closer to a compromise the u.n. the gay shatzer advised resolution text on syria which russia's insistence is no longer regime change. after three days of intense debate united nations security council members are sending a new element of a possible future resolution on syria to their governments for deliberation get all the latest details from new york and head in the program. killings are reported in egypt after two days of clashes left more than seventy dead tree regime criticize for not doing enough. to last the father of murdered. says he regrets accusing the kremlin carrying out his son's death.

international news and comments twenty four hours a day without. russia is claiming a diplomatic victory at the u.n. after members of the security council agreed to take a more balanced stance on syria calls for the removal of president force with arms and have been dropped from a revised resolution text which is still pending approval from moscow is a warning it will oppose any attempts to even hint at targeting the syrian regime. has more. after some 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 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 for more we know the russians amounts that are 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 a 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 largely 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 we will just have to wait and see exactly how events play out the security council in the days to come the u.s. is committed to seeing a change of power in damascus to strengthen its position in the middle east most of you have politics first magazine it. western interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by wanting to advance human rights democracy or the rule of law in the region if it was about that then we'd probably see an american naval flotilla off the coast of saudi arabia which happens to be one of the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world but it follows a pro western foreign policy syria is

a huge player 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 accommodating a more sort of pro western government to come to power should that happen that would give. almost food dominance politically in the middle weights so instead of western governments the british and the american and the french one's talking about president assad stays been numbered they should be more responsible in their outlook and the main focus should be on bringing pace to syria. what are still ahead for this are the electoral eyes watching our web cam. coming presidential elections in russia and a move for ultimate transparency i'll go over to katie at the business desk. parlay

that the question is is the eurozone do you know has it indeed risen from the dad's that famous depends on who you talk to there's a conflict of the pinging going on say back was a day more stars than in polls remains optimistic i'll have more details for you in about twenty minutes time in our business but listen. to protesters have reportedly been shot dead by police in the egyptian city of sewage on friday another is said to have been killed in the capital with the latest killings in what's now a third day of violence in the country in cairo clashes have resumed with protesters continue to lay siege the interior ministry having surrounded it on thursday when six hundred were injured in clashes with police fired tear gas to disperse rioters thousands right against the failure by the first to prevent the death of at least four football match two days ago demonstrators are also calling cancer to step down a professor of international relations mark almond says their forces and actually

want more turmoil. the police are very demoralized they took a beating if you like. they were defenders of his regime and the army eventually got rid of him but maybe people want to use this for their own purposes the one hand the muslim brotherhood has accused the government of failing of being someone responsible for the riots they won the elections to parliament they want to quit transfer power to them on the other hand quite a few of the people in the streets protesting on happy about the muslim brotherhood literally elections and they may feel that disorder on the streets might give them more influence who may have actually been the electorate. and then as i say that maybe people who say we need to. provide it but it either way it's not a happy prospect transition to a better egypt. well we'd like to know what you think about what's happening in egypt today where asking why a car has not yet returned to the country following last year's resolution log on to our website r.t.

dot com to take part in our latest poll so paul most of you believe it is the supporters of ousted leader was a constant. and frequently say it's in the interests of radicals to maintain unrest twenty one percent suggest that revolution creates its own downfall and minority leave the reason behind the rest is that many protesters still have jobs going to r.t. dot com to cast your vote and while you're there check out what else we have a few online today it's really increases the pressure on iran with pressure accusations about the scale of the threat from islamic republic. gags by google in its latest wave of upgrades the web giant is to begin censoring users blogs more about that on our website. also online a russian coffeehouses holding a presidential election of its own dozing customers with candidates and drawn on the. taste of the latest political party to.

be a father of the murdered f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko has made a shock u. turn over claims that russia was behind the assassination of his son he says he regrets the accusations he made in the aftermath of the infamous two thousand and six killing in london by polonium poisoning. went to meet him. this is how we found mike that lead me and co praying in his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no porch 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 broke. yet you get extremist you know dorset he's just give me a you're pretty here doris you would be would you when vicariously namco sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. what image it would be if i deem even to be made of each if you watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about you for the hatred i had for you if only 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 betrayers should be shot what else can i add to this. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we doe know arena bin and co 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 was 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 two ten 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 idiot enough to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and their suspect andrey lugovoy is not a fool either it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me vydra now believes his son fell victim to his own game of double agents now he wants his words to be heard but the media outside russia which once beat down his door for interviews now won't even reply to his requests. why is that because they like it when i scold the regime i was a real treasure for them there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about putin as i did. live in two thousand and eight but the only thing

uncle flett russia for sanctuary in italy is settled in the sleeping quiet town of sinegal it offered to 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 only thing and co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom hill is 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 her casket could be removed because he hasn't paid the cost of a burial 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. this is how i will myself look at

the new police door to let the southern wind inside. there is east and there is russia my homeland for tourists i want to go home to russia. i do want to stay here. r t c eataly. well coming your way in the program a community conundrum muslims in belgium are divided according slanted from the left in this group proposing radical new laws. the german chancellor is in china asking for help in investment for the euro it seems she might get it china as a prime minister says the country is now considering contributing to european

rescue funds by going merkel is on an official visit to beijing where she's been tried to reassure the chinese buffet economic situation in europe but also to see beijing support the western stance on iran's nuclear ambitions by joining the european embargo on oil imports from the islamic state political analyst christophe hostile leaves vocal work change beijing stance on iran. our chancellor is on a trip or begging to if she wants money for europe she once you know a support from beijing for the new un resolution which beijing is not going to give and she also wants beijing to cut off its own oil supply which beijing is widely not going to do and of course beijing has also to take into consideration that india its competition in the region is standing straight with iran and buying ever more rain in oil so i don't think she has any chance of you know talking china

out of buying uranium oil or that will not happen again i would say she will not put any much focus on it she will she will say that she will look to the ceiling and then she was smile and say let's talk business now her main focus in this trip is german economy and she's wise to do that she will even not you know lobby very much for chinese investment into europe because she knows in our heart of hearts that this is truly a bad investment. as the u.s. presidential campaign holds up we republicans may end up choosing to challenge barack obama is a quick look at what's crosstalk to be. for mitt romney to have a debate with the president on the health care reform bill it's going to be laughable because the bill that the president signed into law was based almost entirely on the bill that mitt romney signed into law in massachusetts. you're right he's not even going to be able to make that argument and the question earlier is is a conservative enough i mean how could anyone call him

a conservative when he himself has called himself a moderate the real deal here is the republican party trying to get the conservative grassroots to support the guy who lost to the guy who lost to obama and so there's this endless cycle of you know it's your turn that's being shoved down the grassroots throat he's been running for five years he already has organization set up and all the states plus the backing of goldman sachs and the republican establishment and the guy still can't break fifty percent i don't think he would do well in the general. it's a question of identity versus integration is the group in belgium is on the fourth of views which local people say that extreme which other the muslims feel threatened by what used to. be rigid wearing a comma flaws jacket and constantly surrounded by men fought

a belt it's hard not to notice he heads the islamic fundamentalist group sure you're for belgium in september the group opened the country's first shari'a court in outwork to mediate domestic disputes among muslims. believe. the handing things if you want to accept it except if you don't that's your problem . there is judgement if you if you're a muslim you will go to. if you are this believer you will go to hell. any further controversy may have ended there if that was all there is to it that video such as these. have caused outrage. over freedom of speech and. to hatred incitement to violence towards. leadership. and he. said. i

should be. i should be killed because i am an enemy of islam in january and work or prosecutor recommended two years in prison and a fine of five hundred fifty euros for about a seven for inciting hatred and violence against muslims that's in addition to fourteen police court convictions and criminal convictions for robbery defamation and violence if you would. just a few people maybe a dozen of people maybe two dozen of people dressed like me. middle age. and i mean photography. and come on this is a joke yet it has its repercussions on other muslims. this kind of group of course they are moved limbs but they have no religious background it is a minority perhaps that in search of an identity but that's a big difference and the method they're using it's scary and it's freaking people

out. unfortunately this kind of group shows about image of islam and most muslims condemn this kind of ideology this is a misinterpretation of her secret books. muslims comprise about six percent of the belgian population one of the highest rates in europe and is expected to rise to more than ten percent by two thousand and twenty muslim or live in belgium. there are belgium from morrocco marriage in turkish albanian rigid and first. muslim radical groups such as those of the islamic fundamentalists comprise a minority and it's not representative of the muslim community in belgium nevertheless politicians analysts and even the belgian muslims themselves acknowledge that the problem is what these groups symbolize radicalization the process it spreads and the allure of extreme views the tests are so your r t brussels. or some world news in brief for you now the south two people including

a three year old girl have been wounded by israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip both were injured after one of the strikes hit a house in the town here five other attacks targeted several tunnels what israel claimed was a weapons manufacturing facility the strikes happened only hours after the u.n. chief visited a mass controlled territory in a bid to kick start israeli palestinian peace talks. at least six people have been killed and more than twenty injured in colombia to a group using pickup trucks and made motors at a police station thirty five officers were inside the building when the attack occurred in the town of eureka comes just a day off from the cycle packed with explosives who are parents out of the station city of the market killing seven people police blamed that attack on the left wing group. the cold snap sweeping across eastern europe has now

claimed the lives of one hundred sixty four people snow was two meters high in parts of serbia leaving around eleven thousand villages drowned in remote parts of the country over a hundred people have died in ukraine to learn the temperatures plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius food shortages have been reported in the capital kiev with trucks able to transport supplies. the watchful eyes on. webcams are about to set up across russia headed next month's presidential elections was proposed by premier and in a softer thousands of people took to the streets late last year for transparency in the election process article scaf has the story. after inch mile after mile big brother is preparing to cast his eyes on polling stations as the massive campaign to install web cameras is in full swing across the entire nation sometimes but i think i asked the central electoral commission to install

web cameras at all polling stations across the country so that everyone could watch online what's happening there how much twenty four hours a day. that only. the idea was put forward following the biggest protests in russia since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. with tens of thousands demanding fair elections so wiring up over ninety thousand polling stations is a skill and around a half of a billion u.s. dollars is the price tag. the system is not be made only for one day we hold this project want only develop elections acknowledges but will also help modernize telecommunications infrastructure across the entire country. all cameras will be feeding the videos the therm to local digital storage facilities after computer processing will be then sent to seven large storage and distribution centers via cable radio and satellite the centers will then broadcast the information to

several web portals it's estimated that all together the cameras will film and broadcast four hundred ninety years of video information in good quality however there is still down to this technology will help make the vault more transparent. you'll get a bunch sure the observers won't be able to check advance if these cameras work or not. everyone knows about cameras in supermarkets but this still doesn't stop robberies from happening. it's every ballot box will be monitored by two cameras one with the general view and another with a close up of this lot there are many ways to rig a vote and the cameras don't provide a hundred percent guarantee against them but using them should still make it much more difficult to stuff boxes of course there is nothing new. or web cameras. moving them to monitor elections on such a scale is

a first for any nation and regardless of the success of the idea everyone will be able to monitor the vote online and not to mention no one is against having more real life observers on the spot the war is going on moscow over to katie now for the business. hello welcome to the business program this hour market watchers expect the darkness of the year as i'm province to get some lights writing agency standard and poor's expects the currency union to gradually climb out of its mild recession in the second half of the show and into two thousand and thirteen the sun's chief european economist john mitchell six explains. the risks of a more severe recession. that could go into twenty thirteen that are significant we

estimate about forty percent probability yet i think we have to look at all the factors there has been some and cool edging developments inside the u. was own and outside the eurozone what we expect is the moment from emerging markets particularly. a shelf to strengthen again in the second half of the year and that should be supportive of a very gradual recovery in the eurozone we also expect that investors' confidence will gradually come back. as you up here in central bank continues to provide ample liquidity to the banking sector in the euro zone. of course not everyone agrees sucks a bank thinks the prospects for the euro zone are as harsh as the wife of extreme weather that's got europe and its icy grip is predicting an economic apocalypse with europe in extreme markets losing

a quarter of their value their share we also author of the best seller extreme on a stock yeah that is where he's placing his that. well i think the best way to describe the s. and p. report is whatever this most i'd like to have some as far as the sex a bank report goes i think they are believers in the mayan calendar which believes that the world will indeed do thousand and twelve but i think the major thing is that when you look at the situation there is no way that europe is going to have a small recession it's going to have a long recession because the government spending will have to be cut and that has been the major stimulus which could be as economies go the second thing is the banking system in most of these countries is not creating any credit will not be able to create this technically if you are honest about it they are marginally solvent good bits and we still have not result they did issue and the real question is what will happen to portugal what will happen to spain what will happen to italy and there is absolutely no result on the part of the european leadership and the

european economic community because there is really no easy solution. moving on the european markets are trading slightly higher this hour as investors look ahead to the key u.s. non-farm payroll data due out later on today there's still some in the red eye on the russian markets are struggling for direction in the fifth hour of trade this friday both e.l.t.'s on the my sex off not to positive on some moves on the my sex and g. major summit since our gas from has gone as a society back down in the last few minutes of trade ball independent gas producer number tag is it down after a positive start to the day and it's also a change of fortunes of the t. be down around they've gone at. gas appears to be gas appears to be disappearing under mysterious circumstances some of jane russia and europe consumers on the continent are complaining that supplies all falling during

this period of exceptionally cold weather basically says it's getting twenty percent less than usual while us austria and slow. vacua claim thirty percent drop the countries that get the gas from transit link which goes from ukraine however both moscow and kiev deny the have been any changes in volume so. i type and join may be here fifty five minutes small market small business do come back headlines next.

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