it was nothing but i think by a little coups and did not allow many chances for us in the first half but in the second half we continued pressing and we managed to create a lot of chances to score two additional gold finally and i am aware of the skills that we must use in this year's champions league season and should secure against germany teams and speaking in general it does not matter how good or bad it looks like on the pitch when it comes to the games against germany teams one was simply try and find a way to be. about it all tonight it is the turn of russian champions then eat they have spent and urging fans to behave after trouble as a needs last champions league home game against apple well in november that's. going to thirty thousand euro fine from 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 gang and there will be a late pitch inspection it was much warmer when he trained yesterday and notable absence a star midfielder danny he was told need ligaments and they would also be without

defender domenico. 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 paul ince 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 that but i think our supporters will come they will fill the stadium with something that will help us. it will be looking to exploit any we can side and have plenty of quality they talk they're going to get this far and they currently five points clear at the top of the portuguese league with coach your guy jesus saying russia's winter his team's hopes are progressing. without question both teams will be facing problems of course we have little experience of playing under such conditions which we are ready for this. we realize what our facing based on this where ability or tactics

and the system of play we're ready for tomorrow and we'll do all we can so that the cold weather it doesn't affect the quality of our teams play in ours you can eat. well in the other champions league game on wednesday arsenal travel to the san siro to face city alley does ac milan the gun is big the italians on their home turf at the same stage of the tournament for years ago it was two nil then and terry on ri will be doing his best to get more goals tonight is his last game for arsenal people returning to the new york red bulls aston venga is slightly worried about the playing surface. try to play the whole game and me. we think. we really go off to work like resort to new readers words which would be an exciting game i'm a bit worried about the quality of the pitch doesn't look good. hopefully

on to two more three to mean man have struggled against english opposition apart from that the theatre are small they also lost the last season and are struggling with injuries defenders alessandra nestor matter yet us are 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 colace tevis is back in england trying to resurrect his career with premier league side manchester city he returned to manchester after three months of unauthorized leave in his native argentina and hasn't played since september after refusing to warm up in a champions league game but city manager roberto mancini has welcomed him back and terry is now undergoing fitness tests at the club city currently top of the table two points clear of manchester united with thirteen games left meanwhile in scotland glasgow rangers have gone into ministration the winner with a record fifty four domestically titles were immediately hit with

a ten point deduction and that leaves them fourteen points adrift of league leaders celtic with twelve games to go fans were understandably angry at the decision the club owner craig whyte is adamant it's the right thing to do. he was the star on the stock was. the real thing. because there are serious strains that i like. now saatchi's preparations for the winter games in two thousand and fourteen seen to be well on track the city hosted a couple of major tests events over the weekend and olympic chief young 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 transport accommodation security and infrastructure

need to be looked at now also full of praise of the athletes themselves by athletes got a taste of the olympic 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 venues have been put to the test no later as was laid by athlon and ski complex called lower after local mythical hereon and which is one of the most ambitious projects of the games located on that so hard to reach across nearby at the height of one thousand five hundred meters above sea level at these 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 track where there. is already considered to be one of the toughest in the sport. is the hardest track

in the world with sixty three percent 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 goal blix includes tuesday each with their own story and finish loans shooting area and warm up zones the designers of the venue try to make the conditions 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. 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 team however the weather in the mountains is unpredictable and why. there's not a problem here for can alter the game plan of any competition is that. we have a proverb when the weather is getting worse it's time for biafra one and when it's foggy here it reminds us of a famous german venue in. for the wind the same situation could arise at the olympics but it's good that we've got different weather conditions here. russia is one of the leading nations and by air force and the country skiers and biathletes gazed at lara to prepare for those olympics in sochi with the hope of increasing their medal chances at their home winter games his name by the r.t.e. side. and also moving fast to london's preparations for the summer olympics in five

months time the velodrome hosts the track cycling world cup from tomorrow and is seen as a key test event ahead of the games it will attract around three hundred forty athletes from forty eight countries and is the penultimate event in which cyclists can qualify for the lympics the four day competition will test the new newly built venue in a competitive environment with up to seven thousand spectators expected to create an olympic like atmosphere director of sport for london's organizing committee says it will greatly help preparations. the primary reason for us in running these events is to make sure that in twenty two i got to get everything right so when we hear we test out the new operations we test the field of play we test our work force to test the lie to test the sound every aspect we don't leave a stone unturned so that when we get to twenty two or these athletes at him now have to worry about is that formants so that's how the sport is looking far today i'm back with more interior.

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which brightened if you knew about sun moon from france to pressure. for instance on t.v. dot com. rallies to mark the anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising in bahrain put down tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims of western hypocrisy over different votes in the region. one sided reports from syria blaming only the regime for atrocities are seen by some as an attempt to hide the truth of the conflict by sweeping rebel crimes under the carpet. and sizing up the rivals u.s. leaders could joe tron is visiting vice president and leader in way to xi jinping as the two nations vie for the upper hand in a turbulent relationship. plus gas from the double its gas or capacities in europe

to secure supplies we'll have more on that and this was twenty minutes. this is out here very warm welcome to you now the pictures all familiar regime forces cracking down on protesters but this time they emanate from bahrain activists trying to mark the one year anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising were dispersed by heavily armed police and as i have been it reports the weapons as well as the tactics they 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 will crushed in bahrain it seems not much has changed the only difference now the

crackdowns been planned by one of britain's former top cops john yates used to be assistant commissioner of london's metropolitan police and he now works for bahrain's monarchy which says he's there to oversee police reform the police have borrowed a behavior despicably their latest trick is to throw cans of 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 the british police officer overstimulate stars retire to be associated in any way with that is this is wrong yes resigned from scotland yard last year in 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

said this isn't organized protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london it's bahraini community i mean when you get thousands and thousands of people. demanding their rights. you seem to forget that they stick to the other 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 what impact this previous day but it's been extended through the toxic gases and use of poisoning of. mr john as contributing we should see

a positive things at the ground what we are seeing today as nothing acceptable 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 the 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's r.t. london. or middle east expert eric alley says a different attitudes world powers are taking to bahrain's uprising easily explained by how useful the regime is to them. those countries which are regarded as as the west or stooges of the west basically not to criticise regularly it's not just the gulf states and bahrain in particular it is also

countries like yemen whose brutal dictatorial presence present 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 the saudis have no democracy at all it is probably the most undemocratic country in the entire arab world and no one talks about this because it's a useful country it has always and it does have the west starts their intervention in bahrain was greenlighted by the united states which is very strong in their principle of t.v. and they crushed the uprising. but erica has also provided the so with some insight on the current crisis in syria an interview with him is only in the next hour about for that here's what else is coming up in the program. turkey wants to keep out of the economic war on iran choosing 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 for over a week thick smoke can be seen hanging over the city activists say the explosion was caused by government airstrike reports also suggest the army has sent tanks which are attacking west densher there is in the country's largest city. and the capital damascus troops said to be raiding houses not compromise with the free syrian army but information out of very fine concerns that someone turned the regime painting 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 russian torture and killing but with abad much of homes blame has since focused forces attacking civilians and shelling residential areas. in a beautiful yard called himself a member of the opposition and intellectual not real lucian everyone he stresses

from a social democratic group originally from homes 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 homs there are many gangs you know there is a title and everyone can claim that he belonged to 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 and the g.m. is trying to fame them so he 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 one attack on a military base in a little last week an f.s.a. free syrian army recruits entered to admit its responsibility before the organization later denied it claim and government forces a claim ridiculed by the regime a woman 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 the arab states support their last someday the arab league for food political and financial support for the opposition to unify its ranks it is similar call from the leader of al qaida and 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 one of 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 terrorists 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 no the five thousand implies civilians only but that figure leaves out any mention of pro-government forces killed in the conflict some say the numbers are distort to meet political objectives. oh a number. six thousand six thousand but you would be surprised to know that over two hundred. this is. 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 normally follows from opposition forces which has been a key factor in the country's present time or they won't find it the solution to the country's crisis isn't possible without recognizing all its causes written off notes he damascus syria well the former international first hand reports on impressions from inside syria just check out her twitter feed traveling to the flashpoint city of hama she and her team were warned by the minister of information not to stress there from russia because of the presence of opposition fighters she added that the area looks calm so far have led. patrick hayes a reporter for 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 a strong opposition apart from the kind of threat of a sad 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 right now said you know. this evil we need to get rid of him they use those kind of terms evil you know the. 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 get out and it's always very striking that you know it was only two years ago that assad was seen as the great reformer in syria the west were basically queuing up to talk to him. or relations between greece and the brussels on course for a new low after the eurozone canceled

a planned meeting of the currency blocks finance ministers to discuss a second bailout they need today is openly skeptical of athens the political will on the greeks say they've been betrayed by those who saddle them with crippling austerity well for more let's now go to our correspondent jake agree if he is enough then sir where does this leave greece. really hard to say this is anything else than a slap in the face for the greek government they had passed another round of very unpopular austerity measures and hoped in return they're getting guarantees today that another bailout will be coming last in order to repay march's debt and not avoid a default taking place but they have been sticking their neck out of the line on this issue because it's one that's very unpopular with the greek population is alienation them somewhat from the populace of those demonstrations taking place in the sunday evening into the early hours of monday morning which resulted in all

clashes with police violence and injuries also disruption to the capital for the protest itself wasn't just restricted to the public we saw in parliament politicians well forty three the ruling coalition choosing to vote no to further the measure is this something now that really isn't that popular with politicians all the public do you get the impression we speak to greeks here in the capital for a growing sense of resentment of how they're being treated what they'll be made to do by the euro zone by the e.u. and i.m.f. in order to be deemed worthy of course that's what they're saying at the moment by your body that the greek government hasn't done enough to guarantee another bailout because i don't think they've really got enough done enough to implement further austerity measures when asking for the politicians to vote for this sunday the greek prime minister said it was a moment of historic responsibility well we've heard the head of public order here coming out today empty and saying that's what europe is doing at the moment they're

not really acting very responsibly now as of course we've been reporting top e.u. leaders were also in beijing yesterday as part of the drive to persuade china to commit its vast reserves to stabilizing the eurozone what do you think. i mean this is showing just how far reaching this crisis in greece and north so the euro zone now it's in terms of achievement for very list so you had quite a high ranking delegation heading there was headed up by the presence of the european commission and president of the european council as well as a manual process herman van rompuy both of them despite that high ranking delegation didn't get any more guarantees apart from good and positive words by chinese counterparts so no financial interaction nothing guaranteed in terms of financial stimulus is really what they want the reason they're in china is because china has the money they need right now three point two trillion dollars reserve

currency fund that could help stabilize the markets here understand why the chinese are somewhat wary of this investment because their economic indicators are only really worsening we've seen g.d.p. in two thousand and eleven slumping by six percent that's the latest results that's really extension weighted in the fourth quarter also that's a boob word at the moment which is default greek default an exit from the euro zone what's being talked about increasingly by greek politicians the public but also by those euro zone leaders and that really not installing any sense of confidence here . ok. our senior correspondent thank you. well meanwhile in america it's been a tough first day of talks for china's vice president and leader in waiting sheeting ping's american colleagues began by voicing disappointment with things in common. and the rich stance on syria criticism was also leveled that china over its

copyright in force and rights record mr vice president took stern i think apart from the brief exchanges the day was largely ceremonial. and besides stop paying the man widely tipped to the beijing the next decade montes christine for reports down. between two economic giants. he loves me. loves me 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 winding down i. praised and envy for its ability to do whatever it wants right now china the government can disconnect parts of its internet in the case of war we need to have the chinese p.z. row 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 ones 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 u.s. work 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 and and 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.