mystic chance of progressing which is more than i can say about arsenal who are thrashed born ill at the san siro brazilian striker rybin yo scored twice as the city at canton is dominated again kevin prince boateng in flatland even him if it's got the other goals afterwards arsenal coach aston venga said his team were pretty much out of the competition while his opposite number believe the land could have scored more. than you hope for the return to be a really stick. we don't claim dream or. maybe two percent or five percent start to strictly challenges but the. we have. to show a completely different performance and you never know but let's be realistic leavers really really be out of this competition about what a lot of us are with i'm sure the story of the school was greater because we had many chances to score and we did make it so when you can score you should score especially in the champions league two legged much we have a good lead but we have to be more clinical promt. now this evening it's the turn

of the europa league and that is down to thirty two teams and lokomotiv moscow host athletic bilbao in their leg new signing roman pavlyuchenko is cup title he can play for the railway men although that hasn't lessened the teens belief they can get a result with more is constantine the top off. due to the russian winter break or committee if will be playing their first competitive match since may of this salmon but subzero temperatures forced them to move them match with earth let it build power across the capital to the artificial beach of delusion hysteria as they look to steam past their bones and put one foot in the second knockout round of the europa league however the railway man's coach says neither side is the favorite the chances are fifty fifty we've prepared well both physically and tactically but our classic have an advantage as they're on a good run and in the middle of their season playing too much is week look i'm

going to use biggest signing during this break roman pavlyuchenko will not be able to help his side as he has already played for talking to ham in the europa league this season however locust top scorer dmitry situ up has already netted six goals in europe so far the second highest in the tournament yet the reading greens have a disaster his record against spanish clubs with just a solo tour of the three in twelve matches and that win was against real madrid educate ago they must wait side has not played in the spring face of a u.f.o. can petition since two thousand and six after being knocked out by another spanish t.v. but are confident they can succeed this time. our coaches have provided enough information about our own and as we have studied their strengths and weaknesses it's now we have to use that knowledge on the pitch which is much harder but we can do it well i thought i had reached the round of thirty two for the third time the basque side

may only line ninth in spain's la liga but remain a formidable prospect bill lyons have also reach the final of the cup of the race where they will face holders barcelona they bilbao a team have scored in their last stand games and i eager to increase their tailing this their first ever meeting. against lokomotiv the winners of the time will take on all manchester united in the round of sixteen next month and then manager former agent tina defender marcella bielsa ironically nicknamed the law says that neither snow nor plastic beach skiers chris charges. both teams are in the same boat and they need to feed can be excused by the weather conditions all the artificial there are no key factors it's a man's just like any other will play the way we do in spain and used to seems quite this by force that is to say again spanish sides and the lack of match practice what i meant if will be keen to take forward one page of familiar weather

conditions and artificial. stereo ahead of next week's. conflict about out of. moscow now in other games manchester city travelled to portugal to take on defending champions porto but the build up hasn't been ideal for the english premier league leaders with manager birdman cine hitting back at derogatory claims by strike a car last ten years as isn't with his team mates in porto he only came back to the club this week to end a three month self-imposed exile in argentina that followed a falling out with man cheney last september when he refused to warm up for a champions league game but just before he returned he told argentine television he'd been treated like a dog by man chaney well that's something italian took time to deny in the build up to the game with porto which he believes will be a tough test. got that i disagree with loss. because. through to be in bed that he. maybe it's the opposite. for

the race and never say. team. play and finish no one is that last question that day. and the next three months i think that is the one of the big game in this stage because. we. thought the enemy used to play generally. many times seeing everybody go in the champions league is very difficult to play because of it on board the rate is very strong a. thought for this reason i think that the more would be very out of game but it is important to be a good game well like manchester city porto have also dropped down from the champions league therefore clear is a major illness and on top of that media rafael is out with

a long term injury but despite selection problems porto believe they got the quality to progress. not sure we're aware of how powerful they are but they have excellent players an excellent one we want to contradict that because we also have our will and as our. it's inside the pitch that will have to show which team is the best and we're going to work to be the best for manchester united are also preparing for life in europe second to club competition they take on i.x. in amsterdam he was they failed to progress in the champions league however ceramics ferguson has embraced the challenge. we have an opportunity to do better than the second half this season and europe for years if you look at the teams that it is a challenge some very good teams and. hopefully we can do well. by x. on the other hand are well aware of the task ahead of them the dutch team just missed out on a place in the champions league round of sixteen finishing behind great d. one is up early on goal difference coach frank de boer who won the u.a.e.

for cup as a player in one thousand nine hundred eighty believes his side can beat the best in the world when they play i.x. way. we can play our own philosophy you know and to try to present a problem and john brown of and try to create chances of course and technically capable to do that when we are capable to do that we're going to beat everybody almost. in the meantime russia has remained thirteenth in the new fee for world rankings while sparta midfielder to major combat of hazard and his maiden call up for the national side the twenty five year old is set to make his senior debut in a friendly in denmark on february the twenty ninth of russia as russia prepare for this summer's european finals angy goalkeeper to make a bulldog is also due to make his international comeback and copenhagen three more friendly to show due for russia as part of their euro twenty twelve warm ups including a clash with italy in june. now let's move away from football and talk about

a great comeback win in ice hockey skates shell eastern conference leaders trackball found themselves three one down against the moscow last night to some high carb diet a five three win. started well enough alexy but coffee with the first night. and the army men. were not in the second but that is where truck to fight back began by paul potts here i did three c. . and then stanislav to stuff found the equaliser after a sweeping move i set things up for a frantic final period but it was truck plowed only again because in that self fives inside into the lead here before the computer was added another to make it by freight an incredible turnaround truck to continue to be the runaway leaders in the conference call to scar state in the west. so that brings us up to date

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would be so much brighter if you knew about the song from france to question his. stance on t v dot com. russia has accused forces outside syria of encouraging rebel groups to continue fighting and stay out of peace talks head of the un general assembly vote on a resolution aimed at the assad regime. martin surrenders to the last of use bailout demands only to be kept in limbo and presented with more terms as austerity leaves a greek hospital struggling but the military unscathed. surrounds display of nuclear progress on offer of course are dismissed by america and israel as bluster response to see the economic sanctions. the russian markets have opened up today's trading

session in the red following on from losses in asia and in the us all of the figures are much more in our business bulletin and time. international news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. activists in syria have accused regime forces of stepping up attacks on rebel held city meanwhile the announcement of a referendum on a new constitution does not appear to have help stem the violence the vote which will take place at the end of february is aimed at significantly curbing the power of the ruling baath party. is in damascus for r.t. . but they did for the people's referendum on the country's new constitution has been announced on wednesday it is expected to be held on the twenty sixth of february the syrian government has been working on the draft for this new

constitution for quite a while now and it has sad that the most important thing about this new constitution the most important change is that it implies the end of monopoly of the ruling party in syria involved party has been in power in the country for the last fifty years actually since the beginning of the uprising here in syria last march protestors have been calling for democratic reforms and for amendments to the country's key law in the wake of violence that followed initial demonstrations peaceful demonstrations many opposition leaders have been only demanding president bashar al assad to go and they will not be satisfied with this particular reform with this particular referendum this news it's how has come amidst numerous reports about violence all across syria we've been hearing reports from the city of hama north of the capital damascus from the opposition activists saying that the tanks

of assad's army have been deployed in the city and we've also been receiving reports from another troubled area from the city of homes where reportedly there have been explosions at the all pipeline since almost all these recalls have been coming from one source from the opposition there has been a feeling that another part another side of this conflict in syria has been kind of ignored. well a new draft resolution on syria to pressure the ruling regime will be put to a vote at the u.n. general assembly they too on thursday has warned it won't back the document less it's suggested amendments are taken into consideration it wants both sides of the conflict held equally responsible and called on all opposition groups not to back rebel militia changes have already been dismissed by arab delegates at the un well russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says foreign countries are intervening and

part of the blame lies with them. you can always find a compromise but only through carrying out negotiations this is what some from the opposition refused to do dissuaded by some external players who barely huge responsibility for the ongoing violence for the deaths of peaceful civilians. or the white house has criticised the syrian government's promise to hold a referendum describing it as laughable and accusing the regime of making a mockery of the unrest that's swirling chorus within the u.s. calling on washington to supply fighters with weapons and sanity is a kind of chicken reports many believe that would make peace impossible. hawks in washington calling for the arming of the insurgents in syria we should start thinking all options including arming the opposition i give them training i give them communications equipment and then ultimately i give them weapons. experts

say arming the fighting groups among the opposition is a sure way to drag the country into a protracted civil war it will also further marginalize those in the opposition who have advocated nonviolence or would be asked political strategies the more that plied to the to the factions of the syrian opposition the more that happens the less likely it is that they'll be a negotiated solution pleasing to a cease to be civil settlement they're encouraged i think very much by the united states the civil war in lebanon went on for fifteen years absolutely appalling bloodshed and you could easily see that that could happen in syria like the u.s. all qaida has indorse the rebels fighting in syria under president assad syria has been a secular state some analysts argue that one of the reasons why al qaeda supports the violent uprising in syria is that in the last secular more islam is the

environment it's easier to recruit new terrorists if the government folds or you'll be looking forward to just a very long period of complete disintegration and they will be able to attract more and more fanatical recruits look at the civil war in iraq in two thousand and six and seven it was absolutely appalling the calls to arm fighting groups in syria sound even more all army given the u.s. history of arming radicals afghanistan one example it was of placing itself in alliance with the mujahideen including osama bin laden and these people who now of course it is lately been deploring as fanatical fanatical enemies that the united states said these. these alliances a totally cynical and totally opportunistic there's not a shred of guns. but despite the hocks outcry the obama administration is taking a more cautious stance with regards to syria we don't think more arms into syria is

the right answer some analysts say arming the very much fractured syrian opposition would contribute to its further radicalization and would make a political solution virtually impossible a number say washington might support arm supplies indirectly through its arab allies as of now the administration denies having such plans but will that position hold i'm going to shut down reporting from washington r.t. . well michel chossudovsky from the center for research and globalization says foreign intelligence operatives on the ground are helping to stir up political chaos in syria. i certainly know it's the fact that the government. that's that's its commitment to swallowed by the constitution that introduced politic a multi-party system but the people who are fighting the government are not interested in multi-party democracy they are there are directly and we know they are directly backed by name so by six and cia. operatives which are present all the growl

collaborating with the rebels the free syrian army is not something which is representative of the opposition the purpose of this action is to create political instability which will subsequently lead to all to. the syrian government destabilizing syria as a nation state what they don't like about syria is that syria is not a proxy us state it's still the line with washington so it's not living all those it's a secular government it's a country of tremendous religious tolerance. but one possible outcome of revolution in syria we take a look at libya it's been. since the start of its revolution its economy in shambles the rebels fighting each other thousands of former gadhafi supporters

reportedly prisons. and overseas demand. as the recession hope to parents have paid the price tag. greece has fulfilled the last few preconditions needed to secure a second one hundred thirty billion euro bailout but that cash injection may yet prove to be elusive greece pushed through final cuts on wednesday committed to promise to stick by austerity after elections that's still not enough for the e.u. wants. monitors to make sure it's following the terms of the bailout for greece has already struggled to meet the terms. on its rain has provoked an angry response from some quarters british any raj says it's all part of an effort to bring athens to heel what the e.u. is now doing it's trying to influence the outcome of the greek general election not satisfied with getting rid of the last democratically elected prime minister and

putting a puppet in the papademos it now says it's now saying to the greek people unless you vote for the right parties less you vote for parties that are happy to be subjugated do you control we will not give you the rest of the money and you will go bankrupt i suspect that despite the dissatisfaction that is felt by many german politicians i think the german parliament just as the greek parliament did last sunday will continue to toe the line and continue to say the buyout so the answer as far as i'm concerned it's rather like saving the cancer and not saving the patients. well the human cost of austerity in greece is being felt like never before cuts and spending slashes left workers short of cash hospital short of medicine and many greeks out of luck what has artie's jacob greece reports not so the military with nato chief and his rasmussen's visit to greece highlighting a sector seemingly immune to austerity. many athens has been

a battleground in recent years fighting against unpopular stare to sunday's events to show there's little hope for a cease fire one shot being fired by those discontent is a discrepancy in spending when it comes to the military something serving m.p.'s from a defensive on relations with turkey remain for some as ever present a threat as a card debt crisis for our nato partners don't seem very keen to help us not to need to spend so much i mean think about it we have been through we are being threatened from a member of the alliance that we belong and the alliance doesn't do anything. so we have to spend huge amounts of money but there's the nato chief arise in athens the talks other things may be on the table among them weapons but you're meant to believe i mean there is a kind of negotiation if i may say sure between major partners germany france. that if we spend more and you

procurement of course that major part will go publicly to france and germany france since the major creators such potential buys include a contract for greece to purchase a number of french frigates still under review the last talks remain afloat another threat looms it be may nice but what we've been advised to do is to sell copies of medicine relations of patients are being forced to put their hand in their pockets put treatment this problem persists in other hospitals i want to dimitri's account comes in the back of cuts slashed medical staff pay led to a desperate shortage of equipment including affordable prescription drugs is a problem only likely to worsen as a job increase and fewer people were able to afford private health care this is a very human face the term austerity measure i think. number of people carp on the

treatment need in the current health care system and desperation to turn to aid agencies like this regime nova care into athens immigrant population the midday queue at this center shows just how sort after the treatment is first of all are seeing more and more people coming to us that are those that we might see up to three hundred people and the numbers of the greeks are increasing in the past that we have nor many greeks but clearly we see more than twenty percent of greeks coming this cleaning though present many greeks remain too ashamed of the situation to be filmed those wanting to be heard paint a grim picture of. greece cannot recover from what's going on right now if you ask me greece is finished. it's a situation that has a country verging on implosion all during a time of peace not war but more so nation remains sick cats have

a real damaging impact on the people's well being. is an illness that could spread as fresh measures may reduce spending on outpatient drugs for one billion euros putting greeks health at risk despite the sizable military defenses protecting them to greece r.t. happens. what has been no secret that from the onset of the euro crisis germany has spearheaded the austerity drive the regional argument is that cuts were necessary and pain a consequence later on this hour max and stacey express a different view. well actually wolfgang schauble cording to this article he was actually quoted caught on tape anyway talking to a portuguese finance minister in which he said to the portuguese minister don't worry we're not going to do this to you this our treatment of greece is in order to appease our population at home right exactly this is amazing it's coming through now that the policy makers in germany that are applying the score. earth policy to greater doing so to appease their local constituents who want blood for some reason

they're just bloodthirsty which then brings up all kinds of other questions about is this to germany of all is this to germany we remember from world war i want to it's just the imperial genie out of the bottle once again. israel wants washington to batter roman tougher sanctions before its nuclear program reaches what it described as a point of no return it came in response to tehran's demonstration that its atomic project is progressing iran says it's willing to restart nuclear talks with world powers but only after announcing it can out of domestic we produce nuclear fuel rods and state of the art centrifuges to enrich uranium but this was met with skepticism by the u.s. state department which dismissed the claims as hype in the face of western economic pressure yes creating a situation around iran has some worried about

a military outcome but the from the national iranian american council believes a military strike wouldn't wipe out its nuclear capabilities the real problem here is that there is this towards this military action it's not going to actually take out the nuclear capabilities of iran if israel bombs iran it sets the program back a couple years and then they have to go in and bomb again and then they have to go in and bomb again and you just have this cycle really the end of the day this ends in full scale occupation total war there's no clean strike that happens this is if this happens it's the beginning of a long confrontation that really it's going to make you rock in afghanistan look like a cakewalk and it's going to plunge the u.s. into a very long term military engagement. well more on the israeli iran standoff for you when we talk to joe cemented the founder of the trends research institute has a preview of what he has to say with the full interview coming up next hour. if the

united states israel or nato attacks iran's nuclear facilities. it will be as i said before the beginning of world war three syria may be the other ear that you into because who's syria's top ally iran. and as we have seen from reports that came out with ealy. the united states and the west has been very instrumental in undermining the syrian government even before the latest uprisings have begun. to international has accused libya's national transitional council of failing to stop human rights abuses and says thousands of new market authors supporters are being held without charge and tortured by former rep.