and up next when a dollar is big serving camos burger king produced twenty eight aces in his brewing and template for settling the space nicolas almagro the czech was booed off of the match as the seventh seed refused to shake hands with his opponent but it apparently took offense after almagro returned a ball ended his head during the fourth set and wouldn't accept and we apologise. who is afraid to dennys know that the court is pretty big and you always have a some space to put the ball in it's not even new for you if you stand each other like you're four metres close to the guy just try to headed straight straight to your face you know i was just able to do something somewhere further down just hit me in the arm and there today you know i actually did use this is not the way i would twenty's. well elsewhere there was a bit of heartbreak for the local crowd as home favorite in our playmakers formerly beaten high court order federer a trademark backhand winner clinched the second set for the swiss drew the applause

of white america. was better than swiftly served out the third as the world number three which to thirty first consecutive quarter final to slam events. and waiting for federer in the last eight is juan martin del potro after the argentinian rolled past it call schreiber of germany. while women's defending champion kim clijsters played to an ankle injury and slaved for much points to stun the french open champion li na the belgian contemplated retiring after london or quickly at three or the new one to take six to meet in the second set tie break but a jubilant crisis fought back to take the thirty six ball. cross my mind some point you know new so i could just try to do another to medications. sink in or you know if i could get through those first twenty minutes to half hour. you know

as in the pain would go away a little bit and then maybe would you do another and i could just through it and. have that i think there's a give up. and the belgian will next face topsy it caroline wozniacki who held up a second set fight back by serbia's yelena yankovic's the former world number one committing her fiftieth unforced error to hand wozniacki the six love seven five victory the dane went out in the semifinals last year just a step away from defending her ranking points while the one spot. in form by the russian victoria azarenka hit a forehand winner brushed aside yvetot of the czech republic sixty six to remember three c's enjoyed yet another blistering victory. and waiting in the quarterfinals is number eight seed agnieszka the pole needed less than an hour to overpower germany as you go to six one six one twenty two year old going in confidence after

injury is three set battle in her opening match. basketball now despite resting front man and i kid olenka and men i've kissed each tesco still trounced a massive underdogs minsk by an impressive fifty point margin here in moscow to maintain the group the lead in the international d.t.b. tournament while the home side got off to a rather slow start as dwayne hawkins poured into travels all the bats to get the better machine visitors and early eight four lead the american would eventually top score with nineteen points but just got themselves into the fire street by the end of the opening quarter and never looked back sasha can lead to their charge with a team high eighteen points and some spectacular slam dunks six more players pinched and toppled to egypt who eventually won it one hundred ten to sixty the moscow club chalking up their night's win intend games since the start of the regular season and later admitted it's more of a training session than a match to decide. the world little wallet and well our opponents aren't

quite at the same level as the other teams in the league you know what about let's do it any team can beat another team at any given time but if you don't give your all so i'm happy with the way i played. mike and over in the n.b.a. the grizzlies won their sixth straight game with a one hundred twenty eight to ninety five home way of the struggling kings late in the first quarter mike conley signed his seventh basket from seven shots at memphis thirty four twenty one out but sacramento climbed back to within eight points in the second. project jumper took just seconds to go but then the home side pulled away after the break marc gasol and rudy gay for a stylish dunk packed with repeated the feat a perfect are you but with seventy eight sixty ahead the final quarter was more about gasol as the forces won by thirty eight points their players collecting twenty or more points. finally to ice hockey and fastens of fans flooded to the

latvian capital of riga on saturday to watch the east remain unbeaten against the west in the fourth k h l all-star extravaganza robert fatton young reports. lead in hockey fans written out for the stars on so it was their turn to meet the biggest jones europe strongest league has to offer at the cato all-star game twenty twelve with one of the greatest russian players of all time sergei further of living the peak of the eastern conference and the pride of legend hockey. captaining the best from the west that is why for the first time in the history of the event the arena that would jump thousands betrayers what passionately behind one side the west. and also initially go promptly to believe in the so-called super skills show which is a traditional warm up ahead of the all star games with another local idol number

reduced nicolas redlegs winning the first to skater competition. after three more contests the western conference two were still on bitten although their opponents from the east managed to still the show and win. with drugstores oleksandr results of producing a record breaking one hundred eighty three kilometer no heat in the paris shot contest and sergei further up edging out sunday's oscillation in the captain's deal which saw some extra hockey skills on display from the two legends i think will like it. having. sun just like that i like that it was it was sort of very technical material so it was different it was new how the words were like it and it was it was good innovation meanwhile the most i guess in contest shootouts left many dealt if it's really possible in this world what's blooding address into

the various sankoh is the reason i don't know how what does that look like the puck was going our way in the wrong side mccain back this way so i don't know if you know he's a magician. the secret was that i just made a tiny hole in the park and pollution one through did you. know most my father told me the street she did the job on no three previous occasions take a chill star game so the team from the east claimed victory over the peak of the west so this time around chris hope we were about to witness something more than just a friendly showcase love but the real deal hockey the action started with no goals in the first ten minutes of the match proving the teams were not just having fun on ice just as they promised before the game we had a winning streak on so. i think. it might be up for grabs today as above the players on both sides i think are going to try a lot harder to do one of the sides like it when i'm going to belts. it was the west open the schooling and guns galore while it begins to roll. teams to join

schooling and taking the lead but if there are periods under way on level terms old off to the further fifteen sport for when they're old to make it will eight the old come was inevitable the team from the east remains unbidden at the cage will also games fifteen eleven the final score i think it begins as a friendly. friendly game plan and eyes and these and then and soon as the somebody gets ahead a little bit more the others name starts to run out and where you again we can't let it get away like that that they've just spent it gradually becomes a little bit. more more competitive than it was a beginning but still of long game nobody wants to get hurt of course and must have a good time and enjoy themselves this time around was different from any i appear i think it was. twenty interesting combinations i think guys basically try boy often

so if you're in. as you know with just a on for any all-star games but like i said we have a streak of far off all balls one line do that really good job but. we got lucky and we got. quite advantage there next year the all stars who make it to the point of the euro monckton's of the eastern russian city of chile evans. public but the new on our team lucky. by hand so. far.

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roundup of the week's top stories in the headlines the arab league extending its observer mission in syria by a month is saudi arabia withdraws its monitors critical of the lack of progress in ending almost a year of violence. early results show courage show votes in favor of joining the european union this as yet another member of the financially stricken group romania rising up against its government and high austerity measures. other stories that shape the week tension over iran's nuclear program reaching new highs as the e.u. debates an oil embargo and the u.s.

ups its military presence in the region. and the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship lead to the suspension of pending anti-piracy laws. what i am in moscow i met treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t arab league officials say its team of monitors will continue its mission implementing a peace plan to end the crisis in syria this is saudi arabia decides to withdraw its contingency saying the syrian government isn't following through with agreements aimed at ending the bloodshed as our first reports there is a desperate need for professional mediators in the region conflict. crucially was also expected to happen is that they are going to be bolstering this mission by increasing the numbers and also by providing training by the u.n.

to these officials now we've actually been following them for the past five days and was become extremely clear is that certainly what is needed now is more facilitation of dialogue between all these different groups that you see now in the country between the opposition between the government one of the major questions that's been raised at the end of this particular mandate was just how successful the mission had been in sort of advancing the situation here in the country doesn't need that's where the u.n. training is going to come and play a very pivotal role because what's desperately needed in the country right now are people who are very experienced conflict resolution to stop promoting genuine dialogue now between all the many different sides nuclear really was the need to bridge these widening gaps than in the town is that the dunny we actually visited there yesterday with is that if he remained in the country this is the area that

you see in the so-called free syrian army take control of it in the last few days a temporary ceasefire because between the government forces and free syrian army so we've seen inside the city to see what's being happening certainly it's an area extremely divided on one side you've got the government in control on the other side the free syrian army but it's actually in actual fact very very difficult to know exactly who is in charge of the people's houses that we were showing in the city center had been absolutely devastated by the fighting with the children who have been showing us some of the bullet casings that they've found around the area all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting that's been going on out there you see very similar to this that. i have not actually think st louis consigning the people who if they're living heretics in the dangerous situation it's not really think exactly isn't he's being killing hate and

that makes the situation very very dangerous and the seeing across the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution that this is an end to the invited. i think i ask. that the dining area. meanwhile the opposition syrian national council says it plans to press the un security council for intervention in the country where thousands have died in the on arrest the council believes the arab league observers have been useless in ending hostilities and insists that foreign involvement is the only way out parties where if an ocean of the reports that there are doubts by some about the of the opposition leaders motives. howlett hold jeff from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring in an end to the violence is what the s. and c. was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there present

them and their two national community in order to reach this syrian people's freedom and although it's been run by paris based exile about hamburg and you know the absence he has been recognized as the country's lee determined government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some and nato countries which has made some doubt the council's innocent intentions with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council perspective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in a new libya so there is power broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in a new syrian regime libya's national transitional council and the syrian national

council and it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored from abroad think he likes opposition forces and their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts cortez are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria now we have. you know we have to be executed there howlett says he spent fifteen years in jail in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's just because his father supported the opposition he claims nothing has changed since then and the oppression has to stop the town is another matter claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is. now cooperating with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from the stars me to be in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance. the council says sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect

civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this isn't made to istanbul paris operation where the syrian national council spiels to activism and gender they need to look at that because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least lead to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after as soon only terry will force president assad out on his attorneys to stay but the question remains exactly how long should these people have to wait for the bloodshed to stop and how many of them will actually see the end of it or if notion asti turkey. turning out of developments in libya the deputy head of the country's national transitional council as an analyst his resignation as a series of protests against the new government continues. his boss had been

accused of being an opportunist who switched allegiances from the khadafi regime is the uprising started saturday crowds of protesters stormed into the city headquarters in benghazi angered by the way the council was handling the country's assets demonstrators threw stones and metal bars at the building breaking windows and damaging a car of the m.t.c. head abdul julio mass rallies have been raging for weeks in benghazi considered the cradle of the revolution that toppled the khadafi regime adrian sabu author and international consulting thinks the callouses main goal was to secure western oil interests and not establish democracy. mission in libya for example is not to improve life in the country maybe already had the highest standard of living in all of north africa where the in. it does have is the largest work global oil reserve and the top order reserve in africa and that is what the national transitional council are being supported for in order that they should promote western oil companies western financial interests in libya and the people will just have to be

without the people have already been killed and a little variable of genocide has taken place as we've seen in iraq so in a way the same pattern is repeated over and over again where there's a double standard they say that they are promoting democracy but what they are basically doing is promoting the financial and political interests of the global power elite embedded inside the united states britain the european union and israel . has voted in favor of joining the e.u. the initial results announced by the state referendum commission there's after more than half the ballots were counted not all the current ones that were optimistic about the future prospects as protests spilled onto the streets on the eve of the referendum enjoying a block by july next year if its membership is approved by all twenty seven member states for more perspective on this i'm joined from amsterdam by political consultant logic thanks for joining us so is it the right time you think to join the e.u. given the recent economic problems within the bloc well yes you know the process of

doing that you started a long time. time everything was going well it's like marriage you know you get married at some point things are going really well at some point might not be so e.u. is all about. and it leads to still join the e.u. and not just drain what it has to offer but also just to change it from the inside . rather than just looking from the outside now it appears that the minority but a significant minority forty percent of creation's oppose membership do you think we can expect more protests. yes you know why not protests are a sign of a healthy democracy and sign that people are at least thinking about things and standing up for themselves so i'm happy about the protests about not joining they're posing not joining the e.u. even though i am for joining the e.u. . because of maybe even the government didn't really know the propaganda of the e.u. didn't. point out all the negative consequences of doing it so i'm happy that these

people have been going out to show it but it's also what the media is big up from it is what i see you know showing pictures of people fighting it's a very very very tiny fraction of what actually happens in croatia and also the sixty six percent of the people who just voted yes what do you think that as a nation curry and zagreb as the capital can offer the bloc in terms of the economic benefits to the union and vice versa well gracious first of all for the european union is a huge underdeveloped yes and yes developing markets so for every country does the value of that has. technology that has the power to go in and. do it to do business there or to use the markets that's a good thing for those countries so the countries of the existing you countries and for us. some benefits are really obvious like you. like the things that grew like the e.u. funds which we will have to know how to use and it's i think ultimately on creation

how it will make the benefits work for it's her loss of sovereignty and national identity always a main counter-argument i'll against joining a union or a bloc like this do you think that's a threat for croatia. well i think it's not really a threat it's more like a sacrifice that we will have to make you know to make the cooperation of the european union work for us as well. as recently as some of you might know have been fighting ten years ago for its sovereignty from another union. i don't think people are very happy about letting that go and i don't think they will have to let it go they will just have to die and they will have to learn how to gain from the european union. one more question that we have is that the nation of creation as it is the southern southern tip of it is actually not connected to the rest of the land mass and you actually have to go through by a land bosnia to get there do you think that's something that will have an impact considering that bosnia herzegovina is not yet part of the well i mean that will be

as big of a problem i think as it was a problem until long i don't see why you would mention that as. yeah it is a funny thing that we have this going to be sublime i don't think it would be a big problem for the u.s. government border regulatory. region something that came to mind why on a posher clinical communication consultant joining us from amsterdam thanks for your insight thank you. protestors have clashed with police on the romanian capital bucharest in the worst riots the country's seen for more than a decade for a second week thousands took to the streets demanding the resignation of the government and the president party's tom barton has the details from bucharest. night and day they come to scream their defiance biting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence in the memory of our youth has no future they have no jobs. motive water is

sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she is forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension. they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it. is not just here for herself her son left her mania but it's illegal to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president try and assess who protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption the who wants to descend down down with disaster as parents left us with a heritage and we are leaving our children just debt an international monetary fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions the remaining in government has tried to force its financial house into water budget benefit cuts

slashed pay pension freezes falling living standards but some say it's the people who are now being forced to pay for the mistakes of the few who stayed the country to economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for their situation they didn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had profited. the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst. let's not forget that we're in the eye of the storm of an economic european stool all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequence is that inevitably effect astute just not good enough so that the opposition who argue of course that they could do better than once every day discourage inefficient government stays in power is a day north for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we come on

it's fast as we come by fairly actions with many of them accepting there is no escape economically politics for them is the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. these. days. i. started to walk should. the president about to be here and you can see why what made you want to tear it all down and start to get. ready for a new. europe and the u.s. have expressed their willingness to return to dialogue with iran over its controversial nuclear program despite that the e.u. seems about set to approve an unprecedented a bardo on iranian oil fred says tougher sanctions are the only way to avoid military action the us in its turn has strengthened his presence in the region sending a second aircraft carrier to the arabian sea it's reportedly planning to sail

through the strait of hormuz which iran has threatened to block in response to sanctions and seaway is a strategic passage for the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition thinks washington may be deliberately escalating the situation to create a pretext for regime change. the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the i.a.e.a. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threaten its neighbors iran has not started a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike the run refuses to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. inspectors into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from iran so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government.