we scored twice away from home that is an achievement for our midfield and attack i want to emphasize again that the conditions were hard but we were still playing well in attack and in the midfield the final result will be set in the second leg game in lisbon at our home ground. zero so while benfica have a good chance of progressing after with thrashed forty like they say milan brazilian strike out of any other sport either side of half time as a serial champions dominated the game kevin prince but saying it had lightened with a stunning strike after fifteen minutes what is that and even if it added a late for a lot as arsenal manager arsene vanga said the defeat was a disaster while his opposite number massively on i'd like three said milan could have scored more. maybe two percent of five percent stuck to strictly chances but. we have. to show a completely different performance and you never know what that's a really strict lever is. really really be out of this competition about what

a lot of us are 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 a champions league two legged much we have a good lead but we have to be more clinical print. meanwhile the europa league returns this thursday evening and like a lot of moscow host athletic bilbao for that first leg in the last thirty two new signing that i'm on public go is cup title though that doesn't lessen his confidence comes at him but out of reports. due to the russian winter break or committee if will be playing their first competitive match since mid 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 to steady i'm 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 athletic 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 ham in the europa league this season however locust top scorer dmitry situ of 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 solitary big 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 c.v. but are confident they can succeed this time. our coaches have provided enough information about our opponents we have studied their strengths and weaknesses now we have to

use that knowledge on the pitch which is much harder but we can do it well i thought it would have reached the round of thirty two for the third time the basque side may only line ninth in spain's la leader but remain a formidable prospect the lions have also reached 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 tale in 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 marcel beyond so ironically nicknamed. says that neither snow nor plastic beach skiers discharges. both teams are in the same boat and need to feed can be excused by the weather conditions all the out of fish will pitch their no key fact it's a match just like any other will play the way we do in spain and use this seems

quite this by more statistics against spanish sides and the lack of match practice but comment if will be king to take forward one page of familiar weather conditions and artificial. stereo ahead of next week's. insight about out of. moscow. well meanwhile another. state 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 out of earth among cheney hitting back at derogatory claims by controversial strike on most others isn't with his team mates important well the twenty eight year old only returned to the club this week when they three month self-imposed exile in argentina that followed it falling out with one cheney last september when he allegedly refused to warm up in city's two male champions league defeat by in munich but just before his return he told argentinian television he'd been treated like a dog by mancini something we tally and in the light in the build up to the game

this quarter when cheney says it is one of the biggest of the round. not that i disagree with god loss what you say because i never truly be in bed that he. maybe is the opposite. or worse i think that is the one of the big game in this stage because. we blame the dog that thought the emmy used to play jungle league. many times seeing everybody go in the champions league is very difficult to play because i don't want to be very is very strong. well like manchester city opponents porter i have also dropped down from the champions league brazil strike a club that is a major dutch due to illness and left me the other with a long term injury but despite a few selection issues sporting believes they have the quality to progress. they were aware of how powerful they were but they have excellent players and an

excellent we want to contradict that because we also have our weapons and as our victor para says 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. and manchester united are also preparing for life in europe's second tier club competition they go to dutch giants i x. off they also flopped in the champions league and ferguson has embraced the challenge . we have an opportunity to do better than this second half this season and the europa league is you look at the teams that it is a challenge some very good teams and. hopefully we can do well. well meanwhile striker dimitri is in the right form to help my uncle overcome the stiff opposition and says he wants to put at least two past united the thirty two year old former russia star was on target again for the young saddam side who won two nil at struggling writer on saturday the only six in the dutch league however coach frank de burgh who won the way for the cup as

a player in one thousand nine hundred ninety two believes his so i can beat anyone when i play the i.x. way. we can play our. philosophy you know include the pressure problem and giambrone of and try to create chances of fours and technically. capable to do that when we. i think we're going to beat everybody almost. now moving on to a stunning comeback and i saw his k.h. l. as joint illegally distractor fought back on three one down at tesco moscow to carve out a feisty when once i got started well alex a bug you cough with the first of the night before we all move and one time to find ourselves three one up second. class where practice fightback began and i was if it made it through to. the start just off found the equaliser after a sweeping move that set things up for a frantic final period after the fact so proud of my eighteen year old you're going

to because that soft fired his side into the lead and went on to finish with an impressive shot so you go for that so you can't go out added another to make it five three to wrap up uncredible turnaround factotum and the runaway leaders in the eastern conference not a star state in the west. and finally the linsanity continues in the n.b.a. jeremy littleton from score to provide as the new york knicks beat the sacramento kings one hundred points to eighty five with a new found start racking up thirty assists well 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 bike as a result of the growing injury missed out an x. has grabbed it with both hands scoring a total of one hundred thirty six points in his first five starts the most by any player since one thousand nine hundred seventy six and on wednesday night he was again instrumental in the when i was sacramento and believes his team will be even more potent when stalin come on to me returns from the treatment table he can come

with bigger roles too and you know that gives 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 even throw in rotation and we're coming to pick a roll so it's going to be we should be more dangerous offensively. and as all the sports news i think.

well going into the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future are covered. stories on our t.v. a russia has accused forces outside syria of encouraging rebel groups to continue fighting and stay out of peace talks and head of the u.n. general assembly vote on a resolution aimed at the assad regime. surrenders to the last of the bailout amounts only to be kept in limbo and presented with more terms as a sturdy leaves greek hospital struggling with the military on sky. plus iran's display of nuclear progress and offer of talks are dismissed by america and israel as a loss for and response to severe economic sanctions. and in business we'll be discussing

how washington is targeting it leaves republic the banking system join me in twenty minutes but all the details. two pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. good to have you with us our top story a draft new draft resolution on syria to pressure the ruling regime will be put to a vote at the u.n. general assembly later on thursday a moscow was warned it won't back the document unless it suggested amendments are taken into consideration the changes said already been dismissed by some arab delegates out the u.n. i want these reports from new york. the one hundred ninety three member body will be voting on a draft text that was drafted by saudi arabia 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 that 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 draft 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 essentially 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. you can always find a compromise but only through negotiations this is what some from the opposition refused to do dissuaded by so my external players who burned a huge responsibility for the ongoing violence for the deaths of 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. now the white house has criticized the syrian government's promise to hold a referendum describing it as laughable and accusing the regime of making a mockery of the unrest well out some of the swelling chorus within the u.s.

calling on washington to supply anti assad fighters with weapons and. reports many believe that would make peace impossible. hawks in washington calling for the arming of things surgeons 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 that the more. 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 a less secular 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 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 guns. 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. . 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 its content but to solve it by the constitution that introduced politic a multi-party system but the people who are well quite a bit government are not interested in multi-party democracy and they are there are directly as we know they are directly backed by doing so six of the cia. operatives which are present. 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 the legitimizing 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 a big all those it's a secular government it's a country of tremendous religious tolerance the activists in syria have the keys regime forces are stepping up attacks on rebel held cities the announcement of a referendum on a new constitution does not appear to have help stem the violence while the felt which will take place at the end of february is aimed at significantly curbing the power of the ruling baath party but if an option is in damascus for. so there's a damascus has started within you so there's a summation the shake of one of the mosques over done one of the districts of the capital was killed as far as local media is reporting he was short a dad with five scholz this area may dawn where we are right now he's famous to be very conservative people living here are supporting a very much pro-government procession but at the same time there's been many office issues people living in this neighborhood as well and tensions between these two sides have been very hard specially the recent the just last month of this area saw

as suicide bomber a type one twenty six people were killed and more than sixty all those injured speculations appeared as well that they say was killed because of his political views but it's not only from damascus that we are receiving inside news today policies continuing in the southern part of the country we are hearing from the opposition activists that the army of bashar al assad has attacked the city of daraa targeting free syrian army soldiers and as a respond to the sources say. rebels are firing checkpoints inside the city and also targeting ministry and police buildings ati has actually just traveled to the city of daraa on wednesday and we've been able to speak to the governor over this area on the ground and with many military there and they've told us that there is no free syrian army in this region right now and actually in generally they say

that it doesn't exist such a thing as a well coordinated opposition military force they've confirmed that they're fighting every day the military a ration is what they're fighting against separate armed groups which are. mostly consisted they say of army defectors and foreign soldiers. well let's turn to a country now which the arab spring has already passed through amnesty international has accused libya's ruling national transitional council of failing to stop human rights abuses it says thousands of moammar gadhafi supporters are being held without charge and tortured by former rebels also in september it's reported that at least twelve presidents have died as a result of torture the report comes as libya prepares to mark the first set of verse three of the start of its nato backed revolution despite the celebrations the f.t.c. is struggling to get the situation under control former rebels are vying for power efforts to disarm the civilian population have failed and the country's economy is

in ruins after the war dr c.f. of the bethlehem university says serving the interests of the libyan people isn't on the list of m.t.c. priorities. the situation. grooving and part of the main reason for this is basically the libyan revolution has come with violence instigated from outside the problem with. this was a concocted group of people who were put in power basically. because simply as an underlying bill dictator for the worst there is basically the power struggle in libya now is a struggle. for more of libya's oil and this is a struggle of dividing libya's resources among greedy people. taking libya's resources and giving it to the libyan people on our website r.t. dot com you can find out how the shock waves of the arab spring are still being

felt here on earth a case of deja vu involved right where protesters took to the streets calling for democracy reforms were confronted with a harsh police crackdown. and also online for you with taste find out the security measures leave it to protect moscow's new was betting machines which offer a rare. caviar touch of a by. now 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 athens push through final call some wednesday and committed to a written promise to stick by a city after elections but that's still not enough for the e.u. which now wants financial monitors are sure the terms of the bailout are being followed by the greek president got almost lashed out at the e.u. . countries like germany holland and had to criticize greece or wish every piece nigel farage says it's all part of an effort to bring athens to hear 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 for the us to papademos it now says it's now saying to the greek people unless you vote for the right parties the 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 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 a steady 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 luck

but artie's jacob green's reports the nato chief visit to greece suggests the military may remain largely immune. the mini 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 defense of our relations with turkey remain for some as ever present a threat as a current debt crisis nato partners don't seem very keen to help us not to mean to spread 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 that means there is

a kind of negotiation if i may say sure between major partners which are germany of course france. if we spend more and you procurement of course a major part of france and germany france since the major. 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 in 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 creasing number of people 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 you see more and more people coming to us that are there is that we might see up to three hundred people and the numbers of the greeks are increasing the president many greeks remain too ashamed of the situation to be filmed those wanting to be heard painted green the 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 do you agree. it's. well it's been no secret that from the onset of the euro crisis germany has spearheaded the e.u.'s

a steady drive and the original argument was that cuts were necessary and paying a consequence well in fifteen minutes time max and stacey focus on that. 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 their 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.