russia and china vetoed a u.n. security council resolution on syria condemning president assad's regime up for the violence in the country. the document does not reflect the situation in syria and send. signals to both sides all the details just ahead. over two hundred thousand people braved what russia's a bitter subzero temperatures to ensure their views on national politics are heard . we seen people out on the streets demanding free elections in support of the government join me for more than a few moments. and fighting between police and protesters continues in egypt

with twelve people killed and hundreds more injured in the latest crackdown. top news headlines and commentary from around the world this is our live from moscow glad to have you with us russia and china have vetoed the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria moscow says that's because the draft did not reflect the real situation in damascus and was sending unbalanced signals to all sides in the conflict. the latest from new york. in a matter of just five minutes after the meeting began russia and china both wielded their veto powers not supporting this draft resolution that was written by the. european countries while the draft resolution was supported by thirteen members of the security council russia was asking for. russian foreign minister

sergei lavrov. not excessive and. said that russia was urging the west to accommodate concerns to reach a compromise on this draft resolution china during the meeting that supported russia's amendments and said for the council to up. there was a divide it did not help. or the authority of the security council russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said. does not support using the security council as a tool to intervene on a sovereign country experiencing an internal conflict he believes that could create chaos in international affairs so as we see there was. on this resolution it did not go through and it's because russia believes that as the draft resolution

was presented it had a lot of balances in it when it comes to the current circumstance in syria russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin did go into detail about those imbalances but. the security council has now reached its conclusion of the draft resolution. the real situation in syria and. the co-sponsors of the resolution. taking into account the syrian opposition to distance itself from extremist groups committing violence. to use their influence to prevent such. taken into account that along with was drawing the syrian. state institutions. for affording more flexibility to the. states to increase the chances of

a successful political process the russian delegation was forced to draft resolution seriously regret. visit damascus. syrian president. this is a. peaceful approach. in syria the arab league is also addressed the security council at the stakeout saying that they are extremely disappointed. but they will continue trying to work with the security council with the united nations to try to reach some type of consensus now u.s. president barack obama did also issue a statement of. the united states on the side of the syrian people that are posing the syrian president and his government and he said. regime the

time has come for the. assad regime. clearly the united states is pushing for regime change this is a sticking point this is something that russia does not see. in the days and weeks . the draft. by the arab league vetoed by russia and china are. sticking with the story. editor in chief. would be for russia. where the. that claim this resolution will not be in preparation for any military action are now required to prove what they claimed their actions were enough happy the chinese were not happy about that is a question they eat or do it and that is something that can solve the problem initiated by the russian government two holes talks between the between the

different parties in syria and i think it is up to the look to those leaders to prove that they want their welfare for syria and they want this year and people to live in prosperity and therefore they have so for except think is he or she this to which incomes are to be difficult for the syrian. regime supporters for such a long time and i don't see why you think the army would choose such a critical timing to start it it's a vicious attack down right it is the only cleans and just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who put their guns there and investigated but unfortunately they were pulled out for little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this side of the flames from that side as we are not treated to what's going on but i don't think that the army was really. it's not like the syrian army this

is number one and james like that happened before in fact in just a short war in there and the opposition was not able to prove any of these claims over the past and months more than two hundred thousand people have taken to the streets of moscow st petersburg and other cities in russia to express their political views ahead of the march fourth presidential election our correspondent peter oliver was there and saw the gatherings firsthand. well saturday was a day of demonstrations here in the russian capital we saw a march and a rally by opposition supporters a large group of them meeting in the center of the city and marching here to block my a square which block my has really become the central focus point for opposition protesters here in moscow this is the second time that opposition protesters have taken to the last night a square far fewer this time than last but of course the the weather a big deciding factor cripplingly low temperatures here in the russian capital in

fact the organizers of the protest to show. the events that were going to be happening just to make it more comfortable for people who come out in the cold minus twenty times on saturday here in moscow. say they came out to try to voice their opinions in their little bit if you were first in here because i'm tired of going do away from the suits my needs and wants this to carry on for you. if you. change their elections and normal life. it was. fine you wanted to come here and. now talk about some of those groups that we've seen come here they really come from all across the russian political strong we've seen far right groups far left groups and everybody in between. all coming out coming here to pull off my square to demonstrate we didn't hear from. the presidential

candidate the independent presidential transition people he's drawing a lot of support from some of these groups that will come here to protest he said he would attend but he wouldn't give a speech this wasn't the only demonstration there was taking place on saturday there's also being gatherings of people who are in favor of the government pro-government forces and. who didn't come painting. a revolution in russia using the example of the orange revolution in ukraine in the. country founded. in. the revolution. of instability and they didn't want to. hold the good news for everybody. peacefully everything is being carried off today the opposition.

leader of take it into custody by police because the. people the. police and seize they did say protesters must remain within the law they did do everything going on very peacefully. becomes the day of demonstrations. the presidential election just around the corner the opposition is demanding a fair vote martin mccauley who is an expert on russia at the university of london believes the process must be visibly transparent to further protests are to be avoided. result of the election of course we're very very important because what these demonstrators want is if you like a clean election an absence of fraud and so on and it's up to the authorities to ensure that there would be cameras there and so on and therefore it's probably will

be a fair election but what is important is that it seemed to be fair and that these people have no cause to claim that the election on the fourth of march whether president vladimir putin wins in the first runoff that has to be seen to be fair and to be clean otherwise it will be tremendous protests on the level of about the opposition will not come together they don't want to compromise they don't want to . arrive at a single candidate the only way they're going to defeat the evil and on the fourth of march just have a single candidate who is accepted by the whole opposition and there's no likelihood because it looks ready as if they're not he's a goner they come it's going to it will come up second as he always does and that is result in about a third or fourth front and we heard prokhorov could bring up the rest because he is there really only to appeal to the middle class voters. still to come

in the program. an anti-piracy treaty designed to protect intellectual property as europeans in revolt find out why they say it violates their basic rights of also religion as a testing ground. for investigate how new forms of islam could change the face of the whole nation and lead it to serious consequences. in egypt at least twelve people have been killed in street battles with riot police more than two thousand have also been injured in violence following the death of seventy four people in football related violence on wednesday demonstrators are demanding the military council step down police fired tear gas from armored vehicles and protesters to keep control of the situation in response to the protests presidential elections could now be moved forward from june a civilian council advisor to military leadership said nominations nominations excuse me should start being accepted and the end of the month dr omar sure from

the institute of arabic and islamic studies at the university of exeter says egyptians just want an accountable civilian leadership. that. forces has mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street it was rising again they told that they would be. that it would be to civilian elected civilian in six months and therefore once you have elected civilian rule they investments will come . life will be back to normal there would be a restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive. way during the mubarak era all these expectations to the economy the. better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans of that evolution were not really accomplished by a year off the bit of aleutian many on the streets of egypt. the transitional.

that is of the traditional media which is the supreme council of the armed forces that's why that is at the protest last friday and on the anniversary of that evolution was wanted a president and now an elected president now so that they can hold him accountable if you feel to the store back to the egyptian economy and if you feel the form of the security services you run it will definitely stop oil exports to certain european countries the islamic republic's oil minister says they have yet to make a decision on cutting supplies to other e.u. states tehran's response to the use oil embargo that was set to come into force in july chris bambery from the international socialist group says there are also plenty of other reasons for tehran to try and retaliate but i think they're listening to what's the rhetoric from london paris and washington and understands that that rhetoric is being hyped up all the time we've had this week the u.s.

defense secretary that there was going to rain in terror attacks inside the united states although he also said there was no evidence they could produce the evidence for that today elsewhere in tel aviv i read the supposedly respectful commentators saying the arena's had missiles which he could file could hit the united states of america that claim is just simply to force troops but we are seeing a ratcheting up of the right and tyranny and rhetoric in the west at the same time there is going to be very very nervous about the american build up inside the gulf inside the persian gulf if you look at the map of iran it is surrounded by american military bases incidentally bases which are also aimed at russia and china so i think in some ways the pressure must be all inside the right to think we should be going to retaliate in forced. well if you like what we've got on our television program we're going to love what we have online as well or to dot com has plenty of

other stories for you right now. activists group anonymous finds out what really thinks of them and to get their own. audio recording online listen to what was said at our web site. and russia is over the moon as it unveils its space ambitions these and other stories are available online at r.t. dot com. campaigners for online freedom are out in force in sweden to protest against a new copyright treaty signed by governments across europe the counterfeiting trade agreement has yet to be ratified by the european parliament and that's what activists want to prevent saying the new law would endanger free speech and privacy . this is the frontline in the most modern of political battles

that over internet freedom these crowds have gathered in central stockholm in sweden bill riginal home of the pirate parties that have sprung up all over europe and beyond here to protest against actor the anti counterfeiting trade agreements it all revolves around unseen piracy laws that have tried to be pushed through in many countries this agreement tries to standardize the enforcement of those laws in the e.u. and in america and further around the world these people say it's not an innocent agreement it's not simple assault on the internet freedom and it's a way for governments to monitor them and to stop them having a free exchange of information on the internet and we heard earlier from people on both sides of the argument about how different views are here on this issue if you say well everything should be free well perhaps no one will write any books or

produce music or films etc or anyway it would disappear but didn't much less because it's not often. the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet today ideas battle it out for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need to ask anybody's permission to present new ideas and. all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and millions of young people are rising up in anger at the success of the growth of pirate parties both here in sweden and elsewhere around the world is evidence of how high the status of internet freedom come painters has risen on the signing of the actual agreement a few days ago huge protests broke out in poland they were so obvious and so angry

that the government there has suspended the actor agreement that they want the same to happen here although the debates are going to go on until june when the indian parliament votes on this internet freedom complaint as a urging people to get their view across before that vote this debate is going to go on it's not finished yet and it seems it's going to be anything but calm. now and to some other news making headlines around the world this hour. police in washington d.c. have clamped down on the occupy protesters camp in the city center arresting at least four people several turns and personal belongings were cleared away in the raid which the activist said was basically in a victim. more than three thousand afghans were killed in two thousand and eleven making last year the deadliest on record for the countries of civilians according to

a un report most of the casualties were caused by militants with fourteen percent by international and local troops meanwhile nato is prepared to pull out by twenty fourteen leaving afghan security forces to take charge of fighting and insurgency. europe's a week long cold snap has now claimed two hundred twenty lives as countries struggle with record low temperatures ukraine is being hit the hardest as more than one hundred died when temperatures plummet into minus thirty degrees. most of the victims were said to be homeless people meanwhile bosnian authorities declared a state of emergency in the capital. when snow cause power outages and closed transit routes and in rome the coliseum is closed over fears that tourists would slip on the icy ruins following a rare snowfall in the city. of castro the leader of cuba's communist revolution has made a rare public appearance in the country's capital the occasion it was the presentation of his thousand page memoirs called grail of time cuban state t.v.

showed the former leader engaged in an animated conversation at the six hour long event castro retired in two thousand and eight because of ill health after almost half a century of power. a clash of cultures in kyrgyzstan now where the moderate indigenous practice of islam is being threatened by more radical alternatives there are fears for the effect on everyday life in the central asian republic prone to instability after two revolutions in the last few years alone. as the story. all. kneeling down but standing. tens of thousands of man praying at the country's central square just underneath the lenin monument even in the basques years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as islam dons nowadays. the sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims. pray you can almost feel

a lot. of differences that exist among the various branches of this. country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds some have lost in common with each other than they do with christians or jews who just people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed. makes to bits. monies and the magic customs the congress version of islam has long been more of a moral code then the religious doctrine that helped shape a society where women are just exactly if and ambitious as men and when religiosity when tandem hand with good education but that is starting to change. after the collapse of the soviet union kurdistan has seen a very fast growth of islam some of it is the message driven poverty poor education corruption trust of authorities all of that is putting people towards religion but

much of it is also driven from abroad with countries like pakistan saudi arabia kuwait a very generous when it comes to building mosques here. islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the regions adopted an open door policy. the these are followers of the to believe. a group of islamic missionaries originated from pakistan its members have come up in many terrorism investigations and as a result the group was labeled extremist by many european governments in kyrgyzstan that community is growing fast. teach people heart of fun happening hard to believe your life in accordance with his wishes and by teaching all this with. while genders are becoming increasingly separated in public women and not left out in

fact they're at the forefront of these lawmakers turgeon is in kurdistan. all the more than half of students in this islamic academy a females and their number has tripled in the past few years. when they graduate still get a diploma in arabic studies and sharia law there's a lot of interest in this area and if they decide to work it shouldn't be difficult finding a job for him missionaries are not only spreading toward. but greasing their palms to this man who claims to be a healer raft from yemen he sees three to four patients every day and for most reimbursement claims to clear their ailments with the help of prayer. and i know something of. these changes encourages society has many opponents some of them claim that saudi or pakistani versions of islam corrupt the country's traditional values. called when first islamic missionaries arrived here for the

centuries ago we were respectful of our customs that's why islam in kyrgyzstan has been very much in degraded with our indigenous culture but the version of islam that's being pushed on nowadays with his jobs and restrictions is not only foreign to us it's aggressive the countries authorities are not oblivious to the ongoing islamisation and sasa just are even trying to harness it here could be stones top officials are praying alongside the crowds they claim full religious freedom is the best strategy against radicalization. the results of the arab spring have shown that secular governments of cracking under the pressure of political islam muslims are enormous human resource the one who knows how to manage this force in the streets. and for kyrgyzstan which has seen two revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing than finding an antidote against all hell breaking

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