face kerry said he was disappointed by the incident saying gone too far in a sport of boxing should be like that gentle place where they will question both choose your head. meanwhile want to tennis where russia nicholai devon encodes run of the world tournament in rotterdam has come to an end the thirty year old who has returned to winning ways this weight following a disappointing start to twenty twelve took on world number three on top seed roger federer in the semifinals under so it's the break of so it was enough to take the set events in sixteen time grand slam we're not going to actually broke again in the second was immediately broken back before federer went on to claim that six three the third set was a close affair and was unable to take three great points at one stage before the swiss stormed back to take the match for six six three six four. federer will take on the fun martin del potro in sunday's final after the argentine

secured a comfortable straight sets win over thomas but it. was broken in the opening game of the match and again he set his goal cultural score first set six three the two thousand and nine us open champion then refused to take his foot off the gas and took the first five games of the second set benchley winning six three six one. all over in doha world number one victoria azarenka overcame injury to be agnostic or advance gary gradually qatar open final it belorussian took the first set six two but appeared to have tweaked ankle while doing so as a rank a retired injured again for advance gorgeously two thousand and nine to a championships on this very cool it's because she wrote the script this time the twenty two year old cruising to a confident six three six four victory finale samantha stosur who is the final offer her marion bartoli type the calf injury. now to be trouble where russia unstoppable at the euro cup as the defending champions and hosts have

claimed their second successive victory by beating italy for one to reach the final cause a team to top off has the details. russia started then counter with italy cautiously keeping in mind eleven goals that squadron zero and that's it against spain but the talents 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 got in cross for me four and i like same for the ball home heating the russians in front and in the dying seconds of the first period russia's goalkeeper and a movie at ski with a powerful shot doubled the lead scoring the tournament's first goal by a keeper in the second my car if netted him one morning telling his four year old so far the tale and then cut the deficit to two those shake off the final score for one. so you sort of agree but i'm old chilean national teams play defensively

no matter which kind of football it is their own soul the defendant and count on counter-attacks and why we got the lead they failed to switch to a more taken style and you got it on your do you really think we're just a better team we're not surprised that italy continued to play our counterattacks even when they were trailing it's their style and we played well tactically and didn't let him come from behind the manager quite often meanwhile the other semifinal turned out to be a cracker as hot favorites portugal and switzerland took to the sand beach divorce city is one of the most successful teams in europe with six continental titles and produced an electric start with four goals in the world news this week has reached the semifinals 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 forty goals lead to just a goal in the third but that was only to do seven six and four to go forward up to

the final to me it's russian a repeat of the previous year with gov decider where the russians used force them six for a second spell a party that we're delighted to be such a solid saying we proved one deserved 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 or unity. will be she said with a confident when over italy russia brought the ambition stead in other traffic so there was growing cabinet however it's going to be a tough challenge as they face spine of the leading nations in the sport portugal in the decider on sunday to say about that archie must go. now and other football news 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 in the second half elsewhere assholes bob wayne quote from five to was after four held a thing to. ac milan in the champions league they were dumped out of the f.a. cup following eternal defeat at sunderland championship side leicester won two one

ignore each but they were comfortable victories for bolton and everton against lower league opposition. while there were three fathers eyes on sunday liverpool welcome championship side brighton to anfield start fresh from europa league defeat to valencia or a cruel eight tottenham have a tricky tie at steven a. tough game just going this you know you've only got a look at this year to vanity into m.k. dons shifa when. it be a difficult game very difficult got a new manager you know a young manager coming in and. newsome used to play from a school near with him it was fantastic for me much on that bomb of. good will be up for it you know. we're good team as well. 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 even 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 third in the five thousand meters it was a repeat of the result at the vancouver winter olympics as fran kramer took gold with a 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 meters and the ten thousand meter event awaiting competitors later compadre at. shaver is also fifth overall finishing second in the five hundred metres and thirteenth in the three thousand. meanwhile at the world snowboarding championships in oslo lowry part of that she cough is one of the half pipe title the russian born swiss finished a comfortable three points clear of matlab leave the usa with another american border louis vito taking third party actually cough the first man ever to land the switchback side double court trial six they took the title in the school of ninety

four. in goal phil mickelson is still on course to win his second title in two 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 as this was only one of two birdies scored on the day bradley meanwhile secured birdies only sixteen thousand here on the seventeenth to finish alongside mickelson on seven under christ molder is a shot behind the gio he shot a five under sixty six helped by this birdie putt on the five past seventeenth mickelson is going for his second title in a row in a row after winning. the pebble beach. in the n.b.a. the new jersey nets have ended that eight game losing streak with a surprise ninety seven eighty five away when over the high flying chicago bulls

the visitors had established a ten point lead after just three minutes thanks to their brooks three pointer. just two minutes later they had an almost unassailable advantage. took a field from kris humphries and five in a free pointer to put the nets ahead twenty two points to three williams was far from finished however and would end the match with a team high score of twenty nine the balls would get to within any seven points of the visitors for the remainder of the match ninety seven eighty five the final school was the jets' play level with toronto in the atlantic division. and finally moving to the world of cycling inventions only barley was quickest in his ascent of the green mountain winning the penultimate stage of the tour of oman peter phillips meanwhile finishing right behind the italian and the slovak now holds the overall leaders are read jazzy the twenty seven year old mounting his attack on the final climb of the stage knowing that deletes was a hot on his heels went on to break away from the meeting pack of thirty riders the

liquid gas rider promptly winning the ascent by a ten second margin was only good enough for second place overall has been secured the red lead is jazzy sanders's archana. well that's all for now i'll have more for you in a couple of hours time join me then. download

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the go. video on demand on teens in line world comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. the latest news in the week's top stories on our t.v. the syrian government feels the squeeze internationally and from within as it struggles to crush what it calls a foreign funded insurgency while promising to usher in democratic reform. fuelling anti iran rhetoric israel accuses the islamic state of targeting its diplomats in bomb attacks across the globe and demands more sanctions against iran over its nuclear program. appeasing the e.u. greek m.p.'s past new austerity measures causing more protests and phones from angry workers worried about further cards to wages and pensions.

and candidates use live t.v. debates and controversial ads to woo voters just two weeks before russia goes to the polls to pick a new president. here with our two you want to clock here in moscow and karen taraji the majority of the u.n. general assembly adopted a resolution this week calling on syria's president to end the opposition crackdown and give up power russia and china are against the move and while the rebels to also lay down weapons and join talks it's a year since the uprising started and damascus is vowing to reform even as the killing continues. in syria far. this is a shot here in syria mains volatile with tensions between security forces and the armed opposition groups continue in claiming lives of both mildred and 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 a hostile to a straight in the clashes that followed and the continued the next day five people were killed and many others injured one violence one day causes even more violence next 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're also hearing about her stitches 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 violence these tensions all across syria syria reforms on the 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 for this new constitution was drafted. and the monopoly of the ruling party the baath 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 story. she's. saying that this is the only way out of this crisis. damascus is paving the way for our gradual transition to

democracy but the armed opposition doesn't want peaceful solution because it's following a foreign agenda for regime change that's the view of beirut based political analyst amarna shoppy the way forward is to have dialogue and i think in order to have dialogue there must be sacrifices on on on both sides here is the president making. a huge move forward by presenting a draft of the constitution and i think that that should be in his view in many people's view sufficient for to convince the other side to sit down on the table. and to have a serious dialogue. that would save syria the destruction and this so many people. syrian opposition is calling for reform what is the best way to get that done is it through or carrying weapons and shooting at government institutions and targeting

each other and having a civil war of course not i think all the syrians would agree with however many of the groups who are fighting today in syria they actually are not ready for dialogue they have they have worked according to an order to remove the i think there is a real problem or foreign interference in syrian affairs. on the way here on r t embracing the bogeyman. the chinese are going to. take a look at it. i know why the white house is comfortably and bed with beijing despite a rising wave of china phobia across the u.s. . and it was deja vu for protesters in bahrain as the anniversary of the country's uprising was met with the brutal crackdown by the police. iran is

stepping up its nuclear program at an underground site near the city of calm by installing thousands of new generation centrifuges across according to reports and israel is stepping up its anti around 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 already under enormous international pressure over its nuclear program denies any involvement the islamic state insists its nuclear work is peaceful and accuses israel of waging a psychological war some fear is paving the way for military action middle east expert risk says that israel's rhetoric will only provoke a tit for tat response. or think or hear iran is trying to send the message that it cannot be you cannot deal with iran in such oil iran has its own weapons while the west for example believes that it has weapons and ammunition represented by

sanctions iran is also an important country which can also respond in the appropriate moment i think is also a warning. that if military action is taken if military action is taken this would be small comparing to how iran could react in that case i think it's a small warning if you. take action now economic action against us this is what we can do in my. and 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 tied down and to prevent israel from going ahead with the unilateral move you know actual military attack trying to throw the west you'd better keep israel in talked all the wiser you might be witnessing this very difficult period in the in the future and closer military targets will is launched more closely following the situation and iran long term website r.t. dot com for the latest developments two iranian warships have sailed through the suez canal into the mediterranean learn where they are headed on their website also

. archie talks to people in talk while for their perspective on the country's controversial nuclear program and get some insight from iranian students who volunteered to carry out a clear research. activist in bahrain were targeted with tear gas as they mark the first anniversary she led 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 bahari and but from the u.k. bennett reports. 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 crackdowns 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 which says he's there to oversee police reform the police have borrowed a behavior 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 the british police officer overstimulate is retired to be associated in any way with that is it's his role yes resign from scotland yard last year in early fictive of the phone hacking scandal he popped up in bahrain in the same boat 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. you seem to forget that sixty five or sixty five people actually died 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 rubber bullets what we witnessed on the ground as not. the front or from what the impact was previously but it's been extend through the toxic gases and use

of poison and. mr john is contributing we should see a positive things at the ground what we are seeing today is nothing acceptable it may not just be british tactics bahrain's using 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 after blood was spilled that's despite insisting 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 on the bennetts r.t. london so i have for you this hour cutbacks and chaos downtrodden greeks find new spending cuts which they say will only make their dad was 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 often vilifying the communist country which holds more than a trillion dollars of american debt in its coffers but for the white house business comes before public opinion as. can reports from washington. what a better way to celebrate valentine's day than with a partner who lend 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 the end of it 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. bad time until they gave. us their data 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. even children still make the child in short manage anything get a kidney no sweetie the chinese aren't going to get. there's still a billion of them in their economy is getting there with their this is it take note if they're going to be getting. 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 all they've got to do is just dump dollars and trade stories switch to euros radio the current that's him of america 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 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 neither country is capable of dominating 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 the middle east to asia this means more u.s. interference is cellcept in the south china sea military station the starting in norse in australia but maybe in contacts with surely penes 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 interests there is nothing surprising about that but it seems with all you know 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

on loss of our. in libya the interim government has promised to compensate the families of rebel fighters missing or killed in the uprising against moammar gadhafi they'll receive around one thousand five hundred dollars each and unemployed former rebels will be paid to its part of the authorities a struggle to impose order as the country celebrates a year since the revolution began hundreds of armed militias are roaming the country and the ruling national transitional council appears on able to control them there is also evidence of the torture and abuse of the remaining supporters journalist lizzy of failon who covered events in libya during the uprising says the outcome was predictable. there is actually no government in libya at the moment anything you see is nothing more than a meteor show that there are hundreds of militias that control different parts of the country and this 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 the fact that rebels systematically prosecuted 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 thought to we've been in interviews life and they called for him to even be brought before a court or released immediately to a very important figures to bring him right. and just because they don't support the nato intervention in that country they have also been thought through this they are being detained we actually don't know that status greece approved a new austerity bill on sunday in return for a second bailout these cuts were designed to prevent the country from defaulting on its debt although angry greeks worried about their pensions and jobs responded with more protests on the streets of athens jacob.