chance to birmingham in the f.a. cup fifth round fixture the game at stamford bridge finished one all the visitors representing the english championship the blues and twenty minutes in. the. chances midfield. missed a golden chance to equalise just two minutes later they sped failed to convert a penalty kick the rest of the game so under the laws bush's men in constant attack mode they managed to level that is generous herridge saved the day for his team with a precise header one hundred ten and the two sides will play each other in birmingham . same with football where paul maritz have defeated and nine men go on to get a three two in the brazilian polish that keeps them at the top of the table after eight rounds go on to tell who had lost all but one championship fixer prior to

this game opened the scoring ten minutes then the visitors restored parity just seven minutes later to seminal but both managed to find the back of the net despite crowded place inside the box. went in front just before half time and made no mistake from the penalty mark. for the halves didn't stop there after the break they were down to nine men on top of considering a girl from utah. going to get could do in that situation was to score and return so finished three two in favor of palmares. now to be football where team russia seems to be unstoppable at their home euro cup as the defending champions have claimed second successive victory but beating italy for one and power themselves into the final because they put up of has all the details for you now. russia started their encounter with italy cautiously keeping in mind

eleven goals that squadron zero netted in the semifinal against spain but the talons decided to play their trademark style thinking defense first and it took six minutes for the reigning champions to draw first blood and don't go out in cross form a corner and alex a marker for the ball home putting the russians in front and in the dying seconds of the first period russia's goalkeeper under a rock lead ski with a powerful shot doubled the lead scoring the tournament's throws the goal way keeper in the second my car of nearly the one morning telling his fourth gold so for the tale and then cut the deficit to two goals but he got to shake off seal the final score for one. whole italian national team's play defensively no matter which kind of football it is their own soul the defendant and talent and counter-attacks and why we got the lead they failed to switch to a more taken style and you got it and you know we're just

a better team we're not surprised that italy continued to play on counter-attacks even when they were trailing it's their style we played well tactically and didn't let them come from behind. us meanwhile the other semifinal turned out to be a cracker as hard favorite sport to go and switzerland took to the sand beach the portuguese are one of the most successful teams in europe with six continental titles and produced an electric start with four goals in the opening of this week reached the semifinal when their own and rumania field to arrive on time and then day off affected them however switzerland managed to get back into the game and reduced portugal its lead to just a goal in the third but that was all they could do seven six and portugal powered up to the final to me it's russian a repeat of the previous hurok of decider where the russian squeezed past them six four seconds and. but you know we're delighted to beat such

a solid team we proved we deserved to be in the final we don't really care who opponents will be we just have to play our game and take full advantage of opportunities. will be he said with a confident win over italy russia of the ambition stated in other traffic today if it was going kevin it however is going to be a tough challenge as the face by of the leading nations in the scoring or to go in the decider on sunday is a about. moscow. former once on the russian driver tyler boudreau has found a seat for his thirty's and in the sport the former rare no man has joined the current team the twenty seven year old is replacing a veteran and a truly behind the way forward in malaysia british based outfit fee hike of a line it will be petrov's to make this year but is due to take part in the 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 trial 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 parse for this team so i'm really looking forward to along the way because until belittle this last two years there was a book we could steal from the new teams. who will see it in careful and. it will be good. one of the most eagerly anticipated events at the upcoming summer olympics undoubtedly 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 that you said bolt funtastic result of nine point five eight seconds could be broken there. i don't think there's a limit. people can do for us to do know when you. think it's possible to go through and you need. to get to

know you know there were two people looking forward to. some. good looking you know but it's a good. you have to be an abuser. now winter sports were at the world snowboarding championships in norway. has advanced into the final of the women's half pipe competition the american was comfortably the highest scorer in thursday's seven is sure to with eighty five points while fellow american counterpart was her closest rival with a two one point one in the other hate spain's caracas el finished top of the seventy nine point nine in the mazarin's it was talk or iraq of japan and of the united states semifinal. winners.

and finally golf where kruger has moved into one short lead after the third round at the indian masters in new delhi the south african six under par sixty six which included two goals. at the fifteenth which i took from the green saw him out of knots later. what thought from scotland made the ideal start with a birdie at the first six on who's also a couple of double bogeys which left a share for second place at ten and he's on the same mark as marcel same of germany at brilliant short into the eighteenth let's. see carded under sixty eight. ok that's all for me and for the moment join us for more here not see whether it's next stay with us goodbye.

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all roads lead to tehran the 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 that is russia minority the baltic states is one of the language spoken by first of its population should official status. the idea of euro unity hold strong despite the region's crumbling finances some schools are accused of brainwashing children to believe the project is infallible the top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from moscow this is. with crisis law damascus feeling the squeeze from within the country and abroad its crucial ally in the region is also suffering the strain experts warn that the collapse of the syrian regime would be a devastating blow to iran making iran extremely isolated and compelled to act more smith. 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 tried for many years or through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that would definitely weaken iran and all roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts are calling the last thing deployed and coca bring down throw it rainy and past that and replace it with the opposition because they've already said they did talk to nancy terror 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 iran's influence in the region could waive 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 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 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 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 of emerge that the qatari and saudis are already

funding arming and covertly operating with the syrian opposition iran looks increasingly isolated with a hostile israel perilously close. r.t. . the states are calling for creating humanitarian corridors in syria which some fear could open the door to foreign intervention but asia times correspondent pepe escobar says it's so ready on the way. there is already a foreign military intervention going on don't forget that nato they have a command and control center in her type province so the turkey so very close to the third to syrian border this is a conduit for intelligence going back and forth across borders weapons course and these weapons are trying then species it to be by to go cooperation else especially to the saudis but specially to the qataris who are actively involved with intelligence as well and with money it's our same trainers on the ground plus they

have another conduit through the lebanese border the syrian national council for instance they are supported data actually by nicholas such goes in david cameron by the turkish government and by the qataris and there's also the free syrian army which heaver that i would see normally biased analysts in europe see that it's not the end it's not an army it's a bunch of the realist infiltrated by people feel. that we salafi jihadists so the foreign interference is already there now this is a super shadow war build with the civil war which the only people who will lose you know this are this so-called syrian people that once in a while our muster pieces of the democracy or mediocrities like coming on suckers in research of. asia times correspondent have asked about talking to us from

bangkok that. have his held a referendum on 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 an axiom fifty reports this fight is just the first step to ending decades long discrimination. valente from a lot of the russian minority 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 in latvian language 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 lowers 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 be it it splits our society which has to have one solid foundation if you want to it to be like russia has been lying 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 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 people who are beginning independence. people who. voted for him. and afterwards. and it's a fraud it's a problem. it's a problem mutual trust it's a problem of relations between the state. 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 to give the human rights of children being born in. the clear norms in the convention on the rights of the child 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. russians are contemplating another vote to introduce changes into the citizenship law that is to abolish the so-called allien passports and 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. reports. in latvia. this is not the life here in moscow with twenty four hours a day still to come in the next few minutes healthy living becomes more fashionable russia's organic farming looks to cash in with independent online shops aiming to challenge supermarkets also. fear keeps you in control if you.

are to be manipulated by somebody telling you to do something rather than questioning what they say. beijing's voice is growing louder in the international arena we also people on the street there's a good reason to fear the two countries. all that still to come but first greece is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy the future of bailed out portugal is uncertain and the single currency itself could be in trouble the ranks of people writing off the euro zone and even the european project itself are only swirling in number so perhaps that's why the message for a united europe is being pushed on all new platform the classroom to saucily reports. what do you know about your country and the capital is there on not enough some would. speak. spanish french english

a bit of return these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen european 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 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 of long accuse the e.u. of brainwashing children through education paraphernalia 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 at that point we will never see the fall of zero zero zero zero zero members here you cannot early enough when you're young. but this is.

what there is now 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 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 so good thing that the aim is more information not not. propaganda or you know sort of

brainwashing exercise that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage european and global perspective and to promote the emergence of a european identity from an early age but the question is why does it stop being education and start being a propaganda when the suggestion is being. better europe is automatically more europe then 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 said mr desiree cilia r.t. brussels. well a little later our finance guru brings you his assessment on the health of the global economy and we're going to cause report that we ask you what google is trying to achieve by offering you five dollars in exchange for your search history . so you need forty acres and a mule and another give you five bucks to spy on here and i would be surprised if

you have people from overseas rushing to america to get five dollars from google people in greece for people in greece five dollars twenty five dollars that's a whole six months of pay and it shows you the whole neo feudal system ok now these economies these the rich people the rich communities are those who are doing the spying who get paid to spy on you google is one of the biggest corporations in the world because they spy on you you are poor because you take whatever dregs whatever bread and circuses they trickle down to you you'll take whatever you get you'll accept this being spied on they think the average person says they're getting free twenty five dollars oh it's a free twenty five dollars never for a moment considering that the apparatus that allows them to get that twenty five dollars disenfranchise them so horribly that the u.s. competitiveness is crashing and the standard of living is crashing and there's no health care there but you got your free twenty five dollars.

more from mexico. take on the latest financial headlines in about fifteen minutes from now here on r.t. . cells and people have been running across russia to support prime minister putin as political course in his bid for presidency next month in the premier's native some petersburg some sixty thousand people gathered in the center of the city they chanted slogans and brandish russian flags and banners in support of putin a number of the city's prominent citizens also addressed the crowds demonstrators spoke out against social disorder and a revolution in the country saying they wanted the strong and stable xhosa the country also sore several mass rallies against the current leadership of the last december's parliamentary elections which protesters claimed were rigged tens of thousands are expected to gather again to call for further actions at the end of february. time now to talk to some other news making headlines around the world this hour police in senegal have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds of

protesters the demonstrations were against the current president of the labor party running for a third term as head of state constitution and two stretches in office but a court cleared him to run again and took office before the term limit was put in place these four people have died in the protests since the unrest began last month . pope benedict has appointed twenty two new cardinals at the vatican the main role of the elite club of catholic figureheads is to advise the current pope and choose a successor almost a quarter of cardinals and now from italy decreasing the chance that the next pope could be from another country a situation in israel accusations of violence ceremonies the clouded by embarrassing leaks of internal documents alleging corruption among top clerics. friends and family gathered in newark new jersey to say the last goodbyes to pop icon whitney houston the funeral services being held at the church where she sang in the choir as a child fans started to pay their respects on friday leaving flowers and balloons

on the church steps the six time grammy award winner was found dead in a bar at the beverly hills hotel last week and you can see whitney houston's funeral live on our website at the moment r.t. dot com. there's more land in russia than in any other country in the world but people especially in big cities struggle to find fresh farm produce however the supremacy of supermarkets and big businesses could soon be over as a growing up or tide for organic products means more and more people are taking up farming but there's still a long way to go as artie's dairy pushover reports. the feast for the eyes but not necessarily for your stomach many would be shocked to find out what exactly makes its way onto our plates. if only people knew what their sausage is made of or how their yogurt was bottled they would be very upset and would stop buying anything at all at the shops. you know with.