russia and china blocked the western back to you when draft resolution on syria with moscow slamming the tax for in on a balanced approach and denial of dialogue between the government and opposition. and other stories that shaped 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 killed. and in russia's bitter subzero temperatures hundreds of thousands joining the record breaking rallies both pro and anti-government ahead of next month's presidential election.

thanks for being with us seven o'clock here in moscow i'm karen taraji 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. 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 according 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 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 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 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 not hesitating 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 there should be an end to attacks by armed groups and state institutions. russia's foreign minister is scheduled to visit damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al

assad this is a move to hope 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 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 red cross offer from the stop nato group says that although russia and china valid 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 in a few of those lovely i'm hoping of course that the resolute stand on 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 so very select one is largely the same for the first a comparable resolution one thousand and seventy three against libya last year you know are both arising of the sort of burn in syria could have occurred if it was and would be earlier kossovo to those lovely 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 a 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 dr ali mohamed says information from the opposition shouldn't be taken at face value. but i mean they were not believing this he an 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 give the army would choose such a critical timing to just start it's a vicious crackdown has described it if they are only planes and just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could have done there and investigative but unfortunately they were pulled out for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this a visitor claims from their side as we cannot read into what what's going on but i don't think that the army wants really it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like they had happened before in. in just a short war in there and the opposition was not able to pull any of these claims over the best in months. egyptian police have again fired rubber bullets and tear

gas to drive a crowd of rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in a car oh 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 mary a phenomenon has more from cairo. things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed two communities within the last few days and also very tragic the food so huge a massacre only one state when seventy four people died in the stump speech that's one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incident since mubarak ousted last february but it's also true you get a new wave of clashes between the police the army and different street is that have actually become something that common scene here in the capital cairo and everywhere for all the egypt the fact these people have been very weak to excuse.

incidents to use new forces especially going to remain in street doing nothing of the allowing this to happen the law in these cells and we should see actually only showed over instigating these trailers in order to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to fit into existing following some power thing through terror in lieu of the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from mubarak last february and since then demonstrations. have never stole shortly after this happened only one state public school food bill funds have come to the boots nothing to administer here in the central part of just months away from here seeking food justice and calling for amy did transition over power from the ministry to civil to situations until early presidential elections and since then twelve people have been killed in the long. all day seven twenty five on the dollar to thing 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 leading to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in prague with the queen many many people there chanting intimately slogans from time to time police has been the firing tear gas the test isn't even showed so we've been able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about what was going on when it's going to stop people not just protesting in addition to teaching. because the biggest i'm believe in the fact people might die is that there is nothing teach the children everything today and john that the thing that's like the fear and they don't schieffer is. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over here it's more than enough what they're doing to the criticism that they're doing to the to

the country. must be. well as you can see a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually can settle all the cities throughout egypt but we can also you can talk now about several achievements as well the following points incident the figure is the people from the administration all the students have been detained to they're in custody right now is is that while the investigation is to go in and also maintain a protest system on just recently the supreme carlson of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. amara shore from the institute of arab and islamic studies at the university of exeter says egyptians 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 were rising that they will be transferred all power from the military to civilian elected civilian in six months and therefore once you have elected civilian rule the investments will come to life the economic life will be back to normal there will be a total restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive in. all these expectations to the economy of the. better economy the dignity the freedom the bread. all that evolution would 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 was. wanted a president now an elected president so that they can hold him accountable if you feel to be stored back the egyptian economy and if you feel to reform the security services so i had for you this hour an hour and

a change of tune once most vocal critic of russia's prime minister now tells a different tale. very few people who would see as many horrible freeze of his i did he once blamed for the death of his son alexander. but now the former f.s.b. officers father has changed his mind and offers his own theory of what happened. plus the latest incident for america's anti-corporate protesters face a heavy handed police response we ask how the occupy movement will cope with the eviction from the park they have occupied since early october. saturday was a day for demonstrations in russia 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 capita. with supporters and opponents of the current leadership braving the bitter cold to have their say it

was the third biggest opposition gathering after the parliamentary vote two months ago which protesters claimed was rigged 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 viable the leader at the moment . a very large rally is promised for the eleventh of 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 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 go 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 yvonne's our source says social policies are key and could undermine any of the opposition candidates campaign. 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 here i mean he's a he's a smart man and he's a rich man but. i think he falls. in the category because he's not involved in russia we are rich and successful man we are not in america we are in russia and the space of a social democratic country with what he has in store is 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 it 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 online as thousands gather for the protests and. highlights on camera check out the pictures on our facebook profile and there's more analysis on this and other top stories on our web site.

iran says 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 its 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 their congress america's initiative targeting to 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 the summer maintains its atomic ambitions are purely peaceful and seeks to prove it by cooperating more closely with the u.n. nuclear watchdog a team of i.a.e.a. inspectors visited iran this week and plan to return in february but some experts believe a positive outcome for the mission is not want the west wants to see. made

up of inspectors they don't necessarily control politically but i think what the united states walls is some kind of well state but you know we should could then use a good balance on balance the way to to lead to the next stage i think what we are witnessing here is is a build up cause of military culture and jaish and we have the mass of the flavors of u.s. military hardware troops going into israel to be stationed in israel all troops going to wage naval forces in goals there's not a lot i would describe as wythenshawe warfare the issue of nuclear weapons. of iraq's nuclear weapons is a red herring but it is a red herring which could lead to a well of recent audio. later in the program we hear from iran's and terror

minister who is certain has country will weather the storm of mounting sanctions and an exclusive interview with our team he said it's those countries imposing them that will end up being hit the hardest here's a sample of what's to come in the next hour. i think the way we're doing it again. 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 this new decision will result in further economic problems which as we can see have 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 escalation of the economic problems. thanks for being with us at nineteen past the hour anti-corporate protesters in

washington d.c. were evicted. this weekend from a park and they had occupied since early october a people were arrested on police using riot gear on horses raided the encampment officers said they were simply enforcing a no camping law and activists are allowed back into the park but the demonstrators say it was a full scale of action movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the alleged recent taser shocking of a nonviolent protest. that excessive force won't provoke activists says kevin zeese from the it's our economy think tank he tells r t that occupiers are too smart to fall into that trap. 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 meet fears in the day to ask about it people said the only thing he was due is taking the signs around the tents and said no camping and so that was the rationale for tasering him he was dropping the biology

is not being as threatening looks like a excessive use of force my sense is that it's not going to provoke the macpherson campers idea that there are more. discipline than that to fall for that kind of a trap the occupy movement in a few months i should show you 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 out of the sea and become more important the presidential race in two thousand and twelve. leaving economy china has promised to consider pumping cash reserves into the euro zone to help with the blocks the debt crisis that's often 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 e.u. leaders are working feverishly to force through unpopular financial lead to stay

right to slay said paul the tall 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 top lose 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 skeptic parties are getting better results 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've got a very slippery slope in these and what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing you through the chile 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 to the streets and so we can you know 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. and after protesters across europe seek to influence the debate as polish authorities decide to suspend proposed anti online chorusing legislation. last future sex some believe it could just be a matter of years before robots become a man's object of desire a scientist develop a amorous android get the full story and many more at r.t. dot com. here so consider a bloody mehta puton his arch enemy blaming him for the death of his beloved son alex on the go the former athens be officer but this week's scene alone expected change of heart from the fierce kremlin critic who now admits he simply said what

the west wanted to hear r.t. heard about that only thing the story firsthand. but is. this is how we found like that who bring 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 frozen to death the last time i was on christmas eve we expected more because six years ago after his son former afters be officer aleksandr litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some very powerful patrons like suffix out tycoon bruised result ski and kind of and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. .

yet you get extremist yo dorsett there are at least give me your yep real diverse you. when vicariously namco 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 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 admits he was saying only what the west wanted to hear. of course i realize russia's f.s.b. and the idea enough to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and they're suspect and a little boy is not a fool either it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me vikram 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. you know maybe in two thousand and eight but that in between young call flat russia for sanctuary need to leave it 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 libyan young co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom he knows a lot of money this miserable life has made him a slave of his century but surely 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 very old 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 the work of the year this is how soon of a look at the neighbor in the door to let the southern wind inside. do is east only as russia you are my homeland for children i want to go home to russia i do want to stay here you can sit in the church over our tea city ghalia eataly. and i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in just a few minutes. a

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