e.u. economy. speaking about the social market economy is done in the appropriate context that is not underlying the socially sizing effect of european integration. on the contrary. equally for the government of europe by justices, some functions will have to go out to brussels that can be brought from brussels to the nation -- capitals or the regions. i do not expect a heavier brussels government. but it is true that the border line between socialism and pro market attitude is very thin and mobile. i always remember a day in 2001. the previous day i was commissioner of competition and the previous day unblocked the ing honeywell merger and french state aid to a company. i was described as the socialist in the u.s. press and as a dangerous neoliberal in the french press. >> mr. prime minister, we could go on all day. we wish you the best of luck. we are with you. we support you. we hope and pray for your success

economy afloat. demanded by the e.u. . civil society takes center stage in politics so a group of public figures to monitor the upcoming presidential vote i would backing from all of the candidates the goal of the. league is to ensure a fair. election. into the world of sports poll now. thank you very much and warm welcome to the world of sports here is what's coming up. not gone for long reports claim former indian coach fabio capello could be in line to place i'm g. managing your question is john with the club expected to make an announcement on monday. making our rockets russia given a lifeline in the davis cup tie with austria federer switzerland the white washed by the usa. and a tiger ready to pounce former world number one golfer tiger woods is four shots behind leader charlie wayne going into the final round of the pebble beach national in california. but first a football reports in both the russian and british press claim that former england manager fabio capello could be in line for a move to the russian premier

economy is already . more than a third think it will mean only more hardship for the greek people looking now at ten percent of you are thinking the e.u. won't allow greece's economy to collapse down to five percent just a minority believing the bailouts are the only way the country comes to five those are the figures at the moment but all that could change if you want your thoughts on that debate is on going. and as greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing iranian oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced that the islamic republic will soon move real major advances in its nuclear program he also warned that europe was playing a risky game by cutting off trade with terror on because you consumers account for around twenty percent of iran's oil output the spanish ambassador to tehran said the sanctions will hurt his country more than any other european state and madrid based journalist. says the e.u. embargo actually serves the interests of the

forty three nations including the largest economies in the world are fighting the e.u. unilateral move to charge airlines for carbon emissions the international air transport association which unites all major passenger and cargo allied says the system is unfair as it should be imposed globally not region the airline industry

e.u. but not necessarily in this kind of strategic balance of power scenario china obviously has a big stake in the european economy and also partly because the e.u. is the largest trading partner of china china has been watching very closely obviously euro crisis and how the european union and particularly germany leading the effort do with the euro crisis therefore there is a huge stake over there in terms of european economy and therefore china is very keen to try to understand what next and how you is going to do is deal prices next particularly what germany's think and so this is what i think the importance of. visit to china is really more in this kind of scenario rather than the strategic balance of power so aside from geo politics aside from foreign policy your say that the main issues are stake here are that of economics it's very curious how you bring up the issue as we all know germany is shouldering a huge amount of the eurozone debt now or come to china to try and get some sort of support on the flailing euro it's interesting to note on the issue of economies here china is the biggest holder of u.s. de

measures will do nothing as the greek economy is already do over a third thing it will only need further hardship for the greek people while nine percent of voters think the e.u. won't allow the economy to collapse and the minority who are now believes bailouts are the only way greece will survive all those figures are constantly changing so you can also always let us know. on this issue by a log on to our website r t v dot com. as greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing iranian oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud othman.

it will change nothing in an economy that's already doing more than a third say the measures only need further hardship for the greek people six percent are convinced the e.u. will not let the greek economy collapse the minority considers bailouts to be the only way for us to survive. the u.s. has hinted it could eventually give arms to rebels in syria despite previous strident opposition to further militarizing the conflict in the country the obama administration says if a political solution to the crisis proved impossible if my consider other options this amid warnings that washington's continuing efforts against the syrian regime could see it fighting side by side with al qaida are just going to check out reports. amid bloodshed in syria more extremists are penetrating the country to help bring down a sot that's according to u.s. intelligence which says all cardiff eliade fighters were responsible for a series of deadly suicide bombings in damascus and aleppo targeted at syrian military and intelligence facilities we've seen evidence of. extremist sunni extremists can't label them specifically is al qaida but similar ilk or infiltrating the opposition's

aimed at the demonstrators desperation is growing the eurozone fourth largest economy with the highest unemployment rate in the e.u. . the u.s. to whine strong arming the syrian opposition that was also backed by al qaida and spreading fears of washington's push for a huge change in syria could plunge the country deeper into chaos. and the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iran fuels talk of even more sanctions while tan sharon a round of the islamic state begins to take its toll on the very countries supporting those held views in place. while relations between moscow and washington have seen their ups and downs in recent months to discuss the future of cooperation between the two nations r.t. caught up with the newly appointed u.s. ambassador to russia is also the architect of the reset of ties. michael mcfaul a nearly a point use investor to russia also a professor at stanford an expert in political science who has said that he's first a start with the banks great to have you with us thanks for having me so i'm going to quote your recent tweet productive meetings with russian government officials

measures will do nothing as the greek economy is already a third think it will mean only more hardship for the greek people all eleven percent of you think the e.u. won't allow greece's economy to collapse and getting down to the nitty gritty here just a minority now believing that bailouts are the only way the country can survive or those are the figures for this hour all that could change if you had your thoughts in our debate. and as greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing iranian oil from july meanwhile the rons president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced that the islamic republic would soon reveal major advances in its nuclear program he also europe is playing a risky game by cutting off trade with tehran because e.u. consumers account for around twenty percent of iran's oil output the spanish ambassador to tehran said that sanctions will hurt his country more than any other european state madrid based journalist. says the e.u. embargo serves only the interest of the us that what

other members of the bric group meaning of course india and brazil speaking about the european economy with the e.u. being the biggest trade partner of russia putin says that any problems with vatican amee definitely affect the global economy in general and moscow is only keen to see a healthy europe healthy european economy and is going to work to support that and still with foreign relations he's described russia's relations with the united states as unstable why. put in says that relations with the washington have traditionally been going through ups and downs partially because of old cold war stereotypes still remaining in the relations but also because moscow isn't. often and doesn't often agree with some of washington's foreign policies for instance going to put in says that the united states always criticized the human rights situation in other nations but aren't really taking any criticism that well off the human rights situation in the united states itself and to put in washington trying to politicize and exploit human rights in general by doing which and of course also mentions of the iss

to send by today's move why the targeting britain and france and excluding the more fragile economies in the e.u. such as greece well i think the lesson is first of all that economic sanctions are a game that two can play and turnabout is fair play in international affairs the european commission and the relevant powers have been making a big noise over the past couple of weeks about how they are going to embargo and boycott iranian oil starting on july first well it's pretty obvious the iranians decided not to wait around until july first and if this report is correct which it seems to be they've decided to to impose their own embargo boycott on the offending powers and they're starting with the the two biggest imperialist bullies on the schoolyard the british and the french who are now so weak that they can only act together they are a kind of imperialist bicycle built for two so they get slammed first they haven't had time to carefully arrange the fallback options and the alternative sources of oil so this is a little bit of a surprise to them it was mooted last week you know with this step w

brooke block which is brazil russia india and china of course and speaking about the european economy with the e.u. being the biggest trade partner for russia. which and says that any economic problems are very definitely affected the entire global economy and russia is keen only on seeing a healthy european economy and is going to work to support that and still with the foreign policy put in described russia's relations with the united states says unstable why. but you know fortune says that the relations with washington have seen this traditionally they have been always unstable having their ups and downs and this is caused mainly by what putin says are still the remains of old cold war era stereotypes in the relations between the two countries but also russia is often not agreeing with some foreign policies conducted by washington for example and says that the united states is trying to explore it and politicize the issue of human rights which moscow doesn't agree with you know which in has outlines that there is no question absolutely that the human life is the most valuable thing but sometime

will do nothing as a greek economy is already doomed over a third think it will only mean a further hardship for the greek people while eleven percent of you are saying the e.u. want to allow the greek economy to collapse and the minority are now believes bailouts are the only way greece will survive well those are the figures now but that can all change of course if you participate in our web poll so by any means log on to our t. dot com let us know what you think. now as greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced that the islamic republic would soon revealed major advances in its nuclear program he also warned that europe was playing a risky gang by cutting off trade with iran because you consumers uptown for around twenty percent of iran's oil output. the spanish ambassador to iran said that sanctions will hurt this country more than any other european state based journalist may go on and morocco says the e.u. embargo serves

will do nothing as the greek economy is already doomed and over a third think it will only mean further hardship for the greek people well nine percent of you think the e.u. won't allow the greek economy to collapse and the minority for now believes bailouts are the only way reece will survive those are the figures for now but all that can change just add your thoughts to the debate. now is greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing iranian oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud of my.

the demonstrators desperation is growing in the euro zone's fourth largest economy with the highest unemployment rate in the e.u. . us declines to rule out arming the syrian opposition that was also backed by al qaida spreading fears that washington's push for regime change in syria could plunge the country deeper into chaos. and the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iran fuels talk of even more sanctions while tension around these long stay begins to take its toll on the very country supporting those penalties in place. will rising pressure on iran finally explode into a military attack that's a question of outputs to his guests in today's crosstalk next on r.t. . wealthy british style. markets weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy comes a report on r.t. . and. blowing welcome to crossfire i'm peter lavelle paradoxes contradictions and the iran is the drumbeat towards war now inevitable as the chattering classes discuss the possible date of an israeli attack on the round the us military and intelligence community says iran is not developing nuclear weapons and has

e.u. partners otherwise the chinese economy would suffer as well. well yes your euro you saw the biggest destination for chinese exports and this was her first off nice year chinese export has declined quite quickly and you came to do so china also you well taken measures to a halt to a steamy able to get the message of demand to make up the declining export demand yes of course of the export of the still very important before maintaining the song economic growth in china bots i think we must have a mutual benefit a policy of. fact it was so many people talking about so-called the chinese for european debt crisis we all be nieve year old has. resources to are sort of proud of the whole waiver we won't provide help. you you'll can provide to mutual benefits for us china i think. i'm standing for by that's road user shaped by europe and the china let's move now to vice president paying a visit to the us he's there now u.s. and china on a fast track to becoming the world's superpower this is curtailing washington's dominance over the asian pacific migh

e.u. partners otherwise the chinese economy would suffer as well. well yes your euro you saw the biggest destination for chinese exports and this was her first off this year china's export has declined quite quickly and if came to do so china also if you will take measures to a halt to a stimulus at all messed with demand to make up the decline in export demand yes of course of the export of the still very important before maintaining the song economic growth in china but i think we must have a mutual benefit the policy of spec he was so many people talking about so the chinese help for european debt crisis we all be nieve your old has. resources to are sort of proud of the whole waiver we won't provide help. to you you'll can provide to mutual benefits for us china i think of that.

fair to say that the greek economy has entered a death spiral in other words there has been an economic collapse in greece when the first plan was mooted eighteen months ago the e.u. and the i.m.f. suggested that the economy in my contract by three percent will in fact it's contracted by six percent in the last year unemployment has gone up to twenty percent sixty thousand small businesses have gone out of business since the summer so we are watching an economy now in free fall and certainly if the new measures which have just been voted are implemented then that free fall will continue and this isn't just a matter of figures percentages. fractions of g.d.p. and so on this is people's livelihoods people are going out of business people are going hungry as will not have enough to live off this is a very very dangerous situation in greece at the moment how does that freefall plus what you said about the people who are actually suffering and what we're seeing in athens over the past twenty four hours not enough to change the government's mind and if it's not what is. elections. this greek thing has been going on as we know for two years. there have been cliffhangers

e.u. will not slice the greek economy co-opts and also in line for you this out. despite some wild rumors north korea's new leader kim jung il is not dead so it turns out that stories about an assassination that sparked a social network frenzy or simply a drug. in dull so tame a low temperatures find out at all he told how ukrainian children withstands the bone chilling freeze and big coldest spot for decades. it is easy. to. be official anti obligation to go on a phone called talk from the dumpster. geology. video on demand all g.'s mind old girl. and street now in the palm of your. on the dot com. hundreds of thousands have run it across europe against the international anti-piracy accord. people in the u.k. germany poland this waiting and the netherlands has voiced the fear that the treaty would hold freedom of speech and lead to online censorship with has more from london. in line with hundreds of thousands of people all over europe today these people here in london behind me are demonstrating against this act or the anti counterfeiting trade agreement disagre

find out what's really happening to the global economy cars reports on. the e.u. seeks to impose tougher economic sanctions on syria's government after failing to boost pressure on president assad or u.n. draft resolution that was blocked by russia and china. russia's foreign minister calls western reaction to the veto decent and hysterical ahead of his trip to damascus aimed at finding a political solution to the ongoing crisis and ensuring greater political involvement for the people through the internet prime minister putin lays out his plans to upgrade russia the bocher see a day after mass pro and anti-government rallies sweep the country. and pressure on all greek coalition government in deadlock over adopting new austerity measures necessary to secure a second ballot while the e.u. says time for a deal is running out for athens. speaking to senior any of this about the reasons for europe's shortage of gas this winter the business news is the twenty. nine pm in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the e.u. and u.s. are calling

e.u. governments hack and slash policies leave economies public patients at the point of collapse. charge of the murder of prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing made people go straight to london by a fugitive russian businessman and a suspected chechen terrorist our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day a source in the syrian military says the army is now reestablish control over the battle torn city of homs is also reported various rebel groups that fled the city have been surrounded near the border with lebanon it follows a claim by a senior rebel general that his militia group have been supplied with french and american weapons and even anti aircraft missiles on the diplomatic front u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton compared syrian leader bashar al assad to a war criminal but stopped short of directly making the accusation and latest rhetoric aims to downplay the reform adopted by syria to make the political process more democratic and give the opposition a voice and as

e.u. his latest attempt to cripple iran's economy. r t is the state running an english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. just put a picture of me when i was like you know years old and that she told the truth. i am a total get of friends that i love driving. and pretty. much it was kind of yesterday. i'm very aware of the world with its place. there are mounting global time tensions between iran and the west as president obama is trying to hit iran where it hurts in the pocketbook he signed an executive order today freezing all assets of the iranian government and banks held in the united states and the white house says this is in response to what they say are deceptive practice practices on the part of iranian banks but it's being seen by many as an attempt to further isolate iran as criticism against iran's nuclear program continues to mount as well israel also stepping up threats against iran and u.s. defense secretary leon panetta has wa

recovery plans nor money to order china obviously has a big stake in the european economy and also partly because the e.u. is the largest trading partner of china china has been watching very closely obviously euro crisis and how the european union and the dignity germany leading the effort deal with the euro crisis china is very keen to try to understand what next and how e.u. is going to do with the euro crisis there has been an argument about why europe formed by the euro bonds are not big enough to absorb a large part of chinese servant of quickly accumulating subplots therefore i think no alternatives are rather than buying the american chair who bonds i mean gold is only the other alternative obviously if we have sufficient euro bonds i don't see why china cannot do will not go its. foreign currency reserves into europe. you're watching r t it's good to have you with us today coming up shortly in the program the whistle blower's final. chance. to see it extradition to sweden on allegations of sexual assault coming up in just a made. for the country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and

e.u. have already been stopping sanctions on iran's economy over its nuclear program do you think now we're going to see more after this statement. yes yes i'm sure and i think the biggest issue what i see coming out of this is we've seen so many times we're going to see a significant incident take place which we all know is referred to as a false flag and this incident will be the justification to presumably take up arms against the rams what i do want to emphasize is that there is talk of that israel could carried out the first strike militarily speaking and have been worked in nato in the intelligence etc i can assure you that israel does not have the capability to carry out such a strike and it certainly doesn't have the weapons or the aircraft to carry the weapons to do the job so if israel does attack it will be our joint venture with the with america with the u.k. and with france exactly the same scenario as we've seen in libya peter very good to get your of for an opinion tonight peter a middle east consultant on the line live from birmingham here in r.t. it's pretty shit. thank you

e.u. as governments hack and slash policies leave economies and public patience at the points of collapse. the man charge of the murder of prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya says the killing may have been orchestrated in london by a fugitive russian businessman and a suspected chechen terrorists. i'll be back with more on this story as more of. the meantime on cross-talk peter navarro and his guests get hot under the collar of a what the global economy thinks it should do about war torn syria heated debate next on altie. well the perks science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. and if you. want to. know him well come across talk i'm futile about the right to protect or the right to penetrate as syria continues down the path of destruction and civil war there are loud voices on the international stage demanding some form of outside intervention to end the violence and death is international are moving from sovereignty is right to sovereignty as responsibility. to. cross-talk the possible intervention into syria i'm jo

e.u. president and the european commissioner say that how chinese economy and european economy are interconnecting, are interdependant. i think china takes that view as well. china's exports also have been hit, and that would influence the china's economic growth for the whole year. so in a way. it's in china's interest that china contributes to resolving the euro crisis. >> yet it didn't seem any specific pledge was forth coming. i mean, is it possible china will not directly contribute to the economy? >> it's quite possible. if you look at the debate within china, there's quite a strong feeling that the european country should be the main factory in resolving this. and also china has its own economic problems, and it cannot be counted on to save in europe. they simply do not like that kind of phrasing. but like i said it's in china's interest to help. but there's a big question for debate. >> police in thailand say a man they believe to be iranian is reported to have lost both his legs. he was said to have been carrying a bomb that exploded and they went to check a house he was renting. what mor

the demonstrators desperation is growing in the euro zone's fourth largest economy with the highest unemployment rate in the e.u. . the u.s. declines to rod arming the syrian opposition that was also backed by al qaida spreading fears that washington's push for regime change in syria could plunge the country deeper into chaos. and the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iran fuels talk of even more sanctions while tension around the islamic state begins to take its toll on the country supporting those penalties in place. thanks to our special report songs of war which explores the longstanding relationship between violence and music. and home they actually use music to break through so the idea that my musical role in. canada reaches. to the cia believes that would be easy target for this week. the music was sold. and it was probably some of the was told that they placed. all right chris. thank you from the. it's incredible all ending go in your imagination. go. well i've always liked music i think most people good actually. music means good luck to me among many other things i love that i've had a

the demonstrators desperation is growing in the euro zone's fourth largest economy with the highest unemployment rate in the e.u. . the u.s. to quine's to rule out arming the syrian opposition is also bad spreading fear so washington's push for regime change in syria plunged the country deeper into chaos . and the failure of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mission in iraq fuels talk of even more sanctions while tension around the islamic state begins to take its toll on the very countries putting those penalties in place. we have lines next the second part of our special report songs of war which explores the longstanding relationship between violence and music. this. good. red. gums not palm in music. during the vietnam war americans fought with old by military power is a cruel one they could not win with conventional weapons alert. in order to defeat the vietcong psychological operations likes but so i could friedman counted on musical little fan to tip the scales we had at tanks with loud speakers alone and we had jeeps of loud speakers we had aircraft a good fly over with loud speakers and we had men that actuall

e.u. have spurred concerns over financial stability in a number of other economies including russia has around half of the country's turnover depends on yours and states but the head of russia's biggest lenders burbank believes better times are around the corner. we see that europe is already in recession and it has an impact on russia we see that we currently have relatively low growth rates but if you are pm problems don't significantly worsen i would avoid saying that it would have any serious negative effect on russia we would like to have some modest growth which is a good sign in such a difficult time. are not so from the business team for now we will be back next hour in around fifty five minutes time with and i'll see that. good news . led mission free cretaceous three. three. three. three. three. three. play.

set of cuts as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now due to the beta draft bill. demanded by the e.u. . and russian civil society take center stage in politics as a group public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential vote with backing from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters league is to ensure a fair transparent election. where the top stories and sport is next with paul. hello welcome to the sports headlines here on alex he is good to have you company here's what's coming up. making a racket russia going in there in that davis cup tie with austria old roger federer switzerland the whitewash by the usa. perfectly poised tiger woods is four shots behind me to cheer on the way going into the final round of the having drinks national in california. and mission impossible underdogs on the prepared to face overwhelming favorites ivory coast in the final of the twenty twelve africa cup of nations. but we begin with tennis and team russia still alive in that davis cup tie with austria they say after a dramatic doubles win on saturday made it to one going in

forty three nations including the largest economies in the world are fighting the e.u. unilateral move to charge airlines for carbon emissions the international air transport association which unites all major passenger and cargo allied says the system is unfair as it should be imposed globally not region the airline industry already pays enormous taxes in europe we're supposed to be to cover the environment that's the airline perspective but there's also another perspective which is that outside of the airline industry a number of states say this is an infringement on their sovereignty because they need to us charges to cover the entire flight not just the portion of the flight it takes place over a year where space to encourage airlines to reduce greenhouse gases the e.u. will oblige them to effectively pay a tax on fifteen percent of their carbon emissions this will be done by purchasing quotas on the emissions trading system the other eighty five percent is free of charge by twenty twenty the chargeable amount will write to eighteen percent. this means costs will go

economy. and bowing to the net the e.u. gives in to continent wide protests over a controversial internet law criticized for being a stepping stone to web censorship. but first zero growth continued recession and more austerity the latest economic forecast for the e.u. as predicted by the european commission itself the latest figures are especially worrying given growing skepticism over the impact of a second greek bailout major financial players have already come out saying it simply won't stop a greek default this as lawmakers in athens prepare to vote on a slew of cuts today all to satisfy belo pre-conditions as protesters gather outside the parliament kostas doozy is a professor of law birkbeck university of london says only visa says that these cuts will only dream greece further. money and live got to live which to destroy or you push people all that way until they leave the country or they look for the obvious feels as though what . the mess we have is going to do percent unemployment fifty percent unemployment over

e.u. countries and runs them outside of the biggest economies including britain france austria and struggling spain portugal and isa may the said after the decision of greece's parliament to approve new drastic cuts was welcomed warmly by brussels paving the way for athens to get advice a one hundred seventy billing bailout if the ministers are meeting wednesday to discuss their decision on releasing the funds the greek parliamentary vote came amid mass protests and rising against new austerity cuts across the country his jacob greece is in athens with more. the greek government is under attack from all sides now you've got the. international monetary fund really increasing the pressure so the cuts haven't gone far enough and they have been. implemented correctly also what we saw taking place last night we have the demonstrators now really amassing in very large numbers up to one hundred thousand people in attendance and they are growing in anger throughout the course of that evening in the end we saw clashes taking place with police and that resulted in a certain amount of petrol bombs being

of cards of the government's problems the country's economy afloat parliament is now due to debate a draft bill on the sturdy measures demand by the e.u. and the i.m.f. . and russian civil society take center stage in politics as a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential vote with the backing from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters league astute sure player and transparent election. and now we talked to the pakistan's foreign minister here carr who tells us why the united states secret war on terror is actually doing more harm than good. she's the youngest foreign minister in the world but has to deal with some of challenges here that rabbani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on r t thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do. you would you know things look very different but. that pakistan has had in the last in the focus on this prize for that but it is also a fact that pakistan. region inhabits the region. and this region has some

of the government's struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now do the debate a draft bill on a sturdy measure demanded by the e.u. and the i.m.f. . and russian civil society take center stage in politics have a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential vote was backing from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters league is to shore a fair and transparent election. that's the top stories of the week and sports next with paul. hello welcome to the world of sport here we're not saying here's what's coming up. making a racket russia given a lifeline in that davis cup tie with austria knowledge of federer switzerland what washed by the u.s. . mission impossible underdog zambia prepared to face the well meaning favorites the ivory coast in the final of the two thousand and twelve africa cup of nations. and puffing people always tiger woods is four shots behind me to charlie way going into the final round of the pebble beach national in california. but first to football where reports in both the russian and british press claim that former england manager fabio capello could be