of goalless draw. coolly to jonathan walters and peter crouch the school is that little fresh bright and six one with the championship side story three goals of under three. well little reward in the quarter finals is a not a hard time against stoke if stevie nicks can overcome the buzz in the replay another premier league side of bolton everton and sunderland less to travel to the winner between shells and. meanwhile russia have cemented their reputation as one of beach suckers powerhouses after winning the european cup in moscow. portugal four two in the final while switzerland defeated italy to take third place which have done poorly has more. home crying away to demand five thousand was russia to comport with the final game itself is expected to be close two nations two of the strongest and most sports numbers just have a qantas panurge you can buy a piece at

a team and dispose of italy in the semifinals of a reuters report 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 their advantage is a void in may it made it to now. russia were in total control much to the going to the home fans who were being given a fantastic show of beach soccer by the reigning world champion. than there was yet more to share as i like same cart of waited for you know of what was always been lost touch of the second period. or to have plenty of work to do in the final gate area but they wanted to find a way back into the mine which however bad toss was made all but impossible as you to me it graeme to second again pub 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 only two minutes remaining and another play goal is needed the toss is all but impossible. games make the school more respectable for what proved to be the last kick of again but despite better effort from my chair it had no effect on the final score 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 industry feelings we weren't able to win here in two thousand and five bring the most to switzerland in the final however we want as experience and we were just learning about the sport seven years on and we've managed to win the year. being tough it's great that so many fans came along to watch this very profession played by the russians this means a better place kings of european beach soccer goalkeeper and believe the kids ski shivers 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 team all in the first place play off switzerland managed to get loaded a royal sickly as the swiss eventually run fine when is. part it was all about the russians and blowing through the home crowd as 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 junkie t. next year has been fabulous display by russia the last couple of days i managed to win this soccer crowd once again very wary of england all of the all the way oh it was great all the way there are also. now on to tennis where roger federer has won the world torment in rotterdam the world number three comfortably defeated juan martin del potro in straight sets the sixteen time grand slam winner raced into

a five last first set laid eventually taking it six one picturing their never let him down to the second spread or top a straight sets win six one six for how they're spending thanks to seventeen first eighteen title. meanwhile in the women's game victoria azarenka remains under ten in two thousand and twelve after thrashing sound stosur six one six two to win the qatar open this was as a rank a seventeenth consecutive win as the australian open champion dominated from start to finish. now the n.b.a.'s new a sensation jeremy lin and his new york knicks side have returned to winning ways after beating defending champions dallas one hundred four ninety seven new york one eight out of the last nine with the harvard graduate playing a big part in that run and the twenty three year old whose father moved to the usa from taiwan has emerged as a huge global star. i love my family i love my relatives one special

request i have is for the media back in taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even you know go to work without being bombarded in people following them and so i just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in taiwan and i think that you know hopefully this will give back to everybody because they need to live their lives well. now people from twenty eight special needs schools gathered in the moscow region for an annual sport tournament but this year's event has an added significance with some of the when is receiving a chance to train for an expedition to the north pole has the details. i'm limited mobility for people with disabilities is slowly but surely becoming a common theme in modern society but the world's largest country is still up and coming in this sense improving its environment each year special praise is in order for people like my place bharat whose adventure lab offers a unique experience for the you know what we're going to stage the fifth russian

you fix biggish into the north home kids who want to take part must be sixteen to eighteen years old and they must take part in skiing contests like ski russia twenty two zero we've also decided to set up an event for kids with disabilities who are just as enthusiastic and yearning to win a so-called normal kids. candidates for the north pole expedition are selected in two phases with the first already having been staged on the twelfth the february a sport of an all russia ski day the annual ski rush event so hundreds of thousands of amateurs braved the subzero temperatures across the country because. when so many people take part in ski racing it's always a joy it means sport is popular in our country and more people choose a healthy way of life it's the city's anniversary of the race which has a long history and good traditions who had about twenty five thousand participants

this year piller joy. barrels company has been organizing skiing competition for kids with special needs for four years with twenty eight teams joining the action this winter to compete for the mayor scott we shared i'm going to go see it it's been a great day so motional we won this race last year and hopefully will defend our title this time the kids did their best indeed and that's thanks to a very thorough training. having a good sign with their friends and family is what it was mostly about for the majority of the participants and achieving a winning result has taken the back stage to a one of a kind of winter experience. having fun is not the only goal for these kids in case sell one of their buddies to get in for a ball on the track their friends will be right there to help them and this is how it's done let's go. the north pole skiing expedition led by two time guinness world record holder much they show are all will

be staged from the fifteenth until its one third of april the fifth additional features seven young men and women who will cover one hundred kilometers to reach the top of the earth and the presence of people with physical limitations is by no means a hurdle. was originally when we crossed greenland we had a guy who could not walk because of spinal canal or since he would sit on a special holding push him so forward with sticks but his disability did not prevent him from cooking up so that was his children we would do something else he couldn't do that to you so much they spiral is now down to forty candidates who will join him on a training course in march and head of the north pole schemes but ition which will be held in april the group will cover the distance from the bar nail ice base all the way to the top of the world rim on cost of artsy moscow region now finally to gulf where american bellhops has won the fourth p.g.a. title of his career after a three way playoff at the northern trust open in california joint overnight netas

phil mickelson and kagan bradley both the final hole to force the playoff through the empath the first extra hole before this forty five for a pass on the second day of hossa but a bradley couldn't do likewise meaning that the title went to twenty nine year old hawks. it's well that's all this will for now i have won a couple of hours time join me then. sure is that so much as i can recall he's right on it so here it is the trials and tribulations of the middle class long considered the pillar of the west political and economic order is now the victim of a long term. if

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three. three. three. three blog video for your media project free media gogarty dot com. israel's allies warn against an attack on iran and urge a diplomatic solution as to iran response to international pressure on its nuclear program with an oil embargo in britain and france. chinese government uses its made news space bird to accuse the u.s. and its allies of pushing the opposition in syria to fight a prolonged civil war. and crash from a grain divas codd's greece's prime minister flies to brussels hoping that you and so mr might finally hand over the millions of euros needed to pay its debts. and in

the business bulletin the russian equity markets a quiet out beat this monday which is no surprise considering that oil prices are at a nine month high all the details about twenty. watching are going to live from moscow marina joshie welcome to the program eleven am in the russian capital the u.s. and britain have warned israel not to attack iran's nuclear facilities urging the flow machine stat to run currently being visited by u.n. inspectors denies accusations it's developing atomic weapons saying its program is peaceful but as are reports from tel aviv israel could now be on an unstoppable pass to military strike. israel's leaders are actively drumming up their military rhetoric. to home these really governments will continue to work hand in hand with

the local security forces against such acts of terror and will continue to act against them forcefully systematically and calmly against international terrorism a thing from iran. goob a potential israeli rocket clash looks more likely than ever there is speculation a preemptive strike against iran's nuclear sites could happen as early as spring or summer although that's not causing undue concern in israel i think possibly people you know they make their plans for a vacation you know pass or a vacation summer vacation possibly people are beginning to wonder well is there going to be a war is something going to mess it up or i think they're probably going ahead with it with sort of a thought we're back tomorrow it would be nice if we could get a flight that we could cancel you know you know is that sort of thing israel has previous experience when it comes to putting an end to you kim visions which pose a potential threat in one thousand nine hundred one is jets wiped out reactors in

iraq they struck again in two thousand and seven hitting sites in syria but with iran's nuclear program things may not be so simple that if israel attacks iran it will not stop iran forever from getting nuclear weapons the only postpone it for a relatively brief amount of time the. installations are too diverse and far flung to destroy a fact of lee israel does not have us poor white house secretary adviser was in tel aviv over the weekend warning against a move on iran saying it was better to wait for tougher sanctions to take effect in the coming months but mines may already be made up i think one of the things that create this aura of inevitability is to shut them up to shut up opposition at home and of course to convince the united states and europe that this is an inevitability it's going to happen. don't oppose it in fact why don't you help us out there is a question mark however over whether israel has what it takes to carry out their

mission i doubt with the we have the capability. of creating damage is to the extent of the mediating the program and even if israel's military prowess will allow it to carry out a strike on underground facilities in iran located some sixteen hundred miles away chances are it won't and if there were as you know saddam hussein and bashar assad by the time they knew what was happening was over and could just you know grumble without having to fight back you imagine iran sitting still you know all day day after day day after day while the writers who do truth are going to hit back i think any any sane person realizes that there was almost guaranteed to be missiles falling on israel. and considering iran for one of the twentieth century's longest wars against iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. the consequences could be far reaching and destructive. israel has been suffering some bad weather is of late but it's unlikely that even the strongest winds will

blow the country's foreign policy off its course and when it comes to israel's forecast for iran the storm clouds seem to be growing ever darker in tel aviv r.t. iran is hold it while sales to britain and france in response to european union sanctions the e.u. agreed a ban on iranian crude imports from july to pressure tehran to stop enriching uranium but historian webster tarpley says iran is sending a message that it won't be pushed around. 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've 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 can only act together they're a kind of imperialist bicycle built for two they haven't had time to carefully arrange the fallback options and the alternative sources of oil so this is a little bit of a surprise to them. with pressure intensified in iran find out online at r.t. dot com how these long me state is preparing for the worst by playing war iran for military exercises with its force the simulating the fans of response to a foreign attack. on our website the next in line the euro zone's a staring dr its pain thousands of workers walking out to protest recently approved labor reforms.

the u.s. and its allies are pushing syria into civil war by backing the armed opposition there and that's the view put forward by china's top newspaper the article follows a visit by one of beijing's top diplomats to damascus in the latest attempt to mediate peace talks china has joined russia's efforts to bring about a political settlement in the conflict torn country washington wants president assad out of the picture and is urging the rebels to fight on that's a recipe for disaster for the syrian people according to the middle east blog. assad were to step down tomorrow who is actually the legitimate this intimate political opposition to take control and when the west talks about supporting or the gulf states this side or the outside world actually the group so you would go to finance or give some order 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 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 you know towards syria that is kind of becoming provocative the west really needs to step back and try to cool things down before the escalate out of control. so i have three this hour here in our to rally against fascism find out how one last presidential candidate has hit out at america's political system with some controversial comparisons. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

it's. this is our team greece's prime minister is in brussels hoping that you will finally hand over the economic bailout it has been dangling for months seventeen euro zone members will decide whether athens has made sufficient cuts and jumped through enough financial hoops to receive one hundred thirty billion euros to avoid default our brussels correspondent has are still he is following the story. another crucial meeting is taking place in

a brussels city as the years old finance ministers gather after their last meeting with swiss ball for the last word state to today the big topic is still nice as it has been for the past few weeks now and the big question is will the spirit will to secure that one hundred thirty billion euros a bailout from its international brothers the second the such power for the country on the back of the bias of those watching the situation a greek default is still a possibility so we can see the exit from the your results were so readers have been trying very hard to keep a positive picture twelve of this is the big german chancellor to look forward to whether of course what go pound is the solution of the ets or that they will receptive come up with at the end of today's meeting all of these efforts to scramble to put together a solution for to the greek crisis is to meet the deadline of march twenty fourth production line was to make fourteen point five zero seven it's not able to do so it would be technically defaulting. to your reporting there i noted to secure for

the next bailout the greek government has approved three point three billion euros worth of cuts in public spending that triggered violence on the streets of athens over the past week as frustrated crowds scuffled with police and authorities jacob graves reports the rage was in this hardened greek society is growing stronger with every measure the government takes. voting for morse there is something dubbed by greece's caretaker prime minister has a moment of historic responsibility a notion some especially the greek population feel has been lost on euro zone leaders but i feel disappointed and sad because these measures were imposed on us by foreigners and we didn't have a say as a greek people. but there is a wise old greek proverb that a person who borrows and borrows becomes the slave of who he borrows from an optic sickness after passing more unpopular cuts greek politicians are told that brussels

i am berlin perspire in the decision on another bailout that and questions over greece is placed in the euro lead the country's finance minister to talk they were toying with the nation's future this is by no means the first set of austerity measures to be imposed on greece but with a significant amount of coalition m.p.'s choosing to say no it does mark a shift in thinking among governing politicians willing to share the grievances of the public and offer them an alternative they decided to vote against that because i had to actually as i said in my lead there withdraw my confidence to our partners that say european partners and the i.m.f. if the greek economy is not restart just if it doesn't go down the alley of development that eventually greece we at some point will bankrupt. in that case what will happen is that all of the assets of this country will actually pass in the hands of the. of the funders in total forty three m.p.'s in the ruling

coalition chose to say no to morris their take they even among those in favor may remain hostile to the euro zone's message and how it's being delivered i think to such type of message is brussels are helping to european forces in greece. and all of us that the measures don't solve the problem they make it worse we need to view. the plan we need development for the survival of the greek economy the growing fear among both the greek public and politicians appears to be that eurozone leaders aren't all that bothered about their well being that there's more people as we see. them so this situation because it's rewarding greece cover way too high the way they're really since last sunday's mass demonstrations and continuing uproar sent a message to those in athens and brussels though voting through austerity may have been an historic moment as one of the likely to put the nation's problems to bed

meaning rather than being resigned to the past scenes of anger are likely to be part of greece's future jake greece assy athens. short of saving it from a financial abyss investment advisor patrick young is one of those who things greece is supposed salvation as the hands of the e.u. will leave it more or less powerless. 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 onto by one armed by the person who we're not sure whether he's the beauty or the bad data easy going to 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 going short of learning 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 greens track record of

actually doing their bit in 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 we're 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 trying to please have next week's pocket money in order to pay it civil servants and that's a horrible loss of sovereignty and a lot of importance creating safety first for russia saying its armed forces should be battle ready to face and threat that's the latest pre-election message from the prime minister as he prepares to take part in the presidential election in just under two weeks time our correspondent there for us has the details. this is the latest to six out suppose that the prime minister has published already in the main

newspapers in the country previous articles of touch on a wide range of subjects from the economy to democracy and say this latest the six us a cool is discussing national security and addresses the need to upgrade the country's armed forces it also talks about the need to upgrade russian music capability missiles to the feet threats but the nato missile defense shield in europe i do say discusses the fight said more powerful weapons could be developed to see that in the future possibly replace the need to weapons in the country but it also discusses the fact that with the rise of local ai regional conflicts some of which is as if you don't history to close to russia's booted the self defense of the country really remains top priority. we will under no conditions.