and tanks from some of the towns and cities how successful this tired 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 question really just how independently they were able to operate in the country on the other side. speaking to he said he didn't really seem to be taking in account of very thing that was being said they obviously couldn't have had from every single person he wanted to speak in another question that's raised about this mission is whether more of these monitors were needed then what is going to be interesting moving food is whether or not this mission is now extended because 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 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 no weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria well there you are where you are. you have to put in your mind that you have to are. working with the other side. that's certainly seen an african nation of the conflict here in the country will start it off as a peaceful protest if it become increasingly armed in fact somewhere 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 have the voice of the people and i. the number of people weaving that radio is in the area

of major concern. for the. various parts of syria the latest developments. twitter stream. south west of the country the scene of heavy fighting. in the town is devastated with the government controlled. by heavily armed opposition.

this is r t the us congress two massive online pressure and temporarily shelved two controversial piracy bills that follow some of the largest ever hacker attacks on america's top governmental and entertainment websites as a mass internet blackout in protest supporters of the legislation helped to protect copyright. but internet giants like google and wikipedia say it will stop the free flow of information because of stress 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. unfortunately 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 a stop on line piracy. you know the bills didn't go directly after the owners of these sites that kind of went around everything around it so it was going to be

censored domain names or they were going to be listed from search engines on the orders of the government or corporations were going to allow be allowed to cut off payment processor an advertiser from these sites just basically an allegation in and out of post 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 went about it was just completely expansive and quite frankly ridiculous. well the u.k. authorities are also being accused of trying to curb the freedom of speech but this time over the airwaves britain has revoked the license of press t.v. that's iran's english news channel. saying that its editorial policies are

controlled by iran the media regulator also cited licensing violations but the president be insisting the ban is politically motivated because it quote a clear act of censorship filreis based author of media analyst believes the way the station covered it so that it be taken off the air. if this had been separated from geopolitics with 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 geopolitical 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 sees 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 british arraying in relations are at their lowest ebb for a long long period. you with are still ahead for you this hour in the program billions worth their products going to waste in the united states. it's a bad habit of sort of the spoiled rich kid as it were tons of still edible food filling bins and not stomach said a nation where millions are getting by just barely on food stamps. and taming the elements in the next winter olympics host city we meet the people on a daily patrol to hunt out avalanches and ensure safety for skiers.

and he austerity is intensifying in europe with the latest round of on rest now taking place in romania thousands of people there are demanding the resignation of the government and the president in the worst protests seen in the country for just about ten years rumanians have been suffering under harsh austerity measures imposed in order to secure a cash injection from international creditors he's tom barton explains. 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 bit 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 east fancies into the police line now. this is a voluntary one hope that they could avoid today but it seems that it has broken out after all as a fence being thrown. earlier in the day thousands that poured into the remaining in capital to demand the resignation of the remaining president try and assess could opposition politicians address the crowd all that he has come from all over the country that 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 is all that we all want to say ask you to leave. but

later on the mood became more militant. it bankrupts you know the factories old hospitals school children the country have to walk five kilometers through the snow to school. the youth nowadays what choice do we have to go out and start to steal to start my gang people for a person so we'll go to italy spain and germany to start to steal what for we want jobs we can see some if you look over the. i know. that it being. just in stages the police are trying to move forward and 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 romania but is this is anything to go by the route to reform long and hard for what. meantime edward harrison founder of analyst for credit write downs he believes the problems outside the single currency area in europe stem from attempts to apply those euro zone. so you have the eurozone and then you have the wider it's not just about the eurozone in terms of debt there imbalances that have built up everywhere and i think that it's important that the a euro area. that people outside the euro area stick to the same rules as within the euro area just from a cosmetic perspective so the germans don't want to have different expectations of what happens in romania hungary than they have. in the euro area and so that's really caused the same tactics to be applied in terms of austerity budget cuts etc

. as a result there's lots of unemployment and the riots. and later today here on out and. compare the economic crisis to the recent costa concordia cruise disaster focusing on captains abounding financial ships food program to be coming your way at seven thirty s. nine hundred thirty g.m.t. . so this 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 he tripped into the lifeboat 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 that. r.t. is coming to you live from moscow now russia has announced plans to build manned research colonies on the moon the country's space agency is viewing possible partnerships with nasa and the e.u. counterparts to put the men back on the lunar surface permanently he's pretty relevant now explains how scientists hope that exploring the moon will help us better understand the nature of life back on our very own planet. because most 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 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 of course the the gravity of the moon much less than there is an earth would get see the effect lessened 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 there as say they're hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up a permanent home on the moon. so moon bases are fine are still a bit of a fantasy although some people are ready to just believe about anything especially if you throw a long considered threat into the mix our visa laura half nurse i went out onto 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 moon. 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 has that. we cannot. 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 by me that they agree with the program from the moon oh that wouldn't surprise me at all that people not human there are. little furry

things i like to jump off cliffs doesn't the media have a responsibility to guide the lemmings down a better path no lemmings should have their mind of their own and they should be educated i mean people are watching t.v. radio internet so it's if you know even if you're looking for some going of disease you know you find so many interpretations so which one is the right on this difficult yet people say i saw it on the internet so i believe it's absolutely true so it's very hard to find the right source most people just don't have the time don't have the inclination come people that they get into if you ever try to have a meaningful discussion with someone about politics i try every day it's pretty pretty bad to be honest you never going to know where they were even if they did personally up there you wouldn't know anyway. we don't know if he has a year's overstress or not. 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. a little look up there. so it seems like some people are listening to what's being said and they're 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. it's twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow in a country with an expanding waistline millions in the u.s. are still going hungry tons of edible food going to waste each day solution to the country's problem could actually be sitting on the sidewalk in a fortnight of 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 there's another two were tons of edible food is thrown out each night i've never found that's not the size of the pizza here this is a 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. and some other green

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 a 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 in. the 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 a film there was a sense of outrage at the injustice of food waste something of a paradox society defined both by wasteful consumption and an ongoing struggle to

make ends meet writing because my expenses are first thing that goes through so the question is why pay for that which you can get for free. r.t. new york. as for non-edible waste it can also be put to good use even in the art world if you head to our web site r.t. dot com you can meet a russian artist who turns old industrial scrap into modern masterpieces like these seen here. plus one of the world's most valuable books a rare first edition of a nineteenth century masterpiece depicting life sized north american species of birds just going under the hammer for almost eight million dollars.

it's good to have you with us this is our let's have a quick look now at what else is making news around the world this hour time for the r.t. world after begin with egypt it's where our islamist parties are the overwhelming winners in parliamentary elections the final results show the muslim brotherhood claiming forty seven percent of the lower house parliament holds its first shuttle session in just two days time when it will start to select a committee responsible for drafting a new constitution voting for the upper house begins next week. yemen's parliament has approved immunity from prosecution for president ali abdullah saleh who is due to leave for the u.s. to seek medical treatment he's been accused of suppressing protests and killing yemeni people however those working under the president could still face legal action will formally hand over power next month after thirty three years as a ruler and is expected to return to work after his stay in the united states.

police have clashed with protesters who were attempting to pull down an e.u. fly the head of the country's membership referendum on sunday it happened at the. and a protest rally made up of around one 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 slogans according to a recent survey around sixty percent of croats do not want to join. heavy snow is always good news for skiers and snowboarders but it can spell danger for thrill seekers. you talk to those who are fighting our largest and the host city of the next winter olympics of course that have 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 earth full of magnificent but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day total recall avalon chanters. the avalanche team surveys every new concrete any of the resort they see russians love to push the boundaries and many skiers like riding off the beaten track blue need 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 if there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to

slide for real proves the clues are easy to discover it. well you know if the guy can he will have a thirty by thirty centimeter call i'm a tall one and we hit it with a shovel exactly ten times very slightly as the colon falls apart at some point it means the snow is too soft and it will collapse the morning survey is over so now it's time for snow angels to descend to their headquarters and pass on the good news. ski patrol calling dispatch over. there no threats were given permission to lead the terrorists and started the 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 wide beast will be more important than ever done as will all ski r t sore cheek.

all right i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just about two and a half minutes. this is claude. nolen sitting on the edge over the past

present and. mixing reality that's nothingness. but if you enter this time. the mystery of supernatural will reach a. shaman of siberia on. the move.

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world. series technology innovation called the least developed around russia. the future. what you ought to be live from moscow headlines the future of the arab league mission in syria between those saying be a presence orange juice. the violence and others are slamming the group for a lack of progress. and the austerity anger gathers pace in the e.u. as protests in romania plucks second poorest country leading to the nation's worst violence in more than a decade. and a man is not just stepping on the moon he could be going there to stay russia plans

to build a permanently mounted research base right there on the lunar surface. all right now to our special report we take you to siberia to learn about the local sharman and mysterious rituals to stay with us here on. the sun's early in siberia a dusk by year in chino one of the most celebrated and experienced shamans east of lake baikal begins his shamanic rituals today's ritual is designed to invoke the spirits healing abilities and thank them for their powers at one point during the ritual a spirit penetrating by his body is expected to help the shaman deal with people's issues as well as heal them when the shaman becomes aware of the onset of the state of trance he puts on a cap that covers his eyes protects the shaman from evil spirits and safeguards the onlookers.