while three days of national mourning is being observed in portugal after one of the country's greatest ever footballers you say vo has died at the age of seventy one the mozambique born forward scored a phenomenal seven hundred thirty three goals in seven hundred forty five matches and helped benfica win eleven domestic crowns and one european cup he was also the top scorer at the nine hundred sixty six world cup in england with nine goals including four against north korea and had been a football ambassador since retiring in one nine hundred seventy nine. meanwhile coach carlo ancelotti as well as his assistants in a deans of damage watched spanish giants realm of trade edges form a side french champions league leaders. one nil in a friendly in cats are twenty year old has say scored the nineteenth minute winner to upstaged teammate and ballon d'or nominee christiane i rebelled zero karim benzema went close to making it two nil early in the second half was denied by the

woodwork. well p.s.g. frontman zlatan ybor him of it also failed to make an impact in that profile friendly washable sweden captain showed off his beach football skills in the desert as his guitar own club travels to the gulf country for a training camp during the winter break even have a bitch was also on the long list for the ballon d'or but failed to make the cut after sweden crushed that's two right now those portugal four two on aggregate in last november's world cup playoffs while the thirty two year old says he'd love to reignite with lionel messi after the boss alone a star was linked with a move to p.s.g. . if he's on the market of course p.g. is there because like a explained before the project of p.s.g. is to dream big and dream big if you can have a player like missy you don't dream big. dream is reality. and it was eight twenty seven's birthday to remember for hull city midfielder tom huddlestone who fired in the fourth goal of the tigers six nil home demolition of

poland in the english premier league the playmaker haven't found a net since going for top name in a full two thousand and eleven and not to have his hair cut until he struck again over two and a half years and fifty five games later he ended that drag racing fifty nine thousand dollars for charity and earning a place in the august term. oh yeah the last night's events that have been vetted with a physio a doctor whether that was at tottenham or overseas and. some a long time to look into a celebration. onto ice hockey and help our house tesco moscow came up just short at the spangler cup losing five three to geneva in the final of the invitational event in switzerland the local club storm to a four nearly it before i'll accept they can go on back that says late in the second period and alex and the fellow now to discuss second soon after the break

just for a while tussle the chin with the goal then make a design serve made it for three to hand says a lifeline with three minutes to go that joy was short lived as with a minute left on the clock as far as the bag gavin's sealed geneva suffice for a victory. well meanwhile in the cage fell defending champions and i was go one may ninth game in a row three two win over time at home to barry's to remain top of the table and on course best third straight cup robert about onion reports. just five seasons into the continental hockey league's history and in our moscow has already won its all to trough week. twice now the blue and whites are chasing their third consecutive title majorly the next one's always the hardest has gotten bored with it all the champion of the league is getting stronger and more competitive are there for a new season there are no easy games at all and no clear outsiders and there are no

strong favorites either anymore making predictions for the games in the cage while it's a thankless job even for experts back in two thousand turn a let's not at all clear the league's underdogs age sam but there is a good go for us to be named the best killed each of the club then merged with no more skilled was in iraq still in charge and up to susan the combination in the best of possible ways with zero earning to know coach of the season the wards and he's learned what machine clinching to get dirty cops in a row so he took my mission. we just stick to the plan and the systems that are being fined g.q. the last five years out says most of the guys know the coach and his training system pretty well it's been working well and sang off so there's no use in changing anything dramatically sitting confidently at the top of the lead in the mosco on the club to beat in the care shell after two consecutive day job champions

crowns the passion to win is still there the muscovites run of the two thousand and thirteen with their best month ever in the league dropping just one point out of seven games in december i and opened two thousand troops in the sixty fourth down back against the one guards in overtime win overbore i this is a little in much else in terms of motivation we start every new season from scratch some of our players haven't tasted good garren cut victory yet but anyway you can never get enough of winning victory is the ultimate motivator and other teams give the best when playing against us to build while we're out to win make our fans happy and enjoy the gang. our legs and iraq has already made his head treat of the best coach awards in the cage shell who would bet against his men going for this

third govern cup big three this isn't. about starting on r.t. . now on to basketball and russian giants tesco moscow began twenty fourteen on a winning note edging the first ever all russian showdown in the euro league's top sixteen it auriemma seen as men travel to look back on as one of the favorites but they share his title but the six time champions were given a stern test by the reigning euro cup holders the seesaw game finished seventy one apiece before the army men stepped up a gear to win eighty four points to seventy seven starting twenty fourteen finished last year with an under time victory at home to look to a new side not to mess around with people who think the courts will hopefully put in the hunger. games are coming thick and fast for cisco moscow has beyond the month find on two fronts at home and in europe however the russian champions did manage to take a little time outs as her players and coaching staff took part in an end of year

skills told them and it's there were plenty of smiles on the hardwood and no lack of tricks even as they plead for the grand prize a bottle of champagne a little bit of festive spirits before real action resumed something the biggest part of even for first of our scope you know you don't get to celebrate most of the holidays and we don't have is as good of occasions to stop what you know it's part of just to kind of deal with this with the holiday season in full swing those basketball lovers who one busy with last minute shopping have the chance to watch serious counts final game of the calendar year against neptun us and one man who took the opportunity was the u.s. ambassador michael mcfaul who wants to scar seal victory ninety points to seventy seven in the extra period but the entire native is a big basketball fan and so keen he recently broke his hand during a match well i used to play that we have there's

a game on sunday nights at the embassy the russians and americans play together and i try to play when i can when i. time but the last time i played there were two bore two very athletic gentlemen playing more athletic than me so i've got to get better before i can play again meanwhile serious constantly just home big tree sore bandstand longs for me to sing group b. and b. to be really as this season very can proving to be a force of domestic and also european levels mostly of young women with not time to find out for by adventure when is an impure costs for the squad but included powerful would come hines to since join says. this campaign off to further changes to my roster for six time your league champions are now targeting a return to continental glory two thousand and thirteen is ready here a transition to say is as a hundred place a number of the old guard service so well over the last game is over seem is slowly starting to gel as tough a toss way ahead in two thousand and fourteen as

a club look to try and win but first year really tight sole in six years after somebody who comes to be on and managed to cruise for it to the top sixteen in santa sasha county says is a real hunger to go way off to getting to a final four in the last two seasons for a lot of players here you know no no we would have the many players to warn you know because who won two with. people who've been assessed a full on time to have a one year lead a long time so i hope and will realize that you know i think everybody wants to win so we're different it's one of our goals always try and try to get to the goal being one of europe's powerhouses certainly helps say sky deep pockets in a deep roster and can rest plans to keep them fresh for bigger games later in the season the victory of a neptunus proved they can win even when playing below palm which the whole mark of any side with championship ambitions that's beyond him and look to monch home to

great heights in two thousand and fourteen richard i'm fully totty moscow. starting with basketball and in the n.b.a. last thursday golden state triumph by an impressive one hundred twenty three points to one hundred fourteen defending champions miami brian wade was back for the heat from a knee injury and sank twenty two points but golden state stephen curry top score of the thirty six as the inspired warriors then went on to beat atlanta and washington just stretch their winning streak to the line longest since ninety two seventy five. well that's all for part one but we'll be back soon with a teenager who's hoping to become russia's first ever formula one champion so you after the break.

there are many internal battles in society liberals and conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anything the battle for school uniforms teachers argue that uniforms eliminate a big distraction in the classroom and break up the caste systems that can evolve at school between the cool fashionable kids and the ones who can barely afford lunch like me in my younger years but teenagers will scream uniforms crush their freedom of expression and that they have a right to express who they are their individuality who has the right to dictate to them what to wear the thing they don't realize is that if the school doesn't tell them what to wear that big corporations and m.t.v. will all the cool individuals who dress alike and blindly follow all the trends are just obeying corporate marketing instead of their parents yeah for some reason it is bad if the school punishes you for dressing improperly but if the cool kids make your life a living hell for not wearing the right brand of shoes well that's all well and good for some reason hey look at it this way school uniforms are cheap which leaves

more money for parents to buy you video games be it individual in your actions and not a fake individual in trendy clothes but that's just my opinion. compared to any other big large nationwide institution i would see in the bank is almost free from all those mistakes. significant number of mistakes happen and we try to rectify it we try to put it in a system where you can detect any fault in any problem that arises in the system because that does system is computer that is so deep that checking that from your head office what's going on in the remote villages and that immigrants as we work could. well what about living every single village and i live this has access to me back microcredit program so we have borders all around the country we have eight

and a half million borrowers ninety seven percent of the women are all connected with our system. welcome back to the sport and let's resume with much of sport as russia's second of a formula one driver that cutts is preparing for his maiden season in the a russia host they made an f one race in sochi doesn't end but top of caught up with the toro rosso teen. it took a few races for the neal crowd to get into the swing of the g p three series but as soon as he got comfortable behind the wheel the nineteen year old russian storm to the title in style this made in triumph couldn't fail to sleep on the red bulls raider as he developed through their own system throughout was then named a taurus a driver for the twenty fourteen season after impressing his bosses with his consistent progress. had a great great couple of last month and

a strong contract then followed by by the three practices in austin and brazil so yeah i was ready to head and take part in this system for practice it's helped melt who had got his first taste of life as an f one driver with outings during first practice at the final two grand prix of last season when many admirers with how quickly he was on the base his fluent italian has also helped as he speaks the same language as his new team they said to become russia's second abba f one driver following in the food stamps of former ran on and catherine racer of next year will be a truly special not only for crowd who'll debut at the binnacle of single seater racing but also for russia as the winter olympic venue of sochi will play host to the country's in more girl grand prix on october the twelfth so were helpful for our culture and. it's autograph of her many years or more and more russian fans from

a lot and come and see this races so it's sort of some of the great things that are there to what her letter is because from is going to be very special to have the whole run free formula one will see wide ranging rule changes next term with more powerful cars which some experienced drivers say will be difficult to control nevertheless combat is unfazed and contrary to the thoughts of world champion sebastian vettel the young russian is in favor of the proposed awarding of the. points in the last races of the season. everybody was unpredictable from zero other than they were about to go that's for this double wides i think they're just trying to vary the form along predictable so i can't complain about it so to better so i find it quite interesting and i still i would not be the one who because i had to buy this for. four time world champion event the one he's made in grand prix with taurasi at the out spirit mourns a circuit in two thousand and eight when he was aged just twenty one the youngest

ever raced with well the rushing teenager says getting to formula one was just the first step as he sets his sights on physicality meeting i promo on the way to get there is right about things but successful driver was sure to win there so that's what i want to do as well of course in the future. that is a modest and down to earth person who knows it will take some time to reach f one speed but he will still be going out to florida to fulfill his racing dream once again by the above r t. staying with formula one as for ari fans gathered outside a french hospital to mark the birthday of legendary driver michael schumacher who turned forty five on january the third the seven time world champion is in a critical but stable condition in a medically induced coma after hitting his head on a rock while skiing in the alps the record breaking german retired from f one for a second time in two thousand and twelve after winning ninety one races during his

nineteen year career. person a very unique person you know and. i think he'll get there soon he'll be in his last victory and i had a second to take to ensure. on the tennis and women's world number one serena williams claimed her first title of the season after battling past second ranked toria as our inca six four seven five in brisbane serena posted eleven aces and no double faults coming back from forty down in the second set to defend her title and hopes to get even better at this year's first major at the australian i think which gets underway next week. i think i'm playing ok i feel like again there's a definitely room for improvement which i think is great because i don't want to head into you know a major playing perfect you know maybe not doing so well knowing that i am not going to be able to improve so i look forward to the next week just training and

try to get better all serene i had also outmuscled a battling maria sharapova six two seven six in the semifinals as the russian world number three made her competitive comeback from a shoulder injury as a rule her out of the american open and twelve finals in istanbul at the end of last season and sharapova is now hoping to up her game and defeat serena for the first time in a decade if the team meet again in melbourne. for one to have a chance to beat serena i have to get myself in the match and i have to raise my level that's what champions do i mean she's she's raised her level so much in the last couple of years and if you if you want to you know be right there you have to do that as well. and on the men's side lleyton hewitt prevailed in a battle of the thirty two year old former world number ones as the crowd favorite stones top seed roger federer in a tight streets that are six one four six six three the swiss maestro did smash

a thirteen aces but could only convert a single break point as the australian veteran claimed his first time i don't mean almost four years. on to winter sports and last weekend president vladimir putin and prime minister dmitry medvedev were in sochi to take a close personal look at the olympic venues including downhill skiing and biathlon then later mr putin took to the ice to play hockey with belarus president alexander lukashenko and legends such as paddleboard a and righteous life as he saw off russia has imposed tight security around sochi with a fifty billion dollars game starting on february the seventh. while in germany bob slave auction alexanders a cough claimed a silver and a wrong ones at the world cup stage in vinterberg the thirty nine year old and his teammate alex a voivode that finished second best to swiss and you out bat hefty and alex berman in the two mounted and fours of course state his four month up to

a third place finish the next day the two time olympic medalist denying the german teams a clean sweep of the podium with maximilian aren't taking the top honors at his home event. while the reigning world of skeleton champion alexander to check off how long to top spot in the overall standings despite having to settle for groans in the men's event the olympic bronze medalist finished behind the latvians u.s. brothers martins and co must of course and with a closer look at what lies behind the sibling success his concert in but up of almost all of the nine olympic medals claimed by the soviet union in delusion bob sleigh will warm things to the web fans the baltic country used to boast the only trek and eastern europe and this a golden venue remained the driving force behind latvia success as an independent nation form a bobsled brakemen dine with give everything to the sport he loves and now not only manages the track but he also encouraged his two sons marching and thomas to

compete in the skeleton since nineteen ninety eight runs over all small will taking part in different like david days before the stuff that sliding in book. let them champion and volleyball when i started walking the line three months before i ask him to try. and scale it on the runs or stop the slide. so i like. the bus the. sport and thanks to their father seen the show enthusiasm good two brothers have now reached the peak of their sport margins he's one of the world's stop sliders before it's a. i'm reigning world cup holder while elder brother thomas has less silverware but due to work together successfully as one unit we don't have a secret so i think in that's a main thing and always in a team there is some competition there is also some secrets but we don't have

secrets clear if somebody did good good line or whatever something fall in technique and we share this information last season martin's won his fourth street overall title recording eight world cup victories from the nine races with thomas finishing runner up and the due course brothers are on course for yet another dominant year having already taken five podium places from four world cup stages so far and target two of the three mantles at the season's biggest event the sortie olympics the most famous but of course watched a lot of his restored medals if i would do just call for my best and i would to get silver maybe i wouldn't be so happy with my darkest days to do to do my best this conference also is moving us be forward and pushing to become better at lead sochi the most important venue in d.c. year and we are really hard to varying and trying to show our best martins newcrest

going to be a second level silver medal at the twenty tam winter olympics in vancouver and three years later won the first ever world cup stage at the brand new start to track now he hopes to bring home his country's made in gold from that from a way slow constant r t. one final a yellow knot in your neck is one of russia's top ice dancers taking silver at last year's european championships with partner nicky takeouts alaap off and michael gazzaniga caught up with a teenager who is preparing to face her biggest test yet. began figure skating at the age of four often initially focusing on the individual event she moved on to ice dancing and linked up with current partner nikita cuts a lot of time in two thousand and eight two years later the duo to gold at the world junior event and then silver at the twenty thirteen european championships as well as claiming three back to back silvers at the russian nationals most recently

last month where felt very good after there are national championships because away had very good programs and were skated well and their public was very happy with our program therefore great after that because their people the most important thing that people are that and our program and i can feel is so. there there you're there oh yeah just the nineteen year old russian was born in kazakhstan i spent two years training in the us despite a young success level headed teenagers well aware there's still plenty of head coach nicolo models of seems to have found the right way to prepare the jewel for the upcoming european championships right now we just want to have a new year time to relax relax our head because all is really nervous and our courts said we said we don't want to celebrate or want to go on ice. you just need

to relax your head you just need to relax yourself and you need to go on the ice with this power and you need to just this like it's going to be like ten or twelve days and you need to push hard and we're going to win a good result at the euros would go phone instilling confidence head of the partnerships because test yet the twenty four team still she winter olympics i think is going to be there mentally preparing the most important thing before the olympics because there's so much talk talking so much people who was to help who don't want to help you need to just do your work do your work and do what you want do what you need and just don't listen to the people like so many people just listen for your team like you're preparing and they know what to do so i hope it's going to work. if i'm council up of who face stiff competition not only from the powerhouse pairs of kind of the virtues and more and the usa as meryl davis and

charlie watch but also fellow russians in a country that will get over and you need to still have your who beat them at the recent nationals to win the fourth straight gold. i think they're very good and i can say again all the all the people who are going to be like him top ten on the olympic the all prepared very well they all have great programs all the very strong physically as so. it's a competition also in the competition you never know. if she loves the adoration of the fans and believes the crowd response is the true seal of approval however she knows that's real glory only comes from winning i think for me it's important of course winning because everybody who is working so hard is now poor and this. is so much health is going on that you working so hard so long so it's you need

to win because everybody is working so hard and there were body wishing for it. so and then the glory and everything is going to for sure. and cuts a lot of have the advantage of still being in the shadow over and some of your and the north americans but the youngsters are hoping to shake up the podium in the olympic ice dancing category. mark of trying to moscow region. and that's all the sport i find. if you. know opportunity. to start to construct your own. kiln all want to be a bit give don't want to be gangstas you don't want to be dog deal that they don't

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