the death of two foreign journalists in syria and tense surprise pressure for international involvement in the conflict inside the country any such calls are just fueling the balance says the u.n. humanitarian chief had to syria to negotiate with them if you have made the conflict torn country. election fever grips russia its collectivity taking a peek at the presidential poll four separate mass rallies are taking place in the capital this is day eight of the government and against it. and there are live pictures now from the stadium the largest palace taking place more than one hundred thousand people gathering to show support for current prime minister a presidential candidate but.

we can see these live pictures of prime minister putin meeting his supporters as he enters the luzhniki stadium head of his speech to what we estimate will be a hundred thousand supporters that flag waving as he comes right up to the podium here live pictures of this important event here and. it's still waving to his supporters here we can see of course the blue red and white flags and balloons as he takes to the podium here was cheering supporters we can hear the cheering there as he comes up and waved to supporters and of course the press saying something as well as here he's about to give this speech. all of you. all of the. nope you only have to say this is a stadium when those who are outside of the stadium least want you smoking on you

not me but despite the. conditions dozens of thousands of people here and this is symbolic it was a lot to draw attention to the facts between different people here from different walks of life. we have thought differently some people sometimes of a change believe. yet if you believe and this is some galling between the other even today you know you know you are twenty third of february. march that's the holiday of the defenders of the motherland because today the defenders of our thought the last day of our homeland. we potentially if you would if you that we have come here if you would.

to declare that we love russia the skies that see. now cloud so the whole country hears us and so like to ask you one question in but could you reply with just one word yes so my question is do we love russia yes. yes the movement of course we love russia. and people that share our views. not just dozens of what you want to thousands throw dozens of millions of people across species russia. we are more than one hundred forty million but we want to know more people which we want to have more children in russia so they'll be healthy. receive good education and then three apply for a decent job. we will unite our rascals to work out better for. you we will work for its interests you will defend it. defend it at all times we

will not salute and you want to meddle in our affairs when you will not allow anyone to impose their will or nothing yet because we have our own we'll have you know but it's always helped us taking time to what we. picture we are and we know it's an idea a name ok to spark down from one generation to another when will we yes. yes we will know when you prevailed but it's not enough to win with the selection we need to look further on we need to . tackle a lot of challenges here. that presence like in any other country we've got injustice we've got corruption in rude behavior on the part of officials this is also inequality the gap between the rich and the poor but my dreams is that every

person in our country you know a great boss and an ordinary person really should leave. your quoting as you conscience no more and this will make us stronger but my dream is that in the hearts of and they give every person the reason hope and hope for a better future for his own of her own happiness my dream is that we are all happy everyone but how do we do it. we became a thing to stay together. no i mean. but a strong nation and strong russian nation. we will not win you can force anyone any way we are trying to. capture and we never want to hear in the course all those that believe.

that russia is their homeland all those who want to cherish it as their homeland all those who believe in it you may. be in fear and we call and everyone you meet here we call in every person. you that we are doing the good and not to look beyond not. about you other countries but not to be afraid russia to stay with us you eat your back people other people should love you russia with all their hearts and i lost you again do we love russia yes. yes but you with your problem let me know i like to thank you for your support those who are here in the stadium and those who are outside and stadium and all those who support us. in every part of our great russia

there's no way i can only brace each and every one of you and a few of you shake your hand but i see everything happening i think you feel your moral support i think you will for we saw. a lot still needs to be done him it will be a long road but we will go along with us roads. will be on the sweat and blood of your but i grandfathers we will mark the twenty years the two hundred years and of the. battle and we remember the. famous poet clements all of really here. who are loving. and legions happened to russia do you remember how they spoke each.

of us will remember koichi sending a good poem if i was so do we remember those lines not. even your idea here near moscow gets just as our ancestors boy. people there if you look at russia it's all about you. we will prevail. thank you. i promise about giving a speech to his jubilant supporters that are packed this week he stadium in moscow ahead of the presidential elections of course he gave

a confident speech there saying we need to tackle a lot of challenges for a better future we need to cherish russia with the talents of our people and we will prevail the bat speech of course very much in front of his supporters that illusion if he stayed in the bows and one hundred thousand people we estimate in that state you know turned out today to hear prime minister vladimir putin speech of. course will be having a lot more on this throughout the day here on the. steps down from the podium from what was a triumph and tensions there. a very confident speech as i say talking about the future of russia as he sees it. yeah. yeah yeah yeah. of course as i say we'll have more on mission we hope to have

a correspondent peter all of. us a little bit more about this as well in a couple minutes time as soon as we can. hold him back from that speech there were other promises shaking hands there is said in his speech actually likes him. shake everyone's hand that turned out to support him here today and you can see. the smiling support and faces of ordinary russians who he's come to talk to us and support as well. there we have it. with the headlines in about five minutes time more on that throughout the day here dotty. i.

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the death of two foreign journalists in syria intensifies pressure for international involvement in the conflict but inside the country many fear such calls are just fueling the violence that's about it terry in chief is to head to

syria to negotiate a livery of aid to the conflict torn country. election fever grips russia with political activity reaching a peak at the presidential poll four separate mass rallies are taking place in the capital this thursday in favor of the government and against it. and the largest rallies taking place at moscow's main stadium where more than one hundred thousand people have gathered to show their support for the current prime minister presidential candidate. who addressed the crowd just minutes ago. plus concern over the effectiveness of sanctions targeting iran's nuclear program grows as terrans biggest partners in asia resist western pressure to join the economic israel meanwhile has repeatedly defied calls to wait for sanctions to work used to put out the possibility of a military strike. and next we talked to the head of the foreign affairs committee

in russia's lower house of parliament discuss the ongoing conflict in syria. mr pushkov each of us about the purpose of your visit to syria. the main objective of my visit to syria is to see the situation firsthand as you know the russian state duma issued a statement on the situation in syria ten days ago speaking strongly against outside interference in syria's affairs and against the un and its security council siding with one of the parties in this civil conflict. we also believe that the syrian government should not be the only side of allies to lay down their weapons and that we armed groups opposing the government should do the same i think my task is to conduct negotiations with the representatives of the authorities and the

opposition to get a clearer picture of the situation and to give a report to the chairmen and deputies of the state duma members as you know russians closely follow the situation in syria despite all the heated arguments in view of the upcoming presidential election united russia for the ruling party and the opposition spoke in unison on this matter of. i don't rule out the possibility that the state duma will revisit the issue perhaps more than once. during your meeting with president assad you pointed out that russia's. going to reform a syria and it was born of intervention in syria's affairs will not stand the strain a scene or comment on the recent statements by the signature and trainer of the arab league below horridly a moscow and behind an actual science of their position might sunshiny arch you're

the most. obviously did you get of the statement made by the arab league's representative expresses nothing but his own opinions so far i see nothing that could make moscow in beijing change the firm stance on the issue expressed in the recent vote on the resolute. on syria in which they called for was urging both sides of the conflict to stop using force rather than only the pro regime forces or should i think we currently have every reason to believe the russian delegation will continue its attempts to persuade the outside government to adjust their approach was the with respect to the use of military force when dispersing opposition groups on the other hand those with the ability to influence the armed groups should use it to ensure the violence is not regarded as the only way out of the conflict. scenario we have to avoid is this if driven by some

factors the government decides to restrict the use of force the other side should not be able to use it to their advantage simply this is happened before when the government troops were ordered back to the barracks at the request of the arab league during the work of its mission measures the rebel groups used the opportunity to mount an offensive i think it's impossible to reach a peaceful resolution to the conflict to go on that basis of use and it was. already in a work of the friends of syria club in tunisia. what do you expect from that i mean. yes. after the loss of the surety with us now i think moscow refused to take part in that meeting because judging by the statements we've heard in the formats of the so-called friends of syria club that will soon be formed the sole purpose of that

conference is not to find a way out of the current situation but to promote the idea that the conflicts can only be resolved. i have met with mr assad himself the foreign minister of a parliamentary speaker and with representatives of two opposition organizations i have to say that i did not get the impression that it is the people versus i sat in this conflict the situation is different is that a faction of the people is indeed a pacing the regime one other support mr assad has some quite actively while yet another faction does not want syria to fall into chaos they support the regime passively clearly not on the side of on the insurgents or the fish like they gain or support the idea of outside interference the situation therefore is not simple it's not black and white north. where a whole nation rises up to

a withrow government they don't like but i can even quote one of the opposition representatives that i mentioned that they believe that the situation cannot be resolved without the regime being involved and they believe he has to be part of the solution the arab league believes the current regime should be toned down because even the same time they make no suggestions about how vents should develop after that he will replace the current regime that the armed insurgents who have been stepping up their efforts to topple the regime be the efforts are supported by thorn states both arms shipments and high believe financially. do you think will it be a third party as we have learned from the example of egypt revolutions are not accomplished by the same people that start the. peaceful protests in syria or then there was quite a large scale demonstration in damascus on saturday have big goals and it happens

quite often that the people's protest is taken over by others who have very little interest in democracy or the protesters initial goals letters the government we find it very strange outside pressure on syria's ruling regime is spearheaded by countries that are in fact undemocratic at the moment when representatives of the gulf monarchies which as far as i know i do not have a single democratic institution start complaining about our science regime being undemocratic and if i believe that undermines the political and moral legitimacy i would say of the friends of syria is it a club of syria's friends or a club of people who want bashar assad gone america because that is the question we have to ask. the answer which to me is quite obvious have been the reason that moscow chose not to take part in the conference of the schools and.

think military intervention easier or realistic option and world countries that the syrian opposition. is there. a muscular from the meetings i attended in damascus but i got the impression that there is no such thing as a united syrian opposition there is the syrian national council with its seat in istanbul which opposes the very idea of negotiating with the regime it seems this council was created specifically to promote the idea of military intervention is however well according to other syrian opposition organizations it has very little influence in syria and is very weakly represented in syria's political scene as these it is only one of the opposition groups comprised of syrians and i have no influence or presence in the country there are other groups each one viewing itself

as the most significant but again according to a representative of the opposition these organizations have no control over the whole insurgency for instance syria has so-called people's protest committees and some of these aren't connected to any opposition groups we may have their own agenda but they demanded the regime change its policies they demanded more prosy and free elections are they do not necessarily identify themselves with specific opposition movements in other words the opposition is very fragmented and their goals are different some groups believe in thoughts of the regime others think it. some believe a constitution would offer some grounds for political evolution and syria to dismiss others think the constitution will be worth less than the paper it's

printed on but some believe the elections hard to organize could take place at the others say lections without sat in power would be pointless. that was a would inevitably be rigged by the regime in conditions such as these when there is no single force that the regime could negotiate with it is quite hard to open a national dialogue i have not met with members of the armed groups so i cannot convey their position to u.d.c. but as i see it the opposition groups active in syria with those represented in the mask is are against the idea of military intervention the libyan scenario is not popular here even those groups that want to assad gone from here do not support the idea of foreign military intervention and they believe the libyan scenario would result in chaos and loss of control here they insist that syria is different from libya and that the foundation for democracy has been laid there that the

authorities have a concept of democratic procedure but i think that these groups want to deal with syria's internal affairs on their own at the same time they are desperate to a point because the situation feels like a dead end i mean the authorities are pursuing their own goals. the armed opposition has used its own goals and it's very hard to upset this negative stability as i would call it like that in order to begin a political process that would change the regime and at the same time reconcile the regime with syrian society. with it because it's a. just

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the death of two foreign journalists in syria intensified pressure for international involvement in the conflict but inside the country many fear such calls are just fueling the violence plus.