hello live from moscow this is r t it's ten thirty pm moscow time that our top stories for you palestinians facing a new year's night israel warning of another deadly onslaught against war but it's in the region with muted strikes as our top story this hour. also headlining a rand says it's ready to attack ships sailing too close to its maneuvers near a vital oil route following its threats to block passage if the west insists on tougher sanctions. and firefighters put out a blaze on a nuclear submarine in northern russia after scaffolding surrounding it went up in

flames. now arguably the best place to turn to for insight about the events making headlines this year is the un's most powerful group the security council just yesterday talked to russia's envoy to the body vitaly churkin who shared a lot of his thoughts about tackling the world's divisive troubles here's some of that interview now. the un security council rejected russia's proposal to investigate civilian deaths from nato strikes in libya one of members of. ongoing conflicts and i'm 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 ship showed that there were dozens at least civilian casualties so it makes sense to us and seems to be a pretty obvious thing to 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. 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 loose in nineteen 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. while they may be ending up in various places the best thing i can report of this point is that we are 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 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 now in syria but. we have basing our proposal proposal our new draft resolution on the presidential statement which was adopted by consensus in by the security council on august street 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 here you will 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 the terrorists are all about that about to start in conflict but we believe that they're all of the international community in

a crisis situation like where we find in syria should be a two to help of 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 armed groups out into 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 a deal. 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 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 are implemented but. the point i'm trying to make is that the sooner the crisis is the military clashes stop the 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 set radical 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 in 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 that he's 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 reserve 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 voted the on the for sanctions resolution resolutions on 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 of consequences metallik chuckin russia's ambassador to the u.n. seasonal greetings to wish you all the best for twenty twelve and thank you for being on out all the best all the best to you thank you. the least explain koreas. and i'm touched by.

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palestinians face a new year nightmare israel warns of another deadly onslaught against war but that gaza hitting the region with renewed their strikes. iran says it's ready to attack ships sailing too close to its own novas near a vital oil rigs off threats threats to block passage of the west insists on tough sanctions. and firefighters put a blaze of a nuclear submarine in northern russia off to scaffolding surrounding it went up in flames during repairs and. now says about sport live from moscow.

hello welcome to the sports and these other head. back for more world number one novak djokovic whimsies open ice in abu dhabi exhibition event having an illustrious here on the a.t.p. tour. while i was up at celtic beat rangers one has to win the old and he felt that on travels at the top of the scottish premier league. was up and down argentina legend diego maradona faces a fine for insulting a fellow coach in the arab emirates and still wants to manage the national team. but start with tennis where this year's star novak djokovic has kickstarted his preparations for the fast approaching new season the top ranked serbian outmuscled france's feast at a year ending exhibition event in abu dabi talk of asia seem to have put behind him any fatigue and open proceedings with a trademark back comes down the line while some of the rallies did look more like

entertainment than competition but the match turned into a pitched battle with djokovic eventually gaining the upper hand next up for the world number one is third ranked roger federer who had received a buy into the semifinals talk about spearheads the six strong star studded lineup in abu dhabi is the twenty four year old aims to emulate this year's outstanding season so if you capture three grand slam titles and the record five masters types . before that came from behind to knock out another frenchman the jungle freed tsonga the world number six was head and shoulders above the fifth ranked spaniard the open at once was taking the distance in the second set and lost it on a tie break. but from then on the momentum was with farah and the twenty nine year old didn't fail to deliver wrapping up with the science six two. and patrick and defending a child going to rough on a doll is waiting in the semifinal after receiving a by the abu dhabi events doesn't offer any ranking points to those taking part

they're going to take so check of two hundred fifty thousand dollars is at stake. football now and back in russia says go moscow's prolific striker so you do do has been voted the premier league player of the year but 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 arguments so far and the in-form ivorian has also starred in the champions league adding another five in as many appearances as this that i place in the last sixteen . in a moscow captain and the way that all men came second in the journalist poll he's netted eleven goals as well as not gin up a leading twelve assists and named also ukraine's player of the year last week while the needs alexander cocksure golf completes the top three the russia star has scored sixteen goals for the defending champions this campaign including memorable hat trick against ricky's class and in august. when we want to live

a full will miss striker luis suarez for friday's premier league game has had its really fast off the first of six days of top flight action the iroquois star was banned for one match after giving an obscene hand gesture to follow fans earlier this month suarez has scored five goals this campaign while record signing andy carroll has netted three times the low scoring reds are unbeaten as home in the league so far they've drawn six of those nine games on new castle last only twice on the right. everybody wants that award for the replay that of just before the show. called who continue to pursue that. i'm sure next year we will be better for this being said before the she was a strange fairly common program where everybody drew yourselves and sort of my new one so that's very helpful for us. and now we're going to two tough going

and we're looking forward to the new going to those going to the press spirit conference about yourselves and we're looking forward to going to our field so this is how the table looks with six big days of football to come and lunch the city are still top on goal difference of the manchester united top notch our thirty seven points behind the meters for the game in hand a fourth best and liverpool sixth one place i find his opponents newcastle while at the bottom wolves are two points clear of the drop zone that weekend off in its two points ahead of bolton have not been a five points adrift with manager steve king under mounting pressure its rivals set to face the daunting task of a trip to majesty united on saturday. when chester united done you know seventy eight games ago you know they went back to been solid and you know really hard to beat know the became a little bit more expansive again so we know that the strengths that they have

within the squad i think we can take a lot of confidence were when we went to anfield you know when you look at what you know kenny put on the pitch on the bench as well and you know a fair we stuck to our task where we defensive i saw you know that's going to be key because normally we score when we play we from home. playing we'll timing things native scotland celtic have leapfrogged arch rivals rangers at the top of the s.p.l. following a tight one nil victory in the old firm darby at parkhead chances came and went begging for both sides in the first half before letting him finally but the deadlock soon after the restart charlie mulgrew blasted in a corner for ledley to head home and to be the way that celtic hung on. it's about nine straight rental ranges by two points which is in stark contrast to early november the trial by fifty two games in hand. argentina legends diego maradona is again facing the consequences of his hot temper the outspoken

former midfielder has been fined just under two and a half thousand dollars so though billy abusing a rival coach who a top flight the fifty one year old our manager has been engaged in a feud with one of his opposite numbers since losing an ill tempered match last month. a carton it table while he says he would love to stay on at the helm or even also take up the job as national coach of their merits. i think if i was given the opportunity to coach the u.a.e. national team i would accept with pleasure i'm very proud of what has been mentioned and what i've heard but first of all i must give my time to so i have a mission here and i want to complete this mission and who knows maybe one day i will coach both teams. basketball and dwyane wade nailed a late shots to hands the miami heat's their third straight win since the start of the season the n.b.a. dream team fighting back to edge the charlotte b'sobcats on the road by

a single point well the ball cats went out of their way to place their record high at meeting twenty thousand people breaking away right from the off him some of them cruise control for most of the match justin and gerald henderson connecting for forty one points between them but the broader james also ran wild for the heat point a game high thirty five points chris bosh added another twenty five then with less than three seconds to go wait it looked like a tough shot. people dead or gusting missed a buzzer beater and straight points out that would save the day to charlotte but for ninety six ninety five to miami is how it finished. the finish with low bosket bull rushes to a famous goal was instrumental in the denver nuggets victory at home to the utah jazz on wednesday but speak for the season finally started and on the revis at home

in the summer the center talked to our own lancaster with. their. talk. despite it's not quite making it to the top of the bill just yet it's a team of famous golf had already managed to make the headlines in north america it became part of a blockbuster multiplayer trade they saw him move to denver nuggets and carmelo anthony to the new york knicks well mozzies new team were knocked out of the first playoff round in the n.b.a. giving him an opportunity to visit home and prepare for the upcoming european championships in lithuania winning the continental trophy in twenty eleven will mean automatically education for the london olympics hearing should ensure you will i can't make any promises in regards to the euro basket but i can say that i'm sure the guys will perform at their best and no one will cut corners and i think the foundry cure langkow join. will have better chances because of his experience to be of great help despite leaving russia still has a large fan base had his previous club called mozzie keeps in touch with them

through his online blog and those lucky enough may even catch one of his master classes in the russian capital but where are the fans most dedicated in russia or the united states. when i played for khimki i saw the same people at all the games it was a group of fans who form the majority of the audience and even followed the team to other cities in regards to the n.b.a. well they might have something similar though i personally never came across such a thing you just get a full audience of people who come to support the team but i never saw such a thing in the us when an organized group of fans would take up a large share of the audience and root for their team. fans the board is not the only difference between the russian basketball league and the n.b.a. the american schedule is more intense with regular season games sometimes held four times a week so the studying of the opponent shot practice or simply warm up takes center

stage during practice providing plenty of room for individual skills. it is team play no one negates saddle but compared to europe it is somehow more individualized i would say the game is based on single players who play one on one and win it they may score a goal just make a pass european basketball not to mention russia is slightly different people try to find other solutions to the difficulties that arise during the game. the russians will be hoping to qualify for the london olympics by winning the european championship in september it's hope that both russian and be a stars and break into langkow and to more famous golf will be available to help the team a little. quiet individual skills from the united states and their home bred team play is expected to be the winning formula. moscow.

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