it's two thirty pm in moscow these are the top stories on our t.v. tensions heat up on the israeli palestinian border as fresh air strikes on gaza leave one person dead and several injured in what televisa says is a prelude to a possible full scale attack. new leaders of the new libya the militias now calling the shots in the post-revolutionary country aren't rushing to disarm a trend some fear might result in the another fight for power. the u.s. warns it will take action if iran goes ahead with its value to close off vital

waterway to oil traffic to wrong threatened to block the strait of hormuz in response to western sanctions. and hundreds of thousands of mourners have gathered on the main square to pay tribute to north korea's late ruler who was laid to rest on wednesday during the second and final memorial day kim jong il's youngest son and successor once claimed the supreme leader of the ruling party the military and the people. now russia is a veto holding member of the u.n. security council and its opinion of facts many major developments in the international arena now speaks to russia's representative to the organization. the u.n. security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from nato strikes in libya what are members avoiding it or is it simply

a case the ongoing conflicts that are more important. well you know first of all it was not rejected 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'll 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 tie 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 post 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 looser nine hundred seventy 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. there may be ending up in various places the best thing i can report of this point

is that we're told that 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 that they're to the 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 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 now 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 street which called on everybody to stop violence in syria 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 source of extremist terrorist elements to 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 or a religious conflict there this is what you know terrorists are all about that about starting conflict on but we believe that they're all of the international community in a crisis situation 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. 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 scaled back at all. 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 groups reforms can be implemented it is 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 we implement but i mean the point i'm trying to make is that the sooner the crisis is the military clashes. in a better position the international community will be to demand that the city in a sort of is 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 separate 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 a 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 to 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 iran 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 whale vote to own not for sanctions resolution or 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 it 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 zero consequences metallic chuckin rushes and busts that the un seasonal greetings to you wish you all the best for twenty twelve and

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heartsease top stories tensions heat up on the israeli palestinian quarter as fresh air strikes on gaza leave one person dead and several injured in what television says is a prelude to a possible full scale attack on. new leaders of the new libya the militia is now holding the stops in the posts revolutionary country are crossing to disarm it's run some theory might result in number five for power. the u.s. warns it will take action if you run the go ahead with its vowed to close off i don't want away to oil traffic to wrong thread to block the strait of hormuz in response to western plan sanctions. and the hundreds of thousands of mourners have

gathered on getting this main square to pay tribute to north korea's late ruler who was laid to rest on the wednesday during the second and final memorial day kim jong il's youngest son and successor was perfectly the supreme leader of the ruling party the military and the people. and sports is next here in artsy with kate. and i was just forced and these are the headlines. say do say me this goes do you know when is the russian player of the year award for a leading twenty four goals so far this season. while seeing reds under fire liverpool striker luis suarez admits a tragedy in a couple of mr red stay with newcastle on the friday. while i want more

yevgeny pollution qatar gets his full impacts in such a top when the russian championships her record ninth time. at first football and moscow's prolific strike us a do 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 flight's leading scorer going into the winter break after netting an impressive twenty four goals in thirty games for the all the men so far as the in-form ivorian has also starred in the champions league adding another five in as many appearances as got a place in the last sixteen well then i must go captain and voting then came second in the german is all he has netted eleven goals as well as knocking up a league eight and 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 were defending champions this campaign including a memorable one trick against bookies present all in with just. meanwhile over in

england liverpool striker luis suarez will miss friday's premier league game and newcastle after admitting an essay charge for improper conduct the twenty four year old europe why stock has been battered for one match and fined over thirty one thousand dollars and given an offensive have ingested two full of 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 result 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 the really wants the reward for the play the just different. only goes to look into your pursuit. i'm sure next year we will be better for this being said before

a. strange fairly calm program where everybody drew yourselves and sort of my new one so. that's very helpful for us. and now we're going to tough going we're looking forward to the new going to those going to the press spirit conference about it so we're looking forward to going to our field well me talk to manager harry redknapp says gareth bale is not for sale after the welsh bring back scored by the second balls to know when it nor it eighteen victory from ten eight games that sentence third in english premier league but also missed the chance to go forth on for the calgary one one draw at home to ten man wolves and q.p.r. came back to draw one one that's one of the side after the two days of christmas put all the big winners at the top where manchester united on top of the city remain first with a five fold advantage united spurs a thirty seven points off the leaders with

a game in hand chelsea state fall and also fifth through newcastle who as we had to go to the report on friday are sevens and results twice on their travels. while at the bottom blackburn remain five points adrift of vaal to stay second bottom and wigan are also still in the drop zone and the wolves kept a lifeline with that one one draw at arsenal. figure skating now on russian's diag any pollution count has 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 a record ninth time on his much anticipated return after knee surgery well the free time world champion was in second place in the short program inside as much as six hundred kilometers east of moscow but it's preprogramed puts him firmly on top of the idea i'm thrilled that since he said game one of the three will knock with that the next time. european championships in the city of sheffield

a relative veteran of twenty nine pleasure in case still aiming to make his fortune in stock trade knows he has a long way ahead of. him so in this unhappy everything worked to plan it the nationals and pleased with my result 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 russia's medal hopes at their first ever winter games in sochi have been given yet another boost a south korean short track legend has finally been granted russian citizenship the twenty six year old captured history gold and won bronze at that you wouldn't expect in two thousand and six he's 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 a has taken one appropriate name victor. staying on the ice and k h l side in our regular half become the first semifinalists into the annual sixteen spangler cup at the ski resort of the boss in switzerland well the latvian club 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 second victory to predict bob and good and you can start with those three minutes of each other. but when i was in the driver's seat roberts burkett's added a short handed goal to make it three nil in the third period while volves could only manage a late consolation through nathan patch. lineup so three won was the way to finish

as we get into the last four russian pascoe also peaches they missed didn't any of you try fate last season's. basketball now and russian side knicks have been pitted against your only champions possible like us after the draw was announced in barcelona for the top sixteen stage took a chunk and spent about change and italian side i mean can milan go round off until you change it so it looks like a stiff competition is installed to the side from cars on. wall to scout has been joining all the way and much easier to finishing the regular season unbeaten for the second time in make history break as it's a limpy on course and sides are stunned in the most and something 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 our own curiously close voyage from on closer i've caught up with the orlando magic center. very special guests

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 is that if they say you are a first you know emotions what we've you know when you saw some people playing bats going on in russia i was very you know i know russia is not a big basketball soccer or football game down it was just great to see you get down there to be losing the ability to experience believe i've always will determine which one of my dreams is to be here russia does not found here you know so i've been you know one to once they had a look out in the n.h.l. a bunch of players here came to play in russia because russia because of the second from the from 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 good place to live. because we're very good the soup is beautiful. the risk

calls it was very nice to hear it though you know just a great place you know i'm reading a lot of fun here just mean a lot of people like playing basketball you know been an ambassador there where do you see yourself playing at the beginning of next season here because. you know there's a little earlier than that below though. i know it's helpful to you everybody's sort of pool deviously medal what team atsic will play for it all is still there you know i'm happy a little it's mostly you know you know all the right these hackers. might go to the playground if you were to pick go for partners from the n.b.a. will they be oh look. first of all steven tracks enough. most.

serial williams and. anthony morrow or you know i've got five months here so you know getting back to russia would know the rest of your plans and would you like to come here like incognito not with no not anybody no you just have some fun by yourself. i think both of those of you who know to be a good idea may just come here and this will lead. but you know this is slow will do this work you will race with the circuitry to get full and so far as we're very slow have a lot of for let's say you can't just walk around the studio singing the good news . that's all this is you know what would your advice be to young russian basketball players who want to aspire to play in the best league in the n.b.a. . off going to continue to work for me up to speed pace and that also in your speech this. no you have to sacrifice i guess it would be our lives at the same. so you

still use the rest of us which is why it was rather your car you mr lou school you have to screw the calls live there was no charles those are the words losers in our legal analyst you focused on last week you know that's all i've got here so a lot of guys who believe you now they've got your sacrifice so they really are the best people this is not about politics why thank you very much a best of luck to the upcoming season. and that's all this post i think.

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