really does not cover it isn't enough money and they need to put more money into that from the state birthrate

always a key issue in the rain russia as well now. the said that more money will be put towards giving towards families that will have a second child in order to be able to of course fund having a second child in fact in some regions that have serious demographic problems we could see even more money given to families that have say a third child or a fourth child now all of these two extra children they were wanting to have in russia then they're going to need somewhere to live housing. was discussed by the prime minister saying that more state funded housing would be made available if he was elected president but he also said that he wants to see more private housing only more people getting on the property ladder buying their own their own houses now one of the reasons one of the ways he hopes to be able to do this is by tackling the issue of corruption in the construction industry something that he promises suggesting that two thirds of the cost of buying

a house in russia could actually go on the shady dealings of dealing with corrupt builders know this is something he wants to tackle in order to allow more people to own their own homes and have bigger families that he wants to see him. indeed welcome to all of i thank you for that update. where you can find more analysis of the published election articles on our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what else is lined up for you like today spectacular photos from japan rising to its feet once again months after a devastating blow by the unexpired this destruction was beyond repair. the city that built the world's largest cargo plane is winning back its reputation as russia's aviation capital.