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russia and china vetoed a u.n. security council resolution on syria president assad regime up for violence in the country. the document does not reflect the situation in syria and signaled to both sides all the details just ahead. over two hundred thousand people braved russia's the bitter subzero temperatures to ensure views on national politics are heard. we've seen people out on the streets demanding free elections. join me for more than a few moments. fighting between police and protesters continues in egypt with
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twelve people killed and hundreds more injured in the latest crackdown. bringing you the top news headlines though from the center of russia have you with us let's get right to our top story. russia and china have vetoed the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria moscow says that's because the draft didn't reflect the real situation in damascus and was sending unbalanced signals to all sides in the conflict. has the latest from new york. but 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 up by the arab league and european countries while the draft resolution was supported by thirteen members of the security council russia was asking for some amendments
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according to russian funimation foreign minister sergei lavrov those amendments were not excessive and mr our law said that russia was urging the west to accommodate moscow's concerns to reach a compromise on this draft resolution china said during the meeting that it supported russia's amendments and said for the council to all of vote knowing there was a divide it did not help maintain the unity or i.v. authority of the security council if russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said that moscow art does not support using the security council as a tool to intervene on a sovereign country that is experiencing an internal conflict he believes that could create chaos in international affairs so as we see there was two toes on this resolution it did go through and it's because russia believes that as the draft
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resolution was presented it had a lot of imbalances 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 and whether the security council has not yet reached its conclusion with what resolution put to the bill does not adequately. and soon enough. i would consider taking into account the syrian opposition to distance itself from extremist groups committing violent states your ability to use them is to. know when you're going to take into account along with his decent. nor has there been supporting more into media outlets but arab league. delegation was forced to give their position. this is. just.
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something. you are with of course still to come in the program. an anti-piracy treaty designed to protect intellectual property as europeans involved find out why they say it violates their basic rights also. religion as a testing ground we investigate how new forms of islam could change the face of the whole nation and lead 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 and football related violence on wednesday demonstrators are demanding the military council steps 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
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a civilian council with rising the military leadership said nomination hearings should start being accepted at the end of the month dr omar sure from the institute of arab and islamic studies at the university of exeter says gyptian is just want an accountable civilian leadership. the supreme council of the armed forces has mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street where rising again they call that they will be transferred all power from military to civilian elected civilian in six months and therefore once you have elected civilian rule the investments will come to life the economic life will be back to normal there will be a thorough restructuring of the security services that i. it did in a very aggressive and brutal way and cut off way during the mubarak era and all these to expectations to the economy to enhance the better economy the dignity the
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freedom the bread the slogans all that if we were not greedy accomplished by a year off the bit of aleutian and many on the streets of egypt. the transitional videos of the transitional period which is the supreme council of the armed forces that's why that is that the protests last friday and on the in your city all that evolution wanted a president and now an elected president now so that they can hold him accountable if he failed to the store back the egyptian economy and if you feed into the form of the security services. iran says 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 use states it's tehran's response to that 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. i think they're listening to what's the rhetoric from
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london paris and washington and understands that that rhetoric is being hyped up all the time we've had queens this week the u.s. defense secretary that there was going to be in a reunion a terror attack 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 a supposedly respectful commentators saying the arrears had missiles which he could file could hit the united states of america that claim is just simply posterous but we are seeing a ratcheting up of the right and tyranny and rhetoric in the west at the same telling there really is must be very very nervous about the american build up inside the gulf inside the persian gulf if you look at the map of iraq and it is surrounded by american military bases incidentally bases which are all sort in that russia and china so i think in some ways the pressure must be on inside the rhine to think we should be we going to retaliate in forced. dot com has plenty of other
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stories for you right now. the group anonymous find out what the f.b.i. really thinks of them their own back by leaking the audio recording online. to what was said at our web site. and russia is over the moon as it unveils its space ambitions these and other stories available online that are. campaigners for online freedom are out in force in sweden to protest against a new copy right treaty signed by governments across europe the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement has yet to be ratified by the european parliament and that is exactly what activists want to prevent saying the new law would endanger free
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speech and net privacy artie's tom barton is in stockholm. this is the front line in the most modern of political battles over internet freedom these crowds have gathered in central stockholm in sweden village and all of the pirate parties that have sprung up all over europe and beyond it's a protest against the. trade agreements it all revolves around piracy laws but of trying to be pushed through in many countries this agreement tries to standardize the enforcement of those laws in the e.u. i'm did 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 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
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say world. should be free well perhaps no one will write any books or produce music or films etc or anywhere that's not disappear but the rights mess because it's not possible. 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 imagine 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 this is a sense of the growth of pirate parties both here in sweden and elsewhere around the world is evidence of how haughty the status of internet freedom of complainers has risen on the signing of the act of agreement
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a few days ago huge protests broke out in poland they were so i'll read it and so angry that the government there has suspended its reactor 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 urging people to get a 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. in stockholm peace time barton there now to other news making headlines around the world the south. greece has twenty four hours left to strike a deal with wenders on a one hundred thirty billion euro rescue plan before the country is pushed towards a default that is according to the country's finance minister coalition leaders are opposed to outside demands for further civil service cuts that inspectors are in athens to check the progress of imposed cuts in private sector pay and new austerity measures athens needs to come up with fourteen point four billion euros
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for loan repayment by and large twenty. more than three thousand afghans were killed in two thousand and eleven making last year the deadliest on record for the country's 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 preparing to pull out of. afghanistan by twenty fourteen leaving afghan security forces to take charge of fighting the insurgency. europe's 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 mind is thirty eight degrees celsius most of the victims were homeless people meanwhile bosnian authorities declared a state of emergency in the capital sarajevo when snow cause power outages and closed ranks of routes and in rome the coliseum is closed over fears that tourists
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would slip on the icy ruins following a rare snowfall in the city. but the. leader of communist revolution has made a rare public appearance in a country's capital havana was the presentation of his eighty thousand page memoirs called. the cuban state t.v. show the former leader engaged in an animated conversation that was a six hour long event retired in two thousand and eight because of ill health after almost half a century or more. 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. instability after two rebel ocean revolutions in the last few years alone on a book as the story. all.
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kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of cougars men praying at the country's central square just underneath the lenin monument even in this basket years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as islam does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims you need to pray or help my skin almost theological and lifestyle differences that exist among the various branches of this life here in kurdistan over the past they call this country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds some of whom 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 us about it mixed with germany's and the magic customs the good this version of islam has long been more good moral code then a religious doctrine in how cheap
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a society where women are just as they acted and ambitious as men and when religiosity went hand in hand with good education but that is starting to change. of the collapse of the soviet union kurdistan has seen a very fast growth of islam some of it is the message really driven poverty poor education corruption mistrust of authorities all of that is probably people towards religion but much of it is also driven from abroad with countries like pakistan your 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 rich is adopted and open door policy but. the these are followers of the to believe. a group of islamic missionaries originated from pakistan. it's members have come up in many terrorism investigations and as
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a result the group was labeled extremist by many european governments in kyrgyzstan that community is growing fast. teach people how to farm happen it's hard to build your life in accordance with his wishes and by teaching us with. genders that becoming increasingly separated in public women and not left out in fact they're at the forefront of these lawmakers surgeons in kyrgyzstan. 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 the word 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
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a modest reimbursement claims to clear their ailments with the help of prayer. and. these changes encourage a society has many opponents some of them claim that saudi or pakistani versions of islam corrupt the country's traditional values built islam wouldn't you called it when first islamic missionary as arrived here for the centuries ago they were respectful of our customs that's why islam in kyrgyzstan has been very much in degraded with our indigenous culture but the version that's being pushed on nowadays with his jobs and restrictions is not only foreign to us it's aggressive the country's authorities are not oblivious to the ongoing islamisation and sussan just are even trying to harness said here to distance top officials are praying along. side the crowds they claim full religious freedom is the best strategy
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against radicalization. the results of the arab spring have shown that secular governments are cracking under the pressure political islam muslims are enormous human resource the one who knows how to manage this force. and for kyrgyzstan seen two revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing than finding an antidote against all hell breaking loose again come by car see. for me this hour i'll be back with an update of our top stories after just a short break thanks for being with us.
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