diplomatic tension over the syrian conflict rises after a deadly bomb attack in the capital the country's rebel movement seemingly on the brink of war with hezbollah in lebanon. russia wants the younger brother of a russian adoptive child who died in america to return home with a still little clarity in the case which ultimately media controversy. and leading from the new figures suggest david cameron is britain's most indecisive prime minister in recent times. decisions of the news two recent predecessors.

just after seven o'clock friday night here in the russian capital this is arts he lives with me rule receive and your news from around the world. russia has accused the u.s. of attempting to justify terrorism in syria and moscow criticized washington for blocking a u.n. security council statement at the statement indeed those supposed to condemn a string of bomb attacks in the syrian capital and the blasts on thursday killed at least fifty three and wounded over two hundred are also damaging the russian embassy and moscow says it is unacceptable to make excuses for terror especially after u.s. diplomatic missions have been targeted in other countries and this as the conflict in syria could well spill into neighboring lebanon the rebel free syrian army says it is attacked hezbollah bases in advance of an ultimatum for a cease fire expiring on thursday insertions demanded the lebanese group and the shelling of rebel held areas in syria it's a deputy head of the israeli defense council. says if there is further

confrontation between both sides it could end up affecting the whole region. the main question is. if there is a possibility the fighting between the syrian groups. within syria and now perhaps within lebanon. we bring others to be involved within lebanon or between lebannon along the borders would israel for example the world as we dirty or even along the borders between syria and other places jordan for example in this case. the whole region might be involved and of course the syrians have a very strong interest not to open fire by machine or even by rifle it's very easy you don't need much for it but again as we said earlier the main point is not operational point of opening fire the main point is the tricked

that if you because below will be involved more and more in syria will cause you difficulties in lebanon once the syrian groups act against his will or within lebanon that we use the same tactics that we send people that we target as well off i told themselves that we target villages that hizbollah control there we try to hit vehicles that we try to make the people life in lebanon in general risky well here at us here we have spoken exclusively to the main mediator in the syrian conflict he had some i rather barbed comments from the opposition i was talking about the un peace envoy lakhdar brahimi he said that the rebels reluctance to make any concessions to the assad government is ultimately one of the major roadblocks to peace. think the only problem is an aside and 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 they depict you different but do you believe that's the problem doesn't matter what i believe doesn't matter what you believe either when you're saying maybe 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 seeing every five minutes but they don't want to talk to washington this is the problem it's 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. you can watch the full exclusive interview with the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria of course locked up or hear me that is an

approximately twenty minutes time here on out. for now the death of a three year old adopted a russian child in america last month has become an emotionally charged international incident moscow is demanding the return of maxim's younger brother with the police investigation still ongoing details now for this with artie's able to discover. the death of three year old much mean has caused definitely an emotional reaction from russian authorities but first let's look at the facts the boy died over a month ago the exact cause of his death still haven't been established there are reports that american of the bodies have we received to be pulling the results of his autopsy but haven't disclosed them yet his adoptive mother as she described what happened said that she was in there all the while he was playing outside with his brother where she found him unresponsive immediately called for help with this brings us to the second sticking point yourself towards themselves mitt that to be

investigation into much seems that was not started immediately unfortunately we get these kind of this particular kind of call but calls for. every day we don't put a press release at all that unless we start suspecting that something may be out of the ordinary. it wasn't all a little bit later that we started getting some suspicions of what was going on and that all developed from talking to the parents the people that live there it just took a little more time for us to develop. adoption is a major stumbling block in the relations between moscow and washington due to the many cases of abuse and sometimes of even deaths of russian children after they were adopted and brought to the united states that's why shortly after the new stock market teams that came out several russian officials including richest children's alderman summoned were quick to point the finger of blame at his american adoptive mother also because of reports from u.s.

authorities that he found bruises on the kid's body we had information that the. boy had been severely beaten. before death or. led to conclusion. possibly he had been killed now officials. in moscow do acknowledge that the investigation is still ongoing and it hasn't established the exact person to blame for months seems that another issue fueling a nigger in russia is that mark seems deaf again less than a month after russia introduced a general ban for all americans to adopt russian children not only because of the many cases of abuse and sometimes of even deaths but because of a lack of a proper legal reaction from the us authorities including the lack of proper follow up which apparently we're seeing now again not easy but it has gone off reporting

that david cameron may be the most indecisive prime minister in recent british history the figures calculated by the guardian newspaper show he's made more u.-turn since taking office in two thousand and ten than his two predecessors. sir first went to investigate. 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 health care to housing case goes caravans charities and circus and all petulant even past these 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 this kind of difficult to get the data right in partly because people change what we call them so after modifier to talk about you turn a low you stop turning. every priest where do you turn for up top are coin towns or

part down to whatever back then the word you turn carried negative connotations you turn if you want to i thank the ladies not for turning my but while miss thirty might not have been for turning this prime minister certainly is his coalition's clocks up big thirty five if 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 fifty two days for gordon brown and tony blair was much more on was less likely to change ration he was one of them self and margaret thatcher you know u. turns i took around four hundred days to go to change direction after tony blair's government go back to the coalition 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 actually in british politics it's very common and embarrassing for them do you think i think it's been difficult for the 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 is clear that what they say might not always be exactly thing 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 both it's not good it's not a good thing. if you vote for a government in an aspect of what they say it's going to be good for you to actually going to do this instead it's not proper to say well i don't know why i think if it's an issue to obviously people are worried about that it will interest

them if it's something people don't have. a bill with equal it's a huge turnabout turn climbdown will back down when it comes to changing your mind in government many theory 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 attacked for the opposite for being. so ultimately and this is something i 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. london. and i'll come here live from moscow to come for you in this program here on r t the issue of battle accolades and the french president receives a un peace prize for his mali military intervention leading rights groups labeled

a campaign that of a humanitarian disaster we call the details an expert opinion just a bit later in the program. also ahead for you here on our two reports from activists in egypt police are using torture against protesters right back to the tactics of the mubarak dictator. more on that and other stories after a very very quick break and. new year's celebrations on the move without the traditional t.v. or festive food surprising meetings and new adventures stories of love found and

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it is now i just. time this is odds he with me will receive a share in your news from around the world. the french president will receive a peace prize from the u.n. this for his military intervention in mali the unesco cultural organization says francois alon should be rewarded for his quote valuable contribution to peace and stability in africa this is violence in the war torn nation shines up saluted the no signs of slowing down leading rights groups have condemned the french led

operation saying the conflict has seen serious human rights violations including the killing of children french and malian troops are meanwhile struggling to keep islamist militants out of where there's been yet another wave of fighting the latest on rest comes as france plans to start withdrawing some of its four thousand troops next month editor at the paddock and news wire as a kiwi says the french leader does not deserve such no board given what's truly happening on the ground in the west african nation. yeah it's not been in office that long his political career since being in office as president of france has been mart 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 intervention in mali they've admitted the defense

ministry in paris that they killed hundreds of people and the operation overall is not turning out the way in which 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 a big deal overall. the economic crisis that exists in france they have the highest unemployment rate that they've had in many many years that's almost eleven percent they have a huge deficit which they're trying to deal with this intervention is not a humanitarian one it's based upon the economic and political interests of france as well as the other countries in nato is also including the united states as well because the united states is actually transporting troops into mali. well from prizes for peace to awards for movies an oscar nominated film director has been stopped at

a los angeles airport and threatened with deportation he says it's because he's a palestinian and authorities couldn't believe he was in the running for a top movie accolade well we did manage to track him down and find out exactly what it was that went so wrong. they. started questions me and the dog. they want me to give them more abreu and invitations and why why i came to united states i thought of them that i am on all scott nominees so for them to understand that the palestinian and also have no money is a very was very difficult i give them their i had their visa. i was trying to show them the e-mails from decade to me award the invitation. she she didn't. tell me what was i saying to her and she told me if you don't come up with. we would send you back he had been so

often to palestinian still be. spoiled and i had this. baby and it's in different countries also and we have all those this problem and we cannot just live like this we are a humanoid so and we are the only. one all the world that we live on the local beach and that is that i do. we also of course keep you updated on line twenty four hours a day many more stories some brilliant videos for you without c dot com let's have a quick look see what's waiting for you there right now for example that israel is drilling for oil in the golan heights land it seized from syria over forty years ago and starts or does remain rather oddly disputed those details for you want on that odyssey dot com. plus a drug deadline sentencing for georgia state prison inmates now depends on the

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with my stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. this is odd egypt's president mohamed morsi has called parliamentary elections for april struggling to calm the ongoing protests on street violence in the gulf in the country and the opposition's accusing morsi of backtracking on reform promises and of hijacking the revolution our rights groups are reporting widespread police abuse and torture resulting in the death and detention of mine is of course one of the bell true investigates. in his hometown of tanta the bill i'll give the points out well local youth has remained 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 order to 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 most adult all i know that one would be although muhammad's injuries points to torture his mother sammy says the official forensic report maintains he died after a car crash if you had to be a but that's 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 often occurs in places like this infamous security directorate behind me risking being 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 abdel-rahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander at a demonstration the police use violence against children my son has caught in the looters all over his body they hante young children because he keeps contre away from them. and he believes 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 rift. it's that torture is systemic in the police force instead the government says it will arm low ranking police officers sparking fears of other pieces human rights organizations and look it's 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 so many fear the worst is yet to come true for r t cairo. artistry to bangladesh now to open up the outer world update police have killed two protesters during violent clashes across the country forty people including twelve journalists

have been injured as two separate protests merged in the capital activists angered by what they see as a lenient of course sentences are demanding the death penalty for recently convicted criminals of war a second protest accuses the government of plotting to ban islamic parties. indian police have revealed they were warned in advance about two blasts that ripped through the city of hyderabad on thursday of the two somewhat tenuous explosions killed at least fifteen people and wounded over one hundred fifteen and no militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. oscar pistorius has been granted bail by a south african court he's accused of fatally shooting his. model girlfriend reeva steenkamp on valentine's day this after a heated argument in the early hours of the morning of the paralympic athlete claims he mistook her for an intruder of historians who will appear in court on charges of premeditated murder in june. the united nations

has refused to pay haiti any compensation for the cholera epidemic that killed about eight thousand people three years ago un sewage pipes and poor sanitation were blamed for spreading the virus at the world bodies secretary general ban ki moon has denied responsibility saying the source of the epidemic cannot be known for sure. a very short break it's our exclusive interview with the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria of course locked up in a row he me that's coming up in just a moment here on. if

you have a business than 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 mark silva jr 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 former 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 maybe this one scumbag judge from pennsylvania isn't the only one out there abusing his power if you see

a prison full of kids near you you better make sure that they're actually baby guilty of something but that's just my opinion. the u.n. peace envoy for sierra it's great to have you with our team today thank you very much i'm happy to be received so we're talking now in cairo where the national coalition for opposition forces and the syrian revolution is having its conference and he will be meeting its later in life. do you believe that direct talks between

him and the syrian president bashar al assad. are possible no two is president bashar al assad but with the government. it is necessary yes sure. i think you know sort of more and more people accept. but there is no military victory for any side and that you need a political solution and that party to consider solution meets make assertions negotiations i think can take place between deliberation to presenting the government and the delegation representing the opposition so 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 or the steamroller is that the opposition to seeing every five minutes but they don't want to talk to us it this is the problem six months ago your prep predecessor coffee on resigned saying that

there is no way they could be a peaceful resolution in syria no he didn't say that it has anything changed you still believe that a peaceful resolution a serious possible i mean you know first of all kofi never said this worker's allusion is never possible he never said what he said there were was that you know he was counting on the international community to help him and the international community did not have so he said for the moment there is you know we were out in front of war he didn't say that he never said that there were never disorders or so i'm less you are saying that there must be a military solution. which a lot of people say. but kofi annan did not say that and i'm not saying what's your take on this peaceful resolution still

a great possibility it is it would not oppose for the moment it is extremely difficult it's not that it's not happening but it is a must. syria either has a peaceful resolution or then war for until the country is destroyed and if you don't want to be the country to be destroyed and i don't think you do then you really call for this war resolution difficult as it may be. the choice really is between destroying syria and having the peace was just something why do you think syrian uprising has such a strong terrorist element to see if this is again. what is it that you call terrorist. very often a lot of people call carries

a what others call liberation movement and i think in syria we have something similar there are definitely acts of horrible violence and acceptable violence that is done by both sides but to say that the struggle is between the government and terrorists is is a little bit pushing it too far short the u.n. commission believes. al islam. effectively jihadist tera brigades are backed from abroad and they're operating in syria a lot of people are backed from abroad that doesn't necessarily make them terrorists the job is. is is considered a terrorist organization by a lot of people including by a lot of syrians but that doesn't mean that everybody is is a terrorist in syria what do you what do you make of saudis mission that they're

actually supplying arms to a lot of there's a lot of praying around on the record not saying yeah sure the russians are supplying arms to the government. they don't they don't deny that and we have a war and. unfortunately we have a war a lot of syrians most syrians as a matter of fact both from the government and from the opposition. are with me because i call it civil war but in this similar war you please at least you agree with me on something yes. you and i call it a civil war a civil war always support from outside and you have both you have two sides in this civil war and this is what level of says there are two sides to this position of the government and they should negotiate so let's make it very clear that there are organizations that are objectively objectively can be considered

still there are organisations that are considered by the government as to what is as much of a who are not there in syria the main struggle is really between a large part of the people of syria who want change they want change in their country. and that is i think a legitimate aspiration they want dignity that's what they said they want dignity they want change they want democracy. this is the struggle there are foreigners they are a tiny minority maybe a few hundred maybe a couple of thousand but there is one hundred thousand at least of our own two people who are fighting against their government unfortunately so i mean don't try to to say that it is foreigners or fighting against the syrian government this is not the case so you feel like syrian people could go on leaving in

a secular country. even if our son goes i hope so that's all i'm asking that's not what you ask if you are asking about yes definitely and i think that a lot of people in syria and outside or outside of syria very much want syria to continue to be a secular state why do you think it's has taken so long it's been two years and i think that's a very good question but it's the best question you have asked. it. you know you have a very strong well organized regime. who are determined to stay in power they have the means they have the military means. to fight and doing so the opposition is in spite of all the weapons they. are not well organized mostly civilians who are taking up arms. and that is why you know they can keep the

struggle going they cannot win a military victory but the government also cannot defeat them this is. cindy's one thousand times that is why once again a political peaceful solution is what is necessary and good for the syrian people when i was in serious three months ago i also said that he actually will stay until two thousand and fourteen wait for the election and then see what happens i mean is this a realistic plan. you know one. would very much like the problem to be solved long before two thousand and fourteen if it were possible to be solved before two thousand and fourteen it's much better than waiting until two thousand and fourteen because we're talking about civil war and he's talking about elections . how does this two go together they don't you can't have election wide civil wars you need to stop the civil war and the civil war can be stopped. through

the negotiations on the basis of the geneva agreement so if we have that resolution then we'll have an election what kind of an election depends on the results of the of the negotiations 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 let me ask you one more question about assad do you think the only problem is in assad and he not stepping down that is. lot of people who are opposed to or 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 do you believe that's the problem doesn't matter what i believe doesn't matter what you believe either you talk directly to the american

government they believe that he's the problem do you think it's an oversimplistic approach or no i'm sure the realty of you are americans and you will ask them but do you speak with the syrian government and assad directly as you speak to the opposition and their leaders also you know we have an office in damascus and we're keeping very close connection and i saw president assad. december so what messages are they sending to each other how have their behaviors towards each other changed in recent months i don't think it has changed enough to bring them to the negotiating table and this is what a lot of people including mr level of work and go. coalition the coalition seems to be under a great influence of many international players you have the arab gulf states you have the united states you have turkey you know tell me if i'm mistaken please because that's the question what is the question all i'm asking is that is it hard

to go shade with a coalition that is influenced with different international forces everybody. in the world to the people who are connected to one another they are influenced by one another i deal with russia i deal with turkey i deal with the united states because these are countries that. i think rightly or wrongly think that they have an interest they have a concern. they have fears about what is happening in syria. and i think they all can help the syrian people and me get to sort of do you fear do you fear there's a chance that an iraqi scenario could unfold in syria where sectarian violence spills over absolutely this is what needs to be avoided this is what you know you

have already some. overtones of sectarianism. you know becoming more and more visible in the in the struggle in syria and that is why the earlier the the problem is sort of the better ways to take care of that at this point he said overtones are heard at this point who is to deal with that now i think both parties both parties have to be extremely careful to avoid invest i think they are aware of it. but they need to be a little bit more. mark out for not to allow this situation to slip into a purely sectarian conflict mr president thank you very much for listening to me and thank you.

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