russia and china blocked the western backed a new one draft resolution on syria with moscow slamming the text for an unbalanced approach and denial of dialogue between the government and opposition. in other stories that shape this week riots returned to egypt as anger at the authorities as failure to prevent a deadly soccer brawl spills over into four days of violent clashes that have already seen a dozen people killed. and hundreds of thousands marching in russian cities in spite of subzero temperatures way from both pro and anti-government rallies in record breaking numbers ahead of next month's presidential election.

news in comment coming to you live from the heart of moscow on karen tara the u.n. security council has failed to find common ground on the crisis in syria with russia and china voting against the draft resolution that they say exclusively blames the syrian government for violence both moscow and beijing say the text could cause even more bloodshed because the take sides in the syrian conflict and favors armed opposition groups artie's marina port nine has been following the diplomatic battle at the heart of the u.n. . 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 to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov those amendments were not excessive and mr r. lava have 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 up. 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. 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. some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table have from the very beginning of the syrian crisis to mining opportunities for political settlement by calling for regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and his aging to encourage methods of struggle the draft resolution does not adequately reflect the real situation in syria. to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account proposals that as well as withdrawing syrian forces from the cities there should be an end to attacks by armed groups and state institutions and neighborhoods so. precious foreign minister is scheduled to visit damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al

assad this is a move. to 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 sedating 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 result of the assad regime and 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. from the stop nato group says that although russia and china vow not to allow u.n. sanction for an intervention in syria there is a chance the country may still be bombed from the outside. what i fear is we may be 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 a few of those laws 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 the nato quality of the world the united states britain france and germany along with portugal to include all six members of the draw 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 or the world is very select one is largely the same 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 cause of all of those laws in the thirteen years ago without the understanding by those in gauging the armed uprising that they would be supported by the forces outside the country more than two hundred people were reportedly killed by security forces in the syrian city of homes just ahead of the vote at the u.n. security council but that figure is being contested with some opposition groups putting it at around fifty editor of the syria tribune dr ali mohamed says information from the opposition shouldn't be taken at face value. but i mean their words not believing the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the u.n.

security council meeting it decided to start bombarding homes. to which incomes are being 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 timing to just start it's a vicious crackdown as described the art of only cleans and just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could have gone there and investigative but unfortunately they were pulled over for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this. opposite claims from their side we are not treated to what's going on but i don't think that the army wants really mean it's it's not like the syrian army is number one james like that happened before in. just a short while and the opposition was not able to prove any of these claims over the best in months and yet some police are fired rubber bullets and tear gas to drive

a crowd of rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in cairo classes between security forces and demonstrators in egypt have been raging for four days now and left a dozen people dead and thousands injured activists have been venting their fury over the a legit failure of the military rulers to prevent a deadly outbreak of violence at a football match on wednesday our correspondent maria and also now has more from cairo. things have been extremely devastating and terribly kilty clearly these are the last two days and also very tragic the code so huge that massacre only one state when seventy four people died in a stump speech at one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incidences where barak ousted last february but it's also true you get a new wave of clashes between the police the army and to the street is that has actually become something that problem is seen here in the capital cairo and everywhere throughout egypt the fact is people have been very quick to use polling

pulled slate incident to use local sources especially the interior ministry of doing nothing of the allowing this to happen allowing these deaths over and efficiency and actually fulfilled over instigating these trials in order to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to find some power thing through terror and the rule of the generals for 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 the public school football fans have come to leap into nothing to do in the city in the central part of just months away from here seeking for justice and calling for amy did transition of power from the ministry to civil to situations until early presidential elections and since then twelve people have been killed in the last full day some twenty five hundred dollars have been injured who think 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 masuda street is a narrow street is one of the streets they didn't towards the built in old for the interior ministry here in hollywood the green many many people there chanting and to miter slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas at the. times doesn't even vote showed so we've been able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about who's going to go and when it's going to stop people not just protesting in addition to teaching. because the guys are unbelievably effect people keep in mind that there is nothing each day to turn everything today to china that's the thing that's like the fear and the the sheaffer. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over here it's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and the doing to the what it

is the country. must deal was you can see a situation is very volatile here in colorado and actually in several all the cities throughout egypt but we can also can talk now about several achievements as well the following points see incident the figure is that the people from the administration told the students have been detained and they're in custody right now is that while the investigation is to go we don't know so it may take the protesters to months just say simply this a film called some of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. omar shore from the institute of arab and islamic studies at the university of eggs that are says objections are tired of waiting for accountable leadership. the supreme council of the armed forces has mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street it were rising because they

thought that they would be. power from that it could lead 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 and brutal way and caught up to a during the mubarak era and all these expectations so 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 that evolution that's why there is a protest last friday and on the university of that it 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 fail to reform the security services. still ahead for you this hour on r.t.e.

a change of tune and once most vocal critic of russia's prime minister now tells a different tale. very few people who would see as many horrible things are. going to warmer f.s.b. officer alexander was killed in london and now his father explains why he no longer blames for his son's death and offers an alternative theory to what happened. plus the latest incident for america's anti-corporate protesters face and heavy handed police response we ask how the occupy movement will poke with it be fiction from the park they've occupied since for the october. saturday was a day for demonstrations in russia for two hundred over two hundred thousand people gathered across the country to voice their political views ahead of next month's presidential election two of the largest rallies took place in the capital with supporters and opponents of the current leadership braving the bitter cold to have their say it was the third and biggest gathering of the opposition after the

parliamentary vote two months ago which protesters claimed was ready now their main demand is for a fair presidential vote in march martin mccauley who is an expert on russia and the university of london believes the opposition lacks a viable leader at the moment. a very large rally was promised for the march in other words a week after the president's reelection and presumably that would be larger than this one the result of the election of course we are very very important because what these demonstrators want is if you like a clean election fraud and so on. it is up to the authorities to ensure that there would be cameras and so on if you look at the protest you have the legal voters who claims they don't want to work with any politician and then use the citizens a longer version of the groups and so on and they are like minded people and so on the opposition will not come together maybe something russian maybe something russian. they don't want because you don't want to. arrive at

a single candidate the only way they're going to defeat putin on the fourth of march is to a single candidate who is accepted by the whole opposition and there's no like you to this russian journalist he says social policies are key and could undermine any of the opposition candidates campaigns 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 pro or up here i mean he's a he's a smart man and he's a rich man but. he's i think he falls. in the category because he's not involved in russia or the rich and successful we are not in america we are in russia and this is basically a social democratic country who has in store he's a social policy that would give support to so many people that's why so many people

who together to support him i think that what is happening today is that there are so many people calling for sparrow actions my hope is that they will get the fair elections but i think there may be disappointed again because in cairo actions there is a fair chance that we can move. there's more about moscow's rival rallies line. for the day of protests and. the pictures on our facebook and there's more analysis on the other top stories on our website.

how around says a woman given to international pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling a single barrel of oil it's response to this week's approval by a us senate committee of a package of new sweeping sanctions against the islamic state but the bill has yet to pass through congress america's initiative targeting nuclear program follows that adopting a total embargo on iranian oil which is due to come into force in july the islamic republic in turn has repeatedly said it will stop all crude supplies to some european countries before summer maintains its atomic ambitions are purely peaceful and seeks to prove it by closer cooperation with. a team of inspectors visited iran this week and plans to return in february but some experts

believe a positive outcome for the mission is not what the west wants to see. i.e. it is made up of inspectors they don't necessarily control politically but i think what the united states what else is some kind of a state but it's you know which they use in ballast on a balanced way to sort of lead to the next stage i think what we are witnessing here is is a build up holes of military culture and station we have massive reply was of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel to be stationed at israel more troops going to pull weight. you know naval. naval forces in the. gulf this i will i would describe as why the actual wall for the issue of nuclear weapons. of iran's nuclear weapons is a red herring but it's

a red herring which could eat us into a well if we set off. later in the program we hear from iran's interior minister of the same certain his country will weather the storm of mounting sanctions in an exclusive interview with r.t. he said it's those countries imposing their will end up being at the hardest here's a sample of what's to come in around ten minutes time. i think. i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy of this very fact it can result in oil price growth in these conditions the west judy expect the drop in the euro rate and the euro. this new decision will result in further economic problems which as we can see has affected them already and so far they've been unable to find solutions the decisions taken today by the west unilaterally will result in the installation of the economic problems.

and a corporate protesters in washington d.c. were evicted this weekend from a park they had occupied since early october a people were arrested when police using riot gear and horses raided being camp that officer said they were simply enforcing the park's no camping wall and activists are allowed back into the park but the demonstrators however said it was a full scale addiction the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the allegedly recent taser shocking of a nonviolent protests or. excessive force won't provoke activists says kevin zeese from the it's our economy think tank he tells our t.v. occupiers are too smart to fall into that trap. who knows what's going through a head space on you know when we i watch that video it's available online and it looks like there is no justification for it when i went to meet fears in the day to ask about it people so the only thing he was doing was taking the signs around the

tents and said no camping and so that was the rationale for tasering him he was dropping. biology is 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 date 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. his leading economy china has promised to consider pumping cash reserves into the euro zone to help with the blocs debt crisis they offer comes after a strong lobbying push by the german chancellor over her three day trip to the country it comes as the e.u. awaits the conclusion of drawn out greek debt talks the negotiations are to athens receiving a second bailout and are seen as its only opportunity to avoid default at the same

time leaders are working feverishly to force through unpopular financial legislation. a member of the european parliament or the u.k. independence party says the people won't take kindly to these measures being forced upon them. 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 top loose well the tensions between the countries and particularly between the north of europe and the south of europe is only going to get greater and what you've got is you've got protests in the south and what we're seeing in the north is a political revolution where new parties are spreading you know and you're a skeptic party to get a better result than ever before the scary thing here that you have is once you start tinkering with democracy and trying to change things i think you got a very slippery slope in these and what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing get through to children 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 iowa where there should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they will bypass the people and it will go straight into the e.u. law and they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to democracy. of course you can find our top stories online twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's what's waiting for you there right now. anti active protesters across europe seek to employees the debate as polish authorities decided to suspend the proposed anti online piracy legislation. last future sex some believe it could just be a matter of years before robots become man's object of desire as scientists develop the amorous android get the full story and many more at our team dot com. he is to be considered what he is to consider a bloody amid a putin his arch enemy blaming him for the death of his beloved son isaac son the

thing incl of the former f.s.b. officer but this week seen an unexpected change of heart from the fierce kremlin critic who now admits he simply said what the west wanted to hear r.t. heard faltered an intervening story first hand. but you. know. how we found me and coo bringing his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no water. if it wasn't for the people who would have died from hunger to freezing to death the last time i was on christmas eve. we expected more because six years ago after his son former after officer aleksandr litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some very powerful patrons. tycoon ski and a kind of and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k.

. you could give you. a. good. extremist dorsett there are at least. when vikki thin and co sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. we're going to. be made of each if you 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 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 indian off 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 viper 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 root treasure for them 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 but the only thing young call flat russia or sanctuary need to leave 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 lithuanian code 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's lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to. this is how soon overtook it but i don't even do it to let the southern wind inside. do is east only as russia you are my homeland for a tourist i want to go home to russia i do want to stay here he said in the church over r t sinegal eataly. and i'll be back with the main headlines in just a moment. you

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