every available piece of clothing to try and conduct a cold for visitors at n.p.r. cos basic conditions are certainly been tough to get used to. we're here to play football if you wait put aside the game should go ahead we will of course take to the field and do everything we can to win of course it will be tough but game is scheduled to get underway and free pm local time and choose to be thorough but will be an inspection an hour earlier to see if a match can go ahead under your weight for regulations of the temperature is below minus fifteen and the match can be called golf and routine head coach could run big beard says he's not prepared to let his players play in such cold conditions last year we played in the same sort of weather with f c twenty and we lost so i wouldn't see these conditions favor others as that would be unfair rubin come into the game at a significant disadvantage first sleeve of how to get a home advantage incidentally for the second year in a row because of

a cold weather. pollution a key stadium in moscow with its artificial page is the only ground in the country which could hold such a match of this caliber in such testing conditions because our own side haven't played a competitive game in over two months but also be missing some key players including former club captain christiane the boy who was recently sold. possible probably in the middle we won't have any problems getting used to playing again obviously in the boy is a huge loss for us as he is an excellent player but i think we have players who can step into his shoes and be effective unix world of course have been in decent form recently and of lost just once nine games since the turn of the new year going to being beat a poor record against great sides in general aside from tatarstan have yet to be the team from that country in four previous attempts being the augustine were very

frank in stating that they have never experienced temperatures as cold as the ones in moscow but moments of a game finally gets underway and choose the temperatures going to be well below freezing points however greece is going to have one significant advantage in fact very been playing competitive football over the last couple of months and that's in stark contrast to their opponents rubin just emerging from their winter break and haven't kicked a ball in earnest over the last eight weeks richmond whole fleet r.t. . staying with football there was a dramatic conclusion to this year's africa cup of nations underdogs and their overwhelming favorites the coast now two minutes of play plus extra time by the way it turned out to be ellis the shootout finished seventh in favor of have a coast captain did it have a chance to win the title for his team but waste a penalty in normal time its first ever africa cup of nations title.

absolutely 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 there's a lot lost in us the whole african nations cup that would sit in a suit of this duration of louis has missed out on william because before in egypt lost on penalties notes and penalties again we had 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 t decisions. that we need some new blood. in the meantime our football across europe is being hit by extreme weather and heavy snow fall not least in syria where the group of it's a football stadium collapse under the weight of snow the west stand. suffered the nose damage luckily nobody was inside at that time as a country's football season doesn't start until march there are no injuries reported but the cost of repairing the damage is expected to be high. russian

mixed martial arts fights and with some a celeb has defeated the seven times the champion collars apart in moscow this weekend this was one of ten kicked off the inaugural verdict and i'm a fighting championship michael cross chain coat 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 traditional tatarstan gowns flanking him from left and right as the bemused the patco looked on indeed the almost over the top presentation was in line with the lives of the claims of pain he's one of the official ambassadors to the two thousand and thirteen universe yob 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 the spiked such a fantastic match up the fight flatter to deceive the two opponents been 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 fight worthy jew to a broken rib but it seems that was new saliva game plan all along which moment when my trainer asked why i'm not taking a toll i replied i can fight two rounds with this guy he's a really serious opponent but have to break something where i won't get anything out of the fight but the manner in which the fight and they didn't put a damper on was 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 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 bout but there wasn't much to see as young who needs her disposable opponent within minutes of the first round when asked with the 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. and finally golf where phil mickelson overturned his six short deficit to win the national in california he's now ninth on the all time list of career wins with forty titles to his name that's after flawless final round for an eight under sixty four after birdies at this fourth this teach short with a fifth perfect set up another birdie was well on his way to winning

a one point one million dollar first prize tiger woods was well. go into the final round but three straight bogeys and his hopes of victory despite that lovely bunker shot for a birdie on the twelfth finished nine shots off the pace overnight and into south korea's charley we finished on fifteen under two shots behind to win it mickelson but isn't getting carried away with his achievements. it's cool i mean it's really cool don't get me wrong i mean but whatever we had number it was and wherever else i was it was a really full win for me because of where it took place in 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 was a good result and this just gives me a big boost of confidence that the things that there i've been working on are our pain are. ok up to date no more sports news from around the globe into. the world there's no life in our.

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the movie. israel accusing iran of being behind promise attacks targeting israeli embassies in georgia and india which four people are thought to have been injured. russia says it regrets the arab league winding down the observers work in syria and stresses a proposed peacekeeping mission could only be deployed once the government and opposition forces agree to a cease fire. the fiery protests in athens followed by chaos and looting as public outrage escalates after the greek parliament passes a new austerity bill to secure another bailout. and in business a burst of interest in russian shares helped to burst into

a manic alcove cash will have more on that story than at. nine pm in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has blamed iran for attacks on its diplomatic staff in the indian enjoy engine capitals for people reportedly injured in a car bomb blast in new delhi while in tbilisi the device was discovered before it went off artie's tests are silly as more. details still trickling in as the investigation continues but what we do know so far is that there have been two car bomb attacks one in new delhi india and wanted to police you george are both targeting the israeli embassy now why the one in georgia will stop before anything could happen the local embassy staff had found a blog and it was defused before it could go off however in india it's

a different case now the number of injured there has risen at present it's now up for and among the injured is a diplomat's wife to the police the wife of the military attache is among the injured and she's now in hospital go her condition is not critical almost exactly what happened according to eyewitnesses they saw a man on a motorcycle following the diplomatic car and throwing an object after which the car exploded this explosion did happen less than a mile from the indian prime minister manmohan singh's residence police say they are currently looking for a man believed to be on that motorcycle now in terms of a diplomatic statement prime minister israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu did come out rather quickly and a meeting of lawmakers saying that he believes that iran was behind both attacks on the israeli embassy this is while the indian and georgian authorities are holding back until the investigation reveals more details some indian terror experts had expressed skepticism on the involvement of terror that it will be difficult to

carry out such an attack without the involvement of local people and the region a bastard if you had also said the terror watch had nothing to do with it and that's a young what also said that israel had said several other potential attacks in recent months that were backed by both iran and hezbollah now is to put it in context iran has also been blaming israel for a series of killings and killings of scientists and officials related to the controversial nuclear program and the accusations from fuel to the flame to an already rising international tension and braun is currently facing harsh sanctions over its nuclear program the sanctions coming from the u.s. and its allies as as well. the e.u. and these are all time and time again how it is said that if the sanctions against iran don't work they are willing to bring it up to a military level and of course it is on the backdrop of this international conflict international tension that such incidents such as today's car bomb attacks will be scrutinized and the implications analyzed. stay with us here on r.t.

still ahead with less than a month to go until russia's presidential election prime minister the latest empirical highlights one of the toughest task facing the country's future find out what trouble. plus the summer games of london or risk being marred by a controversial sponsorship deal with a chemical giant like one of the world's worst dust builders. but first russia says it will study an arab league proposal for a joint arab u.n. peacekeeping mission in syria foreign minister sergey lavrov says that a cease fire should be achieved before any mission of this kind should be deployed or he's sorry for the latest. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was needing today with his ear a counterpart they were discussing the ongoing situation in syria over the weekend of course the arab league called for and he joins us. to enter the country now the first minister responded to those calls by say the russia would consider that

proposal but the implementation of 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 didn't help sustain in other words there should be a kind of cease fire agreement with the trouble is that armed groups fighting with the regime's forces do not listen to anyone and are not controlled by anyone now one of the crucial points tonight and what the foreign minister had said there was that damascus would have to agree to that plan and the arab league proposal was rejected by it and asked he called it the one sided simply backing the opposition not taking into account all the sides of course he's seen 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 is what

russia from the very beginning means very clear about the any proposal should be taking into account all the sides are not simply part of the opposition today the foreign minister calling on the opposition he made it very clear they want to have dialogue with the president to at least continue dialogue with the government with the vice president that we actually had today from the visiting u.a.e. foreign minister that was the arab league team 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's are having to you already started arming the opposition. within the country as causing a lot of concerns of course he's seen a situation growing increasingly violent as members of the opposition and different factions of the opposition have become increasingly i now have the weekend we had al qaeda publicly backing the opposition and that's really feeling fear is that the

situation in the country at the night is really great for the variance of terrorists. in neighboring let it out officials say at least three people have died more than twenty wounded during clashes between sunni muslims hostile to the syrian regime and alawite some support it for more and as i drove by mar a saloon bassett or for the universal peace federation and it seems that we're seeing some violence spilling across the border how serious are these clashes do you think. well there are very serious according to lebanese officials and security spokes men of the actually the lebanese army and according to my own analysis this only shows is strong signal actually towards not only syria but also the middle east by itself because lebanon is not only enabling a state for syria the public syrian that was shot last saturday the regime actually but the sunni and the shiite the problem is that the allawi the interconnector to the shiite in the area and most of the powerful groups inside let alone such as

hezbollah or the party of god they are immediately shiite animal movement let's say they are major ruling parties actually representing the shiite muslim they are recruits they connected to the regime of president bashar al assad and they are not well thought of by current local sunni is inside tripoli and i courage and which is a very close region geographically and strategically towards the border with the republic of syria so these there is a high tension between the not only the two peoples that see but certain people they have been you know supporting actually the opposition is inside syria by the people from north london on majorly they are sunni sunni but they're our ally it's inside the north especially. what's in or about what's said which is a majority of alawite that the occupy there or the actually they live there by my immaturity and that they are closely related to the ruling party the ba'ath party

and dr bashar assad the ruling alawite sect inside syria but the problem is this is not seen by the west or the international community as a sectarian not only the sectarian. conspiracy against the region between different factions will do or different sects inside the muslim religion in the area between even lebanese themselves and syrian this is the whole. plot that has been demonstrated or i keep picked it actually or engineered let's see by the one source one in the united states in particular and even israel in order to divide the nations of the leaving the issues such as lebanon and syria which is a great enemy towards isn't it because they have supported the islamic and sort of resistances with inside lebanon or inside palestine i meant gaza and hamas in particular how could developments in new york check that rather the arab league observer mission in syria last month has blamed both the government and opposition

for the violence why do you think the league is taking so long in bringing measures against the authorities that are supporting the opposition. well they are betting on time it seems there is a tactic by the arab league not only perpetrated by them but they include the nation with the united nations under the umbrella of the west i mean the united states administration and the white house specifically and the european commission unfortunately or the to be in continent headed by britain so far and as i heard there are british experts under military orders and guns actually inside homes so far and they are bleeding were actually the west they are believing that russian experts military experts inside intelligence actually they are beast within the syrian army offices and certain headquarters by the syrian national army which is headed by bashar al assad because he is the highest ranking actually general in ordering such military action inside egypt cities and so i see you know the whole

situation it needs to have a certain dialogue myself as a peace ambassador i urge and i do what he called them the any massacres that have been committed by either sides it's time i think for enough bloodshed it's time for divided between both conflicting parties and it is truly the time to stop killing any children or women or elderly people on the streets of either hamas or that our lord live even a liberal and liberal has never seen or has that has not been under at best two forces eleven months or twelve months or four or a year ago let's say inside which is a major economic city inside syria and this has been such a signal that even economic cities can be hurt by international terrorism including nation with local terrorist groups that they can hurt inside syria and i went inside a city is that have been so quiet and so natural and they have been going on with

their own lives i mean the people of insights here are from western or arab states the opposition now says it enjoys backing from al-qaeda so how much of a p.r. goal is it that countries like the u.s. and u.k. and france they are find themselves on a same side as a terror group when it comes to goals in syria. i think this back up or support by harry which is the leader of al qaida international and even in the middle east let's see because they have representatives even inside syria and lebanon i suspect this as i always did but unfortunately our own government does not recognize so far as the defense ministry says i mean a while ago now the al qaeda has even bases inside out of the nations neighboring nations to lebanon and syria but on purpose this has been publicly on media so far by her who is the leader in order to put some more pressure against the regime it could be not coordinated or engineered by the west because i see al qaida as really

an enemy to the west so far but do not forget that al qaida used to be funded and even engineered by the west back then under the soviet union when they had a fight between al-qaeda and there was some of the other back in the late seventy's and early eighty's against back then the soviet union or to the well known as the russian federation or america lou and a sort of a universal peace federation thanks for your insight thank you very much. investigative journalist and middle east expert a so winston or you spoke with our tito told r.t. the syrian opposition is fragmented and says there is no unity between groups or means of fighting the regime here's a preview. 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 protesters who don't save the syrian national council which

are now openly in 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 fall as many crimes there's no claim that it's problems people so a no fly zone just seems a political pretext to invade to me. buildings on fire shops looted dozens injured this is how the greek people met a new round of drastic cuts approved by their parliament tens of thousands protested the deeply unpopular package needed to get a second bailout from international creditors or his jacob greaves has more from athens. based on those pictures as events that took place last night i 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 massing in very large numbers up to one hundred thousand people in attendance and there is growing 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 crowd also police a tally a seen by firing tear gas into a crowd there is also in total and 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 and we saw that take place last night a number of m.p.'s forty three from the ruling coalition made up of socialist because of his they rebelled against this latest measure of was there if he cuts now what we're talking about here really is fifteen thousand job cuts in the public

sector also that's going to be a complete by slashing by twenty percent of the minimum wage and cuts the pensions through those who are being affected i doze who probably most exposed by these prices 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 had us there he measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and that hasn't been that many positive financial indicators since you seem to be 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 playoffs germany's finance minister has declared that promises aren't enough anymore saying greece must now implement reforms to prove it's not just a bottomless pit john larkin from the institute of democracy and cooperation says there are more radical plans currently being drawn up by that. there is one theory

and i lend some credence to it but 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 greece by germans by 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 the inevitable consequence of it and the measures which are being required of these countries to as it were ready.