russia china vetoed a u.n. security council resolution on syria president assad's regime for the violence in the country. does not reflect the situation in syria and send a signal to both sides all the details just ahead. over two hundred thousand people. subzero temperatures to ensure their views on national politics are heard. we see people out on the streets demanding free elections.

protestors continues in egypt with twelve people killed and hundreds more injured in the latest crackdown. you are watching our teeth glad to 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. as 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 arab league 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. 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 approach 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 not yet reached its conclusion draft resolution. adequately with the real situation in syria and. the co-sponsors of the resolution would take into account the syrian opposition distance itself from extremist groups committing violence. to use their influence to prevent such. taken into account that with was drawing the syrian forces from the city. state institutions. nor has the being support for affording more flexibility to get into. states to increase the

chances of a successful political process the russian delegation was forced to vote against this draft resolution seriously regret. visit damascus. with syrian president. this is a. peaceful approach. 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. 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 what place in the days and weeks. the draft. by the arab league vetoed by russia and china. would be for russia. 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 not 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 to for accepting it is he or she should have heard this too which in france had been 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 tracked 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 side of the flames from that side so we are not treated to what's going on but i don't think that the army was really mean. 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 in russia more than two hundred thousand people have taken to the streets of moscow st petersburg and other cities to express their political views as head of the march fourth presidential election our correspondent peter oliver saw 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 matt cripplingly low 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 you know better than if you were first in here because i'm tired of the government which doesn't do well promises nice and wants to stick a room for you if you. change their elections and normal. you. might go on 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 a square to demonstrate we didn't hear from. the presidential

candidate the independent presidential candidate 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 who didn't come paining saying that they still want a revolution in russia using the example of the orange revolution in ukraine in the chaos which country found itself after last saying that they don't need not in russia they were stability and not a revolution saying that russia should cut its times of instability and they didn't want to return to the dog 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 the it was a sanctioned dryly and it was sanctioned to have a certain amount of people the amount of people 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 the day becomes the day of demonstrations. artie's put it all over there and now with the presidential election just around the corner the opposition is demanding a fair vote journalist yvonne. shares his view on their chances. i think that the dark horse 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 a he's a smart man and he's a rich man but. he's think he falls. even

in the category because he's not involved in russia reach and successful man we are not in america we are in russia and this basically a social democratic country what we do has in store he's social policy is going to give support to so many people that's why so many people who together today to support him i think that what is happening today is that there are so many people calling for fair elections my hope is that they will get the fair elections but i think that they will may be disappointed again because in parallel actions there is a fair chance that we can move. and of course you are with r t still to come in the program. and anti-piracy treaty designed to protect intellectual property that europeans in revolt find out why they say it violates their basic rights also.

religion as a testing ground we investigate new forms of islam could change the face of the whole nation and lead to serious consequences in the process. 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 fired tear gas from armored vehicles to keep protesters in control of the situation in response to the protests presidential elections could now be moved forward from a civilian council advising the military leadership said nominations 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 egyptians just want an accountable civilian leadership.

mismanaged a transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian streets where. they will be. civilian elected civilian in six months and once you have elected civilian rule they. will be back to normal there would be a restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive. expectations to the economy the. economy the dignity the freedom the bread. that evolution were not really accomplished by a year. and many on the streets of egypt believe the transitional that leaders 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 anniversary of that evolution wanted a president now an elected president now so that they can hold him accountable if

you feel to the store back the egyptian economy and if you fear to be for 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 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 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 queens this week the u.s. defense secretary that there was going to be a reunion terror attacks inside the united states although he also said there was no evidence they could use the evidence for that today elsewhere in tel aviv i read

a supposedly respectful commentator saying the arenas 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 in that russia and china so i think in some ways the pressure must be on inside the rand to think we should be going to retaliate in force. and of course you are with our. website we've got plenty of stories for you as well right now notorious. group. what do you really thinks of. the audio recording online listen to what was said on our website. and russia is over the moon as it unveils its space

these and other stories available online only a. little. campaign . out in force in sweden to protest against a new copyright treaty signed by governments across europe the. 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. is in. this is the frontline in the most modern of political battles over internet freedom these crowds have gathered in central stockholm in sweden the original home of the pirate parties that have sprung up all over europe and beyond here is

a protest against actor b. and c. counterfeiting trade agreements it all revolves around unseen piracy laws that are trying to be pushed through in many countries this agreement tries to standardize the enforcement of those laws in the here and in america and further around the world these people say it's not an innocent agreement it's not simple it's 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 any way it would disappear but the rights 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 that list 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 the status of internet freedom of 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 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 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. reporting from stockholm that's artie's tom barton now to some other news making headlines around the world this hour. greece 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 the front that is according to the country's finance minister coalition leaders are opposed to outside demands for further civil service 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 for loan 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 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 plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius most of the victims are said to have been homeless people meanwhile bosnian authorities declared a state of emergency in the capital sarajevo when snow caused power out of tucson closed turned around and in rome the coliseum is closed over fears that tourists would slip on the icy ruins following a rare snowfall in that city. and if you don't castro their leader of cuba's communist revolution you know has made a rare public appearance in the country capital of and out of the grave you know it was a good presentation of his page memoir is called of time cuban state t.v.

showed the former leader and gauged 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 in power. a clash of cultures if you will in kyrgyzstan where the moderate indigenous practice of islam is being threatened by more radical alternatives there are fears for the fact on everyday life in the central asian republic prone to instability after two revolutions in the last few years alone parties oksana boyko has the story. all. 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 bastard years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as a slum does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for

all muslims but they use each prayer can't mask an almost a theological and lifestyle differences that exist among various branches of this one here in kurdistan the other has their good first country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds who have a less than 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 to balloted mixed with germany's men and the magic customs they could use a version of islam has long been more of a moral code then a religious doctrine and how cheap a society where women are just as that if an ambitious as man 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 mistrust of authorities all of that is putting people towards religion

but much of it is also driven from abroad countries like pakistan saudi arabia kuwait a very generous when it comes to building. islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the rich is adopted and open door policy. the these are followers of the to believe jemaah 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 there at

the forefront of these lawmakers surgeons in kurdistan. all the 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 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 and degrade. with our indigenous culture the version that's being pushed on nowadays with his jobs and restrictions is not only foreign to us but the grass of the country's authorities unknown oblivious to the ongoing islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness it here to distance top officials are praying alongside the crowds they claim fool religious freedom is the best strategy against radicalization. the results of the arab spring have shown that secular governments a crushing under the pressure of political islam muslims are enormous human resource the one who knows how to manage this force of the streets. and for kyrgyzstan which has seen two revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing than finding an antidote against old how breaking lose again come by

car to see kyrgyzstan. and that doesn't permit us i'll be back with update of our top story after just a short break. a

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