there is government now among other things that included the releasing political prisoners and the withdrawal of the government troops and tanks from some of the towns and cities how successful this arab league mission has been to play simple we actually followed the arab league mission in the final few days here in the country now there are questions raised as to the trial and the credibility of the mission certainly seeing the way that they operated it clued into question really just how independently they were able to operate in the country all of the sites reporters from people we're speaking to he said the arab league monitors didn't really seem to be taking in i can a very thing this being said they obviously couldn't have had from every single person here who wanted to speak to the scene another question that's raised a valid question is whether more of these monitors were needed then what is going to be interesting moving food is whether or not this mission is now extended because it can very divisive

a very well the response to what the people want that the hospital not some people think this really is essential to this mission continues and in fact just possibly that top i was speaking to one of the former advisors to the government and indeed the previous government here in syria what he said to me was possibly there are other figures that he could come in as part maybe of the mission more highly qualified you have mo background in resolution and conflict resolution and dialogue we can listen to his opinion on the situation now. the situation. we. know we are weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria. where you are. you have to put in your mind that you have to work with. working with the other side.

sergeant says anything an escalation of the conflict here in the country will started off as a peaceful protest has it become increasingly armed in fact in some area if you haven't owned insurgency in areas where now the government no longer have control again you've got all these different factions no one really knows anymore who has the voice of the people and as we've heard from a number of people we've been speaking to that radio is in the area of major concern. and ours is our first helping is stay right up to date where the latest developments in syria via her twitter stream while there we can find her firsthand reports from across the country and also more news and analysis on artie's general twitter blog.

they are going to try to have conflict between iran and the west has now officially reached the airwaves after britain revoked license of press t.v. iran's english language news channel if the reasons given by the u.k.'s top media watchdog include a number of broken agreements and and i'm paid to find press t.v. says it's being silenced in a clear example of censorship. it's been targeted ever since it negatively covered the costs associated with the british royal wedding as well as last year's london riots so when you taste author and media analyst believes this is only the next logical step in isolating the islamic republic. if this had been separated from geopolitics with this would not have happened and some of the kind of sanctions would have been would have been made and the deal would have been

struck so i think the press t.v. has been viewed through geo political terms so that is the breakdown of relations between britain and iran at the end of the day i think that most of the criticisms of press t.v. been due to its coverage because you know it sees the middle east very differently for example than the mainstream media in britain repeatedly comes up probably is really groups repeatedly complain about it we know very well that the british government at the very highest level was discussing with the american ambassador here how to limit press t.v.'s output in britain so now what we've got is we've got a real limiting of dialogue in the me in the british media and i think that's a tragedy and certainly a tragedy at a time when british relations are at their lowest ebb a long period. and stay with iran a little later in the program the making of a supervillain. do you agree with president obama's the nation to monitor iran's

nuclear program from the moon. rainy and threaten sounds into the realm of fantasy as ordinary people bombarded with media spin lose touch in a world of drones cyber warfare and security. and taming the elements and the next winter olympics host city that's already become a haven for thrill seekers. for many is gripped by the worst protest seen there in over a decade for the second week running people have been making a stand against their government crying out over a low wages rising through option an authoritarian tendencies hundreds of arrests and dozens of injuries were reported during clashes with police. listened to what people are demanding. things turn nasty in the streets as book arrests. protesters have been peaceful for the past few days but now the demonstrations turn violent. fighting as proof going

out between police and protesters just behind me you can see the protesters bringing up fences and now bit expected to clash with the phillies line here they've started to throw portals and other things that the police line and they're going to chime pushes fancies into the police line now. this is a voluntary one hope that they could avoid today but it seems that it has broken out after all it has a fence being thrown. you. earlier in the day thousands that poured into the remaining in capital to demand the resignation of the remaining president try and assess the opposition politicians address the crowd will that mean he has come from all over the country means that this right has begun and it must not stop until we reach what we want

what we need. and some people are upset because they've lost their job service because their pension was cut and others because they are being humiliated every day there's one thing that unites us all that we all want to say ask you to leave. but later on the mood became more militant then i wouldn't bank building factories old hospitals school children the country have to walk five kilometers through the snow to school the youth nowadays what choice do we have to go out and start to steal to start marking people for a person so we go to italy spain and germany to start to steal what for we want jobs what back up what what they. we can see some if you look over the line now some of the missing but it being thrown. just in stages the police are trying to move forward and clear the square with a meeting with a lot of resistance from the first testers here.

as the crowd was broken up it revealed those affected by take us. down. and the struggle of those seized. day and night protesters have been demanding big political change in romania. but is this is anything to go by the route to reform who could long and hard fought tom bot. and coming up in the program here in the waste paradox. is this as you can see it's still perfectly edible and there's no sense that it should be wasted and thrown away. as third of the population of poverty had a record number of people on food stamps yet nearly half of america's good food goes to waste they need those who live off of it.

u.s. lawmakers have announced that controversial antipiracy legislature has been temporarily shelved this follows what some see as the largest ever hacker attacks on america's top governmental and entertainment industries websites and mass internet blackout and protests over the potential new laws to stop online piracy act and protect ip act were designed to curb illegal downloading and protect copyright but critics say they would lead to censorship of the internet trevor attempt from the electronic frontier foundation says americans are seeing the news as a real victory in a battle for online freedom. we saw over one hundred fifteen thousand sites somehow alter their web pages or somewhat alter what their web pages a lot of them blacked out completely meaning that users couldn't even gets them including with a pedia which is the sixth largest u.s. a huge huge measured message to congress you know most of the american public hadn't even heard about these bills before the blackout day and once these sites

blacked out everybody started calling their congress men and e-mailing them we had sent out over one hundred e-mails on sorry a million e-mails just that one day google got seven million signatures on their petition and so by the end of the day we had a huge swing in congress so it was a major victory for you know mind that there's a minute. america's expanding waistline proves the country's love affair was food but almost as much as it's consumed is being dumped in the trash every day and that's despite statistics saying millions in the country are now struggling to put anything on the dinner plate for now i have met the so-called dumpster divers to save few minutes of through garbage bags and deliver a 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. geo and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he wrote through garbage bags on the streets of new york city. were tons of edible food is thrown out each night i've never found that's not the size of the pizza here this is a bigger reason reason bagel the twenty seven year old musician makes his way from the bakery to the deli there's hot food here which probably comes from a hot food bar relying on supermarket trash for his essential vitamins even without opening the bag i can see the orange. and some of the

greens what we and those crowding around g.o.c. is that in a country where more than forty million people struggle daily to get enough food millions of meals are literally being wasted as you can see is still perfectly edible and there's no sense to be wasted and thrown away. otherwise it would end up . on top of the landfill somewhere and estimated thirty to fifty percent of u.s. food produced for consumption ends up at landfills each year that comes at an annual cost of one billion dollars simultaneously food prices continue to rise leaving millions more on line at soup kitchens and ultimately searching through trash. getting ready for the documentary dive follows filmmaker jeremy seifert and his friends in the back alleys and rubbish piles of los angeles as thousands of dollars worth of edible food is salvaged it's a result of our excess we are

a wealthy country and we have excess and so waste is really necessarily a byproduct of excess and it's a bad habit of sort of the spoiled rich kid as it were amid america's expanding climate of food waste critics say the country's overall carelessness causes ripple effects around the world it is a global market now and our overconsumption directly impacts the hungry and the poor in other countries us taking more than we need and wasting it affects the prices of food affects the availability of food so yeah i guess that was why they make a film there was a sense of outrage at the injustice of food waste something of a paradox society defined both by wasteful consumption and an ongoing struggle to

make ends meet i need to cut my expenses are first thing that goes food so the question is why pay for that which you can get for free. r.t. new york. if you've missed something on air or don't hesitate to catch up on our web site artsy dot com all the stories we're covering are always available there for you including the wonders of engineering from u.s. spy drone manufacturers the earliest invention may be looking but it's causing outrage among americans as the trademark of washington's overseas operations becomes a major tool for police at home plus. we have a man who will always find a use for every piece of scrap he could turn a high power transformer from the sixty's into found say d.j. booth or produce a fully functioning body on the odds and ends found and the rock. last

ditch dad dried off talks between athens and its international creditors appears to be nearing conclusion and that's according to greek officials athens as imploring private investors to forgive it one hundred billion euros worth of loans as well as go through with a debt swap to go together with parallel bailout talks with the e.u. and i'm after are seen as greece's last chance to avoid financial collapse talks have been ongoing for three days now and drag on past midnight into today but had word harrison fowler analytics firm credit write downs believes the eurozone is shooting itself in the food with its approach to the debt crisis. so you have the eurozone and then you have the wider it's not just about the eurozone in terms of

their imbalances that have built up everywhere because ultimately the eurozone to the policy called us which basically means there they have a field policy in terms of how they're addressing the crisis they need to grow. this is about public sector debt when in fact it's about private sector debt and so that's really cause the same tactics to be applied in terms of austerity budget cuts etc and you know in as a result there's been lots of unemployment. the whole thing is going to pieces and they're thinking it's all about the budget but it's not. while top economists and politicians and gage and more talks to find a remedy to the ongoing debt crisis max and stacey are back to draw parallels between the recent shipwreck in italy and how financial chiefs handled the death contagion that's in the last edition of the kaiser report that's coming your way in about fifteen minutes time here's a preview. ben bernanke you better in charge of rescuing the cruise ship his

solution would have been to take a boat out of the ship with a crowbar and make the hole in the boat and all the problems bigger that's the central bank solution to the global economic crisis is to make the whole bigger with artificially low interest rates this is what's making the situation even worse and of course in europe we find out they're going to expand the european central bank's credit lines by a trillion euro that's the exact opposite of what is required to bring some of this accountability that you're talking about the maritime law stepped in people are drowning. they're obviously dying so maritime law came in and said ok we have to impose the law now in the global economy people are dying from the derivatives that are being created that are making the top one tenth of one tenth percent a fabulous lee ridge and everyone else is choking on their own fiscal vomit and the regulators are making that easier for the criminals.

athletes from around the world already have their sides firmly sat on the next winter olympics in sochi in two years' time and the host city which has always been a lure for scores of thrill seekers is making safety a main priority today artie's denis velocity reports on the brave man who are fighting the danger looking behind picture perfect mountain peaks. hunters have explosives and cannons on their song and. their mission to keep the mon be clear and see. and this is the air support. hydrogen proved cool daisy bell is deployed from a helicopter to glue ups new banks and hard to reach areas. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend skip earth for

a magnificent but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day total recall avalon chanters lineage is the team's lead expert he uses computers and weather stations to monitor the snowfall but being a local who's been living in the caucasus mountains for over forty years the man says there is more to his job than that you know is a living being it has its own life you just have to learn how to understand it and this in turn is only possible if you spend your life with it at times however the snow can turn nasty if there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to slide for real proves the clues are easy to discover you know if the kelowna we build a thirty page thirty centimeter call a tall one and we hit it with a shovel exactly ten times very slightly if the call in falls apart at some point means the snow is too soft and it will collapse the avalanche team surveys every

new can cranny of the resort they say russians love to push the boundaries and many skiers like riding off the beaten track but safety is first that throws a holder and besides giving warnings to free riders all areas have to be avalanche free the morning survey is over so now it's time for snow angels to descend to their headquarters and pass on the good news. skipper to all calling dispatch over. their north routes were given permission to editors to start the cable cars. in february and march this resort will host international ski competitions bringing new challenges for the avalanche team ahead of the two thousand and fourteen winter games when the venue faces its ultimate test learning to tame the white beast will be more important than ever. do.

now is take a look at some other stories from around the world somali government forces and african union troops have launched an offensive against islamic rebel hideouts on the outskirts of the country's capital for somali soldiers a government official were killed and heavy fighting against al qaeda linked militants it's the biggest offensive on these alarmist strongholds in several months. a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks have killed at least seven people in northern nigeria the radical islamic sect misplay and responsibility for deaths that targeted different locations including police stations and the regional police headquarters the group has been behind a recent campaign of violence in the country's mostly muslim north. the company which owns the wrecked costa concordia cruise ship is facing a lawsuit in the u.s. italy's consumer association wants at least one hundred sixty thousand dollars for each passenger on the vessel many blame the captain of the ship for the tragedy

which killed eleven people and injured hundreds more when the liner hit rocks last week. now there's a widespread consensus that certain governments and groups go out of their way to make iran seem a bigger threat than it could ever be but as the practice continues public opinion on the country and ways to deal with it are becoming all but surrounded by fantasy art is new york resident laurie harshness went out onto the streets of the big apple to see just how far the truth can be stretched. in the case of iran's nuclear capabilities people are quick to make judgments based on what they hear in the media but are they actually listening to what's being said this week let's talk about that do you agree with president obama's initiative to monitor iran's nuclear program from the moen. yes why i think it's important to know what's going on i do yeah why well just because of the threat to the world

what it is is the threat specifically. our safety cast out. we cannot tell you what says initiative but to monitor iran's nuclear program from the base on the most yeah yeah i think that's crazy it's just crazy to monitor it from the moon or what they're doing whatever you believe do you agree with his program. i think you're putting me on you don't believe that from the moon. maybe from a satellite but i think you're putting me on would you be surprised to know that a lot of people just say blindly that they agree with the program from the moon oh that wouldn't surprise me at all that people not humans are lemmings well for things i like to jump off cliffs doesn't the media have a responsibility to guide the lemmings down a better path no lemmings should have their mind of their own and they should be educated i mean people are watching t.v.

radio internet so it's if you know even if you're looking for some going of disease you know you find so many interpretations so which one is the right on this difficult yet people say i saw it on the internet so i believe it's absolutely true so it's very hard to find the right source most people just don't have the time don't have the inclination come people that they get into if you ever try to have a meaningful discussion with someone about politics. i try every day it's a little pretty pretty bad to be honest you never going to know where they were even if they did put something up there you wouldn't know anyway so. we don't know if he has a year's overstress or not so yeah but do you think common sense takes over a little bit oh yes ok we don't know because that's deep space but our moon you think we would know. tonight they're going to look up there to see vegas bought anything or might get to show a camera so it seems like some people are listening to what's being said and are

thinking for themselves let's just helping catch the much more subtle inaccuracy as they're bombarded with by the media every day. well the results they hear that say i'll be back shortly without date of our top story status. to.

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to much brighter if you move from phones to pressure. stunts on t.v. don't comb. welcome back you're with are to me there's over the top stories where the blood still flowing at 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 airways for falling foul of broadcasting laws something the channels dubbed a clear act of censorship. romanians want their president out protest against

corruption and low wages turned ugly with hundreds of arrests dozens in clashes with police. as well as top stories up next the kaiser report expose us fraud in the world of economics as it continues to sniff out the scandal behind the financial headlines. i am asking eyes are this is the kaiser report sexual favors for chicken of the nuggets oh my goodness i can hardly wait to get that story but first let's talk about this sinking the ship max you're not talking about the global economy or are you because that's our.