and the reigning champions russia started their campaign with a comfortable five one win over france constantine for top of reports. russia absolutely dominated in this board last year when an old live ailill trophies and the reigning champion started to defend the euro title in a feature against france the quarterfinal turn out to be a good warm up for the russian side the host took control from the very start but failed to give it allies their chances in the first period which ended goalless thanks to some brilliant saves from the french goalkeeper six minutes into the second and alex a mechanic finally broke the deadlock and the twenty four year old forward doubled his tally a few minutes later to give russia to believe runs scored only once while the musician responded with a hat trick to seal the final score why one to the delight of the home ground you know am i just good that the match was very top human much feel relaxed in the next client be fully focused on the result in which the first match of any tournament is

always variants are involved but until france begin to struggling to school the opening goal we wasted many chances france were in good physical form and played solid defending so we face some difficulties meanwhile russia's opponent for the semifinal was determined in a clash between italy and spain squad adhuna who have never won the euro cup yet easily coolest boss their rivals haven't for example sorious for goals and they have to make my follow on much. of it of course i think we lack experience this is a new team lots of new faces we just didn't have enough time to train together to get to know each other's game but i think we can improve our game. so russia started their second home euro cup with a comfortable enough with bronze however in the semifinal the holders will face a tougher test as they take on informally telly on saturday while in the other semifinal switzerland will play portugal this name but out of our team. now in

tennis russia nicholai has. at last week's davis cup defeat behind him and his return to winning ways history to the semifinals the world tennis tournament in rotterdam in the end it was somewhat of a surprise as the unseated thirty year old secured a straight sets win over fifteen or shard gask a seven five six three was to final score as governing to look to return to form after a disappointing start to two thousand and twelve however standing in his way is a certain roger federer the world number three on top seed was given a scare by faking your coming seven five seven six the final score one forty love down in the eleventh game of the second set federer approach serve and then successfully came through the resulting tie break juan martin del potro faces thomas burdick in the other semifinal. meanwhile world number one belorussian victoria azarenka has won her fifth thing

consecutive not for two thousand and twelve six six four when other belgians you know whitmire but her place in the last four of the cats are open in doha so now play parents are. well in the other last four tires training sounds closer as is marion bartoli. on the n.b.a. hardwood oklahoma city have completed a season whitewash against golden state after a comfortable one hundred ten eighty seven when but it was a bittersweet night for the thunder a star point guard russell westbrook suffered a sprained ankle the warriors david lee charged right into battle leading the way with twenty two three points resilient forward cleaning up his own mess and helping golden state sixteen two run in the first quarter then change in the second as he found the rally to score ten straight including this steel and breakaway slam by westbrook westbrook would then hobble off the colts in the third. but kevin durant

helped seal the one hundred ten eighty seven when twenty three points and ten rebounds but your rant is enjoy enjoy career best play. as for single season in shooting percentage rebounds and a six. while arguably the biggest fairytale story in n.b.a. history continues basketball fans in taiwan hate sharing their new hero overnight star jeremy lin has been use a string of unprecedented performances after becoming the starting point guard for the new york knicks just over two weeks ago he helped them to seven straight wins before losing to new orleans on friday his rapid and rather unprecedented rise making him the first player of chinese all taiwanese descent in n.b.a. history. now formula one's only rushing drive a tally petroff has found a safe for his third season in the sports the former red eye man has joined the catering tame the twenty seven year old is replacing veteran yana truly for the malaysian owned the british based outfit fane heikki kovalainen will be petros

teammate they see a bunch of is due to take part in pre-season testing in barcelona next week with the season getting underway with the australian grand prix and no one in a month's time petra finished thirteenth overall in his maiden season before improving to tenth place last year. you know it was a couple race. it was very difficult to pass this team so i'm really looking forward. to have a big potential build additional this last three years there was the weakest. new case so we'll see a little. bit with the. goals now and phil mickelson leads the way at the halfway stage of the northern trust open mickelson having far from his best day of the riviera but still holding a one strike really his compatriot pat perez make calls and started the day on the back nine and secured this birdie on the sixteenth. in the forty one year old

bounce back from a bogey on the previous hole by converting missing on the eighth he would finish on six under. while a group of five golfers a two shots off the pace however a shot of the day goes to joe ogilvy as the american ace to the sixteenth hole. this was his sole highlight on the day mauled by four bogeys however eight players will have to finish. his play was suspended dawgs. finally the annual legends cup has taken place here in moscow with some of the best footballers from the past two decades again descending on the russian capital which was there. before for edition of the event attracted some big names the likes of ruefully for and all of the new deal we're all in action to benevolence italy germany ukraine and portugal were all trying to stop the host russia. titian from i

think straight year. for the tournament has pitched to make sure that's not too complex for the times of tackle certainly flying in. it's certainly events the players have come to enjoy. normally when you play you are used to play with one of his then a marquee of the glasgow rangers but then you know yourself you're out here you go straight from the able to tell you stay i'll tell you train in the evening or the following day you play a match and then the day after you fly back so you never actually get a chance to or to see something from the city but of course the first time when you come to moscow you have to go to do that. that's why you're a square 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 was still around minus twenty five mark. however about all soon change the players from all the countries involved

praising how warm they were made to feel of the events i'm far from 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 over the boys and also with the other teams as well everything's well organized play over here. to go out an evening to a restaurant and have a drink together the event itself is one that's a bit predictably by russian food straight you some skills because we should. from a very high standard and a former chelsea midfielder an excuse me often said his side take given very seriously you know you prepare the self well but i prepared myself on like a much if i'm not good in my or convey that but the end of the so i knew better but ok the canes coming so i knew all of these should play in final against them so that's why i need to be in the good shape i said to myself the russians got one

over near neighbors ukraine in the final running out sixty winners but not months milton in the thick of the action. playing the bragging rights against old close germany. would eventually finishing third place for example made our team score. well that's all the school for now whether is next here or not say. he.

you know national one who is the u.s. and its allies play hardball over syria russia and china push for a diplomatic solution all while iran looks on nervously at its struggling ally. lobby holds a referendum on whether russia should be an official language in a state where assertive the population battles just to be accepted. european impartiality comes under scrutiny as a number of schools are accused of brainwashing e.u. values into children in the name of diversity.

one pm of the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program now crisis last syria finds itself caught between two very different diplomatic efforts as the u.s. and its allies piled pressure on the government of russia and china are trying to mediate a negotiated solution while beijing stopped diplomats in damascus meeting members of the ruling elite and the opposition the chinese effort follows up on months of attempts by moscow to bring the warring sides together but there were those who refused to talk unless president asad gives up power violence is escalating almost daily now was dozens reportedly killed over the past twenty four hours a little science professor joseph chang says u.s. dominance in the region is forcing some world powers onto the defense of. the major factors you know wolf. i. know some kind of just me.

throughout the world that need the. and in north africa obviously the conservative countries in the region trust china they do not want to see food jesmyn revolution beijing the big unite this has been exerting pressure on the middle east with no respect being the interest or russia and china and that is against the idea of multipolar of the and this is a left of a lack of respect for the interests of major power was my russia and china china certainly wants to. do a search and be below is influence in the middle east region which is of strategic importance to china and china increasingly believes that the disapproval of how it has growth will interest and these interests so be respected. as the mask is so

feels the squeeze from within syria and abroad its closest allies are also growing increasingly nervous experts warn that if the syrian regime falls iran will feel isolated and compelled to act are just laura smith has a story. iran's military is put through its paces but how long will this carry on being a trail as the conflict in syria gets bloodier by the day western powers range against president. ally iran the strategic position looks increasingly shaky some suggest it's no coincidence there is a proxy conflict between israel and its western allies and iran which basically only has one ally in the region which is the syrian republic so if you can get syria away from iran either through a diplomatic deal which they're trying for many years all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that it will definitely weaken iran at all roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts

are calling the last thing to die and come back bring down throw in rainy and asked and replace it with opposition because we've already said they did dogs and plants and tear on foreign policy neutralizing nuclear iran is most powerful ally since the iran iraq war iran and syria have developed all sorts of ties cultural and economic included but crucially iran uses syria as a conduit for support for hezbollah in lebanon and how mass in the palestinian authority both declared foreign terrorist organizations by the u.s. state department take that away and do wrong influence in the region could wait. cornered iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program projects on raising its. interference perceived interference in other countries in the region

press bahrain probs lebanon perhaps palestinian territories. and that will be the way that iran will react so you can make a case for suggestion that the removal of assad make iran even more protective or more dangerous it's a knife edge situation and one which worries more. kariya says if it didn't feel real worse than the us even says israel could attack iran in a matter of months the possibility of all conflict between major western powers and iran becoming a conflict between the world's major powers. storm clouds things over the region reports of emerge that the. saudis are already funding and operating with the syrian opposition iran looks increasingly isolated with the israel and the. north sea. and we are closely following developments in syria on our website as well so log on to r.t.

dot com to get all the latest updates and here's what else you'll find there today joining forces pakistan pledges to support iran if the u.s. launches a military attack against the islamic republic and more information online. the cyber war goes on the unanimous group assaults half a dozen u.s. federal government websites within the past week to express their anger at an anti-piracy law. lobby is holding a national referendum on saturday on whether russian should become a second official language but it's unlikely to succeed even though the russian minority which makes up a third of the population are feeling ever more discriminated against in the place they call home. reports from what. validity from

a lot of us russian minority says his country's government has gone too far having lived in law to be all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to a passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family this time and that his children and their education. school schools. sixty percent of the lessons must be taught in latvian language but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get it even in your own language and it does create a lot of problems for the students at the moment and of course with. their results it was the threat that these schools where at least some lessons are taught in their native russian would be closed down for good that scared the russian minority which constitutes one third of the country's population they initiated a referendum on making. second state language something radical right wing parties

called a threat to national integrity to fit into this world is against our constitution which says life is a man a national state and always we split our society has to have one solid foundation elite if you want to be like russia then why not going to russia that would be. at least three quarters of a million people must vote yes for a constitutional change to take place but with support predicted to be just half that seems to be unlikely the outcome however could have been different if another three hundred twenty thousand residents were allowed to vote those are ethnic russians who spare and grandparents came here after nine hundred forty five they were denied citizenship after laundry became independent and are still carrying allien passports the newly appointed council of europe's commissioner for human rights believes the vote will not solve the discrimination problem and that its

readers handling of the russian community that should be changed have the human rights aspect of stateless children being born in latvia. there's clear norms in the convention on the rights of the child that every child has a right to citizenship from birth the language used in the private sphere this also has human rights implications raise issues of proportionality here i think that things should be reviewed though it is widely accepted here that the russian language referendum will fail the russian minority hopes that the vote will bring their struggle out of the shadows and force the government to at least open a dialogue. these russians are contemplating another vote to introduce changes into the citizenship law that is to abolish the film called alien brats boards and the growing threat isn't here to build or living with and many say in this case they have a good chance of succeeding as they would only need a little more than two hundred thousand both of their votes let's. see reports. in latvia. was down to look at some other stories from around the world riot police

in senegal fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters after the country's opposition defied a government ban and held a demonstration calling for the president to step down street battles between police and demonstrators continued through the night in the capital the car leaving several people injured president july away this campaigning for us third term in office and in next week's election. a man who thought he was carrying out a suicide bombing in washington has been arrested i mean al khalifa he was attempting to detonate a fake explosive vest given to him by undercover f.b.i. officers he allegedly believed the officers were members of al qaida the moroccan national had been under surveillance by the u.s. government for about a year. six trillion dollars worth of account of feet u.s. bonds have been seized in italy the notes carry the falls date of nine hundred thirty four and were transported from hong kong to two thousand and seven where

they were transferred to a swiss trust prosecutors say it appears the suspect intended to sell them a people have been arrested and charged with making financial operations using fake bonds as a guarantee. in believe us thousands of people have been left homeless after overflowing rivers flooded more than half of the country's districts around alert was issued deployed deployed to help evacuation the monsoon season which started in january has already claimed several lives and caused a surge in infectious diseases. we're going to live from moscow still has a sour trading a supermarket for the farm how health conscious shoppers across russia are filling their comrades were getting food straight from the growers. any much once lived is bound. to burn

for ever more eternal fire is going to think about what possible future. do we old wants to see this on forever. but. it's all designed to keep you closed in your own small world as

a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like in a stress position. you have this fear of the unknown and this stress sort of building and. seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson and metallica slayer the two songs would be angel of death and raining blood to kill the enemy going through war coming up here into iraq coming to the baghdad. johnny pulled the bodies to the floor which is the rock n roll band it was fitting for the job we were doing. back there watching our financial crisis immigration under attack and member nations at each other's throats there doesn't appear a lot to recommend the e.u.

to the europeans of the future unless you can plant the seeds of support early and some schools are exposing their pupils to values very young artist s.r.c. earlier reports now and accusations of brainwashing. but what do you know your country the capital is their own not some little. had pizza. speak. spanish french english i mean to tell you these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen year period schools set up primarily to educate children of e.u. stuff we are the only system which is able to provide education in twenty three different languages you know the motto of europe is united in our city and that's what we'll leave every day in a european school but outside the classroom reality says otherwise for now

differences seem to transcend unity critics along accuse the e.u. of brainwashing children through education parra for amelia that they claim promote a stormy eyed vision of the e.u. a comment from a european commission representative at an education fair appears to support that point but you will never succeed to convince the fellow was you are a member you knew it was fairly enough when you are young. with their prejudices that i. was so well there's no push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums apply now live in a two thousand and eleven report and later adopted by parliament. the european parliament repeats its request to the member states to promote the inclusion of the specific subjects on the background goals and functioning of the european union and its institutions which will help young people feel more involved in the process of

european integration school curricula responsibility of individual member states to tailor to their own needs and their own classrooms and you should not get involved in dictating what individual schools teach you know we don't want to see a european money wasted on pouring out. pouring out the probably you. gondor into our schools we see as part of our role to explain to citizens regardless of age how this thing works why we have the european union why it's a good thing but the aim is more information not not con of propaganda you know a sort of brainwashing exercise that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage a european and global perspective and to promote the emergence of a european identity from an early age but the question is what does it stop being education and start being a propaganda as do angry at me piece he say that targeting youngsters and their education with a potentially one sided political view may just be a little too said mr jus are cilia r.t.

brussels and libya fireworks replays gunshots in the country marks a year since the start of the uprising that toppled. by the anniversary comes at a time of continuing instability hundreds of are in the way shoes are roaming the country and the national transitional council appears unable to control them there is also evidence of the torture and abuse of the remaining cut off supporters and while leaving as leaders say they are willing to integrate the militias into security services gibran from stop the war coalition sas for now these are just empty words. of the national transitional council that with the body that was particularly backed by night during some months of bombing when he said in. almost i think message. he said that the face the prospect of either violent suppression of the militias i think civil war and break up.