which changed his w.b.c. heavyweight world title. on to tennis where russia goes round of the world tournament in rotterdam has come to an end the thirty year old who was returned to winning ways this week following a disappointing start to twenty twelve took on a world number three on top seed roger federer in the semifinals on the solitary break if so was enough to take the first set against the sixteen time grand slam winner rather than catching broke again in a second but was immediately broken but before federer went on to play it six three . third's across a fair playing field is am able to take three points at one stage before the sway stormed back to take the match four six six two six four. to. twelve federer will take on fun martin del potro in sunday's final after the argentine secured a comfortable straight sets win over thomas but it. was very clearly over again of

the match and get set go tropical storm the first set six three the two thousand and nine us open champion then you can say it's because of the gas. by the second set thanks to six three six three six six three six. while over the world no one victoria azarenka overcame injury to beat against the brightest guy and progress to the qatar open final in belorussian to the first set six two the pay to have tweaked her ankle while doing so as a run through tired injured again to advance go germany two thousand and nine w t a championship on this very cool because she really wrote the script this time around. six two six four victory. some of the stories are next after her apartment fire and bottle a retired due to a calf injury. to big football now a russia unstoppable at the euro cup as the defending champ. paeans and hosts have

claimed their second successive victory by beating a twenty four one to reach the final constantine pathak off as the details. russia started a encounter with italy cautiously keeping in mind eleven goals that squadron zero net is against spain but they 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 crossfire with laura and i like same for the ball home putting the russians in front and in the dying seconds of the first period russia's goalkeeper under a book lead ski with a powerful shot doubled the lead scoring the tournament's first goal by a keeper in the second my car of nearly one morning telling his fourth goal so for the talents then cut the deficit to two girls but he got to shake off the final score for one. so you sort of agree but i'm all italian national teams play defensively no matter which kind of football it is they're alone saw the defendant

and count on counter-attacks and while we got the lead they failed to switch to a more taken style and you got it in your duty 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 and we played well tactically and didn't let them come from behind. a lot of meanwhile the other semifinal turned out to be a cracker as hard favorite sport to go and switzerland took to the sand beach deports of you is 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 we reached the semifinal when their pool and rumania field to arrive in time and then day off affected them however switzerland managed to get back into the game and reduced portugal's lead to just a goal in the third but that was only to do seven six and portugal forward up to the final to me it's russian

a repeat of the previous year recover decider where the russian squeeze past them six four seconds elaborately that we're delighted to be such a solid team be prudent deserve to be in the final we don't really care her opponents will be we just have to play our game and take full advantage of our opportunities yes it will be she said with a confident when over italy russia brought the ambition stared in other traffic today if it was growing cabinet however it's going to be a tough challenge as they face by the leading nations in the sport portugal in the decider on sunday to say about that archie must go. now and other football chelsea in birmingham face a replay in the english f.a. cup they saw after a one one draw at stamford bridge david murphy had put the visitors ahead before daniel sturridge equalized in the second half elsewhere assholes by the way when from bad to worse after four nil defeats. ac milan in the champions league they were dumped out of the f.a. cup following a two no loss in sunderland championship side leicester one two one it they were

comfortable victories for faltered and everton against know when the opposition. well there were three further ties on sunday liverpool walking championship side brighton one field started fresh from europa league defeat of our record town for tottenham have a tricky target stephen. going this you know you've only got to look at this year development team to m.k. dons shifa when. it be a difficult game for a difficult got a new manager you know a young manager coming in and. we used to play from a school near with him it was fantastic for me much on the ball move. there'll be up for it you know. we're good same as well so. if we play as we can play we should win you know but we know it's going to be best now on the ice defending champion. is in the top five after two events in the world all round speed skating

championships here in moscow the local favorite had a poor twelve place finish in the five hundred metres but then responded by taking in the five thousand meters it was a piece of the result of the vancouver winter olympics spend kramer took gold with the twenty nine year old russian plane in third place just like two years ago the dutch star is also the overall leader now with the fifteen hundred meter and ten thousand meter events awaiting competitors later on sunday stop that's compadre catarina lobby shaver is also fit their role finishing second in the five hundred meters and thirteenth in the three thousand meters. meanwhile at the world snowboarding championships in oslo our report lachey costco's won the halfpipe title the russian born swiss finished a comfortable three points clear of matlab leave the usa with another american war deleuze video taken good luck to come the first man ever to land the switchback side double cork twelve sixteen took the title in the school ninety eight.

in goal phil mickelson is still on course to win his second title in two weeks he's tied for the lead going into the final round of the northern trust open in california despite missing this eagle pass on the eleventh mickelson finished with a one under seventy on saturday tied with p.g.a. champion keegan bradley mickelson was the overnight leader but failed to pull away from the pack because this was only one of two birdies scored on the day bradley meanwhile secured birdies on the sixteenth and here on the seventeenth to finish alongside mickelson on seven under cross mold is a shot behind the he shot a five under sixty six held by this birdie putt on the par five seventeenth. mickelson is going for his second title right. thing. now in the n.b.a. the new jersey nets have ended that a game losing streak with a surprise ninety seven eighty five away win over the high flying chicago bulls the

visitors had established a ten point lead after just three minutes thanks in part to this marshall brooks three pointer after just two minutes later on they had an almost unassailable advantage still on when your misstep took a fade from kris humphries and five in a thirty point lead to put the nets ahead twenty two points to three williams was far from finished however and would end the match with a two high score twenty nine of the bulls who get within only seven points of the visitors for the remainder of the match for ninety seven eighty five the final score as the jets level with one tied division here. now moving on to the world of cycling and when jens only was quickest in his ascent of the green mountain winning the penultimate stage of the tour of armaan peter phillips meanwhile finishing right behind the italian and the slovak now holds the overall leaders red jersey the twenty seven year old mounting his attack on the final climb of the stage knowing that relates was on his heels the volley went on

to break away from the meeting pack of thirty right is the liquid gas right up promptly winning the ascent by a ten second margin that was only good enough for second place overall as police secured the red leader's jersey simon says ten minutes. well that's all the sport for now i'll have more for you in a couple of hours time join me then. well with the. technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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her little. little . the latest news on the week's top stories here on r.t. the syrian government feels the squeeze internationally and from within as it struggles to crush what it calls the foreign funded insurgency while promising to democratic reform. fueling in tehran the rhetoric is really cute as the islamic state of targeting its diplomats and bomb attacks across the globe and demands more sanctions against iran over its nuclear program. at the zing the e.u. greek m.p.'s passed new austerity measures causing more protests in athens from angry workers worried about further cuts to wages and pensions. and candidates use

live t.v. debates and controversial ads to move voters just two weeks before russia goes to the polls to pick and new president. what you are going to live from moscow the majority of the u.n. general assembly adopted a resolution this week calling on syria's president and the opposition crackdown and to give up power russia and china are against the move and won the rebels to also lay down weapons and join talks it's a year since the uprising started and the mask is vowing to reform even as the killing continues. in syria for. this is racially in syria may as well a tie with tensions between security forces and the armed opposition groups continue in claiming lives of both civilians almost every day on thursday we attended the funerals of a young boy who was gunned down early here in damascus during the n.t.

government protest and the procession itself eventually turned into hostile to mr asian in the clashes that followed and that continued the next day five people were killed and many others injured one violence one day causes even more violence next day and so on and so on we also can see political murders as well this week shake of one of the most of damascus was assisted native apparently because of his pronouncements to shake came out with strong condemnation of the terror groups of the armed groups he blamed for the bloodshed calling for to stop the violence to stop the bloodshed we are also hearing about hostilities in other parts of the country reports from opposition activists that in the city of homs many people die every day in the city of hama they've been several explosions all pipeline in the midst of balance these tensions all across syria syria reforms. to go in this week the date for the national referendum on the country's new constitution

was announced the vote is expected to take place next sunday as far as the ministry of internal affairs of syria has said around fifteen million people in syria today have the right to vote this new constitution was drafted. and the monopoly of the ruling party the bath party here in syria had been in power for the last fifty years but people on the ground are actually fearing that this referendum and this new constitution is too little and too late this week the chinese delegation visited syria both russia and china are calling for the dialogue to be restored between the syrian opposition and the authorities. saying that this is the only way out of this crisis. the american intelligence chief said this week that it's likely al qaida is operating in syria to bring down the regime it follows a leader of the terror group calling on militants across the region to target president asad and with washington backing the rebellion to syrian activist

believes the u.s. is starting to realize its siding with terrorists i never thought that the americans would want to publicly admit. is actually operating in syria what we know for sure is that. clear involvement started with a videotape by amazon right here to 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 the huge explosions. in iraq they carried the same fingerprint now the american position is very interesting it just says that her hang on a minute this is a 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 alarmist i was 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. now underway here in our t.v. embracing the bogeyman. the chinese aren't going to get. the kind of. they're going to get it. by now winds and white houses comfortably in bed with a steam despite a rising wave of china phobia across the u.s. . and i was. for protestors and bahrain as the anniversary of the country's uprising was met with a brutal crackdown by believes. iran is stepping up its nuclear program at an underground site near the city of qom buying stallings thousands of new

generation centrifuges according to reports and israel is stepping up its anti ron rhetoric and urging the international community to increase sanctions against iran israel accuses iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting its diplomats in india georgia and thailand earlier this week. writing under enormous international pressure over its nuclear program denies any involvement islamic state insists its nuclear work is peaceful and accuses israel's waging a psychological war that some theories paving the way for military action middle east expert on the risks says that israel's rhetoric will only provoke a tit for tat response. and is trying to send a message that. you cannot deal with iran in such oyo iran has its own weapons while the west for example believes it has weapons and ammunition represented by sanctions and iran is also an important country which can also respond the in the appropriate manner i think is also

a warning. that if military action is taken if military action is taken this would be small compared to how iran could react in that case i think it's a small warning that if you. take action now economic action against russia. this is what we can do imagine what action we could take if you go ahead and use the military card against us so i think it's a warning to the west to keep israel also and to prevent his role from going ahead with a unilateral unilateral military attack trying to tell the west you'd better keep israel in tact all the wiser you might be witnessing this very difficult period in the in the future thank us for military is launched. while we are closely following the situation in iran so long gone terror website or t. dot com for the latest developments to the iranian warships have sailed through this west canal into the mediterranean learn a word your hat it's on our website also. talks to people into iran for their

perspective on the country's controversial nuclear program and gets an inside from iranian students who volunteered to carry out nuclear research. activism are a new word targeted was here gas as they mark the first anniversary of a shiite uprising on tuesday despite promises of police reform last year just as before officers responded with force although this time many of the tactics and weapons came not from the rain but from the u.k. badly for its. tear gas and stun grenades supposedly the work of a reformed police force but one year on since the first anti-government protests will crushed in bahrain it seems not much has changed the only difference now the crackdown has been planned by one of britain's former top cops john yates used to

be assistant commissioner of london's metropolitan police and he now works for bahrain's monarchy says he's there to oversee police reform the police have borrowed or behaving despicably their latest trick is to throw cans of tear gas into homes of people they don't like shut the doors and people have died choking to death tear gas or use out of doors and i think for any british police officer or overstimulate is retired to be associated in any way with that is is wrong yes resign from scotland yard last year in early fix him of the phone hacking scandal he popped up in bahrain in december as part of the regime's p.r. campaign to clean up its image a campaign pushed hard it seems by yeats himself he recently told the daily telegraph his new charges had a well rehearsed plan for the anniversary of the uprising adding the concept of reasonable reaction to provocation has been reinforced. as for the uprising itself

said this isn't organized protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community i mean when you get thousands and thousands of people protesting demanding their rights and you call that vandalism if you seem to forget that there are sixty five or sixty five people actually died in britain from police brutality activists in bahrain insists their protest was peaceful their aim to reach the iconic pole roundabout in the capital manama they say they were met by tanks toxic gas and probably what we witnessed on the ground as not. the front of. this previous day but it's been extended through the. use of poisoning of. mr john contributing we should see

a positive things at the ground what we're seeing today as nothing acceptable it may not just be british tactics bahrain's easing but weapons to government figures show the u.k. sold over one million pounds worth of rifles and artillery equipment to bahrain from july to september last year long off the blood was spilled despite insisting all the licenses had been revoked as for yates his contract runs until april by which time he hopes to put in place concrete reforms on this evidence that seems a long way off the bennett's. london i have three this hour here in r.t. cutbacks and chaos downtrodden greeks find new spending cuts which they say were only make their dad worlds last long into the future. the chinese vice president's been touring america this weekend hailing ties between the two countries the us media isn't quite as positive after vilifying the

communist country which holds more than a trillion dollars of american data in its coffers but for the white house business comes before public opinion as artie's garnishee can now reports from washington. what a better way to celebrate valentine's day than with a partner who lends you money nonstop provides you with cheap labor and host thousands of your factory to the remarkable development of china u.s. relations america's love for china would be boundless if not for the growing fear of it these guys around for us and and. and looking for ways to have. to work to harm us i want to beat china i want to go to war with china and make america the most attractive place in the world to do business menacing and vilifying china are typical for political campaigns in america these days like these gents i am going to get warm and go after death to our form to do it and that

is how our great empire grows again. it's not too late to stop this nightmare it's on r.g.p. and children still made in china in short that it's. no sweetie the chinese are going to get. there's still billion of them in their economy is getting there with their fear does it take now to do they're going to be get in there and make it. with china being the biggest foreign creditor for the us the economic interdependency between the two is raising red flags in the minds of many americans china can very easily just bankrupt america overnight what we've got to do is just dump dollars and treasuries switch to euros radio the current that's here never work except experts agree china would never do that because beijing is just as interested in preserving the value of their us treasury holdings as well as the rich market for their manufactured goods but this economy interdependency becomes

a headache for washington when china demonstrates policies independent from america's will and the white house has to stifle this content. mind full on smiles china blocking the u.s. backed resolution on syria is one example russia came under fire from washington for opposing forceful regime change in syria while the u.s. criticism for china was far more muted for taking the same position but the reality is that china and the west have to treat with much more with kid gloves because of the integral relationship in terms of the way that the chinese economy now is so totally woven in with the western one night the country is capable of terminating the other and neither country is going to win a cold war type situation as china's influence grows president obama has pledged to strengthen u.s. positions in the pacific going as far as the ploy in extra troops to the region this is made some wonder whether the u.s.

can reconcile with the situation when it's not dominating. announced disappeared at the pentagon by the way the pivoting from that middle east to asia this means more u.s. interference is cellcept in the sauce china sea military station the starting in norse in australia but maybe in contacts with shelly beans singapore in thailand specially very close allies of us here in southeast asia so the chinese they look at this and they see encircled washington's treatment of this or that country depends on its interest there is nothing surprising about that but it seems with marina america may find itself hostage to those interests in a situation where you cannot simply dictate its policies in the meantime beijing's economic clout is growing feeling americans fear i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. in libya fireworks replays gunshots on friday when the country marked a year since the start of the uprising that toppled want gadhafi but post-revolutionary

instability still making life very difficult hundreds of armed militias are roaming the country and the ruling national transitional council appears unable. to control them there is also evidence of the torture and abuse of the remaining khadafi supporters journalist who covered events during the uprising says it was predictable. there is actually no government in libya at the moment the n.c.c. is nothing more than a media show that there are hundreds of militias that control different parts of the country and this is one of gadhafi and the former libyan government always warned that this would happen so we are seeing that anybody who doesn't agree with this state of affairs by the west and rebels is systematically persecuted as you mentioned. have done a report showing that there is a systematic people who support about feet not least the former permanent

representative of the united nations. human rights watch did a report on it basically say that he's been tortured to within an inch of his life and they called for him to either be brought before a court or released immediately to very important other figures. and. philosophers just because they don't support the nato intervention in the country they have also been. through this they are being detained we actually don't know their status. greece approved a new austerity bill on sunday in return for a second bailout the cuts were designed to prevent the country from defaulting on its debt although angry greeks worried about their pensions and jobs responded with more protest on the streets of athens jacob greaves reports. on the seach. the pleas of tens of thousands of demonstrators masters in short passing another round of them popular.