europe and russia in the not to come part become part of the camp which looks upon ukraine as a tool of geopolitical long term game of surrounding and strangle aggression which is bad for ukraine bad for russia and bad for your father word then from the border check please in brussels then it's absolute nonsense it's absolute rubbish it's up to the ukrainian people to decide what do they want whether they want the associations agreement or whether day one closer relations with russia president yanukovych had the mandate to negotiate the deep and comprehensive free trade make remained association agreement at the last moment under russian pressure he drew from dead and danced the reaction of the russian no he didn't as i said we are against violence so let's negotiate let's have a dialogue let's have a round table in kiev but you know as i said that was the cause of the of the demonstration now there is violence we reject violence but we want dialogue right

here and it is entirely neutral zone he really has a funny story it's i mean how do you decide what do they do day or i'd like you check member of the european parliament live there in brussels and salvage a quick trip which right on international affairs in belgrade thank you very much and apologies for the slight some delay which of course made that debate quite difficult to follow at times but thank you very much gentlemen for your input. so shortly we have a recap of the we can sport for you with kate partridge will be back with more news for you after about thirty five minutes from now. another whistleblowers facing a lot of heat including a wave of death threats but what did she discover some sort of dark secret cia

plans or some other plaque for a new war of luxury no she exposed something far more dangerous and important to the zombies on their couches the university of north carolina athletes are mentally unfit for college and even high school mary willing come blew the whistle on the fact that between eight and ten percent of the school's football and basketball players read of the fourth grade level and many others are sub college level she also claims that these students were allowed into the university based on the screening process done by the university implying that the u. of n.c. knew exactly who they were letting into the university remember college football makes a lot of money i always had a feeling that something like this was going on i mean according to usa today many college athletes claim that during the season they put in more than double the amount of hours on sports that they are allowed that's fifty to sixty hours a week how can they possibly learn anything maybe it isn't so sad that this goes on it is a reflection of economics what is sad is that the whistleblower is getting death threats just for saying that it is going on by those stupid hard core fans but

that's just my opinion. what the american public hasn't really understood is that this is not a normal banking scandal and that these banks like h.s.b.c. have the blood of american soldiers on their hands that i.e.d. going off in afghanistan killing and killing an american or you know allied soldier that is being financed through our banks that's a problem. hello and thank you for joining me kate daughtry 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 summer she's a bread machine and a child star couple that so is named captain of russia's twenty five month priced 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 human teeth russian israeli champions marketing hype back in the euro cup to extend their unbeaten wrong 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 out to slovakia's dominika cymbalta three six six four six one as the russian four time major winner took

a magical three minutes after the second set and posted to 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 through matches and. you know i try to do that again today i should play simply to 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 quarterfinals since winning the french open back in two thousand and eight. it's amazing i mean this this victory and 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 what it is with that knowing there are disappointed or anything i just know that i can play ten times but when

a dude. 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 fabby oh funny 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 the sets as he targets his fist a stray and open crown waiting in the quarterfinals is stannis last about brink of 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 national squad with a couple of big name absentees ridges on port fleet has more. the wait is finally

over for russia's ice hockey players who were hoping to make it on to be limping last of the sonship game while there was no surprise for the likes of sente of getting mao kitten 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 dean of 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 i'm called schork likely to cause any opposition sleepless nights he had been late dinner believes abounds must be found between attack and defense and this is where someone might be unheralded so 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.

besides. 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 the puzzle 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 of airplane arrogance will be in your own favorite team and target a first russian gold since the unified team's triumph and nine hundred ninety two richard on board fleet r.t. moscow. staying on the ice where it says at night out to one in moscow to stretch their winning streak to four games in the k h l and robert fatton

and takes a closer look at the in-form 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 so it could which. and went on to produce dozens of sports superstars of different generations like the lady harlem of slow or fifty's that sort of gave go that of the three times the only winner 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 to. listen on a little to get the job was the number one thing that i was on it that they they picked me and to come in here with mr t. can offer mr terrace to fall that that's the question it's going to turn stanley

cup winner as the chicago but hopes assistant coach there to george in june two thousand and thirteen will with forty eight games played in the cage show floor read only are now fourth in the wasn't going for ins and it is first going cup playoffs are on the horizon oval 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. next on the road to a and young hopefuls. combine we saw with pros from north america with plenty of and experience but never in force the other man during the last week american coach and not just this organization i mean it's it's so professional and just everything you hear about him is great so you know i really wanted to come here and and i'm really happy i was have the opportunity to be here dropped its north american it's a lot similar to what i've been 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 to scout hosted the gay chilling gem pounds and currently clears. and be them six

three. of the forty nine year old gleams. is without a doubt the league's best team we have something to learn from them in the past that's why they're back to back champions are always learning every day coaches learn every day this wednesday to scale will try to pass through in the test their way it is now my skill but a bit further known r.t. . i want to football now and while madrid and portugal superstar christiane i ran out i broke down in tears after being named player of the year for the second time to go on a ceremony in zurich. it's generally going to be. brazil's world cup legend pele collected the honorary award before handing rinaldo along door the twenty eight year old edged out boss allows me an all messy and fine munich front for every after scoring

a remarkable sixty nine goals in sixty matches last year that tally included a sensational hat trick against sweden to help portugal qualify for this summer's world cup finals in brazil where right now though could be eyeing even more glory. you know 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. you know this is giving him 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 signs of mass strike out blow off to 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 did deserve the prime most. therapists 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 but i am was the one who made it and i'm very happy. ok 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. is the 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 science 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 years ago with your story and therefore it's going to be over or. 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 just don't go away. sigrid laboratory tim curry was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care

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mug. from around the globe. local. t.v. . welcome back to part two of the sports show and let's resume with your early 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 galatz has serai the victories a slow the cars and our team's first ever in the top sixteen in their maiden counterpane in europe's top flight though it was their third continental win by eighty eight points or one task on the artist sank the historic basket after scoring eleven of his thirteen points in the second half when seize the fifth in group bath while the istanbul hosts have yet to taste victory in three last sixteen think ounces. and while looking much

seal's their first top sixteen victory to scout tasted that 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 win over the moscow giant ball down bogged down a bit lead to the home side 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 a throw so between the toronto raptors is that twice in two thousand and eleven atlantis cloak over extended his record of scoring three pointers to one hundred nights consecutive games after sinking to travel at the age of ten and with eight minutes to go through all the new n.b.a.

deputy commissioner adam silver is considering creating a european division chart so 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 when i rode 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 israeli champions must be haifa eighty seven points to forty eight in the moscow region to stretch their unbeaten run to an impressive twenty one games because i didn't but apple for 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 runners 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 makati haifa aiming to continue their winning ways and after rolling into the game with a nine nothing burst team can never hold 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 gonna get a fast rag we score a lot of easy pies and you know overall today again for us the moscow region side kept these rally champion said by a 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 family and sportsman of twenty thirteen it's a great on are an 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 if it's a greater saw than it's also shows that best of all on arising from john king to sail to an impressive eighty seven forty eight bettering off my cabbie high front to maintain their perfect euro cup record and when main top of group came with four matches to go gresham mira launcher led the victories with eighteen points and ten rebounds while markup over the age added fourteen. of us is better we played well both in defense and offense all of us did well the young players were uncalled for more than ten minutes for the first time we need to focus now double header against czech said number one it will be hard but. if we continue to play like these will advance to the top sixteen it must 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 fronts and you but out of our team. now there's such a games are 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 robot vote on ian has more. it could be no never lose your a bit of dench and go forth at the last game cinnamon coober followed a second place finish at turin in two thousand and six producing the first and so

far only olympic medal for 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 on one sue became a short track star by winning three golds for south korea but the round with his bosses and teammates for the skater to change his citizenship and name in sochi victor will go for a fourth olympic gold for russia along with ukrainian born but even to 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 rule a 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. you. may get the clue go was grown classical spring jumpin in vancouver the twenty eight year old with the big three at the two thousand and thirteen world championships in both the classical and team sprints and is now baber to claim his

second berlin big gold one from snow. the next on the list 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 maiden world snowboard gold medalist back in two thousand and seven after winning the burled 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 parables. 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

russia 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 to none bob sleigh the u.s. two zero zero steven holcomb and steve langton took gold ahead of swiss that day at hefty and thomas. and in the men's skeleton russian world champion alexander critical of claim silver as loudly as martin's 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 tomas coming home. while china's 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 report to be 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 with rules you know when you're for him we are not banning anything we aren't 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 craft trying to reports. 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 the czechs appeared shellshocked while the hosts put 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 win to paralympics in march but the other story this was a big moral voice 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 game 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 our potential opponents in canada and the us. russia has come a long way since putting together its first sled hockey team four years ago you overcoming humiliating high school defeats and failing to qualify for any major events or monday. when russia first played at an international cornum 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 seems that. the team recently proved any doubters wrong by taking food place at the twenty thirty world championships and judging by their performance at the dolls tournament they couldn't be peaking at a better time so team russia such a team is final preparations ahead of the paralympic games have a bone extremely well with them beating every single team in the fourteen international tournament 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.