russia and china blocked a western backed u.n. draft resolution on syria with moscow slamming the text unbalanced approach and denial of dialogue between the government and opposition. other stories shaping the week riots returned to egypt as anger at the authorities failure to prevent eid deadly soccer brawl spills over into four days of violent clashes that have already seen a dozen dead. in russia's bitter subzero cold hundreds of thousands to a record breaking rallies both pro and anti-government ahead of next month's presidential vote.

ten pm in moscow i match president good to have you with us here on our team our top story moscow says it's determined to help bring an end to the syrian crisis by implementing democratic reforms it's sending foreign minister lavrov 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 artie's marina porton has latest from new york. tempers are still flaring because as we've been reporting this should be surprised that the security council did not reach a consensus on the draft resolution on syria yet western countries still pushed 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 different and the syrian government withdraw its all of its forces from the cities and towns and seize all all violence but russian officials wanted the 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 crime call it has called the 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 the security council saturday a russian envoy to the u.n. for tali churkin said the security council was not created just for the sake of taking sides or interfering in a civil war of sovereign countries you also accuse some kind of some countries of

sponsoring a campaign of regime change in syria those who are pushing for this resolution to be adopted. some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table have 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 soon unbalanced signals to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account proposals that as well as withdrawing syrian old forces from the cities there should be an end to attorneys by armed groups on state institutions and neighborhoods. now the u.s. delegation could not help but showing its frustration and anger when our participating in the meeting saturday morning we heard. you some language that's normally not heard in these diplomatic settings like disgusted in shame 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 in the meantime the 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 both sides participating in the conflict in syria to calm. 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. as diplomats continue their showdown over syria thousands of demonstrators gathered in some in damascus in support of president assad crowds also praised the decision by russia and china to block western calls for regime

change in syria were throws off from the stop nato group tells our team that although moscow and beijing that our not to allow u.n. sanction for intervention there is a chance the country could still be bombed by the broad. but i fear as we made the see a replication of what happened in one thousand nine hundred nine when the united states and its nato allies launched some of the bombing campaign against yugoslavia having failed to enlist chinese and russian support for un resolution against not only a few of those laws i'm hoping for is that the resolute stand take 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 nato quality of the world the united states britain france and germany along with words are going to include all six members of the drawing board relation council that is the monarchies an emirates in the persian gulf this is not a representative group of nations of course in the united nations of the world is

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 that was sort of burned in syria could have occurred if it was in libya and earlier possible route as long as the thirty years ago without the understanding by those engaging with 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 homs just ahead of the vote of the u.n. security council but the government has denied the assault calling the reports a hysterical campaign of incitement by armed groups the editor of the syrian tribune dr ali mohamed says information from the opposition shouldn't 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 u.n. security council meeting it decided it will start bombarding homes this too which

in homs had been difficult for the syrian. regime supporters for such a long time and i don't see why did they get the army which was such a critical timing to just start it's a vicious crackdown has described it if they are only planes and to just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could their gun there and investigative but unfortunately they were pulled out of a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this i have a specific claims from their side we cannot read into 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. gyptian police have again fired rubber bullets in tear gas to drive a truck 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 leaving 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 archies maria notion that as more. things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed cheeky eighty's within the last few days and also very tragic they pulled so huge a massacre only one state when seventy four people died in the stump speech at one of the city's football stadiums has become by tells the deadliest incident since mubarak alstott last february but it's also true you get a new wave of clashes between the police the army and defense treaties that have actually become something common seen here in the capital cairo and have been with slow egypt the fact these people have been very weak to use polling who would cite the incident to use loses a special thing to me ministry of doing nothing of the law in this to have been the

law in these deaths so far and if we should seek to actually only showed over instigating these kind of those they knew to preserve the situation of instability in the country you know to fit into existing following 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 still shortly after this happened only one state public schools food bill funds have come into the pits nothing to do in the city in the central part of just months away from here seeking food 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 five hundred dollars to do things 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 this one the streets they didn't to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry meeting in prague with the queen many many people they're chanting and to mix the slogans from time to time police has been the firing tear gas at the times 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 who's going to go and when it's going to stop people not just because the conditions teaching the kids to the students are unbelievably effect even people might die and that there will be such a thing each day to turn everything today at china the thing that's like the fear and the chief risk. 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 they're doing to the to the country. it's still very much below was you can see situation is very

volatile here in cairo and actually in several other cities throughout egypt but we can also you can talk now about several months as well the following points incident the figure is that the people from the administration told this to do have been detained and they're in custody right now is is that while the investigation is to go in also make a protest against a month just recently the supreme council of the armed forces it flies read has also called for early presidential elections in the country. or marsh or from the institute of arab and islamic studies at exit or university says egyptians are tired of waiting for accountable leadership. supreme council of the armed forces. mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street it would rise even because they thought that they would be. followed 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 would be a total restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive. put off to a do it in the mubarak era and all these expectations to the of the economy to enhance the better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans of that evolution would not be accomplished by a year after that evolution that's why that is the last friday and on the university of that it would. wanted a president now an elected president now 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 well stay with us here on r t still to come this hour a change of tune a once a vocal critic of the russian prime minister now tells a different tale. there's very few people who would see as many horrible things

about as i did as well but he once blamed lattimer putin for the death of his son alexander litvinenko but now the former f.s.b. officers bother to change his mind offering his own theory to explain what happened . plus the latest incident for the u.s. anti-corporate protesters face a heavy handed police response we ask how the occupy movement will cope with from a part they have occupied since early october. but before we get to that saturday was a day of demonstrations in russia more than two hundred thousand people gathered across the country voicing their political views ahead of next month's presidential vote two of the largest rallies happened in the capital was supporters and opponents of the car. leadership braving bitter cold to have their voices heard it was the third and largest opposition gathering after the parliamentary vote two months ago that protesters say was a break now their main demand is for their presidential votes and large political

analysts to be true babbage says there is no split in russian society but the rallies will positively influence the political climate in the country. it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people are obviously irritated to see the same two faces on television maybe too much in the last few months especially that some people were terrified when they saw all of that position and it's a small incident when they failed to handle the west behind it so it's mostly media driven there is no real cost struggle behind it there are people and reach people in both ratings there are people of all kinds of ethnic groups in both race so right now i think it's mostly a positive effect because it is so that he wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now the consequence of smoke more stupid as if i hope it will continue. to wait if there is

a real split in society of course it's not going to be good for the country offer a researcher f. william engdahl thinks the west is funding the russian opposition to minimize the country's influence on the world stage during a critical time. it's documentable from the records of the national endowment for democracy which is a washington government financed geo that's all over the place in russia they're financing activists in. several different cities in russia i think really their expectation is to create as much internal unrest in russia as possible to distract the prospective from new putin presidency at a time when russia is going to face challenges with the missile defense with the destabilization of the assad regime in syria the attempt to really create a regime change in iran and throughout the middle east and you raise or to try to divert to any russian any incoming russian government from dealing with these

crises they're trying to do the same template they used in ukraine with the orange revolution in georgia to bring saakashvili into power as a. president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i read whatever mistakes the. ten year has brought with it whatever discontent is i think there are a lot of things that have significantly improved over the last years since the time of the yeltsin era. but that that really isn't the point the point is us interference in internal russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated in the end that's quite right not to tolerate it and there's more about moscow's rival rallies on the line as thousands gather for a day of protests that are to photographer highlights on camera check out the pictures on our facebook profile and there's more analysis on this and plenty more at other top stories at our dot com.

it's. iran says it won't bow to international pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling a single barrel of oil this is tehran's response to the 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 the full congress u.s. initiative targeting to iran's nuclear program follows the adopting a total of bardot on iranian oil due to come into force in july islamic republic in turn has repeatedly said in a halt all crude supplies to some european countries before summer tehran maintains

its sentamu tomic ambitions are purely peaceful seeking 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 with plans to return in february but some skeptics think a positive outcome for the mission is not what the west wants. as they don't necessarily control politically but i think what the united states was is some kind of a state but it's you know which they use is a. way to sort of lead to the next stage i think what we. see here is is a build. tools the ability to go for it we have the mass it was the u.s. military home of troops going into israel to be stationed that israel also going to the weight label. in galt's those diarrheal i would describe as why this whole wall

the issue. of iran's nuclear weapons is a red herring but it is a red herring which could well as we said are you. later in the program we hear from iran's interior minister who says his country will weather the storm of mounting sanctions in an exclusive interview with r.t. he says that the country imposing them that wind up being hit hardest here's a sample of what you have to say in about ten minutes. i think. i believe they've made a big mistake as this action results in to be in this 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 euro get 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 installation of the economic problems.

anti-corporate protesters in washington d.c. were evicted this weekend from a park they occupied since early october eight people were arrested when police using riot gear and horses raided the in cabinet officers said they were enforcing a no camping law and that the activists are allowed back into the park demonstrators say it was a full scale of action the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics looting the recent alleged tasering of a nonviolent protester but excessive force will provoke the activists says kevin zeese from the it's our economy think tag telling our team that 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

and said no camping and so that was the rationale for tasering he was dropping values not being as threatening it 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. and show the american people that if they get mobilized and organized that we have power we can change the direction this country so the future's going to be an american spring that's going to split out of the scene and become more important the presidential race in two thousand and twelve. course you can find our top stories online twenty four hours a day at our team dot com here's what's a click away right now. anti act protesters acting up across europe seeking to influence the debate as polish authorities decided to suspend the proposed piracy registration. plus future sex some believe it could be just a matter of years before robots become the objects of man's desire while scientists

develop the android get the full story and plenty more at our team dot com. used to consider vladimir putin his arch enemy blaming him for the death of his son alexander litvinenko the former f.s.b. officer but this week saw an unexpected change of heart from a fear of crime one critic who now admits he simply said what the western press wanted to hear walter lippmann a go spoke with r.t. as a catherine mcgrath. but you would. be limited edition of the. b.b.c.'s how we found might could lead to any and coup praying in his tiny telling apartment no electricity no gas no water. what if the 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 aleksandr litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some

very powerful patrons like cell fix out-i khun boris berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . three of them we brought. here to get extremist yo 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. wouldn't have a different if not be me that the mood of each if you're watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about you for the hatred i had for you even only i had known my son worked for british intelligence i would not talk about his death he could easily have been shot as a double agent betrayers should be short of story what else can i add to the holes

in the view of. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his son's 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 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 one because they like it when i scold the regime i was a rude treasure for the end of the hall 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 needs healing is settled in the sleeping quiet town of sydney guy 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 was the live in young co is still afraid to open this

door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom he was a lot of money this miserable life has made him a slave of his sanctuary virtually 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 here casket could be removed because he hasn't paid the cost of a burial plot and it's been months since the electricity was shut off to his flat he was lost for two euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to. this is how on earth look at the number in the duel to let the southern wind inside. there is east only as russia you are my home learned for children i want to go home to russia i do want to stay here he said in the church over our t.

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