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. demands the return of the brother with three year old russian arms of c. who died in america and asked to see the results of the police investigation which still isn't finished after more than a month. of french president francois hollande prepares to receive a un peace award for sending his forces to mali even as fighting to maintain stability that goes on.

international news and common to life for most of this is the with me. hello and of our well 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 they blasted the lives of at least fifty three people and wounded hundreds while also damaging the russian embassy moscow says if an acceptable for washington to seek excuses for what it calls terrorists especially after u.s. diplomatic missions have been targeted in other countries the deadlifts car bomb explosion struck a busy neighborhood of damascus where the h key of president assad's ruling party is located and it was also a school near the epicenter of the blast and many children are believed to be among the victims and the middle east expert terry says the scale of the apparent act of terrorism yet again indicates the urgent need for a political solution. it was a very clear response to goes who are arguing like myself and others the base

should be a political settlement that this ugly stalemate should not be allowed to continue. any longer saylor 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're seeing into lebanon on and then anything's possible affectively the syrian rebel forces 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 they are affectively 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 assaults on has been our bases in neighboring lebanon the latest sign the conflict in series

pouring across the borders of the war torn country surgeons forty eight hour ultimatum demand for the lebanese group to end the shelling of rebel held town as in syria explained on thursday and london based syrian fillets call activist danny mark a sign of the potential strife between two islamist factions 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 has been instigated media wise by the way to create division of the fractures within our syrian lebanese society and this is an issue which they're working on today what do you think they're to say against hezbollah they create more vision 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 lucky. so look at a very scared at this moment of the syria crisis turning into a lebanese crisis and r.t. has spoken exclusively to the main mediator in the syrian conflict who had some bob comments for the opposition the u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi is said 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 at eleven thirty am g.m.t. when i was here but here's a preview of what 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 pitifully 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 to russia. 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. mostly wants to bring bond the younger brother of a three year old who died in taxes a month ago investigation into the death of maxine because man is too drug known russian officials blame the boy's adoptive mother she says that death was an accident while local police aides to early to tell. the nation's. four weeks

following the death of little maxime in 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 more a shot his adoptive mother at the hospital while deputies allegedly searched and photographed the whole alan and laura shatto adopted knox and his younger brother carroll 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 mox lost his life we had information that. the boy had been severely beaten. before birth or. to conclude room that. he had been killed. maybe cuba hughes. 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 adoptive children are being looked after here in the united states is a government a sign of weakness or courage to admit mistakes well britain's prime minister david cameron is doing his best to make a virtue of the number of times he's backtracked on policies. looks not he's often used to scare. it can be hard to tell what goes on inside the mind of the prime

minister but say many decisions to be made on a daily basis is perhaps little wonder that sometimes they change their minds and from buses to badger to health care to housing case goes caravans charities and circus animals petulant even pasties the list of this government's u. turns is 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 he partly because people change what we call them so you know after modifier to talk about you turn a low you stop turning. every priest where do you turn for 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 i missed thirty might not have been for turning this prime minister certainly is his coalition's clocks up to getting thirty five you turned 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 i can pass around for two days for gordon brown and tony blair was much more on me to trace ration he was one of the himself and margaret thatcher you know use terms i took around four hundred days to go to change or a shot of tony blair's government go back to the coalition then when it comes to 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 in british politics it's very common and embarrassing for them do you think he has been difficult from a leadership point of view but i think it's something that. been accepted going in

and during the coalition agreement but 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 it 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 good is not a good thing. if you vote for a government. say it's going to be good for you actually. it's not proper to say 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 that no people don't have. but where the quality you turn about turn climb down or back down when it comes to changing your mind in government many thing it's a 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 a check for the opposite for being. ultimately and this is something which tony blair often used to say you take your money you pays your money you 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. and coming up later this hour i return to torture at. the heart of the what do you call break steve is there because of stamps on a person with a shoe shattering the glasses and pushing them into his eyes. human rights activists in egypt say please retaliates he's as bad as it was when the nation was a dictatorship in which he visits a family whose son was allegedly tortured to death by security forces after the break.

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this is coming to life from moscow welcome back egyptian human rights groups say police brutality and abuse has increased in detention centers and cheering on growing demonstrations activists claim that says the second anniversary of the uprising last month authorities are reverting to the systematic torture tactics seen during the mubarak regime belcher investigate. in his hometown of tanta the bell al-kindi points out where local youths have renamed their 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 deal with a hold 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 the image that the book will i know that what 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 steps in what vehicle breaks 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 yeah. 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 used for mohammed's balcony 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 abdulrahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander i thought 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 refer. 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 for that president morsi the administration and the legislator 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 so many fear the worst is yet to come true for r t cairo. the french president will get a us go peace prize for the operation in mali the u.s. cultural agency says francois hollande made a valuable contribution to peace and stability in africa that at that pan african news why are they on the as a key way believes given what actually happened in mali the french leader is the wrong person to be vaunted for bringing peace that. 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 unilaterally it was

totally unjustified there's been reports of gross human rights violations that have taken place since the french an invention in mali they've admitted the defense ministry in paris that they killed hundreds of people are going to france and the other. mission 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 of course this is being fueled by the overall economic crisis that exists in france they have the house unemployment rate that they've had in many many years that's almost eleven percent they have a huge deficit in which they're trying to deal with this intervention it's not a humanitarian parole and the economic and political interests of france as well as

the other countries in nato is it and also including the united states as well because the united states is actually transporting troops into mali. meanwhile in moderate coalition forces claim they once again retaken control of the key city of gower the city has since 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 get down all this out of france claims the military operation had been successful and was drawing to an up chant. and another world news this hour the u.n. nuclear watchdog says iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges at its main you ring which meant a plant the west fears this could speed up any attempts to build a bomb despite tehran insisting it only needs it for peaceful purposes it adds to the significance of talks with six world powers next week an easing of crippling

sanctions could be offered to iran in return for shutting down some of its plant. when explosions have killed at least fourteen people and wounded more than one hundred in this southern indian city of hyderabad the bombs were planted in a crowded market on two bicycles and one told just a few minutes apart police in all major cities have been put on the alert no militant group has yet claimed responsibility that. israeli security forces are trying to protest as marching in solidarity with palestinian prisoners in the west bank violence erupted when the demonstrators tried to approach and israeli military jail and were met with rubber bullets and tear gas the protests were launched a week ago in support of an inmate has been on a hunger strike since august has to do to be released next month. region could be britain could be heading towards power shortages according to the

u.k.'s gas and energy regulator a number of call fueled power stations may have to close due to strict e.u. pollution regulations and richard wellings deputy editorial director of the international energy agency says increasing energy policy now looms for many already struggling to heat their homes. this is really terrible for news to 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 case you'll 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 a certain period 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 it's a very small environmental problem but the cost of this is going to got to the

massive so talking about tens if not hundreds of billions of euros across the whole of the conservative party so they try to play 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 economies hardly grow and this is really the last thing that britain they. and from and as your threats to cyber threats china says american accusations of hacking are scientifically flawed and i'm liable that's after u.s. security company accused beijing of carrying out attacks on a range of industries and there are also suggestions that chinese manufactured tech products could carry spying devices but technology is brian duggan from the new america foundation says politics is playing normal 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's 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 has to inspect americans data but also data stored by foreign citizens. between the u.s. and china is explored on our website as r.t. dot com and that's where we're asking you for your thoughts on the subject and here what you will see there how far. how you have been voting there so far so the absolute majority believes it's just a p.r. stunt to prop up the latest cyber security iraq signed by the u.s.

president sixteen percent of you say that this scandal is down to espionage last thing this is a preview a world war three and a minority agree that washington is giving beijing a final warning so don't forget to go to our web site and cast your vote that and while you're there you can check out how this huge should to nice in government could soon have a hardline islamist edge the ruling now that party is to push through a prime minister from his extreme wing. parties or allows oil drilling on the disputed golan heights the company that secured the lucrative license of the likes of media tycoon rupert murdoch the u.s. vice president dick cheney on the shareholders' list so get the details at r.t. dot com. and now in the caucuses a landslide has opened a door to the past russian scientists have unearthed the remains of a bully mama and possibly not just one so the rats find is expected to shine some

light on the fate of the elephant like mammals that became extinct more than four thousand years ago and my colleague carrie johnson johnston spoke. about that find . it was the same beer where they found it like many would have thought actually happened in russia's north caucasus now the discovery was made and week about it in about a region which is a very mountainous area and also home to al bruce 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 some two and a half million years ago which was around the time b. ice age began they were huge animals four metres tall and also known for its curled

tusks their laughter african homeland and migrated to eurasia and their last resort as 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 toughs 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 to vertebrae. that 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 that so we'll wait and see what kind of prehistoric treasure trove of the carcasses could be.