three. three. three. three. three. russia and china vetoed the western. resolution on syria with moscow criticizing. taking an unbalanced approach the realities on the ground. in egypt at least a dozen people are killed. hundreds of. government rallies ahead of.

the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria saying that backing the bubbles over the government could cause even more bloodshed but moscow says it remains determined to end the syrian crisis by helping damascus democratic reforms russia's foreign ministry 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 to 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 their prime 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 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 don't you sleep with them still you could be 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 nor is it a thing to encourage and feed on the methods of struggle the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately reflect the real situation of syria and since unbalanced to goes 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 end to attacks by armed groups on state institutions and neighborhoods with a low balance year 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 be heard and use some language that's normally not heard in these diplomatic settings like discussed it 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 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 maybe 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 parties more important ever putting force there 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 at the decision by russia and china to block western calls for luzhin change in syria credit records offer from

a stop nato group told our tune that although moscow and beijing him down not to allow u.n. sanction for an intervention in syria there's a chance the country may still be bombed pronoun side. but i fear as we made the original 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 move here it was lovely of. course that the resolute stand on the principled stand taking the taken by russia and china against a resolution that we have to remember was sponsored by morocco and co-sponsored by a very interesting group of people they include the 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 emirates and in the persian gulf this is not a representative group nations of course in the united nations of the world it's

a very select one it'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 burned in syria could have a gird it was a libya earlier possible route as long as thirty years ago without the understanding by those in gauging 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 homs just ahead of the vote on the un security council the government denies that 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 should be taken at face value i mean the works not to be leaving the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the new security council meeting it decided to start bombarding homes. to which incomes have been difficult for the syrian. regime

supporters for such a long time and i don't see why the the army would choose such critical timing just start it's a vicious crackdown and describe it they are only cleans and just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could have gone there and investigate it but unfortunately they were pulled out for a little good reason and therefore they are only claims from this side of opposites claims from that side so we cannot treat it with 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 james like that happened before in fact just a short and the opposition was not able to prove any of these claims over the past and months. police in egypt have again fired rubber bullets and tear downs to force a crowd of rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building entire row of clashes between 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 will rulers failure to prevent an outbreak of violence at a football match on wednesday that left seventy four dead correspondent maria from russia has more from cairo. things have been extremely devastating and terribly kilty clearly these are the last two days and also very tragic the code so the massacre only one state when seventy four people died in this time heat it's one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incidences were barak ousted last february but it's also triggered a new wave of clashes between the police the army and defense reaches that have actually become something common seen here in the capital cairo and everywhere through all of egypt the fact these people have been very weak to use following points lead incidents to use local forces especially the interior ministry of doing

nothing of the allowing this to happen allowing these deaths also inefficiency and actually pulled over instigating these trailers they needed to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to follow somehow the. terrorism rule the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from the barak last february and since then demonstrations actually have never stole shortly after this happened only one state 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 four days and 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 masoud 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 the queen but many many people there chanting and to mix the slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas at the. ties to them to even. be 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 the condition didn't she to. the cast of the good guys i don't believe in the fact even people might die you know they would they suffocate each day to deny everything today and shine them. not to light the fire and be deceivers . that the chinese the seventy seven year old china that it's over here needs it's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and the doing to the interests of the country and the children must do well as 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 months i was well before when point same incident key. people from the administration told this to do have been detained and they're in custody right now is that while the investigation is ongoing and also maintain a protest system ons just recently the supreme called the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country or to use maría for national force there now still ahead on r t once a harsh critic of the kremlin he now says he was wrong. the father of murdered x f s b agent alexander litvinenko wants to blame the blood in your kitchen for the death of his son but now he's had a change of heart. plus america's anti-corporate protesters are affected in a dog raid from the park occupied since early october. in

a rush 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 blood being a poor. and took to the streets for the ark in opposition it was the third in one of the largest gathering since problem entry elections two months ago which they claim were rigged political analyst dmitri babich however says the split is fueled by the mass media and is 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 there are 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 the consequence of smarter 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 author and a researcher at william and dol says the west is funding 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 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 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 did 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 putin. tenure 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 u.s.

interference in internal russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. 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 luxury liner costa concordia including the jewels and the antiques plus. jim lessons with michelle obama who is living up to her reputation as one of america's most vigorous advocates of a healthy lifestyle the full story and much more. 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 it's 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 e.u. adopting a total embargo on iranian oil which is due to come into force in july the islamic republic in turn has repeatedly said it will stop all crude supplies to some european countries before summer tehran maintains its atomic ambitions are purely peaceful and seeks to prove it by cooperating more closely with the u.n. nuclear watchdog team of i. visited iran this week and plans to return later in february political analyst. says that keeping the 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. but i think they want to squeeze. the pressure on iran they want to.

think what we have seen. in the. again. 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 on 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 the american and the uranium. anti-corporate protesters in washington d.c. were a victim this weekend from a park they had occupied since early october eight people were arrested when mounted police raided the encampment officers said they were simply enforcing

a no camping wall and activists are allowed back into the park but the demonstrators say it was a full scale of the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the recent taser shocking of a protester and be seen. from the 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 make fears on the day to ask about it people said 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 he was dropping values not being as threatening looks like an 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 kind of track the occupy movement in

a few months i should show you american people that if they get mobilized and organized that we have power we can change the direction this country so the future's going to be an american spring that's going to explode 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 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 talks the negotiations are key to athens receiving a second bailout and are seen as its only opportunity to avoid default at the same time new leaders are working feverishly to force through unpopular financial legislation paul not a member of the european parliament for the u.k. . the independence party says that the people won't take kindly to these measures being forced upon them. it's only going to get worse i mean at the moment they're burning german flags on the streets of athens i predict it will be roll next and

then lisbon 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 greater and what you've got is you've got protests in the south and what we're seeing in the north is a political revolution where new parties are spreading you know and 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 and so we do you know they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to democracy he 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 the fierce kremlin critic who now admits he simply said what the western press wanted to hear walter lippmann yank oh spoke with r.t. if your company. but is. this is how we found might could lead to praying in his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no water. what if 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.

. would you smother your time we broke. yet you get extremist you know that there are. just give me your pretty here doris you will be. one by three pm co sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. well i didn't have a dinner if i remember that he made a video if you watching this program please forgive me for all the slander that i said and wrote about the hatred or how do you 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 choice of story what else can i answer. the u.-turn valter says came when his sons we don't know rina bin 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 cole 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 admits 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're suspect and a little boy not a fool either way it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me vadra 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 wants 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 flat russia for century needs healing has settled in the sleeping quiet town of sydney gallian 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 libyan young co is still afraid to open this door now 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 a casket could be removed because he hasn't paid the cost of a barrel plot and it's been months since the electricity was shot on to his flat he was lost for two euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to the work of the u.s. navy this is how. it can do to let the southern wind in sight. there is east only as russia. learned. to notice i want to go home to russia i do want to stay here. some other news making headlines around the world this hour. least one person has

reportedly been killed when one police police excuse me used to break up indigenous people the demonstrators blocked a road used by mining operations on their ancestral lands they were also voicing their concerns over state proposals to liberalize the country's mining industry which would lead to environmental damage. seventeen bodies have been recovered by rescuers a. boat carrying illegal immigrants from the dominican republic capsized on saturday. also been pulled from the water authorities say the number of the dead is expected to go up at least forty people are still missing the boat was heading to neighboring puerto rico when it overturned. freezing temperatures across. ukraine is the hardest hit with another reported bringing the toll to one hundred thirty one one thousand eight hundred people have been taken to hospital eight

people have also died in poland bringing the death toll to fifty three. thousand without power according to the low temperatures will continue into next week. and. this week's main stories in just a few minutes stay with us you're watching.

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