many chances for us in the first half but in the second half we continue pressing and we manage to create a lot of chances to score two additional goals finally but i am aware of the skills we must use in this year's champions league season and particular against german teams and speaking in general it does not matter how good or bad it looks like on the pitch when it comes to games against german teams one must simply try and find a way to beat them but it. well tonight it's the turn of russian champions any day spend faker and urging fans to behave after trouble as a needs last champions league home game against in november that saw the club get a thirty thousand euro fine for me and the governing body has warned they'll be a heavier penalty if there is a repeat temperatures are expected to drop to minus fifteen celsius for the game and there will be a late pitch inspection and wasn't much warmer when they trained yesterday a notable absence he was star midfielder danny tony ligaments and he would also be without defender. although top scorer alexander is raring to go and thinks home

support will be a big advantage. we have played in such weather already probably more often than our opponents i don't think that's a major advantage for us because we also like it when it's warm we like playing when it's football weather and the current weather isn't exactly what i think our supporters will come they will fill the stadium and it will be something that will help us. well then think it will be looking to exploit the needs we can side and have plenty of quality they top their group to get this far and they currently five points clear at the top of the portuguese league jesus says russia's winter won't derail his team's hopes of progressing further. without question both teams will be facing problems of course we have little experience of playing under such conditions but we're ready for this we perfectly realise what we are facing based

on this where building our tactics and the system of play where ready for tomorrow and we'll do all we can so that the cold weather doesn't affect the quality of our teams play in our technique he. now the other champions league game on wednesday arsenal travel to the san siro to face city our leaders ac milan the gun is beat the italians on their home turf at the same stage of the tournament four years ago was two nil then and syria on re will be doing his best to get on the scoresheet tonight in his last game for arsenal before returning to the new york red bulls although coach are some vendor is slightly worried about the playing surface. try to play the old game and me and. we. will try. to really go off to work truck routes or to new readers words which would be an exciting. i'm a bit worried about the quality of the pitch doesn't look good. hopefully onto two more three go to milan have struggled against english opposition apart

from that the theatre are still they also lost the spurs last season and are also struggling with injuries defended alessandra nestor a matter yet first back in training after a long spells but are unlikely to feature and that also applies to kevin prince boateng and former arsenal man mathieu flamini. meanwhile car service is back in england trying to resurrect his career with premier league side manchester city back in manchester after the three months of unauthorized leaks in his native argentina manager roberto mancini says he welcomes the return of the striker tevis hasn't played since september after refusing to warm up in a champions league game and the episode has cost him around sixteen million dollars in wages fines and lost bonuses the arjun time is undergoing fitness tests at the club and hopes to be back in action for the premier league run in city currently top of the table two points clear managed united with thirteen games left. and

scotland glasgow rangers have gone into administration the winner of a record fifty four domestic league titles were immediately hit with a ten point deduction and that leaves them fourteen points adrift of the lead to celtic with twelve games to go fans were understandably angry at the decision but club owner craig whyte is adamant it's the right thing to do. much more why the strong want to run the software like. this is the real thing very. strange. like. that such as preparations for the winter games and twenty fourteen seemed to be well on track the city hosted a couple of major test events over the weekend and olympic chief sean claude killy says there are no burning issues at the black sea resort i do on a peak with two years to go before the olympics we are confident the games will go

smoothly but to make it happen we need to create all the necessary conditions i'm not saying there are any issues but preparing for the olympics is always difficult no matter where you take place transports accommodation security and infrastructure need to be looked at. and also full of praise of the athletes themselves biathletes got a taste of the limpid course during the recent russia cup and were pleased with what they found. with just two years to go before the start of litwin a second winter olympics in sochi more and more when years of being put to the test no later is was the biathlon and ski complex called lower after local mythical hereon and which is one of the most ambitious projects of the games located on that say how to reach across land by an hour at a height of one thousand five hundred meters above sea level at this height the lack of oxygen makes the competitors breathe harder increasing their efficiency and boosting their results complex lower is supposed to. become one of the best in the

world while the trek with. lobes is already considered to be one of the toughest in the sport for this is the hardest track in the world with sixty meter ascent and slopes with temperatures varying by as much as four degrees it's absolutely unique this is our country and we have every opportunity to succeed the complex includes two stereo each with their own story and finish zones shooting area and warm up zones the designers of the venue try to make the competition interesting for athletes and spectators alike the track is very demanding with numerous turns which make it hard to pause and rest on the slopes and those by athletes taking part in the russian cup became the first competitors to appreciate our is facilities at the summit last night that's the track is very challenging lots of turns lots of slopes

if an athlete has some alpine skiing skills to turn on the slopes they can win back some vital seconds just. an average time on the european tracks is around twenty five minutes here it's over thirty the nature of the course is very hard. the complex is still under construction and will be finished in june twenty third teen however the weather in the mountains is unpredictable and while. does not a problem here fall can alter the game plan of any competition. but. we have a proverb when the weather is getting worse it's time for biafra and when it's foggy here reminds us of the famous german venue in except for the wind the same situation could arise at the olympics but it's good that we've got different weather conditions here with russia is one of the leading nations and by a ford and the country skiers and biathletes will be days that lower to prepare for those olympics in sochi with the hope of increasing them medal chances at their

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to mark the anniversary of pro-democracy uprising in bahrain are put down with tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims of western hypocrisy of the different votes in the region. one sided reports from syria claiming that only the regime for atrocities are seen by some as an attempt to hide the truth of the conflict by sweeping rebel crimes on the carpet. and sizing up the rivals u.s. leaders control china's visiting vice president will be a good way to begin playing to nations by the other hand in a turbulent relationship. plus russia markets kick up the trading session on

a positive note with both the r.t.s. and of my sex added around one percent while all the details and business that's why the. international news and comment twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. the pictures are familiar the regime forces cracking down on protesters but this time they emanate from bahrain just hours ago activists trying to mark the one year anniversary as a pro-democracy uprising were dispersed by heavily armed police and i have been reports the weapons as well as the tactics may have been imported from the u.k. . tear gas and stun grenades supposedly the work of a reformed police force but one year on since the first anti-government protests were crushed in bahrain it seems not much has changed the only difference now the

crackdown has been planned by one of britain's former top cops john yates used to be assistant commissioner of london's metropolitan police he now works for bahrain's monarchy which says he's there to oversee police reforms the police. rater behaving despicably their latest trick is to throw cancer tear gas into homes of people they don't like shut the doors and people have died choking to death tear gas or use out of doors and i think for any british police officer mr yates is retired to be associated in any way with that is this is wrong yes resigned from scotland yard last year and early fix him of the phone hacking scandal he popped up in bahrain in december as part of the regime's p.r. campaign to clean up its image a campaign pushed hard it seems by yeats himself he recently told the daily telegraph his new charges had a well rehearsed plan for the anniversary of the uprising adding the concept of reasonable reaction to provocation has been reinforced. as for the uprising itself

he said this isn't organized protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community i mean you get thousands and thousands of people. demanding their rights. you seem to forget. over sixty five people actually died from police brutality activists in bahrain insist their protest was peaceful their aim to reach the iconic pole roundabout in the capital manama they say they were met by tanks toxic gas and rubber bullets what we witnessed on the ground as not. the front or from. previously but it's been extended through the toxic gases and use of poisoning. mr john is contributing we should see

a positive things at the ground what we are seeing today is nothing except that it may not just be british tactics bahrain's easing but weapons to government figures show the u.k. sold over one million pounds worth of rifles and artillery equipment to bahrain from july to september last year long after blood was spilled that's despite insisting all licenses had been revoked as for yates his contract runs until april by which time he hopes to put in place concrete reforms on this evidence that seems a long way off either bennett r.t. london. a middle east expert says the different attitude world powers take the reins uprising is easily explained by how useful the regime is to them. those countries which are regarded as the worst store stooges of the west basically. criticized regularly it's not just the gulf states and in particular it is also

countries like yemen whose brutal dictatorial present prison former president is currently in the united states receiving medical treatment there were demonstrations in saudi arabia a few days ago which got very little coverage of course so these have no democracy at all it is probably the most undemocratic country in lean trialware or work no one talks about this because it's a useful country. and it does what the west starts to mention in bahrain was green lighted by the united states which is very strong. and they crushed the uprising. but our economy has also provided us with some insight on the current crisis in syria especially interview with him is on air next hour but before that here's what's coming up in the program. he wants to out of an economic war on iran decided

to protect its national interests by continuing to import iranian oil. a blast has ripped through an oil pipeline in the syrian city of homs where clashes between regime troops and opposition fighters have continued over a week you know seeing pictures of thick smoke hanging over the city activists say the explosion was caused by government strike. ports just the army has sent thanks to the internet is the country's fourth largest city. commission hard to verify concerns that want to be painted in a bad light on the opposition. since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march the regime of bashar al assad has been accused of refreshen torture. and killing but with abad much of holmes blame has since focused on our side forces attacking civilians and shell in residential areas. the beautiful yard calls

himself a member of the opposition and intellectual not true aleutian everyone his stress is from a social democratic group originally from hopes he blames assad for mistakes which allowed bloodshed at the start but he just defies what the regime is doing in his native city now he is the two i mean he is trying to. protect civilians i think that in many gangs you know there is a title and everyone can claim that he belongs with this title and no one can ban him the danger posed by the armed forces was seen in the killing of a french journalist last month and he says when he went to homs he put in his mind that the syrian opposition is very peaceful in the trying to frame them so he was like a pioneer in the call and he was killed by the some gang attacks on

government targets have become increasingly bloody themselves with twenty eight people killed and scores injured while an attack on a military base in a letter last week an f.s.a. free syrian army representative admitted responsibility before the organization later denied it claim and government forces claim ridiculed by regime. insurgents and terrorists have committed this attack only an insane person could say that the government is killing its officials and officers and destroying its own administrative buildings these armed terror groups were created to commit these crimes and they have committed them in the past and will continue to do so if the west and their supporters last sunday the arab league vote for full political and financial support for the opposition. to unify its ranks it is similar call from the leader of al qaida muslims to unite efforts to help overthrow bashar al assad

recent reports suggest iraqi weapons qatari troops and libyan rebels are role in syria on the opposition side this makes for a volatile and highly dangerous makes. many western powers interested in fomenting unrest and syria and so they'll turn a blind eye to extreme weapons coming in through borders like lebanon and turkey to create the very militants i won't call them terrorist but very dangerous armed groups but the west has its eyes wide open when it comes to the reported death toll becomingly no one figure more than five thousand employees civilians only but that figure leaves out any mention of pro-government forces killed in the conflict some say the numbers are destroyed to meet political objectives. our number so far on six of them around six thousand but you would be surprised to know that over two thousand eight hundred from the army. and this is. good the commented

foreign pressure has focused on the assad regime but the syrian government and its international supporters say there's been a total failure talk not only to violence from opposition forces which has been a key factor in the country's present turmoil they won't find it a solution to the country's crisis isn't possible without recognizing all its causes written off now t. damascus syria. well former national first hand reports in impressions from inside syria just check out her twitter feed her latest tweet she says locals are skeptical about the latest arab league initiative to bring in peacekeepers deeply concerned about militants originally fighting in the country. but patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spiked told r.t. that some major players are rejecting peaceful solutions for syria and polarizing an already complex situation. the removal of diplomats from syria.

the desire to arm the free syrian army from the west and to basically support them to give them kind of sectioned off training areas where they can develop an open strong opposition apart from the kind of threat of assad's all suggest that you know the west isn't willing to have you know encourage any kind of dialogue or discourse of tool alternately they want you know they've now polarized the situation they've now said you know. this evil we need to get rid of him they use those kind of terms evil you know the ogre or bogeyman and you know the syrian people are vulnerable victims who need to be protected by the west now i think we saw the same thing with good athey and it's always very striking that you know it was only two years ago that assad was seen as the group's reformer in syria the west were basically queuing up to talk to him. later times correspondent pepe

escobar says unlike libya syria won't fall on the western influence through intervention because it has a stronger position in the region. well this stakes in syria. are compared to libya because this is that directs each act a direct clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the one in on the other side much more dated was the libya illegal russia and china and even to the other grapes in germany as well they said ok maybe this is not the red line yes let's give them the benefit of the doubt i mean the french the brits and the americans the country was destroy syria you cannot do that because first of all they're going to have to fight the real army even if they're not very competent but they are battle hardened there's been two wars in the middle east the syrian army it's a smaller country there's more population you cannot simply landings asian is out of the question because they don't go all over the place the repercussions to

turkey to jordan to iraq to saudi arabia so nato sparano is to foment civil war and that's it's like there's actually what they are doing. on the first day of talks between the chinese vice president's visit to the u.s. you think peng's american colleagues voiced disappointment with beijing and moscow for vetoing the recent u.n. resolution on syria so china has a criticism of its type of trade laws and copyright in force what. vice president externally thought from their brief exchanges that they was not. even sized up paying the man widely tipped to lead beijing in the next decade christine preside reports now on a rocky relationship between the two economic giants. he loves me lets me know that age old question is one china at least has every right to ask regarding its

relationship with the united states just in the last three years china has been wined and dined. praised and envied for its ability to do whatever it wants to right now china the government can disconnect parts of its internet in the case of war we need to have it here to the chinese pay zero capital gains tax folks in congress are also going to get a chance to decide later. in the month whether our construction workers should sit around doing nothing while china builds the best railroads the best schools the best airports. in the world but it turns out those chocolate covered compliments seem to come just as frequently as those cold hearted criticisms from human rights to currency devaluation to trade we finally need to confront the issue of trade with china all too often china's been competing in a way that's tilting the playing field and is unfair to us workers and it's not

just the president himself those hoping to take his job also tend to flip flop on china these guys around for us and in and out of it and looking for ways to. to work to harness china doesn't want to various they want to see has succeeded thrive so we can buy more chinese products ivan eland senior fellow at the independent institute says the paradox transcends the rhetoric we borrow a lot of money from china too so it's quite a curious thing that we're really borrowing money to pay for defending other countries from china right i mean that's what really doing the mixed messages are reaching the masses as well in a recent gallup poll by fifty two percent to thirty two percent americans were more likely to name china than the united states as the leading economic power in the world today even though it's not however in a separate survey when asked which country represents the greatest danger china came in second only after iran in life and love there appears to be a fine line between resentment and respect i want to beat china i want to go to war

with china and make america the most attractive place in the world to do business if you look at china they're in a very different subject they say for their own retirement security they don't have the f.t.c. they don't have the modern welfare state and china's growing it's that growth and the sharing is caring relationship that has bound these countries in this holy union this trade and economic interdependence with china is really a defining factor and perhaps like most relationships there's nothing simple about the. between the u.s. and china there are disagreements about who gets to lead when how to spend the money and how to raise the children but the fact is this relationship is one that's going to be around for generations to come in washington christine president r.t. . but paul craig roberts he's been president reagan's administration says that u.s.

desperation to stall china's rapid rise could prove costly the united states says it is responding to china in two ways one it's trying to reduce china's independent access to oil around accounts for twenty percent of chalons oil so it doesn't make a lot of sense for washington to go to china and say. embargo yourself from iranian oil and let us go to an american puppet in office in that country as well so we can prevent your economic development from catching up to us too quickly and the united states is responding to china are also with increased military presence united states says that the south china sea is an area of national interest to the united states.