well five one victory in a france. again for us. russia absolutely dominated in the sport last year when all the available to office and the reigning champion started to defend their euro title in a fixture against france the quarterfinal turn out to be a good warm up for the russian side they host to 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 two goal lead france scoring only once while the me that issues in the responded with a hat trick to seal the final score why one to the delight of the home crowd. and why it's good that the match was very tough humanitarian relaxed in the next clash and be fully focused on the result of the first match of any tournament is always

very exhausting but until you are 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 a boon for the semifinal was determined in a collision between italy and spain squire the nerds who have never won the your account beauty easily cruised. eleven for jews and it was sorriest for girls and they had to. give it up at my finger like experience this is a new team lots of new faces we just didn't have enough time to train together to get into each other's game but i think we can improve our game so russia started the second home you will be comfortable we know we'll try and however in the semifinal the holders will we set up with this is the tikhon inform eataly on saturday well and they are the semifinal switzerland portugal there's no other man of. over to tell us now where nicolo dividend has returned to winning ways the

russian is through to the semifinals of the world tennis tournament in rotterdam the unseated thirty year old surprisingly secured a straight sets win over faith seed rashard a scare seven five six three it was the final score as of deca looks to return to form after a disappointing started trying to twelve standing in his way is a certain roger federer the world number three and top said it was given a scare an imminent seven five seven six the final score in that one at four to lock down in the eleventh game of the second set federer broke and then successfully came through the resulting tie break juan martin del potro face in the other semifinal. meanwhile world number one the russian victories are in has won her fifteenth consecutive match of twenty twelve six six four win over

belgium c.n.n. it would place in the last four of the. should not play poland vance ko while in the other semifinal australia samantha saucer faces of france. former once only russian driver tyler boudreau has found a seat for his third season in the sport the former rhino man has joined the catherine team the twenty seven year old is replacing veteran ghana truly behind the world for the malaysian and british based outfit. will be a patrol team mate this year the trophy is due to take part in the pre-season testing in past lorna next week with the season getting underway with the australian grand prix in melbourne in a month's time the trough finished thirteenth in his maiden season before improving to tenth place last year. you know it was a couple of race. it was very difficult to pass this team so i'm really looking

forward. to have a big potential belittle this last two years there was the weakest deal from the new teams so. be careful. it will be. now one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the upcoming summer olympics and art and will be the men's one hundred meters with several months to go before the london games one of the world's fastest sprinters jamaican a south of power says they same bolts fantastic result of nine point five eight seconds could be broken there. don't think that's the limit thing people can go first to know when you will go for the good you know i think it's possible to go first to the engineer is really the biggest. activity or the know you know. people are looking forward to to. go as well as of sometimes when you do get

a drink you know but it's a good. year to be an appeaser. now we're into sports we're at the world snowboarding championships in norway a great advance into the final of the women's competition the american was comfortably the highest score in thursday's semi's sure hate to do with eighty five points while fellow americans were so close as travel with a two one point one delegate spain's stealth finish top of that with seventy nine point nine in the men's event it was her all called japan and mets ledley of the united states who were the semifinal heat winners. and finally the enter legends camp has taken place here in moscow with some of the best footballers from the past two decades again descending on the russian capital

richard from puerto it was their. before addition of the event attracted some big names the likes of ruth haulage cio for arthur and all of the new vo were all in action as benevolence italy germany ukraine and portugal were all trying to stop the host russia from winning the competition for a full 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. normally when you're playing i used to play with one of those then a marquee of her to 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 you mention in the day after you fly back 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 do that. as well you know 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 of 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 afternoon when he said it was 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 to get the event itself was one perhaps a bit predictably by russia for a fourth straight year but some of the skills the host nation showed a very high standard and the former chelsea midfielder aleksey smelted said his side take given very seriously. so. i prepared. myself on like i'm

with you for not doing my or convey that but that any of this i knew. it would change i mean so i knew your views should play in final against them so that's why 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 to win without months milton if it could be and should one italy claim the bragging rights against old close germany. would eventually finishing third place. moscow. ok that's all the sports news for the moment from me i'll be back with more in four hours time here with us.

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technology innovation all the list of elements around russia we've got the future. all roads lead to tell crown pressure grows on the regime in syria with fears that if it falls the nation's key ally iran could be left stranded and propelled into action. giving a voice to latvia as russian minority the baltic states votes on whether the language spoken by a third of its population should earn official status. and the idea of euro unity or hold strong despite the region's crumbling finances as some schools are accused of brainwashing children to believe the project is infallible.

using common coming to you live from the heart of moscow and karen taraji with crisis locked him out because feeling the squeeze from within the country and abroad it's crucial ally in the region is also feeling the strain experts more in the collapse of the syrian regime would be a devastating blow to iran making tough extremely isolated and compelled to act artie's laura smith reports. iran's military is put through its paces but how long will this carry on being a drill as the conflict in syria gets bloodier by the day western powers range against president assad ally iran the strategic position looks increasingly shaky which some suggest is 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 would 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 deployed and ok bring down throw rainy in our side and replace it with the opposition figures we've already said they did talk to and see tehran foreign policy we realize the nuclear iran is a very 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 iran's influence in the region could wane all

cornered iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program prospects are easing its. interference perceived interference in other countries in the region press bahrain perhaps 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 will make iran even more protective or even more dangerous it's a knife edge situation and one which grows more. carious is events in syria worse than the us even says israel could attack iran in a matter of months but the possibility of a conflict between major western powers and iran becoming a conflict between the world's major powers is on the horizon storm clouds are massing over the region reports emerged that the qataris and saudis are already funding arming and covertly operating with the syrian opposition iran looks

increasingly isolated with a hostile israel perilously close norris may r.t. . for more on the situation in syria we cannot talk to pepe escobar asia times correspondent he joins us from bangkok while the e.u. is calling for creating one humanitarian corridors in syria how close are we to a foreign military intervention well there is already a foreign military intervention going on don't forget that nato they have a command and control center in the heart type province so the turkey very close to the third syrian border we've reported about this months ago this is a conduit for intelligence going back and forth across borders weapons of course and these weapons are financed basically by the just to see the doc operation kelso especially the saudis but specially the qataris who are actually actively involved

with intelligence as well and with monitors and trainers on the ground plus they have another totally to the lebanese border there are two routes that go one one route goes through the suburbs of damascus and the other one goes to homes. so this has been going on for at least three or four months it started around october november last year so therefore they took in defense is already there and in what concerns the syrian national council for instance they are supported directly by in the closest goes even david cameron but i did turkish government and by the qataris and there is also the free syrian army which even though i would say normally biased analysts in europe including london see that it's not free and it's not an army it's a bunch of the realist infiltrated by people feel. that would sell off the jihadists so the foreign interference is already there active and it's going to be much more

hardcore from not want because the arabs in the g.c.c. who controlled the arab league nowadays the six person gold monarchist they are already on the record saying that yes we're going to be arming them more and more but with russia and china trying to mediate a conflict calling both sides for dialogue nato and arab states create friends of syria group what are they really trying to achieve by doing that. look if we trends like these look at the loose the threats washington. britain and france former colonial powers who actually divide the middle east among themselves including that the vision of syria itself this is this cancer that started a century ago it's still plaster and and festering in the whole region and this is the responsibility of the brits and the french hundred years ago did turkish government ok former ultimate empire with some of dreams of neo ultimate in this as

well and the persian gulf monarchies dills beacons of democracy in the persian gulf who are preaching regime change but not for the walk received and for the benefit of the syrian people because they want the hardcore sunni using brotherhood organized government in syria stead of assad. well washington you mentioned washington earlier they had met that al qaeda is working alongside syria's armed opposition groups where the u.s. considering extending support to the rebels do you think that teaming up with terrorist is really what washington wants yes because this is exactly what they did in libya though forget that lived as though it liberated libya is now a country run by militias just hundred and fifty at least in misrata and i would say at least forty or fifty in tripoli itself and the military commander of tripoli is a former al qaeda assets they've been working together since our days for the best ten months at least in libya and for the past three or four months at least in that

in styria as up is the same the motor's up their own state without the no fly zone because now russia and china did draw the red line to security also forget it we're not going to have a levy of two point zero so now it's much more complicated because it's a shadow war it's been going on for a few months it will we increase from no one so now this is a super shadow war build with the civil war which are the only people we will lose in all this are this so called syria people that once in a while. muster pieces of the democracy or mediocrities like cover and suckers you refer to have asked are as a times correspondent thank you for taking the time to talk to us from bangkok thank you. while moscow and beijing voices grow louder in the international arena we ask people on the streets if there are reasons to be afraid of the two countries

. chinese people are very dangerous why what is made you think bad have you ever been personally threatened by a chinese person that you know so why do you feel that way. they. say with r.t. to find out whether russia and china are striking fear into the hearts of ordinary people that's coming your way in a few minutes. latvia is set to decide whether russia should whether russian should become the country's second official language authorities claim it threatens national integrity despite russians making up a third of the population and as i say at a show of secure ports this referendum is just the first step to ending decades long discrimination. valley from a lot of russian minorities says his country's government has gone too far having lived in lot of all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to a full passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family

this time and that his children and their education. in the russian school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught. but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get even a new ruling which. does create a lot of problems for the students at the moment and of course it. is 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 a second state language something radical right wing parties call 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 be it it splits our society which has to have one solid

foundation if you want to it to be like russia then line going to russia. 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 a lot of it 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. it's regas handling of the russian community that should be changed to have the human rights suspect of stateless children being born in latvia. the clear norms in the convention on the rights of the child that every child has a right to citizenship from birth regulating language use in the private sphere

this also has human rights implications raise issues of proportionality here i think that something 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 about these russians are contemplating another vote to introduce changes into the citizenship law that is to abolish the so-called alien batts boards and to grant citizenship to those who are living without it 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 positive votes let's. see reports. in latvia. there were flying fireworks and scenes of jubilation on the streets of libya as the country marked the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled colonel gadhafi but a year on it's the militia that's in charge of almost every aspect of life the national transitional council is accused of being weak and unable to control them

there are also reports of torture and abuse against the remaining loyalists libya's leader say they are willing to integrate the militias into security services but anti-war activists jim brann says for now these are just empty words. the national transitional council that was the body that was particularly backed by nato during the summer months of bombing what he said in. almost as a new message. he said libya faced the prospect either of violent suppression of the militias that is he said civil war and break up you can hear a lot of a lot of libyans saying well we didn't get rid of gadhafi in order to have this voice comes across nothing has happened they were supposed to integrate militias into the supposed national supposed national police force and just by the very

limited newspaper reports you know you see that very very few people have joined you have this creation of a federation of the western militias a few days ago with one hundred militias in the west of libya and that really does seem to be a step on the road to the breakup of libya into at least two parts west and east if not more here with r.t. coming up in the next few minutes as healthy living becomes fashionable russia's organic farming looks to cash in but then dependent on line shops aiming to challenge supermarket supremacy. greece is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy of the future of bailed out portugal is uncertain and the single currency itself could be in trouble the ranks of people writing off the eurozone and even the european project itself are only swelling in number so perhaps that's why the message for united europe has been pushed on an all new platform the classroom tests are sillier reports. but what do you know about your country and

the capital is aroma. pizza. the. spanish french and english. these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen european schools set up primarily to educate children of e.u. stuff the only system which able to provide education in twenty three different languages you know the more europe is united in their city and that's what we leave every day in the 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 par for a nail year 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 never see the flow you hear you are not good enough when you are young. but this is. what there is no push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums a plan outlined 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 subject 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 the e.u. should not get involved in dictating what individual schools teach you know we don't want the european money wasted on pouring out it's pouring out to you propaganda into our schools we see as part of our role to explain to citizens

regardless of age how this thing work why we have the european union why it's a good thing that the aim is more information not. propaganda or you know sort of brainwashing exercise that's not what we're about told him all the objectives of the european school are to encourage european and global perspective and to probe 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 when the suggestion is being. a better europe is automatically more europe than i have a problem with that as do angry m e p's he say that targeting youngsters and their education with a potentially one sided political view may just be a little too sinister does our cilia r.t. brussels later our finance guru max colace are brings you his assessment on the health of the global economy.