two additional goals finally but i am aware of the skills we must use in this year's champions league season in 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 was simply try and find a way to beat them. boxer night it is the turn of russian champions any day who spend and urging fans to behave after trouble has a nice last champions league home game against well in november so the club get a thirty thousand euro fine from us and the governing body has warned there will be a heavier penalty if there's a repeat temperatures are expected to drop to minus fifteen celsius for the game and there will be a late pitch inspection it was much warmer when training yesterday and a notable absence of the danny torn need ligaments i would also be without defender domenico going to see all the 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 that but i think our supporters will come they will fill the stadium and it will be something that will help us. think it will be looking to exploit their 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 coach jesus saying russia's winter his teams are progressing. 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

. in the other champions league game on wednesday i asked or travel to the san siro to face city our leaders ac milan the going is be the italians on their home turf at the same stage of the tournament four years ago it was two nil then auntie erion ray will be doing his best to get more goals tonight it's his last game before arsenal before returning to the new york red bulls although coach asked and then get is slightly worried about the playing surface. try to play the old game and. we think we are going. to really go off to work truck routes or to new readers words which would be an exciting game i'm a bit worried about the quality of the pitch doesn't look exceptional. hopefully onto two or three good to what man have struggled against english opposition apart from that to aston or they also lost the spurs last season and are struggling with

injuries defenders are sound romanesque and matter yet this are back in training after long spells but are unlikely to feature that also applies to kevin principal and former arsenal man mathieu flamini. the markets have is back in england trying to resurrect his career with premier league side man just to city he returned to manchester after three months of only the rise to leave in his native argentina and hasn't played since september after refusing to warm up in the champions league game but city manager roberto mancini has welcomed him back and tells his is now undergoing fitness tests at the club says he currently top the table two points clear of manchester united with thirteen games left to. mark and scotland glasgow rangers have gone into administration as a result they have been hit with a ten points deduction and that leaves them fourteen points adrift of league leaders 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. while

you're just off the road at the top. right. now russian pole vaulter yelena isinbayeva has had another confidence boosting when the double olympic champion set the third best jump of the season a four point eight one metres to clinch her third title of the year in levine in france that was ten centimeters ahead of cuba's yairi sleeze silver in second third place went to france's finesse of boss lack isn't by either missed out on the medals at last year's world championships but seems to be getting back to some sort of form ahead of this summer's olympics. meanwhile such as preparations for the winter games in twenty fourteen seem to be well on track the city hosted a couple of major test events over the weekend and olympic chief john called keely says there are no burning issues at the black sea resort. i do design dishes and i

peek 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 of the necessary conditions i'm not saying there are any burning issues but preparing for the olympics is always difficult no matter where they take place transports accommodation security and infrastructure need to be looked at and author of pays other competitors biathletes got a taste of the limpid cost during the recent russia cap and we're 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 they 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 see how to reach across them by ama 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. slower is supposed to. become one of the best in the world while the track where the slopes is already considered to be one of the toughest in the sport for the most is the hardest track in the world with sixty meter ascents 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 competitions interesting for athletes and spectators alike the track is a 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 listen at 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 wind is not a problem here for can alter the game plan of any competition. we have a proverb when the weather is getting worse it's time for biafra and when it's foggy here it reminds us of the famous german venue in over half except 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 in biathlon

and the country skiers and biathletes will be that lower to bring those olympics in sochi with the hope of increasing their medal chances at their home winter games because they are such. that we've time to end with a bit of action from the n.b.a. where the miami heat have set a new record after beating the indiana pacers one hundred five points to nineteen the win means they hate have become the first and be a team in thirty three years to win three away games in three days play michaela bron james netted twenty three points while norris cole scored twenty paces they would west that his team sixteen points but it wasn't enough indiana something to death for strike to think. and that's all the sports. culture is the same as you are going. to take your pick one

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video. will become. an omission now in the palm of your. syria announces a referendum on a new constitution to take place in less than three weeks but al the fighting goes on not every want to gauge the conflict seems willing to go for pizza. rallies to mark out of earth three of a pro-democracy uprising in bahrain are brought down with tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims of western democracy over different revolts in the region. and sizing up the rivals u.s. leaders on smile or china visiting vice president and leader and waiting as the two nations find for the upper hand on a turbulent relationship. it's

three pm here in moscow this is our team coming to you live with our top story this hour and syrian state t.v. house announced that a referendum on a new constitution will take place in eleven days that's as reports of new outbreak of violence continue to pour out of the country with tanks being deployed to the fourth largest city of hama and an oil pipeline blown up in homes. correspondent in syria roof an ocean has more. there is a goal the national referendum on the country's new constitution has been announced in every day that are expected to be housed. here in government and probably confirms a document that had been drafted to end the monopoly of the ruling party people who govern people according to the. initial levels should yield full marks to brandon

but we can see he is going to earn more if you come to me. about politics competing all across the country today he has been receiving reports from hama north over the top for the markets about the banks being deployed that come home about. pipeline their parent. may fly than from the capital damascus but the military chain of residential areas looking for a position meant these records are very hard to verify usually they are coming from one source from the syrian opposition we got these about while travelling. not far from the. donor and. when the news appeared the government also. and the locals intended.

use of the goods but again this is very complicated to get the truth together exactly what is going on on the ground and here is our report. since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march the regime of bashar al assad has been accused of repression torture and killing but with a budmouth of blame has to focus on assad's forces attacking civilians and shell in residential areas. now the yard calls himself a member of the opposition and intellectual not the read one his stress is from a social democratic group originally from holmes 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 why and 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 bill 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 frame 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 on an attack on a military base in a letter last week an f.s.a. free syrian army representative at the mit its responsibility before the organization later denied it blaming the government forces a claim ridiculed by the 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 the arab street support them last sunday the arab league vote still for full political and financial support for the opposition to unify its ranks it is similar call from the leader of al qaeda and muslims to unite efforts to help overthrow bashar al assad. recent reports suggest iraqi weapons could tare troops and libyan rebels a 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 in 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

to come of the no un figure of more than five thousand employees civilians only but that's bigger leaves out any mention of pro-government forces killed in the conflict some say the numbers are destroyed to lead to political objectives. our number so for six thousand i don't suppose but you would be surprised to know that over two thousand eight hundred. 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 we're talking only to violence from opposition forces which has been a key factor in the country's present turmoil they warned that finding the solution to the country's crisis isn't possible without recognizing all its causes regional snow t. damascus syria well for more perspective on these latest developments in syria

let's talk to professor mark almond at the international relations department of the universe in turkey thanks for being with us your father government has announced a referendum in a few days as maria from the start was reporting when it was originally planned for march how significant is the rescheduling move. well it makes it a more dramatic development it really bounces people by bringing it forward on the other hand it's also a sign of the assad wants to demonstrate his legitimacy it's obviously very important to him that a large number of people vote and a clear majority of the people who could vote vote in favor will the referendum do you think helped bring peace back to syria i think that's more problematic whereas a year ago the opposition as it began was demanding political reforms now the chief spokesman for the syrian opposition abroad and as far as we can tell the various rebel armed groups say nothing short of the fall of assad even his execution is

acceptable so it's a challenge to see how the syrian government will be able to stage a referred to that will have legitimacy in the eyes the opposition on the other hand for the opposition if there is a large turnout of voters that could well be damaging to the claim to really represent the syrian people obviously in many ways a democratic election is the ideal solution to political conflicts but now. both sides have people who fear the consequences of losing and the opposition itself can't really risk. losing face by now backing down and taking part in an elective process at the new friends of syria growth is being set up with some major international players at the forefront to find a solution to this on ras but syrian diplomats accuse the group of financing terrorism and insurgency in the country how fair do you think that accusation is. well certainly the group is led by countries saudi arabia qatar and so on who have denounced the regime and say they want it overthrown and support the opposition

including the armed groups so the friends of syria are also for in society arabia and i think the danger here is that we see a sunni shia religious split and really the saudis of their friends in the gulf with a lot of money are pushing to overthrow regimes they don't like secular regimes. syria's war on iran of course is another there's big power politics play here a lot of the talk is about democracy and human rights and it would be good if those were the key issues but with the violence the key issues have become power and regional domination and i'm afraid part of the struggle for domination is between different religious groups and that's a very nasty type of civil war to have it also seems difficult to try to get a clearer picture of what's happening on the ground so many different ports one of them coming in recently that syrian rebels in some cities are burning tires and doing such things to give an empress said of being attacked by the army is that really a possibility well there's certainly

a propaganda war going on and i've certainly myself been part of radio discussions where the syrian opposition spokesman have made statements are trying clearly defy belief one problem is as you get a more violent conflict people feel they have no restraint they use violence and they also tell lies perhaps on both sides we have seen for instance reports from reporters sympathetic to the opposition admitting that the free syrian army doesn't take prisoners that is executes prisoners outside homes and of course this is all feeding into the cycle of violence and which is why the referendum may be a last chance for people to if they can vote freely on the votes are counted properly express an opinion but it may well be too late for anything other than violence to decide who would syria and the u.n. general assembly may also vote on a new draft resolution on syria soon as thursday what would be the point of that since it could actually be legally binding no but i think for instance the french

and the british in the united states have constantly been looking for a way to say there's a moral authority for external intervention they hope the u.n. security council resolution would give them that failed they are now hoping that perhaps with the arab league and a possible majority in the u.n. general assembly then one can say that the assad regime has been diligent. in the world at large and some decisive action to end a brutal conflict is required but today and which will actually install the friends of the west we hear about the friends of syria group but i'm afraid it's the friends of saudi arabia and the west group to. just talk a little bit more widely on the arab league in their initiative to deploy peacekeeping mission in syria just briefly tell us what role could the league continue to play in the country well it's very difficult to see at the moment a peacekeeping mission because this conflict and the assad government doesn't want to fears our troops will be sent to topple it like the kashmiris troops who went to libya to help to overthrow gadhafi without

a peace to keep we've seen repeatedly peacekeeping troops simply either become ridiculous or they take sides and i think already we can see that several of the leading arab states have taken sides so where these people come from who could be considered new cool and impartial to both sides it's very difficult to see that force really being created right mark almond international relations professor at bill cut university thank you very much for your analysis thank you. well at r.t. dot com we have a whole section devoted to the conflict in syria don't hesitate to log on when you want to learn more about the conflict you can follow the latest developments were traced back to how it all began our correspondents have uploaded plenty of videos and firsthand impressed sense from inside the troubled country. well the pictures are familiar regime forces cracking down on protesters but this time they emanate from box right activists trying to mark the one year anniversary

of a power pro-democracy uprising were dispersed by heavily armed police and cyber bennett 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 will 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 the eights 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 have borrowed or 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 to just sort of use out of doors and i think for any british police officer overstimulate is retired to be associated in any way with that is it's his role yes

resigned from scotland yard last year an early fictive 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 immediately thousands and thousands of people protesting demanding their rights. vandalism. you seem to forget that sixty 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 of. this previously but it's been extended through the toxic gases and use of poisoning. mr john contributing we should see a positive things at the ground what we are seeing today is nothing acceptable it may not just be british tactics bahrain's using 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 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. but mideast expert tariq ali says the different attitude is world powers are taking to bahrain's uprising are easily explained by how useful the regime is to that. those countries which are regarded as as the where store stooges of the west basically. criticized regularly it's not just the gulf states and bahrain in particular it is also countries like yemen who was brutal dictatorial present to 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 the south these 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 what the west starts to mention in

bahrain was greenlighted by the united states which is very strong in their principle and they crushed the our pricing but erica also provided us with some insight on the current crisis in syria a special interview with him is on air for you next hour but before that there is what else is coming up in the program turkey want to keep our economic war on iran choosing to protect its national interests by continuing to import to bring you know while. the relations between greece and brussels are on course for a new low after euro zone council a ministerial meeting plan to discuss a second ballot out the u. is today openly skeptical of athens political will on many greeks say they've been betrayed by those who saddle them with crippling austerity our correspondent in athens jacob graves has more. really hard to turn for this is anything else than a slap in the face.