stalemate at the u.n. russia and china rebuffed the western backed draft resolution on syria but most case saying it's vague wording leaves the door open of foreign military intervention. dropped by return to an arrest a dozen dead and thousands wounded in egypt as protesters attempt to loosen the military's mind grip on power. in russia hundreds of thousands gathered for rival rallies ahead of next month's presidential vote with massive pro and anti-government marches. us police clamp down on the occupy movement a tent city in central washington is the latest to be evicted after tamping that

was brought in. you're watching artie's weekly news you can and the very latest developments russia and china have given a firm no to the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria has defended its move saying the draft failed to deliver a balanced approach to the unrest papers extremist groups which could ignite even move on it's those who are behind the document are now ganging up against the veto states. not reports 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 up 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 those amendments were not excessive and mr are a lot of 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 approach a vote knowing there was a divide it did not help maintain the unity or the authority 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 to veto 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 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 but i do work in the security council has not yet reached its conclusion that you know the draft resolution does not adequately whistlers the real situation in syria and. it's the co-sponsors of the resolution and would if there is taken into account of the syrian opposition they must distance itself from extremist groups committing violence. on states your ability to use their influence to prevent such. taken into account that along with was drawing the syrian forces from the. state institutions. for affording more flexibility to. states to increase the chances of

a successful political process the russian delegation was forced to vote against this draft resolution we seriously regret this outcome. is our minister is scheduled to visit damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al assad this is a move. to hopefully reach some type of peaceful approach or solution to the conflict still waging in syria the arab league has also addressed the media at the security council at the stakeout saying that they are extremely disappointed. over today's outcome 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 before the meeting began to dating that you know the united states is on the side of the syrian people that are opposing the syrian president and his government and he said quote the assad regime at the time has come for the

assad regime to. change 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 takes place in the days and weeks to come but as of now the draft text proposed by the europeans by the arab league vetoed by russia and china. that more on this division at the u.n. security council we're joined now by professor of political science at the university of hong kong there is of trying thank you for joining us here and while i'm. being ignored. well i guess foot china to support the sanctions you it has to be consulted in this case by the united states and the second condition of course is that development regional organizations support dissensions just as the arab league just condition has been fulfilled and then a food condition one thing on the part of china you stepped up kaakha kaakha kaakha

country should not feel the term prefect that its core interests have not been tracked and alternatively china sees that the target redeem is a two step as opposed to paolo obviously b.'s conditions do not fulfill and time no it's not expected to support the sanctions and i think it is very good at that russia already takes that lead and it is not the sole country. western countries i think china doesn't want to abstain because just means to allow the sanctions to to go through because china believes that it has not been consulted that russia and china china's suggestions five amendments have not been duly considered and b.'s two countries certainly believe that. that this still be a challenge for some kind of

a some kind of compromise and reset and sit still be made at this stage because accusations are now raining down on beijing and moscow with some saying they're being complicit in the repression carried out by the assad regime but could this backfire on china and russia eventually. this suit to me inmates of china and russia you know western world but i think. china and russia are also understands that they certainly do not want to see and not going to change in the region and they believe that high a number of countries in the region do not want to see a change at this stage now activists in syria though claim the recent violence in homs is the worst since anti-government protests began why would the syrian regime know it such an offensive against civilians right ahead of the u.n. security council vote on the resolution. we really don't know

syria this certainly doesn't help i believe that the syrian bt in particular agree wants to demonstrate to the world of espresso the tool is so within syria and outside syria that it has no intention to compromise that it is still wants to hold onto power and appeal full support this may not be wise but rest you know of the. what of course there are concerns that western countries and those behind the resolution are considering foreign intervention in syria do you think that could really happen. it's possible but i think china and russia show with try very hard to push. the western powers as well as the arab countries to allow the goal mediation dialogue and compromise

this is probably the preferred scenario of china and russia and hopefully. we will sensibly respond to this kind of request. suit believe that this will allow them to buy time. ok professor of political science at the city university of hong kong as of today thank you for joining us thank you bill. well little later in the program we reported on another target of western pressure iran ready to force in the world markets saying it will respond with booming new oil embargo by cutting off the supply before european countries have time to find alternatives. and tens of thousands of web cams will be installed all of russia's own stations at next month's presidential election not everyone helped ensure transparency. doesn't dad and thousands injured

the bloody aftermath of three straight days of rioting in egypt they all began after an outbreak of violence at a football match this week. in the lives of seventy four people a correspondent has more now from cairo it's an early morning here in the egyptian capital and that these top the few square that i hope you can see behind me may look calm and peaceful but these few last days have been absolutely chaotic and devastating. and also tragic as far as the egyptian authorities are reporting since sayed massacre when seventy four people died in. one of the cities. twelve of the people have been killed in the balls that followed and twenty five hundred others have been injured it's worse to point out that since mass protests took first took to the streets of the capital cairo last january. people actually have we don't the streets literally all the time protesting and demonstrating

against military rule. these poor incident this massacre has triggered new waves a new wave of clashes and ballance when people have been actually very quick to condemn the cheese to accuse the interior ministry over egypt over allowing this to happen over the sea and actually sometimes. even instigating this. in order to preserve this instability in all the two eventually just to follow the authoritarian ruling here in the country hard call football fans known as old choice that have always been. full front of the uprising against mubarak have come right after this happened for so you have come to the building of the interior ministry here in the central cairo just some blocks away from here calling for justice for the immediate transition of the power from the military to civil

institutions and for. actually presidential elections and since in the last four days the standoff between police and protesters has never actually stalled it's still continuing right. at this very moment actually we've been there it's a complete disaster i hope you can see the pictures right now it's a narrow street. street one the streets that lead into wards the building over the interior ministry the realm of people the chanting alatri and ministry slogans from time to time police firing tear gas at protesters so it's complete disaster let's listen to people there has been saying people are just protesting in addition to teaching. because of the gas and believe in fact people eat my time there is nothing in each the children everything today in china that. might occur and been achieving. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over here it's

more than enough what they're doing to the protesters in many doing to the world to the country and it must be so as you can see station is very tense it's very complicated here in cairo but there wars is that we can expect as collations even further. from the institute of arab and islamic studies at the university of exeter says egyptians are tired of waiting for countable leadership. supreme council of the armed forces has mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street where rising it is that they will be. 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 total restructuring of the security services that acted in

a very aggressive. corrupt way during the mubarak era and all these expectations to the economy the. better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans of the revolution not really accomplished by a year after the revolution that's why there is a protest last friday and on the anniversary of the revolution was wanted a president now an elected president now so that they can hold him accountable if you feel to be stored back the egyptian economy and if you fear to reform the security services without he will still to come on the program. there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about. shock spies are going to. talk to the father of the boys and. examine to find out why he's withdrawn his accusations about sponsible for his son's death.

saturday was a day of demonstrations across russia hundreds of thousands gathered in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere to voice their political views and of next month's presidential election two rallies took place in the capital both calling for their election one was in opposition to. the see the other pro-government gathering had protestors to orange revolution supporters of ukraine but not in the corner an expert on russia in the city of london says the only hope the opposition has of winning tonight a single candidate. 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 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 the first or are not that has to be seen to be fair and to be clean otherwise would 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 will put in on the fourth of march just have a single candidate who is accepted by the whole opposition and there's no likelihood of this it looks ready as if it cannot easily garner the calmness candidate will come up second as he always does and that the divisions of cover up a third or fourth and so on to me are proper of who bring up the rest because he is there really only to appeal to the middle class urban voters. or masses are already being taken to ensure transparency at next month's election one of them is an unprecedented plan to install webcams every voting station for direct internet broadcast. reports not everyone is convinced it will be effective.

inch 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 if anything i ask the central electoral commission to install web cameras at all polling stations across the country so that everyone can watch online what's happening there one twenty four hours a day. if they want 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 the scale and around a half of a billion us dollars is the price tag. the system is not be made only for one day we help 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 these 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 vote more transparent. you'll get us i'm sure the observers won't be able to check advance if these cameras work will not. everyone knows about cameras in supermarkets but these 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 the slot there are many ways to rig a vote and the cameras don't provide one hundred percent guarantee against them but using them should still make it much more difficult to stuff boxes of course there is nothing new in c.c.t.v. or web cameras but 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 in what is going on r.t. moscow. but i more details on everything we're covering can always be found online dot com let's have a look at some of the stories waiting for you that right now the american inventor says it's only that's what decades before romances between robots and humans become commonplace but you can read about his unusual vision of the future that. brand and

act to protest sweep across europe and bet their first fruit as a potential photius decided to suspend and promised legislation. iran will halt oil supplies to some european countries that's the warning from tehran's oil minister the move comes in response to ease early decision to impose sanctions on islamic republic but due to come into force in july at the weekend tehran and don't stress if victory exercises in the country's south africa all this wonderful whose tensions have been rising at suggestions that the military operation against iran on creasing possibility imports missed on thursday u.s. defense secretary panetta said israel could strike around the soonest april and u.s. radio host ralph finland says russian is using the u.n. here in this war against iraq. this imperialist genda which takes countries and

syria adam as their target now concentrating on iran expresses the permanent war that is waged against subject peoples by american corporate capitalism this united nations has forever been an instrument of such imperial policy first they attempt to cut off iran to your own trading capacity its ability to import replacement equipment for its refineries then they want to tie up its banking and to preclude people from again from trading with banks then every company you've got is in fact engaged in trade with iran is subject by the united states to penalty what do you think this is better than act of war. around response to external pressure europe is looking further afield as it tries to isolate the islamic state german chancellor angela merkel about being toward china please they cut off its brain only wants i don't yes that's coming up here on our team next on

. wall street the u.s. lost some ground this weekend as they were addicted from downtown washington activists had been gathering that despite a campaign that issued by cloth ortiz earlier in the week says protected early on saturday morning to austin really remove tents and sleeping bags in the west at least four people park was cordoned off from helicopters in the head the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics recent taser shot in the bonnet a testament d.c. excessive force won't scare activists away zeese on the economy. who knows what's going through their heads based on that you know when we i watch that video it's available online and it looked like there was no justification for it when i went to make fears in the day to ask about it people said the only thing he was doing was taking down signs around the tents that said no camping and so that

was the rationale for tasering him he was dropping values not being as threatening looks like a excessive use of force my sense is that it's not going to provoke the macpherson campers that there are more. disciplined than that to fall for that kind of trap the occupy movement in a few months has shifted the weight and show the american people that if they get mobilized and organized that we have power we can change the direction this country so the future's going to be an american spring that's going to split out of the scene and become more important the presidential race in two thousand and twelve. now there's been an unexpected u. turn from the father of the former f.s.b. officer alexander. he was poisoned in london six years ago he says he was wrong to accuse the kremlin of organizing his son's death and it said the west wanted to hear what he went to listen to. his story firsthand. but is. this is how we found mike that lead me and co praying in his tiny italian apartment

no electricity no gas no port 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 aphis be officer aleksandr litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some very powerful patrons like suffix out-i khun boris berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . yet extremist you know that there are at least give me a yep real diverse you would be. one biker you can encode sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the

same but instead. we're going to be me that the meat of each if you're watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the times 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 short of what else can i add to this. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we doe marina bin and co revealed to the british media that her husband had worked for m i six alexander litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around two thousand pounds a month from the british security services at the time he was murdered 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 kissing the russian government today by their at me it's he was saying only what the west wanted to hear. of course i realize russia's f.s.b. and the idea enough to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and they're suspect and a little boy is not a fool either it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me viger 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 which why is that why because they like it when i scold the regime i was a root treasure for them the whole there are very few people who would say as many

horrible things about putin as i did. you know living in two thousand and eight but the only thing young call flat russia or sanctuary needs healing 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 by the living and co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom he was 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 shuttled to his flat

he's lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to. this is how my son of a book that i've been the door to let the southern wind inside. there is east and there's russia you're my homeland for tourists i want to go home to russia. i do want to stay here. in the great show of r t c ghalia eataly. well i'll recap our top stories here in just a couple minutes statements. but

i defy you to strive for somalia australia you know if you're still in the early going to see the film on the screen if you want to have sex go and have sex.