the situation. in. both sides. we see people on the streets.

twelve people killed hundreds more injured. glad to have you with us. on syria. because the draft didn't reflect the real situation in damascus. signals to all sides of 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. european countries while the draft resolution was supported by thirteen members of

the security council russia was asking for some amendments according to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov those are not excessive and. said that russia was urging the west to accommodate moscow's concerns to reach a compromise on this draft resolution china during the meeting that supported russia's amendments and said for the council to all. knowing there was a divide it did not help. or already of the security council russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said that moscow 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. and the real situation in syria and. the co-sponsors of the resolution. taking into account the syrian opposition distance itself from extremist groups committing violence. your ability to use their influence to prevent such. no. taken into account. with his drawing the syrian. state institutions. are affording more flexibility to get into. states to increase the chances of

a successful political process the russian delegation was forced to draft resolution seriously regret. visit damascus on tuesday with syrian president bashar. this is a. peaceful approach. conflict still 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 his own. that you know the united states is 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 support so we'll see what in the days and weeks to come but as of now the draft proposed by the europeans by the arab league vetoed by russia and china. the crisis. whether. 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 nations to prove that they want the welfare for syria and they want this year and people to live in prosperity and therefore they have so for accepting it is he or she heard this too which in homs had 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 critical timing to start it it's a vicious attack down right it is they are 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 no good reason and therefore there are only claims from this. office it's claims from that side so we are not treated to what's going on but i don't think that the army was shelling neighborhoods 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 ten months. in russia more than two hundred thousand people have taken to the streets in moscow st petersburg and others to these to express their political views ahead of the march fourth presidential election our correspondent peter oliver 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 pull last night a square far fewer there this time than last but of course the the weather a big deciding factor in not cripplingly mode temperatures here in the russian

capital in fact the organizers of the protest here shortened the events that were going to be happening just to make it more comfortable for people who had come out in the cold minus twenty times on saturday here in moscow. so they came out to to voice their opinions. i came here because i'm tired of the government which doesn't do what promises mari's and wants this to carry on for years. change their elections and normal life. you. might go through and wanted to come here under an emo suit now talk about some of those groups that we've seen come here they really come from all across the russian political straw answer we've seen far right groups far left groups and everybody in between. all coming out coming here to pull off the square to demonstrate we didn't hear from. the

presidential candidate the independent presidential candidate because he's drawn a lot of support from some of the groups that have 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. those two who been campaigning saying that they want a revolution in russia using the example of the the orange revolution in ukraine and the chaos which pushes that country found itself in after last saying that they don't need not in russia they were stability and not a revolution saying that russia had had its times of instability and they didn't want to return to the dark days of the ninety's now the good news for everybody concerned is just how peacefully everything is being carried off on saturday both

the opposition and the pro-government protests going off relatively without a hitch however one of the pro putin rallies we did see the leader of that rally taken into custody by police this is because it was a sanctioned rally and it was sanctioned to have a certain amount of people the amount of people who turned up far exceeded that we saw a lot of police in cities they did say say protesters must remain within the law they did do that and everything going off very peacefully as such a day becomes the day of demonstrations where the presidential election just around the corner the opposition is demanding a fair vote journalist yvonne. shares his view on the chances. i think the course was too late in coming so we are seeing more or less usual suspects and even even if we take seriously brought her up here i mean he's he's a smart man and he's a rich man but. he's poles. in

the category of goodies not loved in russia or rich and successful in my family we are not in america we are in russia and this basically a social democratic country with food has in store is social policy going to give support to so many people that's why so many people who are together today to support him i think that what is happening today is that there are so many people calling people fair elections and my hope is that they will get the fair elections but i think that there may be disappointed again because in cairo actions there is a fair chance that we can move. still to come in the program. piracy treaty designed to protect intellectual property has europeans in a revolver find out why they say it violates their basic rights also. religion as a testing ground we investigated 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 in football related violence on wednesday demonstrators are demanding the military council step down police have a fired tear gas from armored vehicles of protesters to keep control of the situation in response to the protests presidential elections could now be moved forward from a civilian council advising that the leadership said that nomination should start being accepted at the end of this month dr omar ashore from being. to toot of arab and islamic studies at the university of exeter says egyptians 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 streets where rising again they

told that they will be transferred all power from it to the to civilian elected civilian in six months and therefore once you have elected civilian rule they investments will come their life the economic life will be back to normal there would be a formal restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive and brutal way and cut off way during the mubarak era and all these to expectations so they the economy to enhance a better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans all that evolution were not greedy accomplished by a year off a bit of aleutian and many on the streets of egypt blame the transitional. videos of the transitional period 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 we wanted a president 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 fail to deform 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 the on cutting supplies to other you states it's 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 claims this week the u.s. defense secretary that there was going to rain you know terror attacks inside the united states although he also said there was no evidence they could produce the evidence for that to date elsewhere in tel aviv i read that supposedly respectful commentators saying the readers had missiles which he could. could hit the united states of america that claim is just simply the poster it's what we're seeing

ratcheting up of the red rainy and rhetoric in the way 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 old inside the ride to think we should be we got a retaliation in force and you are with r t of course we have on our website much more for you there as well online at r.t. dot com by. the tories hacktivist group anonymous finds out what the f.b.i. really thinks of them and they get their own back by leaking the audio recording online listen in 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 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 anti counterfeiting trade agreement has yet to be ratified by the european parliament and that's what activists are trying to prevent saying the new law would endanger free speech and internet privacy artie's tom barton is in stockholm. this is the frontline in the most modern of political battles over internet freedom these crowds have gathered in central stockholm in sweden to feel riginal home of the pirate parties that have sprung up all over europe and beyond here is a protest against actor the anti counterfeiting trade agreements it all revolves

around piracy laws that are trying 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 from 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 world everything should be free well perhaps no one will write any books or produce music or films etc or anyway it would disappear but the rocks mess because it's not. 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 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 complainers has risen and on the signing of the actual agreement 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 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 come 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 to other news making headlines

around the world this hour. reese has twenty four hours left to strike a deal with lenders 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 the man's four for their civil service cuts. inspectors are in athens to check of the progress of imposed cuts in private sector pay and new austerity measures athens needs to come up with fourteen point four billion euros for lonely payments by march twentieth. more than three thousand afghans were killed in two thousand and eleven making last year the deadliest on record for the country 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 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 lines as countries struggle with record low temperatures ukraine is being hit the hardest as more than one hundred died when temperatures plummeted to mind it's thirty degrees celsius it is said that most of these victims were homeless people meanwhile bosnian authorities declared a state of emergency in the capital serry a vote when no cause of power outages and closed transit routes and in rome the coliseum is closed over fears that tourists would slip on the icy ruin following a rare snowfall in the city. castro the leader of cuba's communist revolution has made a rare public. education it was the presentation of page memoirs called. state t.v. showed. an animated conversation at the six hour long event.

after almost half a century of power. a clash of cultures in kurdistan 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 a land of prone to instability after two revolutions in the last few years alone. has the story. on who all. kneeling down but standing. tens of thousands of man 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 now a days. of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims. prayer almost. all differences that exist among the various branches of islam.

because they killed this country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds some of whom have been 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. mixed with germany's and the magic customs they could use a version of islam has long been more of the moral code then the religious doctrine is how cheap a society will remain just exactly if an ambitious is man and when religiosity one tandon hand with. an indication there 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 really driven poverty poor education corruption mistrust of authorities all of that is putting people towards religion but much of it is also driven from abroad of countries like pakistan saudi

arabia kuwait a very generous when it comes to building mosques here ok. islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the rich is adopted an open door policy. 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 happen. to be in accordance with his wishes and by teaching all this with. genders are becoming increasingly separated in public women and not left out in fact they're at the forefront of these lawmakers sturgeon's in kurdistan.

more than half of students in this islamic academy and 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 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 court when first islamic missionaries arrived here for the centuries ago they were respectful

of our customs that's why in kyrgyzstan has been very much and degrade. 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 islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness said here to stone's 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 are cracking under the pressure of political islam muslims are enormous human resource the one who knows how to manage the streets. and for kyrgyzstan we've seen two revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing than finding an antidote against all hell breaking loose again somebody's car at sea.

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angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to i started out wanting just to firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire departments medical i've got a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say it's a frances and we went for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall of patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. down the official placation. called touch from the chops to. life on the go.