north korea says it won't buy the weapons of boggo damascus because guns would still find their way to armed opposition groups which some of your numbers there he's even talked knowledge. a diplomatic battle at the one over a resolution on syria calling the president assad to step down russia says no to regime change and pushes for talks instead all the details from new york just ahead in the program. the u.k.'s high court considers the bait to wiki leaks founder julian assange is wanted on sweden accommodations of sexual assault. soldiers always maintained this case is politically motivated it's great it's good it's from here to sweden to america more coming up. on the u.n.

atomic bush talk indicates tehran is ready to cooperate on beaches over its nuclear program and plans to make another trip to iran next month. international news live from moscow this is with me thanks for joining us russia will not agree to embalm their own weapons to syria and moscow says doing so i would not prevent the continued arming of opposition groups in the country. could be un security council where russia is refusing to back any military intervention or resolution that could break the conflict r.t. this is from new york. russia says it won't accept even a hint of an embargo on arms embargo when it comes to syria and its reasoning for this is pretty simple it says firstly that the weapons and arms are that russia provides to syria cannot be used against demonstrators thus don't influence

anything that goes on inside syria when it comes to this conflict now secondly russia says that it is only following its legal obligations it's following its international contracts with syria and it's not breaching any international laws at all and most importantly it says that the lessons of libya need to be large because when an arms embargo was put in place on libya what ended up happening was government forces were embargoed but the opposition groups continued to receive openly arms from abroad and this is something that they don't want to see in syria and russia says it's time for the west to stop pretending like armed groups don't exist over there. it would seem logical if there is a conflict let's not supply arms and we saw what happened in libya in an imperfect world this would have meant the following no weapons with the government much opposition point just to get them from anyone that's what that would mean especially now our security council colleagues refuse even to admit to the groups

they were not. being supplied with weapons and we say. it's a longstanding relationship with syria that they will start supplying even more to the position groups they did in libya so there's no sign of a break in deadlock just yet the arab and western backed regime change resolution calls for the. syrian president to step down if this does not happen within fifteen days further measures could take place and russia says no thanks we've seen this similar scenario in libya and this particular case moscow says what's important is for talks for syria to exercise its sovereignty for the opposition and the government to sit down together moscow has offered russia as the central. stage for these negotiations but it's important to say that russia still believes that a consensus can be found within the united nations security council it says that broad resolutions that are dangerous should not be put on the table that can split the council and really aggravate any sort of conflict and it continues to call for

the importance of arab observers to our main working on the ground. dr benjamin from that frank turnitin with says that russia has every reason to worry the motion may pave the way for in the past our intervention in syria russia is reading history with some accuracy if we look back at what happened in libya because it lived a un arab league resolution led to what was supposed to be a mission to protect civilians but ended up as a mission that actually took the lives of civilians inadvertently on the way of lead to supporting insurgents and in time became an armed intervention on behalf of insurgents and the attempt to overthrow the government russia is defending comparably so the sovereignty of syria in the meantime the united states and the west generally and many are countries like qatar are in effect saying syria has no

right to sovereignty it's the role of the united nations to force compliance with their directives the problem is and this is a problem the u.n. resolution it's not just they call for the sation of violence and repression against protesters they are now calling for regime change and that does seem to exceed any reasonable standard of the sovereign rights of the country to make its own decisions about government. the world's top whistleblower has taken his long legal battle to stay in the u.k. to the country's supreme court where he's appealing extradition to sweden julian assange has wanted on occasions of sexual assault dating back to august twenty ten which he denies that we collect sound and says the case is politically motivated laura smith reports now from outside the high court in london. as often happens on the first day of these hearings you only hear one side of the story and what's happened today is that judy and i saw as his team has given that evidence they've

all that point his lawyer diana ross seems to be quite convincing in front of the seven judges they would have not think she injected a bit of hubris the proceedings which i don't know is easy for a change and sheet with talking mainly about judicial authority when in the swedish prosecutor had the judicial authority to issue the european arrest warrant under which i thought this extradition has been requested she said does this person pursue this prosecutor have it as somebody who is party to the case essentially who has a vested interest in the case and her argument was that the swedish prosecutor come to me impartial and independent to say that it goes against the fundamental principle of will that's been in place ever since you know existed basically i thought himself. during the hearing he listened very attentively and then he left at the end of the day looking fairly relaxed if building the you see behind me to see if we can gloat is basically just chop suey julian i saw it as far as his

british legal fight has is saying it's been going on for the full than a year as we know he's gone up through the courts most recently at the high court he's finally got this to prevent colds he may have if it doesn't go his way he may have recourse to take this european course human rights but that by no means a given of course this this is all about the fact that he's wanted for questioning in sweden a sexual assault allegation he has always maintained that this is a case that is politically motivated in connection with his work for wiki leaks when of course he released an enormous number of files that were very embarrassing for several governments and many international businesses he's made so if it really is that he could be extradited from here to sweden and then straight to the night. state that my colleague tom potter has been we didn't take a look at what 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 son just 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 places it's going to be closed course and leading up to the trial is going to be held. while the chief prosecutor asked for him to be held in solitary confinement it's just bizarre so there are so many bizarre aspects to the wine

which the matter that 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 the storm raised branson's 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 straight in and out of country it sit in a very clear cut. proximity and cooperation event. 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 the dreaded 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 most people agree with. it in national public opinion polls indicate that very large majorities applaud and support the efforts of wiki leaks 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 killing our son 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 dumbarton r.t. stockholm sweden. coming up on our team the next few minutes these are all employees controversial toxics to me you american based jerry's box of them are critics say it means to fix the problems that drove them away fast. iran is committed to resolving the issues of its nuclear program says if you want an occasional to three day visit to the country but you're not on a coach talk the international atomic energy agency plans to return this month photos claims by u.s. intelligence officials that iran is as dangerous as al qaeda are planning terror attacks on u.s. soil investigative journalist robert paris says regardless of terrorizing intentions the west will seek to motion to impose regime change there's been almost

a consensus not just in the united states in the intelligence community but even in some degree in israel that the iranians have not made the decision to move ahead to build a nuclear weapon obviously there's belief that they are developing expertise that can be used in the future for such a decision if they were to make one so. if iran is sincere about its lack of interest in a nuclear weapon and if the west is willing to show some more flexibility in terms of how they're willing to negotiate on this i think there could be some resolution many people in the west do want regime change in iran they would like to see the removal of this islamic republic there's been a lot of propaganda in the west against iran but i do think that there's this there is an opportunity here for. for rand to make to achieve some openings but

that may not be enough to satisfy many of its critics who would like to see real change in government. and don't forget we're always. online right now. presidential candidates are busy with recent says a runoff in the upcoming election is possible but believes it could destabilize the nation and it's going to take from these preparing for the poor. and also online. imprisonment and deportation from america just for making a drug on. the story of a couple whose tweets sold them like terrorists treated like terrorists by us and. the united states is home to the second largest jewish community in the world and

many american jews feel increasingly alienated by their spiritual home in israel and thankfully no small part to us campaigns funded by the israeli government. the big commands could be the family featured in an advertisement recently pulled from american t.v. girl israeli mary to an american jewish woman what it was saying is that may have been shouldn't have married me but the emotional response was just ouch. this is one of three ads sponsored by the israeli government and eight across the united states that evoked more than just an hour from american jews when who is really grandparents ask what festival it is the american granddaughter happily answers christmas instead of the jewish festival of hunka the implied suggestion was that jewish identity has been diluted in america and that angered many jews who live there. or. support it cannot allow this sort of point to. this else 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 who are living here the ads were designed to encourage its radius 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 failed to address why many had left in the first place i think a lot of american jews look to what's going on in israel what's developing in the parlor and 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 was issuing tenders for souls and war homes to be built across the green line evoking angle and condemnation from the international community. as many as

a million twenty eight israelis living 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 the air the reasons that they provoke such a backlash in the first place are far from resolved. r t television. and to some other news stories from around the world seventy three people have been killed and more than a thousand injured in egypt where fans stunned the pitch following a match of the top league after fifty people have been arrested as players and supporters will caught up in a clash just during which the stadium was set on fire from the dead or sick with a security officers and there are reports of nine words the two teams involved have a long history of rivalry and violence has been a common interest here is. a plot to bomb the london stock exchange has been admitted by four british men inspired by al qaida they were among nine arrested in december twenty ten over various terror fences by others while they

sentence next week on lesser charges prosecutors said the man plans to send five mail bombs to virus targets during the run up to christmas trying to tell. nigeria's secret service has reportedly arrested the spokesman for the militant islamist group boko haram officials say the man known as abu qatada was captured after his photo had been trying to end his arrest comes as violence by the group continues in nigeria with at least a hundred and eighty people killed last month. rival militia groups have been involved in the gun battle in the center of leavis capital tripoli witnesses report heavy and light weapons exchanging find the city the road along the coast has been blocked with smoke rising from the area where the fighting took place. to gather to oust moammar gadhafi last year and gauged in a bottle for influence in the new libya. and two people have been killed and five

more injured in sydney ball's capital during an opposition rally please they use tear gas to disperse a crowd gathered to protest a quarter inning allowing the nation's elderly leader to run press said tan the constitution was revised so you know after he was elected in two thousand to impose a tee time limit that the president okies that since he was already in office when it took a fact south should not apply to him. china has been taken over by gold fever it's believed beijing already the world's fifth largest holder of gold snapped up by around five hundred tons of the precious metal in twenty eleven and that's double or to the port in twenty turns and it could be in the market for more investment to monitor france's lydon believes beijing is wise to step away from the weakening dollar. china's economy is still. that of the u.s. but of course china has a much better for balance of payment in much larger foreign exchange holdings like

the fiscal deficit it's much much smaller and the national debt is much smaller now above all china has about nine percent economic growth why the us about one point nine percent so it's really only and matter of time fifteen years that china will also take you as largest economy of the world and of course together with that china would need to have a say in the global financial situation right now. the fire your peers in the world. right kinds has riveted to say global financial matters and i think that we all have to change exposure the u.s. and europe in such diaphragm and so. if you want china to participate fully in the

global financial system i really need to bring china to d.c. to organizations. up next i'll talk to the indian ambassador to the united nations about a war he thinks be international community needs to do to resolve the crisis in syria.

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 the 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 then for fifteen members to agree on some kind of solution 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 r.s.t. that statement is a fairly strong statement it calls on the government in damascus to walk back from the use of force against its own civilians it equally sends

a message to the opposition to stop the. insurrection and to enter into dialogue with the government and extols both sides store you know negotiate. it and go down the path of reform after the unanimous passage of this p.r.'s deal on third august another attempt was made this time exactly two months later the council is faced with the situation where two permanent members of the security council co-sponsored the resolution two others vetoed it russia china russia and china and the fifth a member in the light of some aggressive public speaking in the open chamber the united 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. unlike libya. the consequences will be far higher i'm not suggesting that what happened in libya is not serious enough but talking of libya i must tell you 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 if the proposition were to be advanced that somebody should have a power. 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 thought 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 of

joining violence reform and negotiations we can support that if as a result of those negotiations there's a political formula which is that which results in power sharing 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 that reordering of societies as my prime minister put it in a statement to the general assembly in september the reordering of society. from outside using military force 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 i think the russian

resolution is still around it's not being 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 insofar as the implementation of nine hundred seventy three is concerned it uses words all means necessary now all means necessary is a order for military action but there's a more even more serious issue. resolution one hundred seventy three specific. embargo but that resolution was interpreted as some people say well it means you can carry out military operations against gadhafi but does not prevent you from. now i find that situation on except yes the libyan experience will continue to

guide people now whether that should or should not be that gives depends on what kind of resolution the council is faced with. closure is that so much. on the mark on the brink escalates in this country the calls for strong sanctions and even a military intervention grow in intensity. and realize.

the protection can be used. in global supremacy. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine. billion dollars in the price for the entire program that we are dealing with here in two thousand and eleven is another hundred fifty billion dollars that's larger than many countries and. things becomes the best for. more news today voss says once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada.