russia and china blocked the western backed u.n. draft resolution on syria with moscow slamming the text for an unbalanced approach and denial of dialogue between the government and the opposition. and other stories that shape the 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. russia's bitter subzero temperatures hundreds of thousands joined a record breaking rallies both pro and anti-government the head of the next month's presidential vote.

eight pm in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story moscow says it's determined to help bring an end to the syrian crisis by implementing democratic changes it's sending its foreign minister to damascus for talks next week on saturday russia and china blocked the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria saying it could cause even more bloodshed because it took sides in the armed conflict for more on this i'm joined from new york by our teaser merino porton. so the vote at the security council happened almost a day ago but it seems tempers still running high tell us more. tempers are still flaring because as we've been reporting this should be surprise the security council did not reach a consensus on the draft resolution on syria yet western countries still host for a vote and russia warned from the very beginning that if the draft was not

a did not address some of russia's concerns it would veto and that's exactly what happened now let's talk about these concerns because moscow said it just requested some simple amendments would be made to the draft text that would have made the resolution a little bit more balance for example the draft resolution to the syrian government to withdraw its all of its forces from the cities and towns and seize all violence but russian officials want to document the draft resolution to also demand that the armed opposition groups stop participating in violence and retreat back from any cities or towns where it may have occupied the kremlin call it has called a draft text that was presented saturday morning to one side with a list of demands being made on the assad government but no note of armed opposition groups operating in syria now while addressing security council saturday a russian envoy to the u.n. fratelli churkin so the security council was not created for the sake of taking

sides or interfering in a civil war of sovereign countries he also accused some countries of sponsoring a campaign of regime change in syria those who are pushing for this resolution to be adopted take a listen. to you could be some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table from the very beginning of the syrian crisis been undermining opportunities for political settlement by calling for regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and not hesitating to encourage and freedom of methods of struggle the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately reflect the real situation in syria and since unbalanced signals to the syrian sides. it doesn't take into account proposals that as well as withdrawing syrian armed forces from the cities there should be an end to attacks by armed groups on state institutions and neighborhoods with a low balance you know when the u.s. delegation could not help but showing its frustration and anger why not

participating in the meeting saturday morning u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice clearly displayed her her frustration in some choice words that she decided to use during her speech. to. the united states is disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here addressing an ever deepening crisis in syria and a growing threat to regional peace and security. back in october when russia and china vetoed the first resolution on syria the u.s. delegation led by susan rice got up and walked out of the security council meeting as the syrian ambassador was speaking to my knowledge that has never happened before and this is an extremely professional setting on international stage and

usually delegations particularly the american one would never be seen getting up and storming out of a meeting that is what happened in october and then saturday we heard. the use some language that's normally not heard in these diplomatic settings like disgusted in shame and. that's what some some correspondents that were you know witness to it were saying after listening to her now the arab league for their part came out to the stakeout and said that. great regret and disappointment at russian china's veto but said that they would still try to continue working with the security council to try to get some type of resolution passed in the meantime as you mentioned the foreign minister russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is heading to damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al assad russia has been very vocal in trying to get hopes sides participating in the conflict in syria to come to the table and start speaking to one another and. using some type of dialogue instead of

violence to come to a peaceful approach so of course we will stay on the story and see how it evolves and works out all right are two very important ally for us from new york thanks for the. or a crow's off from the group stop nato says that although russia and china not to allow u.n. sanction for an intervention in syria there is still a chance the country could be barred from outside. 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 that nation of 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 the nato quality of the world the united states britain france and germany along with portugal they include all six

members of the gulf 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 us to comparable resolution one thousand and seventy three against libya last year no armed uprising of the sort occurring in syria could have occurred if it was in livio earlier kossovo in yugoslavia thirteen years ago without the understanding by those in gauging the armed uprising that they would be supported by forces outside the country. egyptian police have again fired rubber bullets in 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 arranging for four days now left a dozen people dead and thousands injured activists have been venting their anger over the military rulers alleged failure to prevent a deadly outbreak of violence at a football match wednesday artie's marie if an ocean it has more from cairo. things

have been extremely devastating and terribly killed so you can be sure to the last few days and also very tragic the code so you didn't massacre only one state when seventy four people died in a stump speech at one of the sweeties football stadiums has become bites how the deadliest incident since we bought a house that last february but it's also true you get a new wave of clashes between the police the army and defense reaches that's actually become something common seen here in the capital cairo and i've been with roads egypt the fact these people have been very weak to use food so late incident to use local stores is a special thing to me ministry of doing nothing of the law in this to have been the law in these doubts and we should see and actually only showed over instigating these trials a new to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to follow and somehow think through terror and lou all the

generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from the barak last february and since then to history she's actually had never told me after this happened only one state of the whole school food bill funds have come into the bill does nothing to the minister here in the central pa who just walks away from here seeking for justice and calling for the 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 last full day said twenty. to five hundred dollars into a good thing that it's a terrible disaster 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 with slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas

at the times doesn't even show that 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 the constitution as i'm believing in fact even people might die and that they will they suffocate each day to turn everything today at china that. that it might occur and they don't schieffer. 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 the doing to the world to the country and the children must be you was you can sensation 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 key figures people from the administration all 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 a protest system on's just very simply the supreme carlson of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. stay with us here on r t still ahead change your tune no one's bobo predict of russia's prime minister is telling a different tale. he sees these are. the ones who had to be putin for his son's death alexander litvinenko but now the former f.s.b. officers fathers changed his mind and offers his own theory to explain what happened. plus the latest incident verjee u.s. anti-corporate protests face a heavy handed police response we asked how the occupy movement will cope with eviction from the park they've occupied since early october. but first

saturday was a day of demonstrations in russia more than two hundred thousand people across the country voiced their political views ahead of next month's presidential vote two of the largest rallies happened in moscow with supporters and opponents of the current leadership braving bitter cold to have their say it was the third and largest opposition gathering after the parliamentary vote two months ago which protesters claim was rigged now their main demand is for a fair presidential vote in march for more on the russian rallies i'm joined in the studio by political analyst dimitri babich so thank you very much for joining us here so we've seen record numbers of people out on the streets of moscow and there hasn't been this level of civil activity in the capital or anywhere in russia really for many many years even in the run up to previous elections why do you think this is all happening right now but just because it's an election. because in december when the first oldest sections took police it was such

a surprise after so many years over relative quiet. i would see the side of the political spectrum mobilized itself so now we saw which in support us coming in huge numbers so every action produces that calm direction what we saw yesterday was basically direction. now the opposition rally to. in separate groups including liberals and nationalists do you think there could be a single viable leader behind whom these disparate groups could unite certainly not right now there are three distinctly different groups in the position of there are liberals. leftists in general and there are nationalists and certainly they cannot agree on a single leader the group that can profit most from what is going on other liberals because they have the more so the realistic demands they want government jobs and they want to forms that will queue with their gender and already there are signals that some of them may return to the government some of them were in the government

in the ninety s. certainly there are some there are some good signs for what i don't see could be in the former finance minister who also took part in the ready yesterday so liberals can profit for me but i don't think nationalist and commits to would be brutal too had they. now this is the first time use as you've mentioned we've seen a significant number of people coming out voicing their support for the for the leadership while at the same time there is this large group of the opposition do you think this signals a significant split within russian society. well frankly i don't think so it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people were obviously irritated seen the same two faces on television maybe too much in the last few months especially some people were terrified when they saw that position and it's small the ins and when they failed to handle the west behind it so it's more subtly media

driven there is no real cost struggle behind it there are people and reach people in both radius there are people of all kinds of ethnic groups in both race so right now i think it's been mostly of positive effect because it sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now their consequences might have more stability i hope it will continue in that wait if there is a real split in society of course it's not going to be good for the country now of a fair election has been the opposition's main demand and there been a number of reforms proposed in instituted including these are lecture or reforms and opening up on the political system and the prime minister saying he's going to have web cams at every polling station do you think if that will alleviate the concerns of the opposition in terms of fair elections well of course we're going to hear a lot of criticism anyway and a lot of people will not be convinced even if you have web cams at every inch

of the voting booths and the problem is that their position can only united on one thing you know fair elections in the balance as i told you they have three distinct groups with absolutely different ages. different by just you know with contradicting each other. so this is the only issue that they can unite on and i think the government would be wise to for all these demands and to have a fair election to make it last. responsible because it's in the government's interests i think putin can win on the streets why should he be you know resisting demands for fair elections. how do you see the situation developing well i hope we'll have a normal election. in march i hope the government will learn the lesson and putin will fall on his promises that he made in his three newspaper articles

assuming that he is all active pres as human that he is elected president. basically i mean i think the december events had a very positive effect on the politics in russia because. it is saw that there is some people with give it to you and you have to take the people's opinions and demands into account so i hope we will have a better country and will have a genuinely new putin in march two thousand and twelve. not because he is he will decide himself but just because i simply he has to for the trance and he has to take a previous into account all right dmitri babich thanks for your insight. well there is more about moscow's rival rallies online and. thousands gathered for a day of protests in. the highlights you can check out the big on our facebook

profile and there's more analysis on this and other top stories a click away. iran says it won't give in to international pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling a single barrel of oil is a response to the week's approval by u.s. senate committee of a package of sweeping sanctions against the islamic state but the bill has yet to pass through the entire congress the u.s. initiative targeting to iran's nuclear program follows the adopting a total of bardot want to wrong in oil which is due to come into force in july

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 by cooperating more closely with the u.n. nuclear watchdog. inspectors visited iran this week and plans to return in february but some other experts think a positive outcome for the mission isn't what the west wants. 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 the ballast on a balanced way to sort of lead to the next stage and i think what we are witnessing here is is a build up. of military confrontation we have the mass of the plane was of u.s.

military hardware troops going into israel to be stationed at israel also going to wait naval forces and go all of those i will i would describe as by the actual wall the issue of nuclear weapons. weapons is a red herring but it is a red herring which could well be set off. later in the program we hear from iran's interior minister who's certain his country will weather a storm of mounting sanctions and the interview with r.t. says that those countries imposing them well in the end being end up hit the hardest here's a sample of what he had to say coming out. i think. i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in turbulence for the oil and energy markets this very fact it can result in oil price growth in these conditions the west's judy expect the drop in the euro rate and the good this new decision will result in

further economic problems which as we can see the fix to the unity. they've been unable to find solutions the decisions taken today by the west unilaterally will result in the escalation of the economic problem. anti-corporate protesters in washington d.c. were evicted this weekend from a park they'd occupies early october eight people were arrested when police using riot gear and horses raided the camp it officer said they were simply enforcing a no camping law and activists are allowed back into the park demonstrators say it was a whole scale of fiction the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the alleged police and taser shocking of a nonviolent protester but excessive force was provoked activist says kevin zeese from the it's our economy think tank telling r.t. the 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 doing was taking the signs around the tents that said no camping and so that was the rationale for tasering he was doubting it 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 knew that there are more. discipline than that to fall for that kind of trash the occupy movement in a few months has shifted the debate and 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 on the scene and become more important the presidential race in two thousand and twelve. if i'm more on our top stories a click away at our t. dot com here's what's online right now. anti active protesters across the year about acting up seem influence the debate as polish authorities decide to suspend

proposed anti online piracy legislation. and future sex some believe it could be just a matter of years before robots become man's object of desire as scientists develop the cameras android you can get the full story at r.t. dot com. finally in this news joaquin used to consider what a mere putin his arch enemy blaming him for his son's death of alexander litvinenko former f.s.b. officer but this week saw an unexpected change of heart for the fierce kremlin critic who now admits he simply said what the west wanted to hear here is a voltaire link bank goes story. but you would. be limited edition of the b.b.c. is how we found like that he medium coup bring it he's tiny telling appointment only tricity no gas no water. what if it was if it wasn't for the help of various people i would have died from hunger or frozen to death the last

time i took a bath was on christmas day we expected more because six years ago after his son former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some very powerful patrons like self ixil tycoon who is berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . three of them we brought. yet you get extremist young dorsett there and he's just give me a yes but here doris you would be. one vicariously namco sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. what image of a different team even team mate of each if you watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the times 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 answer the only with. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we doe marina lee thin 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 to tan on putin 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 india 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 way 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 rude treasurer for their move in the hall there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about as i did as well. you know maybe in two thousand and eight but that in between young call flat russia for sanctuary needs healing has settled in the sleeping quiet town of sinegal when 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 living and co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom he owes a lot of money this miserable life has made him a slave of his sanctuary but surely the namco sold everything he had in russia to come to eataly he opened a small business several years ago but it went bankrupt things got worse after the seventy three year old had buried his wife but are now furious 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. you can i don't even do it to let the southern wind inside. there is east

only as russia you are my home learned. to notice i want to go home to russia i do want to stay here. he did the children aren't t. sity got eataly. we're back with a recap of the week's top stories in a few minutes stay with us.

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