moscow says it wanted to back a weapons embargo on syria because some countries refused to condemn armed opposition groups operating there a western backed u.n. resolution demanding president assad step down we'll go live to new york shortly to the. u.k. as high court considers the fate of wiki leaks founder julian assange wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault case facing accusations of political motivation. and israel's ad campaign insults jews based in the u.s. already feeling alienated by their spiritual homes policies the top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from moscow this is t.v. moscow says it will not agree to any embargo on arms supplies to syria while other members of the u.n. security council refused to even acknowledge armed groups are operating there moscow is standing firm on its opposition to any military intervention in syria saying it will vote against any u.n. resolution that could give eight the conflict western states want president to step down but moscow says the u.n. shouldn't be used as a platform to interfere in syria is a firm has always been a partner joins me now and you. can explain moscow's position on the arms embargo well bill the first comments coming just a few hours ago from the russian envoy to the u.n. to tell you churkin underscoring what russia has been saying for quite awhile that moscow will not agree on any weapons and far to syria categorically

against it now the one of the many reasons given by ambassador churkin is that in the keys of libya there was an arm. arms embargo imposed when the security council allowed for a no fly zone over libya which then subsequently led to a military intervention and a catastrophic situation in that circumstance there was an arms embargo put in place where arms were not allowed to be given to anybody in libya but the west western countries were still supplying opposition groups with weapons while there was an arms embargo in place ambassador churkin says this is a scenario that could have possibly been illegal according to the the resolution that was put in place and it's a circumstance that he does not want to see repeated in syria he also says the security council in all the discussions that have been hot on syria in recent days

is refusing to acknowledge that opposition groups on the ground in syria are armed with weapons where those weapons are coming from is not clear and at this point russia believes that the arab league observer observers from the mission how recently taking place in syria should come to the u.n. security council investor churkin says that russia will veto any resolution that leaves the door open for military intervention in syria once again reaffirming rest russia's position that both sides taking part in the conflict in syria should come together and engage in some type of dialogue that would leave lead to peaceful resolution. is there any sign of a break the deadlock over a u.n. resolution for syria. quite honestly no not unless the draft of this version not unless the text of the draft of this resolution changes because a it calls for

syrian president bashar al assad to step aside handover of power to deputy make room for a unity transition government to be formed that is something that is a move that some members of the council consider a regime change secondly it has wording that allows for possible foreign intervention even though how west major western powers as well as arab league representatives how for us have underscore the fact that no military intervention or foreign intervention would be allowed into syria a lot of a lot of countries are skeptical because of what took place in libya so unless the text of this draft resolution changes and holds both sides accountable and allows for mediation instead of you know a change in government then i don't see russia supporting this resolution or even abstaining from it i see russia casting a veto we're going to thanks very much indeed for that live in new york. and.

he's director of the center for middle east studies says if syria and the u.n. don't choose donald as a means to resolve the conflict the country will fall into civil war. the position of russia russia then china was very clear and logical because they do believe and it sanctions or a military intervention against syria is out of question and also will increase the problem state of resolve the problem i shall call for they allowed to horse both sides the government and the opposition to their log based on the forum and situation and and democracy and i think within the next two months or three months if the proposition of russia will not succeed and not have dialogue and order to have

a peaceful solution for the crisis syria i think syria will be in very difficult situation no one will know when and maybe syria will go into a civil war. the world's top whistleblower is taking his long legal battle to stay in the u.k. to the country's supreme court songes wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten which he denies that wiki leaks founder insists the case is politically motivated and a response to his website publishing secret u.s. cables on wars in afghanistan and iraq smith is at the high court in london. the building that you see behind me the supreme court could literally be last chance saloon for today in our son's at least in this country this is a two day hearing which began this morning is expected to carry on until the end of thursday in which he will present his case to the supreme court to try and have that request for his extra extradition rescind days if he does spell here he can

then take his case the european court of human rights in stroudsburg but that is not a given this legal wranglings been going on for more than a year now a soldier arrived this morning looking fairly relaxed it has to be stats that he stopped on his way into court to shake hands with a couple of his supporters who were here some had been here apparently since five o'clock this morning just showing their support for a thousand that he headed into court but without saying anything to the assembled media which he's taken to doing in the last months it is presenting his case in front of seven judges and they will be looking at a key question which is whether the european arrest warrant that was issued for him by the swedish prosecutor is valid can the swedish prosecutor in fact issue a european arrest warrant and this could in fact call into question the entire system of european arrest warrants that under which of course we know that people can be extradited within europe having little or no evidence presented against them

now of course this case is all relating to sexual assault charges that took place in august two thousand and ten while a soldier was in store and we are not expecting the outcome of this case to be announced in the next couple of days the plane cool has said that it could take them some weeks to come to a judgment that could mean anything between the two and and ten weeks as far as we know but we also know that one of the things that's all she's been truly worried about through this entire proceeding is that once in sweden he could be extradited to straight from that to america and my to my colleague tom boston has been to stop to look at the relationship between sweden. and the united states is the face that launched a thousand leaks julian a son does exposure of tens of thousands of secret documents has embarrassed governments the world over but the wiki leaks phenomenon is no longer his most pressing concern swedish authorities want to question a songe over allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and

ten prosecutors have been criticized by a sundress supporters and international civil libertarians with allegations of a cumbersome contradictory and slow legal process huge arguments have also broken out over the nature of some of sweden's laws on sexual offenses such as those of some faces it's going to be close to course and leading up to the trial is going to be held. while the chief prosecutor asked him to be held in solitary confinement it's just bizarre so there are so many bizarre aspects of the why in which the management is being conducted up till now. from our perspective i just can't see how he would get a fair trial others have gone beyond legal arguments saying that the storm raised by our sons through wiki leaks has made him a target for political interference across the atlantic u.s.

authorities enraged at having their secret documents exposed may seek to have a son extradited there to stand trial but surely sweden's famed neutrality would stop such a thing i would disagree as whether it's written is an outright country sit in a very clear cut. proximity and collaboration even in military operations with such campaigns initiated by nato you have for instance. so its presence in afghanistan you have a clear cut. it brought nato policy on the part of sweden and that is not to try to do with some u.s. politicians branding a son a cyber terrorist and calling for the death penalty it could get a lot worse for the wiki leaks founder the problem is not that we have too much wiki leaks we have too little. i think we'll see people agree with.

who is a national. polls indicate that very large majorities applaud and support the efforts of. the why do worry is that with or without julian asuncion governments around the world with something to hide will now launch full scale assaults on internet freedom in order to keep their secrets secret but for now the focus is on the man not his website julian assange just connections with sweden have raised many questions about what really happened in august two thousand and ten but now with a son just future as uncertain as ever questions are being leveled at sweden's legal system and its relationship with the united states which could prove crucial to the fate of the world's most notorious whistleblower tom watson r.t. stockholm sweden. or to life here in moscow coming up in the next hour here for you

israel employs controversial tactics of the new american based jews back to the motherland but critics say it needs to fix the problems that drove them away first . that story still to come but first dozens of people were injured in clashes outside egypt's parliament car on tuesday where protesters gathered to demand an end to military rule that was stopped from reaching the doors of the building by supporters of the muslim brotherhood which holds the majority of seats want to discuss the situation there in car i'm not joined by dr youssef sit on he's the editor in chief of the weekly christian tani newspaper. in egypt so you write for a christian use paper how worried are you that the muslim brotherhood the military council could share power together is there a feeling of betrayal that the original cause of the uprising has been hijacked and christians and other elements of this is part of society could be facing an uncertain future while most of the christians.

are not comfortable about the outcome of the elections in spite of. those things took place. even if they accept a majority. majority by the islamic. can which is mainly consisting of stomach brotherhood political party and the seller first political party yet they are skeptical about what will be the outcome of the parliamentary seat. it started. out. when. the majority. express their will to dominate all the parliamentary committees and there was.

a sort of a fight. on the membership of these committees and the heading of these committees and it ended in. governing. most of the committees by the islamic reign. and it still remains to be seen how the parliamentary scene will go on while you say christians are fearful what actually the point of view that the military government feels threatened by fundamentalists too and that's the reason why it's been dragging its heels on the promise transition to civilian rule. well we are on the road map to the transition. yet christians and moderate muslims. are concerned about how will the coming months reveal because. as we all know according to the constitutional amendments that took

place last march. joint committee will be formed from the mold of the both floors of the parliament the shura council and the people's assembly and this committee will be assigned to write you constitution well bearing in mind the make already entered majority. of christians and moderate muslims alike skeptical about who will be represented in this committee and what will be the criteria of the coming constitution those concerns are also turning into anger as we're talking now we're showing pictures of very angry protesters there in car and now of course the military joined hero status at the start of the revolution last year backing the uprising but now they

seem to be the target of people's anger as coop we perhaps be seeing more violence or indeed the start of another revolution. well the scene continuously. reveals demonstrations sit ins and. going along of course. similar. measures sit is. still expressing. a case of just very briefly it seems that life is fairly unsettled in fact even more unsettled than before the fall of mubarak what are your feelings now what are your thoughts for the future just very very briefly. are suppose that there should be. joining to work with the brotherhood group

and its political wing in order to form a sort of national solidarity to work together we ended up with a very weak minority that cannot afford to work alone to face or to to work against the majority ok i think that the wise thing to do is to work with them dr you succeed on thank you very much for your time editor in chief of the weekly would tony christian newspaper there in egypt thank you. china has been taken over by gold fever it's believed beijing already the world's fifth largest holder of gold snapped up around five hundred tonnes of the precious metal in two thousand and eleven that's double what it bought in two thousand and ten and could be in the market for more investment manager francis lund believes that beijing is wise to step away from the weakening dollar. china has the

largest foreign exchange holding of any country in the world one trillion u.s. dollars their most of their u.s. dollar and for several years now chinese you have limits wanting the government to diversify is holding out for the change china's economy is. that of the u.s. and china has about nine percent economic growth why the us about one point nine percent so it is good to diversify some with the foreign exchange holdings into something not a u.s. dollar goal but of course together with debt china would need to have a say in the global financial situation right now. by your peers in the world. and china has reverted to say in global

financial matters and i think that we all have to change expect surely the u.s. and europe in such dire strait if you want china to participate fully in the global financial system i really need to bring china into d.c. to organizations. don't forget we've also got the world covered for you on our website here's what online if you right now presidential candidate vladimir putin says a runoff in the upcoming election is possible but believes it could destabilize the nation's political situation you can find out how he's preparing for the poll that dot com also on life at the moment. imprisonment and deportation from america just for making a joke on twitter with the story of a couple whose tweets sort of treated like terrorists by u.s. authorities. time now for more news from around the world this hour in our world update and rival militia groups have reportedly been involved. the gun battle in

the center of libya's capital tripoli witnesses report heavy and light weapons exchanging fire in the city the road along the coast has been blocked and smoke was seen rising from the scene of the fighting former allies who fought together to oust moammar gadhafi last year are now engaged in a battle for influence in the new libya. two people being killed and five more injured in circles capital during an opposition rally police there used to gas to disperse a crowd gathered to protest a court ruling allowing the nation's elderly leader to run for a third term the constitution was revised soon after he was elected in two thousand to impose a two term limit of the present a large is that since he was already in office when it took effect it should not apply to. the government of attack to paramilitary checkpoint in southwestern pakistan killing eleven soldiers and wounding a dozen the troops return fire but it's unclear whether the attackers suffered any

casualties shortly after pakistani fighter jets bombed the hideouts of militants along the afghan border coming up to thirty one suspected insurgents the united states is home to the second largest jewish community in the world and many american jews feel increasingly alienated from their spiritual home in israel thanks in no small part to ad campaigns funded by the israeli government. explains . the big comments could be the family featured in an advertisement recently pulled from american t.v. girl israeli married to do an american jewish woman but it was saying is that larry has been shouldn't have married me but the emotional response was just cut it out. this is one of three ads sponsored by the israeli government and aid across the united states that evoked more than just an ouch from american jews when who is really grandparents ask what festival it is the american granddaughter happily on says christmas instead of the jewish festival of honey the implied suggestion was

that jewish identity has been diluted in america and that angered many jews who live there. american support cannot the loads of points or two. missiles and so for them. shows a toddler calling daddy daddy to his napping is really expected father who finally wakes up only when he son switches to hebrew american jews felt insulted by the suggestion that israeli jewish identity was more pure than american jewish identity i think that that's really what bothered me about the ads is that they came from a place of almost fear mongering you know they were almost kind of trying to scare people who are living here israelis are living here the ads were designed to encourage israelis living in the united states to come home but critics complained they smacked of arrogance ignorance and cultural disrespect for america instead of giving positive reasons for expects to return to israel they fail to address why many had left in the first place i think

a lot of american jews look to what going on in israel what's developing in the parliament particular in the field is truly alienated from that and they say to themselves this is not the israel that we fell in love with this is not israel that we want to defend american jewry has always been more liberal than israeli society they traditionally voted democrat and often open to a list off the docks practice of judaism then the israeli counterparts for years a rift has been growing between the two much of it based on the aggressive policies of tel aviv towards gaza and the occupation these radio palestinian conflict still shows no signs of compromise and consecutive israeli governments have been unable or unwilling to reach agreement with the palestinians. even many american jews feeling more and more alienated from israel does some of what's going on in the israeli public sphere troubled some north american jews troubled them very very greatly i have no question but that's the case since the late one nine hundred sixty s. israel has built hundreds of thousands of homes here in the west bank more than

half a million people now live in settlements television nonstop was issuing tenders for thousands more homes to be built across the green line evoking anger and condemnation from the international community. as many as a million twenty eight israelis live outside the country in the last five years the number of people who choose to leave the holy land has outpaced those wanting to come and live in israel and although the ads are no longer on air the reasons that they provoke such a backlash in the first place are far from the solved police here are t. tell of it. so the term brings up to date for the moment twenty four minutes past the hour in russian capital dimitris next with the business. thanks bill that's all said to be the most hyped i.p.o. in years facebook is expected to file the paperwork for its public listing in new york and. the social network will reportedly sell

a ten percent stake to raise up to ten billion dollars this will be a record for its acknowledge your company but. you have a market research on north capitol says it looks. this is. probably on future casual. more inclined to talk about presenters for definitely facebook is not delivery of this much money right now thought. might be a self-delusion or my believe birth exaggeration of a market well you're both. worth much much less than that amount. in a further effort to crack down on corruption president of it has ratified the o.e.c.d. convention against bribing foreign officials and business transactions this is also a key step in russia's access to the paris based organization for economic cooperation and development according to a study by transparency international russian businessmen are among the world's

greatest bribe givers second only to chinese. so going to the markets now crude is on the rise after the chinese manufacturing index unexpectedly rose boosting speculation of the world's second largest groups consumers withstanding the european debt crisis. stocks in the u.s. as a.d.p. reports one hundred seventy thousand new jobs were added in january marking the twenty fourth consecutive month of games in europe to see underdark so also very strong that's one of course the european central bank could help reduce greece's debt by returning gains on greek government bonds that it will surely purchased with a discount and here in moscow the markets closed on the positive note with the r.t.s. my six one half percent got to what was moving the my six gas monopoly gazprom one of the biggest gainers actually up one percent net profit rose over forty one

percent in the first nine months of last year predicts the full year profits will be up twenty five percent oil pipeline operator transcend you have to was weaker than the markets the company plans to invest thirteen billion dollars into its infrastructure by twenty twenty and after is in the red on courses russian sales fell twenty one percent in january. from what i have seen measurable shares his opinion on the. risk rally in all classes of assets and russian markets as you know is no exception in fact this is the high better market so when the race crowley begins russian market usually outperform their competitors today which. basically growth across all asset classes across all regions it was a strong p.m.i. number of china then we saw or a bit stronger my numbers out of euro zone but in the main reason is that a genuine tide for risk is increasing and that's of course happening against the backdrop of all for there has to be his asian situation in the debt crisis in

europe. plans to create the world's largest stock exchange have been blocked by the european commission says a proposed nine billion dollars. and new york stock exchange with the anti competitive they had a voice of bersih says that decision like they are your. market players will soon have an opportunity to spend their cash on russian champagne no sparkling wine and make a potential return on one of the country's main producers are but i'll give a soft plans to list ten percent of its shares on the my six by april he says the main goal of the idea is not the money but confirming the value of the company. bill is next with.