and don't go away because russia's ambassador to the un vitaly churkin will be in our studio in new york any time now we'll go live with him shortly. but first the former head of britain's m i six spy agencies allen is being sued by a pair of dissident libyans he allegedly helped capture and set for torture under gadhafi in two thousand and four investigation into the claims may have uncovered several other backroom deals between the u.k. and the colonel's fall and regime artie's over bennett explains. abducted imprisoned and tortured for six years all thanks to british government held those are the claims of two former gadaffi detainees who say they were captured by m i six and flown to libya in two thousand and four abdul haq is now libya's military commander along with sami el saadi he was part of the libyan islamic fighting group they're suing a former british spy chief for complicity in their torture to me the most damaging aspect is that it is how much the british were involved in even two cases of sending senior people back to libya and then the potential damages how much they kne

that's why russian envoy to the un vitaly churkin addressed the media just a little while ago reaffirming russia's commitment to bring a peaceful solution to the conflict in syria of course addressing the fact that russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is there right now and trying to hammer out an agreement in which syrian president bashar al assad and the opposition groups will come to the table and begin some type of dialogue and baster churkin did also underscore the fact that when russia made its amendments to a draft resolution that was voted on saturday he said that if the security council had worked two or three more days there could have been a consensus reached in this circumstance particularly relating to syria the council should not bypass any opportunity to act in the unity if a chance had been given of course to consider russia's amendments which russian officials say are were not excessive there could have been some type of resolution adopted instead we saw that russia and china did cast a veto on saturday there at the press did one member of the press in attendance just a

we've got the ambassador to the united nations, vitaly churkin, coming on later. >> well, you know, the story they tell is that president medvedev basically cooperated with the u.n. resolution no-fly zone on libya which they... the russians say was meant simply to protect civilians and it turned into a regime change operation. that's their excuse basically for refusing to go along with the syrian initiate because, you know, they see syr in two very... i should say three very important ways. one is a huge arms customer. something like $5 billion in outstanding arms contracts and for putin who now faces elections, some of these one-industry arms manufacturing cities are going to be very important. that's number one. number two, they see syria as their last port of... their only port in the mediterranean and really one of their last allies in the arab world. and lastly, for putin, there's a very bad example here,he syrian regime looks a lot like his n, you know? authoritarian regime, out of touch with its people and he doesn't like the precedent. so that's the argument they make. it's qui

in it when it comes to the current circumstance in syria russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin did go into detail about those imbalances and whether the security council has not yet reached its conclusion with what resolution put to the bill does not adequately. and soon enough. i would consider taking into account the syrian opposition to distance itself from extremist groups committing violent states your ability to use them is to. know when you're going to take into account along with his decent. nor has there been supporting more into media outlets but arab league. delegation was forced to give their position. this is. just. something. you are with of course still to come in the program. an anti-piracy treaty designed to protect intellectual property as europeans involved find out why they say it violates their basic rights also. religion as a testing ground we investigate how new forms of islam could change the face of the whole nation and lead to serious consequences. in egypt at least twelve people have been killed in street battles with riot police more than two thousan

russia's envoy vitaly churkin said the u.n. should promote dialogue between the assad administration and opposition forces. >> the security council cannot prescribe recipes for the outcome of domestic political process. this is really not the business of the security council. >> russia said on monday they called on the syrian government and opponents to hold talks in moscow. it said the assad administration gave a positive response. u.s. state department spokesperson mark toner dismissed the idea. >> we've seen time and time again syria play this kind of shell game with various proposals, various peace efforts, various attempts at dialogue. they pretend to engage, attempt to -- or pretend to engage and then nothing ever happens or comes of it. >> toner said the u.s. wants the u.n. security council to take action. he stressed the importance of putting international pressure on assad. >>> in october russia and china blocked western-led efforts to adopt a resolution, calling on assad to halt oppression of protesters. and the syria

in it when it comes to the current circumstance in syria russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin did go into detail about those imbalances but why do you work in the security council has not yet reached its conclusion that you know that the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately which led to the real situation in syria that consumed. the co-sponsors of the resolution of north sigmond wooding if there was that i'm not taking into account the syrian opposition they must distance itself from extremist groups committing violence. on states your ability to use their influence to prevent such . no we'll have taken into account that along with his joining the syrian forces from the cities should be a means to attack on state institutions. has the being support for affording more flexibility to get into media outlets states to increase the chances of a successful political process with the russian delegation was forced to vote against this draft resolution seriously regret this outcome of a joint with. russia's foreign minister is scheduled to visit damascus on tuesday to m

in it when it comes to the current circumstance in syria russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin did go into detail about those imbalances but. the security council has not yet reached its conclusion of the draft resolution. adequately with the real situation in syria and. the co-sponsors of the resolution and looting of taking into account the syrian opposition distance itself from extremist groups committing violence. to use their influence to prevent such. taken into account. with his drawing the syrian. state institutions. nor has the being support for affording more flexibility to get into. states to increase the chances of a successful political process the russian delegation. this draft resolution seriously regret. visit damascus. with syrian president bashar. some type of peaceful approach. in syria the arab league has also addressed the security council at the stakeout saying that they are extremely disappointed. but they will continue trying to work with the security council with the united nations to try to reach some type of consensus now u.s. president barack obama d

similar to what the world saw transpire in libya now russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin did address the security council indicating that russia is clearly committed to finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict in syria but it is a solution that has to involve the syrian people not a solution that is imposed by outside forces take a listen to what he had to say this unity council cannot prescribe radio recipes for. domestic political purposes it's not in the charter we don't want the security council to call him to fall into the habit because once you start as difficult to stop then you will start telling what king need stories. you know what prime minister needs to step down this is really not the business of the security council moscow has proposed its own draft resolution on syria which calls for both parties participating in the violence to come to the negotiating seat negotiating table and take part in a dialogue this is an invitation that russia recently made to representatives of the syrian government and opposition groups earlier this week to try to get

spoke to russia's ambassador to the body vitaly churkin he says that piling pressure only on the assad regime gives unilateral advantages to the rebels who are also to blame for inciting violence in syria. the latest round of military confrontation in syria started a couple of days before that resolution draft resolution was put to vote and the reason i'm here i'm not trying to justify anybody but simply trying to be analytical is that as the morning during mission of that i believe was there and that as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain downs or certain quarters and in cities that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the the armed confrontation will continue and escalate and that was the reason for which were brought our amendments to the text of the draft resolution which would not only require the government to pull out its forces from from this it is but would also would also require the opposition forces to show restraint and not to exercise their military quote every conflict. needs to be

even had to stop all together the earlier i spoke with russia's ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin he says the international community should make every effort to solve the syrian crisis through dialogue in order to avoid more bloodshed. every conflict. needs to be resolved the su negotiations that there are two ways really in my view one is a frontal attack against the regime something which i'm afraid the has been happening lately including from some international important international players the advocates of regime change they have been trying to. resolve the crisis through from doubling the government in the moscow sound the this would mean bloodshed and civil conflict and. conflict which will be spreading beyond the borders of syria but the other the more rational way the only way which the international community should be supporting. trying to put the parties to the table to bring them to the table and to arrange a dialogue among them in order to find a political solution with all for the bloodshed speaking of the bloodshed activists in syria say there has been a surge in

in it when it comes to the current circumstance in syria russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin did go into detail about those imbalances that you know the draft resolution does not adequately which led to the real situation in syria the incident and. the co-sponsors of the resolution and would if there was that i'm not taking into account the syrian opposition they must distance itself from extremist groups committing violence. on states your ability to use their influence to prevent such. know will have been taken into account because of a. with was drawing the syrian forces from the cities. to attack. state institutions . nor has the being schooled for affording more flexibility to get into. states to increase the chances of a successful grossest purchase foreign minister is scheduled to visit damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al assad this is a move to hold to to hopefully reach some type of peaceful approach or solution to the conflict still waging in syria the arab league has also addressed the media at the security council at the stakeout saying tha

quite all that successful in their mission let's have a listen to russia's to the united nations vitaly churkin on the matter. as the morning during mission of that i believe was there and as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain downs or sort of quarters and it is that was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the the armed confrontation will continue and escalate. of course the russian delegation was in damascus earlier this week they have entered talks with president assad who seemed to be more than willing to start to start reforms in the country in fact just on sunday. has announced that good a new constitution is underway that there are talks being discussed shows that he also said that he is willing to sit down for a dialogue with the syrian opposition primarily with the syrian national council fortunately the syrian opposition isn't all that all that keen to enter any sort of negotiations with president assad so again the situation in syria remains remains quite tense as the arab league here in cairo is a looking

in it when it comes to the current circumstance in syria russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin did go into detail about those imbalances. some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table have from the very beginning of the syrian crisis been undermining opportunities for political settlement by calling for regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and not hesitating to encourage methods of struggle the draft resolution does not adequately reflect the real situation in syria and unbalanced signals to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account proposals that as well as withdrawing syrian forces from the cities there should be an end to attacks by armed groups and state institutions. that are on the precious foreign minister is scheduled to visit damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al assad this is a move. to to hopefully reach some type of peaceful approach or solution to the conflict still waging in syria the arab league has also addressed the media at the security council at the stak

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is not new but the latest comments have been coming from a russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin ambassador churkin addressed the media a few hours ago indicating that moscow is categorically against imposing on arms embargo on syria and he many reasons but the biggest one drew a parallel to libya because in the case of libya when the security council adopted resolution one nine hundred seventy three allowed for a no fly zone and also included an arms embargo on libya but in the meantime western countries were not imposing that arms embargo on the opposition groups instead the opposition groups were being armed by western countries by nato countries and i am faster church believes this can be a repeat of case in syria because as of now many members of the security council do not even acknowledge that the opposition groups are rising up against syrian president bashar al assad are armed where are those arms coming from those arms stop coming if there is an arms embargo imposed on syria and in the aftermath of libya and what transpired there ambassador churkin believes that the sec