a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow with me rule received the arab league is deciding what to do next in syria its way for ports are true the violence is unabated it's rumored that the group will extend its observer mission in the country because they think the presence of monitors has reduced the crisis in some areas. furthest following the situation in the country. the arab league ministers going to be meeting to present their findings on what's been happening ok and to discuss what the next me will be now the arab league mission in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace. syria's government among other things that include the release of. the withdrawal of the government troops and tanks from some of the towns and cities

how successful this has been the pace of we actually followed the arab league mission in that final day 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 clued into question really just how independent they were able to operate in the country the size of the force. didn't really seem to be taking a. leap. from everything. in another question that's raised about its mission is whether more of these monitors were there what is going to be interesting moving forward is whether or not this mission is now extended because i can very divisive as a response to the people that the hospital no some people think this really is

essential to this mission continues and in fact it's possible that i was speaking to one of the former advisor to the government and indeed the previous government here in syria 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 although you are. where you are. you have to put in your mind that you have to. go. as a side. affairs 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 on the fight some very 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 really is an area of major concern. she is helping you stay right up to date with the latest developments in syria doing so via twitter stream which you can see right there. you can also get her firsthand reports from all across the country and the. general. twenty four. this is. the u.s. congress has yielded to

a massive online pressure. to controversial piracy bills and follow some of the largest ever. top governmental and entertainment industry websites internet blackout in protest supporters of the legislation claim it will help to protect copyright online internet giants like google and wikipedia say it will stop the free flow of information. stressed that although it's delayed the initiative will be revived. from the electronic frontier foundation says these laws are not just aimed at fighting piracy. but fortunately the provisions were written so broadly that they would probably end up censoring millions of innocent users who never even thought about copyright infringement and the worst part was it wasn't even the stop online piracy you know the bills didn't go directly after the owners of the site they kind of went around everything around it so it was going to be censored domain names or they were going to be delisted from search engines on the orders of the

government or corporations were going to be allowed. cut off payment process or an advertiser from these sites just basically on an allegation in an unopposed court order and then again there was going to be brought immunity for in that service providers to enforce these bills so they could end up over blocking sites and capturing innocent users and even blocking sites voluntarily just on the unofficial orders of corporations so that there was a lot of a lot of free speech problems with these bills overall goal of stopping online piracy you know it's it's it's something everybody agrees with but the way they want to about it was just completely. expansive and quite frankly ridiculous. well u.k. authorities are also being accused of trying to curb the freedom of speech but this time over the waves britain has revoked the license of press t.v. that's iran's english language news channel saying that its editorial policies are controlled by terror on the media regulator also cited licensing violations the

press t.v. insists the ban is politically motivated and calls it a clear act of censorship feel free say u.k. based author and media analyst believes it's the way the station covered certain events that let it to be taken off. if this had been separated from geopolitics then you know what 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 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. ad 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 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 for a long long period. you without your life from moscow it's good to have your company today and still ahead for you this hour billions worth of products going to waste in the united states. is the fact that it. spoiled rich kid as it were to look at how our love for food is resulting in tons of medical items being thrown away in a country where millions struggle just to get by on food stamps. and it's naming the elements in the next winter olympics host city we meet the people on the daily patrol to hunt out avalanches and ensure safety for skiers. and the austerity anger is intensifying in europe with the latest round of bond

rest this time taking place in romania thousands are demanding the resignation of the government and the president in the worst protests seen in the country for years romanians have been suffering under harsh austerity measures imposed in order to secure a cash injection from international creditors. reports. things turn nasty in the streets as book arrest. protesters have been peaceful for the past few days but now the demonstrations turn file. fighting as sporadic and out between police and protesters just behind me you can see the testers bringing up fences and now going to expect it 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 cease fancies into the police line now.

this is a voluntary one hope that they could avoid today but they seem that it has broken out after all there's a fence being thrown. earlier in the day sounds set forward into the remaining capital to demand the resignation of the man president try and assess for the opposition politicians address the crowd all that didn't just 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. that kind of people are upset because they've lost their job service because their pension was cut and others because they think humiliated every day there's one thing that unites is all that we all want to say excuse and leave. but later on the mood became more militant. only factions older posts old 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 a c.e.o. start my gay people for persecuted actually go to italy or spain or germany start to steal what fork let me warn you john but we can see some if you look over the. i know. but if you think through. just in stages the police are trying to move forward and clear the square with a meeting with a lot of resistance from the protest. as the crowd has broken up revealed those affected by gangs. and the struggle of those seized me. day and night protesters have been demanding big political change behavior. which is this is anything to go by the route to

reform that long and hard for. and then harrison founder of analyst for credit write downs believes the problems outside the single currency area in europe stem from attempts just to apply eurozone role. so you have the eurozone and then you have the wider view and it's not just about the eurozone in terms of their imbalances that are built up everywhere and i think that it's important that the euro area. that people outside the euro area stick to the same rules within the euro area just from a cosmetic perspective so the germans don't want to have different expectations of what happens in romania and hungary when they have it within the euro area and so that's really the same tactics to be applied in terms of austerity budget cuts etc and you know in as

a result there is lots of unemployment and the riots. and i just a little bit later today here on our max keiser and stacy herbert compared the economic crisis to the recent costa concordia cruise a disaster focusing on captains abandoning financial ships and who program now coming your way in just about fifteen minutes time. so the captain schettino he's brought to shore he's now everybody knows he's abandoned ship his excuse kosta can cordie a captain says he tripped and fell into lifeboat and that's the reason why he abandoned ship that sounds exactly like the excuses that lloyd blankfein and jamie dimon gave to congress i tripped and fell into tarp that well the algae would be the one that they always years is the market did it this guy saying it tripped into the life book and so all the way lloyd blankfein and jamie diamond are saying well the market accidentally made me a billionaire i don't know if. i

do stay with us for the kaiser report coming your way in a few minutes from now though russia has announced plans to build manned research colonies on the moon the country's space agency is viewing possible partnerships with nasa and their counterparts in the e.u. how to put men back on the surface of the moon permanently peter all of a explains how scientists hope that exploring the moon and will help us better understand the nature of life back on our planet. eros cosmos want to send first off to unmanned probes to the surface of our nearest celeste steele neighbor and take samples bring them back to earth so they can be studied and analyzed with the hope eventually that we can set up a permanent base on the moon 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 of course the the gravity of the moon much less than there is on earth would get see the effects less than gravity or zero gravity would have on a spacecraft much more than we can ever simulate on earth hopefully lots of very exciting things that we can see coming up in the next few years they say they're hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up a permanent home on the moon and is pretty right there wolf and our moon bases are a bit of a fantasy although some people are ready to believe just about anything especially if you throw a long considered threat into the mix artie's lower half and it goes out of the streets of new york to test this hypothesis. 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 passed out. we cannot talk 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 by me that they agree with the program from the moon oh it 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 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 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 there to get into it if you ever tried 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 anyway even if they did personally up there you wouldn't know anyway so. we don't know if overstress. yeah but do you think common sense takes over a little bit oh ok we don't know because that space but our moon you think we would

know. they're going to look up there. 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. just turning twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow this is art in a country with an ever expanding waistline millions in the u.s. are still going hungry with tons of edible food going to waste each day a solution to the country's problem could be sitting on the sidewalk and more important i reports 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. doesn't look like geo and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he romans has 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'm never found that's not a slice of the pizza here this is a raisin raisin 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 apples parson 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 this food as you can see is still perfectly edible and there's no sense that it should be wasted and thrown away. otherwise it would end up. on top of the landfill somewhere and as to me the 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 eating meat a big show or a documentary die 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 a 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 i need to cut my expenses are first thing that goes through so the

question is. why pay for that which you can get for free. artsy new york. and asked for an edible waste it can also be put to good use so you fund it in the art world we had over to our web site you can make a russian artist who turns old industrial scrap. and lost the pieces. also there you were opens at the side of the world's worst nuclear disaster. tourists find out how much a trip to the exclusion zone could cost you this much much more. seriously and discover its beauty.

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well for the future science technology innovation and all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. this is r t live from moscow in about seven minutes time it's the kaiser report but for now let's check out the world update some other international news for you in brief let's begin with croatia it's where police have clashed with protesters who are attempting to cool down and you flag this ahead of the country's a membership referendum on sunday it happened at the end of a protest rally made up of about a thousand mostly war veterans and right wing protesters opposed to croatia joining the european union demonstrators carried banners reading no to the e.u. and chanted and the e.u. slogans according to

a recent survey about sixty percent of croats do not want to join. the results of egypt's recent parliamentary elections are expected just a little bit later stay with us for that it comes just two days ahead of the first session preliminary numbers that have islamist parties claiming seventy percent of the seats in the lower house the newly elected must select a committee responsible for drafting a new constitution for the nation voting for the upper house of parliament begins it next week. and divers have blasted more holes in the costa concordia as they continue to search for survivors rescue crews have been placing booms around the capsized ship fearing any significant shift by the vessel could damage its fuel tanks triggering a massive leak there are about half a million gallons of heavy fuel and hundreds of tons of diesel oil still on board twenty one still missing after the ship ran aground off the italian coast now just

about a week ago. heavy snow is always good news for skiers and snowboarders but can spell danger for thrill seekers aussies denise polaski talk to those fighting avalanches in the host city of the next winter olympics of course that of such. sochi avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their side. their mission to keep the mountain peaks clear and see it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend skip full of magnificent but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day total local avalon chanters. avalanche team surveys every new can craney of the resort they say russians love to push the boundaries and many skiers like riding off the beaten track is the team's lead expert 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 the snow 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 the snow can turn nasty there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to slow for real proves the clues are easy to discover and you know it's like i'm on my thirty thirty centimeter call and i told him i hit it with a show exactly ten times very slightly as the calling falls apart at some point means the snow is too soft and it will collapse in the morning survey is over so now it's time for snow angels to descend to their headquarters and pass on the good news. give up. calling dispatch over.

there are no threats were given permission to our doctors will start the cable cars are just laid out in february and march this resort will cost international ski competitions bringing new challenges for the avalanche to. head of the two thousand and fourteen winter games when the venue faces its ultimate test learning to tame the wide beast will be more important than ever done as well as keep our team sochi . ok to stay with us here at r.t. the cars report a moment away and a recap of the headlines with me will receive us to shine see you shortly.

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if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is our t. live from moscow headlines now for the future of the arab league mission in syria and scored between those saying the observers presence reduced the violence and all those slamming the group for a lack of progress members are now meeting in cairo to discuss whether to extend the monitors work inside syria. gathers pace in the e.u. this time pressure.