russia and china vetoed the western. resolution on syria with moscow. taking a balanced approach to the realities on the ground. dozen people are killed as anger at the authorities failure to prevent seventy four deaths at a football match on wednesday sparked protests. and hundreds of thousands take to the streets in russia both government rallies and head of march fourth presidential .

and two o'clock in the morning here in moscow glad to have you with us let's take a look at the top stories on saturday russia and china blocked the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria saying that backing the rebels over the government could cause even more bloodshed but moscow says it remains determined to end of the syrian crisis by helping damascus implement democratic reforms russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov is due to visit the country for talks next week. has been following the diplomatic battle in new york. tempers are still flaring because as we've been reporting this should be surprise 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 that 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 chemical as 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. fratelli 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 some countries of sponsoring a campaign of regime change in syria those who are pushing for this resolution to

be adopted don't you sleep with them still you could put some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table from the very beginning of the syrian crisis has been undermining opportunities for political settlement by calling for regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and not his if anything to encourage and freedom of methods of struggle for 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 look as well as withdrawing syrian armed forces from the city this should be an ins two attorneys by own groups own state institutions and neighborhoods with a low balance you know when the signal is now the u.s. delegation could not help but showing its frustration and anger when not 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 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. ortiz myrna porno reporting for us there from new york now as diplomats battle it out at the u.n. thousands of demonstrators have gathered in damascus in support of president bashar assad the crowds also praised the decision by russia and china to block western

calls for regime change in syria but rick was off from the stop nato group told r.t. that although moscow and beijing vowed not to allow u.n. sanction to foreign intervention in syria there's a chance the country may still be bombed from outside. what i fear is we may be see a refutation 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 not only here but saw the. record as 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 nato quality of the world the united states britain france and germany along with portugal to include all six members of the draw cooperation council that is the monarchies and camera some in the persian gulf this is not

a representative group of nations of course in the united nations of the world it's a very select one that's largely the same for the first a comparable resolution one thousand seven hundred three against libya last year no armed uprising of the sort of burning in syria could have occurred as in libya earlier kossovo to those long for 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 the government denies the assault calling the reports a hysterical campaign of incitement by armed groups the editor of the syria tribune dr ali mohamed says information supplied by the opposition shouldn't be taken at face value. i.e. in their works 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 hans this too which in

homs has been difficult for the syrian. regime supporters for such a long time and i don't see why they get the army which was such a critical timing just start it's a vicious crackdown and the strike it is they are only cleans and just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could their gun there and investigative but unfortunately they were pulled over for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this i hope as it's claims from their side we cannot treat it with what's going on but i don't think that the army was really mean it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like that happened before in fact just a short warning there and the opposition was not able to prove any of these claims over the past in months. police in egypt have again fired rubber bullets and tear gas to force a crowd of rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in

cairo the clashes between the security forces and demonstrators have been raging for four days now and have left a dozen people dead and thousands injured activists have been venting their anger over the military rulers failure to prevent an outbreak of violence at a football match on wednesday that left seventy four dead our correspondent there from cairo. things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed here eighties in the last two days and also very tragic the code so huge a massacre only one state when seventy four people died in the stump speech as one of the city's football stadiums has become bites how the deadliest incidences were barak ousted last february but it's also trying to get a new wave of clashes between the police the army and different street is that have actually become recently a common scene here in the capital cairo and every withdrawal of egypt the fact these people have been very weak to use bolivian port saeed incident to use local

forces especially the interior ministry moved doing nothing of the law in these two had been allowing these deaths over inefficiency and actually only showed over instigating these tell you so you would see preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to follow somehow the. terrorism lul the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from mubarak last february and since then demonstrations actually have never told me after this happened only one state vote the whole school food bill funds have come to the booths nothing to the minister here in the central pa who just walks away from here seeking for 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. last full day said 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 hollywood they've been many many people there chanting continue to be 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 and when it's going to stop people not just because the conditions defeated. the cost of the students are unbelievable the fact even people might die and that they will they suffocate each day to turn everything today and john that. that it might occur and they don't leave or. that the child is seventy seven year old china it's over your news it's more than enough what they're doing to the protesters and that they're doing to the interests of the country and the children must be. close 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 point same incident the figure is 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 to go in and also maintain the protesters to mons just recently there's a film called some of the armed forces it flies read has also called for early presidential elections in the country. or to use much of a national reporting force there now still ahead on r.t. change of heart once a harsh critic of the kremlin says he was wrong. but there's very few people who would say as many hundred fifty. so i did. he once when drug put in for the death of his son alexander litvinenko but now the former f.s.b.

officers father has changed his mind and offers his own theory to explain what happened. because america's anti-corporate protesters are effected in a dawn raid from the part of a volunteer pied since early october. in russia over two hundred thousand people across the country have braved the freezing temperatures to voice their political views ahead of the march fourth presidential vote two of the largest rallies took place in moscow where both supporters and opponents of putin took to the streets for the opposition it was the third and one of the largest gathering since parliamentary elections two months ago which they claim more rigged political analyst dmitri babich however says that the split is fueled by the mass media and is not deeply rooted. it's mostly just emotional 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 the way they saw that position and its slogans and when they failed to handle the west behind it so it's mostly media driven there is no real cost struggle behind it they're all poor 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 mostly a positive effect because it sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now their consequence a smarter more step was if 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. author and researcher ethel william says the west is funding the russian opposition to minimize the country's influence on the world stage during a critical time this document from the records of the national endowment for

democracy which is a washington government financed goal that's all over the place in russia their 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 for a 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 create regime change in iran and throughout the middle east and you raise or to try to divert 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 pro president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i 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 total russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. 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 to tehran'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 tehran's nuclear program follows the adopting a total embargo on the iranian oil which is due to come into force in july the islamic republic in turn has repeatedly said it will stop all crude supplies to some european countries before summer tehran maintains its atomic ambitions are

purely peaceful and seeks to prove it by cooperated more closely with the u.n. nuclear watchdog a team of inspectors in visit visited iran this week and plans to return in february political analyst. says keeping pressure on iran is a key issue in the u.s. election campaign. american election especially if we go into the election they want to put a lot of pressure on iran and. obama administration. lobbyist a group inside the united states but i think they want to squeeze the pressure on iran they want to. american law international community and i think what we have seen some european talk peanut of again. i think american trying. to go to the extreme by trying to destroy the

economy they've taken into consideration that iran is going through election. probably the thing this is kind of backfired. against. i think they go on very far in this in this because this is going to have an implication for the world economy especially if this escalate to a military showdown between america and the iranian. well later in the program we hear from iran's interior minister who is 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 to come in just over ten minutes from now. but i wish that 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 judy

expect the drop in the euro raising kids that this new decision will result in further economic trouble which as we can see have affected them already and so far they've been unable to find solutions to the decisions taken today by the west you know latterly will result in the escalation of the economic problems. and corporate protestors in washington d.c. were a victim this weekend from a park they'd occupied since early october eight people were arrested when mounted police raided the encampment officers said they were simply enforcing a no camping and activists are allowed back into the park but the demonstrators say it was a full scale invasion the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the recent a taser shock and of a protester in d.c. kevin zeese from the it's our economy think tank believes that the activists are smart enough not to overreact to excessive use of force by the police. who knows

what's going through their head space on that you know when we i watched that video available online and it looked 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 down signs around the tents that said no camping and so that was the rationale for tasering him he was dropping while he was not being threatening looks like an excessive use of force my sense is that it's not going to provoke the macpherson campers. that there are more. discipline than that to fall for that trap the occupy movement in a few months. and show you american people that if they get mobilized and organized that we have power we can change the direction this country is 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 pledged to consider pumping cash reserves into the euro zone to help with

the blocks debt crisis the offer comes after strong lobbying by the german chancellor during her three day trip to the country it comes as the e.u. awaits the conclusion of a drawn out greek debt talks negotiations are key to athens receiving a second bailout and are seen as its only opportunity to avoid a default at the same time you know that is are working with feverish to force through unpopular financial legislation not all but the group in parliament for the u.k. independence party says that people won't take kindly to these measures being forced upon them. only going to get worse i mean at the moment they're bending jamming the flags on the streets of athens i predict it will be roll next and then there's been you never know it could be toppled as well the tensions between the countries particularly between the north of europe and the south of europe is only going to get great 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 or a new parties a spring in all and you're a 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

history i think you know the very slippery slope in these and what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing its the chill in what it's all about it doesn't want to listen to the people they're talking about into the local agreements and this will go into crimea through secondary legislation which means that the people can be bypassed there will be referendums across the continent particularly in iowa where the should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they will bypass the people and people them streets in sweden you know or they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to democracy. well you can get more on this and other stories online twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a glimpse of what is waiting for you there right now from tragedy to treasure hunt thousands of works of art are up for grabs aboard the stricken luxury liner costa concordia. plus. with michelle obama who is living up to her reputation as one of america's most vigorous advocates of a healthy lifestyle full story and much more. 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 another expected change of heart from the fierce kremlin critic who now admits he simply said what the western press wanted to hear walter litvinenko spoke to our team. but is. this is how we found life. praying in his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no water what. if it wasn't for the help of people who would have died from hunger and today he. was on christmas eve. 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 suffix out tycoon boris berezovsky and. and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u k. you sleep do you smoke three of them we brew up. yet you get extremist yogurt or sit there or he just give me a yes but here doris you would be. one vital european and co sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. we're going to be made. if you're watching this program please forgive me of all the slander the thai said and wrote about the hatred or how do you know only i had known my son worked for british intelligence you would not talk about his death he could easily have been shot as a double agent the chinese should be short of story what else can i answer.

the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we doe marina been and co revealed to the british media that her husband had worked for and 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 town on putting 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 you have to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave

traces everywhere and they suspect a little boy 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. because. of the regime i was a root treasure for the movie the whole there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about as i did. you know living in two thousand eight hundred million call flett russia for sanctuary needs healing has settled in the sleeping quiet town of sinegal it offered to new anonymous life the men claimed putin was his number one enemy so hiding in europe he believed was the only safe solution today by their lives when young 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 for now fears here 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's lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to. this is how. it can anybody do it to let the southern wind inside. there is east only as russia. learned from. children who want to go home to russia i do want to stay here. our t.

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