structure construction the somali region special economic zone promises exceptional opportunities for developing your business in russia will come to the somali region for more information log on to the best of them are you. here with our to recap now of our top stories the privilege of rebuilding libya countries which bomb the state rushed to cash in on its destruction that's why those who vocally opposed the intervention including russia and china remain hesitant to reclaim their business deals. the u.s. warns it will take action if iran goes ahead with it's about to close to boil traffic around threaten to block the strait of hormuz in response to western pan sanctions. and hundreds of thousands of mourners have gathered on main

square to pay tribute to north korea. was laid to rest on wednesday in the second volume of moral day kim jong il's youngest son successor was proclaimed the supreme leader of the ruling party the bigotry and the people. russia is a veto holding member of the un security council and its opinion affects many major developments in the international arena he speaks now to russia's representative to the organization to. the un security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from nato strikes in libya one of members avoiding in order to simply case the ongoing conflicts and i wore important. well you know first of all it was not projected the fact of the matter is that a number of security council delegations including the russian delegation raise the

need to have some clarity about civilian casualties as a result of nato bombings because for months we heard from made from nato that they are adopting all those measures in order to make sure that there can not possibly be any civilian casualties and then we had on december eighteenth of this a disturbing investigation published by the new york times which showed that there were dozens at least civilian casualties so it makes sense to us and seems to be a pretty obvious thing that they have this matter investigated in an impartial. and it's a political but also humanitarian case if there are people who became victims of those strikes maybe injured people or their relatives were killed then they should be given some assistance without waiting for a prolonged period of other ongoing investigations like the investigation by the human rights council or i.c.c. international criminal court which should deal with a whole range of possible. crimes transgressions which took place in libya in

the course of the military campaign but i don't see anything and i in this after all nato is a partner of the united nations after all nato has been acting on the basis of a security council mandate so the security council we believe should play an active role also in having this matter clarified but also i think if you put too much emphasis on this issue you will forget that the security council is working quite harmoniously on a range of issues pertaining to the conflict situation in libya the u.n. mission is there supported by the security council the security council is working under the resolution which was adopted by at. russia's initiative on looking into the dangers which are there in terms of spreading weapons out of libya which were left on that in the course of of the conflict. helping the libyans to rebuild their

political and economic structures so a lot of harmonious work is going on in the in the security council of the united nations on libya even though we continue to have some ideological and political difficult is as to whether it is a loose in one thousand seven hundred three was properly implemented bus you touched on it just i wanted to pick up the aussie rules of post conflict libya how they being made secure how is the u.n. stopping any of those weapons maybe ending up in syria. while they may be ending up in various places the best thing i can report of this point is that we are told of the most dangerous of those weapons in terms of terrorist use the so-called manpads man carried anti-aircraft weapons have so far not been detected outside of libya so we hope that this concerted effort of the

international community together with the libyan authorities can be successful in the containing the danger of spread of weapons from out of that country something else i'd like to ask you said libyan militants known to operate in syria what does that say about the nature of the syrian unrest that we've seen so far and why indeed does it appear that the u.n. members seem to be holding back from denouncing that what's happening there two weeks ago the russian delegation introduced a draft the security council resolution to the council trying to encourage the political process encourage the league of arab states money during mission which is being deployed in syria but. we have basing our proposal proposal our new draft resolution on the presidential statement which was adopted by consensus in the by the security council in august three which called on everybody to stay a while since it is and which stated that the only solution to the syrian crisis could be found through a syrian led all inclusive political process had all the members of the security

council had all the influential members of the international community been guided by the principles of that presidential statement i believe the conflict would have been over in the months ago but what we see is that there are some who are trying to stir up trouble and as things would usually happen when there is a crisis there you go source of extremist terrorist elements who show up for instance several days ago there was a horrible terrorist attack in damascus and the day before that the minister of defense of lebanon said that they detected some al qaeda group. moving into syria from from lebanon so i wouldn't be surprised that you know some terrorist elements from libya or other places found their way to get to syria in order to not to stir up trouble and to try to fan some kind of a snake oh or religious conflict there this is what you know terrorists are all

about that are about to start in conflict but we believe that they're all of the international community in a crisis situations like where we find in syria should be of do to help the people of that country to find a peaceful political solution to the crisis that has been the line of the russian federation all along and that has been our guiding principle in the security council as well so with everything you've just said in mind how much more leeway would you like to see the syrian government given to sort out this from within. well we we don't give any leeway to anybody we believe that the syrian government should be extremely prudent and should refrain from excessive use of force we believe that there has been there are been some extremely troubling reports coming out of syria about excessive use of force by those or it is we urge the syrian government to cooperate to face fully with the when it ordering mission of the arab league but also telling that the everybody must put pressure on. the destructive

elements of the of the opposition or various destructive elements which may have found their way into syria that they are a while and acts are not going to be condoned by the international community and this is a this is a key to finding a peaceful way out of the situation there and this is one of the discussions we're having when we talk with all colleagues in the security council about all draft resolution i'm talking about the on groups outing to the problems within syria is it difficult for the u.n. members to put sanctions on to syria because of the previous broken promises about known implemented reforms to now scale back it'll. well you cannot really talk about broken promises because some reforms were announced. some of them we are pretty far reaching like changing the constitution and getting rid of the political

monopoly of one party but of course are to expect that those real reforms can be implemented on it a situation when the the crisis is sort of teetering on the brink of civil war even under normal circumstances in any country forms of such magnitude on all these if you implement but i mean the point i'm trying to make is that the sooner the crisis the military clashes stop in a better position the international community will be to demand the syrian authorities move along the reform track as quickly as possible towards forming the constitution doors conducting democratic open elections but all that in a situation when there is an armed conflict being encouraged from various quarters when we see weapons being moved. illegally into syria all that of course becomes a saturday conversation like to broaden this out next and focus in about what might be ahead in two thousand and twelve more generally in the region islamist parties

have made inroads in the countries whose governments were overthrown in twenty eleven what additional risks does it bring to the middle east and north africa or indeed what action do you think that will require from the u.n. into twenty two let me say that i believe that the greatest. danger in terms of this debilitation in the next year if i make my if i may make that prediction might come from the very disturbing growing confrontation between the west and iran this is a very dangerous scenario russia has been working very hard in order to prevent the scenario from playing out but we do believe that the peaceful solution can still get the upper hand that we do believe that iran can stop. talks with the international atomic energy agency on those unanswered questions about their alleged former military activity in the in the military programs in the

nuclear field with do believe that there is still a possibility on the basis of these and russians russian initiatives to restart the talks between iran and the group of the six of which russia is a member so i think that the the great focus of those who don't want to do see a very dramatic escalation of tensions and conflict in that whole area would be to make sure the. peaceful track the negotiating track in relations with with iran prevails into solvent well to be clear the u.s. senate israel most notably the people that are worried about iran are any of their fears justified in your view. well there are concerns which riseth in the shia concerns about the possibility of it on developing a nuclear weapon and that's why we have been working so hard in the format of the six and in the security council that's why a well vote the on the for sanctions resolution resolutions in the security council

target the iranian nuclear and missile programs a but we also do not accept the proposition that the best way to prevent the war is to stop the war and certainly any military move against iran on this at this point or if that in any in any kind of scenario i could possibly imagine would have a dramatic consequences which would in no way improve the security of the region which will in no way improve in the long term the security of israel and which could really have very tragic consequences batali chuckin russia's ambassador to the u.n. seasonal greetings to wish you all the best twenty twelve and thank you for being on at all the best all the best to you you thank

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of. the a woman. the privilege of rebuilding libya countries which probably the states rushed to cash in on its destruction that's while those who oppose the intervention including russia and china remain hesitant to reclaim their business deals. the u.s. warns it will take action if iran goes ahead with its route to close a bottle waterway to oil traffic to iran threaten to block the strait of hormuz response to western and sanctions. and hundreds of thousands of mourners are gathered on the main square to pay tribute to north korea's late lou that was laid to rest on wednesday during the second part of the moral day kim jong il's youngest

son and successor was proclaimed the supreme leader of the ruling party the military and the people. sports news is up next. to the sports and these are the headlines. say do say me this goes do you know when is the russian player of the year award after a leading twenty four goals so far this season. while seeing red under fire liverpool striker luis suarez admits a tragic improper conduct and will miss the reds game of newcastle on friday. while i want more yevgeny pollution qatar gets his fourth olympics in sochi after winning the russian championships her record ninth time. but first football and moscow's prolific striker say do you do india has been voted the russian premier league

player of the year by the country sports journalists the twenty three year old is the top flights leaving school or going into the winter break netting unprecedented for goals in thirty games for the all the men so far and the in-form eyeball. in has also starred in the champions league adding another five in as many appearances as got booked a place in the last sixteen well then i must go captain and vote and then came second in the journalist all he has netted eleven goals as well as not going up a negated twelve assists and was also named ukraine's player of the year last week while the needs alexander completes the top three the russia star has scored sixteen goals the defending champions this campaign including a memorable have trick against bookies present up in will cost. meanwhile over in england liverpool striker luis suarez will miss friday's premier league game a time to newcastle after admitting an essay charge for improper conduct the twenty four year old europe why stock has been valid for one latch and fined over thirty

one thousand dollars for giving an offensive have ingested to follow fans in the reds one will defeat at craven cottage on december the fifth suarez is currently appealing against an eight game ban for racially abusing manchester united's patrice evra and could now miss almost a quarter of the season while the reds out six and unbeaten at home so far this season have drawn six of them nine games and scored only eleven goals in form newcastle a just a point behind that he really wants that award for the fantastic play that are just different. but he goes because i'm sure looking to a pursue that. i'm sure next year we will be better for this being said before the shooting was a strange fairly common programme where everybody drew the selves and top of my new one so. that's very helpful for us. now we're going to tough going

we're looking forward to the new going to those going to the brass spirit conference about it so we're looking forward to going to our field well me tottenham manager harry redknapp says gary's belt is not for sale after the welsh bring back scored by its second balls to know when it nor it aids a victory from ten year old games that sentence third in english premier league while also missed the chance to go for the elderly one one draw time she ten months walls and q.p.r. came back to draw one one that's one of the side after the two days of christmas football the big winners at the top were manchester united and told no one should the city remain first with a five gold advantage over united spurs a thirty seven points off the leaders with a game in hand chelsea state and also fifth through newcastle who as we had to go to leave before on friday are sevens a new boss twice and their travels. while at the bottom blackburn remain five

points adrift of bolton state second bolton and wigan are also still in the drop zone and the wolves capped a lifeline with that one one draw at arsenal. figure skating now on russian's diag any plushenko house talked up his chances at the sochi winter games in twenty fourteen the two thousand and six olympic champion spoke after winning the russian national championship for record ninth time on his much anticipated return after knee surgery well the free time world champion was in second place after the opening short program inside as much as six hundred kilometers east of moscow but he is free program puts him firmly on top of the idea of part two of the side gate one of the three will now prepare for next month's european championships in the english city of sheffield a relative veteran of twenty nine plushenko is still aiming to make his fourth and become parents in stock trade but he knows he has a long way ahead of. the williams for him so when i'm happy everything worked to

plan at the nash. knows and pleased with my results and my ninth gold i'm happy i was able to perform the quadruple jump and all the combinations but emotionally it was very hard for me to compete for the first time after the injury and now i will try my best to prepare both mentally and physically for the sochi olympics i know there are still more than two years to go but when people say you can no longer compete at this level at twenty seven it's nothing but a lie yes you can if there is a will and a dream. well apart from pollution go russia's medal hopes at their first ever winter games in sochi have been given yet another boost a south korean short track legend on film soon has finally been granted russian citizenship the twenty six year old captured history golden won bronze at the two minimum six back in two thousand and six is also a five time overall world champion has been struggling to fully recover from a knee injury which he picked up four years ago however the newly converted russian aims to win such he has taken one and appropriate name victor.

staying on the ice and k h l side in our way again have become the first semifinalists into the annual sixteen spangler cup at the ski resort of the boss in switzerland well the latvian five has not been enjoying the best time in the k h l so far this season but are looking good on the international arena they beat german runners up vosburgh at the invitation event and the second victory to predict bob and get thank you panel scored within three minutes of each other. but now we're in the driver's seat roberts burkett's added a short handed goal to make it three no in the third period while volves could only manage a late consolation through nathan patch and line up so three one was the way to finish that into the last four russian powerhouse scarse of petersburg lifted the end of your trophy last season. basketball now and russian side next have been pitted against euro league champions person like us. after the draw was announced

in both for the top sixteen stage take a chunk and spend about change and italian side i mean tremolando ground off until you change it so it looks like a stiff competition is installed to the side from cars on the wall to scan has been drawn in all the way and much easier glued me to finishing the regular season the second time and make a streak break out of it and then be on course and sides on sunday and mostly it's time to play for the quarterfinals. and let's finish with some basketball and the latest special holiday feature and be a star dwight howard paid a visit to the russian capital in the summer and their own curiously club voice from on closer as caught up at the orlando magic center. a very special guest for you here today and that's the magic said white howard white thank you very much for speaking with us today your first time in russia you've seen a bunch of people play basketball here if they say you are a first you know emotions when we you know when you saw some people playing

basketball you know you know russia was very you know i know russia is not very big basketball or soccer or football game down this is great to see the amount of them there to be the least unbelievable experience to leave i've always wanted to come it was really one of my dreams is to be here rush you know small found here you know so i would be you know one once they had a look out in the n.h.l. a bunch of players here came to play in russia because russia to get the second coming through the n.h.l. told what if it's a hypothetical situation there's a lot in the n.b.a. where would you go in europe i don't know this might seem like a great place to live because there is very very soon is beautiful. risk all to be very nice to. the you know just a great great you know number having a lot of player here just me you know a lot of people like playing basketball you know been embezzled could if there were

. do you see yourself playing at the beginning of next season. because. you know as a little early member that would be a little. i know i believe so will the world everybody's sort of pool deviously matter what team us will play for it all is still there you know i'm happy a little smoke free you know and all all that i think he said there's. so much to take place right if you were to pick go for partners from the n.b.a. will they be oh well. first of all stephen tracks enough. experience and. anthony morrow or you know i got five months here so you know getting back to russia would know the rest of your plans and would like to come here like incognito not with no not anybody knowing you just have some fun by

yourself and. i think both of those of you who know to be a good idea may just come here and this will lead us. but you know this is for people who just look a little rowsley the city they're going to get told and so far as we're very have a lot of for like the city you can just walk around the student will see the good news aspect as all this is you know what would your advice be to young russian basketball players who once was fired to play in the best league in the n.b.a. coming off the hook and so you know we're coming up to speed patience but also you have seen this and now you have to sacrifice and make this would be our lives at the same if you spoke to us much like what you've always got are your priorities are still in school we have to school look all sleep there was no chance to go and sleep is regularly now going to be focused on masters you know that's all i've got

here so a lot of guys believe you know now they've got to sacrifice so really the best is not about it because i think very much and best of luck in the upcoming season. and that's all this was i think. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on our t.v. .