russia and china vetoed a western un resolution on syria with moscow criticizing taking an unbalanced approach. the realities on the ground. in egypt at least a dozen people are killed as anger at the authorities failure to pay for a football match on a wednesday countrywide protests. and hundreds of thousands take to the streets in russia in both. march fourth.

and broadcasting live from our studios and. take a look at your top stories on saturday russia china blocks the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria saying backing the rebels over the government could cause even more bloodshed but moscow says it remains determined to end the syrian crisis by helping damascus implement democratic reforms russia's foreign minister 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 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 balanced 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 violence but russian officials want to 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 security council saturday russian envoy to the u.n. fratelli churkin so 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 there is 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 in syria and since unbalanced to girls to the syrian sides it doesn't take a. to account proposals that as well as withdrawing syrian armed forces from the cities this should be an ins 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 home sides participating in the conflict in syria to calm. the table and start speaking to one another and maybe using some kind 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 he's more important reporting for us there and as a diplomat to 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 ross our from the stop nato group told our team that although moscow and beijing not to allow u.n. sanction for an intervention in syria there's a chance the country may still be bombed from outside. 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 only here that's lovely of. course that the resolute stand today on the principles that on 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 nations of course in the united nations of the world is a very select one is 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 burn in syria could have occurred earlier kossovo to those long thirty years ago without the understanding by those in gauging the armed uprising that they would be supported by forces. more than two hundred people were reportedly killed by security forces in the syrian city of homes just ahead of the vote at the un 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. but i mean the works not believing the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the u.n. security council meeting it decided to start bombarding homes the situation in

france had 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 if the strike if 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 no good reason and therefore there are only claims from this side of opposites claims from their side we cannot treat it to what's going on but i don't think that the army was surely neighborhoods it's not like the syrian army this is number one and james 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 ten 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 security forces and demonstrators have been raging on 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 soccer match on wednesday that left seventy four dead correspondent rene marsh has more from care. things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed sixty eight these are the last days and also very tragic therefore would say that massacre on wednesday when seventy four people died in a stampede at one of the city's football stadiums has become by itself the deadliest incident since the bar of alsip last february but it's also to get a new wave of clashes between the police the army and demonstrators that's the. actually become something common seen here in the capital cairo and everywhere throughout egypt the fact these people have been very weak to use bolivian poet

saeed incident to use local sources especially the interior ministry of doing nothing of the allowing this to happen allowing these deaths also inefficiency and actually also over instigating these trailers that you would see preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to find some power thing through terror and rule the generals for the supreme council of the armed forces they took power for the last several we'll see signs of history should this actually you have never told me after this happened only one state the whole school football fans 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 a me did transition of 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 seven twenty five on the dollar 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 masood street is a narrow street is one of the streets they didn't towards they didn't go for the interior ministry here in hollywood they've been many many people there chanting and to miter slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas at the tightest isn't even showed so we've been able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about who's going to go and when it's going to stop people not just protesting in addition to teaching. the constitution got unbelievably effect keeping people might die and that they will they suffocate each day to turn everything to they are trying them. not to light the fire and they don't leave it. 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 protest is a mother doing to the interests of the country and the children must be oh 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 claim told you know about several months sometimes well before we import same incident the figure is so low when people from the administration hold this stadium has been detained and they're in custody right now is that while the investigation is under go we can also maintain the protesters demands just recently the supreme council of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. and still ahead on our two once a harsh critic of the kremlin he now says he was wrong the father murdered ex f.s.b. agent alexander litvinenko once blamed the media put in for the death of his son but now he's had a change of heart. plus america's anti-corporate protesters are your victim in

a dawn raid from the park they've 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 the march fourth presidential vote two of the largest rallies took place in moscow where both supporters and opponents of law to me have put and 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 analyst to dmitri babich however says 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 to face on television and maybe to march. in the last few months especially some people were terrified the way they saw that by the end it's all the incentive 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 it's kind of the last day of positive effect because it sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now there are consequences but it was to positive 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 at william and the west is funding the russian opposition to minimize the country's influence on the world stage during a critical time it's documentable from the records of the national endowment for democracy which is a washington government financed 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 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 nato 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 us

interference in internal 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 thousands of works of art are up for grabs aboard a boat stricken the luxury liner. including the jewels plus. some gym lessons with michelle obama who is living up to her reputation as one of america's most vigorous advocates of a healthy lifestyle get the full story and much more of our team 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 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 you 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 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 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 and. obama administration.

but i think they want to squeeze. the pressure on iran they want to. think what we have. seen some european talk peanut of damage against your brand. i think american trying. to go to the extreme by trying to destroy a rainy and 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. and i corporate protesters in washington d.c. were a victim this weekend from

a park they had occupied since early october people were arrested when mounted police raided the encampment officers said that 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 fiction the occupy movement will soon has seen some heavy handed police tactics polluting the recent taser shocking and 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 watch that video available online and it looks like there is no justification for it when i went to meet fairs and they'd 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 him he was dropping the biology is not being as threatening it looks like a excessive use of force my sense is that it's not going to provoke the macpherson

campers that they're more. disciplined than that to fall for that kind of a trap the occupy movement in a few months has shifted the debate and show the american people that if they get mobilized and organized that we have power we can change the direction this country so the future's going to be an american spring that's going to explode on the scene and become more important the presidential race in two thousand and twelve. asia's leading a commie china has pledged to consider pumping cash reserves into the euro zone to help with the block's 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 a default at the same time e.u. leaders are working feverishly to work through unpopular financial legislation not all and 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. so we're 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 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 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 or trying to change things 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 it's the chilling what it's all about it doesn't want to listen to the people they're talking about. agreements 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 it you know they will get exactly what they want and it is a complete affront to democracy. he used to consider everybody me to put in his archenemy 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 while to live in your cost book with our teacher covered in a clutch of course but is. this is how we found me and co praying in his tiny italian apartment no electricity no gas no cold 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 alexander litvinenko was poisoned in london he will stay can carol by some

very powerful patrons make suffix out tycoon boris berezovsky and demands a kind of and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. . three of them we brought. yet extremist you know that there are he's given your pretty here doris you would be. one by three thousand and co sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. but the image of a dinner might be made not 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 to eventually 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 chinese should be short of story what else can i add to the.

live in. 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 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 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 the idea you have to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and

leave traces everywhere and there suspect and a little boy is not a fool either 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 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 maybe in two thousand and eight but that is when young cole 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 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 italy 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. to let the southern wind in sight. there is east only as russia. learned. to go home to russia i do want to stay here.

you know two other news making headlines around the world this hour. at least one person has reportedly been killed one hundred moved to break up a protest by indigenous people the demonstrators blocked a road used by mining operations along that their ancestral lands are also voicing their concerns over state proposals to liberalize the country's modern industry they claim to environmental damage. seventeen bodies have been recovered by rescuers after an overloaded boat carrying illegal immigrants from the dominican republic capsized on saturday thirteen survivors have also been pulled from the water authorities say the number of the dead is expected to go up as at least forty people are still missing the boat was heading to neighboring puerto rico when it overturned. and freezing temperatures across europe claimed

more victims on sunday ukraine is the hardest hit with another nine deaths reported in the told to one hundred thirty one one thousand eight hundred people have been taken to the hospital eight people have also died in poland bringing the cold there to fifty three is a rare weather also has brought the disruption to transportation routes and has left thousands without power cord into forecasts the low temperatures will continue into the next week. and a quick congratulations to the new york giants for winning the super bowl this year they're now the champions a quick recap of today's and this week's main stories in just a few minutes stay with us.

the closer team has been to the hub bar of screeching for the country's middle wealth starts its way across the ocean. now our team goes to the area. was named after lenin would look into a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. the for the four by fours are made and can be tested to the limit. welcome to the union of creatures. russia close up on our cheek.

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