most who says it won't buy the weapons and bongo in damascus because guns would still find their way to armed opposition groups which some u.n. members refuse even talk knowledge. a diplomatic battle at the u. one over a resolution on syria calling for 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 president of an appeal in london against the extradition a wiki leaks founder julian assange wants to sweden centered on the shield the swedish prosecutors inform shallots and the legal authority to issue an arrest warrant. soldiers always maintained this case is politically motivated it's great that it's front page since we've been doing very well coming out. of the u.n.

atomic watchdog indicates tehran is ready to cooperate on the issues over its nuclear program and plans to make another trip to iran next month. news from russia under around the world this is us here with me thanks for joining us russia will not agree to an embargo on weapons to syria moscow says doing so would not prevent the continued arming of opposition groups in the country deadlocked at the u.n. security council where russia is refusing to back any military intervention or resolution that could aggravates the conflict and the situation has the latest from the. 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 and 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's a conflict let's not supply arms because we saw what happened in libya in an imperfect world this would have meant the following no weapons with the government opposition pointers could get them from anywhere that's what that would mean

especially now our security council colleagues refuse even to admit the presence of armed groups they will not condemn them or acknowledge they are being supplied with weapons and we say ok we'll break all our contracts and longstanding relations with syria but they will start supplying even more to opposition groups just like they did in libya. 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 in 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 center 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 important arab observers to remain working on the ground. dr benjamin barber from biffing time. throwing president assad is nobody solution to the crisis. the case of libya the case of yemen and a number of other countries egypt also suggest that you have to be careful what you wish for the west is rather uncritical be reasoned insurgency is a good thing only to find that insurgency often means anarchy fractionalization splintering various groups up against one another and the triumph over time of forces that are no more welcome to the west for the one for the displaced in libya we see a country that is unable to create any kind of place where the militias are fighting

one another where recently. towns i bought a while back in fact hands are broken off and forces and the danger of libyan people look like some ali with a lot of little wishes of the tribes it was so nobody i think did what will happen if the saudis overthrown were killed or steps down and no one really knows what the outcome is likely to be as the west is hoping it will be less supportive of hezbollah less supportive of the iran and less support of hamas and that could be no one really knows what it's going to look like so the fact is when you support insurgencies you're basically taking a very difficult bet on a certainty. german chancellor angela merkel sets off to china with the eurozone crisis syria and iran high on the gender trade is also likely to figure prominently in the visit of the leader of europe's biggest economy to the second largest economic power in the wild against about the troubles of increasing tension from

a growing u.s. military presence in china's backyard and to discover the truth when i joined live by professors simon shan of the chinese university of hong kong a professor thank you very much indeed for joining us china has the largest savings in the world with the equivalent of three point two trillion dollars stashed away so and mrs merkel will be thinking the euro which is a huge dead could do with some of that is that why she's in beijing on her first trip abroad of the year and will china help out. i think actually there are fewer reasons of which are at first as you mentioned to a lot of the china. in the year old actresses and that have been adjourned for some time but that's not the only reason other second reason there's probably a rose to the ring intros this. u. is cooperating with the states to sentient. it is the lives of the german.

chancellor that she didn't wish to a child a child is that they should not make use of this we should ity to increase the oil imports from here and so does the second agenda but of the chinese formulation is would be more interested in the third agenda that is hollow this market were. cooperative the chinese people know what she called the diplomacy one of the many stops that she made in china would be to assemble in the bill by liberals papers in china and then there would be a gesture for her to convey her message which means it would be important and the rule of law and then economic development should not be mutually exclusive. in china and germany don't see eye to eye and ways to resolve the syrian conflict with beijing opposing easy and u.s. efforts to topple the regime at the un i think here's a council for can germany also in exchange for beijing support had the un.

basically germany is the most powerful member in you and china always wish to be german support for chinese diplomacy as well so i think the only chunk of germany has to convince china. should not work well with iran in the change of germans or support china's needs some e.u. support when you're still in the united states so this kind of trying to game between china these days and what's in the mind of many many china's leaders so it's more gesture is more moral support rather than the ritualistic advantages. broadcom has made dead boosting the u.s. military presence in the asia pacific region as a key priority and where some believe is to counter a chinese might in the region so could this powerless triangle between china and america actually trigger a close set chinese e.u.

cooperation. there's a sense in china. and so commands of china by the united states rhino and. the united states in asia pacific so are trying to do some balancing out of this one of the many important members that china wish to engage. so this kind of a cold war mentality existing in the ocean it's need as expression it is realistic diplomacy and research is so sure that. in this world. yes and he mentioned that twice. rather do you expect china to become more vocal on the international stage as its economic power surges while that of the e.u. and the us wanes and we can. it is not because they are trying to do

such a present because china is also witnessing its own leadership change and is probably would have another round of diplomatic shipped so a president is not the right time for china to do anything in a very dramatic and just check manner however. increasing volleys within china that china should play a more important role in the global issues but the liberal voice of the live in that is not up to the standard and we should still focusing on which is doable is on developing our own economy so i think the presence of the later balls is still winning the upper hand long as they do it a mainstream opinion within china that i don't think the chinese would be willing to this and there were in the world they should almost be regarded as a regional power in the asia pacific region but regarding the shipping region for africa and china is probably a not when they do this in the need in power in those variations. professor simon

chen a professor at the chinese university of hong kong i should say thank you very much indeed for sharing your views at the greenwich. our website called we ask your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit to china so let's check results of the poll so far the majority of which is sources seventy percent saying beijing will extend that helping hand weakened europe twenty percent say the meeting will end with chinese support for u.n. security council resolution i'll see where twenty percent say that china will move closer to the west and position on the run and the minority just thirteen percent so just that the trip will mean new markets for german trade so what do you think had to. cast your vote. and also online for you this hour presidential candidate a lady with britain says a run of the in the upcoming election is possible but believes it could destabilize the nation's political situation and find out how he's preparing for the poor.

and is committed to resolving the issues over its nuclear program says a u.n. delegation after a three day visit to the country the tonic watch dog the international atomic energy agency plans to return this month patrollers claims by u.s. intelligence officials that iran is as dangerous as. times on u.s. soil investigative journalist robert perry says regardless of to iran's intentions the west will seek to use any u.n. 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 in the wilds whistleblower as in the supreme court in london seeking to overturn a decision to extradite him to sweden on sex assault charges where he says

operatically driven because of the leaking of top secret u.s. cables and his lawyers told the court on day one that the swedish prosecutor had acted illegally and their arrest warrant invalid. metropole for not longer. 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 were sort of noting she injected a bit of hubris the proceedings which i don't know it's easy for a change and sheet with talking mainly about judicial authority when in the swedish prosecutor had the judicial authority to issue the pain of arrest warrants under which i thought his 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 no this being in place and this is no 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 go in his face if you just chop suey julian i saw it as far as his british legal fight has is saying it's been going on for the for the yeah as we know he's gone up through the whole space recently at the high court he's finally got fifty priem cool he may have if it doesn't go his way here he may have recourse to take this european course of human rights but that by no means. of course this this is all about the fact that he's wanted for questioning in sweden the 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 there really is that he could be extradited from here to sweden and then straight to the united. state that my colleague tom potter has been sweden has taken 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 suis 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 to supporters international civil libertarians with allegations of 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 traces it's going to be close to course and leading up to the trial is going to be held. while the chief prosecutor are struggling to be held in solitary confinement it's just bizarre so there are so many bizarre aspects to the wine which the management has been 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 said in

a very clear cut. proximity. event. in military operations with such campaigns initiated by nato. presence in afghanistan you have a clear cut. it brought nato policy on the part of sweden 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 too little. i think we'll see people agree with. the national public 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 there is something to hide will now launch a full scale assault 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 the sun 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 and to some other news from around the world egyptian troops have been deployed in port sayed up to seventy four people died in fierce violence at a football match i thought of one thousand were also heard when foreign stormed the pitch following a much of the top league up to fifty people have been arrested after the clash for

the cheering which they stadium was set on fire three days of mourning have already been announced. plot to bomb the london stock exchange has been admitted by four british men inspired by al qaida and warmonger nine arrested in december twenty ten other paris terror pence's five others will be sentenced next week on lesser charges prosecutors said the man had planned to start five. the virus doggett's during the run up to christmas twenty turned. nigeria's secret service has reported the rest of the spokesman with a militant islamist group boko harbor on official say the man known as abu qatada was captured after his phone had been tracked on his arrest comes as violence by the group continues in nigeria with at least a hundred eighty people killed last month. at least seven people have been killed in the water injured in an attack on a police station in the columbia city of to market a motorcycle laden with explosives called the blast police say left wing fog rebels

were to blame to market is one of colombia's most to do list says he's with drug gangs and leftist rebels fighting to control of lucrative pacific coast smuggling routes. up next hour he talks to the indian ambassador to the united nations about what hey things the 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 that 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 present. c. 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 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 b.r.s. to 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 it tells 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 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 jim but 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 that 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 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 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 think 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 handle the 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 a 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 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 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 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 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 acceptable yes the libyan experience will continue to . now whether that should or should not be that is depends on what kind of resolution the council is faced with.

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