it was left with a bloody face and in the last few moments german police have confirmed they've detained cheese or at munich have called for his part in the incident. elsewhere moving on to football and guus hiddink has taken the managerial reins of angie for the first time since signing a deal with the big spending dagestan side the sixty five year old was back in turkey where he led the country's national team in his last job megabuck signings samuel eto a brazilian veteran roberto carlos were among those familiarizing themselves with the dutchman and his methods at their training camp in the club side after only a month of the hell and then appointed the former russian national team manager on an eighteen month deal. with big name signings hitting says he won't necessarily be splashing the cash. it's not just about famous players i think and you must know they like to establish themselves within the top of the russian league which is not easy i think they must do it step by step and not just by foot by not just famous

players it must fit into the few left field sections of your friends you. 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 top off as the details. russians started then counter with italy cautiously keeping in mind eleven goals that squadron zero net is 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 go out and cross the record and i like same for the ball home beating 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 if netted him one morning telling his four year old

so for the talents then cut the deficit to two those bodyguards shake off the final score for one. philosophical but i am all italian national teams play defensively no matter which kind of full it is of their own solid defendant and talent and counter-attacks and while we got the lead they failed to switch to a more taken style and you got it in your unit we are just a better team and 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 them come from behind the net a lot of us meanwhile the other semifinal turned out to be a cracker as hard favorite sports to go and switzerland took to the sand beach divorce of is one of the most successful teams in europe with six continental titles and produced an electric start with four goals in their opening this week is reached the semifinal when their pool and rumania failed to arrive on 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 after the final to me it's russian a repeat of the previous euro gov decider where the russians used plus their six for a second spell. we're delighted to be such a solid team we proved to be. we don't really care who will be we just have to play our game and take full advantage of unity. with a confident win over eataly russia all of the. other traffic today it was growing cabinet however it's going to be a tough challenge as the face of the leading nations in the sport or to go in the decider on sunday. must go. now another football news chelsea in birmingham face a replay in the english f.a. cup this 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 bad week went from bad to worse after a four nil defeat to ac milan in the champions league they were dumped out of the f.a. cup following a two no loss at sunderland championship side leicester want to want to so they were comfortable victuals for bolton and never turned lower league. well there were three further times on sunday liverpool welcome championship side brighton to stoke fresh from the europa league defeat to valencia cruelly. have a tricky time steven. going this you know you very look at this year development team to m.k. dons shift away to. be a difficult game currie 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 there you know. we're good. if we play as we can play we should

win you know but we know it's going to be based now on to tennis where russia nicholai devon encodes run of the world told to mention rotterdam has come to an end the thirty year old who has 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 under solitary break of serve was enough to take the first set against the sixteen time grand slam winner. actually broke again in the second was a regular broken back before federer went on to play six three. close of whatever and was unable to take three break points for the swiss to take the match four six six three six four. i. well federer will take on martin del potro in sunday's final after the argentine secured

a comfortable straight sets win over thomas burdick but it was broken in the only game of the match again and set fortress due to a first set six three scoreline they two thousand and nine us open champion then refused to take his foot off the gas so the first five games of the second set when she win six three six was. while over in doha world number one victoria azarenka overcame injury to be agnostic transparent progress to the cats are open for i know people are rushing to the first set six two but appear to have tweaked ankle was doing so as a renter were tired injured again for advance scheduling the two thousand and nine w.t. a championships on this very course however this time around the twenty two year old clues to a confident six two six four victory rally sam stosur into the fire after her apparent power in part of the time due to a passenger. now on the ice defending champion

even scott breath is in the top five after two event. 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 bridges there was a piece of the result at the vancouver winter olympics as well to claim a gold with a twenty nine year old russian time place just like two years ago the dark star or the overall leader now with the fifteen hundred meters and ten thousand major events awaiting competitors later today and patrick catarina lava shaver is also fit a role finishing second in the five hundred meters and thirteenth in the three thousand meters. meanwhile at the world snowboarding championships in your a potlatch the coffers won the halfpipe title the russian born swiss finished a comfortable three points clear largely of the usa with another american border louie vito taking. off the first man ever to land the sweet backside double full

twelve sixteen for the title in the school nineteen point eight. now and go 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 as this was only one of two scored on the day bradley meanwhile secure birdies on the sixteenth and here on the seventeenth to finish alongside mickelson on seven and. bryce mold is a shot behind the gio he shot a five under sixty six held by this birdie part on the par five seventeenth mickelson is going for his second title in a row. and finally in the n.b.a. the new jersey nets have ended their eight game losing streak with

a surprise ninety seven eighty five away win. i have a high flying chicago bulls the visit is how to stop list a ten point lead to the after just three minutes fox with a small show in brooks three point three just two minutes later on the how to know most unassailable advantage don williams took from kris humphries and fired in a three pointer to put the nets ahead twenty two points to three williams was far from finished however and within the match with a team high score of twenty nine the goal to get within only seven points of goodness for the remainder of the entire match ninety seven ninety five the final school was the jets' school level north to running in atlanta division state. well that's all the sport for now dimitri will be here in a couple of hours time join in that.

for the latest news in the week's top stories this is our duty of 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. fueling and around rhetoric israel accuses the islamic state of targeting its diplomats and bomb attacks across the globe and demands more sanctions against iran over its nuclear program. appeasing the e.u. agree camp these past new austerity measures causing more protests in athens from angry workers worried about further cuts to wages on pensions. and candidates use

live t.v. debates and controversial ones to woo voters just two weeks before russia goes to the polls to pick a new president. using common broadcasting to live from the heart of moscow and karen taraji the majority of the un 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 want 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 the ocean a is a syria for our team. this is usually in syria maysville the tylwyth 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 protests 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 those that 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 or to stop the violence to stop the bloodshed we're also hearing about the stooges 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 at 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 baath party 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. a senior state prosecutor angela chao been assassinated in northwestern

syria that's according to current media reports there are the latest high profile killings that damascus is blaming on terrorist forces supported from abroad and a top u.s. intelligence chief has admitted that al qaeda could be operating in syria that's led political analysts common law sunni to conclude that washington is getting friendly with terrorists so you look american who are today citing was. that the one they invaded the war because of it but now they're in bed with al qaeda in syria actually arming and to continue arming and smuggling weapons and dumping i mean full dialogue between the syrian syrian government and the opposition i think today the point that we have to make a logical policy change now the emphasis should be on encouraging dialogue and stop this policy of inciting because this is going to be counterproductive for

syria and for the world to hold the american should know better because they got nine eleven and now they go in and associate themselves was al qaeda again. on the way here are to embracing the bogeyman. the chinese aren't going to get. there is to. kind of. take note if you're going to get it. the white house is comfortably in bed with beijing despite a rising wave of china phobia across the u.s. . it was deja vu for protesters in bahrain as of the anniversary of the country's uprising was met with a brutal crackdown by elites. iran a stepping up its nuclear program at an underground site near the sit near the city

of home by installing thousands of new generation centrifuges according to reports and israel is stepping up its anti rather 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 and 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 that something here is paving the way for military action middle east expert ali risks says that israel's rhetoric will only provoke a tit for tat response. or think here iran is trying to send a 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 and 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 have only be small comparing to how iran could react in that case so i think it's a small warning that if you. take action now economic action against this is. 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 tied down and to prevent israel from going ahead with the unilateral unilateral military attack trying to tell the west you'd better keep israel in talk to all the wires or you might be witnessing the very difficult period in the car in the future i think i said military authorities will is launched are closely following the situation in iran along onto our web site r.t. dot com for the latest developments to iranian warships have sailed through the suez canal into the mediterranean learn where they are headed on our website also. our team talks to people in talk from for their perspective on the country's

controversial nuclear program and get some insight from our amy and students who volunteer to carry out nuclear research. activists and were targeted with tear gas as they mark the first anniversary of a shia led uprising on tuesday despite promises of police reform last year just hours before officers responded with force although this time many of the tactics and weapons came not from bahrain but from the u.k. either 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 the eights used to be assistant commissioner of london's metropolitan police he now works for bahrain's monarchy which says he's there to oversee police reforms the police have borrowed or behaving despicably their latest trick is to throw cancer 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 overstimulate is retired to be associated in any way with that is his role yes resigned from scotland yard last year an early victim 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

he said this isn't organize protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community i mean 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 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. previously but it's been extended through the toxic gases and use of poisoning. mr john contributing we should see

a positive things at the ground what we're seeing today is nothing except what it may not just be british tactics bahrain seizing 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 all 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 r.t. london. so far clashes in bahrain haven't grabbed the attention of the international community like other nations in the region middle east expert tariq ali believes that's because the attitude of external powers is based solely on how useful the country is to them. those countries which are regarded as as the worst store stooges of the west basically not criticized regularly very

rarely do we have coverage it's not just the gulf states and bahrain in particular it is also going to increase like yemen was brutal dictatorial presence to prison former president is going to be in the united states receiving medical treatment and no reporting is taking place from where yemen there were demonstrations in saudi arabia a few days ago which got very little coverage of course the so these have no democracy at all it is probably the most undemocratic concrete in leanto arab world much much more undemocratic even libya was no one talks about this because it's so useful going to create it has always lived elsewhere the west starts to mention in bahrain was greenlighted by the united states which is very strong in there. and they crushed the uprising and they were brutality so on to improve on the teats which are dealt with in

a different way and now the problem in bahrain is that seventy to eighty percent of the vocal ation feels it has no representation whatsoever and yet nothing happens on this front after all still have for you this hour cutbacks and chaos down trodden greeks find new spending cuts which they say while we make their debt woes last long into the future. a chinese vice president's been touring america this week and 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 artie's going into can 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 the end of it and and and looking for ways to. get 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 admin delegate want to 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 our kids and children still made in china in short that it's. no sweetie the chinese are going to get. there's still a 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 him never market except experts agree china would never do that because beijing is just as interested in preserving the value of their u.s. treasury holdings as well as the rich market for their manufactured goods but this it could all make 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 neither country is capable of dominating the other and that the country is going to witness 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 pivot seems from that middle east to asia this means more u.s. interference is soso 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 in a big circle 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 employees 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 the interim government has promised to compensate the families of rebel fighters missing or killed in the op rising against moammar gadhafi now 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 all roaming the country and the ruling national transitional council appears on able to control them there is also evident.