power to his deputy while a unity government is formed as prepared for a new election is now courting to reports this draft text calls for a political transition in syria it also says the security council could quote adopt further measures if syria does not comply with the terms of the resolution now of course this is just a draft text that was written up by france and britain in consultation with morocco germany portugal the united states and qatar this is a draft that is just beginning to be discussed by the security council members we do know that the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin expressed deep disappointment with their draft indicating that he does not believe that the international community should impose an outside solution on syria in terms of the

conflict taking place there and he also rejected the idea of an arms embargo or the use of force being imposed on syria because we should keep in mind that if this text includes that the security council could adopt further measures if syria does not comply with what the security council wants we don't know what those further measures could be you have countries such as russia china india brazil that believe that there is a conflict that two sides are involved in syria and both of those parties should be addressed now russia has drafted resolution on syria but according to reports that according to what members told me it does not include the cohesive or punitive measures against syria that western countries are looking for the russian draft hold both parties accountable it doesn't call for any type of regime. change and

that is something that russia and china we saw three months ago vetoed a western draft resolution that could impose possibly regime change in syria and that's where you have a difference of opinions but this story will continue next week because from what we're told the security council will meet to discuss the text of this draft resolution. activist and don't divide us says the latest draft resolution circulating at the u.n. security council doesn't up hold the right to the syrian people to choose their own leadership the point of departure between the western interests and russia and china voiced by russia this time is whether or not the decision about who will rule syria is made by the syrian people or by nato as it was in libya and they indicated that they would not allow a resolution to go through that called for regime change in syria without the participation of the syrian people we seeing that the western powers want to see in

this region is dischord they obviously cannot occupy these territories after they conquer them if you look to iraq and afghanistan you can see that that's the case but as long as the people on the ground are busy killing each other the united states can sue cure or oil or in the case of syria for example the port at tartus which would keep russia out of the mediterranean and whatever other objectives they have. well there are alarming reports from syria with opposition activists claiming that more than sixty people have been killed in the latest outbreak of violence against a backdrop of the reported advance of syrian and t.v. fighters towards the capital damascus while some see it as a sign of liberation. discovered a main unconvinced a clear message from the protesters this damascus as a funeral takes place. we don't want killing we don't want to.

see. children killing we don't read them we don't we will do you have to live. here i mean this this is going to be all come to us for now they feel safety is being provided by the free syrian army the guerrilla body made up of mainly army defectors who say its presence here is unable protests like these to go ahead. ever shape the military cannot come in anymore because the free syrian army is protecting us we support the free syrian army and we support. the former army colonel heads the f.s.a. from the brute he's been steadfast from the start and his cools the foreign military intervention the armed group is safer voided partnerships with any other opposition elements he sees as significant inside the country and the national coordination council one of the leading opposition groups remains adamant that

foreign military intervention would make an already to tyria eating situation even worse a whole lot of security positions cause some areas to get out of control and it seems that there is a war between two groups outside the country and it's the syrian national council pitching itself as the main opposition but it too has failed to unify the many different a position factions this lack of unity has hampered the quoting coups that over. it's u.n. involvement russia and china remain firmly a pace to a resolution that would leave the door open to foreign military intervention and in a far cry from previous peace the dialogue qatar and saudi arabia no talk to the opposition and these this did cost even more lives to say many least the defined rebel groups who have to work with the other side working with the other side look . the f.s.a. say they have little choice but to use weaponry to protect civilians. who have this

mean square here in town where people come out and protest. the security forces trying to come in but we protect them but this is what's happening here that it remains a precarious situation in a moment of confusion the crowd gets nervous and starts to run at one point gunshots still says where they come from or from i know you can save a lot of confusion here on the face even though we were reading in a different direction not exactly sure what's going on that really not a safe situation severe right now and all of this happening just fifteen minutes from the city center is just a day before it's a government demonstrations so position can show continues to gain ground the divisions within the country have never been clearer. idea. coming up in the program when the pressure from the west backfires

iran a search to halt oil supplies to the european union and a preemptive move that many believe the books economy can withstand. and we report on the struggle of a local food industry in india and went head to head with the international superstore johns. thousands of people have gathered in warsaw to protest the signing of a new treaty forcing intellectual property rights on the internet opponents say the international act document to spew censorship and violation of human rights were nazis and he has been here in the demands of protesters first hand. a passer by from england confused scenes on friday in central warsaw with the filming of a sequel for the hollywood movie v. for vendetta judging from the number of masked men and cameras such resemblance was tangible the film character fought for revolution these people are also standing

for change to stop the anti counterfeit trade agreement act from becoming law in poland minus fifteen degrees centigrade is definitely not an excuse for thousands who gathered in central warsaw friday protests common it's a week of numerous mass rallies across the world with people protesting against the internet censorship act in may have a positive aim to protect intellectual property but these protesters fear it will be used to police the web and take harmless websites offline eighty engineer march and says he's working under threat because of actors obscurity with the international pact worked out in complete secrecy issues with. first. legally censoring information the government. is very unclear the negotiations have lost since two

thousand and four and nobody's been told anything unlike the week's massive anti active protests in poland friday's showdown had clear political overtones while the majority of the crowd was voicing no to the treaty a large chunk was directing their anger at the government experts saying the scale of public dissent has managed to make more soldiers ruling elite nervous the government was promoting itself as being modern as being people probably internet and people trying to keep them accountable so when they discover that the government is supporting something without it was purely political answer to no we don't believe you anymore this practice considers the harm governments are pretty steadily. scenes of their point of view are already tactic and the and not ratify act and they will have a second fault so after a week of ignorance i think suddenly they realize that the protests are much deeper much broader and. to become law in poland active needs the approval of the polish

and european parliament nobody knows for sure how long this might take but protesters say they will continue pilings the pressure on the authorities to stop this happening i think it came as a complete shock nobody expected this and nobody expected. to. do this going to sink so i think there will be a lot more. to last for at least two weeks i think because. i think how long it will take to actually. prime minister to be adamant war so would not give in to and blackmail in the streets with what was initially acquired social protest has become politically broader with every rally ask elating in both the numbers present and the level of aggression. the reporting from warsaw in poland. dominique. from the helsinki foundation for human rights says the government should

communicate with users before preparing sweeping internet laws. the way it did. it my prior lake those basic freedoms and their. users without really touching. the beak by laying it on the internet and those internet providers those companies which are taking advantage of you know i think in the internet first thing we should be aware when this process is just people are feeling that they were cheated by the government then that something is wrong and that there were no consultation then there was no possibility of the debate before this for the signature of the document there were many afghans in the recent year or two of the internet and every time people had

the impression that the government is taking that without conversation without. their knowledge and the internet users. well head to our website r.t. dot com for any stories you missed as well as the latest news and comments also there for you mother nature's spectacular show your way gives the world a night to remember sit back and enjoy one of the most breathtaking displays ever seen. and off to a great start this is the first cargo spacecraft progress successfully docks with the international space station bringing in tons of vital supplies including a special birthday gift from one of the crew.

they're on is ready to cut off oil supplies to europe really is next week the move comes in response to the ban on crude imports from iran due to being forced in the summer but with oil prices already rising rapidly experts are warning that the actions of the european union could do the lot more harm than good. while a senior group of officials and weapons experts are preparing to meet in toronto to ride this weekend to the highest level talks of reigning nuclear issue in more than three years global policy consultants i send her money told r.t. by threatening to turn off the tap your iran is open to question the embargo blow. the calculus from iran's perspective is going to be if they preempted by cutting exports before the july first date that the e.u. has set for cutting their exports and iran preemptively cuts its three four hundred

thousand barrels with their exports to the e.u. would be able to drive prices up enough by doing that to offset for that you know right now what is going on with iran is that they there is an existential threat to the government and quite frankly from the u.s. perspective i don't think there's a lot of hope that these sanctions will actually get you right to stop its nuclear program think the real unwritten objective here is quite frankly in and call it by different name but it's regime change ultimately they want to put as much pressure that as they can on this government. coming up a little later in the program we hear from the people out on the streets of new york. do you think most people are willing to change their daily behavior even though they only little value call it selfish you know they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally all americans are ready to sacrifice their daily routines in the name of the environment. the euro is still taking

a hammering fitch one of the big three credit ratings has announced five more downgrades for european economies that e.u. leaders struggle to soothe nerves on another front the debt crisis ravaging the eurozone to top billing at the new world economic forum was what he's been on the move for us from there. we're going in today for davos at the world economic forum and today we'll hear from a number of economists and kind of thinkers about where the global economy is headed we'll have to see how much attention the eurozone captures though because it really has overshadowed a lot of other things that have happened on the official and unofficial agenda here at davos we heard from a number of euro zone finance ministers and e.u. officials speaking with a lot of optimism about a bigger ozone solution saying they believe the fiscal compact will be reached with tighter fiscal discipline and that this will really help the debt crisis that the euro zone is dealing with they also said that greek bond holders will come to an agreement on haircuts for greek debt by this weekend to hopefully presumably avoid

default which is definitely not a certain thing at all and that d.-day for greece is march twentieth after that optimism which was kind of the headline coming out of that we hasn't seen fitch the credit ratings agency downgrade five e.u. nations this includes italy and spain which are two of the economies that are very much of the biggest concern when you're talking about the eurozone debt crisis because they are much larger economies than greece they're both dealing with problems of their debt and of the funding of their debt which we've seen a lot of discussion here at davos over what is the best way to deal with we know george soros has his own plan i don't know if european union leaders are calling him now to take another look at it after these downgrades that something will have to watch for today. well mr mccrary a chief economic correspondent told the u.k.'s independent newspaper produce that greece is effectively default and that's a cascade is imminent. i don't think you have to be a whiz at math to figure out that is not just the indebtedness of some countries

but also the euro oh the common currency is a single currency for an area where some countries need a devaluation i don't know whether technically greece is going to be in default or not but if you're repaying thirty or forty cents in the euro your debt and the write down is going to something like that could be four to say forty if you're lucky thirty if you're unlucky bracket any rational say it's the is the country defaulting on its debts and whether technically that it is or whether it take it seems to me to be not that relevant because once you've dealt with greece ok you try and have to put a fireball behind that but people may say look if i'm not going to get my money back on greece why should i learn to portugal why should i lend to spain why should i lend to italy well still to come few in the program russia's future lympics host city plans to overshadow its most famous european escape resort competitors entice

fans of winter sports action. millions of shop owners in india fighting for their survival as the threat of outside competition knocks at the door while entry for international supermarket giants has been shelved there are those who argue the move would be good for consumers and employment what is pressure investigates. this dry food store has been insecure and they're seeing chalons family for six generations it's one of the many small retail stores that have been operating in this market in old delhi for hundreds of years i want to help six generations of our family grew financially and provided us with everything but now saying child one's way of life could be at risk after years of pressure of the indian government decided to allow foreign multibillion retailers the likes of tesco and wal-mart access to one of the fastest growing middle classes in the world until now india only allowed single brand foreign retailers like reebok to enter

the country even though the indian economy opened up more than a decade ago a connoisseur argue that the country needed at least five years to build up its domestic multi brand retail sector before allowing foreign competition into the country but now politicians argue that it might be the perfect time for foreign companies to enter india's five hundred ninety billion dollar retail sector the politicians behind the push say that farmers can make more money and consumers will pay less for food if these stores are allowed into india these retailers could provide organization to india supply chain by cutting out unnecessary middlemen president obama and other western leaders have also been putting pressure on india to allow their stores to open in the country arguing that they could provide jobs to millions of indians but small business owners still argue that it's an idea that would jeopardize their way of life but what do you think big stores open up small businesses will not be able to compete with and they will find it hard to do the

right so this is a conspiracy against us to shut us down and open big ships but we will not allow this to happen in india a lot of the small business will be swallowed by the way small fishes are written by the big fishes in the sea these small family run businesses will be completely destroyed jeopardizing the financial situation of families and children but for now however opposition within india has stalled the decision from. finalized store owners like seeing chauhan are watching the debate closely wondering if his family's business and the old delhi that he's known his whole life will suddenly change. this is an attempt to destroy the businessmen in india but we will not allow this to happen. resisting outsiders from potentially destroying his family's tradition priya sridhar r t delhi india. to neighboring pakistan where more than one hundred thousand people took to the streets to protest about protests was organized by the country's business leaders their supporters demand

the government continues its blockade on the way to supplies crossing into afghanistan demonstrators also condemned drone attacks by the united states troubled more forced. them but he started soldiers were killed by misguided u.s. and strikes. rescuers are searching for survivors after three buildings collapsed readers are near in brazil a twenty story block crumbled on wednesday bringing down two neighboring buildings leaving at least fourteen people dead twelve missing police are investigating a tragedy which shows believe on the authorities construction work they've been responsible. for their own straightens have taken to the streets in the capital the philippines protesting against the government plans to the troops in the country. come as washington tries to reinforce its presence in the region a move viewed by analysts countries in the china for the pins hosted major u.s. military facilities in two nine hundred ninety two. to russia now where the future

winter olympics host city sochi is hoping to attract fans of adrenaline packed winter activities what is done is polaski reports now on the modern resorts challenging the traditional ski regions. it's no we had cooled in the caucasus mountains but it's the hottest time for ski fare so maybe this couple you. came from as far as say period for the season's grand opening in sochi it's new to see mrs now that. it's thirty snowing a month ago so much snow who wanted to ride so badly and now we had this chance. super good this is also cool to a brand new resort just off the black sea coast with a number plan to attract ski fans who might otherwise prefer a winter break in france or switzerland kilometers those tracks throws up but will be able to compete with many european resorts it means six to ten thousand tourists will be able to ski here to show your work and seasonal warm weather left

a few foreign destinations a little high and dry but then steph here it was a cougar became snowed under with work as skiers sold out new resorts just a little while and you know for beautiful. believed and everyone enjoyed a very positive feedback this morning yes that's true. but they're also photos biggest test is yet to come in february and march which was just a bounce for the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics it will mean more is to be strictly a list but for now they're making the most of the snow the freedom and even the romance amid the russian winter it's great if there is snow is still a spell you said in response to kids and that is why went downhill so if you'll excuse me. like you. are to sochi. now the issue of global warming is still one that challenges and divides the international community the science struggles to find solutions to the problem what

is our half and went on the streets of the big apple to find out what ordinary americans are ready to give up to help out. today legislators are introducing more and more bills to help curb the effects of global warming what are you willing to do to help out this week let's talk about that would you be willing to do not blow dry your hair anymore yes that i'd be willing to that would you be willing to dry your clothes on the line and never use a drag machine i don't know about that though it's about it depends would you be willing to change your behavior like say i walk into any destination that's under two miles instead of driving like what i'm doing today is a yes yeah yeah absolutely absolutely it's a best idea i've heard so far well it's good what about showering for under a minute. i'm always. pretty much broke sawlogs so the electrical futile

a little longer saves money don't become the postal is the clock on the marker or do you think most people are willing to change their daily behavior even though a little proud to call them selfish you know they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally unfortunately that's the world we live in whether or not you're willing to change your energy consumption habits now the bottom line is you might just have to in the future if global warming continues to progress. phone recap our top stories for you shortly stay with us here.

to the future this month chunks by particles that make up the fabric of the universe find what you're looking for in the deep siberian forests prevent a fire with the help of lasers in fibers pull out your tablet of a new gaming legion and let the infringer begin all of that here in novosibirsk technology on day age here on r.g.p. we've got the future covered. we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor

probs we do not want any more new deal modes. our core system is just there was a does more experience and i'm dissing just appalled but that's allowed to go on america. we're getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it and there's no labeling there for it being used like oratory experiment could be used as guinea. oh now we have more questions than we have matters guards. like.

critic free. free. free. free. free. free blog video for your media project a free media. recap our top stories for you. syria and the factions argue over who represents the will of the people. at the u.n. security council resolution against syria joining harsh criticism from russia. thousands of angry protesters in warsaw against an international online piracy act claiming it targets the basic rights of internet users. takes yet another

pounding this time with a credit rating fitch downgrading five more european nations even as its leaders try to soothe the world economic forum in davos. next to this month's technology update program gets close to the secrets of the universe and looks at what siberia has to offer the science of tomorrow. oh and welcome to technology update this month we've the bright lights in credit streets of moscow for snow cover novosibirsk now this region siberian city is actually a hotbed of russian scientific activity.