it's now is just after six pm on saturday here in moscow this is artsy with me will receive in the arab league is deciding what to do next in syria where if reports 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. following the situation for us in syria. the arab league ministers are going to be meeting to present their findings on what's been happening here in syria and to discuss what their next move will be now the arab league mission in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace plan by syria's government 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 sad 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 although the sizes of people we're speaking to he said. didn't really seem to be taking in account a very thing that was being said they obviously couldn't have heard from every single person he wanted to speak to the scene another question that's raised about this mission is whether more of these monitors were needed then what is going to be interesting moving forward 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. where you are. you have to put in your mind that you have to. go. look. that says anything an african nation all the conflict here in the country will started off as a peaceful protest if it become increasingly out of the fight if you have been on the third to be an area where now the government no longer have control again you've got all these different factions no one really knows anymore he was 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. for the poor and she is currently on a trip to various parts of syria sending updates on the latest developments. twitter stream the most recent posting from a town of as up and down in the south west of the country the scene of heavy fighting saying that the town is devastated with the government control the other half controlled by heavily armed opposition.

this is r t the us congress has healed to massive online pressure and temporarily shelved two controversial and 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 help to protect copyright online but internet giants like google and wikipedia say it will stop the free flow of information or make use of stress that although it's delayed the initiative will be revived trevor tim 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 the 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 and advertisers 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 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 or 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 we insist the ban is politically motivated because it quote a clear act of censorship filreis u.k. based author of media analyst believes the way the station covered it so that it would be taken off the. 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 pretty sure relations are at their lowest ebb for a long long period. with r.t. still ahead for you this hour in the program billions what their products are going to waste in the united states. it's a bad habit of sort of the spoiled rich kid as it were we look at tons of still edible food filling bins and not stomach said a nation where millions are getting by just barely on fruits. 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 told botan explains. 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 broken out between police and protesters just behind me you can see the protesters bringing up fences they're now going to 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 fancies into the police line now. this is the violence everyone hoped 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 that poured into the remaining in the capital to demand the resignation of the remaining president try and assess could opposition 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 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 siskiyou to leave. but

later on the mood became more militant. bankrupt and all the factories all the hospitals 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 perth so we go to italy spain and germany to start to steal what for we want jobs we can see some if you look over the line now some of the missing but it being thrown. 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 it revealed those affected by tear gas. and the struggle of those seized the day and night protesters have been demanding

big political change in romania but is this is anything to go by the road to reform long and hard fought. 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 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 . it's important that the 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 it within the euro area and so

that's really caused the same tactics to be applied in terms of austerity budget cuts etc and you know in as a result there's lots of unemployment and the riots and later today when i. 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 nine hundred thirty two. so this captain schettino he's brought to shore he's now everybody knows he's abandoned ship his excuse costa concordia 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 and lloyd blankfein and jamie diamond are saying well the market accidentally made me a billionaire i don't know how that. art is coming to you live from moscow now russia has announced plans to build a 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 it is pretty relevant our explains how our scientists hope that exploring the moon will help us better understand the nature of life back on our very own planet. kosmos 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 a get see the effect the lesson 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. so moon bases and 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 artie's a 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 passed out. we cannot talk do you agree with his program bob 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 only that they agree with the program from the moon oh

it wouldn't surprise me at all that people not human there 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 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 rub on this difficult is again 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 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 so. 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 ever expanding waistline millions in the u.s. are still going hungry tons of edible food going to waste each day the solution to the country's problem could actually be sitting on the sidewalk and. reports. 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 good geo and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he romances 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 size of the pizza here this is a raisin raising bagel the twenty seven year old musician makes his way from the bakery to the jelly 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 this 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 online at soup kitchens and ultimately searching through trash getting me. my big show 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 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 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. 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 up to 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 the 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 that is expected to return to a man 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. end of 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 and noted 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 artists and he's put out a good talk to those who are fighting our largest in 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 full of magnificent but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day total recall avalon chanters. avalanche team surveys every new concrete any of the resort they say 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. 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. well you know if the guy can he will have a thirty by thirty centimeter call and a tall one and we hit it with a shovel exactly ten times very slightly as the column falls apart at some point that 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. skipper to all 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 tame the white beast will be more important than ever done as will all ski r t sochi.

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world. series technology innovation all the moves developments around russia we've got the future covered. what you got to live from moscow time for your headlines the future of the arab league mission in syria is between those saying the observers presidents were juiced the violence and all those are slamming the group for a lack of progress. the austerity pace in the e.u. that's protests in romania the books second poorest country leading to the nation's worst violence in more than a decade.