stalemate at the u.n. russia and china rebuffed the western backed draft resolution on syria saying its fake wording leaves the door open for foreign military intervention. blocked by returns on the rest a dozen dead and thousands wounded in egypt as protesters attempt to use new victories. in russia hundreds of thousands gather for rival rallies ahead of next month's presidential vote the massive anti-government marches. us police crackdown on the occupy movement the tent city in central washington is the latest to be evicted recounting that was brought.

here watching artie's weekly news review on the very latest developments on carrots russia and china have given a firm no the data u.n. security council resolution on syria has defended its move saying the draft fails to deliver a balanced approach to the on the rest of papers extremist groups which could ignite even move on it's. those who are behind the document up against the b. to states. 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 our law 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 if 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 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 that you know the draft resolution does not adequately with the real situation in syria and. the co-sponsors of the resolution and would if he was taken into account of the syrian opposition they must distance himself from extremist groups committing violence and. state your ability to use their influence to prevent such. taken into account that. with was drawing the syrian forces from the city. to its. own state institutions. nor has the being schooled for affording more flexibility to get into. states to increase the chances of a successful political process russia's foreign 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 your 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 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 all 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. the crisis peacefully. what i fear is we maybe see a replication of what happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the united states and its nato allies launched a seventy eight day bombing campaign against yugoslavia having failed to enlist chinese and russian support for un resolution against not only here the slavia i'm hoping of course that the resolute stand taken the principled stand taking the taken by russia and china against a resolution that we have to remember was sponsored by morocco and co-sponsored by a very interesting group of people they include them a don't cooperate with the world the united states britain france and germany along with force are going to include all six members of the drop cooperation council

that is the monarchies and camera in the persian gulf this is not a representative group of nations of course in the united nations of the world it's a very select one largely saying for the first a comparable resolution one thousand seven hundred three against libya last year no armed uprising of the sort of burn in syria could have occurred if it was in libya earlier or kossovo to the slaughter thirty years ago without the understanding by those in gauging the armed uprising that they would be supported by forces outside the. well more than two hundred people were part of the tail by security forces in the syrian city of homs just ahead of the vote and security council and i think it has been contested by some opposition groups putting it around fifty syria tribune at it to any one hundred so the information coming from the opposition should be taken at face value. but i mean they were not to be leaving the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the u.n. security council meeting it decided it will start bombarding homes this too which

in homs had been difficult for the syrian. regime supporters for such a long time and i don't see why did they get the army which was such a critical time and just start it's a vicious crackdown has described it it is they are only planes and just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could their gun there and investigative but unfortunately they were pulled over for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this i have a specific claims from their side as we are not treated to what's going on but i don't think they're the i mean what's really mean it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like that happened before in fact just a short warning there and the opposition was not able to pull any of these claims over the best in months. dozen dead thousands injured bloody often three

straight days of rioting in egypt it all began off an outbreak of violence. this week. seventy four people let's not go to square the heart of egypt's revolution with more from our correspondent term area. where a great deal of violence there over the past few days was a situation like the now as far as you can tell. things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed here these are the last few days and also very tragic the code so huge that massacre only one state when seventy four people died in the stump speech at one of the city's stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incident since we bought a house that last february but it's also triggered a new wave of clashes between the police the army and to the street is that has actually become something common seen here in the capital cairo and everywhere throughout egypt the fact is people have been very weak to use.

incident to use local forces especially even to remain a street of doing nothing of the law in this to happen allowing these deaths or inefficiency and actually also over instigating these trials in order to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to follow somehow. through tearing through all the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from the barak last february and since then demonstrations actually have never told shortly after this happened on wednesday. hold call football fans known as traitors and knowing full being all the time since the uprising started last year the full of front of the uprising against mubarak have come to leave nothing to the minister here in the central cairo just more to wait from here seeking for justice and calling for the. amy did transition of power from the ministry to civil to situations unquote early presidential

elections and since then actually the standoff between the police never stalled as far as the egyptian forces are reporting twelve people have been killed in the last full day seven twenty five hundred dollars have been injured being that it's a terrible dissolve so i have to say i hope you can see the pictures right now as you can imagine. while masoud street is a narrow street this one the streets they didn't to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in hollywood the queen. many many people there chanting and to mix the slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas at the thais to send even. if it never comes as a surprise full protest as the people are wearing gas masks and ne they are carrying buffaloes with specially quite a suit liquids and from time to time they're so pieces over coltan is. this liquid

and sniffin it to be able to grease no molly but this thing is that once they approved i would say just a little bit sure sure. they're coming back to the tools of the building and it's old style it's again we've been able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about who is going and when it's going to stop. people not just protesting in addition to teaching. the cast of the cigars and believe in the fact even people might die and that they will they suffocate each day to turn everything today and chinese them. not to light the fire and they don't schieffer. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over your news it's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and they're doing they're here to do it to the country. the children must be. well as you can see

situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually in several all the cities throughout egypt but we can also can talk about several months as well the full import seat incident key figures in the people from the administration all this to do have been detained and they're in custody right now is that while the investigation is ongoing and also taking protesters to mons just recently the supreme carlson of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country but to. get a very volatile situation there maria nationality correspondent thank you. from the institute. studies at the university of exeter says egyptians are tired of waiting for accountable leadership. supreme council of the armed forces.

mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street. that they will be. power from military to civilian elected civilian in six months and therefore once you have elected civilian rule be 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. way during the mubarak era and all these expectations so the economy the. better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans of the revolution were not really accomplished by a year after the revolution that's why there is. 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 fail to reform the

security services here without still to come on the program. the people he. will design. spies you talk to the father of the poison to examine the printing to find out why he's withdrawn these accusations about russia's biggest obstacle to his son's death. today was a day of demonstrations across russia hundreds of thousands gathered in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere to voice their political views the next month's presidential election two rallies took place in the capital both calling for their election. in opposition to the end of the see the other pro-government gathering protests to orange revolution supporters of ukraine martin mccauley. university of london says the only hope the position has of winning east. to unite behind a single candidate. a 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 of the first round of that has to be seen to be fair and to be clean otherwise it will 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 liberal on the fourth of march is of a single candidate who is accepted by the whole opposition and there's no likelihood because it looks ready as if it cannot easily garner the congress kind of it will come up second as he always does then the the divisions of about third

or fourth and so on and we heard crocker of would bring up the rest because he is there really only to appeal to the middle class urban voters. the measures already being taken to ensure transparency in next month's election one of them is an unprecedented plan to install webcams at every voting station protect internet broadcast as r.t.c. 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 but actually sometimes but i think if anything i ask the central electoral commission which is to install web cameras at all polling stations across the country so that everyone can watch online what's happening there almost twenty four hours a day and they go we want them there. 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 hold 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 film 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 and 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 a stone i'm sure the observers won't be able to check advance if these cameras work or not now. 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 course there's nothing new. or web cameras. using 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 going off r.t.

moscow. more details on everything we're covering can always be found on dot com let's have a look at some other stories waiting right now an american inventor says it's a matter of decades before that since between. humans become commonplace about his vision for the future. and an act of protest sweep across europe better route. to suspend online piracy that is straight from. iran will be halting oil supplies to some european countries that's the warning from tehran oil minister the move comes in response to the decision to impose sanctions on the islamic republic to come into force and to night at the weekend to iran launched a massive military exercises in the country's south vital to the strait. tensions have been rising and it's suggestions that can get your rationing against iran is

going to go to the courts emerged on u.s. defense secretary and israel could strike iran as soon as they. vary so if the u.s. and israel. pretext for war. claims this week the u.s. defense secretary that there was going to be a rainy terror attacks inside the united states although he also said there was no evidence they could use the evidence for that elsewhere in tel aviv i read a supposedly respectful commentators saying the release had missiles which he could . could hit the united states of america that claim is just simply the posters that we are seeing a ratcheting up of the red raney and rhetoric in the west at the same time there is going to be very very nervous about the american build up inside the 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 all inside the right to think we should bear we got a retaliation in forced. occupy wall street protests in the u.s. lost some ground this weekend as they were evicted from downtown washington d.c. activists have been gathering that despite a camping ban the issued by their corporate is earlier in the week officers wearing protective gag. order to force the ruling. tents and sleeping bags and rested at least three people whose cordoned off helicopter some of your people i movement have seen some heavy handed police tactics and he's a from the test to see what excessive force won't scare up to miss a way says kevin zeese. who knows what's going through their head space on that you know when we i watch that video it's available online and it looks like there was no justification for it when i went to make fears on the day to ask about it people

so the only thing he was doing was taking the signs around the chance that said no camping and so that was the rationale for tasering him he was dropping values not being threatening looks like the excessive use of force my sense is that it's not going to provoke the campers that they're more. disciplined than to fall for that. the occupy movement in a few months should 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 explode on the scene and become more important the presidential race in two thousand and twelve. two other news making headlines around the world the south to the u.s. presidential race whether public can front runner mitt romney has cruised to victory in the nevada state caucuses. massachusetts forty percent of the votes he's made degree and just in the quarter they think that it's ron paul and rick santorum

trailing behind me has already won in two states of a dentist in the process to think of republican nominee for the better selection. europe's week long cold snap has now claimed two hundred sixty lives as countries struggle with record low temperatures airports or face disruption and. the counsel of its quite a while boston authorities declared a state of emergency in the capital sorry and snow cost per hour out of its quota transit routes ukraine is being hit the hardest one hundred died temperatures plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius the victims as people. there's been an unexpected new turn from the father of the former f.s.b. officer xander who was poisoned in london six years ago he says he was wrong to use a credit of organizing his son's death. just said what the west wanted to hear but he went to listen to. a story. but is.

this is how we found mike that leads me and co praying in his tiny tellin apartment no electricity no gas no court water what. 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 east give me

a year per year to arrest you. when vy thirty thousand and co sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. we're going to a different if not be me that the mood 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 even 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 story 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 idiot you know have to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and their 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. why is that why because

they like it when i scold the regime i was a real treasure for them of the whole there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about as i did as well. you know living in two thousand and eight while there in between young coal flat russia for sanctuary made silly has 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 lithuanian co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom here 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 shut off to his flat he was lost for two euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to. this is how my son of a book that i believe in the door to let the southern wind inside. there is east only as russia you are my homeland for children i want to go home to russia i do want to stay here. in the children r t c golly eataly. preview of the biggest event in the american football season the super bowl is coming up in r.t. sports that's where you know they are in just over a quarter of our first the headlines up next.

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