hello and thank you for joining me kate bought ridge for the r t sports show a pic of the best sporting action from russia and around the globe coming up and here are the top stories. pauling cvs maria sharapova and world number one serena williams crash out of the australian open but victoria azarenka remains on course to defend her title in melbourne. last sort she's a bread machine and they chose start trouble that so is named captain of russia's twenty five month paice hockey roster as the red machine go in search of the country's first olympic gold at their home games next month. and holding court russian balls people team him keith crush israeli champions

marketing hype back in the euro cup to extend their unbeaten run to twenty one games. but first to tennis and it's been a bad couple of days for the women's top seeds at the australian open after both maria sharapova and world number one serena williams went crashing out at the last sixteen stage third seed sharapova went to slovakia's dominika to both of us three six six four six one as the russian four time major winner took a magical moment after the second set and posted a total of forty five unforced errors. i mean i haven't been playing the best tennis throughout this tournament but i've found ways to get through the us the matches and. you know i try to do that again today should play supplanted extremely well. while meanwhile serbia's and evanovich served up the biggest shock so far by beating world number one serena williams for the first time following

a come from behind a four six six three six three victory ensuring evanovich reach the second grand slam quarter finals since winning the french open back in two thousand and eight. it's amazing i mean this this victory means so much to me and you know i worked so hard and all the hard work you know it's being offered you know for a fact are going to play so much better than whatever it is with their knowing that are. disappointed or anything i just know that i can play ten times both of them are due to. however second seed and two time defending champion victoria azarenka of belarus came out an easy six three six two win out against american sloane stephens. while in the men's draw it was business as usual for novak djokovic as the defending champion brushed aside italy's fabio fognini six three six love six two the serbian converted his first match point with his seventh ace of the match

the twenty six year old is yet to drop a set of targets his fifth astray and open crown waiting in the quarterfinals is stannis last veteran cut off switzerland. right now let's turn to ice hockey and after a disappointing seven three defeat to hosts canada in the quarter finals of the vancouver olympics russia is now among the favorites for a medal in sochi where n.h.l. star pub about soup will count to a national squad with a couple of big name absentees which of import fleet has more. the wait is finally over for russia's ice hockey players who are hoping to make it on to be limping along stead of the sonship game while there was no surprise for the likes of sente of getting mark in and forwards alexander ovechkin in nearly a culture war included there was no place for veteran defenseman sergei gonchar only curial winger alexander showman who suffered from injury problems this season . we were keeping an eye on superman and it wasn't an easy decision to make i went

over to the usa to have a look at him and i was constantly kept informed about his progress however we came to the conclusion that he hadn't done enough to warrant a place on the roster rushes goaltenders practically picked themselves which said good bye brodsky of a current but seen a trophy holder for the n.h.l.'s best net mind and simeon by alarm of set to battle it out of a starting spots however it's in defense where russia have a number of problems and is likely coached in your tool of billy deneuve will be heavily dependent on bench for landry markov and twenty four year old slava voicing of his establishing himself as an excellent blue liner of the los angeles kings in contrast russia has been a ray of talent and author ends with the likes of providence soak as well as of age can malkin uncovered schork likely to cause any opposition sleepless nights yet billy led dino believes a bounce must be found between attack and defense and this is where someone might

be unheralded saying he saw incomes in the they'll be times when we need to shut down our opponents and we'll be shorthanded players like sawing are invaluable in this sort of situation as we're banking on him to be able to neutralize our opponent best players on the ice and on the penalty kill cultural conduct soak up the any russians on the roster one million pick meadow picking up bronze in two thousand and two the salt lake city games at thirty five done so because the oldest member of the squad and he's been given the honor of cap. sitting beside. we've been thinking about this question for quite a while and we talked about it when we were in america however everyone came to the same conclusion that pavol that suit should be the captain him and he also got a lot of support from the players who were all right behind him with ten players from the cage shell also representing russia they live dino will have a lot more time with some of the squad that is opposing coaches they're headed to cosign for

a training camp on january the twenty nine before going to sanchia on february the six where they'll be joined by the fifteen n.h.l. players as red machine prepare for vero opener against slovenia home favorite team and target a first russian gold since the unified team's triumph in ninety nine to two richard on board fleet r.t. moscow. staying on the ice where it says add al to one in moscow to stretch the winning streak to four games in the k h l and robert father now takes a closer look at the inform army men and their coach john. probably the most famous brand of the soviet and russian ice hockey the club became something special one of the great still it coach. and went on to produce dozens of sports superstars of different generations like the lady harlem of slow. gait though that of the three times when there was no prove himself as their own is

general manager one of their was biggest decisions in his new role so for signing enough american coach june thirtieth the. person on earth to get the job was a number one thing that i was on it that they they picked me and to come in here with mr t. can often miss a terrace off the fall that that's the pressure of the twenty turn stanley cup winner as the chicago but assistant coach there changed it to george in june two thousand and thirteen well with forty eight games played in the cage show floor read only are now fourth in the wasn't going for ins and their charity is first going cup playoffs are on the horizon over the american is looking much further we don't want to build our team to go one round or win forty five games and then get knocked on the first we want to build a championship team that comes out and everybody trusts each other on the ice and

they understand what a system is and that's what we're building here a lot of fans don't realize what we're trying to do here we're trying to change the whole culture of the organization meaning from the top to bottom that we have to have one thing in mind that sets the wins hockey games and that's hard to do not just in one year sometimes takes two or three but we're trying to do you know a great deal of work to try and get our tradition of winning back here filling the team with some american hockey spirit to revive the glorious traditions built in the soviet times why can this work some of russia's but it's still months away. and young hopefuls. combined with soul it pros from north america with plenty of and experience have been forced the during the last week american culture you know just this organization i mean it's it's so professional and just everything you hear about it is great so you know i really wanted to come

here and i'm really happy i was have the opportunity to be here it's north america and it's a lot similar to what i've been learning about pipes it's fun to hear the english again and understand a few more of these meetings so you know systems wise it doesn't matter too much for my job stop the pocket and for my sins i got to do with my defense when we were sort of their kid has already done something to be proud of in the. in september it's hosted the reigning champ ounce and currently clears. and be them six three. forty nine year old gleams. is without a doubt the league's best team we have something to learn from. back to back champions are always learning every day coaches learn every day this wednesday we'll try to pass through. tests away again. but a bit further known r.t.

. went to football now and while madrid and portugal superstar christiane i went out i broke down in tears after being named player of the year for the second time at a gala ceremony in zurich. this gentleman to be. brazil's world cup legend pele collected the owner a award before handing rinaldo along door the twenty eight year old edged out barcelona's knee and all messi and dynamics front for every after scoring a remarkable sixty nine goals in sixteen matches last year that tallying today's sensational hat trick against sweden to help portugal qualify for this summer's world cup finals in brazil where i know there could be eyeing even more glory. in all this isn't it was amazing it was very very. common in men of all sixty nine goals a. national team to go to the wall. this

is giving me the diversion to walk more about the for the future. well sweden might have gone out to portugal in the world cup playoffs but that captain abraham a bitch still claimed the post award for the most beautiful go after the perry science of mass strike out bluff to time a sensational overhead kick from thirty me says and sweden's forty friendly win against england and the thirty two year old says his stomach didn't deserve the prize. for thirty years says yes it was in a friendly game but. it's a goal that remains in the history and people will remember it for a long time and people will try to players will try to make it. there was no made it and i'm very happy. now former midfielder karen sado was mobbed by journalists after arriving to take up the ac milan hot seat as the club's new coach as a player the thirty seven year old helped the rossoneri win to syria titles and two

champions league trophies for ending his ten year spell there with a move to brazilian side both a full go in two thousand and twelve and the dutch start won his first match in charge of one l a times verona courtesy of a late mario balotelli penalty. was ill usa coach yogen klinsmann says he's looking forward to taking on his national side germany as his american squad held a training camp in sao paolo ahead of the fast approaching world cup landon donovan and co have also been drawn against portugal and ghana in group g. and g. to play south korea and ukraine in friendly's ahead of the flagship tournament which is set to kick off on june the twelfth. yes the reversal leads or a bit different because it's very very old but even there which is very very very very good you are your story and therefore it's going to be over to vote for.

and that's it for the first off and we'll be back off to the interval with some of the week's best basketball and more winter sport in the run up to sochi don't go away. there were millions of dollars moving from a company in saudi arabia called sharpie fruit a fruit company and they were sending money to one of the leading members of the muslim brotherhood in yemen so this is what. is allowing that in facilitating that to happen here that causes political instability in the region and that causes i mean that's fine it's treason it's financing our enemies and what's crazy about it is that each s.p.c. admitted to the department of justice and to the world they've made it to treason financing the enemy if you plead guilty to financing the enemy i don't think you

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if. welcome back to part two of the sports show and let's resume with a year a league basketball off the russian side. claims their first win in three top sixteen matches with a thrilling sixty three points to sixty two victory a turkish team gala time serai the victory is a slow the cars and our team's first ever in the top sixteen in their maiden count pain in europe's top flight go it was their third continental win by eighty three point one task on the artist sank the historic basket after scoring eleven of his

thirteen points in the second half when it sees them fifth in group bath while the istanbul hosts have yet to taste victory in three last sixteen think ounces. and while looking much seals their first top sixteen victory to scout tasted their first defeat and also by a point this point is on belgrade never say die approach resulted in a stunning seventy three points to seventy two wins over the moscow giants fall down down of it lead to the hundred slide to their famous triumph netting twenty seven points with nineteen of those coming in a pivotal final fourteen minutes us. meanwhile the n.b.a. was at london's o two arena where the brooklyn nets remain undefeated in three games after beating the atlanta hawks one hundred twenty seven point two one hundred ten for joe johnson scored twenty nine points and andray blatche added

twenty to make it three wins from three zero through also between the toronto raptors is that twice in two thousand and eleven atlantis col cooler extended his record of scoring three pointers to one hundred nights consecutive games after sinking to travel at the tent with eight minutes to go to all the new n.b.a. deputy commissioner adam silver is considering creating a european division. once we have in place that core infrastructure arenas there's an opportunity to potentially have a division here we know the interesting. this you know i've been i wrote down in. in that tape they played i couldn't agree more with le bron who said the number one sports brand in the world i think that's a great way to capture the n.b.a. so we see opportunity there's no question. now moving on to the second tier euro cup where russian team him key brushed aside is ready champions must be haifa eighty seven points to forty eight in the moscow region to stretch their own beat

and run to an impressive twenty one games because i didn't drop off reports. i after being founded in one thousand men to seven think you have been on the rise since two thousand and six they finished one of those up to say ascot the master glee and one year of second tier two off in twenty twelve however this season they made a poor start being knocked out of the top flight euroleague in the qualifying round yet since then remus coach unitas man have suffered just one defeat in the euro cough and are still on it in the domestically so went into the last thirty two game against struggling mcabee haifa aiming to continue their winning ways and after rolling into the game with a nine nothing burst team can never look back well i guess that we started very good we played hard if i stay going to score in the first quarter at all and and after that we were pretty good running to a man if you're going to get a fast rag we score a lot of easy pies and you know overall today again for us the moscow region side get these rally champion said may widening the margin in

a distinctly one sided qantas to twenty one points by the main intermission at the record when it was one zero for all the home side's players to reach double figures and lead the russian outfit to another convincing victory after recently being named famine sportsman of twenty thirteen is sick right on our own arm of a very happy about that and it's just gonna lay over the surprise for me if i you know it dies or a body awarded and i don't know it's a greater saw than it's also shows that best of all is a rising thing on. sale to an impressive eighty seven forty eight bettering off my cabbie high front to maintain their perfect euro cup record and one main top of group k. with four matches to go gresham euro launcher lead the victories with eighteen points and ten rebounds while markup over the edge and fourteen. of us is better we played well both in defense and offense all of us did well the young players were in court for more than ten minutes for the first time we need to focus on our

double header against czech said limburg it will be hard but. if we continue to play like these will advance to the top sixteen it must be well for sharing some point we're going to lose we know that but you know we try to keep it going as long as possible and you know now we are playing very very good and everybody got their confidence in and i hope we will win a lot of games still you know in a row after their disappointing euroleague curtain raising him to have bones back with an outstanding run of twenty one straight victories in all competitions and the yellow and blues and to keep this three go eight until they win a trophy whether in europe in russia or even in both on sunday by the above r t. now there's such a games i just over a fortnight away and with the winter sports season in full swing let's take a look at part two of our actions to watch olympic previews and the medal chances for the whole nation wrote about on ian has more.

it could be no never lose your a bit of dench and go forth at the last games in vancouver polo a second place finish at turin in two thousand and six producing the first and so far only olympic medal but the forty two year old the outstanding compare there is looking to shine in his seventh games and finally crown his illustrious career with the guild. in two thousand and six and one sou became a short track star by winning three golds for south korea but there raul with his bosses and teammates for the skater to change his citizenship and name in sochi if he could that will go for

a fourth olympic gold for russia along with ukrainian born but even if you go to the two time european champion will also be looking to try at the next level after the pair held their adopted country to european relay gold in two thousand and thirteen. after finishing twentieth in board the five hundred in one thousand meters in vancouver or go for the coolest improvement has been rabbit being crowned the world one thousand mirror champion last year in sochi while denise your scope has also hit big form there will groans in two thousand and twelve in the team pursuit he also produced a season's best to drive on the olympic track at the one thousand five hundred meters. putting both among the top names for glory at their home games.

if you knew you. could do coke was grown classical sprint jumpin in. the twenty eight year old with victory at the two thousand and thirteen world championships in both the classical and team sprints and is no favorite to claim his second berlin big gold one from snow. like somebody golf is a veteran of two games. fourth in the thirty kilometer double pursuit. but victory at last year's two risky means that they were a year old is also one to watch a movie. you knew you could sit in at the geisha a big game russia's made in the world snowboard gold medalist back in two thousand and seven after winning the world giant slalom in switzerland and the twenty six year old is back in form at the right time of the claiming another world title in two thousand and thirteen in the perils. and hoping to make it

a unique russian trouble next month in sochi. robert for unknown r.t. . and in the mean time at the latest world cup event in austria russian a veteran bobsled alexandre's a cough was named in the olympic squad for the fifth time after the thirty nine year old took wrong scrutiny three two men call in the two months of play us two zero zero zero steven holcomb and steve langton took gold ahead of swiss spat by at hefty and thomas on the right. and in the men's skeleton russian world champion aleksandr critical frame silver as lucky as martin is due course continue his fine form by sealing the thirtieth of world cup stage victory of his career the world and olympic silver medalist produced the fastest times in both runs with his brother thomas coming home. while

china is a four time olympic speed skating champion huang mang is a serious doubt for the sochi games after fracturing her ankle during training in shanghai the twenty eight year old reporter the picked up the injury when she collided with a teammate wang is the world record holder in the five hundred meters taking gold in curating two thousand and six and four years later in vancouver where she also triumphed in the one thousand meters and was on the winning three thousand meter relay team. well meanwhile during a meeting with the olympic volunteers russian president vladimir putin said gay people should feel welcome in sochi but must leave the children in peace putin and other politicians have defended the recent anti-gay propaganda law as a protection of children's rights but critics believe it discriminates against sexual minorities thirteen insisted the measure was not anti gay but for bids the spread of her sexual views to under eighteen's that it was you know in your theory

we are banning anything we are rounding up anyone we have no criminal punishment for such relations which are unlike many of the countries where the more one can feel relaxed and the ease of please leave the children in peace with. and finally with the such the paralympics just over six weeks away russia's sled hockey team wraps up their final preparations by beating the czech republic six nil to win the fourteen international tournament just outside moscow michael graf franco reports. the dolls is often considered to be the birthplace of russian sledge hockey and for three days the muster region town once again played host to the fourth annual sledge hockey tournament between russia norway sweden and the czech republic in their first two games the hosts soften one thousand nine hundred four champion sweden with an impressive eight two one victory and then beat the current olympic bronze medalists norway seven goals to nothing and so were heavily tipped

to take the title going into the final game against the czechs and it didn't take long for russia to open against the two time european silver medalists racing into a three goal lead within the first ten minutes of the czechs appeared shellshocked while the hosts took the puck around with purpose and in the second fifteen minute period russia ended the game as a competition adding another two goals before netting a six in the final period and wrapping up a very rewarding final warm up ahead of their home winter paralympics in march but the other story this was a big moral boys took but there is still plenty to strive for there is a lot for us to develop but at the paralympics we will force to try and to be on our best. we not only outran ourselves in the tournaments we were also more effective with the park and would put our train tactics and combinations to good use throughout we were also trying out certain approaches which we are planning to use against all potential opponents in canada and the us. russia has come

a long way since putting together its first sledge hockey team four years ago you overcoming humiliating high school defeats and failing to qualify for any major events or mondays when russia first played at an international tournament in the story and the results were terrible they lost their first game fifteen zero in the second game fourteen zero and the third to thirteen zero but the lines didn't hang their hats and got on with it with a hell of the russian ministry of sport which has continuously supported the pm since that would. the team recently proved any doubters wrong by taking food place at the twenty thirty world championships and judging by their performance of the tournament they couldn't be peaking at a better time so team russia such as b.c. has final preparations ahead of the paralympic games have been extremely well with them beating every single team in the fourteen international zone of just outside of moscow however they faced sterna tests when they face the likes of canada and

the us on the seventh of march but the object of the story. and that's all from the sporting life and. i know. tanya. well tell me how you are my little grandson. i know. i don't like. being cut off. except as an ecovillage that the spiritual side is destructive. i try to convince her to try to preach that it was a sect but it's dangerous that she had to leave it was a story she had lost her mind. you know you see we'll

come back i know it was and i will wait even if it means i must wait until my dying day. wealthy british. time to. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report.

we have corruption like we've never had in this country you can say that this is a great economy right now it's a great economy if you're rich or we're trying to get the wall to wall street cranked up again if you've got all your money in stocks it's beginning to show a little life it's not if you're an average person in this country i would i have to tend to agree with doug i mean i see a lot of public relations here i don't see a lot of really good policy for the average person i just like to pick up on an earlier point that doug made though which i also thought was quite important and significant especially insofar as historians can provide value by looking for trends and putting things in context which was the assassination of a u.s. citizen overseas really you might say the power of hiking to have life or death over their citizens without without an open trial. dramas that.