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

thanks for being with us a five o'clock here in moscow on karen terrill raji 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 it takes sides in the syrian conflict and favors armed opposition groups artie's marina portnoy 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. 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 up. knowing there was a divide it did not help maintain the unity or 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 the draft resolution

was presented it had a lot of balances in it when it comes to the current circumstance in syria russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin did go into detail about those imbalances. some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table from the very beginning of the syrian crisis. 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. unbalanced signals to the syrian sides but it doesn't take into account proposals that as well as withdrawing syrian forces from the cities this should be an end to attacks by armed groups and state institutions and cities 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 approaches 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 that evening 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 the time has come for the result of 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. red cross off from the stop nato group says that although russian time of not to allow u.n. sanction for an intervention in syria there's a chance the country may still be bombed from 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 that nation to 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 middle 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 a very select one is largely the same for the first a comparable resolution one thousand seven hundred three against libya last year you know armed robberies and the sort of burn in syria could have occurred if it was in libya and earlier kossovo to the slaughter of the thirteen years ago without the understanding by those in gauging the armed uprising that they would be supported by 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 around fifteen at it are of the syria tribe and dr ali mohamed says information from the opposition should be taken at face value. but i mean they were not believing the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the security council meeting it decided to start bombarding homes this too which in

homes that have 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 timing to just start it's a vicious crackdown as described it is 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 side of opposites claims from their side we are not treated to what's going on but i don't think that the army wants surely it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one james like that happened before in. in just a short while and the opposition was not able to pull any of these claims over the best in months and yet some police have again fired rubber bullets and tear gas to

drive a crowd of rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in cairo clashes 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 anger over the military rulers allegedly failure to prevent a deadly outbreak of violence at a football match on wednesday our correspondent maria said last summer has more from cairo. things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed sixty eight days of the last few days and also very tragic the code so huge in mexico only one state when seventy four people died in the stump speech at one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incident since were barak ousted last february but it's also triggered a new wave of clashes between the police the army and defense treatise that have actually become something common seen here in the capital cairo and everywhere throughout egypt the fact is people have been very quick to use bolivian port saïd

incident to use local sources especially the interior ministry of doing nothing of the allowing this to happen allowing these dassault inefficiency and actually pulled over instigating these trials in order to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to follow and somehow think through terror and rule the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from mubarak last february and since then demonstrations actually have never stole shortly after this happened only one state the whole school football fans have come to live bullets nothing to the minister here in the central pa who just walked away from here seeking for justice and calling for a me 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 seven 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 to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in prague with the green many many people there chanting and to miter slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas at the. test isn't even showed so we've been able to speak to several people though let's listen to what they have to say about who's going and when it's going to stop people not just but that's been conditioned to teaching. because there's just too gosh i'm believe in the effects people might die and that they will they suffocate each day to turn everything today trying them. not to light the fire and they do schieffer so. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over here that's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and that they're doing

to the world to the country. it must be it was you can see a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually in several all the cities throughout egypt but we can also can talk now about several achievements as well the following points incident the figure is that there are people from the administration all of this to do have been detained and they're in custody right now is that while the investigation is under go we can also maintain protesters dimanche just recently the supreme carlson of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. omar ashore from the end scituate of arab and islamic studies at the university of exit or says egyptians 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 is what we're. told that

they will be a transfer of 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 would be a total restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive. all these expectations through the economy the. better economy the dignity the freedom the bread. of the revolution would not really accomplished by a year after that of lucian that's why there is a protest last friday and on the anniversary of that it was. a president now i didn't the 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 so i had free this hour an hour

a change of tune one smallest vocal critic of russia's prime minister now tells a different tale. to the people who would see as many. people as i did once blamed. for the death of his son alexander litvinenko but now the former f.s.b. officers father has changed his mind and all first his own theory of one. plus the latest incident for america's anti-corporate protesters they place a heavy handed police response when asked how the occupy movement will cope with it they said that from the park they've occupied since. saturday was a day for demonstrations in russia for 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 but 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 raped now their main demand is for a fair presidential vote in march martin mccauley who is an expert on russia at the university of london believes the opposition lacks a viable leader at the moment. a very large rally is promised for the march in other words a week after the presidential election 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 and it's 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 large of various other 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. on the fourth of march is to a single candidate who is accepted by the whole opposition and there's no likelihood of this russian journalist. says social policies are key and could undermine any of the opposition candidates campaigns. i think that the dark horse was too late in coming so we are seeing more or less usual suspects and even even if we take seriously proper up the i mean he's a he's a smart man and he's a rich man but. he's a thing he falls. in the category that he's not involved in russia we are rich and successful man we are not in america we are in russia and this basically a social democratic country who has in store he's 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 fair elections my hope is that they will get the fair elections but i think that they will may be disappointed again because in parallel actions there is a fair chance that we can move. and there's more about moscow's rival rallies online. gathered for the day of protests. the highlights on camera pictures on our facebook profile and there's more analysis on this and other top stories on our web site.

iran says that it will not give in to international pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling a single barrel of oil it's to iran'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 may islamic republic in turn has repeatedly said it will stop all crude supplies to some european countries before the summer maintains its atomic ambitions are purely peaceful and seeks to prove it by a closer cooperation with the clear watchdog team of i.a.e.a. 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. bhaiya is

made up of inspectors they don't necessarily control politically but i think what the united states walls is some kind of a state. you know which they use in a palace on a balanced way to sort of lead to the next stage i think what we are witnessing here is is a build up calls a military confrontation we have massive the replacement of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel to be stationed in israel more troops going to cooperate. naval forces as you go all of this i will i would describe as play the actual wall the issue. of iran's nuclear weapons is a red herring but it is a red herring which could lead us to

a well he said are you. well later in the program we hear from iran's interior minister who certain his country will weather the storm of mounting sanctions in an exclusive interview with r.t. he said it's those countries imposing them that will end up being hit the hardest here's a sample of what's next our. thinking. i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy 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 that this new decision will result in further economic problems which as we can see have affected the majority so far they've been unable to find solutions the decisions taken today by the west unilaterally will result in the installation of their own economic problems. anti-corporate protesters in washington d.c.

were evicted this weekend from a park they had occupied since early october a people were arrested one police using riot gear and horses worried that the that officer said they were simply enforcing the park's no camping law and activists are allowed back into the park but the demonstrators however said it was a full scale of the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the allegedly sent taser a shocking of a nonviolent protest. excessive force one provoked activists says kevin zeese from the it's our economy think tank he tells r t that occupiers are too small or too smart to fall into that trap. who knows what's going through the 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 many fears in the day to ask about it people so the only thing he was doing was taking the signs around the turn so no camping and so that was the rationale for tasering him. he was dropping about his

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 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. asia's leading economy china has promised to consider pumping cash reserves into the euro zone to help with the block's debt crisis the 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 and negotiations are key to athens receiving a second bailout and are seen as its only opportunity to avoid default at the same time leaders are working feverish story to force through unpopular financial

legislation. a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says the people won't take kindly to these measures being forced upon them. it's only going 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 don't lose world 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 better results than ever before the scary thing here that you have is once you start tinkering with democracy you're trying to change things i think you know the very slippery slope in the what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing you through the 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. more 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 people going straight into the you know they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to democracy and of course you can find our top stories online twenty four hours a day at our t.v. dot com here's what's waiting for you there right now. and time at the protesters across europe seek to influence the debate as poets of birdies decide to suspend the proposed anti online this is a place. plus future sex some believe it could just be a matter of years before robots become a man's object of desire as scientists develop the amorous android to get the full story a little more at r t dot com. and use to consider what's in that approach his arch animal blaming him for the death of his beloved son alexander. the former at the speed officer but this week seen a lot expect a change of heart from the fierce kremlin critic are now admits he simply said what

the west wanted to hear heard all their lives meaningful story firsthand. but. this is how we found like that. praying in his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no 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 was on christmas eve. 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 suffix out tycoon raised result ski and i have and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. .

extremist yo dorsett there are at least. one by three between enco sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. we're going to work given. the mood of each if you're watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about you know 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 marine ali 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 to tan 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 rude 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 that in between young call flat russia for 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 to dave was there living in 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 barrel 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 the work of the this is how my son of a book economy but in this dual 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 he did a great show of our t. sity ghalia eataly and i'll be back with the headlines very shortly. fifi. if.

you. feel. you know news today violence is once again flared up fifi.