you with r.t. live from moscow egyptians are voting in the third round of their first post revolution parliamentary election and the country's leading islamist party is expected to dominate with results now in ten days the vote will see a transition of power from the army which has been in charge since the toppling of former president mubarak in february of last year mubarak in the meantime is on trial charged with complicity in the killing of more than eight hundred protesters during february popular uprising last month the previous round of voting was overshadowed by violent clashes between protesters and the army and government raids on charitable organizations last week also added to the bad feeling and those artists are really going to score reports from cairo discontent is running high. the revolution may have toppled hosni mubarak the manager passions accuse of corruption and suffocating freedom but now it's the ruling supreme council of armed forces which finds itself in hot water with the west

you watching r.t. live from moscow it is decision day in croatia are there for people who are now were voting on a new accession of the outcome is hard to predict as recent surveys show the issue has split the. right down the middle on saturday police clashed with protesters attempting to pull down an e.u. flag just ahead of the referendum if the result is a yes vote croatia will join the block by july next year but only if its membership is approved by all twenty seven states investment advisor patrick young says it is easy to understand those opposing the move because croats can see how their euro neighbors are facing have been facing excuse me some recent tough times. with key consideration here is that when we look at the croatian referendum there's been barely one and p. in the entire parliament who's actually been turning round of publicly saying anything against the e.u. itself so the fact that we have this amazing groundswell of support at something like forty percent easing credible it demonstrates

with r.t. live from moscow america's expanding waistline proves the country's love affair with food but almost as much as it's consumed is being dumped in the trash every day despite statistics saying millions in the country are now struggling to put anything on the dinner plate. porton i am at the so-called dumpster divers who say a few minutes of raking through garbage bags can deliver quite the banquet. the number of people on food stamps has reached an all time high more and more people are going hungry one in three americans live in or near poverty and suffering hunger in this land of plenty. in this land of plenty roughly two point seven million tons of food is reportedly raised and grown each year the same country that loves so much to consume calories. also loves to waste that. doesn't look like geo and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he romances through garbage bags on the streets of new york city here's another truth were tons of edible food is thrown out each night

you watching r.t. live from moscow is the most parties are the overwhelming winners in parliamentary elections in egypt the final results show the muslim brotherhood claiming forty seven percent of the lower house parliament holds its first session in just two days time when it will start to select a committee responsible for drafting a new constitution that's course are not. standing by in cairo maria just tell us what exactly do these results mean for the country as a whole. well rory of course it is too early right now to say how exactly it is going to fact live here in egypt how it is going to change things on the ground but what we can say for sure at this stage of course is that the first parliament of new age of the absolute majority of the seats in this parliament will be taken by islamists a conservative politics since as you've just said of course muslim brotherhoods affiliated freedom and justice party won forty seven percent that means that they are going to take a two hundred thirty five seats

it is good to have you with us you're watching r.t. live from moscow with me. syrian activists claim with a government crackdown on protesters is continuing a day after the arab league decided to keep up its observer mission in the country at least thirteen people were reportedly killed on monday but our body called on all sides in the conflict to lay down arms at once but did not go as far as to ask the un to intervene the league's been overseeing the implementation of a peace plan since late last month one hundred sixty five of its observers are spread all across syria with more on the way the findings indicate the regime is only sticking to some parts of the deal the league warns it will take on specified action if the crackdown doesn't and soon more than five thousand civilians and around two thousand soldiers are set to been killed in the country since march. more from damascus. the new year but no resolution here despite the presence in the country of arab league observers in ten months of bloody clashes the violence in syria continues to escalate i don't

it's good to have you with us you're watching r.t. live from moscow it's now ten minutes past the hour still to come in the program a meeting of monetary minds the business and banking elite descend on dark horse for the world economic forum find out how much focus will fall on the reforming the global financial system. plus searching for a fair salary why a legal loophole in india has left many without permanent jobs or stable income. thousands of egyptians are gathering in cairo's to reus square marking a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak but it's not a celebration they're still angry at the slow pace of reforms it's also a landmark day in the country as almost thirty years of emergency rule is being partially lifted although some key police powers will remain ending the draconian laws being one of the protesters key demands but there are still many for whom it's just not enough they won't rest until the army steps down as artie's maria phenomena reports from cairo. a year after its historic revolution in egypt is fa

r.t. live here in moscow still to come this hour deadline in d.c. u.s. occupiers refuse to move despite threats of a victualling and arrest. the purpose of this was to unite us in this space so if they want to arrest one of us they after arrest all of us visible message of opposition and defiance of protesters camped out in two national parks. still to come free but first leaders at their first summit of twenty twelve were all smiles but the existing tensions were clear to see there was another war of words between the french president and u.k. prime minister over whose industry is larger and poland set to join the eurozone demanded a greater say in decision making it was at least one decision made however with twenty five of the twenty seven e.u. nations agreeing to a german fiscal rule that would limit the size of nation spending they also agreed to set up a permanent bailout fund for struggling members who have never felt the all through the end of the euro says there's a lack of solidarity in the e.u. and some leaders are pursuing their own political

cairo thanks so much we invite you to watch events on the egypt's tahrir square unfolding live on our web site r.t. dot com our cameras are trained on those events are streaming you the pictures live on our website for you to catch up with whenever you'd like to. millions of new jobs manufacturing back on track the war in iraq over and been loving god now barack obama said his stall for reelection is using the annual state of the union address to do it on his lucy cuff now scott the details. very positive speech as you mentioned set against a very dire backdrop where a record forty six million americans are now receiving food assistance some thirteen million are out of work and millions more have abandoned on the job force all together but of course the president is as you mentioned launching his reelection campaign and touted a resurgence of american manufacturing talked about the sort of the issue of fairness where every citizen will get their fair chance to live a good life too to pay their fair share including the wealthiest sort of attack to the financial industry talking about how wall stree

this is r.t. live here moscow coming up for you later this week bringing live coverage from russia's main cathedral showing you how the orthodox world is currently celebrating christmas more live coverage there the beautiful sights and sounds from russia's main cathedral in central moscow that's coming up very shortly. but next a stellar beginning in a no less spectacular decline ten years on the euro is fighting for its very survival with member countries played by deepening death and widespread disorder it means that what began as a project to establish an economic european superstate is now quickly becoming its very undoing maltese tessa silly reports from brussels. the birth of an ambitious project a common currency celebrated with no less than a big bang. i. the beginning of a strong euro here you know. very severe war. here ten years down the road the euro is not in the best of shape. a spiraling sovereign debt crisis credit downgrades rising interest rates tens of millions unemployed budget cuts

good evening from moscow my name's kevin only watching r.t. live from the capital it's now nine pm and our top story the syrian opposition fighters are encroaching towards the capital of an already seized control of a town on the outskirts some suburbs of c. nearly two dozen killed in the past two days and buildings heavily shelled to sara furthur correspondents there when we go.

r.t. live here in moscow next we continue our pathfinder series bringing you the stories of foreigners who are successfully pioneering business in russia and today we meet the man who brings scores of world renowned actors and bands to the country bob van roekel used to be a restaurateur in los angeles until deciding one day to try his luck here in russia something he's never regretted. i basically ended up moving to russia all by accident in one thousand and ninety eight i was asked by a russian friend in los angeles if i could bring a hollywood studio to moscow because mayor luzhkov was interested in building multiplex cinemas and wanted a hollywood studio partner i had friends that were running warner brothers they sent head of international theatres with me gosh my my first trip was very impressionable i couldn't understand how so many young people i was meeting were making tens of millions of dollars a year and some of them millionaires before they were thirty and these were some of the th

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow i'm rule research the u.s. has responded to a warning from iran to keep its aircraft carriers out of the persian gulf by saying that its was shipped will continue to sail that the american navy has pulled out of an area where iran was holding ten days of naval wargames during which it successfully test fired a number of different missiles but russia as a defense ministry says that despite the latest military exercise the iranians don't have the technology to make intercontinental ballistic missiles meanwhile france is pushing for stricter sanctions saying it's sure to iran is developing nuclear weapons into urged e.u. countries to follow the u.s. in freezing iranian central bank assets and imposing an embargo on oil exports to iran has been threatening to block the strait of hormuz one of the world's most important oil routes.

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow where it's now is just after five pm. so all rights groups have slammed president obama over a controversial defense bill he's authorized the military to indefinitely detain terror suspects without charge or trial which is unprecedented in u.s. history obama said he did have some serious concerns about parts of the law and its pledge it won't be applied in full to americans but rights advocates are calling the bill a blight on obama's legacy thanks specked the white house to break its promises especially as the notorious guantanamo bay prison remains open despite obama's pre-election balata shut it down by the beginning of two thousand and ten ati's marina portnoy has more long before he became u.s. president or a nobel peace prize winner barack obama was a constitutional law professor we have never been more energized. thank you. a civil liberties champion turned charismatic candidate who vowed to reverse the abuses and policies of his predecessor george w. bush four years later many civil rights advocates who once cheer

right here with r.t. live from moscow to me tree joins us now with all the action from the world of sports. hello there. thanks for joining us this hour top stories. for more seasons zinni decided to stay. until the end of twenty fourteen. into the last eight. to book a place in the quarter finals all the great. returning stateside the world's best possible league he's competitive truck back to the russian league. but start with the news that it will remain the manager of the need for two more seasons that's according to the telephone himself his current contract expires at the end of twenty eight twelve fifty two year old manager has been coaching since two thousand and nine on his management side won the russian national championship the russian cup and the russian super cup also made it into the champions league for the first time in their history now his charges are on top of the current standings in the russian premier league. another madrid have booked a place in the last eight of the copa del rey that's

global news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow i'm sure syria's opposition has made a chilling pledge to the country's leader they have a valid that president bashar al assad and his family will be killed like libyan leader colonel gadhafi saying that he's lost the chance for a peaceful exit fierce battles between government forces and rebel fighters are raging on the outskirts of the capital damascus and that's exactly where sarah firth is joining us now live here on our feet sara so with this uncompromising threat from the opposition it looks like the syrian conflict is beginning to resemble what happened in libya. well there's certainly a nice phase of the crisis here in the country you're seeing an increasingly civil conflict evidence really by the violence has broken out for the past couple of days between the two sides now that's not being held by the statement by one of the members of the main opposition body the syrian national council haifa mullah head said that assad and his family would be killed like gadhaf

if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow time for your headlines now the e.u. come to an agreement on a total embargo of iranian oil it's a move the could ultimately backfire on the blocs own fragile economy. damascus rejects the arab league's transition plan which includes a demand for president assad's departure calling it a fragrant interference in its internal affairs the e.u. is reportedly also stepping up its pressure on the regime by imposing a new set of sanctions. croatia joined the european union after a national referendum marked by clashes polarized opinion and a disappointing turnout. the u.s. often calls for democratic change in the middle east but remains reluctant to admit the rights of palestinians for self-determination to get the latest on the palestine's bid for statehood first hand from the president of the palestinian national authority of course that of mahmoud abbas the exclusive interview is now. visit is the final stop on your european tour. still waiting for a resolution to the statehoo

here with r.t. live from moscow time for your headlines now a storm brews over iran as the west accuses it of provocation amid suspicion is developing nuclear weapons while tehran blames the u.s. and israel for the assassination of a fourth scientist in just two years. by islands in syria claims the life of a foreign journalist for the first time since the unrest began as the arab league powers to continue its observer mission there despite one the monitor deciding to quit.

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow with me rule received the arab league is deciding what to do next in syria its way for ports are true the violence is unabated it's rumored that the group will extend its observer mission in the country because they think the presence of monitors has reduced the crisis in some areas. furthest following the situation in the country. the arab league ministers going to be meeting to present their findings on what's been happening ok and to discuss what the next me will be now the arab league mission in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace. syria's government among other things that include the release of. the withdrawal of the government troops and tanks from some of the towns and cities how successful this has been the pace of we actually followed the arab league mission in that final day here in the country now there are questions raised as to the neutrality and the credibility of the mission certainly seeing the way that they operated clued into ques

around the clock around the world this is r.t. live in moscow tensions between iran and the west are soaring ever higher with fresh calls on tehran to stop all nuclear enrichment they've come after an urgent un security council session was called by france in response to reports of a new atomic facility in the islamic state u.s. secretary state hillary clinton has dubbed to iran's recent threat to close off a vital oil trade route a provocation u.k. is also reportedly sent its best equipped warship to the persian gulf saying it's ready to send more if iran moves to block the strait of hormuz he's going to teach current looks at the latest in a deepening dispute. the cold run of tension between iran and the west is simmering . it seems the slightest the increase of heat could make it boil over into an all out confrontation. where we'll be that boiling point the point of no return we're getting closer and closer to war with iran the iranians are playing with fire problems in a crisis if you get where any small thing can really set it off

r.t. so watch this space all right officer laura smith live in london thanks very much. and our news executive a nickel a a book a chick in hell talks with a songe to secure this program he says our new host is full of fresh ideas there were quite interesting discussions we said in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be and it channels you right now to get our son but i think it's quite natural that the future will be on our t.v. i mean our t. always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any news story and sure the real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream science when we talk to you know was very common in the arts which you would expect of course from someone who's been under house arrest for more than four hundred days he was very full of ideas and some of them were born as we talked so i think this will be a very hard hitting show you with r.t. live from moscow and still to come your way in the program a meeting of mana tree minds in the business and banking elite descend on dubs f

this r.t. live from moscow our top stories moscow refer me to push for talk to seoul syria rejecting any military intervention and pledging to ensure the u.n. doesn't authorize any this is american some allies mild calls against the syrian regime with qatar proposing to send in troops. iran says it's ready to head back to talks about its nuclear program with western oil sanctions looming in the u.s. poised to take action in the persian gulf international six party talks broke down a year ago with ted on a.

here with r.t. live from moscow in about eight minutes as the business but for now the leader of libya's national transitional council mustafa abdul jalil as i said a moment ago he says the country could be on the brink of civil war and follows a weekend of political turmoil with his deputy resigning over the suspension of six high ranking council delegates from benghazi insulator.

welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories with a blood still flowing and a body count growing the arab league reportedly wants to carry on monitoring in syria despite being slammed for being totally ineffective. silenced and thrown out iran's english language press t.v. news program gets kicked off british airwaves for falling foul of broadcasting laws something that channels dubbed a clear act of sounds or ships. i mean against one their president out protests against corruption and low wages turned all the way with hundreds of arrests and dozens injured in clashes with police. to the kaiser report exposes fraud in the world of economics as it continues to sniff out the scandal behind the financial headlines. i am asked eiser this is the kaiser report sexual favors for chicken the nuggets oh my goodness i can hardly wait to get that story but first let's talk about sinking the ship max you're not talking about the global economy or are you because that's our first headline cruise ship ca

was the promise of a better economic future but that may be an elusive promise the watching r.t. live from moscow coming up later this hour shared pain for common game. and the e.u. prepares to unveil a strict set of sanctions against iran measures that could well backfire on the blocks fragile economy. russia's policy on migration has come under scrutiny from its prime minister and presidential hopeful line reported in a second major newspaper article as part of his election campaign put and set out his position on a range of key challenges let's get more on this now from our correspondent peter all over peter tells me more about the main points took him out of this article well migration and multiculturalism the main topics addressed in this latest article from vladimir putin the he praised russia's history of multiculturalism saying that it went back centuries back to the days of the the old russian empire. but said that the country had faced serious problems over the last twenty years since the the collapse of the soviet union that we've seen many migrants economic migrants coming

watching r.t. livefrom moscow as are the top stories when wars and global hacking group cripples the web sites of the white house and f.b.i. a series of attacks a major u.s. internet pages and you mentioned growing crime down file sharing services. arab league observers are much criticized mission to syria and prepare to deliver their report as the syrian opposition believes its drums in favor of military intervention. and london ramps up its efforts to bring the scottish independence bid to an unsuccessful land as northern nationalists look to exit the three hundred year old getting in favor of an oil rich future. as we have lined up next our special report and we're off to siberia worthy ancient tradition of shamanism is still alive more and more about it in our special report. the sun's. bierria a dusk by year in chino one of the most celebrated and experienced chairmans east of lake baikal begins his shamanic rituals today's ritual is designed to invoke the spirits healing abilities and thank them f

here with r.t. live from moscow and still to come your way in the program a meeting of mana tree mines and the business and banking elite descend on doubles for the world economic forum and find out how much focus will actually fall on reforming the global financial system. five minutes past the hour here in moscow as the u.s. presidential race picks up pace ahead of november's vote barack obama is trying to ratchet up support for reelection he's delivered his annual state of the union address making new promises of change in the future are to use a gun a chicken was listening at. his goal was to highlight his achievements and lay out new promises as far as the message policies he speech was full of heartfelt success stories about the economy and jobs creation but there is a lot of skepticism among americans social inequality in america is now at a level unseen since the great depression the top one percent of wealthiest in the country are making a killing while the middle class is shrinking dramatically

about the reminded two of our top stories with me kevin owen following in just a few minutes here on r.t. live from moscow. well. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the few jerks covered. me he. says. wealthy british. it's. on the. market. it's scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our feet. were shot four times in total. there were. sort of the boards there's still a lot of. people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem national rifle association there's a group of basically retired military police loves to shoot holes and i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and if what's in front of here is going to die and that's all the training you really really need raise your hand if you know something's been. ok to live well one of the philadelphia police or the streets. kill a lot of hopefully we will never h

watching r.t. live from moscow now russia's space agency's announced ambitious plans to step up exploration of the moon and is even called for the creation of a permanent base that. says it will almost also boost the cooperation with its partners in the u.s. and european union. of all a bit of an opera is us more of the story. really what we're looking at is the first steps towards a new chapter in the exploration of the moon of course the closest thing to us in the cosmos we really should go back there and find out more about it now what with what ross cosmos have proposed is to send two unmanned probes to the moon that will collect samples and return back to earth so that could be analyzed with the hope eventually that we can set up a permanent base on the moon now this all sounds very science fiction but it could very soon be science fact a moon base has been said that it could very well be a very good place to to launch spacecraft from could also be a very good place to build spacecraft to cause the

it is good to have you with us today this is r.t. live from moscow with me wrong reception the arab league has renewed calls for the syrian government to end bloodshed more observers in the country but the group monitoring the implementation of a peace plan stopped short of asking at the u.n. for help the arab league mission itself has been heavily criticized for failing to stop the violence as artie's sara first reports many in the country say they are paying too high a price for the change. a new year but no resolution here despite the presence in the country of arab league observers in ten months of bloody clashes the violence in syria continues to escalate i don't macalester what's our fault what's our people's point it's assumed that our children are dying it's a senator kerry just ordinary people we simply want to have a man seen here his life doctors are battling to save his soldiers charging the he dies and he's just twenty five years old. was found in the act to mourn him and this is just one man one family because syria at the m

this is r.t. live from moscow now russia has announced plans to build a band research colonies on the moon the country's space agency is viewing possible partnerships with nasa and counterparts in the e.u. to put men back on the lunar surface permanently. explains our scientists hope exploring the moon will help us better understand the nature of life back on our planet. cosmos want to send first off to unmanned probes to the surface of our nearest celeste steele neighbor and take samples bring them back to earth so they can be studied and analyzed with the hope eventually that we can set up a permanent base on the move now this all sounds very science fiction but it could very soon be science fact a moon base has been said that it could very well be a very good place to to launch spacecraft from would also be a very good place to build spacecraft of course the the gravity of the moon much less than there is a get see the effect the lesson gravity or zero gravity would have on a spacecraft much more th

watching r.t. live from moscow after surveying the damage from saturday's occupy protests in oakland california the mayor wants to kick activists out of the city the latest rowdy ended with riot police firing tear gas and flash bombs meanwhile in washington the national park service has given not just until noon today to remove all camping material from a pair of occupy camps but demonstrators have planned a peaceful protest in response sara flounders from the international action center believes the occupy movement continues to attract followers. it's very much achieving its goals in terms of waking up the youth in the us waking up working people in the us to the reality the reality that poor and working people are losing more and more and that the one percent actually one thousands of one percent is gaining enormous new wealth so that they are very successful in drawing attention to that again and again the media tries to bait this occupy movement as being violent the violence has come from the police

this is r.t. live from moscow six gulf states members of the arab league say they are pulling their observers out of syria they're also calling on the u.n. security council to pressure damascus into implementing a peace deal this comes after syria rejected the league's call for president assad to step down summing up a month of its observer mission to the country the organization said all sides in the syrian conflict must lay down arms the pan arab body wants to hand the power to a deputy and pave the way for a unity government with the opposition meanwhile the e.u. has imposed a new round of tough sanctions against the syrian regime but has international pressure piled up it's the people who are feeling the pinch so to you sir firth reports from damascus. trying to shine a light on what's happening in the country the observer mission looks set to continue now for another month but every day here is proving more and more of a challenge to the people. due to the european sanctions in syria to argue in s

with r.t. live from moscow and are still ahead for you in the program a country trying to rise from revolution egypt now faces the consequences of the democracy they fought so hard for as islamists sweep the election. to the u.k. sixty years but it's finally come clean after russia uncovered the secret of britain's . reaches a boiling point in romania which soars worst violence in years as protesters clashed with police for the second week running people have been demanding that the president government step down that's against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax increases in the second poorest country it's struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors. and now reports in bucharest. night and day they come to scream that defiance by saying austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. our youth has no future they have no jobs. not a water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in brooklyn rest but now she's forced to

tripoli you're watching r.t. live from moscow this is the weekly and the u.s. president barack obama has signed a bill imposing new sanctions against iran the measures that target the country's central bank and more particularly hit the oil revenues for relations between washington and tehran which to a dangerous point this week there is no me country threaten to block off a vital oil supply route in the persian gulf where it's currently holding navy drills to run promise to not let one drop of oil go through the strait of hormuz if the west goes on with sanctions the u.s. stepping up pressure over iran's nuclear program to iran has since said it's ready for fresh talks political analyst chris bambery believes the west is putting world peace at stake with its stubbornness over sanctions. that americans could probably force using the military which in the gulf could probably force open the straits of hormuz but that would mean war with iran and that would be a huge huge escalation and would threaten world peace and therefore i think the iranians are really chall

good evening from moscow my name's kevin only watching r.t. live from the capital it's now nine pm and our top story the syrian opposition fighters are encroaching towards the capital of an already seized control of a town on the outskirts some suburbs of c. nearly two dozen killed in the past two days and buildings heavily shelled to sara furthur correspondents there. when we got there we were met by the free syrian army now have control of the area and they showed us around they took us into the center there was absolutely massive anti-government demonstration going on there's a funeral procession going on at the same time as well so we were able to speak to the people who were living in this area to speak to some of the free syrian army members as well because of course a very little is known about who exactly these people are really have made it very very clear to us just how divided the country is now becoming whilst we were there there was sort of a moment of confusion we did hear gunshots in the background some of the crowd got nervous and s

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow. syria's president has blamed a foreign conspiracy for the turmoil in the country amid ongoing protests against his rule addressing the nation bashar al assad promised more political reform while dismissing opposition claims of a bloody crackdown he said he's actually fighting armed insurgents using peaceful protests as a cover now for more on this we can talk to the middle east expert professor jeremy saul from builtin university in ankara good to see you today so president assad claims a foreign conspiracy is behind the unrest in syria how justified do you think these accusations. i think the opposition can see nothing. but in his sins but in many respects. he singled out. one so. new and i think. assessment. from the very ineffectual. when you're. talking well you don't use the consumers and we do know that many many. things not to bring down the syrian government and that includes. britain france and the governments. opinion of. syria. really. not. a country which has. no elections

you with r.t. live from moscow i'm rori sushi is good if you join us today let's go back to two of our top stories here the ongoing going boiling a crisis in syria and that of what's happening in iran as well to discuss both issues further i'm now joined in the studio by the deputy chief of the russian a duma committee for international affairs constantine cost of thank you for joining us on r.t. today straight to that of syria the u.n. security council is set to negotiate a new draft resolution later on tuesday what do you think we should expect to see by the end of the day do you expect any action on this well hopefully we will be able to see here because i believe that we need to have a united position by the security council and its member states but perspectives are not there good because the draft resolution has been the give a route to that has been drafted to result the russian participants participants result take into account our concerns and the major concern is still that these draft resolut

this is r.t. live from the heart of moscow your headlines now president obama has signed a bill which imposes new tough sanctions on iran over its disputed nuclear program this is despite tehran's threats to shut off a keel. oil supply route in the gulf as tension between the two countries continues to build. the syrian regime's crackdown on demonstrators continues unabated forcing arab league observers to warn damascus to rein in the violence the monitors are overseeing the implementation of a peace plan that president assad has agreed to. and the world rings in two thousand and twelve with a bang fireworks and celebrations across the globe r.t. has taken a look back at a momentous two thousand and eleven filled with protests civil war and regime change. while our two thousand and eleven as we were saying was packed with world changing events now earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to russia's ambassador to the u.n. . can and i asked him his thoughts on tackling the issues that are currently dividin