three. three. three. three. three. resolution on syria with moscow criticizing taking an unbalanced approach denying the realities on the ground. in egypt at least a dozen people are killed as anger at the authorities failure to prevent seventy four deaths out of football match on wednesday. protests. hundreds of thousands take to the streets in russia both pro and anti-government rallies are head of the march fourth presidential election.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us 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 the syrian government withdraw its all of its forces from the cities and towns and seize all of 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 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 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 he also accused some 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 you could be some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table from the very beginning of the syrian crisis to mining opportunities the political settlement by calling for regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and nor is it a thing 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 to go to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account. proposals look as well as withdrawing syrian armed forces from the cities this should be an inch to attorneys by own groups on 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 why 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 host 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. and as diplomats battle it out at the u.n. thousands of demonstrators have gathered in damascus in support of president bashar al assad the crowds also praised the decision by russia and china to block western

calls for regime change in syria but rick ross from the stopped nato group told our team that although moscow and beijing of value not to allow u.n. sanction foreign intervention in syria there is a chance the country may still be bombed from outside. what i fear is we may be see a replication of what happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the united states and its nato allies launched a seventy eight day bombing campaign against yugoslavia having failed to enlist chinese and russian support for un resolution against that and hear those lovely of . course the resolute stand on the principles down 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 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 of the world it's

a very select one largely saying for the for us to comparable resolution one thousand seven hundred three against libya last year no armed uprising of the sort of burned in syria could have occurred as in libya earlier possible route as long as the thirteen years ago without the understanding by those engaging with armed uprising that they would be supported by forces outside the. 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 assaults 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. 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 has 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 just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who quit their gun there and investigative but unfortunately they were pulled out for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this i. was of claims from their side we cannot predict what's going on but i don't think they're the i mean what's really mean it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like that happened before in. in just a short war in there and the opposition was not able to prove any of these claims over the best in months. police in egypt have again fired rubber bullets and tear gas to force a crowd of a rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in cairo the

clashes between security forces and the demonstrators have been raging for four days now and have left a dozen of 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 has more from kabul things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed to create these at the last few days and also very tragic the code so huge that massacre only one state when seventy four people died in this time heat one of the city's football stadiums has become by tells 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 to the streets as it's had actually become recently a common scene here in the capital cairo and i've been with through all of egypt the fact is people have been very weak to use bolivian port saeed incident to use

local sources especially the interior ministry of doing nothing of the law in this to have been allowing these deaths tolls and efficiency and actually only showed over instigating these trials they needed to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to follow and somehow i think also tearing through all the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from above last february and since then demonstrations actually have never told me after this happened only one state of the whole school food bill funds have come to live bullets nothing to the minister here in the central pa who just walked away from here seeking for justice and calling for 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 some 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 towards they didn't know for 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 it 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 in and when it's going to stop people not just but that's been conditioned to see to. the constitution as are unbelievably in fact even people might die and that they will they suffocate each day tuesday and everything today are trying them. not to light the fire and they don't schieffer. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over your news it'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 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 such as well the following point same incident the figure is that the people from the administration over the stadium have been detained and they're in custody right now is is that while the investigation is under going also taking a protest against a monster just three simply the supreme carlesimo of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. reporting for us there now still ahead on our t.v. a change of heart once a harsh critic of the kremlin he now says he will. is very few people who would see as many horrible things. the idea. he wants blamed for the media 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. was america's anti-corporate protesters are effected in a doner raid from the part of vevo occupied 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 march fourth prevent presidential vote excuse me two of the largest rallies took place in moscow where both supporters and opponents of the bloody medical team 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 are rigged political analysts to dmitri babich however says your 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 it's small the sun when they felt the handle of 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 radius there are people all kinds of ethnic groups in both race so right now i think it's. a positive effect because it sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now there are consequences for my wallstrip was if i hope it will continue in that way if there is a real split in society of course it's not going to be good for the country author and researcher says the west is funding of the russian opposition to minimize the country's influence on the world stage during a critical time. it's documented 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 dado president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever mistakes the. ten year has brought with it in 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 terminal russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. 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 including jules. process. some jim lessons with michelle obama who is living up to her reputation as one of america's most vigorous advocates of a healthy lifestyle and get that full story and much more of our t.v. dot com. iran says it will not give in to international pressure pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling

a single barrel of oil it's tehran's response to this week's approval by the u.s. 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 iranian oil which is due to come into force in july we islamic republic in turn has repeatedly said it will stop all crude supplies to some european countries before summer to iran 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 plans to return later in february political analyst. says keeping pressure on iran is a key issue in the u.s. election campaign. election especially if we go into the election they want to put

a lot of pressure on iran. obama administration. lobbyist a group inside the united states but i think they want to squeeze the pressure on iran they want to. community and i think what we have seen some you. talk peanut of damage against your brand. i think american trying. to go to the extreme by trying to destroy your brain the economy they've taken into consideration that iran is going through election parliamentary election probably the thing this is going to backfire in terms of the population of iran again. i think they go in very far in this in this and because this is going to have an implication for the world economy especially if this escalate to

a military showdown between barack and their uranium. and i corporate protesters in washington d.c. were evicted this weekend from a park they had occupied since early october eight people were arrested when mounted police raided the encampment other 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 abduction the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the recent taser shocking of a protester in d.c. kevin zeese of from the it's our economy think tank believes that the activists are smart enough not to overreact to excessive use of force by police. 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 be fierce and they'd ask about it people so the only the it was there was taking down signs around the tents that said no camping and so that was the rationale for

tasering he was dropping values not being as threatening it looks like the excessive use of force my sense is that it's not going to provoke the macpherson campers that they're more. disciplined than that to fall for that 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 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. lead again commie china has pledged to consider pumping cash reserves into the euro zone to help with the blocs 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 talk the negotiations are key to athens receiving a second bailout and are seen as its only opportunity to avoid default at the same time you need to be virtually to force through unpopular financial legislation.

paula not all 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 bending german 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 top lose well the tensions between the countries 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 or a new parties are spreading you know and euro 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 know a very slippery slope in these and what's happening at the moment over here is that the e.u. is really showing get through to 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. law 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 it will go straight in so we can you know they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to the will proceed he used to consider his arch enemy blaming him for the death of his son alexander litvinenko the former f.s.b. officer but this week you saw an unexpected change of heart from the fierce kremlin critic who now admits he simply said what the western press wanted to hear. spoke with artie's you catherine mcgrath. but is. this is how we found my. praying in his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no water. well. 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 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 ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . smoke three of them we brought. yet extremist yellow dogs that there are. just give me a yell pretty here doris you would be. the one biter you to 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 not to be made of it if you watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about all the hatred i had 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 the choice should be short of story what else can i answer the. only with. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we dove 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 put in 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 accusing 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.

an idiot you have to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and the suspect. is not a fool either it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me viper now believes his son fell victim to his own game of double agents now he wants his words to be heard but the media outside russia which once beat down his door for interviews now won't even reply to his requests. why is that because they like it when i scold 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 because i do. you know maybe in two thousand and eight but that in between young coal flett russia for sanctuary needs healing has settled in the sleeping quiet town of sunni guy it offered a 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 in 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 burial plot and it's been months since the electricity was shot on your to his flat he was lost for two euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to the would go to your new. book. to let the southern wind in sight. there is east only as russia.

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