and so were they once for another word in english before there was an english and there was no good so it's like the fall of the english for the english i hope that they will do well it's going to be tougher of course also for that. he's going links with the head coach dungy i mean would you recommend to him about or don't know whether no offense and you already have a coach for their interest to make an hour so no i don't know or 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 the history. i don't know who's going to be the coach. what would what you could you recommend by trying to see is a big high call to most people expect it is a high quality very much make sure you fly with the good points. because you know that was from the big issues you know the flying was. and the type of points you fly with we know what happened with certain teams or for good reason but the competition is strong and you see

a lot more of the world than you would ever see them that it was a great experience for me. and it was a dramatic conclusion for this year's africa cup of nations underdogs done bait overwhelming favorites the ivory coast ninety minutes of play plus extra time didn't find a way that turned up the big goal is the shootout finished eight seven eight papers on the other coast patented job did have a chance to win the title for this team but mr powell said in normal time it's the first of the africa cup of nations title. the meal i don't think we were the best but we were animated by a force in this tournament which made the difference and we had luck and i think this luck lasted us the whole african nations cup it works and it's true that this duration of lewis has missed out on winning the cup before immediately lost on penalties now it's imperiled is again we have expected a lot from these players but i think now we'll go back to our john it will take

a look at everything in team decisions but it's true that we need some new blood. in the meantime football across europe is being hazed by extreme weather and heavy snow for not least in syria where the group of it's a football stadium collapsed under the weight of snow the west stand to lose the coffer ball club suffered the nose damage luckily nobody was in sight at the time as a country says football season doesn't start until march there are no injuries reported what's the cost of repairing damage is expected to be high. overturn a stand where russia's davis cup team will face a relegation player following a defeat to off the surprise loss means also are through to the quarter finals for the first time in seventeen years will really see one go into the final rush when you couldn't afford to lose any of sunday's first start was alex for them all drew near and failed to make a good start to his davis cup career i went down in straight sets to you know that

it meant that they got religions straight sets win over under its head in mire it was academic or through one of the tight three two and will face spain in the next round. and russia have lost their final match this with his game to the stage that you hope it to believe it was meant when plans to be czech republic for nail on the final day of the competition and it was sweden who won the tournament as the hosts beat the reigning world champions finland three one to swedes and i'll talk broadly overall standings with only one ton of minutes left. now russian mixed martial arts fighting with some us alive has defeated the seven time champion connors apart in moscow this weekend the fight was one of ten and kicked off the inaugural verdict and then made fighting championship. what's wrong site. splitting the evening's ten flights into two the main event certainly set up

everything he could in the build up to lives entry into the ring was baffling as it was astounding with girls dressed in traditional tatarstan gowns flanking him from left and right as the muse about the 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 only versus the odd games to be held in the crowd was in the mood for a good fight having seen blood hit the canvas in early abouts but despite such a fantastic match up the fight flatter to deceive the two opponents in the first minute of the fight tousling it out on the arena floor before most alive dispatched a couple of left footed kicks to the park aside the menacing pole grimaced and after the medics examined him deem him no longer fights worthy ju-ju a broken rib but it seems that was new still is game plan all along which will mean you don't win would trigger asked why i'm not kicking you tell me polite i can

fight two rounds with this guy he's a rude serious opponent i have to break something where i won't get anything out of the fight but the manner in which the fight ended didn't put a damper on most alive 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 raw power and aggression so it's a little bit strange to see women entering the ring the cage behind me. indeed the night entertainment included an all female bouts but there wasn't much to see as young acquainted scar disposed of opponent within minutes of the first round when asked with a 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. 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. michael r.t. moscow. golf worth phil mickelson overturned a six show deficit to win the national income of foreigner is now ninth on the all time list of career wins with fourteen titles to his name that's after a flawless final round for an eight under sixty four after birdies at the second and fourth estate short at the fifth perfectly set up another birdie wilson was well on his way to winning the one point one million dollars first prize tiger woods was well placed going into the final round three straight bogeys and did his hopes of victory despite that lovely bunker shot for a birdie on the twelfth woods finished nine shots off the pace. lead at south korea's charge it will finish on fifteen and two shots behind eventually win a mickelson isn't carried away with his achievement.

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to brussels shares held the first of the night of our broadcast we'll have all the details for you. it's five pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live on needs now away with our top story this hour and russia says it will study in our league proposal for a joint arab u.n. peacekeeping mission in syria but foreign minister sergei lavrov says that a cease fire should be achieved before any mission of this kind could be deployed let's get the latest from artie's sarah bernard we're following the latest developments in and outside of syria what exactly is currently being suggested as a way to help and serious crisis and tell us more about russia's reaction it to this idea of peacekeeping. well russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov was meeting

today with his hero a counterpart they were discussing the ongoing situation in syria over the weekend of course the arab league formally ended their mission in court for a new joint here and peacekeeping mission to enter the country now the foreign minister responded to those calls by say that russia would consider that proposal by the end limitation that would come with a number of conditions. first in order to deploy a peacekeeping mission we need the agreement of the host secondly there should first be peace which the peacekeeping mission will gain how to sustain in other words there should be a kind of cease fire agreement but the trouble is that armed groups fighting with the regime's forces do not listen to anyone and are not controlled by anyone. well one of the crucial point philip had mentioned that from the foreign minister was that it would need the agreement of the government in syria at the moment to

mask is rejected the proposal and actually saying that there was an instance now internal affairs and this is again that is to one side of course we see damascus very very wary about the u.n. being used in this way and indeed russia as well that the u.s. being used as a tool for regime change rather than pushing for an end to the violence there's no rush from the very beginning in very clear about the any proposal should be taking to account all the sides are not simply a part of the opposition now we actually had today from the visiting here a foreign minister was scarcely seen very clear that they're going to back the opposition financially and politically he said that the maybe there are plans to back the opposition militarily but of course there are already reports that countries like it are having the already started arming the opposition within the country and that's causing a lot of concerns of course we see the situation growing increasingly violent as

members of the opposition and different factions of the opposition have become increasingly arms now over the weekend we had al qaeda publicly backing the opposition and that's really fueling fears that the situation in the country tonight is really a very fertile ground for the interference of terrorist groups that and this is the growing violence russia's again really pushing for dialogue that today the foreign minister calling on the opposition he made it very clear they they want to have dialogue with the president to at least continue dialogue with the government with the vice president later on today the arab league mission are going to be presenting their proposal to the u.n. and that meeting could of course everyone very focused now on finding a way to deescalate the continuing tensions inside the country and artists are for a pretty ride from central moscow thanks. but james corbett integrated journalist and specialist on the mideast says the peacekeeping an issue there for syria put

forward by the arab they could easily be hijacked by powers interested in regime change in the country even the we disagree civil conduct of un peacekeepers everywhere from haiti to ivory coast to the congo and many other countries besides i think the syrian people should certainly hope that the peacekeeping mission doesn't come about and i think one would have to see it really is as will be more than a ploy to to involve the united nations in you know what is essentially at this point a civil war and once the situation spun out of control is it probably inevitable he would give in to keep him in need of a force that would have the ability to defend itself in this case or by once the only sensible option of the point would be to send in foreign troops which i think is that really in game and get into it and it's going on in a strange universe towards what the u.s. so it's just a matter of time before the syrian government collapses while the pentagon says it's waiting for their radical military action now although gas and china are

adamant they won't allow foreign intervention in syria via the u.n. history shows washington may find a way to bypass diplomatic barriers to question its agenda or it is going to plan explains. what seemed a mandate having failed to reach international consensus on syria it's been a complete waste of time washington prepares to act around the un for the time being the administration firmly rules out any form of u.s. military intervention in syria but the pentagon is busy filling 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 it in the case of the iraq war whenever the u.n. doesn't go along the u.s. then says well the heck with you one will use some other instrument for the exercise of american power last year the u.n. security council after rice needed 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 they're protecting their operation clune actually it's for exceeded the u.n. mandate and there are question i think that symbolic of the fact that these libya that these u.n. mandates really are meaningful in terms of international law and it's just the reality of a needle countries have flooded levy and rebels with weapons despite a u.n. arms embargo u.s. government wants the u.n. but they want the u.n. to do the u.s.

bidding way in the united states uses the united nations in regard to the israeli palestinian question is very unromantic when the united nations passed resolutions which it has done repeatedly demanding that the israelis get out of the west bank in earlier gaza and earlier some. 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 with 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 he chose to take sides in a civil war. one like this like the u.s. that in two tours the u.n. as use it if needed go around eighty you don't like it but why let all the court approach to the world body might suit washington it makes for a bad recipe for all stability i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . well versed agave journalists and media specialists are so when stanley told r.t. that the syrian opposition is very fragmented and says there's no unity between groups over the means of fighting the regime here's a quick taste of an interview coming your way next hour. but though both sides deny differences in. in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition and mainly between people who support outside intervention and the protestors who don't so you've got groups like the

syrian national council which are now openly you favor of the no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because there isn't any even claimed that i know of the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claims that is problem to people so no fly zone just seems a political pretext very me. but buildings on fire sops looted and dozens injured this is how the greek public met a new round of drastic cuts approved by their parliament tens of thousands of people protested the deeply unpopular package need to get a second bailout from international creditors or it is jacob greaves has the latest from athens. based on those pictures as events that took place last night really getting a sense here that the government the greek government is under attack from all sides now you've got the the euro zone international monetary fund really increasing the pressure saying the cuts haven't gone far enough and they have been

implemented correctly also we saw taking place last night we have the demonstrators now really seeing in very large numbers up to one hundred thousand people in attendance and they're growing in anger throughout the course of that evening in the end we saw clashes taking place with police and that resulted in certain amounts of buyers petrol bombs being thrown at police by some anarchists in the crowds also police a tally a scene firing tear gas into the crowd there is also in total in dozens of injuries we also saw dozens of buildings of flame all this of course taking place in central athens now there is still a lot of discontent as well within parliament we saw that take place last night a number of m.p.'s forty three from the ruling coalition made up of socialists because they rebelled against this latest measure of force there see cuts now what

we're talking about here really is fifteen thousand job cuts in the public sector also that's going to be accompanied by slashing by twenty percent of the minimum wage and cuts the pensions three those who are being affected by those who are probably most exposed by these crisis conditions have to bear in mind this is something that greece is really where the for some time it's a situation they are all too familiar with and have us there he measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and it hasn't been that many positive financial indicators since you seem g.d.p. slumping in two thousand and eleven so the main message coming from the demonstration taking place yes they said and the protests this is the. what price will be expected to pay for these bailouts. well germany's finance minister has declared that promises aren't enough anymore saying that greece was now implement reforms to prove it's not a bottomless pit the laughlin of the institute of democracy and cooperation in

paris says there are more radical plans currently being drawn up by the germans. there is one theory and i lend some credence to it that the germans who are calling the shots on this do indeed want to force greece out of the euro there is a lot of bad feeling towards greeks germans or germany and vice versa and there is a theory that certain leading german polish politicians want to love the boil and get rid of greece if that is the calculation in other words to force greece to leave the euro if that is the calculation i fear that it's a mistake because the problem in the eurozone is not a greek problem it is a structural problem in the euro certain these debt problems which various countries are suffering from including of course italy but also portugal spain and these problems are the inevitable consequence of the way the euro is structured they are the inevitable consequence of it and the measures which are being required

of these countries to as it were remedy the situation are only making things worse so even if greece were to be forced out of the euro my prediction is that the markets would then realize that the euro zone is not impregnable and would turn their attention to other countries as well whose position is very similar in particular political parties cross-talk is also focusing on greece's financial predicament coming your way they are today the hidden costs the bailout rescue. the changes clear in germany you give me the cash to survive given my doubt probably and i'll give you my sarin city but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of the susteren and will they agree to submit the most important . aspect which is your first call your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not eligible to your population through. their not managing the greek economy there's nothing and that's right here my it's

a might be provocative here but that's always the this if you're dreaming of no monetary funds. population decline is one of the toughest problems russia faces in the long term but the disturbing trend pan be reversed that's according to the country's prime minister in the latest campaign article in his bid to return as president vladimir putin has put forward plans for social reform that he hopes will significantly improve the demographic situation the proposed measures include better welfare for families with many children and smarter immigration policies including the repatch nation of russians living abroad the article titled building justice also focuses on salary hikes for teachers and doctors as well as making housing affordable to everyone by twenty thirty routes and has ramped up his election campaign in light of mass opposition protests and as political analysts meet revolve it explains may

he is mainly now addressing russia's middle class. and my hope is that we can all understand that he's electorate right now it's normal to reach you know reach c.t. people he's a trip these are the real russian middle class you know people who are economic and even in small towns who are really hard. to the market economy. so i hope he's economic policy will lead to more to it and you know we had a formal finance minister called we had a different kill to the right now we believe we could writes he wants to give you the states portion more real would accrue which means you know the masa of the russian people but you can always read more of our top stories online at r.t. dot com plus much more here's a look at what's lined up for you today at our t guard column more words in use as the u.s. navy says it's ready for the band off any threat of

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