because of the groups operating in the country that some members refused to acknowledge. opposition to any military intervention in syria. any u.n. resolution that could aggravate the conflict. and we can.

choose based in the u.s. . but many are already feeling alienated by israel's policies of expansion and treatment palestinians. back with a recap of those top stories shortly in the meantime we talked to the indian ambassador to the united nations about what he thinks the international community needs to do to resolve the crisis in syria. marty sitting down with mr her deep think poori the indian ambassador to the united nations ambassador pouri thank you very much for sitting down with r.t. i'd like to begin with syria because that seems to be a great point of contention within the u.n. security council not the last and the only time that council reached any type of consensus on the conflict in syria was nearly six months ago it was under your

presidency of the security council a presidential statement was issued in august why has it been so hard since that for fifteen members to agree on does some kind of solution i wouldn't use the word solution but i would use the word approach but you know you're absolutely right the only occasion on which the security council was entirely on the same page insofar as developments in syria are concerned was on third august two thousand and eleven under the indian presidency when the council accepted adopted it be honesty that statement is a fairly strong statement it cause on the government in damascus to walk back from the use of force against its own civilians equally sends a message to the opposition to stop the armed insurrection and to enter into dialogue with the government and extends both sides to you know negotiate and go

down the path of reform after the unanimous passage of this b.r.s. deal on third august another attempt was made this time exactly two months later the council is faced with the situation but to permanent members of the security guards of course one side the resolution two others vetoed it russia and china russia and china and the fifth a member in the light of some aggressive public speaking in the open chamber the. i get states walked out now the reason the council has not been on the same page is because i think as long as the council is in a position to address and recommendation to both sides in a conflict i think you would get agreement but if the council wants to address its recommendation to one side that is the government and is not willing to encourage the opposition to come to the negotiating table then you've got

a council recommendation which clearly is not acceptable to some members what we need to do on syria clearly is to realize that the situation there is spiraling out of control that syria is a sweetener this case that unraveling of the situation in syria will have very serious consequences for the other countries in the region. that unlike libya. the consequences would be far higher i'm not suggesting that what happened in libya is not serious enough but talking of libya i would still be one of the difficulties that we are having insofar as the situation in syria is concerned is that the security council's expedience in respect of resolutions nine hundred seventy and seventy three on libya. vitiate inc the atmosphere in terms of the approach to words how to deal with the situation in syria it is reported that in the coming days the security council will be possibly voting on

a resolution drafted by western countries on syria calling in part for the for the assad government to surrender its powers given the dynamic of the security council right now the positions being taken by the numbers do you think this resolution will be adopted let me answer your question without reference to a particular. resolution if the proposition were to be advanced that somebody should overpower. in other words a regime change proposition i think some members of the council including my own delegation would have a lot of difficulty with that they have what i'd like to see how that is scotched if for instance the call is for political dialogue between the government and the opposition that's something we could support if the demand is for. you know a joining violence reform negotiation that we can support that if as

a result of those negotiations there's a political formula which is that which results in power sharing or this thing that's an entirely different matter but this is something for the people of syria to determine i mean as a matter of principle i have a lot of difficulty with people advocating the reordering of this. it is as my prime minister put it in his statement to the general assembly in september the reordering of societies from outside using military force now that's something i have serious objection to russia has proposed a draft resolution on syria when i was quite we were quite comfortable with the russian draft resolution we thought it was a good basis for seeking consensus in the council but i think some of our friends from the western countries had some difficulties with it because it did not contain because of our punitive measures that they were seeking so that's why you think the west bank i think that's a bit aside as i normally you know i think the russian resolution is still around

it's not been put on that it's not been put in blue but it's still very much on the table i want to ask you about libya because that was the first time the u.n. security council used the responsibility to protect doctrine it was invoked how come the security council does not feel that the united nations has a responsibility to protect those in syria is it because of what transpired in libya first let's discuss responsibility to protect you know the r two p. has three pillars below which says that it is the responsibility of every state to prevent its citizens from being subjected to mass crimes or to states that in the case of countries where the institutions of the state either nonexistent or whether they're under strain and the state does not have the capacity to carry out below one functions then the international community has the responsibility to help with

technical assistance the problem comes in pillar three which when it was adopted was clearly in the minds of some new to blanche or a doctrine for humanitarian intervention in other words if you find in a country x. things are not working you can put together a military force and go in. pyatt now that i think is absurd insofar as the implementation of nine hundred seventy three is concerned it uses words all means necessary now all means necessary is a cord for military action so we sat there in that room as consenting adults and we realized that what we and we consciously authorized. military actions would have to take place on that there is no doubt but what kind of military action yes you need to use to get involved they would have to take measures in order to enforce a no fly zone that resolution one hundred seventy three also speaks of cease fire

and when we tried to invoke the cease fire provisions some of the countries which were annoyed in the military operation said that they did not want to consider the possibility of a cease fire to liturgy and had been. dislodged so then it became a mission for regime change well that's an interpretation you could put on that and that's what some people are saying now i'm not saying that it was done for but i'm saying but that's what it amounts to in the end but there's a more even more serious issue. resolution one hundred seventy three specifically referred to an arms embargo but that resolution was interpreted as some people say well it means you can carry out military operations against gadhafi but arms embargo does not prevent you from arming the rebels now i find that situation unacceptable so let's be very careful before we can walk concepts and doctrine like to be yes the libyan experience will continue to guide people now whether that

should or should not be that is depends on what kind of resolution the council is faced with will we see an afghanistan or iraq like scenario possibly unfold in libya with the benefit of hindsight one can begin to have those concerns you're absolutely right i mean the situation in iraq now is extremely. i would say it's untenable the number of deaths which are occurring which are information which is in the public domain and one begins to wonder as to what we what the international community has got and of course in fairness there was no security council authorization for that action but in the case of libya where there was ostensibly a security council action i don't think with the passage of time when historians get to write on and there's going to be agreement on whether resolutions nine hundred seventy and seventy three interpreted implemented in the manner that they had been intended to i think the jury's out on that and i personally have

a lot of difficulty i'm speaking on my in my personal behalf i have very great difficulty. being confronted with a situation where the security council cannot act on its own a resolution which calls for a cease fire i have very often taken the lead in the council to say that words have meanings and therefore when we agreed to a form of words or a set of words we should be clear and amongst ourselves as to what it is that we are agreeing to. and you know the imposition of the will of those who have. you know military clout etc you know it appears that in the context of the moment on the context of the immediate crisis that is a approach that could be adopted in the long run these things don't work i mean let's look at the issue of radicalization. i mean we all know what happens when military

operation stick you end up producing more radicalized response to it i think i'm gonna stand is a case in point is a case in point and i'm not a but i'm a student of history and international relations i would be surprised if the libyan experience does not result in a more radicalized response from within libya has it is used to. recruit from libya and there are all kinds of studies now which the intelligence community which the you know strategic community and the think tanks are now putting together. you know what's happening the militias when they come across a cache of arms they don't surrender the central part of it strengthens that now we realize that there isn't into them set up there we realize that they need time so we would support that but you need to keep your fingers and toes crossed to ensure

that you know the final situation months down does not look. worse than what what what we had the best are pretty thank you very very much thank you you thank . basically military police. to shoot. i'm sorry if you

know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and if what's in front of here is going to die that's all the training you really really need raise your hand if you know somebody's been. to live with one of the philadelphia police or the streets. it's a little out of both really we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared the full class including the teacher. seventeen students. or so. wealthy british scientists some. of the. markets. scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. top stories here on r.t. . says it was back to weapons in syria because some countries refused to condemn all the opposition groups operating that western backed u.n. resolution demands president assad step down. u.k.'s high court considers a patient we can expound adjourning the son sure is wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault which could be expanded insists the case is politically motivated on a response to his website publishing secret u.s. cables. and israel's ad campaign insults jews based in the us suggesting that jewish identity is being diluted by the country they live in that many already feeling alienated by israel's policies of expansion and treatment of palestinians. more news for me in fifteen minutes from kate is next with an eye to

sports. hello and thank you for joining me for the small round up and here are the headlines movers and shakers russia strike out a month after trenchard's signs i look i want to go from tottenham on the last day of the transfer window. goes to full of. waving the flag maria sharapova trains ahead of a rare fed cup outing for russia at the world number three eyes a place at the london olympics. and media circus the n.f.l. stars face the press ahead of sunday's super bowl showdown between the patriots and the giants. on their stories coming up but first into and football captain john terry will stand trial after this summer's european championships in poland and ukraine after the center half denied racially abusing q.p.r. defender anton ferdinand the thirty one year old chelsea skate but didn't attend

the short hearing in london this wednesday but his barrister entered a not guilty plea on his behalf terry is accused of a racially aggravated public order offense over a video footage which appears to show him shouting offensive comments and during the one nil defeat at loftus road on october the twenty third. well this one's a london rivals arsenal could retain fifth place in the english premier league with a win a bolton newcastle level on points with a gun this trouble to third bottom block but the entertain q.p.r. sunderland has knowledge and west brom travel to follow where russia striker could make his debut on his transfer deadline day move. while on tuesday night havea kind of days and dimitar berbatov stored in the penalty spot as manchester united one two no time to stoke to go level on points with community leaders manchester city who last won nearly servitor and while tottenham kept up the pressure in third operates three one home went over wigan fourth place chelsea grabbed the point at

swans the while liverpool are now in the top five of their three no wind at struggling rules. after all those games we're going to head to russia struck out on top of the change that joins lokomotiv moscow from tottenham for a fee of thirteen million dollars the thirty year old had failed to establish a regular first team place at spurs since his move there in two thousand and eight from spartak moscow but he still managed to score a goal to do goals in one hundred thirteen appearances for the north london club with the european championships just four months away of a change there said the move back to russia was driven by his desire to play first team football. while over in spain athletic bilbao clinched a two one lead from the first leg of their cup of delray semifinal against it on the wall this wednesday barcelona travel to balance here for the start of their double header and seven points behind rail madrid in the domestic title race keeping pressure on the coach pep guardiola who knows it lost every tough against ballon. a very strong you know the go to show me.

where this is a huge this. it will be there we tell you. who will be the exception. tennis now. has held her first training session in moscow ahead of russia's fed cup quarter final with spain which gets underway at the weekend the country four year old has only ever played in straight a fed cup matches but after a couple of kenya welcome to three weeks it's pretty open final losing straight sets to the koreans are in. the tolls which are bound for fleet she's hoping to continue her group. by helping russia when she had cup semi final. words always disagree to be in the finals of a grand slam that's why you know always want to be down to the us too and you know for me to be able to come to moscow in a few days obviously it's a tough transition going from the heat to the call but it's like that for everyone and you know i think we just have to make the quarter just once but i'm happy that we have a home match sort of a way in that i can actually be in my home country and it's to the last time you

played for a cup of russia it's different because well if you see more i hope she said give you no motivation this time because you know last year you know it's it's a team effort and i think that's really how it happened both salon and i didn't have a good first day and then the next day you know the whole team kind of raise their level and one zero two so it's just it's such a different environment than what we're used to or as when you lose a match and then you're kind of out you know a loser or not you still have a chance and that's what makes it so special here and even more confident because i mean you getting to be crowned some foreigner. but helping to put what happened in two thousand and one two thousand and eight behind you and just moving forward even that you want to get into but for no little going to want to get to the stage of being in a final is great and for me to to have a woman in this joint open where i haven't been a stage in the second week of a grand slam is a really good achievement for me and you know to be number three in the world is great as well as one final question obviously a huge year for you with the grammys i'm trying to get another grand slam title to be lympics i mean this is part of

a region where you're playing fed cup trying to get in the libby team and it wouldn't be gold mean to you for the olympics has meant so much for me since i was a young kid those really well we always looked forward to. and one day in tennis when i was young wasn't that big and it was always although lympics winter sports that i watched and i hope that one day i would be an olympian so you know i missed it out and in beijing with the shoulder surgery and this year they're looking forward to it we're going to fix up what years time. i stuck it out in the cage as leading scorer alexander out of the loft as being left out of russia squad for next week's swedish games the third stop on the formation euro hokie to the national president and his fellow sell about to live forward he will be getting are exempted from national ahead of the fast approaching post-season reigning champions russia looking to maintain their three point lead over sweden the two more tournament and six games left but love is the catch as leader in both goes and desist paul sullivan have to play another eight games in the regular season before finding their domestic round in the garden cup playoffs. to me while this weekend wasco is

due to stage its first ever leg of the cross-country skiing world cup but extremely cold weather has cost advantage over the historic event five and a half thousand tons of artificial snow has been used to construct a track meet the new key stage in the central moscow butts with temperatures currently below twenty degrees celsius some of the athletes have decided to skip the event however the defending champion of polonium switzerland and seen a couple jake will be competing while russia have a solid sprint squad and are aiming for success of their home next spring standings leader and executed. now with four days to go until sunday super bowl the new england patriots and new giants have held their annual press day and revealed key factors which could determine who we crowned champions the giants beat the patriots in the two thousand and eight super bowl final and despite winning ten straight games coming into this final the patriots know that have to be fruitless against a very strong giants defense and that puts even more pressure on you england star

quarterback tom brady. i'm going to make sure i don't throw any interceptions make sure i've played try to play really well. they're a good team i mean i think that's that's why they're here they force you know a lot of mistakes so but we can't go out there and make mistakes and expect to win we've got to go out there and play a very clean game. well both brady and giants quarterback eli manning were part of the squad in that super bowl clash in two thousand and eight with thirty one year old manning edging his rival to be named the most valuable player in the manning wants his younger teammates to mix business with pleasure to give their all when it matters. and finally to cycling where russia's top think that russia are ready to make a big impact this season with a big where force winds that onion explains. all the glue on the greatest roots of the most prestigious cycling learns since two thousand and nine

when they were launched the two share have been deployed over in the sport sixty live trees and over two hundred board rooms that's what the team have achieved so far nevertheless ahead of their fourth season that you show aiming to take it to the next level the as i clearly given by the sponsors is our first the olympics the world championships but the sport as well as gifts that the targets you cannot make a team with this quality and say the tour de france doesn't interest me but we have the olympics focusing on it and there are only all four years olympics but this is one of the most goals here on the other hand it's my my aim and it's my work to work also for the russian cycling for the young right so you must understand this is a project as a whole project fulfilling those kinds of tasks takes elite riders and added to siebel close to their roster here comes the first one of the most feared sprinters

in the business world. also got a freighter in. i'm very happy to be part of this team first of all cut to show represent such a huge country in russia at the international cycling arena and it's a big honor for me this team is very strong and has huge potential to improve meaning a great deal of opportunity for me to claim more wins in my career. national career meanwhile that uses biggest grease is the sunny. he's the only one of the team to have faced an overall victory at the world's three major events the thirty four year old russian proved to be the best at the jury d'italia in two thousand and nine and twice at the. market which i think it's. a sprint. this is. one of the best russian either so i think it's it's logical so.

i think for me or also it gives more more some more power and or more ambition to smaller more motorway ssion for for next season with half we're left to go before the summer olympics in london russia's job cycling team and top cyclists. their interests the combination tour and the olympic games. but. it's as most commercial because. when you are if you're finished or in good shape you're going right i mean became in the same level if you are four years of children. and maybe a little all in all you're going to improve in two weeks or in but i think you're all here for enough but i will too will compete and only because it will get you should look to have everything needed to make this year one of the most if not the most successful russian cycling but for a known quantity. and as well as well for this wednesday i finish.

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