birmingham in the f.a. cup fifth round fixture the game at stamford bridge finished one all the visitors representing the english championship the blues fans twenty minutes in. the. chances midfield. missed a golden chance to equalise just two minutes later they sped failed to a penalty kick the rest of the game so under the laws bush's men in constant attack mode they managed to level that. generous herridge save the day for his team with a precise header one hundred ten and the two sides will play each other in birmingham. same with football where paul maritz have defeated and nine men go on to get a three two in the brazilian polish that keeps them at the top of the table after eight rounds go on to tell who had lost all but one championship thinks

a prior to this game opened the scoring ten minutes then the visitors restored parity just seven minutes later seminal but both managed to find the back of the net despite crowded place inside the box. went in front just before half time and made no mistake from the penalty mark. for the house didn't stop there after the break they were down to nine men on top of considering a girl from utah. going to get could do in that situation was to score and return so that finished three two in favor of palmares. now to be football where team russia seems to be unstoppable at their home near a cup as the defending champ burns have claimed second successive victory but beating italy for one and power themselves into the final because they put up of has all the details for you now. russia started then counter with italy cautiously

keeping in mind eleven goals that squadron zero netted in the semifinal against spain but the talons decided to play their trademark style thinking defense first and it took six minutes for the reigning champions to draw first blood and don't go out in cross form a corner and alex a marker for the ball home putting the russians in front and in the dying seconds of the first period russia's goalkeeper under a book lead ski with a powerful shot doubled the lead scoring the tournament's throws the goal way keeper in the second my car of nearly the one morning telling his fourth gold so for the talents then cut the deficit to two girls by the go to shake off seal the final score for one. hole italian national teams play defensively no matter which kind of football it is their own soul the defendant and talent on counter-attacks and why we got the lead they failed to switch to a more taken style and you got it and you know we're just

a better team we're not surprised that italy continued to play on counter-attacks even when they were trailing it's their style and we played well tactically and didn't let them come from behind. us meanwhile the other semifinal turned out to be a cracker as hot favorite sport to go and switzerland took to the sand beach deports of you is one of the most successful teams in europe with six continental titles and produced an electric start with four goals in the opening of this week reached the semifinal when their own and rumania field to arrive on time and then day off affected them however switzerland managed to get back into the game and reduced portugal its lead to just to go in the third but that was all they could do seven six and portugal powered up to the final to me it's russian a repeat of the previous euro cup decider where the russian squeezed past them six four seconds. but you know we're delighted to beat such a solid team we proved we deserved to be in the final we don't really care who

opponents will be we just have to play our game and take full advantage of opportunities. will be he said with a confident when over italy russia of the envision stared in other traffic today if it was going kevin it however is going to be a tough challenge as the face spine of the leading nations in the scoring war to go in the decider on sunday to say about that. moscow. former ones on the russian driver tyler boudreau has found a seat for his thirty's and in the sport this form a rare no man has joined the current team the twenty seven year old is replacing the veteran ian a truly behind the wheel for the malaysian british based outfit feed hike of a line it will be a patrol to make this year. to take part in the pre-season testing in barcelona next week with the season getting underway with the australian grand prix in melbourne in a month's time the trough finished thirteenth overall in his maiden season before

improving to tenth place last year. you know it was a couple of race. it was very difficult to parse for this team so i'm really looking forward to the long over because until belittle this last three years there was a book we could steal from the new teams. who will see it being careful and. it will be good. one of the most eagerly anticipated events at the upcoming summer olympics undoubtedly will be the men's one hundred meters with several months to go before the london games one of the world's fastest sprinters jamaican a south of power says that you said bolt funtastic result of nine point five eight seconds could be broken there. the one thing. people can go for to know when you google too good you know i think it's possible to do indeed need.

to do a. little bit of people looking forward to. some. good looking you know but it's a good. year to be abusing accused. now winter sports were at the world snowboarding championships in norway. has advanced into the final of the women's half pipe competition the american was comfortably the highest scorer in thursday's set is sure to with eighty five points while fellow american counterpart was her closest rival with a two one point one in the other hate spain's caracas el finished top of the seventy nine point nine. it was talk or iraq of japan and of the united states were the semifinal. winners.

and finally golf where kruger has moved into one short lead after the third round. in new delhi the south african six under par sixty six which included two goals i suppose at the fifteenth which took the took from the green saw him out of knots later. what thought from scotland made the ideal start with a birdie at the first six on who's also a couple of double bogeys which left a share for second place at ten and is on the same mark as marcel same of germany at brilliant short into the eighteenth let him. sit carded for under sixty eight. ok that's all from me and for the moment join us for more here not the weather is next stay with

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all roads lead to terror pressure grows on the regime in syria with fears that if it falls the nation's key ally iran could be left stranded and propelled into action. giving a voice to latvia's russian minority the baltic state votes on whether the language spoken by a third of its population should official status. and the idea of euro unity holds strong despite the region's crumbling finances as some schools are accused of brainwashing children to believe the project is infallible our top stories this hour on.

international news and comment live from moscow this is. where the crisis knocked damascus feeling the squeeze from within the country and abroad its crucial ally in the region is also suffering the strain experts warn that the collapse of the syrian regime would be a devastating blow to iran making terror on extremely isolated and compelled to act we'll have live analysis concerning the syrian situation in a moment but first. your smith. iran's military is put through its paces but how long will this carry on being a drill as the conflict in syria gets bloodier by the day western powers range against president assad ally iran the strategic position looks increasingly shaky which some suggest is no coincidence there is

a proxy conflict between israel and its western allies and iran which basically only has one ally in the region which is the syrian republic so if you can get syria away from iran either through a diplomatic deal which they're trying for many years all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that would definitely weaken iran at all roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts are calling the last thing deployed and hope that bring down throw a rainy in our side and replace it with the opposition because you've already said they did talk to nancy terror on foreign policy we realize that you korea iran is the most powerful ally since the iran iraq war iran and syria have developed all sorts of ties cultural and economic included but crucially iran uses syria as a conduit for support for hezbollah in lebanon and how mass in the palestinian authority both declared foreign terrorist organizations by the u.s.

state department take that away and iran's influence in the region could weigh in all corners iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program projects on raising its. interference perceived interference in other countries in the region press bahrain probs lebanon perhaps palestinian territories. and that will be the way that iran will react so you can make a case for suggestion that the removal of assad will make iran even more protective or even more dangerous it's a knife edge situation and one which grows more. carious is events in syria worse than the us even says israel could attack iran in a matter of months but the possibility of a conflict between the major western powers and iran becoming a conflict between the world's major powers is on the horizon storm clouds are massing over the region reports of emerge that the qataris and saudis are already

funding arming and covertly operating with the syrian opposition iran looks increasingly isolated with a hostile israel perilously close laura smith r.t. . well for more on the situation in syria we can talk to political activist who's joining us from ramallah the e.u. is calling for the creation of humanitarian corridor in syria how close are we to foreign military intervention well actually i believe that they've started this already they've been sending. members. through the surrounding countries of syria and all these. laws that we've explored that. took place in. the massacres are actually at the

hands of al qaida members and we know very well that. transfer of these militias are tied on members from iraq and from libya through turkey and through jordan so we just have to ask you washington isn't deliberately supporting al-qaeda is it. well if if they were. supporting. throughout afghanistan war. before fifty years ago and they were. they they know. activities in iraq and if they think that they can serve them by these explosions and creating chaos in syria why not i don't think that they you mind this may be a. record they try to avoid any linkage between them and i think to

serve their. purpose here and to. topple the. bashar al assad i think they don't so therefore therefore if purpose is to lead to regime change on the fall of assad that would. create a power vacuum whereby what you will saying there is every chance that. any other extremist group could actually fill that void which is exactly what nato and the u.s. want is it. though i didn't hear the question is there actual rise or a chance of effect filling that power vacuum once assad foals. well yeah. sure that they can they are doing it they've been doing it for the past three or four weeks now what these explosions and what we've what we are seeing on.

t.v. networks and on the net it's going to be a really heavy it's going to be more in. the sense that nato has declared its position that they don't intend to interfere and the u.s. is backing. away a little bit but i think that they're using now this new tactics of sending militias and sending them military militias into syria from the surrounding countries not just so many saying this is the end of assad but is there a chance perhaps could survive all of this and if you did in your opinion would that be a good thing. well i think. if we look at the internals if we look at the syrian people and that's the most important key here the syrian people or the majority of the syrian people are backing

their government they're backing their president and they're backing. their reforms that political reforms that they are undergoing right now so i and with the international let's say with that russian and chinese. security council i think has really a good chance of steadfast. home from things all these phones against just only briefly when iran is low in such a such gesture to hold a referendum on the constitution and future elections do you think despite the opposition saying they don't want that to happen do you think that could happen then we will get a clearer reflection of what the real population of syria want just briefly but if yes i think it's going to happen. nevertheless all of the many obstacles on the way out of. that. military

surgeons. are doing on the ground right now i think the referendum is going to be out. of the government's efforts here. people's back and short thank you so it's really interesting to hear thoughts thank you for joining us live from ramallah thank you you thank. latvia is set to decide whether russian should become the country's second official language authorities claim it threatens national integrity despite russians making up a third of the population and as alexian a chef he reports this referendum is just the first step to ending decades long discrimination. the lady from a lot of years russian minority says his country's government has gone too far having lived in lot of all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to a passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family this

time and that his children and their education. in the russian school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught in latvian language but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get even a new ruling which. does create a lot of problems for the students at the moment and of course it. is their results it was the threat that these schools where at least some lessons are taught in their native russian would be closed down for good that scared the russian minority which constitutes one third of the country's population they initiated a referendum on making. second state language something radical right wing parties called a threat to national integrity to fit into this vote is against our constitution which says a lot is i'm on a national state and always be it explicit our society which has to have one solid

foundation if you want to it to be like russia. going to russia and leave us be. at least three quarters of a million people must vote yes for a constitutional change to take place but with support predicted to be just that seems to be unlikely the outcome however could have been different if another three hundred twenty thousand residents were allowed to vote those are ethnic russians who spare and grandparents came here after nine hundred forty five they were denied citizenship after a lot of it became independent and are still carrying allien passports people who are getting independence because. people who. voted for. and afterwards. and it's a fraud it's a problem. it's a problem mutual trust it's a problem of relations between the state. the newly appointed council of europe's

commissioner for human rights believes the vote will not solve the discrimination problem and that its readers handling of the russian community that should be changed if the human rights suspect of stateless children being born in. the clear norms of the convention on the rights of the child every child has a right to citizenship from birth regulating language use in the private sphere this also has human rights implications raise issues of proportionality here i think that things should be reviewed though it is widely accepted here that the russian language referendum will fail the russian minority hopes that the vote will bring their struggle out of the shadows and force the government to at least open a dialogue like the russians are contemplating another vote to introduce changes into the citizenship law that is to abolish the so-called ellie and passports and grant citizenship to those who are living without it and many say in this case they have a good chance of succeeding as they would only need

a little more than two hundred thousand positive. reports. in latvia. with twenty four hours a day. coming up in the next few months for you as healthy living becomes more fashionable russia's organic farming looks to cash in independent shops aiming to challenge supermarket supremacy also. chinese people are very dangerous why what is made you think have you ever been personally threatened by a chinese person that you know so why do you feel that way. beijing's voice is grow louder in the international arena we ask. people in the streets if there is good reason to fear the two countries. first greece is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy the future of bailed out portugal is uncertain and the single currency itself could be in trouble and the ranks of people writing off the eurozone and even the european project itself only swelling

in number so perhaps that's why the message for a united europe is being pushed on an all new platform the classroom has this report. but what do you know about your country and the capital is there on not enough some. pizzas but let's keep. it. spanish french and english. these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen european schools that are primarily to educate children of e.u. stuff we are the only system which is able to provide education in twenty three different languages you know the more europe is united in their city and that's what we believe every day in the european school but outside the classroom reality says otherwise for now differences seem to transcend unity

critics along accuse the e.u. of brainwashing children through education paraphernalia that they claim promote a story i'd vision of the e.u. a comment from a european commission representative at an education fair appears to support at that point we will never see the follow you here you do not know when you're young. prejudice is. because there's now a push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums up one out live in a two thousand and eleven report and later adopted by parliament. the european parliament repeats its request to the member states to promote the inclusion of the specific subject on the background goals and functioning of the european union and its institutions which will help young people feel more involved in the process of european integration school curricula responsibility of individual member states to

tailor to their own needs and their own classrooms and the e.u. should not get involved in dictating what individual schools teach you know we don't want the european money wasted on pouring out it's pouring out to you propaganda into our schools we see as part of our role to explain to citizens regardless of age how this thing work why we have the european union why it's a good thing that the aim is more information not not. propaganda or you know sort of brainwashing exercise that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage the european and global perspective and approach the emergence of a european identity from an early age but the question is what does it stop being education and start being a propaganda when the suggestion is being. a better europe is automatically more europe than i have a problem with that as do angry m e p's he say that targeting youngsters and their

education with a potentially one sided political view may just be a little too sinister just are cilia r.t. brussels. tens of thousands of people have been running across russia to support prime minister putin as political course and his bid for presidency next month in the premier's natives in petersburg some sixty thousand people gathered in the center of the city they chanted slogans and brandish russian flags and banners in support of a number of the city's prominent citizens also addressed the crowds the demonstrators spoke out against social disorder and a revolution in the country saying they wanted a strong and stable russia a country also sore several mass rallies against the current leadership after last december's parliamentary elections which protesters claim rigged tens of thousands are expected to gather again to call for fair elections at the end of february. right now time to update you on some other news making headlines around the world this hour in the world updating first.