globe so for them that's no surprise at all but the stumbling block is that iran wants to talk to the western powers the re present catherine ashton is not ready for talks but they want to have their agenda followed step by step and that means that a letter written by ashton. has to be answered first the uranium right now don't want to answer in the way the west wants to hear so this is a real stalemate but overall i can say the situation is pretty serious since the with trying to misuse the peaceful nuclear program. which was peaceful so far they're not building a bomb definitely they're using fraudulent reports by the i was there twice i spoke to the diplomats this is a big scandal and they're using this in fact to you know build a war case against iran with the western populations through our misguided media a very dangerous situation. meanwhile iran's president has reiterated his support

for a step by step plan proposed by russia aimed at resolving the nuclear stalemate the comments by mahmoud ahmadinejad were made in a phone conversation with his russian counterpart to meet. under the new plan know what new unilateral sanctions would be applied to iran instead it will respond to questions on its nuclear program one by one for each point cleared and another set of existing sanctions on tehran would be eased or lifted altogether this proposal first made in washington into line last year hasn't so far found much support in the west. we'd like to hear your opinions on this story head to the forum section of our web site r t v dot com to get involved these are just some of the viewpoints i'm going to go through here on what's happening in the region so far one viewer says the west can do without iran's oil in the long run is just provoking tehran to give an excuse for another military strike. while another poster is

hopeful at least one of the sides will be sensible enough to back out of an all out conflict because it could mean nuclear war. another opinion is that the u.s. will attack you run as soon as possible to set the machine in motion for america's presidential election which of course is coming up later this year and another poster argues that tehran it won't have the courage to carry out its threats and start a war saying the west should go ahead and impose those sanctions will go to the forum section at our dot com to see more opinions and have your say. that of libya's transitional government has admitted the country could be sliding into civil war he says it's unlikely and likely outcome unless the n.t.s.c. manages to take control over militias and disarm them this follows a recent skirmish between armed groups in tripoli streets that left four dead meanwhile the country's justice system remains a source of concern with thousands remaining behind bars without ever having been

charged on a boy reports. it was one of the first amnesty of the new libya hundreds of men and women many of them sub-saharan immigrants released from a makeshift prison most of them spent several months in captivity for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. you know we are releasing those who didn't commit serious crimes those with blood on their hands will be waiting for the prosecutor's decision while the new off the richest were eager to pain the release as a goodwill gesture both the determination and the parole seemed entirely arbitrary some of the dictator's supporters as these people to be just work for government agencies and others happened to be domestic helpers or government workers and now equal before the law rather before the absence of it they are mostly in prison was

triple as tough a detention facility under gadhafi the tories for its mistreatment and arbitrary killings of inmates but while all of its prisoners rest south free in late august as the rebels over in the capital dozens possibly even hundreds of makeshift prisons sprang out around the country according to u.n. estimates up to seven thousand allowed to get out a loyalist are being held there a little chance for justice of fair trial just a year ago this place used to be a school today demain last i'm being told here is that during the transition to democracy quick reactions are a must while many in the new libyan government held positions of power under gadhafi those who failed to jump on the bandwagon early enough and now finding themselves behind bars. now in libya there are about a thousand people in detention and the problem is they haven't had any legal review they haven't had access to a lawyer they haven't been brought before any independent judicial panel or judges

so that's what we're calling for now is a quick and. legal review and rebuilding the justice system the treatment is even more brutal outside tripoli the tunnel to where a good the gadhafi forces used to launch attacks against misrata is still a ghost town many of its former residents live in refugee camps and even their extraordinary conditions by militia are common this man says he was tortured for several days before finally being released. to you until you confess to things you haven't committed like entering homes or looting it's a grueling dilemma many of these mothers and wives have to confront to pray for their loved ones to be rotting in a prison with torture being officially acknowledged but you know for their death children need their fathers and women need their husbands the government isn't doing anything to find them if they're dead we want to know where they are more than a month since he's captured most famous prisoners still doesn't have access to

a lawyer and while many dollars safe will islam's ability to have a fair trial he still appears to be better off than many of his countrymen at least thanks to the limelight he's not running a risk of being executed like his father while many still are. artsy. meanwhile in syria over five hundred fifty prisoners involved in the n.t. regime uprising there have been released according to state t.v. it comes as arab league officials say the government has pulled out heavy weapons and tanks from civilian areas something activists have previously said was untrue while opposition groups also accused the masochists of misleading the league's observers by taking them to areas loyal to the government as president builds on syrian authorities the country's foreign ministry slammed the u.s. for interfering that's after washington sent an envoy to the arab league for talks on the latest developments of for more on this let's now talk to political analyst and journalist dr omar be he joins us live on the line from beirut thanks for being

with us these moves by the syrian government seem to be a significant breakthrough but opposition forces deny any steps forward have actually been made where do you think the truth the truth might lie. well first let us wait for the report of the observers the arab observers that have been. sent to syria from the arab league in cairo have been working for the past week and they are additional the numbers of observers entering syria they are under a lot of pressure apparently there is some american pressure there are pressures by some arab countries that are pro-american on the observers to actually affect the way they will draft their reports these observers the city and officials have been given the or service access to all locations in syria today the observations are visiting the prison in that. they have access to police stations they have access

to different localities in the in the different neighborhoods where there was a lot of tension there were some leaks now let's let's just note this important element that there was some. or some alleged leaks on the on who tube and on some of the media that the observers were with criticizing the syrian authorities for the way the syrian authorities handling the situations and were saying that the syrian army is has been shooting at the old service later on the head of the old servers. who is a. nice officer. gave a statement denying all these alleged leaks and saying that the service commission has not issued its report yet it with the had all to do you observe a group will be back in cairo on saturday and on sunday they would be a meeting now let's hope that there wouldn't be any strong pressure on the americans and let's hope that they will let this commission do its job

independently and will make the truth come out and the truth i think to answer your question is that there are. gunmen shooting at the army there are some groups of gunmen. creating chaos in syria they are profiting from the movement the movement of people to protest for basic rights and they have rights and it is true that there are some legitimate demands on the part of the syrian people but it's such a big shame that some western powers and some foreign an intervention in syria in the affairs is using these people and using the demands of these. political objectives and that's a very destructive move on the part of the united states and its allies in the region also the head of the free syrian army has reportedly called on the arab league to withdraw its monitors from the country does this mean opposition groups

are not actually interested in international peace efforts and of course peace in syria is this not what the first thing on the agenda is for the syrian free army about. well you know i have a problem with the saying the city and free army it is a group of. soldiers and officers who have deserted the syrian army and who are supported by western powers and by the americans and by nato in order to create chaos in syria and to show that the syrian government is incapable of preserving law and order in syria so they would do everything in their power and their supporters to actually make sure that the board to offer the morning or be observers report to the. interests of the powers that the western powers of have been calling for regime change in syria if they you know the pressure that they

put is based on that to see if they realize or if they feel that the monitors and the observers. noting the violations by the demonstrators and by those desert then they would call for the withdrawal of the monitors and they would say that these monitors would under pressure from the state an authority if they will feel that the monitors i tend. to be and i just want to make sure we touch on on one thing we've been reporting today which is first of all damascus slamming the u.s. for interfering in their internal affairs but also washington sending an envoy to the arab league something to mask like i said sees as a big step in their internal affairs what's your take on that. well that's exactly what i was saying what i was leading. yes the americans are interfering to make sure the report of the monitors is to have it into the us so that the minute they feel that the monitors visiting that show that the city an army

is using some excessive violence against the demonstrators that they would be in favor for the monitors and that's the pressure they want to put differential government also statements in the process this is a continuation. of the other countries also the. american and they are pressuring the other to have been a force to their interests all right dr ornish on the line with us on the line from beirut thank you very much for your analysis thank you staying in the region prosecutors in the trial of ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak have called for death by hanging for him and his close associates they justify their request by arguing that mubarak was personally responsible for every protester death during the country's revolution well the eighty three year old is currently suffering severe health problems let's not talk about this latest development with radio host and author stephen leatherman who joins us via broadband from chicago thanks for

being with us. is by all accounts close to death we've seen him going to his trial laying down in a bad he has to be carried out to court each time he comes to the hearing in that hospital bed what sort of message do you think prosecutors are trying to convey with this call for the death penalty. i think going on in the search is this is a distraction this is to divert the public a here on the story it's legitimate a year by blaming the end of state mubarak for several days and then trying to absolve themselves in the process let me make a couple of key points america. mubarak was fable with washington years ago he supported washington mostly but he did not support washington and all policy it's a big one was opposing the war i don't read two thousand and three america wanted

him removed the street protests while i on the one hand a very legitimate very real grievances a real but i miss scenes washington manipulating washington is manipulating b. entire process going on in the region and i believe history thought it was going on as washington's thing a prince all over it what they have in mind i'm not sure on the one hand i think they have in my in a muslim face politically with the military regime continuing to run the country from washington also needs to fire wins and instability to justify its agenda in the region and them the military one to any in egypt and he's a fall guy in mubarak is a fall guy very conveniently because he's also

a fall guy who watches so the death penalty life and presume. it always makes the difference but i think to them it sounds better to people on the street i don't think they'll fall for. i was going to say about the people i mean i've been in egypt several times this year and the anger is most certainly real they don't want the military in power agreeing with what it seems you touched on critics saying that this case is being dragged out to draw public attention away from the current situation and you don't think it's going to work but then what what are we going to see happen we have the last round of elections coming people continuing to come out in the streets of mubarak heading back to court every couple of weeks or so. well i think people are more concerned about getting the agreements taken care of they haven't been addressed same things or worse know one of the military junta and note also the people running the country the same ones closely allied with mozart when

he was in a chair or in the ghettos the military and those around him he people is saying people because all agreements are certain people who are objecting to and i agree with you the street protests a very very legitimate even though people don't realize to be manipulated for western interests to for he still to create violence to get the military to react against them to justify washington continuing instability rolled into the region and here mubarak and he may expire before any certain areas but in the regime i think mistakenly feels they think they can bamboozle mcpeak all they know what's going on and they don't want a military running the country is you say they want to civilian get out of it but i think what they're going to get is a civilian government what i did with the west they will not address the grievances

they have a long way to go before they really get to just the state of service and of course there's going to be parallels drawn it with saddam hussein his own unceremonious hanging caused outrage is this demand motivated by a desire for justice or political revenge. well i think it's motivated by keeping the status quo washington wants the scary school who are to really use the egypt it will be military people when they reach the ones that in the new ones he should have just been run by military people for decades when barak was a general and of course the generals are running things but it was the villian zero ally. of the military regime it's been a very important now white washington so washington just very concerned what was going on in egypt aside from israel egypt and saudi arabia

america's two closest allies and they want to be sure the people running these treaties are a liar who client leaders client states and mubarak is not any but even if you were as it doesn't matter because it's all he's he's say that he's casting new people who are coming into play a washington wants to be sure that the ones who have the power of people they could grow while you know and so they want to get rid of mubarak and they will get rid of him but i think the protests will go on and the people won't be fooled the violence will continue is this struggle has a long way to go just briefly stephen most revolutions of course involve a great deal of blood sat a lot of different sides is it fair to pin it all on one man who is obviously sake eighty three years old is this real justice oh not at all not at all he was the end of stevie's call him that if you will but the people around him especially the

military people they were just was coppola's he was on the worst of the policies and since he was ousted last february things have gotten worse and there are thousands of people in military prisons. or should it be killed if i only saw those three you see if it were known that they did you got rid of. it with from the freddy into the fire and i think you know i have to say a lot of what you just said you do hear from protesters on the streets in cairo syrian one man radio host and author live but that's me a broadband from chicago thanks for that. well marking one of the lowest moments since the onset of europe's debt crisis more than two years ago the greek government has now publicly threatened to abandon the euro the warning came from prime minister lucas papademos and negotiations over one hundred thirty billion

euro bailout packages drag on the pm warning that the greek economy could enter an uncontrolled collapse as early as march if more cash isn't secured but creditors and greeks are at loggerheads with bankers refusing to write off any more debt while unions say they won't make any austerity cuts well the hope now is that a fiscal union will act as a last line of defense against the debt crisis but that is something that leaving a common miss has little faith in. my system it is does europe will not be able to form such a political union there is too much. countries to different. countries are too attached to their own self and to have different styles they have a hard time working together on international issues of iraq the union in europe is not all that strong. force if you work around brussels you feel like european

union is for real but as soon as you are away from brussels and walk around to the country the rest of europe you see the grocer is far away from from that. and it's not a real reality that people live with. that was a condom is. his full interview is coming your way in just over ten minutes time. well with the e.u. mired in its debt debacle you might think that germany which has been bankrolling the block survival effort would be the most concerned but among many people there a bigger source of wary is the political system which many say has gone stale and no longer represents ordinary citizens. in the reports it's led to an interesting phenomenon the rise of the country's pirate party. it looks like an ordinary scene at one of the many bars in berlin except there's one thing which makes this

party totally different from all the others the parties they must be talking about . the pirate party germany that's right this is an annual meeting of a political party and all these people are alone it's eighteen thousand members across germany like me treat was tired of the mainstream and i was really disappointed in. all this the same way. the pirate party was in a different one of its key differences apart from the style in general is a software system called liquid feedback allowing ordinary germans the opportunity to propose policies online the pirate stand for more transparency and freedom on the internet but when it comes to core issues like the economy and we don't have currently a stand on this crisis maybe we'll have. the next federal convention but this wasn't a problem at the previous election for the berlin state parliament when the port

party managed to win nearly ninety percent of the vote securing fifteen seats most people who. just something new something fresh to me like because many germans believe that politics are cross to this time as the big players struggle with big economic and political issues but part party doesn't even have an official stance on the eurozone crisis or the arab spring nevertheless it continues gathering more supporters i mean a coincidence or an alarming signal stream politicians the free democrats party which is anger merkel's federal coalition porter is the first to feel the change of sorts from voters there actually last time along with another four local votes across the country mainstream politics is also losing attractiveness. there's often too little distinction or distinctiveness between different parties. or area.

between conservative and experts say the key success tool is the internet and see it as the new driving force changing politics similar to the way it was influenced by t.v. a little half a century ago so unless the mainstream have to change their tactics it may not be too long before they could find themselves on the margins. of. germany. we still have no way to sports news and a recap of our top stories after this short break.

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here with our t.v. live from moscow our top story is prices at record highs as the e.u. savanah embargo on the rainy and crude may come by the end of the month despite fears over its impact on the global economy. they do some prosecutors call for death by hanging for former president hosni mubarak ousted from power by public protests early last year authorities have already been accused of attempting to divert public attention from criticism of the country's military rulers. and other news syrian authorities announced they freed over five hundred fifty

political prisoners and have withdrawn security forces from residential areas as part of the arab league peace plan but opposition activists continue to claim the regime concessions are a sham. we focus in on the eurozone debt crisis now and economists aereo clamor explains what twenty twelve might bring for the struggling bloc. well today we're joined by an economist author and professor at the rasmussen versity in rotterdam thanks very much mr glover for joining us today the first question is in one thousand nine hundred one you wrote a newspaper article that a monetary union is not sustainable cannot be maintained without a political union well after all that said and done we have the euro exists and there is a crisis can a political union save the euro at this point given the circumstances that it's in ideally. you could say good.