three secondly dangerous physical injury and thirdly threatening behavior david he was not at the airport at this stage will not know where he is but he also will be questioned and must answer the allegations of bodily injury dangerous physical injury and so on. not just not so much off in football guus hiddink has taken the managerial range for the thirst time since signing a deal with the big spending drug astonished at this sixty five year old was back in turkey where the country's national team and his previous job now go box signing some top and brazilian veteran carlos were among those for militarizing themselves with the dutchman at his methods at the training camp in ballack the club. after only six weeks at the helm and then appointed the former russian national team manager on a deal are frequent linked with big name signings bots heading says he won't necessarily be splashing the cash. it's not just about famous players i think 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 but not just by the by not just famous players it must fit into the us besides your minds. moving on to english football now where three games took place in the fifth round of the f.a. cup on sunday in which stoke city crawley nail jonathan walters and peter crouch of this chorus while talking on a visit to the remains girl this many of their opponents will go for a play at white hart lane in the meantime liverpool brighton six one the championship side scored three goals that. now russia confirmed their reputation as one of the powerhouses after winning the european cup in moscow and color pacers men beat portugal in the final four two to claim the grand prize while switzerland

defeated a taling to take third place rich of a profit as more. home crying away to demand five thousand was russia to comport to the final game itself is expected to be close with two nations to the strongest unmissable what's come by it's just time for qantas panurge to appease that its team to dispose of italy in the semifinals of the righteous with or should go a bit in switzerland to get into the final the home side would have been the scoring early on things to give bush a coat. however the russians would have to wait until midway through the second period to double better advantage was a boy to man you needed to know. russia were in total control much to the delight of the home fans who were being given a fantastic show of beach soccer but the reigning world champion. found there was yet more to share as alex seem caught of waiting for you know what was always the

last touch of the second period. could you have plenty of work to do in the final grey area that they wanted to find a way back into the mind however bad toss was made all but impossible as you to me from the second again of result beyond any doubt. but this does need a miracle they wanted to lift the trophy themselves and they did give themselves a lifeline as i'm sure karma full of gold bank book with unassuming is remaining and another play goal is needed to toss is all but impossible. to gauge make the school more respectable for what proved to be the last kick of again but despite bad record from my chair it had no effect on the final school line of russia rome to a well deserved four two win much to the delight of their fans and the captain and nearly all of. you know i'm very good it's a wonderful feeling to win this trophy we weren't able to win here in two thousand and five when we lost to switzerland in the final however we weren't as experienced

back then and we were just learning about the sport seven years on and we've managed to win the year. being caught it's great that so many fans came along to watch this very professional display by the russians this means a better place kings of european beach soccer goalkeeper and believe the p.t. sobers old was down to a lot of hard work on the training field the most important thing is that we won and play really confidently the eight strongest sides from europe were here and once again we showed everyone that we are the best meanwhile in the first place play off switzerland managed to get one of their rivals equally as the swiss of intially run of five winners. part it was all about the russians and the lines of a home crime was russia managed to find their european cup crime it's a great confidence boost for the team to continue their preparations to defend their world cup title when jockey t. next year has been

a fabulous display by russia the last couple of days that managed to win this big soccer crowd once again very often we. want to turn a swear or just federer has won the world tournament in water that was done by three so he's defeated martin del potro in the final sixteen time easily to the opening set six one then that express that his opponent take four games in the second straight sets victory six one six four with an issue in favor of federal. that's good you know good to get off a good start i thought i was really close to win in doha as well but i had a bad back and that kind of you know maybe eluded me a victory over there and a straight i was close so this was another big tournament for me i knew when i was in the same is that was three straight same as which was a good thing when i made it to defiance after the tough matches davydenko i knew this is maybe exactly how it's how it goes you battle through

a tough one and then you come out the other side and it's beautiful sunshine and you play great so that's how it felt today and. the beating. at the end it is a great feeling. meanwhile. the rose has claimed a catch open title by beating samantha stores in straight sets the world number one had no difficulties in the open and she took it comfortably six one in the second set the twenty two year old by the russian dominated again though she dropped. two games on the way to winning the title six one six two to finish this was seventeen straight. in time to twelve so far. in winter sports canada's caley humphries has won gold in the women's doubles at the world championships in lake place it's the reigning olympic champion and break woman jennifer. finished the competition with an aggregate four run time of three minutes forty eight point five

seven seconds to be headed to its first gold medal at worlds since the women's you know gold race in two thousand and three time world champion tundra. of germany was over while the line up and katie ebeling of the united states took the bronze. it is amazing living champions it was kind of a bit of a surprise to be able to once again be the best in the world are not one. time. south africa has claimed his first european to a title that after winning the. new delhi the twenty five year old overnight leader made four birdies and came on the seventeenth to finish with a fourteen and total for two hundred seventy four compel a spade and muscles of germany were two shots of back in a tie for second place another spin it and marcus fraser finished joint

fourth at eleven under. in a women's golf yacht it's saying of taiwan japanese mates are to one stroke to retain her talent title in part tire their world number one who opened the tournament with a seventy three wrong shooting two consecutive sixty five's prior to the final day of the competition and her sunday school for once was a triumph as saying clinch the title with a shot will be a shot of the tunnel after wards. who was the only want to put pressure on the taiwanese at the end of the day occupied second place by south korea's shane completed the podium in the overall. well that's all from me for the moment more sports news from around the globe in tai's time hale and hearty goodbye .

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the latest news in the week's top stories on r.t. iran's oil ministry says iran is stopping all exports to france and britain amid sanctions over its nuclear program. the u.n. ramps up the pressure on the syrian regime as violence escalates but russia calls for talks to break the stalemate damascus promises reforms. spills out on the streets once again as lawmakers clear up more cuts to secure vital rescue cash in the wake of days of contests our top stories this hour.

with a look back at the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly here on r.t. iran says it has stopped all oil exports to french and british companies the country's oil ministry says tehran has other customers to sell its crude to the islamic republic aims to preempt an oil embargo that set to come into force in july . the ban was needed to force iran to resume talks over its atomic program europe and the us suspect iran is pursuing nuclear weapons to iran denies that and says it's ready to start negotiations team of u.n. nuclear inspectors is on its way to the country a second such visit within a month historian webster tarpley has told me that iran's imposing its own oil embargo to show it won't be. economic sanctions are a game that two can play and turnabout is fair play in international affairs the

european commission and the relevant powers have been making a big noise over the past couple of weeks about how they are going to embargo and boycott all iranian oil starting on july first well it's pretty obvious the iranians decided not to wait around until july first they decided to to impose their own embargo boycott on the offending powers and they're starting with the the two biggest imperialist bullies on the schoolyard the british and the french who are now so weak that they could only act together they were a kind of imperialist bicycle built for two they haven't had time to carefully arrange the fallback options in the alternative sources of oil so this is a little bit of a surprise to them the iranians have been under sanctions for thirty years when i was in iran you see a lot of prosperity a lot of economic activity there had been a shock in january as

a result of the very stringent sort of secondary boycott sanctions that the u.s. had put in but the iranians will tell you they have lived under u.s. sanctions for thirty years they know how to survive in such a situation i didn't see any evidence of hardships at all peoples that that certain key prices had gone up the bigger issue i think is the slide towards war and i think we have to take very seriously what we're seeing now with the reckless and irresponsible statements of the israeli leaders these feckless americans who are sort of but shining in is a region sliding towards war and that would be then i think possibly a general war. preventing iran from getting nuclear weapons isn't the real driving force for the u.s. and its allies so says antiwar activist brian baca. the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the i.a.e.a. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threaten its neighbors iran has not started

a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike the iran refuses to sign a nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. specters into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from iran so what is the cause of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government has embarked on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery that part of the population will rise or become disenfranchised with the government so that the u.s. can do as it has in history carry out regime change. and you can hear the full version of that interview in just over an hour from now on r.t. the u.n. general assembly has adopted

a non-binding resolution this week calling on syria's president assad to step down russia was among twelve states who voted against saying the draft fails to address the armed opposition well damascus is vowing for major reforms reports of violence continue but he is in syria. this is usually in syria manes 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 hostile to mr ation 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 and so on and so on we also can see political murders as well this week shaikh of one of the most of damascus was assisted native apparently because of his

pronouncements the shaikh 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 hostilities in other parts of the country the reports from the 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 vast 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 it's 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. and the middle east blogger culshaw arrow told me earlier that nato states are only escalating the situation in syria supporting the fragmented opposition. assad were to step down tomorrow who is actually the legitimate political opposition to take control and when the west talks about supporting or the gulf states this side or the outside while actually the group say you will go to finance or give support to so within the vacuum who would step in you would have people returning from iraq that has kind of the weapons or the experience and i think what we really need to be aware of is this highly erratic

nature of western policy in particular u.s. policy towards all the countries in the region but particularly now towards syria that is kind of becoming provocative the west really needs to step back and try to call things down before the escalate out of control coming up in the next few minutes here on r t pro-democracy anniversary another war scarred country works replace gunshots in libya days of celebrations but an armed to the teeth going to shit isn't going anywhere casting a shadow on the country's path to stability. that's still to come for you but first frustrated greeks have been running in central athens once again to protest against ever more sturdy being pushed upon them groups of protesters have remained outside parliament throughout the day with some scuffles with police he says cabinet is part of the final set of massive cuts creditors demand in return for a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout which could now be cleared on monday euro zone finance ministers are meeting to more in brussels to discuss the fate of

greece investment advisor patrick young as told me that if the next bailout is cleared greece's loss of sovereignty will be complete. what we have here is basically that great scene in the hollywood adventure movie where someone has tripped and fallen over the edge of the cliff and he's being held on to by one armed by the person who we're not sure whether he's the beauty or the easy gonna let them go and let them fall to a terrible death or is he going to hang on to them and gradually bring them up and that's where we are with greece and the european union because actually what is being said behind closed doors and even to a degree in public is we've got some of those guys should have learned the german finance minister basically saying he doesn't trust the greeks to manage to hold up to the agreements that they've made and tragically the greeks track record of actually terms of what they're supposed to do in the past has been a huge fail so therefore we now have a situation where the greeks have said we'll do anything you want whatever you want

we'll do it personally i think what's going to happen is that the finance ministers will probably agree to give greece some money and greece is going to find itself in a dreadful situation where like a nine year old child every friday it's going to have to go to daddy say it's done untold work so it's been a good boy and overall can actually see how the next two weeks pocket money in order to pay its civil servants and that's a horrible loss of sovereignty. the greek parliament passed the cuts needed to secure the bailout last sunday which triggered violent protests in the streets and the rage of a beleaguered population is still at the forefront of greek society as artie's jacob greeds now reports. system under siege m.p.'s drowned out the pleas of tens of thousands of demonstrators amassed within a short passing another round of unpopular cuts. the results proved incendiary. that uganda protests turned violent as protesters including

fringe anarchist clashed with police again leaving their mark on athens. a day on this is the remnants of public anger for glasses and the only thing that's been broken as governments past increasingly unpopular austerity cuts will be left asking who can they trust serve their interests the measures are very very tough part of the poor people especially and this is the reason that they feel. the today i think more measures have been taken and they're it's not going to work in the end it will be another bill he. had bad and. oh i hope for the best but i don't see it coming. under pressure from brussels berlin and the international monetary fund the greek government has cut more jobs slash funding for the nation's pensions a minimum wage but current policy appears to mainly expose those most vulnerable to

crisis conditions is a mindset some feel is doomed to fail they already have destroyed the whole generation of young people and their dreams they will destroy the structure of the sabian infrastructure of the whole country we know that it is impossible to repay this debt that we have now signs that these illegal or old those bad we cannot continue like that because the policy that the government is following actually increases the day yeah instead of finding the solution at the heart of activists claims is their search and that they've noticed there. he for the best part of five years now and that time taxes have risen incomes have full but the country's deficit only seems to grow and in this austerity cycle is something sought by an increasing number despite the turmoil the government warns will follow but what.

is the break up exactly even more. that. they are going to come the only way out of this point is that default default is going to be very tough for us but there's going to be the solution. for now relative calm has returned to the streets of athens smashed buildings have been patched up the signs of damage swept away but the simmering discontent hasn't been and was forced medicine appears to bring nothing but pain many are continuing their call for terms of treatment greece r.t. athens. the euro zone's austerity drive has also hit spain as tens of thousands of people have march out across the country protesters angry at the government's labor reforms the largest rally is taking place in madrid but trade unions have organized gatherings in fifty seven cities across the country protesters say reforms are

unfair to workers and would destroy jobs and changes make it easier to adjust employee share jewels and wages and have staff fired last week similar rallies turn violent as demonstrators were blocked by police on their way to the parliament spain's unemployment has tripled since two thousand and seven and almost half of people under twenty five are out of work. this week libyans have been celebrating the first anniversary of the uprising that led to the toppling of colonel gadhafi the united states congratulated the people while urging the libyan government to protect civil rights to see international has been reporting that gadhafi supporters have been subjected to abuse and torture this is concerns grow that libya's militia still roaming the country unchecked mangi who's editor in chief of the pan african social justice network told r.t. the situation now is much worse than it was during the colonel's regime. ever since the nato we very of libya there has being. gross

human rights violations it's not just torture there is. indiscriminate killings there are extra judicial killings there's summary execution of the code or gadhafi. members of this found some really executed nobody has been brought to justice or the huge amount of arms that are being poured in by france by the europeans by the americans at. this place is going to send it to into. the whole civil war this situation now in that sense is worse than it was under the the rule of colonel gadhafi. as the middle east reels from revolutions and foreign regimes we're providing in-depth analysis for you on our website r.t. dot com it's online all the time they can read an expert opinion that says the west is struggling to keep a brain faces proceeds with its grab for dominance in the region also online feud

right now. russian language silence in latvia as the majority of voters in the baltic states reject a proposal to give official status to the language used by a third of its population. the chinese vice president has received a warm welcome in washington during his tour of america however the us media has been less positive promoting a menacing image of the communist country which holds more than a trillion dollars of american debt but for the white house business comes before public opinion. and reports. 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 and and and looking for ways to.

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 genocide. as their death to our fortune to do it and that is how our great empire rose again. it's not too late to stop this nightmare it's on our kids and 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 the economy is getting there with their fear does it take you there 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 trying to convert.