watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program and the arab league is reportedly leaning towards prolonging its monitoring mission in syria for another month amid 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 for us 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 plan by the syrian government now among other things that included the release a political prisoners and the withdrawal of the government troops and tanks from some of the towns and cities how successful the sad league mission has been is

debatable we actually followed the arab league mission in the final day 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 couldn't a question really just how independently they were able to operate in the country all of the sites this report from people we're 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 food is whether or not this mission is now extended because again very divisive as a 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 we can listen to his opinion on the situation. the situation. taking place now we are weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria although you are your stories to where you are you do your position you have to put in your mind that you have to work with the other side who. with the other side. of the so if anything in africa lation all the conflict here in the country will started off as a peaceful protest that it's become increasingly obvious but very few 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 in the area of major

concern. so far as reporting there and she's helping you stay right up to date with the latest developments in syria via her twitter stream or to find her first hand reports from across the country and also more news and analysis on r.t. is general twitter a blog. it's . going to for attack conflict between iran and the west has now officially reached the airwaves after britain revoked a license of press t.v. iran's english language news channel efficiency reasons given by the u.k.'s top

media watchdog include a number of broken agreements and i don't pay fine but press t.v. has its brains silenced in a clear example of censorship back to the challenges 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 the sole reason a u.k. based author and media always believes this is only the next logical step in isolating islamic republic in our economy if this had been separated from geopolitics then you know with this would not have happened and some up. that 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. has 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 stay with her on a little later in the program of making all of us a privilege. do you agree with president obama's the nation to monitor iran's nuclear program from the moon. the iranian threat grandstands into the realm of fantasy as ordinary part of what media spin was touching a world of drones cyber warfare and security. romania's 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 crying out over

a low wages rising corruption and authoritarian tendencies hundreds of arrests and dozens of injuries were reported during clashes with police are just embarking a listen to what people are demanding. things turned nasty in the streets his book arrest. protesters have been peaceful for the past few days but now the demonstrations turn violent. fighting as broken out between police and protesters just behind me you can see the protesters bringing up fences and now bit expected to clash with the police line. they've started to throw bottles and other things at the police line and they're going to time for seize fantasies 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 there's

a fence being thrown. in the day thousands that poured into the remaining in capital to demand the resignation of the remaining president try and assess could. and 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 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 the siskiyou to leave my only you know. but later on the mood became more militant. then the bankers build factories all the 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. back i don't think they would. we can see if you look over the line now to move in this shows that is being groomed. just in stages the police are trying to move forward include a square with a meeting with the british student from the first church to see it. as the crowd was broken up. affected by two guys. the struggle of those seized. day and night protesters have been demanding big political change and remain here. because this is anything to go by the route to reform long and hard for what. coming up in the

program the waste paradox. is that as you can see it's still perfectly edible and there's no sense that it should be wasted thrown away. a third of the population of poverty her record number of people on food stamps yet nearly half of there is good food goes to waste daily need those who live off the beds. taming the elements in the next winter olympics host city that's already becoming a heaven for thrill seekers. and u.s. lawmakers have announced that conover for anti-piracy 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 a mass internet blackout in protest over the potential new laws to stop online piracy act and to protect ip act were designed to curb illegal downloading and protect copyright but critics say they would lead to censorship of the internet

trevor to from the electronic frontier foundation says americans are seeing the news as a real victory in a battle for online freedom. we so. 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 site in the us this sent a huge huge message 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 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 you now online activism in a net freedom. russia's space agencies announced ambitious plans to step up

exploration of the moon and has even called for the creation of a permanent base there. and also boost cooperation whether its partners in the u.s. and the european union when alex cross lived overseas live here all over more for us loaded peter well as we can see sides have certainly been set high so what exactly is ross carson is proposing there well really what we're looking at is the first steps towards a new chapter in the exploration of the moon of course the closest thing to us in the cosmos we really should go back there and find out more about it now what with what ross cosmos of proposed is to send two unmanned first of two unmanned probes to the moon that will collect samples and return back to that could be analyzed but this is really the first stage in the big plan which we heard from the heads of roscoe's most during the the last week that they want to establish a permanent base on the moon now the benefits of doing searches that well they can

allow cosmonauts astronauts to be able to climatized to space before perhaps journeying off to the far reaches of the galaxy to really reach out and and go further than we have before something that russia has been always a proponent in wanting to to achieve now. there are benefits there are. downsides of course to being able to wanting to set up a base on the moon but ross cosmos focusing on those positives wanting to be able to establish a base that could be permanently stuffed similar to the way the international space station is this time no it wouldn't be orbiting it would be on the moon it would be able to review and look at the surface of the moon look at what the moon is actually made of something that although we have been studying the moon since the one nine hundred sixty s. studying the substance of it. is something that we don't actually know at all. a lot about this would be able to give us a chance to take the science to the next level to be able to find out exactly what

the moon is made up of and what we can do with it and those who are interested in those who are watching closely space exploration say the still an awful lot that we can learn from our closest neighbor. bushell first explore the planet structure in order to understand the moon's origins which will help us understand more about the earth's origins we want to know how the earth came into being and the moon will help us in establishing this because it still preserve some elements that have vanished from the earth as the moon's conditions for a launch in space missions are much better than the earth's they're less energy consuming so it may well come at some point to building spacecraft there filling them with fuel made of water developed right there in the moon and sending them off and for their space missions that's what i think it will be like the. well the plan for the proposed this proposed new base on the moon is within the next few decades

so hopefully lots of very exciting things that we can see coming up in the next few years there say that hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up a permanent home on the moon well it certainly sounds great and breathtakingly interesting but given carson's recent history is it really worth holding our breath about people settling on the moon or that certainly ambitious cosmos haven't heard the greatest last fourteen months at times quite high profile failures they have had their successes but there has been some some major downturns really most of all most recently of course just a week ago we saw photos grunt return to earth not the way it was meant to do so with that progress supposed to go to the moon of mars for the martian moon focus pickups all samples return back to earth it didn't really do that it basically went into orbit stayed there broke up and ended up back down on the earth just another

load of space junk now that was a very high profile and also a very expensive failure for us cosmos they'll be wanting to basically put that behind them and make sure that they can look at a new project this. project is something that they can get into the headlines for the right reasons this time around let's keep our fingers crossed for that here thanks very much indeed for bringing us up to date on this one. well if you've missed something on air don't hesitate to catch up on our web site r.t. dot com all the stories we're covering are always available there for you including the wonders of engineering from us by drone manufacturers. and their latest invention may be cute 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. be the man who will always find a use for every piece of scrap he could turn

a high power transformer from the sixty's into a fancy d.j. booth our priorities a boy or produce a voice functioning by the odds hands down at a garage. america's expanding waistline proves the country's love affair was food but almost as much as this 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. the so-called dumpster divers who say a few minutes of raking through garbage bags can deliver a banquet. the number of people on food stamps has reached an all time high and 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. 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 the fault of the people here this is a 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 other

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 meet my baby shower 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 over consumption 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 at the injustice of food waste something of a paradox society defined both by wasteful consumption and an ongoing struggle to

make ends meet the 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 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 al qaeda linked militants it's the biggest strongholds in several months. the series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks have killed at least seven people in northern nigeria the radical islamist sect balkan harami has claimed responsibility for the deaths and 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 the worse. gyptian

election commission will announce today the final results of the parliamentary elections in the country parties are expected to punch above their political weight catapulting themselves into a powerful government roles that captured an overwhelming majority of the seats in the first round of the poll. athletes from around the world to already have their sights firmly sound the next winter olympics in sochi two years time and the host city which has always been a lure for scores of thrill seekers is making safety a main priority well today our blocks reports on the brave man who are fighting the danger lurking behind the picture perfect mountain peaks. sochi avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their side. their mission to keep the mountain peaks clear and see. 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 learned is the team's lead aspart he uses computers and weather stations to monitor the snow fall 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 if there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to slide for real proves the clues are easy to discover if you know if the guy gal or not we build a thirty 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 draws 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. people are actually calling this batch over. there are no threats giving 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 and

head 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 done as our team sochi. that's why it spread 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 a practice continues public opinion in the country and i ways to deal with it are becoming all about surrounded by sadducee artie's new york resident laurie harvest went out on 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 mown. 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's his initiative but to monitor iran's nuclear program from the base on the most yeah yeah i think that's crazy it's what's just crazy to monitor it from the moon or what they're doing whatever you believe do you agree with his program the moon. 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 human there 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 to them and 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 one this difficult this is yet people say i saw it on 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 at this pretty pretty bad to be honest you never going to know where you were even if they did put something up there you wouldn't know anyway so. we don't know if it is a years overstress. yet but do you think common sense takes 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 the shiva has fought 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. up next musk ox team heads to one of the most prominent best younes of italian culture the city of florence to seek out russian influences in its art and history well before that they'll bring the headlines to stay with us. on the. lunar.

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pub. world. science technology innovation it's all the it's developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. talk about your weather our team here is a quick look at the top stories with blood still flowing out of body count growing every arab leader 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 broadcasting laws and something the channels dubbed their own here add to that censorship.