as they gear up for an all important time with burning in the f.a. cup fifth round well the thirty four year old coach says he's happy with the situation as long as he has the support of russian and i don't know that well following saturday's to know the feat is evident chelsea found themselves fifth in the league and that of the champions league places behind passed on goal difference their f.a. cup tie is one of five taking place on saturday while portuguese coach for last boss also faces a champions league tie at napoli punching this day. seven months into the season we will need to be very very careful with a short time in between the two games. bearing in mind the importance that. for our season. there's a lot of playing that you can do also i mean we were. injuries recently a lot of players still coming back to play that we want to introduce the team like you know like ramirez but we have to be careful with. the napoli game as well. for

me while former england captain david beckham has been speaking in glowing terms about harry redknapp but on a manager is the front runner for the national job after fabio capello sensational resignation last week thirty six year old becca is england's most capped outfield player and has been training with his last sunday's galaxy side as the m.l.s. champions prepare for the new season which kicks off next month. and great manager . management it is incredible no players the opposite have played under him. trained under him and. not just a great manager but a great person as well and you know we have everything. last few years you know you know happy to see that out the way and right now the manager is an incredible job with the team. and. grandfather would be proud. you know being opposite for years. staying with football and philippe criseyde i scored the second half when they were as law. so much he fought back to beat athletic bilbao to want to

moscow to in the first leg of their last thirty two tie in the europa league while the home side door behind after thirty five minutes the incoming young but here's a clue sorrow's men found an equaliser on the out through their knees can sure cause a penalty i say though struck the wind out ten minutes later while another results go at our school the eighty fourth minute whereas english premier league leaders manchester city won two one the defending champions porto the city have lodged an official complaint to a first after alleged racial abuse to strike up mario balotelli while second half goals from actually young and have your man there's a man just united to nail it first like when i axed a result which pleased manager sir alex ferguson more than the performance. but here you can open a circuit now. because. it's so you have. some good opportunities and i think we're just about deserve to win because a good result you know in. turn can point to march when you're going to know we've

. well it was a night where only three home teams won out of fourteen fixtures in addition to local and he said outlaw how to have a big group in germany elsewhere like to go to madrid enjoyed a three one victory lap zero balance here be stoked one nil and sporting lisbon managed to draw two to let you warsaw return legs on next thursday february the twenty first. while another news beach football world champions russia are gearing up to defend their european crown this weekend here in moscow don't worry if it's being held indoors and russia will play france in the quarterfinals while one of the favorites portugal poland elsewhere spain taking on italy and switzerland will play romania russia edge spain's reign or ended spain's reign i should say as european champions in twenty ten and followed it up by beating brazil in the world cup final last year so they're aiming for third trophy in a row they know the competition will be tough. it's definitely switzerland and

portugal matches against these two sides are always difficult there without a doubt our main rivals in europe are. now former ones only russian rather the study with rove has finally found a seat for his third season in the high octane sport as a forward no man has joined team k two and the twenty seven year old is replacing an i truly behind the wheel for the malaysian owned british based outfit another finn heikki kovalainen will be with team mate this year but they always do you take part in pre-season testing of barcelona next week with the season getting underway with the australian grand prix in melbourne in a month's time but of finished thirteenth overall in his maiden season before improving to ten's place last year. ballot switch to tennis where the new women's world number one in the koreas are in the has reached the quarter finals of the cats are open she defeated simona halep of romania in straight sets but it wasn't without a fight and had to battle back from three one down in the first set you straight

open winner if you need that rick mirer of belgium. while fourth seed agnieszka advantage of poland is also into the last eight she had a straight set win over american. you still without a title during her eleven years as a pro. while australians are the stars that clinched her first back to back wins of the season defeating better it's at cosco for the czech republic in straight sets us i've been champion stows that ended last year on a high but it's had a rocky start to this season. and after winning his fortieth title last week phil mickelson is again the man to catch as the american has a one shot lead after the first day of the northern trust open in california where mickelson is in a rich vein of form after winning at pebble beach last week he hit a five under par sixty six during the first day at the riviera country club and that's puts him on top of the leaderboard one shot ahead of j.b.

holmes went home to maine. while a spectacular tee shot stole the show on the women's l.p.g. a tour as seven time major winner carry web ace the past twelve hole in thailand this cracker adding to her sterling effort on the coattails second day the thirty seven year old australian posting just one bogey and four straight birdies over fourteen holes before play was suspended due to rain with webb took a preliminary two stroke lead. and finally despite subzero temperatures here in the russian capital a group of jugglers haven't let the cold freeze that love of exercise in my cousin affords. this is the annual run moscow event first organized by nike in the summer of two thousand its in one thousand people covered the five k. distance marking the beginning of a running fad in the russian capital the following year the organizers responded to popular demand and added a ten k. run to the event the company gathers its data through its running club which offers

amateur runners a number of opportunities including year around training this moscow running group is less than c. years old and its member base grows continuously might be minus twenty outside by the subzero temperature is not a barrier for these daredevils. the morning welcomed the group of amateur runners with a biting frost it's hard to imagine what exactly possesses an individual to throw on a pair of sneakers and go for a jog keep in mind that any exposed skin will no doubt fall victim to the piercing cold however each one of these enthusiastic has a personal goal to accomplish and the instructors are ready to help achieve that task no matter how big or small you typical with absolute we get very different people here some of them are in great health some less so but we get from restless from the mill to servicemen office workers and they all want to try a different direction in life. the running club employs instructors likes it again

and uses several moscow parks throughout the year offering free of charge training to anyone summertime is by far the most popular season for the club with hundreds and even thousands of people participating foreigners who are working or studying in russia are also a regular sight and many found this to be a perfect way to meet new friends who you share with the same passions the same feelings as before and this is the. thing that makes us even if it's a them. we can does that longer but. with a hitch in addition to regular training sessions with a professional instructor this running club also offers an interactive experience on its website but the real challenge isn't online it's outside where true heroes are made in an unforgiving russian winter room on cost or of artsy moscow. a

very right that's all the sports more in just under two hours until then i think.

q one pressure on the syrian regime as the general assembly adopts a non-binding resolution but. foreign interference is not the way to go. greece scrambles to meet ever mounting you conditions to secure more bail out some countries who kept their national currencies are proving to be far better all. right and business will focus on portugal as e.u. officials decided in lisbon they have the country deserves the next try on its bailout more in our business politics. and we will get why one of the premier putin's harshest critics of the lager alexei not me is being showered with praise

by foreign media despite some of his controversial views. using calm and broadcasting to you live from the heart of moscow and karen tara the u.n. general assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution that piles more pressure on syrian president assad to step down russia was among twelve states who voted against saying the draft fails to address the armed opposition moscow maintains the conflict should be solved by the syrian people without foreign pressure artie's marina porte not has more from new york. this is very much a symbolic kind of message on the part of the international stage because you have an overwhelming majority of the u.n. members in the general assembly supporting a resolution that essentially endorses the arab league plan which calls for syrian

president bashar al assad to step down it also condemns syrian authorities for violating human rights fundamental rape or freedoms and using force against civilians it also calls for u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon to appoint an envoy to syria this text resolution condemns syrian authorities now the reason for all countries did not support this resolution is because they argue it's on balance most of those would because you know order to resolve the syrian crisis there's a need to uphold principle to which no one seems to object so the violence must be stopped by all sides and this is serious solutions can only be found through an inclusive political led by the syrians themselves today's arab league draft resolution on the situation in the syrian arab republic does not meet these criteria to a large extent it reflects the worrying trend that causes concern to attempt to

isolate the syrian leadership reject contact with it and impose an external formula for a political settlement. but russia has in the past of course offered to facilitate a dialogue between a syrian officials and representatives of the opposition groups to host those negotiations in moscow but now where you see the majority of the international community standing behind a plan that calls for president assad to step down the opposition groups will most likely not be running to a negotiation table. well reports of ongoing violence in syria both sides of the conflict accuse each other of committing crimes activists say syrian troops are intensely intensively shelling rebel held neighborhoods while the government insists it's finding an armed insurgency artie's maria financial reports from the syrian capital. damascus one day two funerals the men

in both coffins were killed fallen victim to the ongoing crisis in syria but at the hands of different sides. shake up might said dick thirty seven reportedly received five bullets to his chest and his head has become the first religious leader slain in the capital for process for announcements those who knew him say the mom had tried to stay in the middle of the present crisis but couldn't help condemning the armed and to government forces that he blamed for bloodshed in his country. but i would like to go back a few months ago we had people saying words like freedom and peaceful where is the freedom if they simply kill those against them is this the freedom they wanted. a brutal irony that shaikh said dick himself was gunned down by those whose violence he'd put himself against or not i would feel he was killed because he was calling for reform and the end of clashes those who did it and he want chaos and death this

is what you know this is the message to all islamic leaders the word of truth may cost your life would be the you tried to defend your country or stop the violence or stop bloodshed you are not safe if you are saying the truth many people pay the price for truth he was one of them in. malta for some a traitor for others an internet page of the opposition news network sham it was a chilling picture of the hatreds driving conflict in syria. he was killed and his soul was sent to hell this is what he deserves. people don't have issues and on any side it is really a very deep crisis very serious for him and you will see me turn to a demonstration or a protest the that's exactly what happened at this funeral procession. those who gathered to pay tribute to. show dead during the current government

protest have not only brought flowers and grief but also political slogans and demands month in hardware afraid for our children and people and brothers and sisters. witnesses say the bullet caught the young boy at the threshold of the mosque and his body fell inside we have in islam. for respect chin wave for respect with holy mosques and we believe we have to avoid any kind of violence in mosques but unfortunately with this kind of crimes with this kind of rajiv the situation there is no hole in this for any god with holland's causing even more violence syria seems to find itself in a vicious circle with little hope of finding their way out of a very fine ocean r.t. damascus syria the top u.s.

intelligence official has admitted al qaeda is working alongside serious armed opposition that could mean washington and the terrorist group are actually fighting on the same side because as investigative journalist ross baker believes foreign states are helping armed rebels to. we're seeing a similar pattern to what we saw in libya and that is this the western countries clearly want bashar assad out just as much as they wanted khadafi out and we are seeing this introduction of tremendous amounts of force very skilled sophisticated operations like the assassination of the cleric like the assassination of a general the other day in damascus very skilled operatives are bringing this battle right home to assad and that is not the sign of a traditional peaceful uprising that's not to say that there are not a large number of people in syria who would like to get rid of assad but i think that that sentiment of part of the population is being dramatically helped along by

outside forces while international pressure on syria grows and force it's over for of libya as a country marks a year since the revolt against the gadhafi regime celebrations are tainted by ongoing gunfire on the streets and claims of torture. also harsh rhetoric from the israeli government towards iran fails to convince many in israel that tectonic is indeed the main threat. greece is edging closer to its second bailout despite euro zone leaders demanding greater supervision of athens as finances greek officials have already signed off on the creditors earlier conditions which include major budget and job cuts the move solve violent protests on the streets of athens but some at the top in europe doubt the drastic measures can be implemented if greece doesn't get the one hundred thirty billion euro rescue package it will go bust in march when its next debt payments are due you looking at

greece's downward spiral some e.u. countries are glad they have decided to stay away from the euro as artie's tom barton reports. today's shift nearly over for forty three year old team leader jimmy carlson lorries keep rolling off the production lines here at scan years main works but one doses weeds know there's a crisis on their way with on top of it so much but i heard up in profit making health cards in fact scanning a was hit by the eurozone crisis when economic trouble loomed many lawry orders were canceled the black headlines came we have a crisis in the you will be your with. maybe going down and so on and then our customers get very hesitant but the lorry maker like sweden overall recovered fast from the initial downturn and has so far managed to dodge much of the pain felt further south in two thousand and three swedes shocked other e.u.

members by voting against joining the euro it was just one factor which now sees the country with one of the world's lowest government debts and one of the healthiest looking economies in europe we have most with pathetically changed our problem with the fiscal side so we don't have all those debt problems and budgetary problems that many other countries have but big debates lie ahead the rest of the u.s. still by far sweden's largest trading partner and here as elsewhere everyone is watching the embattled euro as a guide to their vote in a possible future referendum some put it simply mike economist rolf england who campaigned against the euro back in two thousand and three i think the euro will collapse before sweden will join the whereas around eighty percent of swedes say they're glad they're not in the euro the figure is reversed for their politicians mostly europhiles and argue this crisis isn't the euro's fault it's about debt

if you compare sweden which has been outside of the euro for just over ten years and fiddler which has been a member of the for the same period we have more identical economic developments. both politicians and people here seem to think that there will be another referendum on joining the euro sooner or later but what their choice will be assuming there's still a euro left choose is anyone's guess. this is a swedish kronor coin it's become a symbol of that momentous no vote of swedish prosperity versus the chaos of the euro but sweden can't ignore that its economic and political fate is tied inextricably to europe and as for predicting the future of the krona well political in tom barton r.t. . as the russian presidential election draws closer the media hype around it all in

girls' larger opposition blogger alex in a harsh critic of. has emerged as the darling of foreign broadcasters the violin is praise for his anti-corruption campaigning but it's his radical views and nationalist comments that get glossed over abroad artes and so now i reports. he's the anti corruption crusader making waves in and outside of russia for his push for transparency and exposing multi-billion dollar holes in state projects to a political phenomenon blow good opposition dolling alexei live on the often gets glossy coverage and is rarely asked tough questions by international media whether comparing navarre you need to julian assange or calling him one of the most influential new political figures he's hardly challenge to prominently praised and very present at the used introduction of these are the very basis of the political

system which would inform go he's not a scorer when speaking at rallies which have been at their biggest numbers in decades because it's got. him. you know these are good guys notice they're going to review the mazurka and the really don't because it's you know why news popularity in major cities and on the web soars in comparison with the rest of russia it's good when you've got your foreign media coverage won't make him any more popular they keep writing about nirvana but his recognition rate in russia is only some three percent many russians who do know now who are knee due for his sometimes shocking nationalism. what it was the words that dressed up as a dentist here he compares migrant workers to rotten teeth that need pulling out. with little to do but i. and here are non russian intruders to cockroaches smiling

you'll need more than a sliver to kill them. and all the work i'm still going to commit to spending inside russia you find much more criticism of the blogger and his question noble connections to radicalism going abroad where it's usually buried barely mentioned or brushed off as a larger russian problem we tried calling contacting and finally caught up with not wired me but to no avail i didn't see it but i know that it was with that as the reason it was not within your rights of. the person that's at that moment a good idea spying needs to know what you know it's not us and don't know actually it will be seconds later he did find time to tell russia's rian news agency he's ignored by much of the russian press for that's what. really many people are going to be a prototype of what we know that we still meant what he was up there with seemingly

more ready to speak ironically to non russian channels about the country's corruption problems and criticize putin and put forward a real solutions rather than how to make sure russia is for russians and he said now r t moscow. well opposition members are being heaped with praise from abroad criticism piles up on the fast approaching presidential election and russia raid on our web site r t dot com why moscow has slammed a resolution from the european parliament which it's out at the vote before it's even help but also. an electro shock weapon used to incapacitate criminals has killed hundreds of people over the last ten years in the united states alone find out more on our two dot com.

the official. video on demand. sixty minutes past the hour and it's been a year since the uprisings that brought down the regime of moammar gadhafi in libya but with some former rebels are to the teeth and still largely in power the country's future is in the balance human rights groups say libyan militias are out

of control and that interim government is unable or unwilling to control them there is also evidence of the torture and abuse of gadhafi supporters amnesty international has warned the armed groups pose a serious threat to democracy in libya pharaoh's manji who's an editor in chief of the pan african social justice network told r.t. the situation is much worse than it was during the gadhafi regime. those since the nature we invaded of libya. has been. human rights violations not just torture there is. indiscriminate killings there are extra judicial killings there's summary execution leave them coto gadhafi. members was found to have been some really executed nobody has been cool to do justice all about the huge amount of oh i'm sort of being poured into.