they have a very stable squad which has been together for a number of years such as surrogate even the share of each there is brothers gail dornan and david a shameless while the love may have left but they have brought in see that in that. their strong side and it's no coincidence that they always qualify for the champions league that make it out of the group stages they all have been in stunning form this season in all competitions the kings club have only lost three times while vick managed to score a stunning seventy nine goals in only twenty three games in the league of a currently enjoy a ten point lead over arch rivals barcelona. what do you know does have a few injury worries ahead of the game. and i gather marty both missing out on the trip to moscow for an injury however the forty nine year old says he has plenty of strength and depth there was an important the. world certainly not be rest in our top players don't choose the as it's going to be a tough match however we have

a great scored and the number of top players to choose from far better control marcella could play for i have a chance to big guns allegory in a korean men's m r that is because when you're commented that the synthetic pitch isn't really to his liking as he feels it's very different to playing on a natural grass surface while with the temperature being well below freezing this will also be difficult to get used to. however defender fabio cannavaro isn't particularly worried by the way of a rather serious car who he believes will be tough opponents. are the cold is the last thing we're thinking about at the moment we have a really difficult match ahead of us on tuesday if we start thinking about the artificial pitch of the cold weather then that will be really bad for us we must make sure we're concentrating fully when the game gets under way in which i believe . three zero will start as hot favorites when the match gets under way despite being wary of a serious car side who have a backing of

a packed to capacity luzhniki stadium under spire the wonderful array of talent at his disposal the review has spelled out clearly that his side need to be the top of a game it big and to come away from this encounter with a victory he so desperately wants since god couldn't ask for a tougher stance as they play their first competitive march two thousand and twelve or their of course in action against real madrid a side but of only lost for season in all competitions and are currently running away with the lead at times all wove a second leg still to come of the burn a bio it's imperative we are going to get a positive result absolutely stadium on tuesday to take we've been back to spain richmond willfully dancey. in the meantime to scar head coach admits that his side are the underdogs going into the against the spaniards will be pinning a lot of his hopes on striker said to scored five times in the champions league so

far over the ivory coast international and top scorer in the russian premier league last season has just returned to the club following the africa cup of nations plus due to the russian winter break have not played a competitive game for two and a half months so those kids in there are going to be in for a real test at the stadium on tours at night. i'm going to come on the court but when you play against a team that comes from a close lower than your own career now the game plan usually means to win but to get the right result in the coming fixture against real problems simply fall into the game plan might not be enough but from there we sure hope that our paul ince don't perform to the limits of their ability and we also need to try to take advantage of some weak points that any team has a year when she did better than wanted to any federal has won the world tournament in what is the world number three comfortably defeated. in straight sets sixteen

time grand slam winner in that of the first set six one victory that never looked in doubt in the second as federal wrapped up a straight sets victory six one six four how to finish as federal claims his center foes a.t.p. career title. boarding chairs go to mall has claimed the world championships title in the slopestyle in no way american completed the competitions program with a high score despite considering some of the finals elements to his opponents to the total of eight to seven point nine was just one point clear of the second place canadians have a stand two ton. summits of belgium finished third some ten for the points behind. it's all of us sitting in the moment joining the people around we only have this career lancy get to enjoy the time that you're doing it so i don't take it too seriously just had fun with it. in the meantime delay these events spencer

o'brien of canada triumph she started the final cautiously gradually five advantage over the rest of the pack a total score of eighty four point eight four points actually secured the canadian a comfortable advantage of her arch rival jamie anderson of the a.f.c. and the group of finland complete to the podium claiming drawings. i was so nervous i have had a really rough week here hurt my back a bit had some big spells and just had a hard time getting sort of course so today i just i really just wanted to put a run down. and finally pupils from twenty eight special needs schools gathered in the moscow region for and the sports total meant but this year's event has an additional significance some of the when i was awarded the chance to train for an expedition to the north pole and one course who has all 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 youth because we're going to stage the fifth rushing new thanks bishan to 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 two zero 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 wealth the february a sport of an all russia ski day the annual ski russia event so on 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 joy it means sport is popular in our country and more people choose a healthy way of life is to cities anniversary of the race which has a long history and good traditions who had about twenty five thousand participants this year pilla joy but they spirals 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 you sure can use 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 but it was the first having a good time 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

a right there to help them and this is how it's done let's go. to the north pole skiing expedition led by suits i'm guinness world record holder much they are all will be staged from the fifteenth until its 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. when we cross greenland we had a guy who cannot walk because of spinal paralysis he would sit on a special board and push him so forward with sticks but his disability did not prevent him from cooking the side that was his chill we would do something else he couldn't do without a couple using 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 skiing spanish and 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 ramon cost of r.t. moscow region. ok that's all from me and the sports desk for today thanks for watching us good bye. the issues that so much i think we should go right on it here in the trials and tribulations of the middle class long considered the killer of the west political and economic order is now the victim of a long term. he

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chinese state media says the u.s. and nato countries support of syria's opposition is driving the nation into civil war troubles to one volunteer. army and the rebels have clash live analysis on the situation in syria shortly for you know the. decision time for greece its creditors debate whether athens will sink or swim as the population rages against deep cuts made to secure the live reaction to that a little later. on the path to war none of them washington want israel against attacking iran's nuclear sites asking for time to let sanctions do their job the

top stories. around the clock around the world this is good to have you with us this hour the u.s. and its allies are pushing syria into civil war by backing the position that the chinese. newspaper beijing joined moscow's efforts to bring about a political settlement in the crisis torn country with a top choice diplomat recently visiting damascus amid reports of ongoing violence in the country more of a notion i have been to one of the syrian cities caught up in the conflict. danny fifty kilometers northwest of damascus lebanon just over the border once a relaxed luxury mountain resort the town has recently been the scene of brutal clashes between assad's forces and anti-government groups there is a law in the fighting and as we approach the city we are not sure who's in control

at the checkpoint they are happy to see a russian television crew as 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 in the years security council's resolution and voted against another one at the general assembly which put pressure on assad to leave 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 wars 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 of this town knew griffith is a period of course and to government one of the army regain control of his adani

they destroyed them or they tried to destroy them all at least but some still remain. when we are in town we can hear the sounds of the shelling some turn a deaf ear to it. all is fine shooting 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 shelling random houses searching arresting people there's f.s.a. an armored groups on the ground too but few. but not everyone here says the situation in the same way was when armed people came here we asked the army to stand up for us now they are controlling the city at the dulles sharp is 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 he says the army is now here there's no armed groups anymore no tension for the brother daniel 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 the military tell us they were only used as protection on the way back through the checkpoint an officer keep supporting everyone suspicious in this violence locked nation marouf nationality danny syria. for more on the situation there in syria i can now talk to your machine his international politics professor from bristol university there in the

u.k. china says western states a stirring up rest in syria by backing the opposition do you think nato states will pay any attention to beijing's warning. no i mean for one thing i don't think it's. the official policy yet for nato or for the west to either arm the opposition or to for military intervention it's probably talk is talking up the possibility of military intervention or particularly arming the opposition as i said to me this might be. the candles and means the. people in the united kingdom but it's as not being a policy simply rewarding the possibility of the rhetoric eventually becoming part of the policy where i mean there is

a very interesting parallel between the syria situation and libya situation i mean . there is also. a leading up to. the british army for example the libyan opposition there's a lot of rhetoric that eventually became part of the official policy. so you say no official intervention from foreign party as such but it's interesting isn't it that we read of reports suggesting that turkish and israeli special forces are already in syria assisting the armed opposition i mean that the claims are true considering the u.s. and some of that some of its allies have said they have no desire for military intervention what do you read into what's actually happening. virtually i think it's a little different when you have the turkish shorty's really special forces on the ground in syria different from the world the united states or the british lito officially send in someone forces for military intervention so yes and it

might be some. contest intervention already as you mentioned but it's not as a set of policies so there is concern obviously. of this kind of possibility of peaceful resolution of the syrian situation is undermined by any such rhetoric and also possible direction policy direction policy in this direction of course assad has made a gesture has and he's promised a referendum for constitutional and political reforms later this week interesting enough instead of participating opposition representatives and heading to to his ear to meet their foreign supporters why this lack of enthusiasm for the opposition to be in gauging with this referendum i mean they should be at home trying to settle the crisis should never not being in tunisia. well i mean again you know how this this initiative has been interpreted by different parts parties to the

conflict are very important and also where the. party will is encouraged not accepting. news producer initiative again. you know. what being in the west you're saying or by western interests being encouraged by by them i think i think you know the news that there is some kind of encouragement for the opposition not to accept any kind of political solution in some way keep fighting with what you see again this call for assad to step down and so on obviously encourage the opposition. rejecting this kind of government initiative and this particularly coming from us our selves just briefly beijing obviously very much involved sending up chinese diplomat to damascus any chance that china could achieve some sort of breakthrough in the oceans just very briefly i don't think so you know because china of musea will wants to do have. it has

peace with. all of their own serious situation but the paging has very limited influence really i don't think it can sway the situation leave it or i can thank you so much for your thoughts on this. there in bristol thank you very much the u.k. banks. well it's the moment of truth for greece as euro zone finance ministers meet in brussels to decide its future they said they're hopeful the deal will be agreed with the french finance minister insisting all the elements are in place but his dutch counterpart called for the e.u. the european central bank and the international monetary fund to maintain a permanent presence in greece in return for the bailout greece has already met all of its creditors previous demands the country's forced a massive new austerity package to qualify for one hundred thirty billion euros of rescue cash but there's nell talk that funds could be paid into a specially set up account things access to it would be restricted and if it misses its targets the cash flow would stop the rage of the greek people however it is only grow with every new political measure imposed as artie's jacob grieves reports

. voting for morse there ety 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. 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 the person who borrows and borrows becomes the slave of who he borrows from because he's after passing more unpopular cuts greek politicians are told that brussels amber lynn have disposed 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. share the grievances of the public and offer them an alternative if the greek economy is not restart just if it doesn't go down the alley of development that eventually greece 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 their take it 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 messages or brussels of. people forces in 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

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 there's more people as we see. things of this situation because we were in greece cover way the way veritas last sunday's mass demonstrations and tim ewing uproar. sent a message to those in athens and brussels though voting through austerity may have been an historic moment it's one of unlikely to put the nation's problems to bed. meaning rather than be resigned to the past seas of anger are likely to be part of greece's future. greece r.t. athens. and it's now talk to harlan green who is the editor of popular economics dot com greece says it's met all the e.u. demands but now the dutch finance minister is calling for constant monitoring of greek finances does that suggest there's a suspicion that greece can't really fulfill all its pledges once it's got all that

money. i'll tell you this they're using the wrong vehicle for this all. basically have the rebuilding of greece and it should be the i.m.f. that is running the program now the european banks the i.m.f. how's knows how to redevelop the country recants and to in greece's case they've lost productivity they've lost what we call economists call aggregate demand by just demanding austerity without a plan for recovery it's a plan for recovery that's missing that i haven't seen yet so bailout money then from the i.m.f. would be acceptable and would be effective. well the i.m.f. is the one that knows how to how to construct a redevelopment plan greece is sliding very quickly into being a third world country and the i.m.f. knows how to deal with third world. greeks themselves are very hard workers i mean just in the new york times magazine there were quoted figures that the greeks work

about a third more it in terms of hours and the germans do they work very hard but it's very inefficient one number you can look at it did tell you what the problem is with greece is their productivity ratio the output for man hours woman hours work and it is down in the lower thirds around slovakia ok so their productivity has really fall on us as europe's as a whole compared to the u.s. and so they need a redevelopment plan and the i.m.f. is the best agency for instituting we development plans all as italy where where their money should go just was you then redevelopment but someone may say that one don't get greece out of the eurozone altogether many analysts have said that even e.u. officials have said that default could be a more preferable option for the people of greece and in fact that would lead to an exit of the eurozone is that an option i think that i suspect that the greeks greeks here's me the german finance minister minister wolfgang shortly wants that i

think he is the one pushing hardest for the austerity measures without a plan to rebuild greece and i suspect that's what he wants and that's what the germans are pushing for i don't think it has to happen it would be unnecessarily painful they have to reconstitute the demand and if you just call for hysteria the u.k. . kills it it kills the economy i mean they're caught and he's falling like a stone right now because of that incident and so it doesn't they don't need to do that they don't need to kick it out of the euro. it's a do to plan for redevelopment and if they can get out of the euro would that not result in the collapse of the euro zone and indeed have a huge negative impact on europe itself indeed german chancellor angela merkel has said she really wants a united europe she said that if the euro fail so will the e.u. . yes i believe there's a psychological factor there but it's such a small part of the eurozone merkel's counterpart gearhart sure you know the

socialist was voted out by her and said stead of austerity they should be giving them more aid to help them rebuild their economy i mean i'm not even everyone in germany agrees with shortly what i believe is running the economy what about the political implications very briefly germany's finance minister has proposed that greece to perspire on its elections as a condition for more cash i mean do you think greece is in danger of losing its sovereignty and the greek people sacrificing so much in order to stay in the eurozone just briefly they don't have to forfeit their sovereignty they do not have to postpone the elections they just have to demand or require that a plan be set up to rebuild their economy to create what we call aggregate demand it's not there right now because they're laying off people and that's a shrinking their economy all crew just said it this morning the new york times austerity without a plan for rebuilding it is that is what it reads and what he calls the confidence

faeries there's no such thing as confidence faeries this is the it is just a service in this country tried it and look at where they where we are now growing again because we have some fiscal stimulus you cannot have austerity when you are during a recession period sons of a of eurozone politicians can learn a little something from your heart and thank you very much indeed helen green editor of popular economics dot com thanks for your time your thoughts you're welcome. the u.s. and britain are warning israel not to attack iran's nuclear facilities saying new sanctions need time to work to iran currently being visited by u.n. inspectors denies accusations it's developing atomic weapons but israel which also accuses iran of attacking its diplomats abroad could now be on an unstoppable path to a military strike as are reports now from tel aviv. visitors leaders are actively drumming up the military rhetoric. from iran is the big.