ceremonies in front. while. go nineteen points clear at the top of the bundesliga and forty seven games on beaten with a cornell trial. and top gear formula one start run grow zhang talks testing rule changes and next season such he prepares to turn from olympic venue to russia's first f one track. but first let's turn to sochi where russia said goodbye to their maiden winter olympics with a spectacular closing ceremony after a string final day of sporting action to finish top of the table with thirty three medals and we're more on that so let's hear from our correspondent richard engel of late. well we'll hear more well here lol yeah it was a fantastic games for. carry on richard but it was

a fantastic games for the russians where they are wonderful closing ceremony which is reminiscent of the opening ceremony itself the organization managed to poke a bit of fun at themselves the closing ceremony of you remember at the opening ceremony of finals the big ring failed to open and the organizers recapture about moments in the closing ceremony also back to the nines you know easier lympics in moscow where the only big bear we shed a tear the same thing happened here at the closing ceremony in saudi but it's been a member will get memorable games where everyone and everyone who did tonight closing ceremony just had an absolutely wonderful time as rachel kin wonderful bitterly passed and musical past what russia has given to the world over the last couple of centuries and what a way to russia to finish the competition what a final day it was. yes it was a wonderful day sixteen for the russians cross country team have been criticized quite a lot over games are not really bringing in the medals that they'd hoped for cross-country

skiing being one of russia's better sports and more traditional sports but on the final day of competition the men's fifty come home. often they swept the podium really for the first time with nicole. and also of finishing with gold silver bronze that was russia's twelve medal and they sealed a record breaking thirteenth medal in before man bobsled just a little later on has called off the piloted the russian bobsled is first place of call of course hand-picked on the gold medal and the two man as well. one of the people russians would have a first in the bud so a medals these olympic games so russia finishing with thirteen golds and thirty three medals overall breaking the record of a sense ian lee hama way bank in one thousand nine hundred ninety four and all looks good for the future of winter sports in russia. the twenty second olympic winter games in two thousand and fourteen i wore the to defeat the sochi

now i seven years of planning and finally the big dan ryan as russia has to be first in the winter olympics the twenty second games got off to a spectacular start in seoul and she with a memorable opening ceremony and for a free time a limb picked ice hockey champion legendary soviet goaltender vladislav tretiak launching the flame was one of the greatest achievements of his life. those who ignite the olympic flame go down in history for many years to come because it's a task that is only given to the most popular in the most worthy sportsman it means the world to me because i'm representing the team of my youth the hockey team that is an eight time limpy champion i feel honored out of all the players they chose me when the competition got under way the pressure was firmly on the russians especially to improve upon the poultry three gold medals they had won in vancouver

four years ago and they were given a boost by their figure skaters who won three golds on the home ice of a team competition and then pairs with maxine trunk often tatyana velocity shar helping seal both and in the women's individual competition after surprise package adelina sotnikova bridges for performance of our life to be retiring south korean superstar yuna kim and claimed russia's first ever gold in batter bends. i'm very proud to have won a gold medal at the age of seventeen it's such a great feeling it's about who with everything including myself sometimes i said to my mom i can't do this anymore i'm tired and she says ok give it up i'll still love you anyway but then i realize that i won't give up and will take my gold ten years ago russia didn't even have a sliding center very roughly which makes for feats of gold medalists alexander tried to cough in the skeleton of

a two man bobsled team of alexander because of and alex a boy boarder even more remarkable is that it always helps when you're competing at home because of the support you get from your friends and relatives we felt we couldn't let them down and we did our best we used to performing well on any track but winning at the home olympics is twice as sweet. much has been made of athletes not competing for the country but burford these games and russia have lost as much as favor gained by affluence starved. was brought up in siberia but switched to better roots and won three golds on the bare flank while on a city equipment won the sprint gold for adopted country survive however three time olympic short track champion victor on fell out with his native south korea bosses after being overlooked for the vancouver olympics and switched his allegiance to russia a decision which paid off as the twenty eight year old won three golds and a bronze to give russia a bit first and the medals and the sports. i wanted to win

a medal right away and taking the fifteen hundred meter bronze helped me set the tone and take gold in the following events and you had a winning in sochi was much tougher than and touring because i was performing after a difficult recovery from injury this time around. unlike anvik wild wasn't the start of the men's parallel slalom when he married snowboarder. yet the twenty seven year old american turned russian has gone from strength to strength winning two golds at his home games with the first of his two top of the podium finishes coming just minutes after his wife had won bronze in the women's parallel giant slalom i didn't have any good friday we had states that i wasn't going to reach the goals that i wanted and pressure was an opportunity to get the ball. you know to be able to do what i wanted to do to me she brought the new ad say because he is a way ricky is way more aggressive than i am maybe

a little more aggressive more like a more of a more of a boss if you if you will and. he made me engage in whatever i'm doing in life to do it one hundred percent it's been a record breaking games for russia have broken the records of twenty three medals and eleven gold space one in lillehammer in one nine hundred ninety four. the host nation asia has one of the youngest squads with an average age of just twenty two and a half and with the facilities barely inherit from the sochi games the seven years of planning for the country's first ever winter olympics look like they'll leave a long legacy and a bright future for winter sports in russia rich a bumpy fleet anti saatchi. and russia one the only country breaking records over the seventeen days of competition in sochi at the bar show every night current out broke their own tally to win their ninth ice hockey gold and contain their title with a three nothing victory over sweden in the family bands of the olympics might have

talked many never trailed throughout the tournament and finished their campaign unbeaten they smothered much fun since we can from the start sports going in the area and were never seriously threatened canada also become the first back to back and then pick champions since the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred four one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. while all ai not beyond arlen became the most decorated ever winter olympian with thirteen medals by helping norway win gold in the mixed biathlon relay ahead of the czech republic and italy it was the forty year old second gold at sochi following his triumph in the ten kilometer sprint and his eighth overall from six olympic games his title takes him above compact reach beyond daly he won twelve olympic medals in cross country skiing. while a fellow cross-country skier gergen became the most decorated woman in winter games history the norwegian won the women's thirty kilometer mass start to claim her

third gold in sochi and six gold of ten olympics medals overall the thirty three year old led norway to a sweep of the podium with that is that yellow in silver and christine still must say that taking bronze but i can also won gold in the fifteen kilometers scale film and team classics prince. and the netherlands finished fifth in the medal table thanks to bed dominance in speed skating winning twenty three of the thirty six medals available including eight goals and four clean sweeps of the podium it rained worst one five medals in sochi two gold and three silver to become the most successful athlete in dutch olympic history at the age of just. and a final look at the medal table sees host russia talk with thirty three overall thirteen of them gold the country's best performance as we heard since lillehammer a nine hundred ninety four where eleven goals in twenty three medals were won

norway finished second in sochi followed by canada the usa and the speed skating dutch and all that brings us to the halftime whistle but will soon be back with a draw for euro twenty sixteen plus m.m.a. i'm just bored and much more go away. transit row to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow.

i don't see how european countries who are member of the european union can solve the problem without leaving the european union so it's obvious that countries like great britain or france you named francis specially with increasing poverty in my opinion they have a difficult they have a difficult time to solve these problems but i think at least they should rearrange the principle rules of free movement of persons and improve the system. it was a. very hard. to. get back with that hurt right there.

a bit of a. welcome back to part two of the altie sports special and the draw for your i twenty six team to come but first let's turn to mixed martial arts and three russians were on the fight card of the world's biggest m.m.a. arena the u.f.c. with two of them claiming victory and robert father anjana brother done the action with the russian promoter come you you good. see essentially the

ultimate test and theory of piano go for every professional mixed martial artist blues champions belt around the waist making it fire the undisputed best on the planet when it comes to russians flyweight. east probably the closest one to the top is latest win over brazil and john legere improve his record to three victories out of three belts in the world's toughest competition although the punters promoter and you have see corner man kamil good g.m. is sure but good enough still has much more to offer. ali worked out the game plan perfectly don't give your opponent a chance that's the way allie did it against linacre he fought the fight where he wanted to be bold stand up and on the ground alleys still has a lot to show was overseas he doesn't reveal all the tools he possesses his wrestling is underestimated when he could have shown much more against linacre but he chose to save that for future fights just as it's great that ali was

a totally different fighter in all of his three you have c. bouts in his debut fight he proved his nickname the puncher in the second one he looked good as a striker and in the third he unveiled his awesome ground game so any of his potential opponents still don't know what he's really capable of. you have c. one sixty nine so another russian making his debbie well to wait on the lot of overcame visa issues but failed to beat american neil magni on a decision. frankly speaking i was sure got saddam a lot of woodwind despite all the delays with his visa which didn't allow him to prepare properly but he failed it's appearing i believe he is simply a better fighter let them fight ten more times and a lot of would beat neil magni ten times in a row magni showed even more than his best and all my lot of i think there was some mental pressure that. he couldn't handle plus he wasn't fit enough for the balance

and he lacked experience as he tried to save his energy for the final round but then he was just too exhausted to change anything but i'm sure in his next fight he'll be different you have nothing to lose and will unveil his real potential you'll show a great fight trust me. and this third light weight match up that i see the highlander mcgann made of prove he's the russian to watch against tony martin. without doubt it was one of you have seen one hundred sixty nine highlight reels the way rashid mug a man of escape from that submission stole the show. i think you was always in control he got caught but he has plenty of experience after the fight he told me that a look much more painful than it really was for him he's a very flexible fighter and that expression on his face it wasn't pain but his efforts to escape from the submission so he got through this terrible first round and then shoulders much better striking skills and clearly won the fight. after these three fires two more russian steps into the of c.

cage as the peak of the country's warriors and for more deadly victories and that debbie belt. a bit but an r.t. . now let's move on to football and russia have been joined with sweden in the group stage for your i twenty six in france. oh yeah. but also. about those men who are among the top seed so avoided defending champions spain germany the dutch and england and were drawn in just want to be comfortable group g. along with sweden captains i p.s.g. star striker johnson fever have it missed out on this year as well as well as the extent sine moldova montenegro and austria and capello which was happy with. the sixty one day goals to the this we then use that it is good to see this they play well they've got to be confidence and use the two legged they didn't

qualify for a walk up but they had everything goes to qualify for tourism and you do expect thought that these. in the it will be difficult every game every game will be very important. hero twenty sixteen has increased from sixteen to twenty four nations and will be hosted by france for nine qualifying groups the top two teams go through to the finals along with the best third place finisher with the remaining third place teams going into playoffs to decide the last four spots host france qualify automatic am playing group by i won't receive any points while two time defending champions spain were drawn in the apparently straightforward group c. along with luxembourg macedonia better reuss slovakia and ukraine three so i went to germany are in group d. and face poland led by don't strike out robot leavened ski along with island georgia scotland and new boys gibraltar who play their home games in portugal and

england were drawn in a comfortable grouping with some merino estonia and slovenia and manager roy hodgson's form assigned switzerland. in particular for the fans this time that the travelling will be a lot easier than it's been sometimes in the past to play nice places to go to as well so we're looking forward to it and i think that we've got to be satisfied that it's a game where we've been seeded number one and we have to take that responsibility and try and make sure we can get out of it. meanwhile in germany thomas mirror sport any charges by nearly what nineteen points clear and forty seven games unbeaten with a four nil triumph the fell over really open with a bullet header in the twenty fifth minute last inch by inch by go see set up ya go i can't come up to no money our money i want to catch. this second. thank you spike and then headed home to wrap up the four nil romp the sixty first goal pep guardiola side have scored this season and with favorable results by him

could retain the title with just three more victories. while second place violated isn't lost for the ground on the leaders with ace we want a lawsuit in the most book about dos open for the hosts up to certain minutes so we get sydney sun level on the space of time at least the starboard restored vosburgh lead on the our. car the rodriguez made it three want on the rebound the bentley next site is penalty attempt to give the first place close a full straight victory. for new coach marco slow because so how about end their seven game losing streak and rise one spot to surge bottom with a stunning three no debut victory thank you so thank those who don't know yet michelle or some of us don't have to get a trip just for the bright and for yourself you just. can't callen are you wrapped up victory in intertwine with a stunning long range week it was nice but i'm not it was sacked cross we don't

open twenty four spots was. while in england wayne rooney crowned an extraordinary week scoring a stunning second goal in manchester united's two know when it crystal palace after signing a record breaking new contract the twenty eight year old england striker is five and a half year deal is worth up to half a million dollars a week will see him stay at old trafford until he's thirty three rooney has won five premier league titles out of the champions league in ten years at united scoring two hundred eight goals in four hundred thirty games forty two goals behind the bobby charlton club record of two hundred forty nine now let's turn to you really well let's ask our went joint top of group beth after a one hundred points to sixty five homes rushing of injury hit not to tell of eve coached by a familiar face wisconsin but up of reports. returning to moscow is always special

for former russian national had coached david block before today's guy hosted his makati team to decide who'd go top of your league group after the israeli coach was owned by the russian government with the order of friendship award for leading russia to braun's at the twenty twelve london olympics it's something that will stay with me for the rest of my life and it was very very emotional for me going to before the game to to receive the award because it speaks more to. the global scene that it does even to sport which is which is sometimes more important but this was the only reward blot in his my cardiology to earn that says god that night manger he had the israeli side cap the army man and maimed the opening quarter and threw in a scene as man piled on the pressure forging it fifteen point gap me the way through the second. and up to the main intermission the game turned into completely

one way traffic with taste got dominating at both and the only question was whether the hosts would reach a century of points and they did to us each board in a game high twenty two and sony whims at its sixteen to complete the route one hundred to sixty five coming out the second half we picked up the defensive attention a little bit later on in third quarter and as you see resulted in the when we may we not done a few shots you know to kind of put away the game and we played defense down the stretch so we played big a lot together to say regardless of. the set of circumstances that we played under missing so many players without a doubt just you know it was the better team than any of that and we won't use that . as an excuse my cabbie have known one more zero league defeat and one hundred in twenty five points to santi a drubbing at the hands off rio model. back in one thousand seven to six yet

despite this latest molding lurks men remain in contention third in group have while the russian champions keep a share of first place with a six in one record at the midway point in the campaign on sunday and by archie. and next week tesco will host fellow russian side look i want to you can last eight hundred seventy nine up by one manic the visitors dominated the opening quarter and led thirty nine twenty early in the second however in the third malcolm delaney led the german side to come back in time to crack a three point win that put the joint fourth with luck with path and that playoff hopes. tennison rafael nadal beat ukraine's alexander gorbachev in straight sets to win the first ever reopen the well number one triumph six three seven six to play host to go to main undefeated in brazil the twenty seven year old is now time for a seven on the all time singles titles list but still forty seven victories behind

needed to recon this. and finally the olympics may be over but saatchi is now gearing up for russia's maiden for we know one race f one both bernie ecclestone says the olympic lights would suit a great night race well let us drive a roman groeschel gave michael graf jango his thoughts on moscow's a new race of stars the twenty four team formula one season will get underway in melbourne on march sixteenth and some of the top teams have been testing their new cars only temperatures of bahrain. but last weekend one f one driver took a brief trip from the middle east to moscow so instead of staying in a warmer weather conditions to continue its pre-season training for a mongrel journalist instead opted to come to a chilly and a wet moscow to say hearts that annual races those events and test his skills on the ice in moscow's oldest hippodrome have led to come here. to drive a nice today's. yeah melted ice but i know those conditions i've been racing in

which is. drive on ice in the winter will no clue you. in a bust. like the driving lotus driver garage is noted for his attacking style finish twenty thirteen seven overall managing four podium finishes in the final six races as red bull and sebastian vettel again dominated the campaign however this year radical changes have been introduced engines have been altered from eight to six cylinders with a turbo injection producing mixed results so far during winter testing with missy it is currently showing the fastest times and making the twenty four team championship harder to predict it's a very unknown season and. we had only eight days of testing for everyone those four more next week and then we go to melbourne and i'm sure we're going to have

some surprises and engine results clearly the biggest change of. time was we are going away from the position of last year in bahrain so quick as they were before these even more we had in the past and while the twenty seven year old brave the moscow weiss russia was on route to topping the medal table at their home olympics in sochi after the games but then you will host russia's first grand prix in this century and the first ever formula one race development in russian motor sport that's pulled along with the black sea resort itself. two years ago and yet also. coming just after the olympic games thing is. you know involvement of russian from no one. going everywhere in the world and the thing is we come here so i'm looking forward to discover the truck the cities and so on and i'm sure we're going to get a good reason. four time champion vettel has already tested the such

a track designed by german supreme him until the new rules new circuit and new drivers the first russian f one race could play a pivotal role in deciding next year's champion in a venue that's already seen many sporting records broken much of the chunk of r.t. moscow. and that's all the sport for now but we'll be back in four hours against the. winter is when the sahara comes to life in. a way says palm trees are being harvested. people are waiting for the biggest event of the year. the desert festival. this is true it is a bit out of this case leading camel races have spent the last year preparing for

the grueling marathon. the day before the race there's a heavy sound still overcoming the power of nature is a never ending challenge. a desert winds up the nazi. pulls. a little. bit. more. pain for the young girls cam all for of a future harder. between two and three hundred million guns united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. deposits out if they lard you know i mean this teaches them a lot of for a responsibility and simply come to think through the eyes of children if we can do

it for our children for our future what the country will fall for. right on the scene. first strike to use a knife gripping picture. on our reporters'. instrument. to be in the know. there's a media leave us so we leave the media. doesn't seem to. play your part of the musical. shoes that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from.

politics. to. the giant bear sheds a tear of farewell as the curtain falls on such a twenty fourteen winter games that will go down in history for its remarkable and record breaking performances. ukraine's interim president kickstart a campaign for the top job while the hunt is underway for the country's ousted leader and members of his former ruling party plus. a bulldozer consoled from the snow from the u.s. and. western politicians step up the euro pilgrimage to ukraine with a financial lifeline to win over the new leadership. is a chance to tame the.