everything. i'm charging is a big. stalemate at the u.n. russia and china rebuffed the western backed draft resolution on syria with moscow saying its fake wording leaves the door open for 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 grip on power. in russia hundreds of thousands gathered to rival rallies ahead of next month's presidential vote massive credit when anti government marches . us police crackdown on the occupy movement a tent city in central washington and there just to be a big hit something that was brought in.

here watching at his weekly news if you want a very latest developments on kerry johnston 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 fails to deliver a balanced approach to the unrest and favors extremist groups which could ignite even move audience. who are behind the document and ganging up against the veto states. not reports now 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 you know the draft resolution. adequately with the real situation in syria that consumes. the co-sponsors of the resolution and would if there is taken into account 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. with his joining the syrian. state institutions. for affording more flexibility to get into. states to increase the chances of a successful political process with the russian delegation was forced to vote

against this draft resolution we seriously regret this outcome. 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 in syria the arab league is 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 that evening 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 quote the assad regime the time has come

for the assad regime. 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. the western backed security council the country in the best interests of the people there. the libyan example hasn't been so long the league claimed to do or to stand by the libyan people that it turned out that they were supporting one. side that was actually armed and under a billion against the rest of the people and the same is happening in syria. this question is a very important one so there is a call for negotiations for talks why not support this called the clean their

president and i said lost legitimacy but not a month ago a. very important survey that was done by qatar foundation qatar foundation of getting the word cutter to show that the president has the support of i mean almost fifty five percent of the syrians why are the ignoring this fifty five percent and that is something that there can solve the problem initiated by the russian government still holds talks between between the different ideas in syria and i think it is up to the to those militias to prove that they want the welfare for syria. well positioned activists claimed over two hundred people were killed in the syrian city of homs just ahead of the un security council they said times correspondent pepe escobar questions the accuracy of those reports and that's the timing was a coincidence. that timing of this alleged massacre in the home more than two

hundred people killed just as the when in scads to vote. more or less establishing what the arab league says is a roadmap for peace and syria is a suspect well coming back to what this resolution is all about it's an ally as between nato basically led by washington london and paris and this six persian gulf monarchies the gulf cooperation council there agenda from the beginning for months now is reaching change in syria no matter what they knew that they couldn't never get the u.n. security council resolution authorizing a no fly zone over syria for a number of reasons first of all because up did assad regime is not so bold bardi its own population with makes so this has nothing to do with the syrian peace process and all syrians themselves began being takes place that look we don't trust this big zeile the council would like to organize ourselves and will like to

discuss with the go sit down when they go and discuss a roadmap for peace but between our selfs. well that late in the program we reported another target of western pressure iran is ready to call world markets saying who responded were doing all about it by cutting off the supply before european countries time to find alternatives. the same time the german chancellor wraps up being toward china and iran it really supports. a dozen dead and thousands injured plus the aftermath of three straight days of rioting in egypt they all began off an outbreak of violence at a football match at it this week. dives of seventy four people a correspondent for national has more now from car it's an early morning here in the egyptian capital and that these time 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 in egypt and also tragic as far as the egyptian authorities are reporting since saeed massacre when seventy four people died in. one of the city's dunes twelve of the people have been killed in the balls that followed and twenty five hundred others have been injured it's worth two point out there since mass protests took first took to the streets of the capital cairo last january. people actually have been on 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 violence and people have been actually very quick to condemn this for she is to use the interior ministry over. allowing this to

happen over and efficiency and actually sometimes even instigating these fires in order to preserve this instability in. so the two eventually just to follow the authoritarian ruling here in the country hardcore football fans known as old choice that have always been. full front of the uprising against mubarak. right after this happened poor so you'd 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 of the streets that leads into the woods the building

over the interior ministry the realm of people the tension 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 have been saying people are just protesting. because the figures are unbelievably in fact eat my mind him thinking each name change in everything he did johnny. and been achieving. that the child is seventy seven year old china it's over here it's more than enough what they're doing to the criticism in the doing to the country. 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. offshore from the

institute of arab and islamic studies at the university of exeter suggestions are tired of waiting for accountable leadership. supreme council of the armed forces has mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street where they thought that they would be. power from italy 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 formal restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive. way doing the mubarak era and all these expectations of the the economy to enhance a better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans of that evolution were not really accomplished by a year after the revolution that's why there is a protest last friday and on the anniversary of that it would was wanted

a president now an elected president now so that they can hold him accountable if you fail to be stored back the egyptian economy and if you fear to reform the security services. you know with out here still to come on the program. there are very key people who would say as many horrible things about as i did. you told the father why isn't your exam to find out why he's withdrawn his accusations about the responsible 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 ahead of next month's presidential election two rallies took place in the capital both calling for their election one was in opposition to that in that newton's kind of the scene the other pro-government gathering compared protests to orange revolution supporters of

ukraine but journalist. says any opposition candidates campaign could come undone best social policies i think the dark horse was too late in coming so we are seeing more or less usual suspects and even even if we take seriously proper up i mean he's a he's a smart man and he's a rich man but. he's. in a category that is not loved in russia reach and successful in america we are not in america we will show the space of a social democratic country who has in store is social policy able to give support to so many people that's why so many people together today to support him i think that what is happening today is that there are so many people calling call ferro actions my hope is that we will get the actions but i think that may be

disappointed again because in perl actions there is a fair chance that you can move. next hour we'll take a look at one of the measures designed to ensure transparency at next month's elections tens of thousands of when cameras will be installed at one of precious polling stations and unprecedented attempt to give everyone the opportunity to see for themselves and. iran will halt oil supplies to some european countries as time runs on a step move comes in response to the ease and a decision to impose sanctions on the islamic republic to come into force. we can tear around the most massive military exercises in the country's south and oil into the strait of hormuz tensions have been rising i mean suggestions and manipulation against iran possibility reports emerged on thursday that u.s. defense secretary panetta said israel could strike iran and. june to tell

the center for search on women's nation. since the latest development and the u.s. and its allies determined to stop. what. it is is a bill that. also. calls for the patient. goes to. zero zero zero zero military jets and i should mention that. we have a massive deployment of u.s. military troops going into israel going to. you know naval forces pushing gold in the arabian sea. it was well you know it states was. getting its allies some kind of a green light which will give you with a face full of all. well later in the program we we hear from iran's interior

minister about how his country is trying to limit the damage caused by western sanctions he thinks that by imposing a bug is that he was only been problems by itself we can watch the full interview next hour but he's a pretty. i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy markets this very factor can result in oil price growth in these conditions the west should expect the drop in the euro rate and the euro market oil and energy markets will experience instability and turmoil and this factor can boost prices for oil and energy products and jeopardize the market security at the same time we're not worried for iran at all we've ensured our efficient planning in advance and with god's help we will continue moving forward. for a top economy china has promised to consider pumping its cash reserves into the euro zone to help with the box debt crisis the offer comes after

a strong lobbying push on the part of the german chancellor during her three day trip to the asian nation. asked for help in saving in battle a chinese counterpart promised to look into it she also pushed for beijing to cut its ties to iran this comes as the conclusion of a drawn out greek debt talks. to receiving a second bailout seen as its only chance to avoid default the same time even the leaders are working feverish liter through a partner financial legislation well political analysts christophe the public won't like these measures forced upon it. it only got to get worse i mean at the moment they're burning german flags on the streets of athens i predict it will be roll next and then there's been you never know it could be toppled as well the tensions between the countries particularly between the north of europe and the south of europe is only going to get greater and what you. got it you got protest in the south and what we're seeing in the north is

a political revolution where new parties are springing or and euro skeptic parties are getting better results than ever before the scary thing here that you have is once you start thinking with democracy and trying to change things i think you're on a very slippery slope in these and what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing it through to challenge what it's all about it doesn't want to listen to the people they're talking about an intergovernmental agreement and this will go into primary e.u. law through secondary legislation which means that the people can be bypassed there will be referendums across the continent particularly in ireland where there should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they will bypass the people and it will go straight into review and they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to democracy. of course more details of everything we're covering can always be found online at r.t. dot com stay up to date through our website it's happened to some of the stories waiting for you that right now are american inventor says it's only a matter of decades before remember this is between robots and humans become commonplace about your usual vision for the future.

and the act of protests will cross europe and rather just brute polish of dorothy's desire to suspend online piracy at this nation. occupy wall street protest in the us lost some ground this weekend as they were addicted from downtown washington activists had been a gathering that despite a camping ban issued by the authorities anyone that week obvious is wearing protective gear came in early on saturday morning to enforce the building tents and sleeping bags in the western at least four people the park was cordoned off and the helicopter was seen holding overhead occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the recent taser shocking the nonviolent protest in d.c. excessive force women activists away want to look at least for me it's our economy think tank. who knows what's going through their head space on that you know when

we i watched that video available online and it looked like there was no justification for it when i went to make fairs and they'd ask about it people said the only thing he was doing was taking down signs that were on the ten said said no camping and so that was the rationale for tasering him he was dropping it while he was not being threatening looks like a excessive use of force my sense is that it's not going to provoke the macpherson campers that they're more. disciplined than that to fall for that kind of trap the occupy movement in a few months has shifted the weight and shown 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 explode on the scene and become more important the presidential race in two thousand and twelve. well this week has seen the end of an epic trial on the extradition of the world's top whistleblower julian a son's to sweden he's wanted there are allegations of sexual assault that we can expound wristed in limbo as the case supreme court is not

likely to come to a verdict for several weeks and denied all accusations said swedish prosecutors were cautious and arrest warrants issued by them is not valid he added that his case was politically motivated or swedish authorities rejected us on his arguments saying that in one case it turned on its head. to other news making headlines around the world the south. to the u.s. presidential race where the republican front runner mitt romney appears to be cruising to victory in early results from the nevada state caucuses the former governor of massachusetts has gained over forty percent of the vote so far but his main rival in which behind it almost a quarter romney has already won in two states. the latest in a process to pick the republican nominee for an event his general election. europe's week long cold snap has now claimed two hundred sixty lives this country

strong with a record low temperatures at ports of face disruption london's heathrow having to cancel a third of its flights meanwhile boston authorities declared a state of emergency in a couple of. things cause power outages and closed transit routes ukraine is being hit the hardest is moving one hundred died in term just plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius as the victims were innocent people. there's been an unexpected u. turn from the father of the former f.s.b. officer xander that he was poisoned in london six years ago he says he was wrong to accuse the kremlin of organizing his son's death and admits he just said what the west wanted to hear r.t. went to listen to voter interest or it firsthand. but it 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 f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some very powerful patrons like cell fix out-i khun boris berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . three of them we broke. yet you get dorset extremist you know dorset there are he's just give me a yes but here doris you would be. one vitally pin and co sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. we're going to. deem it of each if you're watching

this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai 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 shot what else can i add to this. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his son's 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 co 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 idiot enough to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and there suspect and a little boy is not a fool either it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me like you are 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 up which is why is that why because they like it when i scold the regime i was a root treasure for them or 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 when it offered to new anonymous life the men claimed putin was his number one enemy so hiding in europe he believed was the only safe solution today was their lives when young co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom he owes 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 shut off to his flat he's lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to. this is how. a book

and even this door to let the southern wind inside. there is east and there's russia you're my homeland for up to it i want to go home to russia i do want to stay here. fit in the children r t c golly eataly. but i'll recap our top stories in just a couple of it stay with up to. a

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