russia slams washington for blocking a u.n. security council statement condemning bomb blast in damascus which killed dozens we'll have an exclusive interview with the organization struggling peace envoy to syria. french president francois hollande prepares to receive a u.n. peace award for sending his forces to mali even as fighting to maintain stability that goes on. and do you turn if you want to the u.k. coalition governments persistent and by peddling on its policies begs the question is it a sign of listening to the public or a sign of weakness. international news and comment live from moscow this is our she was me here last above all

a hello and a very welcome to the program. russia has heavily criticized the u.s. for blocking a u.n. security council statement condemning a string of bomb attacks in the syrian capital the blast took the lives of at least fifty three people and wounded hundreds while also damaging the russian embassy moscow says it's unacceptable for washington to seek excuses for what it calls terrorists especially after u.s. diplomatic missions have been targeted in other countries the deadliest car bomb explosion struck at a busy neighborhood of damascus where they h.q. of president assad the ruling party is located and there was also a school near the epicenter of the blast and many children are believed to be among the victims middle east expert ali is that the scale of the apparent act of terrorism yet again indicates that urgent need for a political solution which i do know how much it was a very clear response to those who are arguing like myself and others that there should be a political settlement that this ugly stalemate should. not be allowed to continue

. any longer the sailor elements within the opposition should sit down and see what's going to be sorted out even at this late that late stage because if this doesn't happen the war will expand as we are seeing into lebannon and then anything's possible affectively the syrian rebel forces it's trying to topple the government have not had open public support which they want to in terms of the nato strike promise of the united states going to back them and their effect oblique trying to maintain their position during this ugly transitional period to see how they can keep the situation the stabilized but it is not in the interest of the syrian people. the rebel free syrian army has claimed it launched its also possible our bases in neighboring lebanon the latest fighting be

conflicting theories pouring across the borders of the war torn country they said that forty eight hour ultimatum demand for the lebanese group to end the shelling of rebel held town is in syria expired on thursday and then they threw in political activist danny kaye says the potential strike between to islam is functions could have far reaching consequences. the biggest problem in lebanon is that some of the western countries are really trying to pit one of the islamist movements against each other the sunni f.s.a. against the shia hizbullah it's essentially a policy of divide and conquer which is being instigated media wise by the way to create divisions that fractures within our syrian lebanese society and this is an issue which they're working on today by pitting the f.s.a. against hezbollah they create more division and tension between syria and lebanon and we've seen with the recent conflict in tripoli in northern lebanon that the syria crisis is not necessarily in syria syria is the linchpin of the reason of the region and there is great tension both in syria and lebanon and there is great fear

and anxiety that the struggle in syria could spill into lebanon i mean of course understand that lebanon had their own civil war which is very bloody hundreds of thousands so negative it's very scared at this moment of the syria crisis turning into a lebanese crisis and darcy has spoken exclusively to the main mediate in the syrian conflict who had some bob comments for the opposition the u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi it's sad their reluctance to make any concessions to the assad regime is one of the major roadblocks to peace and you can catch our full interview later this hour here on our c.n.n. here's a preview on brahimi have to say. only problem is in assad and he not stepping down. a lot of people who are opposed to all who are involved in this conflict in syria think that the president is a serious important part of the problem this is a fact and very pretty to every day do you believe that's the problem doesn't

matter what i believe doesn't matter what you believe either when you're saying q. may be talking to the government but not the president directly. the problem is only in one man in bashar al assad himself the problem is that the opposition is saying every five minutes but they don't want to talk about other matter this is the problem is his future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hands i'm talking about assad i don't want to talk about that thanks. thanks. thanks. moscow wants to bring bond the younger brother of a three year old up see who died in texas a month ago the investigation into the death of maxine because mean it's still dragging on russian officials blame the boy's adoptive mother she says the death was an accident the local police aides to early to tell us he's marina and i have

the latest. four weeks following the death of little maxime and no arrests have been made in texas officials have disclosed very little while they say there are they are awaiting autopsy results now what police officials have said so far is that max was last seen alive playing outside with outside of his home with his two year old brother his youngest brother on the afternoon of january twenty first according to police his adoptive mother claims she went inside and when she came back outside max was on for sponsored by that time police say that by the time police say they arrived at the home max was already being transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead just one hour later now investigators say they question laura shot his adoptive mother at the hospital while deputies allegedly searched and photographed the home alan and laura shatto adopted knox and his younger brother carol from russia in november his adoptive mother says that

maxime's death was an accident moscow officials however believe that it was at the hands of his adoptive parents that max lost his life we had information that. the boy had been severely beaten. before birth or. he had been. maybe cuba. american mother russian authorities say that they are waiting to see how the investigation turns out and to be fully informed about the proceedings and the outcome of the investigation but russian officials believe that if the probe finds that maxine was killed that those responsible should be brought to justice knox is the twentieth russian child to have died in the custody of an american adoptive family in the past seventeen years one of the most well known recent cases is the case surrounding d.-ma yakovlev

which took place in two thousand and eight that young boy was left in a car by his adoptive father for eight or nine hours the temperature inside that car was about thirty two degrees celcius as a result that little russian boy died when his father was tried in a court and his adoptive american father was found not guilty that case prompted moscow officials to adopt a new legislation that recently imposed a ban on american adoptions that move was harshly criticized for right now tensions clearly are escalating between moscow and washington over the way that russian adopted children are being looked after here in the united states is a government and assign a witness of courage to admit mistakes while britain's prime minister david cameron is doing his best to make a virtue of the number of times he's back contemplate a series of clips not that he's often used. it can be hard to tell what

goes on inside the mind of the prime minister say many decisions to be made on a daily basis is perhaps little wonder that sometimes they change their minds and from buses to badges healthcare to housing case goes caravans charities and circus animals petrol and even pasties the list of this government's u. turns buried and long in fact there have been so many recently that some wonder if this is the most indecisive british government ever it's kind of difficult to get the data right in partly because people change what we call them so and you know how to modify it to talk about you turn the low you stop turning you know everybody's where do you turn but before that up top are quine downs or part downs or whatever back then the word you turn carried negative connotations you turn if you want to i thank the

ladies not for turning my the warmest might not have been for turning this prime minister certainly is his coalition's clocked up a good thirty five you tend to say far roughly for every twenty nine days the coalition's been in power there's been a change of direction a u. turn if you like and i can pass around fifty two days for gordon brown and tony blair was much more on me to change ration he was awful margaret thatcher you know you turned i took around four hundred days to get a change direction out of tony blair's government going back to the coalition then when it comes to you why do you think we have seen this government have so many say many more than previous government i think a lot of it is down to the fact that it is a coalition. that this is a very new thing actually in british politics it's very common and embarrassing for them do you think are these been difficult from a leadership point of view but i think it's something that. has been accepted going

in and during the coalition agreement there will have to be compromises when it comes to this government it's clear that what they say might not always be exactly as i think but is the fact that they clocked up so many you terms a sign that the government is listening or doesn't leave their pledges and promises sounding a little well false it's. not a good thing. if you vote for government aspects of what they say it's going to be good for you actually going to. be well i don't know why i think if it's an issue that obviously people are worried about that it will interest them if it's something people don't care about. but with the call it's a u. turn about turn climb down or back down when it comes to changing your mind in government many the case of you're damned if you day and. this government may well

be recorded as being indecisive but he was being indecisive it would be attacked for the opposite for being. ultimately and this is something we often used to say you take your money you pays your money and takes your choice. or you're not decisive enough as to what david cameron thinks about who the coalition u. turns well he hasn't given us an answer yet perhaps he hasn't made up his mind so artie london. coming up later i returned to. the out of. what you call breaks teeth is there a cause of stamps on the person with the shoes shattering the glasses and pushing them into his eyes human rights activists and aged say police brutality by the other one the nation with a dictatorship it's a family whose son was allegedly tortured to death by security forces that's coming out.

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this is also a welcome bok egyptian human rights groups say police brutality and abuse has increased in detention centers and cheering on growing demonstrations oxidized claim that soon as the second anniversary of the uprising last month authorities are reverting to the systematic torture tactics seen during the mubarak regime in past the gate. in his hometown of tanta nobel al-kindi points out where local youth have renamed a street after his son mohammed a twenty eight year old activist allegedly tortured to death by security forces two weeks ago after protesting on to her a square in a little hole on the first time i went to see mohammed in the hospital i didn't

recognize him seriously his face was covered with wounds his skull fractured when i asked the doctors they told me this is mohammed in the room with a little i know that one will be although mohammed's injuries points to torture his mother sammy says the official forensic report maintains he died after a car crash yet to be about the south in what vehicle brakes teeth is there a car that stamps on a person with a shoe shattering the glasses and pushing them into his eyes what car only injures a person's head but not their legs. right now egypt is witnessing unprecedented levels of police violence against protesters rights groups reporting with at least ten x. a judicial killings by security forces since president mohamed morsi to power the west divide it's often a cause in places like this infamous security directorate behind me which can be banned from comments about kony however the most worrying trend activists say is

the targeting of children in an impoverished district of alexandria explains how her thirteen year old son up to rahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander at a demonstration the police use violence against children my son has cuts and bruises all over his body they hante young children because it keeps contre away from them. and police told us if anyone tries to contact their family or friends they would beat us despite the scenes like these the interior minister denies security forces use violence against protesters and are a few. it's the torture is systemic in the police force instead the government says it will arm low ranking police officers sparking fears of further abuses human rights organizations and advocates are extremely concerned by the increase in one violence between the supporters and the opposition to president morsi to the

political cover that president morsi the administration and the legislators are giving to the. violence exercised by the police force and the increased level of brutality. being exercised by the police force three were they concerned by the increase of weapons back during egypt's revolution a key demand was police reform but people here say there is no evidence of that until there is crowds of thousands continue to push for change though many fear the worst is yet to come true for r t cairo the french president will get a unesco peace prize for the operation in mali the un's cultural agency says francois hollande made a valuable contribution to peace and stability in africa but editor at pan african news wire as a key way believes given what's actually happened in mali the french leader is the

wrong person to be mounted for bringing peace. he has not been in office that long his political career since being in office as president of france has been marked by this intervention in mali something that was done you know laterally it was totally unjustified there's been reports of gross human rights violations that have taken place since the french intervention in mali they've admitted the defense ministry in paris that they killed hundreds of people assisting in a trance and the operation overall is not turning out the way in which of france had initially planned these developments in mali do not bode well for someone who is being offered such a prestigious award for peace. now in mali coalition forces claim they once

again retaken control of the key city of this city it's in a series of clashes between troops and islamist militants since its official liberation last month meanwhile in a separate militant attack at least one person died after a bombing at a military base in the city of key down all this after france claimed the military operation had been successful and was drawing to an end. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment plant the west of fears this could speed up any attempts to build a bomb despite iran insisting it only needs it for peaceful purposes it has so the significance of talks with six world powers next week and the zing of crippling sanctions could be offered to iran in return for shutting down its. twin explosions have killed at least fourteen people and wounded more than one hundred in the southern indian city of hyderabad the bombs were planted in a crowded market on two bicycles and went off just

a few minutes apart police in all major cities have been put on alert no militant groups the group has yet claimed responsibility. in other world news this hours while israeli security forces attacked protesters marching in solidarity with palestinian prisoners in the west bank violence erupted one of the demonstrators tried to approach an israeli military jail and will met with rubber bullets and tear gas as russia as well launched a week ago in support of an inmate that's been on a hunger strike since august is due to be released next month. britain could be heading towards power shortages according to the u.k.'s gas and energy regulator an amber of coal fueled power stations may have to close to you to strict e.u. pollution regulations and richard wellings deputy editorial director of the international energy agency says increasing energy poverty and how looms for many already struggling to hold. this is really terrible for news for consumers so

energy prices have gone up by a hundred sixty percent since two thousand and four we've got six million households in fuel poverty expected to rights and nine million within just three years according to some estimates bills could double again over the next decade business users should be very concerned so rather than power expect to have business users on special contracts where the power can be cut off for them before households actually get their power cuts off if you get a very cold winter this could be extremely worrying part of its own coming from the european commission so the reason why these power stations are closing this because of european pollution controls is more to do with acid rain than climate change is a very small environmental problem but the cost of this is going to got so massive so talking about tens if not hundreds of billions of euros across the whole of conservative parts and so they tried to claim to be the greenest governments have or there's obviously a strong support for environmentalism with some faction of the conservative party in the david cameron so it's mostly ideological but the problem is given the

economy's hardly growing this is really the last thing the brits and they. and from energy are threats to cyber threats now china says american accuse ations of hacking our scientifically if you know what and reliable back after a u.s. security company accused beijing of carrying out attacks on a range of industries there are also suggestions that chinese manufactured products could carry spying devices but ecologist brian duggan from the new america foundation says politics is playing normal the role here. the characteristic of these devices that allow that type of surveillance and monitoring is there a closed nature is the fact that no one can see into them no one can understand how they actually work inside their actually black boxes and so that is true of almost every single cell phone that we use no matter where it is manufactured so that is the capability. that any manufacturer has over any device that we use and the reason that we're talking about this today is because politically at this point

we're scared of what china could could do with its power over its manufacturing the united states has through a combination of our surveillance laws has claimed the right not only does to inspect americans data but also data stored by foreign citizens. on behalf of all between the u.s. and china is explored in our websites and tonty dot com for you and that's why we're asking for you also what's on the subject and let's not have a look at how you have been voting so the absolute majority believes it's just a p.r. stunt to prop up the latest time the security act signed by the u.s. president sixteen percent of you say that say the scandal is down to espana slightly less saying this is a preview a wild wolf three and a minority of you agree that washington is giving beijing a final warnings and don't forget to go to our website and.

now in because this is a landslide has opened a door to the past russian scientists have unearthed the remains of a woolly mammoth and possibly not just one the rare find is expected to shed some light on the fate of the elephant like mammals that became extinct more than four thousand years ago and my colleague carrie johnson spoke to us he's making a question about the find. it was the same beer where they found it like many would have thought actually happen in russia's north carcasses now the discovery was made and week about it in about a region which is a very mountainous area and also home to outgross europe's highest peak now during the seasonal snow saw landslides occur and it's these landslides that can reveal what's been burry deep in the ground and that's exactly what happened local researches say that these are the remains of the south and mamma's now that animal

lived in europe and central asia as some two and a half million years ago which was around the time b. ice age began they were huge animals four meters tall and also known for its curled tusks their laughter african homeland and migrated to eurasia and their last resort is widely seen as what is now sells and russia we should also say that out of seven full mammal skeletons that were found in the world three were found in russia well what are they going to do with all these remains that well first of all research us will have to date and touch them but the most interesting part here is that they believe that there could be many more remains close by. living near the site have been finding pieces of bone vertebrae for many decades some of them used vertebrae in there gives you an idea how large it is one theory suggests that all mammals became extinct at the same time so we may have found an entire graveyard where they

were all together before. so we'll wait and see what kind of prehistoric treasure trove the carcass as could be and i've lived in the caucasus and i've reported from the north caucasus and i can tell you it's a place that's really dripping in history which parts of which have been remained untouched for thousands of years and who knows what it actually holds. now with the civil war and see red looks in a cycle of death and destruction and the un's peace envoy to be in battle country about the prospects for peace i don't mean he's interview with luck time but he made a couple of minutes and the latest edition of the truth seeker with daniel bush right after this.

if you have a business that you need customers right this is perhaps the simplest law of capitalism but if your business is making juvenile prisons how are you going to attract more customers by bribing judges into condemning innocent children so you'll have all of the captives i mean customers that you need to charge marc c. of a junior from pennsylvania has been sentenced to twenty eight years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile prison developer the pennsylvania supreme court determined that he may have unlawfully convicted the five thousand youths some of whom were just ten years old for crimes they didn't commit this is obviously sickening a total exploitation of power but the thing we need to think about is the fact that the us has by far the world's largest prison population and a booming prison industry it leads me to believe that may be this one scumbag judge from pennsylvania isn't the only one out there.