Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution proposing further sanctions on Syria, prompting an angry Western response.
The UK, US and France said the UN had failed the people of Syria. The mood inside the security council chamber was acrimonious after China and Russia vetoed the resolution. Britain's ambassador
accused the two nations of protecting a brutal regime by their actions.

America's ambassador said the security council had failed utterly
in the most important task on its agenda. China's ambassador denounced what he called an uneven resolution which placed pressure on one side, while Russia's representative claimed the resolution would have opened the path to military involvement in Syria's affairs.

Now negotiations are underway to try to extend the mandate of
the UN monitoring mission in Syria which is due to expire on
Friday. The mission is supposed to monitor a ceasefire and support a
political process - neither of which exist. So the UK is proposing a
30 day "final" extension.
Syrian forces have deployed tanks, artillery and helicopters in
parts of the capital and clashes have been reported south-west
and north-east of the city.
Meanwhile, the rebels are reported to have captured a number of border posts.
Sources told a BBC correspondent on the Turkish-Syrian border
that the Free Syrian Army had taken the Sarmada and Bab al-
Hawa crossings. However, they were later said to have withdrawn from Bab al-Hawa.
On Syria's eastern border, Iraqi officials told AFP news agency that
rebels had taken over the Abu Kamal crossing between the two
countries.

Russia and China have used their vetoes twice before over Syria
and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned their latest
action as "inexcusable and indefensible".
"They have turned their back on the people of Syria in their
darkest hour," he said. The UK's ambassador to the UN, Mark Lyall
Grant, said he was appalled.
Under the Western-backed plan, the Damascus government
would have been threatened with non-military sanctions under
Chapter Seven of the UN Charter if it failed to move troops and heavy weapons from populated areas.
It was the use of Chapter Seven that stirred Moscow's objections.
It opened the path to "external military involvement in Syrian
domestic affairs", Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin argued.
But US ambassador Susan Rice said that any suggestion of
military force was "paranoid if not disingenuous".
The French envoy accused Russia of seeking to gain time for the
Syrian regime while the US said it planned to intensify its work
outside the Security Council.
With sporadic battles breaking out for control of Damascus,
international envoy Kofi Annan has pushed the international
community to take urgent and decisive action.
The Security Council still has to decide whether to renew the
mandate of a UN mission in Syria, due to end on Friday. The UK is
said to be revising the text of the vetoed resolution proposing an
extension for a "final 30 days".
The BBC's Jim Muir in Lebanon says the 300 UN observers have
found themselves completely sidelined by the violence in Syria.
Whether or not the mission is extended, their commander Gen
Robert Mood has decided to leave anyway.
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And so the bloodshed continues

Although veto power at United Nation Security Council is crazy,where any of the five permanent members vetos a resolution even if the entire world voted for it, but Us should not complain against China and Russia because it has used its veto power at UN to block almost all proposed resolutions meant to condemn or sanction Israel over its crimes against Palestine and others.

The west is not ready to solve the Syrian conflict peacefully, you don't support the armed opposition and criticize the government, having said that i think Bashar Al-saad should resign and go into exile to avoid more bloodsheed.