even tough to get used to but we're here to play football if you even decide the game should go ahead of me we will of course take to the field and do everything we can to win of course it will be tough again is scheduled to get underway at three pm local time and choose the go but will be an inspection an hour earlier to see if a match can go ahead under way for regulations of the temperature is below minus fifteen and the match could be called off and would be a coach could one be there it 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 it. and we lost it so i wouldn't see it. as that would be unfair to wean come into the game at a significant disadvantage pursley it of how to get our home advantage incidentally for the second year in a row to the cause of a cold weather. allusion to the stadium in moscow with its artificial peach it's

the only ground in the country which could hold such a match of this caliber in such testing conditions because sound side haven't played a competitive game in over two months of also be missing some key players including former club captain christiane the boy who was recently sold us will probably we won't have any problems getting used to playing again but 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 for the olympic course opinion decent form recently and lost just one to nine games since the turn of the new year little being they have a poor record against greek sides in general this side can talk to stun appeared to be the team from that country in four previous attempts maybe augustine were very frank in stating that they've never experienced temperatures as cold as the ones in moscow or moments of the game finally gets underway on choose the temperatures

going to be well below freezing points however the greece going to have one significant advantage the fact that they've 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 an earnest over the last eight weeks which are one hundred feet r.t. moscow. staying with football there was a dramatic conclusion to this year's africa cup of nations underdogs beat overwhelming favorites the ivory coast and that a minutes of play plus extra time been for the well turned up to be the oldest shootout finished eight seven in favor of some host syndicated did have the chance to travel for his team but missed out in normal time it was on those last five a local populations i. believe me 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

it's not lost it was the whole african nations cup that were exceptional student booster ration of louis's missed out on winning the cup before in egypt lost on penalties notes and penalties 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 and take decisions but it's true that we need some new blood. i thought it was and then it's our football across europe is being hit by extreme weather and for not least in syria where they grew by the football stadium collapsed under the weight of snow the west stand at elizabeth suffered the most damage nobody was consigned for time as the country's football season doesn't start till march there are no injuries reported but the cost of repairing damage is expected to be high. now russian makes martial arts fighter my son was alive has defeated the seven time champion crawlers abbas cup in moscow with cans they fired

was one of ten and a no growth and i'm a fighting championship. side. splitting the evening's ten flights into to the main event certainly stepped 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 parka 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 yard games to be held in concern the crowd was in the mood for a good fight having seen blood hit the canvas in earlier bouts 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 alive dispatched a couple of left footed kicks to support his side the missing pole grimaced and

after the medics examined him deem him no longer fight worthy g to a broken rib but it seems that was nusa live game plan all along which woman you. asked why i'm not taking a toll i replied i can fight two rounds with this guy is a really serious opponent i have to break something where i won't get anything out of the fight but the manner in which the fight and the 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 the disposed of opponents within minutes of the first round when asked with

a more women should participate janice 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 genco r.t. moscow. golf phil mickelson overturned a six short deficit away in the pub a beach national in california is now night or the all time list of three wins with forty to his name that's after flawless final round for an eight and a sixty four. birdies the second fourth i think pathless sets up another birdie because it was well on his way to winning one point one million dollar first prize tiger woods was well poised going into the final round about three straight games and it his hopes of victory despite that lovely bunker

shot for a birdie on the twelve woods finished nine shots off the pace while overnight leaders half crazed finished off fifteen and. eventually went up michael so getting carried away with his achievement. it's cool i mean it's really cool don't get me wrong but whatever with number it was and wherever it but time was it was a medieval win for me because of where it took place and the fact that i have it 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 there i've been working on or are you know ok that's all from me and the sports for today thanks for watching us apply. so.

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israel accusing iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting israeli embassies in india and georgia in which four people are thought to have been injured. russia says it regrets the arab league winding down the observers work in syria stressing a proposed peacekeeping mission can be deployed only once the government and opposition agree to a cease fire the. fiery protests and happens followed by chaos and looting is public outrage escalates after the greek parliament passes a new austerity bill to secure another bailout.

it's eleven pm in moscow match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top stories rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu has blamed iran for attacks on its diplomatic staff in the indian and georgian capitals four people reportedly injured in a car bomb blast in new delhi well into police say the device was discovered before it went off or he's tests are silly as more. a detail 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 one is at least in georgia both targeting the israeli embassy now whether going to georgia to stop or anything could happen the local embassy staff and found out 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 at four and among the injured is a diplomat's wife to be. the wife of the military attache is on the dreaded she's

now in hospital although her condition is not critical almost exactly what happened according to eyewitnesses they saw a man on the voter cycle fall with the diplomatic car that's all we can all after which the car exploded this explosion did happen less than a mile from my end you know i'm a survivor one sings residents say they are currently looking for a have believed to be on that motorcycle now in terms of a diplomatic a statement and so our prime minister israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu did come out rather quickly at the meeting of lawmakers saying that he believes that yvonne was behind both attacks on the israeli embassy this is indian and georgian authorities are holding back until the investigation reveals more details some indian terror experts expressed skepticism on the involvement of terror ross saying that it will be difficult to carry out such an attack without the involvement of local people and the region a bastard to india also said the terror on had nothing to do with it to put it in context iran had 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 flames were already rising international tension iran is currently facing harsh sanctions over its nuclear program the sanctions coming from the u.s. and its allies as well as the e.u. and the israel time and time again to seven if the sanctions against iran don't work they are willing to answer and bring it up to a military level and of course it is on the backdrop of this international conflict international tension about such incidents such as today's car bomb attacks will be scrutinized and the implications analyzed. we're closely following the tension between israel and iran you can find more expert analysis on our web site r.t. dot com. russia says a ceasefire is needed in syria before a joint arab un peacekeeping mission could be deployed there is a view of the mission was put forward by the arab league at

a recent meeting in cairo and moscow's rejected the plan after hour of states also about to fully support the syrian opposition and hold diplomatic ties with the country's government or he's more if an ocean has more from damascus. not surprisingly their fishel damascus has got furious over the initiative pushed forward by the arab league to send international peacekeeping force to syria according to the initiative passed all style act flagrant into feeling the heat of the country's internal affairs president bashar al assad blamed. the eleven month low on unlucky bullets long washington see where the other just didn't really hold all the terrible rules the grace of the country really worked on really and this is going to tell us a little bit more here in the meeting. now that she has a very strong. this initiative by the nearest character of the country's oldest was a lawyer. to secure the u.n.

security council interference in the country's serious internal affairs after china and russia vetoed recently should many of those we've managed to speak to here in damascus also fear that this initiative makes thinking way too foreign military intervention something they are really afraid of and they're very much opposed to those who has been very quick to react following the meeting with the foreign minister of the united arab emirates russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has sat that russia needs more information more details on this plan to consider how successful how effective it could be. the first in order to deploy a peacekeeping mission we need to be agreement of the host secondly there should first be peace which the peacekeeping mission will be in help sustain things are not that optimistic here in syria right now with parlors escalating recently the

terrorists number one had a very high the has that the fact that the uprising in syria urging all the muslim turkey in lebanon and other countries in the region to get united to help the syrian opposition fighting inside. syrian crisis also currently on the table at the un general assembly up for discussion there are he's out of joins us live from new york with an update so what we expect from the discussion at the world body today. well not. a double veto came from russia and china on a syrian resolution at the security council we're seeing the saudi arabia and qatar are attempting a symbolic push at another you one body the general assembly it consists of over one hundred nineteen members but it's important to keep in mind that it's not nearly as powerful as the security council where the resolution was blocked and

whatever document the general assembly would cost would largely be symbolic now it's key to remember that russia and china blocked the resolution and that's pretty much the exact same text being put on the table of the general assembly because it said that the text was biased as it would not acknowledge the existence of armed group on the groups are groups on the ground and would only put the blame on the syrian government as well as called for the president of syria to step down and russia and china said it's really not the business of the international community to call for regime change and what's key in terms of what we're expecting to come out of the united nations is if this vote does take place and if this vote which we are expecting will support the text of the documents it will only be a recommendation it will not be by any means binding and it's important to note that some members of the general assembly are raising their eyebrows there questioning the entire even legality of this meeting taking place because the qataris currently presiding at the general assembly and they're saying the fact that talk of tar is using this opportunity to push through its own country's

interests is quite questionable. he's honest or says you're going to live for us with an update from new york thanks for that. for more on syria now i'm joined by neil clark are u.k. based journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper. thanks for being with us so the arab league observer mission in syria last month blame both the government and forces of the opposition for violence why is the legally taking measures though against you authorities well taking the support of stance toward the opposition. well that shows the agenda behind the arab league i'm afraid and this is not a real genuine attempt to bring the war in factions together this is agenda driven and again it's all about regime change because i think any genuine attempt to end them still exists it would have. the government the government does have majority support in syria there was an opinion poll last month showed the president sat around four percent of the people who wanted him to stay and yet these are the kind

of normal people as far as the western powers and the arab league concerned and all they're saying is basically the government must go and that the government must lay down their weapons and this is not very constructive other people. how do you think the arab league stands against the syrian government affect the tension negotiation process with syria which russia and china have been pushing for well i think the arab league aren't honest brokers in saudi arabia very key part here is how to oraibi opposed to the assad regime. as i don't think that syrians feel confident the arab league has actually proposed a solution to this we have the arab league report it's a very as you said earlier the arab league blame both sides for violence yet the arab league itself he's saying you know that they that they support the opposition possible forms of assistance and so on how they're trying to change to be honest brokers on the other hand they're not and the facts are complicit. foreign powers

are now mulling over deploying a peacekeeping mission of sorts to syria how feasible do you think that is well first of all to have a peacekeeping force you've got to have peace and why have we got peace in syria over the last seven months that the government has said they would make concessions the government's been open to talks but the opposition has been picked on by irresponsible west powers and its allies and i think they would have had a peaceful solution to this months ago had the opposition not been gone by the west they are being encouraged to take a very hard line the west has been denouncing the government violence but it hasn't been denouncing the violence by the opposition and it to me it does it does not have any peace in syria so you know that he is actually the western powers in the arab league sponsibility now say to the opposition forces look you have to stop the violence the government stops the violence everybody stops the violence and then we can outwit talks that can't go out while the opposition are pretty powerless we've

got yesterday the announcement from the leader of al qaeda supporting the uprising that's been terrorist atrocities in syria over the last few days and and so the violence has to stop but it has to stop from the opposition mockers from. our part from western and arab states a syrian opposition does enjoy backing as you mention from al-qaeda now there is some irony that the us emma terror group appear in this case to be some fairly strange bedfellows sort of speak you think this will make washington ease up on its backing of the opposition i don't think so because if we look back over the last twenty years it's not the first time the usa and al qaeda have been on the same side let's think back to the balkans in bosnia in kosovo they were on the same side let's think back last year to libya they were on the same side as the great need to think that the usa and the sort of radical islamic terrorists and al qaeda are opposed to each other in terms of geopolitical strategy and in many ways they share

an agenda and the u.s. crew. anyway of course he's a half secular states and if you look back at the number of secular regimes in the us going to mindlessly stabilize will topple afghanistan in the nineteen seventies and eighties libya yugoslavia again and so it's a great leave the think that the us and al-qaeda was on the opposite side they were in on the same side neil clark u.k. based journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper thanks for your time and you very much it was serious journalist and middle east expert a so winstanley tells r.t. the syrian opposition is fragmented and so there's no unity between groups over a means of fighting the regime has a preview. hello both sides the differences 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 is who don't 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 clane of. the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claims that it's problems people so no fly zone to see the political pretext to invade to me. buildings on fire shops alluded dozens injured this is how the greek people met a new round of drastic cuts approved by their parliament tens of thousands protested a deeply unpopular package needed to get a second bailout from international creditors or his 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 because i'm 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 a certain amount of bias petrol bombs being thrown at police by some anarchists in the crowd also of police or tally a seeing by firing tear gas into the crowd there is always singing in total in dozens of injuries we also saw dozens of buildings of claim all of this of course taking place in central athens now there is a lot of discontent as well within harlem and we saw that take place last night a number of m.p.'s forty three from the ruling coalition made up of socialist has served his they rebelled against this latest measure of was there a few 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 are 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 had austerity measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and there hasn't been that many positive financial indicators since we see 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 are they expected to pay for these. more perspective on the story i'm joined by adrian boucher an international consultant and author so we saw violent scenes on the streets of the greek out of the last night looks like the people many of them feel like they have nothing to lose at those point how far do you think this public anger can go. well i can tell you from experience because what we're seeing now

taking place in greece and athens is so similar to what took place in my country of argentina in two thousand and one and two thousand and two which is similar to what the scenes we have seen in brazil in maine and in mexico and seven with the southeast asian tigers in spain in italy in portugal it seems that this is basically a model that is being followed in country after country and always with the same sort of media coverage of news from the western media i feel that there are two key questions that have to be asked first of all who runs greece is it the greek people or is it the i.m.f. the european central bank the european union germany and the private bankers and i ask this question because primal president and lucas papademos is a member of the trilateral commission which is one of the power groups where you also have the top brass members the top brass of. their bank goldman sachs city and those are agents you see j.p.

morgan so you figure. out of the interest of the greek people or the interest of the bankers we have a similar situation if we were married or monthly as the european president german for the trial of commission and the second question that is who is all this money owed to i mean this sovereign debt crisis as i said happens time and again our bankers very stupid they always make the mistake of lending too much money and are governments that stupid loans much more than they can pay back or insist is this part of our model we're like shylock's. pay you ability of the solver and this is literally used to control the entire country of parliamentary elections jus in april with the current coalition government set to make written commitments to implementing these reforms do you think any government will have no choice on how to deal with the debt crisis well the new government will have no choice because it would probably be a new government there.