u.n. headquarters there to vote on a new syria resolution expected to take place within hours and hours asking to delay the decision if the draft is submitted in its current form russia's foreign minister warns of chaos and international relations while president obama calls on president assad to step down immediately. more than two hundred thousand people braved the bitter cold across russia to ensure their views on national politics are heard when a group demanding fair elections march through the streets others rallied in support of the current leadership. europeans demand a free internet as people flood the streets in protest against an anti-piracy act being signed across the continent activists want to prevent the new laws being ratified in the european parliament. there are plenty of hobbies to occupy your free time in russia but which one is right for you moscow out program coming up to help you choose stay with us. the. subject. also known as. a party game that was created in the. one nine hundred eighty six as a kind of. and very. it's. quite complicated the rules of this play is. one

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. curtis doebbler activist and international human rights lawyer told me earlier that he thinks a syrian solution must come from within and that foreign interference would be a mistake. in syria i think it is a matter of there are some very legitimate interest in the country of people who would like to be able to participate more in their government and i think the government has made some effort to respond i think it needs to make more of an effort but i don't think that comes through foreign intervention it comes through the indigenous processes of the people in the country if you look at any foreign intervention over the last several years you see that after the foreign intervention many more people died then could have possibly died through any type of indigenous process even one involving violence and i think that moscow and some of its allies on th

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. it's good to have you with us you're watching our we got a lot of pictures again for you here as thousands are out on the streets of greece once again as there are a parliament is set to choose between tough new cuts or and. imminent default the country's prime minister has warned that failing to get more bailout cash would be cut off again live pictures you're watching right here from central athens the e.u. creditors that want an unpopular new austerity bill passed in return for the one hundred thirty billion euro rescue package the cabinet has cleared the plan but lost six ministers in the process some coalition and police are threatening to vote against it if it all goes ahead fifteen thousand civil servants will lose their jobs and the minimum wage will be slashed by thousands of greeks have been protesting the deal all throughout the week there h

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. well russia has been trying to mediate a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict for months now and wants to host talks between the warring sides but one the middle east expert tells us here at r.t. that negotiations will be hard to bring about as long as the syrian opposition is simply rallying for regime change. but after the meeting with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov expressed his readiness however the other side is not expressing its readiness there are some members of the syrian opposition who are expressing readiness however there are other sides a lot including the muslim brotherhood who actually don't seem to want to participate in the gauche ations and are setting preconditions or saying in order for us to enter negotiations assad must fall and i think that is part of a western edge on the the whole thing for the west is not about nego

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating he's arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit. r.t. new york. so it's not just random countries it's countries like turkey like you just sung that funnel weapons into syria as well that the u.s. is selling weapons to in the first place so instead of finger pointing perhaps there's a need to rethink policy or at least take a closer look at the consequences of these actions i've got ivan eland a senior fellow at the independent institute here to help me break some of this down and i will let's talk about this stance by the u.s. selling arms to no eastern countries on one hand while simultaneously criticizing countries that are selling arms to other ones well unfortunately the u.s. has a double standard in this regard and you see if they in syria as your tape mentioned story mentioned this is. in bahrain this is exactly what happened we not only give it to the bahrain government but of course saudi arabia invaded bahrain and helped the g

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. now according to chinese media we're getting reports that iran has sent fifteen thousand of its a little revolutionary guard troops to help maintain order in syria and let's discuss this further with professor saeed mohammad marandi from the university of tehran joining us live now from lebanon i thank you for coming on our to you today do you believe that iran would risk getting involved in a conflict in another country according to these reports from the chinese media. no definitely iran has no troops in the country iran has never had troops involved in the problems within syria this is. basically western propaganda. someone in the chinese media has been receiving information that is completely false in general the information that is produced in syria and in the mainstream western media comes from sources that are highly questionable such as the syrian ob

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. you're watching r t greece is at a standstill once again people venting their anger at more planned cuts which he is demanding in return for vital funds public transport and other services have been disrupted by the unions two day strike protesters in athens are clashing with police throwing stones and molotov cocktails crosses coalition government did manage to agree on a new austerity deal their creditors have been demanding but eurozone finance ministers remain skeptical saying they want to see concrete action before the second bailout worth one hundred thirty billion euros can be handed over without the cash athens will default on its massive debts in march the greek parliament now has to approve cuts and find over three hundred billion euros to trim off the year's budget by wednesday journalist still be on those a person with us says his governmen

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit. new york. well you know always find more news and the latest updates on the situation in syria on our website which is actually dot com and here's what else is waiting for you there right now the day of rage against new anti-piracy laws has rocked the world with protests. taking place and dozens of cities across the planet also on line a south atlantic. military threats around the disputed islands. in cairo thousands of people joined a general strike in protest against a young going military rule exactly a year after president obama stepped down demonstrators want the supreme council of the armed forces to cede power to a civilian government they are unhappy with how the generals have been running the country with the reforms made and escalated repression of the opposition dozens of protesters were killed over the past months in the clashes with police across the country and you pa

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. to greece now where police are far to gas and stun grenades into crowds of protesters who throwing stones and fall bombs at them several buildings around athens have been set ablaze there's been reports of injuries and the rest more makers are debating a choice between tough new code. or an imminent default the creditors want an unpopular new austerity bill passed in return for the one hundred thirty billion euro rescue package the cabinet has cleared the plan but lost six ministers or deputies in the process some coalition m.p.'s of threatened to vote against it if it does go ahead then fifteen thousand civil servants jobs will lose will be lost and the minimum wage will be slashed thousands of greeks have been protesting the deal throughout the week well let's now talk to a load of unused he's a former belgian m.p. and an international consultant whe

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. meanwhile reports of a most of that support is on its way to a assad's forces chinese media claim that iran has sent fifteen thousand of its elite revolutionary guard troops to help maintain order in syria but professor mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says that despite being an ally of syria iran would not interfere and is to much to problems iran has no troops in the country iran has never had troops involved in the problems within syria this is basically western propaganda someone in the chinese media has been receiving information that is completely false well definitely iran does support the syrian government and it supports reforms in the syrian political order iran is completely opposed to foreign countries imposing their will on the syrian people iran's position is based upon a moral principle and that is non interference of neigh

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit. new york. russia has been trying to mediate a peaceful solution to the syrian conflict for months and wants to. stocks between the warring sides and one middle east expert told me that negotiations would be hard to bring about as long as the syrian opposition is rallying for regime change . meeting with the russian foreign minister sort of a lover of expressed his readiness however the other side is not expressing its readiness there are some members of the syrian opposition who are expressing readiness however there are other sides a lot including the muslim brotherhood who actually don't seem to want to participate in the gauche ations setting pre-conditions or setting it up off center negotiation is a must for all and i think that is part of. the whole thing for the west is not about negotiations is about overthrowing a regime which is a part of the i brought up block which wash

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. also where journalist lucy feel and says the timing of the bombing attacks carried out by the syrian opposition is quite significant. first of all i'd just like to say that this attack is clearly a response to the russian and chinese veto is a message from the west that if we don't get our way through the united nations security council we are going to go ahead with destabilizing syria by any means possible at the same time we are seeing in the media an increase in accusations of syrian government violence against civilians and funds but since the military operation to protect civilians in a fund began the syrian military has found a number of caches of weapons of israeli weapons the west is going to try any means possible to destabilize the country. by not going through the united nations and let's be clear that the russian stance of consistently and contin

u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york. well for more on this we can now talk to curtis doebbler he's activist and international human rights lawyer joining me in geneva while the free syrian army is split over whether it wants to claim responsibility for those latest attacks in the syrian city of aleppo what does it turn us about the lack of unity in the the ranks of the opposition. well as you know the opposition is made up of many different people most of them in fact outside the country and many of them have been outside the country for some time and i think that it's unfortunate to him since whenever anybody is killed in an armed conflict and when such a killing like this happens i do think that we need to investigate to get to the bottom of it the syrian government has said that they are willing to investigate i hope that any other parties to the conflict would also be willing to inves

u.n. anastasio. below moves definitely seem to be shifting over here at the united nations headquarters you know amidst screams trying to attack russia for being counterproductive for blocking this arab and western resolution it looks like russia has really been a game changer behind closed doors and it looks like its voice has definitely. changed the game altogether we're hearing that considering the fact that russia and china have been very expressive in saying that they would not support every scene change resolution against syria that a new document has been circulated among members of the security council this is according to the permanent representative of togo at the united nations the country which is presiding at the security council this month that this document is now being considered in thursday's negotiations and it's important at this entire time russia has been saying what's key is for both sides of the conflict to get together for talks and in statements made earlier today the representative of togo said that the international community believes this to be very important in finding a so