oh. oh it is one of the other russian capital you're watching r.t. on marina joshie the arab league is reportedly leaning towards prolonging its monitoring mission in syria for another month and they had widespread accusations it's failed to curb violence the final decision is expected on sunday after the observers report comes under scrutiny at the gathering in cairo r.t. sara first has the details. the arab league ministers are going to be meeting to present their findings on what's been happening in syria and to discuss what their next move will be now the arab league mission were here in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace but by the syrian 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 the sired 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 neutrality and the credibility of the mission certainly seeing the way that they operated it couldn't the question really just how independent the they were able to operate in the country all of the sizes reported from people we were speaking to he said the arab league monitors didn't really seem to be taking in account of everything that was being said and they obviously couldn't have heard from every single person here who wanted to speak to the scene another question that's raised about this mission is whether more of these monitors were needed so what is going to be interesting moving forward is whether or not this mission is now extended because again very divisive a very there are supposed to be whether 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. so one of the former advisers to the government

and indeed the previous government here in syria we can listen to his opinion on the situation. the situation nobody can hope it's real. but the result of. taking place now we are weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria although you are sort of two or you are into your position you have to put in your mind that you have to work with the other side working with the other side. of the surf anything in africa lation all the conflict here in the country will start it off as a peaceful protest if it become increasingly obvious but some very if you have been on the surge and see an area where now the government no longer have control again you've got all these different factions no one really knows anymore who have the voice of the people and as we've heard from a number of people we've been speaking to that radio is an area of major concern.

to first reporting there and they're also our correspondents our first is helping you stay right up to date with the latest developments in syria via her twitter stream there you can find her firsthand reports from across the country and also more news on an analysis on our t.v. general twitter blog. to. the on going to it for tat conflict between iran and the west has now officially reached the airwaves after britain revoked the weismann's of press t.v. iran's english language news channel the official reasons given by. why do you case

top media watchdog include a number of broken agreements and i'm paid fine but press t.v. says is being silenced in a clear example of sounds or ship channel alleges target census negatively cover the costs associated with the british royal wedding as well as last year's london riots hilary's and u.k. based author and media analyst believes this is only the next logical step to work in isolating the islamic republic. if this had been separated from geopolitics this would not have happened some other kind of sanction 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 geopolitical 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 this repeatedly comes up pro israeli 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 british media and i think that's a tragedy and certainly a tragedy at a time when british relations are at their lowest ebb for a long long period. and staying with iran a little later in the program the making of a supervillain. do you agree with president obama's the nation. iran's nuclear program on the moon. gets. the radio preference hands into the realm of fantasy as ordinary people bombarded with media spin lose touch in a world of drones cyber warfare and security. and tainting the elements of the next winter olympics host city that's already become a haven for thrill seekers. romania is gripped by

the worst protests seen there in over a decade for the second week running people have been making a stand against their government cry out over low wages rising corruption and authoritarian tendencies hundreds of arrests and dozens of injuries were reported during clashes with police artist on barton listen to what people are demanding. things to nasty in the streets of book or arrest. protesters have been peaceful for the past few days but now the demonstrations turn five. fighting as broken out between police and protesters just behind me you can see the protesters bringing up fences and now going to expect it to clash with the police line. they've started to throw bottles and other things at the police line and

they're going to try and push cspan cease into the police line now. this is a voluntary one hope that they could avoid today but the same thing that it has broken out after all has a fence being thrown. you. really are in the day thousands that poured into the remaining in capital to demand the resignation of the remaining president try and assess could this opposition politicians address the crowd will that change has come from all over the country means that this right has begun and it must not stop until we reach what we want but we need. some people are upset because they've lost their job service because their pension was cut and others because they're being humiliated every day there's one thing that unites us all that we all want to siskiyou to leave my you only you know. but later on the mood became more militant than i was

then and the only difference was 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 that don't want to back up what kind of a day what. we can see sir if you look over the line now you know the mission that is being groomed. just in stages the police are trying to move forward include a square with a meeting with a lot of resistance from the british to share. the crowd was broken up. affected by two guys. during. the struggle of the seized. day and night protesters have been demanding big

political change remain here. because this is anything to go the route to reform that long and hard for them but. coming up in the program the waste paradox. is this as you can see it's still perfectly edible and there's no sense that it should be wasted turn away a third of the population in poverty a record number of people on food stamps yet nearly half of america's goes to waste women those who live off their beds. u.s. lawmakers have announced that controversial and piracy legislature has been temporarily shelved this fall is what some see as the largest have a hacker attacks on america's top governmental and entertainment industries websites and a mass internet blackout in protest over the potential new laws to stop online piracy act and the protect ip act were designed to curb illegal downloading and protect copyright but critics say they would lead to censorship be 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 wikipedia which is the sixth largest site. u.s. this huge huge measured message to congress you know most of the american public hadn't even heard about these bills before the blackout and once these sites blacked out everybody started calling their congress men and e-mailing them we had sent out over a hundred on a million e-mails just in 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 mind activism in internet freedom. america's expanding waistline proves the country's love affair with food but almost as much as this

consume is being dumb to end the trash every day and that's despite statistics saying millions and the country are now struggling to put anything on the dinner plate. of the so-called dumpster divers who say a few minutes of breaking through garbage bags can deliver a banquet. the number of people on food stamps has reached an all time high more and more people are going hungry for 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. this is a geo and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he wrote much as through garbage bags

on the streets of new york city. here's another truth were tons of edible food is thrown out each night i've never found that's not a slice 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. 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 should 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 a big show in 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 we. 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 the film there was a sense of outrage. just as 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 missed something eric don't hesitate to catch up on our website r.t. dot com and all the stories we're covering are always available there for you including the wonders of engineering from the u.s.

spy drone manufacturers their latest invention maybe you'd still 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. meet the man who will always find a use for every piece of scrap you could turn a high power transformer from the sixty's into a fancy or produce a fully functioning buy from the odds and ends found in a garage. last ditch dad ride off talks between athens and international creditors appears to be nearing conclusion that's according to greek officials athens is imploring private investors to forgive it one hundred billion euros worth of loans as well as go through with a debt swap together with parallel bailout talks with the e.u.

and i.m.f. are seen as greece's last chance to avoid financial collapse talks have been ongoing for three days now and dragged on past midnight into today but edward harrison founder of 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 it basically means they have a field policy in terms of how they're addressing the crisis they think the crisis is about public sector. it's about private sector debt and so. so that's really cause the same tactics to be applied in terms of austerity budget cuts etc you know in as a result there's lots of unemployment and the whole thing is going to pieces and

there's thinking it's all about the budgets but it's not. while top economists and politicians and gage get 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 debt contagion that's in the last edition of the kaiser report coming your way at nine thirty g.m.t. well here's a preview. of 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 that they're going to expand the european central banks 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. their 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 fabulously rich 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 ascites firmly set 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 has made. safety and main priority today are things down his block a report on a brave man who are finding the danger of locking behind a picture perfect mountain plonks. sochi avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their side. their mission to keep the mountain peaks

clear and c. . and this is the air support. the hydrogen proved cool daisy valve is deployed from a helicopter to blow up snow banks and hard to reach areas. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend skipper 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. though 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 but there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's

going to slime for real proves the clues are easy to discover if you know if the kelowna we build a thirty by thirty centimeter call a tall one and we hit it with a shovel exactly ten times very slightly as the calling falls apart at some point that 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 there is a holder and besides giving warnings to free riders all areas have to be avalanche the morning survey is over so now it's time for snowing jools to descend to their headquarters and pass on the good news. people will go and dispatch over. there not. given permission to let the tourists started to cable cars. in february and march this resort will host international ski

competitions bringing new challenges for the avalanche team head of the two thousand and fourteen winter games when the venue faces its ultimate test learning to team the white beast will be more than ever. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world somali government forces and african union troops have launched an offensive against islamist rebel hideouts on the outskirts of the country's capital for somali soldiers and a government official were killed in the heavy fighting against the al qaeda linked militants it's the biggest of fans of on the islamist strongholds in several months . series of coordinated gonna bomb attacks have killed at least seven people in northern nigeria radical islamists has claimed responsibility for the 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. or is a widespread consensus that certain governments and groups go out of their way to make iran see a bigger threat than i could ever be but as a practice continues public opinion on the country and ways to deal with it are becoming all but surrounded by fantasy are these new york resident just 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 passout. we cannot tell you what says initiative but to monitor iran's nuclear program from them based 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. 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 to them and people are watching to see 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 this is again 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 calm people that they get into if you ever tried to have a meaningful discussion with someone about polar. pixley i try every day a little pretty pretty bad for the good to be honest so you never going to know where they were even if they did put something up there you wouldn't know anyways so it's a shaky and we don't know if it has

a years overstress or not so yeah but do you think ahmanson sticks over a little bit oh ok we don't know because that deep space but our moon you'd think we would know. tonight they're going to look up there to see vegas for the anything on my digital camera so it seems like some people are listening to what's being said and i thinking for themselves let's just hope they can catch the much more subtle inaccuracy as they're bombarded with by the media every day. while we are up to date and i'll be back where the top stories shortly stay s. .

when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more xena following. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. were someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be. suppress the voice of those who think different culture when you go experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but. that was when

the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were all from beason up and humiliated in public and one of the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger in fact we have been deprived of the only names of a living and i have gone to originals of all the papers this out to be out there little lies the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just a stage prop. on. the man to. move.

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book about her with our look at the top stories where the blogs still flowing in a body count grow when 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 airwaves for falling foul of broadcast laws something the channels dubbed the clear act of censorship. remains one their president out.