men's skeleton after speed skater victor on wins the country's first ever gold in short track. plus new heights surrogate booker looks on as french a live picture. in the breaks the ukrainians twenty one year old home record in done yet. and best the east rallied to beat the west with a record breaking one hundred sixty three points to one hundred fifty five to claim their first win for all-star games in new orleans. but first to the twenty second winter olympics in sochi where our correspondent richard vancouver. news on day ten. hello there richard well let's start with a break it was ice hockey and after that dramatic against the u.s. it was a much more subdued affair against slovakia. the game against the usa is one of the going to be one of the all time olympic classics that really went every

year when dr imagine a fortune for russians did. have involved a game of his life. but less than twenty four hours later he had to pick themselves up to play slovakia drop the first two games to the united states and surprisingly . they were just playing for pride really against the russians no hope of really progressing them birds they put in a really good defensive display and really good for straight rushes offensive lines for likes of. alexander ovechkin and pavel and especially on last net mind he's really been a journeyman really playing is currently in the cage shell for. really unheralded but he have a problem again of his life as he solves thirty five shots to send amounts to a shootout for russia both goals from raul of a couple choke points but plenty of questions for the russians who now go into qualifying round to try and make the quarterfinals one of the top four nations by

fruit of the quarters so russia and i play norway russia finishing fifth norway the bottom side and in a way i think we could have probably actually helped the russians lacking a bit of chemistry of the lines working perhaps as well as they have wanted to and also head coach seattle a billion very defensive style of hockey and so is trying to get the players to buy into his system in a way but more games on that have more was going to help his side going on into lead to games in this tournament of course but i suppose the main surprise so far of the sonship games has been the short track speed skating russia of it only won a medal one c. in ninety two one of the c.i.s. . put in the great display here led of course by big surround who picked up gold in the men's one hundred one thousand meters get a goal of getting silver right behind him. but it's really been their favorite irons had on this score that the russians had been talented but they were lacking

sort of confidence very lacking a team leader. who of course won gold medals for career in two thousand and six they have gone talismanic figure and he's really inspired the russians here in sochi and of course for quite a few more events to go over five hundred meters favorites event and of course five thousand meter relay. qualified to be in first place for so certainly hopes of more gold medals sold medals in violence from a short track speed skating one of which hadn't gone so well for the russians was very cross country skiing in which we've excelled out really over the years russia picked up a first made all in the means by ten read a goal going to sweden who actually retained the tides of a first country to retain its alliance or scenes for some of the union in one hundred seventy two but it really was a fantastic furred laid by alexander. who really put the russians back into medal contention they were trailing way back in a former first lady. as well having problems with the bindings with the. ever.

really produced leg of his life really propel rusher into medal position on the final leg. managed to hold off a challenge of the french to give russia a well deserved medal and of course there's been a lot of successful rush on the skeleton trying to mend. xander trade to call off he's really been the nearly man i suppose for the russians had been so near but you're so far to pick up a bronze of course in vancouver four years ago he was second to last world championships and sam ritz but he really led from start to finish getting complete control of the sliding track here and he led from a first run. right to final run and i actually caught up with the ice hockey majesty against. a very brief conversation with him a broad smile on his face it was just really was sinking in for him but obviously that was russia's fourth gold these olympics in sochi sort of ready to go from

vancouver with just under a week to go. so it's been a very successful nine day so far so what does russia have to look forward to on day ten and beyond. well day ten we'll see the. men's two man. completed we had to run one. on sunday and it's going very well for the russians of the moment alexander so-called dry then is great man i would say avoid border of a currently in first place they set a track record. on the first run just a couple of hundred seconds slower on their second run but they're out in first place just need information to jamaicans who so many of people have talked of outside of this sochi olympics carney bringing everyone up of the rear there in final position. so we're going to be hoping for a russian gold in the. but also the weather's taken a turn for the worse here in seoul and she had been beautiful sunshine cause havoc

really up in rosa khutor and trust not be a pollyanna for some of the cross-country skiing events of the alpine events but this change of weather is actually had quite a severe consequences for the biathlon the mains must start was supposed to take place yesterday afternoon but it's been proposed and three times already and hopefully we're going to try and get it underway in around two hours time that's been postponed because of the fog and it's just very very cloudy out there the moments of the loud. complex rush of had a disappointing biathlon championship so far these olympics only one bronze medal so far for a country which really does excel that it was good he got on the chair in the men's individual but certainly they'll be hoping from the starts will sort of man and the women in action both today and obviously the relays coming on later to try and improve on that sally of course figure skating done very well so far here in sochi picking up two gold medals already we're going to have

a fight on the house trying claim something in the ice dance the american jew oh meryl davis and charlie white and the canadians of tessa virtue and scott moir they're the old song. favorite stories came gold and silver in the answer but russia do have chances of god's. power in a leak. to be trees some of the of so they are in with a chance perhaps of picking up a bronze medal and try to continue was been a great figure skating championships here in sochi so far over russians. was a disappointing winter olympics for the russian team but few felt it more than the figure skaters russia and the soviet union's proud record of winning a gold medal in every game since nine hundred sixty four came to an end as fate fell just short of clinching atop the podium finish in the men's event four years on and things look like they're getting back to normal as russia had

a ready claim to golds on the ice there true and you give you. an teenager you need sky were inspired in the team of ends as were. a mexican trunk or of who also took gold in the pairs but of course it's not just our trial lots of people are behind our success we really want to thank everyone who supported us we want to share this joy with the whole contract that we are delighted to be between all the crash and response ability because it was really hard. code but pollution curtain from hero to zero in the space of four days the thirty one year old looked back to his best in the team competition after qualifying for the games of a late behind closed doors trial following two years of injuries yet just before the men's abends he pulled out citing a back problem so russia had no insurance as pollution had taken the only sports meaning the country misbah chance to continue their thirty year record of claiming

a medal in men's figure skating but despite those smaller such aren't trying cause of the ride behind their teammates personable i don't think she is pulling out of the tournament as some. thing that's really that extraordinary it's professional sport and anything can happen it's all because it's pollution co and cause and think star the whole team supports him not just the figure skaters guineas a real hero it's his forces and he has already won the gold and the team event here as well one russian star is fading another is definitely on the rise you leap needs who's just fifteen came first in the women's side of a team event to help russia win gold and she says only gold will do in the individual competition that may be a big ask going up against some of korean legend undisputed favorites kim nevertheless league needs to say is she's just deleted to be in sanchia i don't feel like i'm already an olympic champion individual event is coming up my feelings

after the awards ceremony were great and it's like i'm still in the fog and don't fully realize what's happened russia isn't just having a big impact on the ice but also off it the country has produced some of the best coaches who helped revolutionize the sports over the last few decades but favorites and the only stance americans meryl davis and charlie whites and the reigning olympic champions of tessa virtue and scott more are of canada both coached by marina. and the american jews were quick to rate the effects russian coaches have had in their career we're so lucky to be able to work with marina so you know we every day to recognize her genius and. you know her choreography first and foremost is is so impressive for us to be able to perform but then training day in and day out getting us in the right mindset getting us physically ready you know and of course we have to think russia for you know bring her to us after

a brief low russian figure skating is getting back to its best and with the lives of teenagers need sky and russian national champion my team. was here. regional choice in the men's of in the future is looking as bright as it's being or it's parsed richard. that was richard portly reporting from sochi where in other olympic news russian ski cross racer maria compass out of a has been flown to a munich hospital after breaking her spine in a practice session the twenty three year old had undergone six and a half hours of surgery in a saudi hospital after sustaining a fractured vertebra with a dislocation she was visited there by a president for the mir putin who called the athletes father with an update on his daughter's progress. or meanwhile the women's snowboard cross was run by a vote of the czech republic the twenty year old dominated from qualifying through

to the final silver went to dominate a of canada with chloe place birds of france taking bronze canadian defending champion male rekha crushed out in the quarterfinals while the three time world champion lindsay checkable is of the usa also crashed out while leading her semifinal. in the men's super g. norway's careful young through added gold to the bronze medal he won in the downhill event while american bertillon became the oldest alpine skier to reach and the olympic podium the thirty six year old shared bronze with candace young who debt's after the pair finished behind american andrew why brecht the norway continue their dominance now winning the last four men's super g. and in pick events. and at the adler arena the dutch again swept the podium in speedskating after it you are in turn morse broke the olympic record to hold off the favorite either in roost in the women's fifteen hundred meters with bronze going to

a lot of fun break the one two three means the dutch have now won sixteen speed skating medals to set a new record for winning olympic gongs in one sport. and a quick look at the medal table on a weather affected day ten season germany top with seven golds and twelve mentals overall the netherlands as we've heard dominated the speed skating on the second with five goals third in norway followed by switzerland and russia with four goals this second best sixteen overall. and that's all the news from such in part one but stay tuned for part two where we'll have all the rest of the sport from around the world don't go away. that's obviously one of the rationale for the continuation of return they want to sell the american hard tech weaponry submarines missiles all the rest of it to new

countries new new markets expanding markets because most of these countries are close allies previously on certain equipment. nato is rationale is still a much more politico and city cheek than certainly economic toboggan between the europeans who wants to go with the united states remain committed to their security and the united states who want to see a gripping story know that we are like you just i could jump in and ask you could if i could jump in and ask you i mean they want washington because they want the american taxpayer to pay for it because the united states pays the vast majority of the bill for nato so this is free riding that's what they want do you know that they don't want they're not the security of this is really an evolution is this they want someone else in times of austerity particularly now with the american taxpayer picking up the american defense industries would be more than happy to do it.

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welcome back to the second half of the r.t.e. sports special and let's kick off with going to sneak a football after leaders by in munich extended their lead at the top to sixteen points with their thirteenth straight league win four nil at home to struggling freiburg despite some effective pressing from the visitors the host open after nineteen minutes diego content those cross finding ahead of don't say a quarter an hour later it was to build a shed and to carry firing home vajra deflection as he did because second goal just before the break and with two minutes to go claudio bizarros precise finish make it four nil to buy and to stretch their unbeaten bundesliga record to forty six games driver go a one place above the bottom three. while second place by labor crews and lost ground on the leaders after losing to won a time to fourth place shocker then that's just fine individual effort but the

visitors ahead after twenty eight minutes though midway through the second half a fluke home goal from philippe santana gave the hosts a deserved equaliser however. soon headed in the winner to clinch a fourth straight victory for shall go home moved to within three points of second spot while live accusing head coach some issue p.f.a. remains optimistic despite his side's second defeat since the winter break. of course we didn't get any points so that's disappointing but but i'm very happy all the team played and i think we were for the team in this game and. but. to be in a better team and not. scoring goals. won't bring us. very far. meanwhile dorman stay third after a four nil thrashing of frankfurt emerick over may and struck twice within twenty minutes robert leavened off he added a second half penalty and every time to. came off the bench to the fourth.

while in england drop bottom full of site manager ready millen stay in and replaced him with former by anemic coach felix mccants who becomes the first german to manage in the premier league relisting one just for a few seventeen games in charge leading the cottages four points from safety with twelve matches to go though remains under contract with the club six year old my dad has signed an eighteen months deal he's won the bundesliga three times as a manager most recently with wallace back in two thousand and nine but been out of work since two thousand and twelve. well staying with four ball and with the russian premier league still in its winter break the national team have launched their new away kids ahead of their first appearance at a world cup since two thousand and two michael graham has more. gramont first half strike made history last october as russia drew one one in azerbaijan to reach their first world cup finals for twelve years and for the first away game in brazil

against in-form belgium robbie propellors men will wear this new kit unveiled by national sport players we've been undergoing warm weather training camps in the mediterranean while the new western style domestic season is in its winter break we're getting ready just like usual really we've already been called up for two training camps in spain which are always hard for the format change hasn't really affected me to basically play in the same month as before but it's the final run in coming up and we go in well right now so it's doubly important alexandersson me of a locomotive moscow are second in the russian premier league level on points with leaders and it's in petersburg but with eleven matches to go the midfielder thinks it's not just luciano's qualities man who pose a threat to locals title challenge. i don't think only the need to be up there in the end i believe there are five teams which will be challenging us and the team that performs the best in this last stretch will ultimately win the title however fellow midfielder alex same eventual clue is more to mystic that the railway men can lift their first championship trophy in ten years. i can tell you right now

where ready for battle we're currently top of the table and we're all braced for the campaign to raise you it was really tough to get where we are and it will be even harder to stay there but hopefully it will be there when this season lands. at the eighteen year old broke into locust first team last april has won four caps for russia's under twenty one's he was also on the original world cup shortlist before missing out on the final twenty three man squad but miranshah has high hopes for that capello era after the sixty seven year old italian agreed to remain as coach until after russia's own world cup in twenty eighteen. i've already been included on the senior team short list to be eighteen and at least must mean i've done some . thing to get notice so of course i'll do everything i can to keep that interest. me then shook will have several opportunities to impress this year as the under twenty one's aim to qualify for euro two thousand and fifteen in the czech republic

while the senior team make their final preparations for brazil and the chance to with their new wide strip. so russia's national football team will be playing at home codes on the fifth of march when they take on armenia however they will be sporting the new away kids when they take on norway in the two final friendly games ahead of the world cup in brazil. r.t. moscow. moving on to athletics and pole vault legends said k. booker looked on as french olympic champion no love in the broke the ukrainians twenty one year old world record book his own city of donetsk but it won't alter the trying to congratulate the twenty seven year old after he is six point one six metres on his first attempt to go one centimeter higher than the record book to set indoors in february nine hundred ninety three and two more than the ukrainians outdoor mock achieved in one thousand nine hundred four new heights set indoors or out or accept it as world records in the pole vault and love any was thrilled with this result. leaves more going to. be easy to say

don't do. what i did when you see i was here with just evil you see you get what you think you know so you know just be easy. that is now and remain in simona halep has claimed the biggest w.t. a title of her career by beating six feet angele covering straight sets to win the count all total open in doha the twenty two year old broke the germans opening service game to love before going on to break four times while holding serve a route to a comprehensive six two six three victory in just sixty six minutes. now that changed direction with some boxing after losing to reigning champions of the last october russia's top heavyweight alexander ovechkin is aiming to put his title hopes back on track after signing a deal with a new promoter robert out on young reports. october the fifth. undefeated contender alexandre privette again in front of his home crowd loses the

belt there his life divides him in the ukraine and king of the modern heavyweight boxing era that day one story of the big russian up and comer came to now and. only to give birth to another the return of the challenger shortly after the crucial defeat of afghanistan he was still on a mission put in one meal to have two more the teachers keep close yes there were a lot of clinches but klitschko beat me tied to cli it's my own fault i couldn't avoid them to get inside i lost the battle but i'll win the war. you know what i got why don't we let ourselves for months on the thirty four year old russian was back in the spotlight rejuvenated and a deal with a new russian boxing promotion in hand years and years can start to get pretty good we've already worked out a plan to fulfill that can style nation plus a few strategic ways to achieve the goal and after his next bout will choose either

the foster or the longer one. sort of. as soon as the klitschko bit was over i was ready to get back in the ring i never stopped watching it just needed some time to physically recover all this time i've been in the gym running during training to keep myself in shape. recording his new three year deal the vatican will have to fight say year the next one to be held in moscow this made while the name of his next opponent will be revealed within two weeks. be able more meal which i feel like a need for five days before another title shot that are many worthy fighters out there but i need all those fights to become even tougher and once again become a legitimate contender back in october last year it was far more than just about a title belt put that. thousands if not millions of poor hearts will broken and one big sense of pride and require his insight but he wants to finish.

a rematch with klitschko is the top priority with i diot titles have never given me that kind of drive he's the man to beat the toughest one that's what motivates me. robert browning party must go. on to basketball now in the year our league top sixteen says go and join top of group with a seventy four points to seventy one victory in an intense battle a turkish side gala tosser i hope spends a bounce or shawn early on for the highest in a game that we mine tight into the third quarter then put together a thirteen point run to go sixty seven fifty eight ahead and they lead and till the dying seconds when kyle hines blocked mensa bouncers three point shot needed to stage a top score to twenty four points as the army and joined royal madrid and maccabi tel aviv in a three way group lead with five on one records. and right now ensure their share or first place in group bet after holding off all day long to beat i should say

like i wanted to ban seventy eight points to seventy four in krasnodar the home side trailed going into the final quarter but they rallied with ten amounts of points and tied the match at seventy four apiece however the host magic ran out israel scored the game's final baskets so here rodriguez stood tall for los blancos with sixteen points and six rebounds clinching victory with a lay up twelve seconds before the final buzzer like our teeth and add three and three. while in the n.b.a. le bron james crowned one of the best games of the season in dramatic fashion as defending champions miami snatched a thrilling one hundred eleven to one hundred ten victory over golden state in oakland one way pulled out of the starting line up late on with a sore foot and the game was tight until the final buzzer stephen curry was the warriors' top scorer with twenty nine and with fourteen seconds left his shot and extra point head by two however with less than a second to go james saved his best until last sinking

a three pointer to finish the night on thirty six and give the visitors victory leaving golden state lying in the last playoff spot. and in last weekend's sixty third n.b.a. all-star game in new orleans the east rallied to beat the west one hundred sixty three points to one hundred fifty five that man again le bron james open proceedings all of these picking off a pass racing for the first basket but blake griffin replied with a dunk of his own and the west went on to lead eighty nine seventy six at half time early in the fourth quarter john wall flew in to trim the deficit to a point caria being added a reverse lay up and carmelo anthony set an all star record by scoring eight three pointers as these claimed their first all-star they train for irving was voted the game's most valuable player after scoring thirty one points with fourteen assists and that's almost brought more in five hours the that.

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transit. your best way to the heart of moscow. a russian pilot jailed and make us meet his lawyer and says despite concern he's on the verge of a heart attack he's still waiting to be examined by a doctor. seven golds up for grabs in soft she on this monday is the winter olympics now entering its last week amid very tight competition right at the top of the medal table a russian hopes currently lying with its ice hockey team. a string of suicides rocking the financial world here on r.t. international we try to find out what's causing them to take their own lives.