dozens injured in clashes with police. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow rule research showing the arab league is reportedly leaning towards prolonging its monitoring mission in syria for another month amid widespread accusations that is actually failed to curb the violence the final decision is expected on sunday after the observers report comes under scrutiny at the gathering in cairo sara furthest details on this. 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 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 is debatable we actually followed the arab league mission in the final thirty 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 couldn't a question really just how independent the they were able to operate in the country all of the sizes were paul some people 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 a valid question 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 whether people want that to happen or 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. no we are weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria although you are free to wear your position you have to put in your mind that you have to work with the other side who. with you as an aside this is the. first change that's certainly seen an escalation of the conflict here in the country will started off as a peaceful protest has it become increasingly armed to fight some very if you have an honest 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 has the voice of the people and as we've heard from a number of people we've been speaking to that really is an area of major concern. now to surf earth reporting right there and she is helping you stay right up to date with the latest developments in syria doing so via twitter stream there you can find first hand reports from all across the country and also more news and analysis as always on our general twitter wrong. if.

you're watching r.t. now the ongoing tit for tat conflict between iran and the west has now officially reached the airwaves this comes after britain revoked the license of press t.v. iran's english language news channel the official reasons given by the u.k.'s top media watchdog include a quote number of broken agreements under an unpaid fine but press t.v. says it's being silenced in a quote clear example of censorship the channel alleges 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 filreis u.k. based author and media analyst believes this is only the next logical step in further isolating the islamic republic. if this had been separated from geopolitics then this would not have happened and 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 geo political terms and 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. ad been due to its coverage because you know it's. the middle east very differently for example than the mainstream media in britain this 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 pretty sure relations are at their lowest ebb for a long long period. do you agree with president obama's the nation. iran's nuclear program on the moon.

gets the iranian threat transcends into the realm of fantasy as ordinary people bombarded with media spin lose touch in a world of drones cyber war nuclear ambition. and taming the elements in the next winter olympics host city that sort of become a haven for thrill seekers. romania is a 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 low wages rising corruption and or thora tarion tendencies hundreds of arrests dozens of injuries were reported during the clashes with police. listen to what it is that the people are demanding. things turn nasty in the streets as 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 been expected to clash with the police line here they've started to throw bottles and other things at the police line and they're going to try and push these 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. earlier in the day thousands have 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 mean you have 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're being humiliated every day there's one thing that unites us all that we all want to siskiyou to leave only you know. but later on the mood became more militant then i was then the bankers and all the factions older posts of schoolchildren 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 at my end of the day what. we can see if you look over the line now. that it being. just in stages the police are trying to move forward in clear the

square with a meeting with a lot of resistance from the protesters here. as the crowd was broken up field those affected by tear gas. and the struggle of those seized. day and night protesters have been demanding big political change remain here. but is this is anything to go by the route to reform long and hard fought on but. just one in ten minutes past the hour here in moscow still to come in the program here on our we look at the ambitious new plans of the russian space agency that wants to see life established permanently on the moon but also coming for you the way to paradox. is this as you can see it's still perfectly edible and there's no sense that it should be placed in there in

a way a third of the population in poverty a record number of people on food stamps get nearly half of america's good food goes to waste on a daily basis we need those who live off the. u.s. lawmakers have announced that controversial anti piracy legislator 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 the stop online piracy act and the prototype to i p act were designed to curb illegal downloading and protect copyright but critics say they would lead to censorship of the internet trevor tim from the electronic frontier. ation says americans are seeing the news as a real victory in the 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. 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 in our mind activism in internet freedom. watching on t.v. live from moscow now russia's space agency's and vicious plans to step up exploration of the moon and is even called for the creation of a pub an base that. says it will almost also boost the cooperation with its

partners in the u.s. and european union printed on a picture of an opera sauce on the story. 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 have proposed is to send two unmanned probes to the moon that will collect samples and return back to that could be analyzed with the hope eventually that we can set up a permanent base on the move now this all sounds very science fiction but it could very soon be science fact a moon base has been said that it could very well be a very good place to to launch spacecraft from could also be a very good place to build spacecraft to cause the the gravity of the moon much less than there is an get see the effect less than gravity or zero gravity would

have on a spacecraft much more than we can ever simulate on earth now this is something that's not only exciting. also exciting those that keep an eye on space exploration and show his genius to push will first explore the planet structure in order to understand the moons 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 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 they're dealing with fuel made of water developed right there on the moon and sending them are from further space missions that's what i think it will be like hopefully lots of very exciting things that we can see coming up in the next few years there i say that hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up a permanent home on the moon. that is put all of our reporting in your brain mind

if you missed something on i don't hesitate to catch up with any story and i mean protect. on our web site r t v dot com all of the stories we're covering always available for you and including the wonders of engineering from a u.s. spy drone one of your. invention may be looking but it's causing outrage among americans the trademark of washington's overseas operations become a major tool for police. plus. the man who will always find a use for every piece of scrap he could turn a high powered transformer from these nine hundred sixty s. into a frenzy. or produce a fully functioning bike the odds and ends found in a car.

all right a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital america's expanding waistline proves the country's love affair with food but almost as much as it's consumed is being dumped in the trash every day that's despite statistics saying millions in the country are now struggling to put anything on the dinner plate. that the so called dumpster divers they say that a few minutes of raking through the garbage can deliver a simple 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. this is a good geo and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he wrote 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 raisin 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 my 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 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 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 writing because my expenses are first thing that goes food so the question is. why pay for that which you can get for free. fair enough point i am artsy new york. or let's get some other international

headlines for you brief now with the r.t. world update the somali government forces and african union troops have launched an offensive against islamised rebel hideouts on the outskirts of the country's capital four somali soldiers under government official were killed in the heavy fighting against the al qaeda linked militants is the biggest offensive on the islamist strongholds in several months. a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks have killed at least seven in northern nigeria the radical islamist sect boko haram has claimed responsibility for the deaths that targeted different locations including police stations on the regional police headquarters the group has been behind a recent campaign of violence in the country's mostly muslim north. a company which owns the wrecked costa concordia cruise ship is facing a lawsuit in the u.s. at least 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 that killed eleven people and injured hundreds more when the line they hit rocks just last week. i think it's from around the world already have their sights firmly set on the next winter olympics in sochi that's now in two years' time and the host city which has always been for scores of thrill seekers is making safety a main priority today as artie's denise polaski reports on the brave men who are fighting the danger lurking behind the picture perfect mountain peaks. so chiefs 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 prove called 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 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 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 colon 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. calling this birch over. soon started to 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 team the wide beast will be more important than ever.

our tea. party is coming to you live from the russian capital there is a wide spread consensus that certain governments and groups go out of their way to make iran seem a bigger threat a threat than it could ever actually be but as the practice continues public opinion on the country and ways to deal with it are all becoming but rather surrounded by fantasy parties new york resident laurie huff and i just went on to the streets of the big apple to see just how far the truth can be stretched. well. 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 mon. guess 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 passed out. we cannot tell what's his 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 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 what you do for your 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 is difficult yeah and 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 try to have a meaningful discussion with someone about politics. i try every day it's 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 ok we don't know because that deep space but our moon you think we would know. tonight they're going to look up there at the sea because for the

anything or mike 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 hope they can catch the much more subtle inaccuracy as they're bombarded with by the media every day. this is odd see in just a few moments here we travel to the land of the shah mins to talk with those who live deep inside the spirit world that's coming your way in just a moment after a quick recap of the headlines with me war six.

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says. mr thirty pm now here at moscow you're watching our see the headlines for you with the blood still flowing and the body count growing the arab league reportedly wants to carry on monitoring and sit inside syria despite being so i'm being totally ineffective. silenced and thrown out there on the english language press t.v. news channel gets kicked off the british airways for falling foul of broadcasting.