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write to it on a saturday russia and china blocked the latest un security council resolution on syria saying that backing of the rebels 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 minister sergey lavrov is due to visit the country for talks next week. has been following the developments in new york. tempers are still flaring because as we've been reporting and this should be surprise 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 to the syrian government with 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 from 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 he also accused some current 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 the stude you could put it 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 or taking to encourage and freedom of methods of struggle for the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately reflect the real situation of syria and since unbalanced to go to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account. proposals that 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 hopes sides participating in the conflict in syria to come to the table and start speaking to one another and. using some type of dialogue instead of violence to come to a peaceful approach so of course we will stay on the story and see how it evolves and works out. artie's more important i have reporting for us there 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 rhetoric from the stop nato group told arteta that although moscow into beijing a valid not to allow u.n. sanction for intervention in syria there's a chance the country may still be barred from the 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 the slavia i'm hoping is 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 to 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 the same for the first a comparable resolution one thousand seven hundred three against libya last year no armed uprising that was sort of burned in syria or could have occurred if it was in libya earlier possible route as long as the 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 homs 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 be 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 hans this too which again has had been difficult for the syrian. regime supporters for such a long time and i don't see why they get the army would choose such critical timing to just start it's a vicious crackdown at this drive it is they are only cleans and just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could their gun there and investigate it but unfortunately they were pulled out for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this i. was it's claims from their side we cannot predict what's going on but i don't think that the army was really it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like that happened before in fact in just a short war in 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

down to force a crowd to rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in cairo clashes between security forces and the 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 for ball match on wednesday that left seventy four day. period production has more from cairo. things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed sheikh here these are the last two days and also their tragic their code so he didn't massacre only one state when some to school people died in the stump speech of one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself 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 and to the streets as that's actually become recently a common scene here in the capital cairo and everywhere through all of egypt the

fact these people have been very weak to use following quote saeed incident to use local forces especially the interior ministry to move doing enough in the law in this to have been allowing these deaths tolls and efficiency and actually only showed over instigating these trejos they needed to preserve the situation of instability in the country you know did you eventually just to find some power thing through terror and rule though the generals for the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from the government last february and see signs of history she's actually had never told me after this happened only one state vote the whole school food bill funds have come to the booths nothing to do in the city in the central part of it just walks away from here seeking for justice and calling for the amy did transition over power from the ministry to civil the situation is until early presidential elections and since then twelve people have been killed in the long. all day seven twenty five hundred dollars billion to mean that it's

a terrible disaster i have to say i hope you can see the pictures right now as you can imagine. while masoud street is a narrow street is one of the streets they didn't to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in hollywood the queen many many people there chanting 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 and when it's going to stop people not just but that's the condition then she's in. the constant the cigars are unbelievably effect even people might die and that they will they suffocate each day to turn everything today trying them. not to light the fire and they don't she believes. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over your needs it's more than enough what they're doing to the protesters of it

they're doing it to them and 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 months as well the following point same incident the figure is people from the administration all this to do have been detained and they're in custody right now is that while the investigation is ongoing and also maintaining a protest system on just recently the supreme carlson of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. still ahead on our team it wants a harsh critic of the kremlin here now says he was wrong. the father of murdered ex f.s.b. agent alexander litvinenko once blamed blood for the death of his son but now he's having to change your. plus america's anti-corporate protesters are effected in

a doner raid from the park they've occupied since early october. and russia over two hundred thousand people have across the country have braved the freezing temperatures to voice their political views ahead of march fourth presidential vote two of the largest balance took place in moscow where both supporters and opponents of bloody me 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 were rigged political analysts to dimitry about how ever says the split is fueled by the mass media and is deeply rooted. it's it's mostly just emotional fueled by the media some people were obviously irritated seen the same two faces on television and 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 threads 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 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 a researcher f. william and all 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 oh it'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 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 you cut 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 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 terminal russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. 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 the board of the stricken luxury liner. including jewels and antiques plus. lessons with michelle obama who's a living up to her reputation as one of america's most vigorous advocates of a healthy lifestyle the full story and much more at r.t. dot com. 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 in 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 that you adopting a total embargo on iranian oil which is due to come into force into july public 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 inspectors visited iran this week and plans to return later on friday and in february excuse me 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 and. obama administration.

inside the united states but i think they want to squeeze the pressure on iran they want to. think what we have seen some european talk. again. i think. to go to the extreme by trying to destroy. the economy they've taken into consideration that iran is. probably the thing this is kind of. again. i think they go on very far in this because. this is going to have an implication for the world economy especially this escalate to a military showdown between american. job anti-corporate protesters in washington

d.c. where vick did this week from a park of a to occupied since early october eight people were arrested when mounted police raided the encampment officer 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 invasion the occupy movement has seen some heavy handed police tactics including the recent taser shocking of a protester in d.c. kevin zeese from 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 watch that video it's available online and it looks like there is no justification for it when i went to meet fears and they'd 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 he was dropping values not being as frightening looks like the excessive

use of force my sense is that it's not going to provoke the campers that there are more. discipline than that to fall for that kind of 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 is leading the 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 drawn out greek debt talks negotiations are key to athens receiving a second bailout. and are seen as its only opportunity to avoid default at the same time your leaders are working feverishly to force through unpopular financial legislation not all a member of the european parliament for the u.k.

independence party says that the people don't take kindly to these measures being forced upon them. 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 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 or a new parties are spreading you know 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 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 it's time to chill in 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 a 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 there should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they will bypass the people and it

will go straight into review you know and they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to the walker says he used to 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 levin yeah go spoke with arteries are cut in about children. but is. this is how we found my. praying in his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no water. what. if it wasn't for the help of the area's 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 alexander litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some

very powerful patrons like self ixil 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 young dorsett there and he's just give me a yes but 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. but they're going to be made that he made a video if you watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about the hatred. 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 don't know rina bin and co revealed to the british media that her husband had worked for and my 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 aleksandr 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 her and me it's he was saying only what the west wanted to hear. of course i realize russia's f.s.b. and the idea 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 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 wants 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 as i did. you know living in two thousand eight hundred million call flat russia for sanctuary needs healing has settled in the sleeping quiet town of sydney gallian it offered to new anonymous life the man claimed putin was his number one enemy so hiding in europe he believed was the only safe solution today by the libyan 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 was lost for two euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to the with this is how. it doing to let the southern wind in sight. there is east only as russia. learned. to notice i want to go to russia i do want to stay here.

some other news making headlines around the world at this hour. at least one person has reportedly been killed when police used to break. people the demonstrators blocked a road used. they were also voicing their concerns over to liberalize the country's mining industry which they claim would lead to. seventeen bodies have been recovered by overloaded boat carrying illegal immigrants from the dominican republic. have also been pulled from the water the number of the dead is expected to go up. for the missing the boat was heading to neighboring puerto rico when it overturned. freezing temperatures across.

the hardest hit with another reported bringing the total to one hundred thirty one one thousand eight hundred people have been taken to the hospital eight people have also died in poland. fifty three the severe weather also brought disruption to transport. thousands without power according to the low temperatures will continue into the next week. you're watching.

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