you know these readers everton chelsea found themselves best in the league and out of the champions league places behind also one goal difference there if a cup tie is one of five taking place on saturday while portuguese coach force also faces a champions league tie as naturally one choose 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. but in the meantime former england captain david beckham has been speaking english in terms about how you read now that the manager is the front runner for the national job after fabio capello's sensational resignation last week so the six year old back of me is england's most capped outfield player and has been training with his

los angeles galaxy side as the m.l.s. champions prepare for the new season kicks off next month. and great manager. man management is incredible no players the opposite have played under him. trained under him and. not just a great manager great person as well and you know we have everything. last few years you know you know happy to see that the way in right now the manager is an incredible job with the team down there and. grandfather would be proud. to be an opposite for years and staying with football and philippe criseyde as scored the second half winner is looking what he fought back to beat athletic bilbao two one here in moscow to win the first leg of their last thirty two tie in the europa league but the home side fell behind after thirty five minutes to twenty one he added but as a crusader as man it found an equaliser on the are doing in this penalty and i say

they struck the winner at ten minutes later want another result so here are where i was scored the eighty fourth minute window as english premier league leaders match to city one to one of defending champions porto city have lost. an official complaint to wafer after alleged racial abuse to strike america volatility meanwhile second half goals brashly young and that the economic is greater manchester united ha you know first like when i axed a result which pleased manager sir alex ferguson more than the performance but here you can open a second. for those words 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 meanwhile it was a night where only three home teams ran out of fourteen fixtures in addition to lock up and is it out mark the british in germany or elsewhere after it has let it

go madrid enjoyed a three one victory at. balance stoke one nil and sporting lisbon managed to draw two to let you warsaw the return legs on next thursday february twenty first. and in other news breach football world champions russia are gearing up to defend their european crown this weekend here in moscow that worry is being held indoors and russia will play france in the quarterfinals while one of the favorites portugal will meet poland elsewhere spain taking on peacefully and switzerland will play romania russia india spain's reign as european champions in two thousand and ten and followed up by beating brazil in the world cup final last year so they're aiming for a third trophy in a row but 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 forming the ones only russian rather

bizarrely better off has finally found a seat for his third season in the high octane sport as a former red oh man who has joined the case for m.t.v. but only seven year old is replacing veteran yano truly behind the wheel of the malaysian owned british based outfit finn heikki kovalainen will be with ropes team mate this year which of is due to take part in pre-season testing in barcelona next week with the season getting under way with the australian grand prix in melbourne in a month's time at their off finish the thirteenth overall in his maiden season before improving to tenth place last year. golf now and scotland's peter whitefoot has remained on course for his maiden title on the european tour the thirty one year old leads by two shots at the halfway stage but the avantha masters in new delhi his eagle on the par five six hole was arguably the biggest feat of the day as he also carded five birdies and three bogeys to finish the day on four under breathing down his neck however is talons problem we saw what he did five of the last six

holes in his best of the week round of sixty four. while meanwhile a spectacular tee shot stole the show on the women's l.p.g. a tour as a seven time major winner kerry web based the past three twelve in thailand this cracka adding to her sterling effort on the curtailed 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 but webb took a preliminary two stroke lead. while for the first time in more than fifteen years of his professional career boxing champion the car has been slapped in the face by a challenger sora at the weigh in for the much anticipated heavyweight bout in munich on saturday well the incident happened when the two post the photographs as the zimbabwean born briton smacked klitschko hard with his right hand w.b.c. champion restrained himself and did not hit back twenty eight year old just or had

promised to knock out the elder klitschko brother despite being a massive underdog for the fight he also weighed in at almost a kilogram lighter and forty year old italy. now the annual legends cup was taken place in the russian capital with some of the best footballers from the past two decades once again descending on moscow and when she found poor feet went to watch them. before for addition of the event attracted some big names the likes of ruth haulage cio for arthur and all of a movie in action is benevolence italy germany ukraine and portugal were all trying to stop the host russia from winning the competition for a cool off straight year. for the tournament has a competitive nature perhaps a little too competitive at times of attack or certainly flying in. it's certainly events the players have come to enjoy. and normally when you play it i used to play with one of those the animal glasgow rangers but then you know yourself you're out

of here you go straight from the able to tell you stay here till you train in the evening or the following day you play a match and the day after you flashbacks are you never actually get a chance to or to see something from city but of course the first time when you come to moscow you have to go to. risk where that is the always the main attraction and i think all the players the first thing what they want to do is just. one of the participants weren't initially given the warmest of welcomes the temperature in moscow around the minus twenty five mark. however that would all soon change with players from all the countries involved praising how warm they were made to feel of the events and for often newman he said it's great to catch up with old colleagues it's always great this is my third time we always look forward to get an invitation to come back. it's good fun with the over the boys and also the other teams as well everything's well organized playing over here. to go out and even. have

a drink together the event itself was one perhaps a bit predictably but russian for a fourth straight year but some of the skills the host nation showed very high standards and the former chelsea midfielder aleksey smelted said his side take given very seriously. so. i prepared. my cell phone look i'm with you for not doing my or convey but the end of this i knew that. the cane i mean so i knew your views should play in final again saying so but i need to be in good shape i said to myself the russians got one over near neighbors ukraine in the final running out six two winners of up months milton if it could be action i want italy claim the bragging rights against old foes germany would eventually finishing third place which bumblefoot r.t. moscow. has all the sport for the saving and.

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took. the. the syrian regime under siege from the un is the general assembly adopt a non-binding resolution moscow voting no saying opposition violence should be condemned as well. greece's next bailout could be creeping closer despite the use of ever mounting demands while some euro free countries are proving to be the real winners. and we look at why one of premier putin's harshest critics blogger alexina volumnia has been showered with praise by the foreign press despite some of his controversial views. and in business this hour you at the end gas consumers will now get russian fuel with

a ten percent discount on this fine you can be priced to meet the lot of that and other stories and this is below ten twenty. nine pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.n. general assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution turning up the heat on syrian president assad to step down russia was among twelve states voting again saying the draft fails to address the armed opposition moscow maintains the conflict should be solved by the syrian people without foreign pressure or tease marina portnoy 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 that the reason for all countries did not support this resolution is because they argue it's on balance most suited those particular issues in order to resolve the syrian crisis there's a need to uphold principles 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 the 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. with reports of ongoing violence in syria both sides of the conflict accuse the other of committing crimes and atrocities activists say syrian troops are intensively shelling rebel held neighborhoods the government insists it's fighting an armed insurgency or he's wary of an ocean or 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 said dick thirty seven reportedly received five bullets to his chest and his head has become the first religious leader slain in the capital pronouncements 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 put himself against. he was killed because he was calling for reform and the end of clashes those who did it only want chaos and. this is the message to all

islamic leaders the word of truth may cost your life either you try to defend your country or stop the violence or stop bloodshed you are not safe if you are saying the truth money people pay the price for truth he was one of them in. malta for some a traitor for others and internet page of the opposition news network sharm gives 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 and then people don't have those issues and on any side it is really a very deep crisis very very assertive and you will see me turn to a demonstration or protest god that's exactly what happened at these funeral procession. those who gathered to pay tribute to. show dead you an anti-government protest had not only brought flowers and grief but also political

slogans and demands. were afraid for our children and people and brothers and sisters. witnesses say the bullets caught the young boy at the threshold of the mosque and his body fell insight we have in islam. respect chin with 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 that i.g. the situation there is no hole in this for any god with violence causing even more violence syria seems to find itself in a vicious circle with little hope of finding a way out. very few notion r.t. damascus syria a top u.s. intelligence official has admitted al qaeda is working alongside syria's armed

opposition as washington considers extending support to the rebels activists and more work off from the syrian pro-government group believes the u.s. is now realized it could be teaming up with terrorists. i never thought that the americans would want to publicly admit that is actually operating in syria what we know for sure is that. clear involvement started with a videotape by amazon right here in the head of al qaeda back in july calling for jihad in syria and nobody actually took notice that when the first suicide bombings in damascus took place there were less than twenty four hours before that huge explosions led by al qaeda in iraq they carry the same fingerprint now the american position is very interesting it just says that her hang on a minute this is an enemy that we want to fight and suddenly they're operating in the same theater that we're trying to overthrow this government and perhaps it may signify that the americans are trying to understand what the syrian president had

said previously that there might be tens of landslides in the in the region if they keep pressuring the syrian government i would say let the syrians sort this thing ourselves and do not interfere with us the more you interfere with us the longer this takes on and the more bloodshed we will be seeing. while international pressure on syria is growing it's over for libya as the country marks so years since the revolt against the gadhafi regime celebrations though tainted by ongoing gunfire in the streets and allegations of torture. plus harsh rhetoric from the israeli government towards iran failing to convince many in israel that tehran is indeed the main threat stay with us.

right. from france to. screen starts on t.v. don't come. this you. couldn't take three. four chargers. arrangement three. three stooges free. and free blog video for your media projects free media and on to r.t. dot com. thanks for staying with us here on our team nine minutes past the hour in moscow greece edging closer to its second bailout as the german chancellor said to be optimistic that the deal could be reached next week on the merkel and the leaders

of italy and greece held a conference call ahead of monday's eurozone summit greek officials have already signed off on the creditors earlier conditions including major budget and jobs cuts the move saw violent protests on the athens streets but eurozone leaders are demanding greater supervision of athens finances doubting. drastic measures can be put into force if greece doesn't get the hundred thirty billion euro rescue package it'll go bust in march when the next big payments are in do working at greece's downward spiral some in countries are glad that they've decided to stay away from the euro as artie's tom barton reports. the day's shift nearly over for forty three year old team leader jimmy carlson lorries keep rolling off the production lines here its county is main works but one dose swedes know there's a crisis on their way there with on top of it so much but hard up in profit making cars in fact scamming who was hit by the eurozone crisis when economic trouble

loomed many lawry orders were cancelled the black headlines came we have a crisis in the euro the you 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 dogs 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 with pathetically changed our problems 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 finland which has been a member of the for the same period we have war most identical you can already 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 is still a euro left to 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. . russia's presidential election draws closer the media hype around it is growing louder opposition blogger alexei in a volley a harsh critic of a lot of your putin has emerged as a darling of the foreign press not only as praise for his anti-corruption campaigning but it's his radical views and some nationalist comments that get glossed over abroad as artie's and he said no way reports that 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 deval in the often gets glossy coverage and is rarely asked tough questions by international media whether comparing the vile need to julian asylums or calling him one of the most influential new political figures he's hardly challenge to prominently praised and very present they used a small print production the most easily readable basis of the political system which would involve go he's not as coit when speaking at rallies which have been at their biggest numbers in decades because it's got. him. you know these are good guys those that are going to get put in zero eight zero zero zero scam really don't because it's nobody's 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 move on they but his recognition race in russia is only some three percent many russians who do know now who are knee due for his sometimes shocking nationalism. what if it was the way that he was dressed up as a dentist here he compares migrant workers to rotten teeth that need pulling out. with little to do but i see and hear non russian intruders to come. croce is smiling you'll need more than a slipper to kill them. with i'm going to commit this but inside russia you find much more criticism of the blogger and his questionable connections to radicalism than 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 vied me but to no avail i didn't see the notice it was going that is the reason it was not with. the press and i sat at home with

a good idea spying you know what you know it's not possible to know absolutely seconds later he did find time to tell russia's rian news agency he's ignored by much of the russian press because that's what. the committee because that was going to oppose the focus of the system and what he was up there with seemingly more ready to speak ironically to non russian channels about the country's corruption problems and criticised putin and put forward a real solutions other than how to make sure russia is for russians and he said now r t moscow. get updates around the clock and everything work covering at r t dot com here's what's a click away right now. yes the i agent who left high level documents detailing president obama's movements in a french restaurant rebut the top secret files contained on our site plus.

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