live here in moscow russia and china have vetoed another western backed resolution of the un security council which threatened syria with new sanctions and could have paved the way for military intervention moscow says the drive against assad is ultimately aimed at taking down iran. israel's prime minister extends his blameless to lebanon saying both iran and hezbollah were behind that deadly bus blast in area . and we bring you live pictures as people gather on the streets of madrid to show their discontent over the latest wave of suffocating. just hours

after the german bundestag approved a one hundred billion euro bailout for the country's battered banking system. the u.s. and its allies have failed to push and resolution through the u.n. security council for the third time russia and china have once again vetoed the motion. has more now from new york. well the lead us double veto put forth by russia and china came because they said they would not support any resolution under chapter seven that paved the way for sanctions or possible military intervention into syria and that is exactly what this u.k. draft resolution that was put for a vote paved the way for the u.k. resolution that was supported by. germany portugal and the u.s. . on damascus to remove all of its heavy forces from populated areas within ten days and to stop using heavy weapons if the syrian

government did not meet those requirements this resolution would have allowed the security council to impose sanctions on the syrian government this resolution also called for the u.n. supervision mission in syria to be extended forty five days but it was tied together to these sanctions that the west have been spearheading against the syrian government is now russia and china as well as south africa who abstained from from voting on this resolution they have all argued that the resolution put forth by the west was very one sided putting only pressure on the syrian government and not the armed opposition in syria the u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice lashed out at russia and china saying that they have gotten in the way of the international community helping. the syrian civilians that are caught in the midst of the violence is escalating in syria. rice

said that she will now the u.s. will seek an alternative course with their partners outside of the u.n. security council other western investors also pointed direct fingers at russia and china using their veto power of russian ambassador to the u.n. the tally churkin said that it's time for the security council to stop bickering and. adding a blame game with one another and it would be best for them to just agree on a tactical resolution that would extend us supervision mission in syria for at least another thirty days the western members of the council have presented unacceptable and unworthy statements should have at least done something to persuade a dialogue between the warring sides in syria and prevent the further militarization of the crisis instead of provoking the activity of extremist and terrorist groups these zealots are pushing their own jew political goals which have nothing in

common with the interests of the syrian people and this has only served to escalate the conflict even further in truly tragic proportions time is of the essence because if nothing is extended within the next twenty four hours that means the un loses a verifiable group in syria that will not be able to monitor observe this crisis as it can potentially spiral even worse. report there and activists i spoke to him a little earlier here on r.t. he says today's united nations vote could pave the way for unilateral action from western nations the draft resolution that was proposed by the west by britain and the united states. was expected to fail i don't think we have. any delusions that the russians and the chinese won't use the veto so they obviously have something in mind and they are stating you know that we've done all

enough in. the security council and it's. not going anywhere so we are going to seek other measures and this really opens the door in front of the international public opinion for probably a unilateral move from those states in the name of saving the syrian people from bloodshed which would definitely lead to a lot more blood being spilled in syria. while staying. the syrian crisis some of the bloodiest of the conflict that's how both the government and rebels dubbed the period following yesterday's deadly bombing in damascus the attack wiped out three senior members of assad's government including the defense minister heavy armed clashes across the country followed killing over one hundred fifty people according to reports the free syrian army of seized the border crossing on the country's northern front to turkey is also reporting that rebels have gain control over iraq syria border points meanwhile syrian t.v. has counted speculation over president assad's health and whereabouts by showing the leader welcoming the newly appointed defense minister in damascus correspondent

is in the capital. the news about blast has come at a very tough time for the syrian capital in the last four days damascus has been seen for what the opposition and free syrian army have dubbed the final battle for damascus that is size of battle for the syrian capital shootings have been heard in very different parts of the syrian capital we've also seen black smoke drifting over the city's skyline and we've also been hearing helicopters not only flying over one of the oldest continuously inhabited capitals in the war old but also firing and we can see some smoke even now in actually many different neighborhoods of damascus many countries have closed their embassies here in syria one half withdrawn all personnel in this neighborhood alone turkish embassy over the saudi embassy this is the building of american embassy tallon embassies these embassies have also suspended their work overseas companies have also have created their staff foreigners no longer feel safe here in the syrian capital and they have lad

but ordinary syrians don't have the same choice the world has come to their door and they have nowhere to run and they're trying to organize their everyday life waiting for this nightmare to end one of the most important rule these days in the syrian capital is not to go to the cities troubled areas where the clashes between the rebels and the army still continue and the names of these neighborhoods are very well known for everybody here might have began. no i won't take you to my derm it's too dangerous but damascus is a very big city with a population of around two million people maybe these days even more with all displaced families from homes and other at the center of the uprising from all across the country shelter now here in the capital and in some neighborhoods you can see pictures that you don't at all expect to see in the capital of a country and gulf war or like this family alone picnics really very peaceful pictures so one can flick has been raging for seventeen months already people say

they're tired they are exhausted but they also. say that life must go on my final shot from damascus and syria. there is one of the very few remaining international correspondents that continue to report on the events from the heart of the conflict follow on twitter to stay up to date on the developments in the syrian capital live coverage throughout the day via a feed and from motion underscore to. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has blamed hezbollah for the terrorist attack on a bus carrying jewish tourists in bulgaria in which eight people died tel aviv has already accused iran of being behind the attack but has since extended its billing list is our correspondent with more from israel. but no minutes on yahoo says that the fault because of this attack that happened on wednesday in the bulgarian city of burgas is clearly on the shoulders of hizbollah netanyahu says that his bill

that acts as the long term of iran in the region and while this is no secret certainly everybody here does know that hizbullah is a proxy for iran and the fact that in a time yahoo is not naming his below is only going to further stroke tensions in the region israeli prime minister also went on to say that it was no ned had attacked or been behind attacks on israelis in countries like thailand georgia greece and cyprus in the past not israel has tried to deal with has been on the past but it has failed back in two thousand and six israel went to war with lebanon on over his below but by all accounts that was a war which israel lost at the time it was said that hizbullah a small army of fighters was able to take on the great israeli defense forces and women it gave the arab world back it supplied to some since israel has almost an say told school call it was his villa and that is why there's

a lot of speculation whether or not by now naming his but this one yahoo is going to try and use the bus bombing on the women's day as a pretext for perhaps attacking his fellow once again but the timing could not be worse you've gone to a region in flux you've got ongoing violence in neighboring syria you've got for the first time and islamised president in neighboring egypt but netanyahu is also known for often using the international concerns and the international community to do it to detract attention away from problems he has on the domestic front there is the real threat that you will see social protest is growing in number in the coming weeks we need to just remember that last year we saw social demonstrations in this country it's all the largest number of israelis on the streets and at the same time this week the largest israeli political party to. the link. emission of netanyahu says that he has problems to deal with on the domestic front. britain's intelligence and security committee says the u.k. should play only criminals at their own game just two years after the launch of

a multi-million cyber security program britain says it wants not only to defend its cyberspace but also to launch attacks itself what is your smith reports if you can't beat him join him that seems to be britain's new attitude when it comes to dealing with cyber attacks a new report by the u.k.'s intelligence and security commission has concluded it's not enough to defend against cyber attacks additionally the military spy agencies should be actively declaring cyber war on enemy state attack evidently is in their view the best form of defense although in this case they're calling it active defense. they are voicing that britain should be secretly hacking into enemy systems using programs like the stuxnet virus which disrupted iran nuclear enrichment program it comes just two years after the launch of

a six hundred fifty million pounds national cybersecurity programme but progress according to the m.p.'s on the committee has been slow the national security strategy ranks the threat of cyber attacks alongside that of terrorism and yet this committee of m.p.'s seems fully prepared to engage in it itself this despite the fact that the report says the communications agency g c h q believes eighty percent of cyber attacks are preventable three basic measures like using security software and proper password sober attacks of course have another name hacking it's illegal in most countries including the u.k. and britain has its first hacking case is currently in the courts including that of autism suffer a gary mckinnon he's been fighting his extradition to the us for hacking into the pentagon's computer system for ten years now so far his government has refused to

protect him maybe if state sponsored hacking becomes the norm that will change. returning to our top story here in russia and china have vetoed the latest western backed draft resolution on syria at the u.n. security council and joining us live now is one of the men who raised his hand in that vote was his envoy to the world body vitaly churkin mr churkin russia's decision to veto this latest resolution has caused consternation and widespread criticism of moscow's stance is russia supporting the assad regime. of course not about what needs to be done in order to settle the crisis unfortunately the strategy of our western colleagues to seems to be to try to whip up down in and around syria at every opportunity and this time they took the occasion of the need to extend the mandate of the monitoring mission in syria and

attached a number of unacceptable clauses to their draft resolution so we needed to talk together was that an acceptable draft to allow kofi annan more space to work on the document which was adopted the. foreign minister of countries of the so-called action group which is that which calls for setting a poor transitional national body and that requires of course dialogue between various parties so in this context to introduce a resolution which are only there in their pressure and almost inevitable sanctions on the syrian government did not look like a good idea to us at all and there were when they. blocked a decision which in our view was gone the book counterproductive so moscow not supporting the assad regime but america britain and france say that russia has failed the syrian people today how how do you react to that. well you know you know

you know. there are quite good and bad. propaganda i think what they have been doing in criticizing russia and china and some sometimes quite stridently today it was the british and the french. who went out of their way unfortunately all sorts of false false holds on the foreign policies of russia and china they should focus more. on the new do to help unfortunately they haven't done anything at all in order to set them train a productive positive process in syria instead they have been working. with the so-called friends of syria in fact the. this is a group of countries who are enemies of the syrian government i wouldn't call them enemies of the syrian people but certainly those who want to topple the syrian government this regarding the consequences which are extremely tragic which such

policy. entails because the government or president our side it's not simply one individual or a group of individuals they represent of course a certain segment of the of the syrian population is certain power structure which has existed there for decades so to break it would cause and is causing trying to break that considerable trouble and bloodshed to reform and through dialogue this would be a much more reasonable a line of action and this is what russia has been advocated dialogue hasn't achieved anything so far is that now an overwhelming global sentence is something has to be done to stop the killing of innocent people and what about intervention on humanitarian grounds is that it not acceptable to moscow moscow is very concerned about chapter seven i don't want to get into technical does it protect chapter seven leading to perhaps military intervention but what about some form of intervention to stop the killing. well in a way the money toward

a group which. is a way of of a sort of political intervention in trying to a practical intervention and trying to deter violence unfortunately it hasn't happened it hasn't been successful i mean you said the dialogue has not achieved anything the problem is that the dialogue has not started yet the opposition groups refused to enter into dialogue with the syrian government which says it is prepared for dialogue they should try that all four of the syrian government to enter into dialogue and this is a major mason missing link a major impediment in the way of coffee and an activity you know humanitarian intervention unfortunately it only sounds humane but the fact of the matter is that any military intervention for whatever reason is another that really going to cause more bloodshed bloodshed and you know we know that those great discriminants in the world u.s. and u.k. intervened in iraq for instance citing all sorts of noble protects in that

particular case nonexistent weapons of mass destruction what of course there is a one hundred fifty fifty thousand civilian deaths alone to say nothing of you know millions of refugees displaced persons and the whole dislocation in the country so don't be duped by committee and human in communitarian rhetoric there is much more geopolitics in their policy in syria than humanism and unfortunately the practical consequences of the of their policy is that that the conflict and bloodshed is not abating you mention geopolitics and understand that you mention the fact that what's happening in syria is actually a name don't what's going to happen in iran eventually can you explain that that iran is the eventual goal i don't know why. i did refer to iran but in a slightly different context i wouldn't rule out that then they will move or move on to iran but i. i was not referring to that i was in my remarks of the stakeout

earlier today in the united nations i was referring to their clear interest and this is a major motivation of the policy and their effort to topple president assad in curbing iranian influence. in the middle east in that region and it's also a major motivation of the other middle eastern the fight there is for the marcos' saudi arabi and qatar who are concerned about what they see iranian interests of course in one area and as well they claim that the she approaches there is a sort of iranian sponsored even though some observers including your colleagues journalists who have experienced on the ground believe that it happens to be genuine protest. against a system which is not entirely democratic to put it mildly so clear a geo political dimension is there in the policies of a number of countries who are extremely aggressive these are the syria and it is

nothing to do with the interests of the syrian people because you who need is to find yes can i ask you though what is the worry for moscow will these geo political implications which you've explained so clearly why is more you know we are not it well not in what way could moscow be affected we're not what are the about. well we're not what are the geopolitical implications of that particular saying even though we believe that the greater confrontation with iran is hurting. is unnecessary and of course we are directly involved in the stories of peacefully the problem of the iranian nuclear program and there are growing tension between iran and the west and it is it is not it's not it's not helpful our concern is that this city and people have to suffer the consequences of this geopolitical geopolitical struggle and our concern is that the focus of everybody's

policy must be the benefit of the syrian people and the only way they can put an end to this tragic conflict is to get to the negotiating table and the ground there is a document which you which was a consensus document adopted by the group of action foreign ministers in geneva two and a half weeks ago which says that at the incisional national border needs to set up the to be set up and it cannot be set up by by sanctions it cannot be set up by more pressure on just one side of the syrian government which is claiming that it is ready for such their locus there's a need that it's representative for such a dialogue but so far the interest from their position is not there and we see extreme opposition groups are in the position groups resorting to more and more violence and even terrorist attacks like the one we saw yesterday in the masters this is not to say. the syrian government has not exhorter it has not resorted to excessive violence of the times or made very serious mistakes and blunders over

the months but the time to end that unless we wanted to continue for years is to enter into dialogue and. russia has really stuck by its principles of intervention is it not there. in danger of being isolated bearing in mind the continual vetoing of the sanctions in the un security council and of course the supplying of military hardware to syria although most of course says that this is not being used against civilians but this what does it do for russia's reputation and indeed its relations after this crisis is over. well we'll see we'll see i think doing the right of the right thing and not simply following somebody is somebody is a catastrophic policy is something which makes makes me proud is something which eventually will be borne out of the right course of action on the right policy.

under these very difficult circumstances and. if i'm not mistaken the united states is sixty vetoes on the palestinian issue alone so why don't you. question my american colleagues about the impact of the image of the united states in the middle east of the continuous middle sometimes even between their own presidential and secretary of state public statements so you know veto is a part of the u.n. charter there is nothing wrong about casting it when you feel the need to do so many people ask me why is russia taking this stance over syria is it because and the answer i still find very difficult to explain is it because russia is being misunderstood over this or not explaining its position clearly n. no. well you know some people have different views sometimes or there may be owners this agreement when we have meetings with

opposition groups of those meetings regularly just yesterday or the day before yesterday here in new york i had another meeting with a group representing the syrian national council and some people really on a story believe that. our course of action is not is not something which which should be should be pursued and we're explaining their side of them but of course let's face it facing massive propaganda and. manipulation of public opinion unfortunately is a fact of life and it happens every time there is a major political political crisis today in the security council unfortunately. my british and french call eggs. a launch. an outrageous monologue. completely distorting russia's foreign policy on our motivations well people do

what they have to do i think again they should focus more on what they can do themselves to support course but rather than try to derail the political track in order to concentrate entirely on putting pressure on them ask us can we talk about what happens next now no agreement in the u.n. security council but russia has said that it would like to see an extension of the u.n. observer mission to syria but the monitors and visible impact so far what is the point in keeping the mission alive when so far it's failed. what what would be the point of the other part was saying that at least we have a more chance to get objective information if it's there or if the situation we have to improve there will be on the ground already so they will be able to participate more actively in the in the political process and also in the in dealing with the humanitarian situation so pulling them alt is is going to entail

negative consequences and one to avoid that unfortunately now here on we seem to be entering another sort of little diplomatic battle because what we're proposing and in fact there was a broad understanding among security council members that under these circumstances this is what needs to be done the so-called technical rollover extension for like a period city of the forty five days of the current mandate of of. the mission but unfortunately our british colleagues started playing some cheap political tricks again and diplomatic tricks again. at that some political conditions and language to the draft resolution which they pulled out from under the rug without warning everybody at least. other. most of the members of the security council i'm sure they consulted with the americans but certainly not the permanent five members and this is something which is not really in the practice which is normal in the

security council but the important thing is that now we are going to have a discussion of making it the technical role without loading it with political conditions and implications can i just ask you one final question their own room is in some international media that sounds wife is already fled she's in russia saying they say if assad to full would moscow give. i have no idea either. if it's sad well it's. that no i'm sorry i'm sort of well first of all about his wife i have no idea i understand she's british as a british passport so it's much easier for her to go to the u.k. and our officials repeatedly said this is pure fantasy so i'm not simply going to add anything or cannot add anything to that what assad is himself though if he were to seek refuge in moscow. this is exactly what i've said our officials are.

complete fantasy and they're not and so i thought it was a very good joke was the way i was i thought you this person his wife that sorry sorry thank you very much indeed we'll leave it there vitaly churkin we really appreciate it sure i'm russian ambassador to the u.n. thank you very much indeed for explaining moscow's situation during this crisis now thank you ok ok so vitale can talk and be live there from new york the russian ambassador to the u.n. to the u.n. this is our committee live from the russian capital i'll be back with the headlines and more news for you in about a minute and a half now stay with us. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada after. trying to corporations rule the day.

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