be said of arsenal who were thrashed four nil by ac milan brazilians try going to be scoring twice as the three i champions dominated the game kevin prince but tank and slatternly behavior which got the other goals afterwards arsenal coach aston banga said he stayed pretty much out of the competition while his opposite number believe the land could have scored more. than you hoped for the return to its pure really stick. we don't claim dream world. maybe two percent of five percent statistically chances but. we have. to show a completely different performance and you never know what that really stick lever is really really be out of this competition about what i want to proceed with i'm very sorry the score 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 up front and look at it all now this

evening it is the turn of the europa league and that's down to thirty two teams and lokomotiv moscow host athletic bilbao in their first leg new signing roman pavlyuchenko is cup title he can play for the railway men although that hasn't lessened the team's belief they can get a result with more is constantine but top off. due to the russian winter break or committee if will be playing their first competitive match since may and december 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 in the middle of their season playing too much is week by looking to use

biggest signing during this break. 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 at need three situ up has already netted six goals in europe so far the second highest in the tournament yet their reading greens have a disaster as record against spanish clubs with just a solitary victory 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. competition since two thousand and six after being knocked out by another spanish sylvia but are confident they can succeed this time. our coaches have provided enough information about our own and we have studied all their strengths and weaknesses now we have to use that knowledge on the pitch which is much harder but we can do it well authentic millibar have 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 the lines have all to reach the final of the cup of deliberate where they will face holders barcelona they bilbao a team have scored in their last stand games and i eager to increase detailing this their first ever meeting. against lokomotiv the winners of the time will take on manchester united in the round of sixteen next month and athletics manager former agent tina defender marcella bielsa ironically nicknamed. says that neither snow nor plastic beach skiers risk charges. both teams are in the same boat and they need to feed can be excused by the weather conditions all the artificial if there are no key factors it's a man it's just like any other will play the way we do in spain but ascend used to seems quite this by force that this takes against spanish sides and the lack of match practice by committee if will be king to take forward one of familiar weather

conditions and artificial. stereo ahead of next week's. moscow now and other games tonight manchester city travel to portugal to take on the fending champions porter but the build up hasn't been ideal for the english premier league leaders with manager roberto mancini hitting back at derogatory claims by striker car last havers whatever's 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 his return he told argentine television he'd been treated like a dog by man cheney now something italian took time to deny in the build up to the game with porto which he says is one of the biggest of the wrath. of god that i disagree with loss what to say because i never truly be in bed that he.

maybe is the opposite to be to the end for well or worse i think that is the one of the big game in this the age of this cause. we'd play the fourth or that thought the emmy used to play champions league. many times seeing everybody go in the champions league is very difficult to play because i don't party very is very strong a. thought for these reasons i think that the more would be very out of game but it is important it would be a good game well like manchester city porter have also dropped down from the champions league their forward club is a major attack with illness and on top of that media rafael with a long term injury but despite selection problems port i believe they've got the quality to progress i'm sure aware of how powerful they are but they have excellent players an excellent we want to contradict that because we also have our weapons and as our victor pierce is it's inside the pitch that we'll have to show which

team is the best and we're going to work to be the best that manchester united are also preparing for life in europe second tier club competition they take on i.x. in amsterdam after they also failed in the champions league however so alex ferguson has embraced the challenge. we have an opportunity to do better than the second half this season and the euro for years if you look at the teams that it is a challenge some very good teams that are. hope for we can do well. so 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 days when i was up early on goal difference coach frank de burgh who won the u.a.e. for cup as a player in one thousand nine hundred two believes his side can beat the best in the world when they play the i.x. well. hopefully we can play our. philosophy you know to try

to push the problems on barone of them and try to create chances of course. technically. capable to do that when we are capable to do that i think we're going to beat everybody almost now let's move away from football and talk about a great comeback in ice hockey. eastern conference leaders practice or found themselves three one down against the eskimo scare last night but somehow carved out a five three when i discussed started well enough alexei but do call for the first of the night. and the army man found themselves three one up in the second period but that is when practice fight back began under a pop of the effort here make it three two and then stanislav chiefs solve fan equaliser after a sweeping move. and it set up a pretty frantic final period but it was like gore who ploughed on your business so far he sided with the lead here before posting on theo added another to make it

five three seven incredible turnaround practical continue to be the runaway leaders in the eastern conference barty iscar stay in the west. and finally linsanity continues in the n.b.a. jeremy lin turn from score to provider in the new york knicks latest picture they beat the sacramento kings one hundred points to eighty five but the new found star racking up thirteen assists while fans have gone mad for the twenty three year old since he exploded onto the scene just over a week ago he only got his break as a result. at bennett but he's grabbed it with both hands scorn your title of one hundred thirty six points in his first five starts the most by any player since nine hundred seventy six last night he was again instrumental in the wing of a sacramento i believe his team will be even more points than come out of anthony returns in the treatment title so he can come off the rails too and you know there give me a break and i can come off and i can find him in you know it's just when you have

we're probably going to be playing on opposite sides so when i have myself on one side for him and the other we can swing swing and also the defense is wrote in rotation and we're coming to pick the rolls and so it's going to be we should be more dangerous offensively so that brings us to the end of the sports the weather is next. well with. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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russia has accused forces outside syria of encouraging rebel groups to continue fighting and stay out of peace talks and head of the un general assembly voted on a resolution and that the assad regime. surrenders to the last of it used. to be kept in limbo and presented with terms as austerity the greek hospital struggling for the military unscathed. thus arounds display of nuclear progress and offer of talks are dismissed by america and israel as last response to severe economic sanctions. how washington is.

banking. in twenty minutes. and on line twenty four seven you're watching our table straight to our top story now activists in syria have accused regime forces of stepping up attacks on rebel held areas in the city of daraa the latest target there are unverified reports of explosions and machine gun fire that while the announcement of a referendum on new constitution does not appear to help stem the violence the vote which would take place at the end of february was aimed at significantly curbing the power of the ruling party and in new york a new draft resolution on syria to pressure the ruling regime will be put to a vote at the un general assembly. has warned it won't back the document lest it

suggested amendments are taken into consideration but the changes have already been dismissed by some arab that gets. reports now from new york. the one hundred ninety three member body will be voting on a draft text that was drafted by or. and circulated by egypt this draft text essentially supports the arab league plan for syrian president bashar al assad to step aside and relinquish his powers now the assembly draft essentially demands five key things from the syrian government including that the government stop all violence release all those detained during the past eleven months of violent unrest does the government withdraw all armed forces from cities and towns guarantees of peace peaceful demonstrations and the assad government allows unhindered access for all our of league monitors and international media

this. resolution being voted on in the general assembly thursday is very similar to the draft text that was proposed within the security council about a a week and a half ago the resolution adopted by the general assembly essential we have no legal force when it comes to the security council they are still divided with russia and china both wielding vetoes at the last vote that took place about a week and a half ago and russia maintains its position and that is that it's best to have both sides halt violence put their guns down and come to the table to engage in dialogue should do is move you can always find a compromise but only through coming out. this is what some from the opposition refused to do. so my externals there's a huge responsibility for the ongoing violence for the peaceful civilians so we

will see what happens with the journalist simply come thursday and how that action will subsequently affect what will take place possibly again within the security council. but 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 now it's a swelling chorus within the u.s. calling on washington to supply anti assad fighters with weapons design teams going to chicken reports many believe that would make peace impossible. hawks in washington calling for the arming of insurgents in syria we should start thinking all options clearing 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 as political strategies the more on lied to the to the factions of the syrian opposition and the more that happens the less likely it is that they'll be a negotiated solution leading to a cease to be still 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 a less secular environment it's easier to recruit new terrorists if the government holds that 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 alarming 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. totally cynical and totally opportunistic there's not a shred of grins. but despite the hawks 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. . on the show trotted off ski from the center for research on globalization says foreign intelligence operatives on the ground are helping to stir up political chaos in syria. i certainly know that the government. that's its combat but to swallow by the constitution that introduced policy a multi-party system but the people who are well quite a bit government are not multi party democracy. they are directly as we know they are directly backed by doing so. operatives which are present. collaborating with the rebels the free syrian albeit not something which is representative of the opposition. of this action is to

create political instability which will subsequently lead. to the legitimizing the syrian government stabilize syria as a nation state what they don't like about syria is that syria is a proxy us state still though like with it's not all big all those it's a secular government it's a country of tremendous religious tolerance. let's turn to a country now which the arab spring has already passed through i'm a steam to national has accused and that is a ruling in national transitional council for failing to stop human rights abuses and says thousands of mug of coffee supporters are being held without charge and tortured by former rebels was in september it's reported that these twelve prisoners have died as a result of torture report comes as maybe a prepares to mark the first anniversary of the stuff that's and they take back with pollution despite the celebrations that d.c.

is trying to get the situation under control. rebels now vying for power and the song the civilian population has failed country's economy is in ruins off the wall and i think i'm saying from bethlehem university says serving the interests of the libyan people is not on the list of n t c priorities. the situation in libya is that improving and part of the main reason for this is basically the libyan revolution has come with violence instigated from outside the problem with anti see is that it was a concocted group of people who were put in power basically to topple mom or khadafi because simply he was an unreliable dictator for the west there is basically the power struggle in libya now is the struggle of struggle of more of libya's oil and this is a struggle of dividing libya's resources among greedy people rather than taking

libya's resources and giving it to the libyan people. well our web site r.t. dot com you can find out how the shock waves of the arab spring are still being felt a year old case of deja vu in bahrain where protesters who took to the streets one of the democracy reforms confronted with a harsh police crackdown. also online vandals with taste of the security measures needed to protect a mosque is nearest vending machines coffee are such a button. 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 i think push through final cuts on wednesday and committed to a written promise to stick by austerity after elections that still enough for the new year now wants financial monitors to ensure the terms of the bailout are being followed the greek president asked this. in questioning countries like

germany holland in finland criticize greece but its m.e.p. national farrar 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 in a puppet in the form of mr papademos it now says it's now saying to the greek people unless you vote for the right parties or 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 that by outside 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 slashes in spending have left workers short of cash hospital

short of medicine and many greeks out of not as ati's jacob riis reports the nato chief's visit to greece suggests the military may remain largely mean. flamini athens has been a battleground in recent years to try to get some popular stare to sunday's events a 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 current debt crisis for our nato partners don't seem very keen to help us not to meet to spend so much i mean think about it we have been through we are being threatened from a member of the lives that we belong and the alliance doesn't do anything. so we have to spend huge amounts of money but the nato chief arise in athens the talks

other things may be on the table among them weapons but you're meant believe me that kind of negotiation if i may say sure between our major partners germany of course in france. if we spend a little bit more on you procurement of course a major part probably to function general jim france since the major creditors 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've worked in dimitri's account comes on the back of cuts slashed medical staff pay a letter desperate shortage of equipment including affordable prescription drugs this is the very human face the term austerity measure i think creasing number of

people can't find 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 their treatment is first of all are seeing more and more people coming to us there are days that we might see up to three hundred people and the numbers of the greeks are also increasing so 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 was the nation remains sick cuts have a real damaging impact. on the people's well being despite the sizable military defenses protecting them. it's. been their secret that from the onset of the

euro crisis germany has spearheaded the use austerity drive the original argument was that the cuts were necessary and pain of consequence would have been thirty eight g.m.t. max and stacey focus on that. 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 scorched earth policy to greece are 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 who is this to germany of all is this to germany we remember from world war i want to know is this the imperial genie out of the bottle once again.

simplified the transparent and more competitive elections the purpose behind the new parliamentary bill introduced by president dmitri medvedev the draft proposal and this is an election process with less bureaucracy and more representation that would also take into account the country's vocal online community correspondence piece all of that has more on the proposed changes. this bill is being put forward by president proposes a major overhaul of the electoral process in russia know some of the key points that are in this bill and if it is put through the dealer and becomes law what will mean is it will establish rights for. polling stations to video and photograph what is happening there also allowing of course the the web cams that we will see across polling stations across russia that will not just be broadcasting

the live from the polling stations but also the count taking place where those votes are added now the system of proportional representation in russia will remain however we will see changes to how the country is divided up now what is being put forward has been put forward is two hundred and twenty five electoral districts that's what the country will be split up into all of them roughly equal in population it's expected to. see a lot more parties from all over the country. going for two seats in the duma now many more parties means much more competition means much more pressure on the politicians to do what the people want from the bill that's been put forward by president is the full bill regarding electoral reform in the country some of those will start being debated in the duma on the twenty eight.