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. were. football. pictures from. the morning here in moscow russia. with. unexpected change of heart the father of a former f.s.b. officer poisoned in london in two thousand and six. russian president vladimir putin was responsible for his son's death. said his claims were driven by hatred saying he had no idea his son alexander worked for british intelligence.

went to meet. but. this is how we found mike that lead me and co praying in his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no hot water. if it wasn't for the help of various people i would have died from hunger or frozen to death the last time i took a bath was on christmas day we expected more because six years ago after his son former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some very powerful patrons like self ixil tycoon boris berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . three of them we brought. yet you get extremist young doors that there are. just give me

a yell pretty hear doris you would be. one vicariously namco sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. what image of a different team even to be made of each if you're watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about you for the hatred i had for you eventually i had known my son worked for british intelligence i would not talk about his death he could easily have been shot as a double agent the choice should be short of story what else can i add to the holes in the view of. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we doe marina revealed to the british media that her husband had worked for m i six further details followed when a newspaper launched its own investigation alexander litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around two thousand pounds a month from the british security services at the time he was murdered it is

understood that sir john scarlett now head of m i six and once based in moscow was involved in recruiting him to the secret intelligence service. at first by turnitin and cole like many others claimed his son had been poisoned with polonium to town on putin's order the former f.s.b. officer and fierce critic of the kremlin alexander litvinenko spent twenty three days in a london clinic slowly dying from a toxic substance possibly consumed through a cup of tea even before police in london started questioning suspects the victim's father was actively kucing the russian government today by their admits he was saying only what the west wanted to hear. of course i realize russia's f.s.b. and the indian off to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and their suspect and a little boy is not a fool either it was blind hatred speaking inside of me vydra now believes his son

fell victim to his own game of double agents now he wants his wants to be heard but the media outside russia which wants beat down his door for interviews now won't even reply to his requests. why is that. because. of the real team i was a root treasure for the movie the whole there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about what was going to. live in two thousand eight hundred million call flat russia or sanctuary need something is settled in the sleeping quiet town of sinegal when it offered a new anonymous life the man claimed putin was his number one enemy so hiding in europe he believed was the only safe solution today was the living and co is still afraid to open this door now because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom hill has a lot of money this miserable life has made him a slave of his sanctuary. but surely the namco sold everything he had in russia to

come to eataly he opened a small business several years ago but it went bankrupt things got worse after the seventy three year old had buried his wife but are now fears here casket could be removed because he hasn't paid the cost of a barrel plot and it's been months since the electricity was shut off to his flat he's lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to the work of the your this is how i was never thought at the number in the door to let the southern wind inside. there is east only as russia your homeland. tourist i want to go home to russia. i don't want to stay here. sit in the church over our t.

sity ghalia eataly. journalist neil clark a contributor to the guardian newspaper in the u.k. told us earlier that russia phobia was fanning the litvinenko story in the west. it seems that the british media and i'm talking about serious newspapers they don't seem to want to cover stories when they don't fit the narrative and the dominant narrative of course back in two thousand and six was that the evil tyrant putin and ordered the f.s.b. to come to london and hill. without any evidence and when you think about it you know there are lots of explanations for this much and actually the least likely is that it was in the by president putin the time of the murder there were all kinds of conspiracy theories floating around attacking russia and putin for this there was a real russian campaign in the west media there are people called the neo cons i think they're right wing thinkers who really resent russia's revival under president putin and medvedev and these people use anything to discredit russia russia really

is a counterbalance to u.s. global domination russia is friendly with iran stopping intervention in syria as i speak and so there are a lot of people. in the upper echelons of power in the west who are very keen to discredit russia and they will use anything to do that russia says the u.n. security council has agreed on a revised draft of a resolution on syria which is to be passed back to the member countries capitals for approval moscow's u.n. ambassador vitaly churkin reiterated russia will veto any moves targeting regime change now live to new york where we have on the still waiting there for us now thank you for joining us what exactly has been agreed to after three days of intense debate. shawn like you gratefully say after see three days of diplomatic deadlock over this arab and western backed regime change resolution it looks like russia's calls that it would not support such resolutions have finally

been heard and we're seeing somewhat of a game changer take place although we do have to remember that right now the guessing game is still in full swing contradicting reports coming out of statements that delegates are making at the united nations security council in terms of how soon and what kind of resolution exactly could be officially put on the table at the united nations security council what we do know for certain right now is that there has been about four hours of talks behind closed doors this thursday where delegates and diplomats seem to have agreed on new elements that they are considering putting into a new document and we do know that these new elements are being sent over to governments at home for consideration approval and deliberation and from what we know the russia's ambassador to the u.n. has said that this does not mean that anything has been fully decided yet and

russia continues to reiterate that even if the hint of a regime change clause continues to be presented in such a resolution it would not be supported now what we what we're hearing and some reports that this clause will actually be nonexistent in this new text being considered whereas earlier the arab league and the west have been seeing that the syrian leader needs to step down if this does not happen within fifteen days further measures could take place another clause that we're hearing is going to be removed from this document is the arms embargo that russia has also been opposing but from what we understand what will continue to remain in the new text is a support of a facilitation of a political transition now of course they have to again say that some of the details are still large. up in the air some diplomats are saying that a vote could come very shortly as soon as on friday others are saying that it's going to take a little more time monday possibly but the one thing we know for certain is that

these new details are now sent to governments out of home and of course this could mean that the new details could always be sent back for further deliberation we don't know we will just have to wait and see exactly how events play out adds the security council in the days to come of course it'll be interesting we know that you'll be staying on top of things there for us on this to see you know reporting from new york mr dr marcus a pub adopt los added or of politics first magazine says it's not in western interests to listen to the report's findings western interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by. human rights democracy or the rule of law in the region if it was about then we'd probably see an american naval for taylor off the coast of saudi arabia which happens to be one of the most repressive regimes in the world it follows a pro western foreign policy the reason why western governments are we can all in

the fine sense of the reports it's because it doesn't fit into their agenda syria is a huge player in the in middle eastern politics and the west principally america has a very problematic relationship with syria so it would be very much within america's interests for the syrian government for president assad to fall from power and for a more commentator in a more sort of pro western governments come to peddle what should happen. that would give washington almost four we don't mince politically in the middle east and it's what i would describe as a jewish chess cool woods so it's not within the interests of western powers principally america to take into account what has been actually said in the in the reports of the arab league. the u.s. has made the surprise announcement event it's planning to shift from a combat to a support military role in afghanistan earlier than expected defense secretary leon

panetta said u.s. troops will still take part in combat missions but backing up and training local forces will start a year before the americans are due to pull out in two thousand and fourteen that this decision needs to be approved by other nato policymakers may summit in chicago derek crowe of the nonprofit brave new foundation says it's still unclear when troops will be completely withdraw. hopefully what this means is panetta said something like this on the plane when he made the surprise announcement that it would mean troops moving out of communities and on to bases first like they did in iraq and then eventually be pulled out so it absolutely does not mean that we have a date certain for all troops to be out of afghanistan and that's something that our community that's working to end the war and get the troops home has to has to be very clear on we do need to keep continuing to pressure the government well i certainly think that the lives and the resources that were spent on the military first strategy were absolutely a waste what you've seen people say in the southern regions of afghanistan that

they want is a fair elections process and aside from the corruption issue that means that you can't have people who are blatant war criminals be allowed on the ballots in those regions just because they're u.s. and kabul allies. more than six hundred people have been injured as clashes continue in the egyptian capital with police firing tear gas to disperse protesters several thousand are rallying against security forces handling of a football match riot on wednesday in which seventy four people died they want the ruling military council to step down and the resignation of the interior minister who they blame for the tragedy fans rushed onto the field in the seaside city of port side after the home team beat egypt's top club causing a stampede and just rioting mark professor of international relations at university in turkey says there are forces in the new egypt that want more turmoil from which

they hope to profit politically. the police are very demoralized they took a beating if you like. they were the chief defenders of his regime and. got rid of him and much of the. attacks. people. seem to be tomorrow's to do much and many people have said that the police and courts had reacted with a heavy hand stop this i said we would be. on the other hand there are also people who say the police disliked the. who. back in general maybe people who want to use this for their own purposes but on the one hand the muslim brotherhood has accused the government of failing at being someone responsible for the riots they won the elections to parliament they want to quit transfer of power to them on the other hand the people in the streets

protesting happy about the muslim brotherhood victory in the elections and they may feel that disorder on the streets. they have actually the electorate. and then as i say that maybe people will say we need to. provide it but the way it's not a happy prospect transition to a better egypt. remember you can always find more on our website r t v dot com here's what is there for you right now. frozen water bursts pipes inside. nuclear plant despite warnings made. exactly what could happen. and praised as a spontaneous protest started on twitter the arab revolutions may actually have taken a decade of expertise to prepare and millions of dollars to fund this story along with many others available on our website dot com.

let's take a moment to look at more international news in brief for you this hour. a series of explosions have killed six people in the northwestern nigerian city of. the islamist group boko haram is suspected just days ago eleven of the group were shot dead by nigerian security forces in the area which seeks sharia law in the country has been responsible for attacks which have killed one hundred eighty in the past month. pakistan's supreme court has decided to charge the country's prime minister with contempt for his failure to reopen an old corruption case against the president if convicted. he could face six months in jail. the court has. the case dating back to the late one nine hundred ninety s.

but the government has refused it insists the president enjoys a new unity from prosecution while in office. ferry carrying three hundred fifty people has sunk off of new guinea's north coast researchers plucked from the sea at least two hundred thirty eight survivors but others are still missing the ship's operator said it lost contact with the vessel on thursday after it sent a distress call most of the passengers are students and trainee teachers. six people have been killed and twenty wounded in a blast near a police station in southwest colombia this comes a day after eleven people were killed in an explosion targeting another in the neighboring city of tomato officials have blamed leftist rebels for the attacks. the world's top whistleblower has made his appeal to the u.k. supreme court and now it's up to the judges to decide his fate swedish authorities

on day two rejected arguments by julian assange against his extradition to sweden saying that if he won the case it could turn a european law on its head. reports from outside the courts and. the coaching to the supreme court said they will deliver the verdicts in what they're calling a number of weeks so we're not sure whether that means two weeks or whether it means eight weeks but certainly we have now reached the end of this two day hearing in which both sides have put their cases to the panel of seven judges that are sitting on this case in the supreme court and this hasn't been about whether julian assange committed the sexual assault that it's the sexual assaults that it's alleged that he committed by the swedish prosecutor this is being about the nitty gritty of how the legal system works as far as it pertains to the european arrest warrant and whether in fact the warrant has been issues to extradite julian assange

it was valid to toll i saw his team say that the only people who can issue a european arrest warrant are judges who are impartial and independent where is this warrant was issued by the swedish prosecutor who is party to this case but on the other hand the swedish prosecutor's team have been arguing that the european arrest warrant which the u.k. has of course signed up to can be issued by both judges and prosecutors it has to be said the jury in the cool of today particularly the judges appeared to have a little bit more time for us soldiers teams case when it came to what the switch prosecution was saying they questioned a bit more they got a bit more and see and they were seem to have a little bit less patience for it where is diana raise for julian assange she might have to raise a bit of loftier and it seems like a bit of a lawyer proceeding this is the last chance saloon for julian ourselves in this country this of course is the supreme court is the highest court in the land has come up through other courts including race recently through the high court he's made it here if he does lose here and there is

a chance that he could take this to the european court of human rights in strasbourg that's by no means a given but i mean he's always said that he would do that if he did lose in this country's course he's always maintained that the charges are politically motivated he says that it's. connection with his work the wiki leaks a trickle to release not huge previously secret documents which embarrass governments including the u.s. government and also many international businesses but his greatest fear of course is that he would be extradited first to sweden and then one since we did this week to find a way to get him to go to america where he would face the sort of what's serious charges it will be a number of weeks i say before we find out the verdict and then you know possibly on severe pig course of human rights possibly you know possibly possibly not we'll have to see. or hear is that more small reporting for us there from london and now up next our interview senior editor at the new statesman magazine. says

a solution to the syrian crisis won't be easy and won't be seen as legitimate without a u.n. resolution. today i'm talking to mehdi has his the senior political editor for the new statesman magazine where the me talking about the violence that's going on in syria at the moment and also the developing situation in iran that he has thanks very much for

talking to me today now we've seen observers being sent into syria who seem to have done nothing to stop the violence in fact the death toll has risen from twenty to thirty people a day how good do you think the observers are implementing that monday or they're very good given a howl. one of the leaders of the mission where originally went in was a sudanese general who's been accused of carrying out war crimes and ethnic cleansing a doll for which slightly hobbled both the legitimacy of the mission and the trust that a lot of syrian opposition groups have in the arab league mission since then the saudi arabians have complained about the mission they've pulled out their observer they're pulling out their ambassador and the arab league has really been all over the place on syria on the one hand it's condemned syria it was praise for the first time condemning a fellow arab nation and putting the resolution in a few months ago since the mission has been criticized for among other things the personalities deployed and its inability to stop the violence i think the real issue is the syrians need to allow in a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging a much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide

if it's if they're genuinely not killing innocent people what are they got daryn and what about sanctions the u.k. recently proposed toughest sanctions on syria things like travel bans asset freezes what effect if any do you think that have it depends how targeted the sanctions are more on the fence over sanctions given the experience we have with iraq for over a decade of sanctions which cause more suffering to the people than to the saddam regime i support sanctions that targeted against regime members targeted against people who are indicted for human rights violations or war crimes find if they squeeze the country from the people who've done nothing wrong and i think that's a mistake i think we have to think much more creatively about syria i'm not one of those who support military action in syria isn't libya it won't be easy it would be legitimate without a u.n. resolution and more and more innocent people will die than will have already died but that doesn't mean you just turn a blind eye to the violence that's going on more than five thousand people have died according to the un's own figures and our side is about it clearly is not backing down you look at some of his interviews you know he's not as bonkers as colonel gadhafi but he says some pretty crazy things about how it's nothing to do

with me not my orders these are all armed rebels everyone who's dying and let's talk about the opposition for a little bit there appear to be three some distinct blocs there's the free syrian army there's a kind of external opposition there's people in the streets do you think they'll be able to form any kind of cake. well that's one of the objections a lot of people are having against any kind of external military action which is where is the legitimacy in libya you had a opposition movement which despite being consisting of different groups secular religious etc indigenous those outside the country they did for a united opposition for the purposes of getting rid of gadhafi and they controlled territory bengazi it's what prompted the intervention to begin with in syria they don't control any territory they don't control any cities or towns and there is this division between the external opposition figures like the leader of the syrian national council is based in paris and those who are on the on the streets who have said again and again to western reporters to human rights groups that we don't want military intervention we are opposed to both syrian president were opposed to the

assad regime and were opposed to western intervention we saw what happened in iraq and the syrians what's interesting about the syrians is that they saw up close and personal the effects of western intervention iraq because hundreds of thousands of iraqi refugees fled into syria they know the consequences of a kind of ill ill timed ill thought out heavy handed western intervention which just exacerbates the violence and the free syrian army as far as you can see what are they fighting for does it look like genuine democracy there's a huge debate about the f.s.a. and how much first of all how many defections there are going on because they claim to be getting dozens and dozens of defectors every day every week from syrian armed forces and yet all those independent observers not just the assad regime but it's apologists say well actually it's a trickle and they're exaggerating their own strengths in order to again justify a western intervention if you look at the history of western interventions so-called humanitarian interventions you always see there's an equivalent to the f.s.a. on the ground whether in libya or if you go back to kosovo in the k.l.a. which also said you know give us the guns give us the support and we'll do the

fighting and in afghanistan you have the northern alliance and actually it turns out that these groups tend not to have as much legitimacy as they claim and be not as much military strength as they claim and the free syrian army is accused of killing people itself isn't it do we have any idea of the number of things casualties will again with. i wanted to overdo the comparative did libya and syria one of the things you see when you do support rebel groups sometimes unsavory groups you know my enemy's enemy is my friend you support people who are perhaps not the greatest defenders or advocates of human rights themselves in afghanistan we supported all sorts of unsavory warlords and still do in libya the opposition groups and the national transition council there libya was accused by human rights watch during the conflict of carrying out all sorts of killings and abuses of prisoners which still haven't been resolved will probably come to people don't even want to look into a syrian conflict where again we are ignorant of what's going on on the ground we're not experts on who these people or what these groups them for and the f.s.a. of course if you consist of defecting soldiers from an army that's carried out human rights abuses then a lot of those defectors will be part of those human rights abuses and that's just

a horrible reality of the world we live in and in terms of the actual people do you see any link between the libyan islamists and stays on the ground in syria well there's been reports about as you know as with all these conflicts you know very gray and then murky that libya does list groups fighting in libya finished fighting in libya have transferred over to help some of the syrian opposition groups and do you see an accidental move towards intervention since the new year my position is changing and i can imagine a scenario where we are where nato is asked or the british government american companies also to enforce a no fly zone to enforce some kind of safety corridor or look which which would be would be ostensibly of protecting human rights all well and good but wind pushes into all sorts of areas of the middle east we don't want to be involved in because syria for example is a much bigger player in the israel arab conflict it's a much bigger country and tougher to overcome beat militarily if it took us that long to beat libya are going to do things that syria may have very much thank you.

for sure is that so much is going. and we should call on it earlier today as the u.s. presidential campaign become a horse race pitting incumbent bronco bamma against republican mitt romney if this is really the case.