no that is true. i've seen the japanese men. storm in thirty and really good to disappearing. on me while sticking to the plan was faced as approach last week after football's governing body played down a top official statement about moving the twenty twenty two world cup in council to the winter drought has claimed the flagship tournament will not be played in june in july because of searing temperatures in the gulf states but safe as swiftly added a decision on timing has not yet been taken while president sepp blatter also defended brazil's preparations for this summer's event despite failing to meet their deadlines reveal be ready i am sure that in in march called a stadium be ready and we have time enough to make somebody herzl's there in these

modern stadia i'm sure they will respond to the expectation of display dateless but also of the actors which are the players. moving on to basketball where russian side looking much lost their second straight top sixteen game in the maiden season in the year and make the present onside travel to israel for the group that encounter what went down eighty five points to seventy five maccabi tel living week cameroonian son says somebody spots him to sign twenty two points during his fifteen minutes on court as former russian coach david plotz did the home side to go six straight nearly victory and first win this season overlocker will see will travel to the star moment week to play that lets us around. staying with the top sixteen where tesco must go made it two wins from two off to a convincing seventy seven points to sixty two win at home to this you an inside job get this in a match up rich inside the at history richard sample reports. it was and still is

one of the great rivalries in european basketball says come oscar versus shall greece well the club from if you were in your second city dominated to the mid one nine hundred eighty s. it's beyond him and have enjoyed more success over the last decade push all grist one way you're only trying to win ninety nine thousand nine hundred since bowlen hard times and have experienced financial troubles but are now looking to bounce back with a mix of belief you when you invent trends max out is just a cave because robert has yet to talk us as well as some emerging talents under the guidance of forty year old former national hero sali a strong bogus group that meeting would say the sky was a second game for both sides in the euro league's top sixteen shall get its had suffered a disappointing eighteen point loss at home to buy muting. the argument and won their first game it fell a russian side look a mighty crosstown dark with a tory messina's side targeting the first you're really trying to listen to two

thousand and eight and they got off to a fantastic starts racing into a twelve to three lead and the visitors never managed to recover. despite a brief comeback in the third quarter. of a lead below double digits for the first time since the very start of the game but say it's covered by strong performances from sunday wins saw him i mean last year dos each stepped up again and eventually ease to seventy seven points to six two big. glad to get the good start but during the second corps they got the little credibility at their comeback for the six points and second quarter for start again the well against their performance and third quarter was for us a game was a done but with this team you cannot really make a lot of three point shots and this is this is their hope to change the game. i mean we have you know really really good team really good talented team from top to bottom so we know we're at our best we're playing you know team basketball you know

we have you know everybody on the cork are with. us and i you know everybody that came out of the court to cheer we played well. from start by saying scott and i chew and i'm in the top sixteen shall greece are rooted to the bottom of the group but two straight loss is not a great start for a club that's one of the oldest in the year really good aiming to regain those former glories rich about bullied hoxsey moscow. well meanwhile former n.b.a. star dennis rodman sang happy birthday to north korean leader kim jong un before leading a squad of former n.b.a. players in a friendly game against north korea's to. the hall of fame of dedicated the game to his best friend kim who turns thirty one on january the eighth but it is that he rodman has become a p.r. tool for most korea's government fourteen thousand people one zero two zero just north star forty seven words to the team on and off the tunes were mixed up with

this. thanks it's not about money isn't. when they just want to destroy us that is what do what it's what i've been assured lucia over the years you know. people are missing here go korea it's not enough. you know the more she was actually trying to change this country. while jumping on me while in the n.b.a. last thursday two time defending champions miami stumbled to the first of two straight defeats in new york going down one hundred two points to ninety two at the knicks the moment james scored thirty two in just eight hundred three a game brian white added twenty three as the feat led by five points at the halfway stage yet comment on anthony's twenty nine help to the spa and next fight back for the home side running out ten point win is next a miami also a loss to the uniform drew carey that spoil the knicks and now for much winning

streak. now to a different kind of hate self the tennis world number one serena williams said she wasn't afraid of the thirty five degree temperatures at the australian open as the american five time champion prepared to open against seventeen year old local wildcard ashley bhatti. we have been training my whole life in the heat something i think i'm pretty used to or i mean obviously he is just completely different than any other he voted so. it's ok and you just got to be ready to play in any circumstances. and on the men's side four times defending champion what about djokovic you need cost argentina as one minako seventy five six won in an exhibition match in melbourne before kicking off his title defense against sliding back lukash let's go talk of edge was joining the other hot from rafael nadal andy murray and roger federer the serbian six time grand slam champion is targeting his fists ground down on the back now with well we're going to boris becker as his new

coach. it's great to be back a i love australia i love coming back here i missed it also. you know last couple of couple weeks i've been spending a lot of time of course on the court with my team and off the court in the gym and doing everything necessary to get ready for a start of the season and of course the first grand slam. and on the eve of the australian open the bitch once again who knew that chocolates to journalists at the pre-tournament press conference something that's becoming a bit of a tradition while the women is defending champion victoria azarenka of belarus hopes they can also maintain their winning ways at melbourne park as the twenty four year old targets her third straight. i think you know she was she was joking and said like it's became a tradition you know she'd do this every year this. year is trying our hardest to make sure we do this every year but you know it's been fun the last two years

hopefully thinking. next year might not be fun for the world's highest paid baseball player alex rodriguez is set to lose around twenty two million dollars after the new york yankees third baseman is banned until the end of the n.l.b. season following a doping scandal a rod suspension was actually cut from a would be record of two hundred eleven to one hundred sixty two games but will still keep him out of the postseason matches the thirty eight year old plans to contest the ban in federal court. now into winter sports and the canadian ice hockey team will soon head to sochi even to defend their olympic title while one former all star player is already in the east helping out the latest team to join the k h l comes a day but out of court with met the shack captain jonathan cheechoo here in moscow . right winger johnson she sure has been always teasing his ice hockey dream born into a native crease settlement called moose factory in the canadian province so from

tyra she made his community proud by making his way into the san jose sharks where he set the club record in gold and walked away with the morris rocket reshot raunchy in two thousand and six after the fifties seagull season but after a few injury field campaigns he struggled to earn a sports in the n.h.l. roast and decided just walk north america's second tier a for europe's top division with a cage becoming a welcome addition to its newest addition creation side medalist shark biggest obstacle was coming over and just basically put an n.h.l. on hold like i had last three years and try to make it back and you know it just wasn't right fits for me. but over here i wanted to come play this is probably the first to go save the n.h.l. so for me i wanted to you know i had a high level still and coming over here i think prior to that opportunity it's been a long and rocky road on the journey that brought cheechoo it was not great women

to shotgun making the occasional debut in their fifty fourth year while thirty three year old cheechoo became the team's captain and made history by scoring day for stand like a chill don't add fun time in madison they've been great friends over there and it was great for them. for me to be able to experience skin at first call and how loud it got and how excited they were. just been having a lot of fun so i like the fans over here they really get into it you know pretty much every rink is a noisy rink and i. know that there are some places where you know maybe the fans are know as much about hockey as. it's a do over here i think pretty much everybody over here knows knows the game has been around the game a scan i played in canada i see. lags behind football in the sport loving contrails creation of man wish jock a very poor people are its home and have earned many admirers and russia is due to

the attractive for an attacking style with just eleven games to go in their maiden regular season in the capital side a comfortably frame for the playoffs and almost sent for their debut in the knockout stages i think our job is just to get to the playoffs and then you know once you get to the playoffs anything can happen and it doesn't matter where you're seated i think we're seeing in every every league a lot of times they were an eight seed when said you know like where is getting hot at the right time i think that's the key for us is the peak at the right time. if you can do that you get the goaltending behind you anything's possible however the biggest guys hold on to this season will take place inside she is the ball drops at the winter olympics on february the twelfth and with the rose through is being announced a month before the games start she choose expecting in memorable tournament. there's some solid looking teams there. u.s. russia sweden. you can never count the fans they always come out and compete

hard so. it's looking to be a. really high intensity you know i think it's going to be a great olympics washing with his old injury wounds from the n.h.l. now well behind him cheechoo is determined to lead his new team to glory and ensure the twilight of his career sees the success and creation that he dreamed off back in canada. archie. and all that brings us safely to half time but we'll be back with the partying packed with all build up to the winter olympics stay change during the short break. because you don't states is the big dog the only hyper power and the cultural driving force of globalization it takes

a lot of flack i mean globalization means the whole world gets hollywood and hot dogs and not the other way around so let's take a break from the negativity and talk about something truly amazing about america and as a guy who lives in moscow i could say that the constitution of the united states is something truly amazing in russia there is constant talk about needing a new national idea a new ideology or political theory or big changes to the russian constitution and so on and it's hard for people in america understand this but twice in the twentieth century the system that russians gave their lives for collapsed and the current constitution was written quickly after a period of violence and said collapse not after a glorious victory now you see why people here are exactly memorizing amendments and founding fathers quotes here in america there are debates between liberals and conservatives but almost everyone believes the constitution and it is america's greatest strength there is a national idea that is a sacred document with a list of rules as almost universally agreed upon everyone with half a brain on the street but certainly not in congress knows when something is against

the constitution or should i see against america near universal belief in the constitution is actually something truly exceptional about america but that's just my opinion. previously peacekeepers' for a president of concerned with monitoring those you know post conflict environment nowadays they're increasingly asked to operate in a high risk while being the bible says to me. to stay. motionless with these people who have closed over almost twenty years for me and people do millions of this. based on refugees tens of thousands of women raped tens of thousands of children recruited as soldiers or as slaves no.

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welcome back to paul two of the sports show now with the clock ticking down to the sochi olympics sports fans have been planning that journeys to get to the black sea resort but one russian will be doing it the hardest way as michael christian explains. in the thirty one day run up to the twenty fourteen winter olympics there's still bags of time for you to get to sochi from moscow you could actually fly there and back a whopping one hundred eighty times you could drive there and back thirty six times or even take the train thirty times but one man has decided to take a more grass roots form of transportation that will give him only one realistic chance of making it to the opening ceremony on the seventh of february and that is by running and while the idea of traveling seven hundred kilometers on foot might sound crazy the man attempting to do it isn't dimitri yet often is a seasoned runner of twenty two marathons and fifteen all theresa is including the

grueling marathon the sablon a two hundred fifty kilometer run through the sahara desert but for this epic trek on home soil you know him has one simple aim to be. the main goal is just to complete the run i wanted to experience what it would be like to run such a distance seven hundred kilometers in thirty days i've run shorter distances in the past and i joined them but now i want to test myself against a four digit distance. the idea for the most could start to run came when you'd often realize that one of the world's biggest sporting events was about to take place in his country and he couldn't take part in it so we decided to run over fifty five kilometers a day for thirty days in order to reach the black sea resort in time for the opening ceremony on february the seventh while hoping to raise awareness of a debilitating condition that's the second leading cause of death worldwide but the only thing that does the dutch are another main goal of my run is to support the

fight against stroke that fact that you can reduce the risk of having strokes by run in is one of the main reasons behind this which is also why it is a charity run while your organ is supporting the russian fight against stroke fund the run em self will also have backup on route. as his formidable olympic journey and the course he's hoping to promote have prompted others to run some of it by side. with the back to when i first heard of the idea it inspired me and when i heard that me too it was running cologne over to help him realize his dream so i'll be following his every step and making sure he gets there would be up with us i said with much of what i wanted to support me three by riding with him at least at the beginning because i believe this is very important that such a moment for our country when the whole world will be watching us to be able to take part in these grand to vand in some ways and i hope it will stay in people's hearts for

a long time to come it often will be posting photos via instagram on the runs official website throughout the journey and so the nation and the rest of the world can give the support to this intrepid runner on his multi marathon journey to ensure he gets to the games on time what has genco r.t. moscow. and when those such a games get underway russia will be looking to take some medals in short track speed skating and rubber that on and tells us who and why. russia is still far from being a monk short tracks powerhouses but when it comes to speed skating everything may be changing fast last january the two thousand and thirteen european championships in sweden so the russians claim their first ever by thousand meter relay gold with one of the team's leaders. also it beneath the two thousand and twelve success and clinching his second wife hundred meter continental build a year on there is

a huge opportunity to make it to the next level on home ice at the two thousand and fourteen olympic games in sochi. because i think for me it's not about extra pressure at all my home fans support can only encourage and boost my performance and when it comes to the olympic games you always want to win when you feel the crowd is behind you that is something special it's a save bad the games will be really special for one of the most degraded athletes of the sport victor on this return olympic champion of curing two thousand and six for south korea was forced to leave his former team and country due to a conflict with the korean skating union vice president coach after missing the two thousand and ten games in vancouver and receiving russian citizenship twenty eight year old looking forward to his olympic comeback in sochi. along with his younger teammates three million lists rather and all given the global who already tasted

the flavor of the games in two thousand and claimed the time to shine has finally come. of course this time around it is a different story first of all we're much better prepared now in terms of training staff equipment medical service plus i have grown up again the olympic experience and confidence i don't feel any hype or pressure from media or friends of mine the games are coming soon but i sleep pretty well you know. i don't feel nervous ahead of the games we all feel like we've done so much to make it to their limbic team especially within the last season and it paid off the finish line is on the horizon we just need to show our best and such in russia head coach frenchman sebastiaan cross it scotius in his olympic predictions but one can suspect his expectations straight mushroom other than his words we keep the same target for me to come back

with at least one me down. because olympics is completely different competition so we can surely know what i watch and going ship but it's different completely different so. even if maybe we can do more if we can come back which one would only it would be already a really really good the final pre-owned big test the two thousand and fourteen european championships will take place in dresden germany at the end of january. mosca region. moving on to i saw and alexander ovechkin backed fellow n.h.l. star puddled out soup to become the russian captain of the boats were named on the twenty five man alan pick squad you have get the mountain goaltender some young valon off also made the cut after the first choice keeper assault charges of domestic violence against him dropped last month last time russia won an olympic gold was back in one thousand nine hundred two as part of the unified team but says

he must first focus on his washington capitals top before giving his all for his country. i don't think about sochi a lot because if i'm going to concentrate in sochi i'm going to be kind of certain my game and here. you know i give a hundred percent of what i can to help her win you know some of the. point i was game before i began going to come straight into such a game. well it's been a big blow for the american team after star skier lindsey vonn pulled out of sorts because of a nagging knee injury the twenty nine year old claimed the downhill gold in vancouver four years ago and says she's devastated not to be able to defend her title and could be set for more surgery on her right knee. and with the sochi games now less than four weeks away let's take a look at five top russians to watch and their chances of an olympic medal michael

graf genco reports. that's allan both of rod and max in turn called all the favorites to win the pairs ties. the russians of the current world and european champions and hold the record buying total short program and free skate board however the jewel face stiff competition from germany four time world champions i want to soft and go and roman show scored the first ten ever awarded on the new judging system and this week's european championships should provide a thrilling test head of the olympics. i learn as a bias and i as rediscovered have form in time to shine in tsotsi after first tasting a surprise victory in the parallel giant slalom at the twenty eleven world championships the twenty four year old has since overcome injury and won both the paolo and

giants islands at last year's russian championships while her husband american born vic wild is also targeting the podium for his adopted country after winning gold at the russian nationals as well as bronze at last year's world championships. veteran bobsled alexander who called will be competing at this winter olympics he took silver in the format event after an in two thousand and six and bronze in the two manhattan who are thirty nine year old has also won six medals at the world championships including gold in the german resort of clinics in twenty eleven and has won before man world cup three times but gold at his home olympics would crown a glittering career. alexander thirty four is the first ever russian to be crowned skeleton world

champion twenty eight year old. in competing since two thousand and four and is improving every year he won the overall skill to world cup in two thousand and nine four by bronze at the world championships two years later he took world silver and this just the right time winning the world title last year in vancouver trees across the bronze in sochi is after gold. will turn thirty one on the first day of competition at his home olympics after a modest showing at the two thousand and six games the speed skater was a russian revelation in vancouver taking bronze in the five thousand meters as well as silver in the ten thousand the following year he was crowned european and world around champion and is the host nation's big hopes for gold and aims to have a birthday which will live long in his and russia's memory of genco r.t.

. and finally with exactly a month to go before those games such as mine media center opens next to the olympic park in the coastal cluster the brand new building will provide workspace for thousands of journalists and will operate twenty four seven from next week on another media center is due to open also next week for those covering the events in the mountain cluster and one dutch volunteer can't wait for the sporting spectacle to begin. its once in a lifetime opportunity to be in an event this big and i really like its every show as such it is great it is sunny and it has the mountains. and that's all the sport i found there. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone

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