the holes in the quarter finals is another high and tie this time against stoke if stephen age can overcome spurs in the replay they'll have another for bolton for everton and to take sunderland less to travel to the winner of the replay between chelsea and. meanwhile russia have cemented their reputation as one of big shockers powerhouses after winning the european cup in moscow they calliope said as mandy portugal four to win the final while switzerland defeated to take third place which of on poor play has the details. who cried only to demand five thousand was russia took on portugal in the final game itself is expected to be close to nations to the strongest in this sport it's just time for qantas plan now which you can buy a piece of its team and dispose of it clearly in the semifinals but the riders from portugal beaten switzerland to get into the final the home side would have been the scoring early on things to go shake of however the russians would have to wait

until midway through the second period to double better advantage as you go it in me you needed to know. russia were in total control much to the drawing to the home fans who were being given a fantastic show of beach soccer by the reigning world champion. bandit was yet more to cheer as i like see my card of waited for you know of what was always been lost touch of a second period. portugal have plenty of work to do in the final period but they wanted to find a way back into the march however bit task was made all but impossible as you to me it graeme to second a game of result beyond any doubts but it does need a miracle that they wanted to lift the trophy themselves and they did give themselves a lifeline as karma pulled a goal bank book with only fifteen minutes remaining and another three goals needed to toss was all but impossible. portuguese would make the school more respectable but got through. to be the last kick of

a game but despite that african measure it had no effect on the final score line as russia rome to a well deserved four two win much to the delight of their fans and a captain in nearly all of. the goods it's a wonderful feeling to illustrate feelings we weren't able to win here in two thousand and five bring the most to switzerland in the final however we weren't as experienced then and we were just learning about spin out of the new zone and we've managed to win the european cup it's great that so many fans came along to watch this very professional display by the russians to cement a better place kings of european beach soccer and their goalkeeper and believe the kids ski 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 over their rivals equally as the swiss

eventually run five four winners. but it was all about the russians and the lines of a home crowd as russia managed to defend their european cup crown is a great confidence boost for the team to continue their preparations to defend their world cup title went to haiti next year it's been a fabulous way by russia the last couple of days advised to win this big soccer crowd once again there were a thing that we have. already razzi. now on to tennis where roger federer has won the world tournament in rotterdam the while number three comfortably defeated juan martin del potro in straight sets they sixteen time grand slam went right into a five love set lead eventually taking it six one victory that never looked in doubt in the second is federer wrapped up a straight sets win six one six four how it finished his better times in the seventy. eighty. meanwhile in the

women's game victoria azarenka remains unbeaten in two thousand and twelve after thrashing sam stosur six one six two to win the cattle 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 a 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 road to 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 and 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. the oklahoma city thunder beat in the denver nuggets in overtime thanks to a career best score from kevin durant's and huge contributions from russell westbrook and baker are an affluent i was top scorer for the visitors with twenty seven points but it was your ranch which stole the show hosting the n.b.a.'s top score this season as he helped himself to fifty one points westbrook also had an excellent night eighteen three out of six long range shots on his way to forty points i did a triple double forced the extra session with a late basket the twenty three year old then closed out of one hundred twenty four one hundred eighteen when finally people from twenty eight special needs schools in moscow gathered recently for an annual sport ornament 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. unlimited

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 face bharat whose adventure lab offers a unique experience for the you know what we're going to stage the fifth russian you thinks biggish into the north pole 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 twelve we've also decided to set up an event for kids with disabilities who are just as enthusiastic and yearning to win as so-called normal kids. candidates for the north pole expedition are selected in two phases with the first already having been staged on that's well for the february as 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. when so many people take part in ski racing it's always a choice between sport is popular in our country and more people choose a healthier 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. they share as kompany 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 and each year i'm going to get it in 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 but 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. to the north pole skiing expedition led by two time guinness world record holder much they sure are all will be staged from the fifteenth until it's one third of april the fifth edition will feature 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 cannot walk because of spinal crisis he would sit on a special board and push him so forward with sticks but his disability did not prevent him from cooking the sun 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 petition 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 room on cost of r.t. moscow region well that's all the sport for now i'll have more few in a couple of hours time so i mean that. the issues that so much time and which of course he's right on it here are 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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these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations to rule the day. chinese government uses its main newspaper to accuse the us and a towel eyes of pushing the opposition in syria to fight a prolonged civil war. israel's allies warn against an attack on iran and urging diplomatic solution is to run response to international pressure on its nuclear program with oil embargo on britain and france. and fresh from agreeing a stary cots greece's prime minister flies to brussels hoping that eurozone ministers i finally hand over the billions of euros needed to pay its debts.

one pm in the russian capital watching r t with me the u.s. and its allies are pushing syria into civil war by backing the armed opposition there that's a view put forward in china's top newspaper which is close to the government the article follows a visit by one of the top diplomats to damascus and the latest attempt to mediate peace talks while china has joined russia's efforts to bring about a political settlement in the crisis torn country syria's been ravaged by violence for nearly a year now was the number of dead estimated at more than seven thousand it's hard to know for sure due to restrictions on the activity of foreign media but artie's marie ivanovna is in the midst of a conflict zone and she said just this week. fifty kilometers northwest of damascus lebanon just over the border once relaxed luxury

mountain resort the town has recently been the scene of brutal clashes between assad's forces and and to government groups there was a lowly the fighting and as we approached the sea we're not sure who's in control at the checkpoint they're happy to see a russian television crew. a solid hint about who is in charge here russia is among the few countries still talking to assad and calling for others to have dialogue with the regime along with china it to be towed to the u.n. security council's resolution and voted against another one at the general assembly which put pressure on assad to leave russia will come they tell us this town nobody home to around twenty thousand people looks abandoned the reminders of recent turbulence tell their own tale of what happened here on these walls you can see the story of the conflict how it was developing here in the city of there by danny initially there were some graffiti is here about president bashar al assad

then when the armed groups operating in this area took control over this town new graffiti is a period of course and to government one of the army regain control of his adani they destroyed them all they tried to destroy them all at least but some still remain. when we are in town we can hear sounds of shelling some turn a deaf ear to it. all is fine shooting but i don't know those who agreed to talk don't want to show their face. the army intervene and it's killing us they're showing random houses searching arresting people there's f.s.a. an armored groups on the ground too few. but not everyone here says the situation in the same way as when armed people came here we asked the army to stand up for us now they are controlling the city at the dulles shop is in an area where much of the fighting took place. i was away when

i arrived the army told me there had been a big battle here says the army is now here there's no groups anymore no turn of the caledonia all the clashes between security forces and the armed opposition groups here near the town of the dunny have been very severe how it all stopped the locals tell us that their town has a unique story when the violence started the residents decided to intervene and there has allegedly been an agreement between the army and the opposition that both of them leave the town although the military officer we have been able to speak to didn't confirm that and we can still see. many military and machinery inside the city we had a look around and counted at least thirteen tanks but able to tell us they were only used as protection on the way back through the checkpoint and officer keep supporting everyone suspicious in this violence locked nation may finish nasty.

syria washington and europe are calling on president assad to step down while urging rebels to fight on against him and that's a recipe for disaster for the syrian people in the view of middle east blogger karl rove. assad were to step down tomorrow who is actually the legitimate in this intimate political position 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 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 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 do we have for you this hour

a national security in prime focus. just two weeks left in the race for the presidency of that of a putin is really his vision for the future of russia thousand forces we'll have all the details on that coming up shortly. the u.s. and britain have warned israel not to attack iran's nuclear facilities urging diplomacy instead tehran currently being visited by u.n. inspectors denies accusations it's developing atomic weapons saying its program is peaceful but as art is ridiculous could now reports from tel aviv israel could now be on a nonstop i will pass to a military strike. israel's leaders are actively drumming up the military rhetoric . going home this is really government 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 terror originating from iran. a potential israeli rug 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 fissions 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 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 factor fully israel does not have us poor white house secretary advisor 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 mail ready be made up i think one of the things to 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 the mission i doubt with the we have the capability. of creating the image 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 you run 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 were almost guaranteed to be missiles falling on israel. and consider your own for one of the twentieth century's longest noise against a rock in the one nine hundred eighty s. the consequences could be far reaching and destructive. has or has been suffering some but whether 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 intil of the

video r.t. . and iran's halt on oil supplies to the u.k. and france has had an inevitable effect on prices let's find out more from our business desk now. that's right oil prices reach a nine month high after iran decided to halt exports to the u.k. and several european countries meanwhile to rot is also planning to stop using the euro am the dollar to pay for imported goods from its trading partners however analysts don't see this driving oil prices much higher why find out in about twenty minutes. was pressure intensified in iran find out online at r.t. dot com how the islamic state is preparing for the worst by playing war in iran holds military exercises with its elite forces simulating a defensive response to a foreign attack or. also on our website next in the line the euro zone's a spirity drive hit spain us downs of workers walk out to protest recently approved

labor reforms. and greece is waiting for the e.u. to decide whether it has done enough to qualify for the one hundred thirty billion euro handout that's been dangling for months the government's approval of three billion euros in cuts to public spending led to violence on the streets of athens as our jake agrees reports the rage within dishearten greek society is growing stronger with every measure the government takes. voting for morse there is something that 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 eurozone 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 uptick sickness after passing more unpopular cuts greek politicians are told that brussels amberley and her spoke in the decision on another bailout that and questions over greece's place in the euro led the country's finance minister to talk they were toying with a 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 if the greek economy is not through stuff just if it doesn't go down the alley of development eventually greece we at some

point. in that case what will happen is that all of the assets of this town tree 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 there or to 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 as brussels of. european forces and greece. and all of us that the measures don't solve the problem they make it worse we need development we need development for the survivor the greek economy is growing among both the great public and politicians appears to be that eurozone leaders are told. all that about their well being there's more people as we see. this it isn't because it's rewarding greece cover way the way they're really since last sunday's mass demonstrations a good team ewing for all sent

a message to those in athens and brussels but though voting through austerity may have been an historic moment is one of the to put the nation's problems to bed meaning rather than be resigned to the past scenes of anger are likely to be part of greece's future. jake greece assy athens. but short of saving it from a financial abyss investment advisor pavel young is one of those things greece is supposed to salvation at 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 arm by the person who we're not sure whether he's the beauty or the baddie 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 three so in 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 short of law 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 where like a nine year old child every friday it's going to have to go to daddy say it's done untold work say it's been a good boy and overall can it please how the next two weeks pocket money in order to pay it civil servants and that's a horrible loss of sovereignty. lot of report this preaching safety first for russia saying its armed forces should be battle ready to face any threat that's the latest for you watch a message from the prime minister as he prepares to take part in the presidential

election just under two weeks on what's good now the latest on this response there are for us so syria to tell us why food is concentrating on the military now. this is the sixth out the code that the prime minister has published every monday in the main newspapers in the country and other previous articles of touched on a wide range of subjects other this book much so they should discussion they've covered everything from the economy to democracy now this latest ones addressing national security and is talking about the need to upgrade the armed forces now the priorities mentioned. air missile defense a nuclear weapons intelligence and updating and modernizing the navy and the army as well now the whole of a whole that cost hundreds of billions of dollars over the space of about ten years . russian lawmakers have objected to the amount of planned money to be spent almost

nice in the armed forces but the prime minister stressed the importance of not a very weak at this time it out in the article it talks about the rise of political or regional conflicts some of which is says have you know castrated its own russia's buddhas it also talks about the need for a full string the. defense it does make notes of the fact that some more modern weaponry in the future could be used to replace nuclear weapons when more powerful and precise weaponry comes along it also touches on the perceived threat of the nato missile defense shield in europe russia has been wrangling over the details about for quite some time and say the tools to get in the also poll about the need for the new capabilities t.v. posted. the threat as well. we will under no condition give up on.