russia and china have blocked a resolution on syria at the un security council saying the text doesn't rule out foreign military intervention. in greece a twenty four hour nationwide strike is underway in response to the government's latest round of austerity measures with all flights cancelled schools closed and the transport at a standstill. and the collective anger sweeps coast to coast all across america as the movement of protesters grows by the.

twenty four hour global news live from the heart of moscow this is r.t. with me. russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution on syria the european draft called on damascus to end its crackdown on protesters face quote targeted measures but moscow and beijing said this could pave the way to a libya style military intervention. has more from new york. russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin said the draft was too one sided he described the resolution as a confrontational approach taken by the european delegation and against the peaceful settlement to the crisis now this draft resolution was proposed by france with the support of portugal the u.k. and germany but the one part of the text that many countries seem to disagree with

was that that called for syria to comply with the resolution within thirty days and if it if not comply then the council would quote consider its options including unspecified quote measures and many council members including china russia brazil south africa interpreted these vague terms as leaving the door open to sanctions now of course russia's one is one of many countries that has been opposed to international same sions against syria ambassador churkin says moscow believes the violence should be stopped through internal reforms and political dialogue not external sanctions or military intervention such as the case of libya you put in you see what you broke with a draft resolution which was not to be was based on an entirely different philosophy the philosophy of confrontation we cannot agree with its one sided

accusations against a master we believe the threat of implementing sanctions against the syrian government is unacceptable this approach contradicts the principle of peaceful settlement. of common serious national going. to brazil india south africa and lebannon stained from voting on the resolution but it was the united states that voiced aid. stream disappointment that the security council did not bold to mentally adopt the resolution moving forward russia and china said that they will be working on a resolution to gather that they say will be more balanced in the case of syria now we do know that some council members wanted not only the syrian government condemned for the violence but also a condemnation against all the air tigerman protesters that may have been inflaming

the violence that has been breaking out over the course of six months but that is a measure that the europeans did not want included in this resolution that is really put my record right there with the veto by russia china follows three months of heated debate in new york but the disagreement has split the security council but moscow is certain its action is justified to use or could integrate two of those planes. it's actually a rare case of russia using its veto at the u.n. security council russia has only used its power of veto seven times since nine hundred eighty four that is fewer than the u.k. and that's way less than the united states and the fact that most state has used this last resort shows that it's trying to prevent a similar scenario and yet another arab state to what happened in libya back in march that resolution on libya was passed russia abstained from the vote but the u.n. mandate was quickly picked up by nato which sided with anti gadhafi forces in libya

helping them to topple the colonel and russia insists that in case of libya this u.n. mandate was misused and now it has vowed not to let that happen again actually russia is the only permanent member of the u.n. security council which is actually trying to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the crisis in syria it has hosted representatives so forth president bashar al assad and members of the opposition trying to notch them into a dialogue and the russian lawmakers also went on the fact finding mission to syria which has concluded that the moscow's peason fags are trying to implement the democratic reforms which it promised but it needs more time to bring them into force the u.s. and its western allies have already imposed a set of sanctions aimed against regime of president assad and they have caused him to step down over russia stands at the point that any one sided approach could only

make matters worse and it could be sending a biased signal all strong support for the opposition to keep fighting which could only fuel a time shown in that country. over forty. syrian ambassador was on the floor in new york following the security council for bashar a draft took the chance to have a go. why the u.s. has used a v two fifty times to protect israel and it continues to threaten to use these will power and this could be considered pretty even genocide the saw the entire u.s. delegation headed by susan rice walk out of the meeting in protest of a syrian envoy was referring to america's stance on the palestinian bid for full recognition of the u.n. and white house says it will veto any resolution program saying that such a move can only come through direct peace talks between israel and the palestinians

. let's talk more on the u.s. resolution veto by russia and china where john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris i thank you for coming on the program today so russia's envoy to the u.n. said that a resolution on syria could lead to a libyan style foreign military intervention what's what's your take on. well i think they're right i think the envoys right i think moscow has been very annoyed with nato britain france and america for the way they exploited the libyan resolution the resolution on libya the one which russia abstained on and therefore allowed to pass russia has said repeatedly during their live in campaign that the terms of that resolution were being misused that resolution after all only talked about protecting civilians whereas news is not it being voted the western leaders the british defense secretary for instance admitted that regime change was the was the very goal and russia protests that were in vain i have to say

russia suffered the defeat over libya because. she opposed the policy of regime change but ultimately had to recognize the new regime in libya which she did a few weeks ago so naturally there's a lot of bad feeling and i'm sure diplomats in moscow and the no doubt the president who decides these things feels that russia was taken for a ride of libya and won't be taken for a ride over syria now with this situation with syria being compared to that of libya as you were mentioning the u.n. resolution one thousand and three for libya as you mentioned was supposed to be a humanitarian intervention very humanitarian campaign but when it comes to syria if nato with the strong support of the united states really wanted to go into syria surely they could just easily drum up a reason to justify it i mean look at the so-called humanitarian intervention in libya. there's no doubt they could do it if they wanted to and there are plenty of examples unfortunately for them having done that everybody knows that the attack on

iraq in two thousand and three was waged without the united nations security council approval as was the attack on yugoslavia over kosovo in one thousand nine hundred nine so yes there are plenty of cases of this however the iraq war. as i'm sure your viewers know was the object of massive opposition in western countries itself particularly in britain but also in america and one of the main reasons why the opposition was so strong was that there was no security council approval of that war and people felt rightly that it was there for illegals and i think that's why the western governments are keen to obtain some kind of legal cover. in my view bogus but they want the appearance at any rate of legal cover for their actions now in the middle east well moments ago you mentioned the issue of iraq i met many say there are certainly some are alterio motives there when it comes to for example the mineral wealth all of that country in libya we are seeing nato members harvesting

billion dollar oil contracted i mean does syria actually have anything worthwhile to justify nato even going in there. well no i think the interest of syria for the western powers is obviously great proximity to israel it's been a party to the war against israel it's one of the big components of. the israeli state that's its importance for america and for britain it's important to use as a geopolitical factor right next to israel a country which obviously america. and the other western powers strongly support so that would be the altar into a political motive rather than oil there isn't there isn't any oil in syria no so other than no energy interest here but geo political interest as you say here some analysts suspect the west is targeting assad's regime because because of syria's close ties with iran and hezbollah now you mention israel could there be any links any truth to that. i'm sure that that's very definitely part of the reason that

syria effectively controls lebanon which is of course israel's immediate neighbor syria is also a strong ally of iran and we all know that iran has been in the americans and unusually is crosshairs for a long time so yes there is an arc if you like lebanon syria iran of the geo political opposition to israel and to america's role in the middle east and there's no doubt you should never forget that the whole arab spring the whole rhetoric of an eruption of democracy and liberalism in the arab world proclaimed by obama in his speech in cairo shortly after he became president in other words long before these uprisings actually started this rhetoric recalls the rhetoric of liberation in eastern europe in other words it has a very important in one hundred eighty nine in other words it has

a very important geopolitical role because after all let's not be naive the regimes which the americans and the other western powers want to see come to power as a result of the uprisings obviously friendly ones they want the middle east to be remodelled along the lines which make the middle east saith israel to put it very bluntly that was the goal proclaimed by george bush george bush the son george w. bush and it's effectively the same policy be it in a different guise that obama is now pursuing and that's the context of the geopolitical context in which we should see this saber rattling or going through i wish we had more time to cover this in more depth john locke and from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris many thanks indeed. well that's now if you do get involved with us here at r.t.l. we're always interested in your opinions and we'd like to have your thoughts on the situation in syria if you click onto our website our if you don't you can be a part of our latest poll and bring up the numbers are right now here on our c

today we ask what is going to happen now that the u.n. security council resolution on syria has gone so far most to say that nato will resort to false flag attacks by the view that syria's enemies will use you unilateral sanctions come second something different we'll work on a better resolution and if you wish respondents believe that the russia china stance will see assad's violence come to an end do you get involved now online at r.t. your. but the chinese if you don't want syria the u.n. security council resolution may sound relations with the u.s. even more later in the program we reported that washington is trying to get back at beijing for allegedly valuing you wander and taking away american jobs. thousands of people united against the government's latest round of austerity measures and a twenty four hour strike in greece flights in and out of the country

a council schools closed hospitals working at a reduced capacity this nationwide protest comes after eurozone finance chiefs postponed greece's next let's cross live now from our correspondent sara for standing by. sara good to see you so what's happening today and i think what if you see. the team a lady had gathered earlier today and you can see they play thousands of people out on to syntagma square in the front of the parliament behind me that you can see them just to be having a live pictures coming through as well i can tell you some of these banners are they carrying and saying everybody take to the streets i get greece out of the european union that's what some of them are saying raise the debt that's another a lot of the banners that the people here are carrying handing out today to protest against this is bill sterett he measures that they say simply untenable for them we've seen some tax hikes recently we've seen the announcements that there's going

to be even more killed cars in the coming weeks and months that the people here are really very angry about the nations today say the government encasing on the that they simply can't live with stay there out on the streets today protesting at the maybe in the situation quite cause you caught the flights in and out of the country cannes would you got public transport at a standstill today at schools and hospitals operating on emergency staff and she said yes the commonest at the moment that we seen before with these protests. nation light strikes a day and nations do run high it's a very very sensitive time for these people there's a lot of anger that what's happening and the situation in a lot of people who describe this to us is greece now and the greek people a country on the brink. syria two thousand and eleven has just been a disastrous year for greece there have been protests for months on end and certainly a handful of bailouts being imposed on the government by the creditors but as you

were saying the mood is one of anger and resentment is there any sense that they could actually be change to be brought about by these protests so for months now as we look over two thousand and eleven people have been calling for an absolute drastic change and any sense of that that i could actually happened. well the people here absolutely believe that they're not willing to back down on this issue at all i mean it's very difficult for them because this is been a long long struggle that it's been two years and we see this situation so many times before you've got the people once again outside the parliament building with the riot police still facing the is very difficult for them they said time and again they just want to have their voices heard they want realistic measures they understand the human place is in a very difficult situation there if the measures are needed that this is a long long way for them they know that it's not going to get better it's more it that the people here we speak into said they're literally living in the country

that maybe it's not week by week that things get worse day day by day that having these measures tell them that they they can live with and we've seen a lot of criticism from the analysts here in the country who saying these measures are the being in place really aren't very realistic and so you see the people out here at the moment these are the people who are getting the tax those these are the people the government to try to raise some of the money from to plug the massive deficit and we need to quit government isn't shock waves throughout the financial market when they announce that they wouldn't be able to meet their deficit reduction targets that having a serious not an affectionate at this point what's happening in greece is going to be affecting all of us and make no mistake about that you see them at the steps of parliament right now but this issue is coming a look closer to home for a lot of people in the usa might now there's a lot of concern we're seeing this time from the suffering debt crisis into a banking crisis the people out on the streets he said a country on the brink and we seen the prime minister ways to stop and jay visiting

last week front and generally to try and convince the public that he contributes the bailout funds to get them on board he's sad to keep on fighting as a police country as this crisis to work people here said you know these are the guys that he needs to. convinced that mental conditions do very very angry they take these measures against what and really until you got that public schools in this in the country people are saying how on earth are you going to be able to reestablish place to get the economy back on its feet when you put a situation like you have here but thousands and thousands of people turning out on the steps of the parliament building to say to their government we can expect these measures don't working for us we need another option really does what people are waiting for and i'll be here if they need to come up with option to pull this country out of the crisis certainly the resentment of frustration seems to be hitting a climax point where we see the people behind you are massive crowds where you are and we've also been showing live pictures here on r.t.

of other parts of the vicinity there of the government building in central athens pensions cut salary cuts benefit cuts i know the latest there eurozone latest loan of eight billion euro has been postponed till november if that comes in november then what comes after november certainly a very very tough time for the euro zone member so far thanks very much. we are closely following the deteriorating economic situation in europe for more on that just log on to our web site on to dot com to find the latest news videos and updates such as a tough blow for rome as the investor's service slashes if these government bond ratings by a disappointing three points as a result of the country's high levels of debt. also online our poll is no longer a favorite flavor the new i phone four is unveiled and the company just dropped by more than four and a quarter percent and that was within just thirty minutes. twenty

minutes past the hour here in moscow china has expressed its condemnation of the u.s. senate's bill on the chinese yuan after it voted to allow a debate on the so-called currency manipulation bill. that would make it easier for the u.s. to impose penalties on its trading partners washington accuses beijing of and valuing its currency to help its own export is taking away american jobs to china is probably us to abandon protectionism and stop politicizing economic issues the u.s. house speaker john boehner also spoke out criticizing the bill calling it quote pretty dangerous some experts say that even if the bill doesn't become law a trade war between washington and beijing is unavoidable. even

this meal will not become law i think there is a. treaty that disputes you turn china down the u.s. worry about it is tense now we have the trade war you turn china and the u.s. and chinese governments and the peace of the community you write the law all preparing for the possible sanctions and you don't pee in and you and powder to tary of actions from the us against the chinese export arse by law to church ministry of commerce and t.v. all saying that china's central bank and the arts are part of the requirements are preparing for worrying that worry much of detail extends of all possible sanctions it's probably us aside. now in the u.s. itself thousands of americans are gearing up for another day of demonstrations have been protesting for three weeks against corporate influence on government policy

which they blame for the country's ongoing economic woes but even after police arrested hundreds of activists over the weekend the movement's still picking up momentum all across the u.s. going on a calendar reports. we don't mind that not just creating more pain we're not very more traps and i think people are taking this. more than a thousand people in los angeles. chose to stand in solidarity with the occupy wall street movement. at city hall the very visible center of government in power. demonstrators worry that the one percent who controlled most of the nation's wealth have gained a stranglehold over the u.s. government alexander hamilton to refer to the people he was so afraid of as the great peace in the great peace as a way people of all walks of life have turned out for this mass ministry scene here in los angeles now a lot of the protesters here say they got their inspiration from the demonstrators

in new york and in athens and others are inspired by the revolution of egypt now there's still much debate about whether this is part of that revenue scenary movement here in america but one thing that people can agree on is that some drastic changes need to be made as to how this country runs from the east coast to the west coast and a growing number of places in between a collective anger is unifying people. in the windy city a group has been demonstrating outside the federal reserve bank of chicago for more than a week in boston a tent city in the heart of the financial district needs occupiers can voice their discontent with corporate greed twenty four seven. despite dozens of arrests demonstrators intent to show that democracy does not end at the ballot box families have also been marching in denver and san francisco

demanding radical change for more to olympia to omaha to orlando according to the occupy together web site protests are being organized in more than one hundred cities point that he by standing behind are worth a revelation i believe their time and that. i did them well it is recognition that doesn't work despite mainstream media down plain and even really killing the movement supporters have faith the message will be understood and you saw what happened in london they tried to make that out about a bunch of people that were just you know you know that's humanity he's got to make some out of something is wrong already bruised by soaring unemployment poverty and foreclosures the middle class are now being told to tighten their belts leading many americans to finally find their voices but probably beginning bigger it looks like the spreading throughout the country you know they had the arab spring and you

know hopefully we have with us from the los angeles lindo archie. is coming from the heart of history with us the business is next week. i don't welcome thanks for having me and only last an only rally on the russian market has given way to. that's despite tsonga crude prices and overnight gains on wall street has taken a beggar during the latest market turmoil as advanced as cash out of risky locations i must say if a double dip recession is avoided and matching markets work out the form of a call linda says. emerging markets in general are much stronger fiscally they have much stronger growth that is expected in europe in the u.s. and corporations in emerging markets such as russia and elsewhere are also much

stronger so you know i think that's one for now investors simply rocked up on the concerns that we could get a catastrophe if we can avoid because hastert and i looks more like three then i think once we settle down we will see more money coming back to emerging markets faster than two developed markets the latest market swiss have many investors scratching their heads over where to put their money just a nasty from merrill lynch suggests infrastructure projects still offer the prospect of stability. when you look at the infrastructure projects the transitional team is there maybe emerging markets but ultimately they're all the gateway to global trade whether it's parsons or trouble free traffic around the think a lot of investors see that was a little curious are you on the rolls of these projects or we've probably just pulled companies they tend to be gateways to to global trade and therefore that's to say i'll be investing in diversity and structure but i'm also abreast are going to globalisation on the opening of the market to new investors new companies overseas so it's an interesting way to play an emerging market but also the risk

it's fine for us to get the company to provide an infrastructure to support them for the next we'll try to. take a look at the markets now all is in the black for the first day for after report that the us gasoline star struck five million barrels last week which is rose almost four percent after falling eight percent in the past three days brant but is trading at almost one hundred one dollars a barrel while dumping sky is at around seventy eight dollars a barrel in europe markets bounce higher slugging off a downgrade of italy by moody's investors service banking stocks and other main advances following a late brother on wall street b.m.p. perry was up six point three percent in paris and pushing back growth five and a half percent in frankfurt here in moscow saw through worse from earlier gains and it slid into the red let's take a look at something divisional shelf as it's right now energy majors mix this is our gas problem is down one point seven percent while look was just

a lot and banking stocks also hundred pressure with country second biggest lender p.t.b. losing almost one two and a half percent. russian leading iron ore producer mythology best has boosted its first half net profit by ninety percent the nine hundred eighty five million dollar result was supported by stronger growth as well as increased supply of fast bowling and. that's all for now but don't forget to check our web site r t dot com thanks bill.

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