and cities how successful this arab league mission has been is 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 trial 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 all other sizes were false or people were speaking to he said the arab league monitors didn't really seem to be taking in i can a very thing that was being said they obviously couldn't have had 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 then what is going to be interesting moving food is whether or not this mission is now extended because again very divisive as they were supposed 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 now. the situation. taking place no we are weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria although you are your stories to where you are. you have to put in your mind that you have to work with the other side working with the other side. of change that's certainly seen an escalation of the conflict here in the country will start it off as a peaceful protest if it become increasingly armed in fact 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 word even the major.

trip to various parts of syria. twitter. in the southwest of the country the scene of heavy fighting. and an easy ceasefire with the government. opposition. locals are very afraid. again.

watching. the overwhelming parliamentary elections in egypt the final results show the muslim brotherhood claiming forty seven percent of the lower house parliament holds its first. just two days time when it will start to select a committee responsible for drafting a new constitution that's. just tell us what exactly do these results mean for the country as a whole. well rory of course it is too early to say how exactly it is going to fact live here in egypt how it is going to change things on the ground but what we can say for sure at this stage of course is that the first parliament of new age of the absolute majority of the seats in this parliament will be taken by islamists conservative politics since as you've just said of course muslim brotherhoods affiliated freedom and justice party won forty seven percent

that means that they are going to take a two hundred thirty five seats in the new parliament in an almost five hundred member body that means almost half of it and even more conservative salafist are new party or that are worn almost twenty five percent is going to take one hundred twenty seven seats and these will be the people responsible for new for these that will be people. who are going to shape actually the future politics of this country because these will be people responsible for a new constitution this is one of the major task of the new parliament here in egypt to go in to write the nation's next constitution so it's very important analysts and experts here in egypt say that that also may mean that the military that has been the backbone of gyptian politics here since the fall of

monarchy in the ninety's in the fifty's will continue to stay in power because the parties that these elections is openly supporting the supreme council of armed forces the power from mubarak last february and since they are supporting them that means that the military will stay in power for longer right now they say that the will only leave they will only go when the president the next president is elected in june but p. . people are not actually happy with this fact because what we are hearing here people are saying that they wanted revolution in january to get free old dictatorship and once mubarak ousted they don't want another dictatorship which is right now miniature this is how they take it and people are still protesting here in cairo and everywhere in egypt calling for mass rallies to do the calling for.

the military the ruling generals to transfer power to civilians so and that also means that we can expect rallies and protests and volleys intentions to ask late. even further after these results announced but of course it is too early to say exactly how it's going to fact live here in egypt. live in cairo thank you. for you ought to it's good to have your company today still ahead for you this hour billions worth of products going to waste in the united states. it's a bad habit that's sort of the spoiled rich kid as it were really tons of still edible food filling bins and not stomachs in a nation where millions are getting getting by oh just on food stamps some are. also taming the elements in the next winter olympics host city we meet the people

on a daily patrol to hunt for launchers and try and ensure safety. in the capital as a grip police have clashed with protesters attempting to have called on an e.u. flag ahead of the country's membership referendum on sunday recent surveys to suggest that forty percent of the population are against joining the european union more on the story i'm now joined by patrick younger executive director of the investment firm devi advisors i thanks for coming on r t today approaching nearly a half of all crowds don't want to join up saying there's nothing to gain to share their view are there any benefits here or downfall well i think i share their fear and that's the most important thing actually good afternoon rick the key consideration here is that when we look at the crew wish and referendum there's been barely one and p. in the entire parliament who's actually been turning round of publicly saying anything against the e.u.

itself so the fact that we have this amazing grind swell of support at something like forty percent easing credible it demonstrates the fact that the political classes are completely and utterly of touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple big scene near the existing similar who are emerging european countries such as themselves people like slovakia slovenia is stony up all coming into the euro european union they've joined the euro zone and they find it the worst poison chalice of magical because slovakia nurses pensioners are not getting paid a third of what they would get paid if they were working in greece and to add insult to injury they're actually paying money to the greeks in order to support their euro zone bailouts that's why the people in croatia are deeply concerned and that's why it's going to be a very interesting referendum result tomorrow and indeed in just just a car here just for a moment here that we're not talking about croatia joining the eurozone this is in fact the e.u. itself many many years as you're saying how many failures about this over some are

saying what they fear most is that the e.u. will dictate what their government does as soon as they join the e.u. is recently been accused of interfering in the domestic affairs of its members is an element of democracy do you think being put at risk by joining. well let's go to what another way i mean the croatians who as you rightly say are voting to join the european union movement to not get the euro zone are in a situation where they see neighboring countries such as hungary i mean the government of hungry for the past two weeks have been vilified by the european union i'm not going to get into the argument to find out whether or not the prime minister is right or wrong there but certainly people get very very and feel very very uneasy about things that are being said we have clear examples of the german government trying very very hard to manipulate the politics of serbia serbia and it's state kosovo you've got all sorts of issues arising through white the european union work when things seem to go against the european union's viewpoint they're

dropping in technocrats we could argue that this is all because of huge economic problems in terms of the technocratic element but of course what's happening is the groundswell on the on the streets the people in bucharest for example in romania who are protesting today are protesting because what they see is a european union that is not delivering its side of the deal and the deal is free trade and jobs and ultimately there is economic chaos within the european union at the moment driven from the euro zone and that is not to the advantage of coalition citizens which makes them certainly very uneasy at night where there are certainly some that have said that the issue of croatia joining joining the e.u. could be the first case in the history of rats actually jumping onto a sinking ship tell us here at r.t. why does the e.u. even want new members in these ongoing tough times. but you know that's a very very interesting question because actually within the european union i'm not entirely convinced that they do want more members of and certainly if you listen to

the rantings of mr sarkozy the french president he's clearly against much of the expansion of the european union these days where is of course his predecessor mr chirac was determined to shoehorn but gary and remaining into the e.u. as fast as possible now don't get me wrong there are things that the european union dolls' very well there is a body of framework of free trade law within the what was originally the european economic community let us not forget and that's very good it helps cross border flows i mean poland the polish economy has been helped immeasurably by simply becoming part of this economic unit but at the same time i think the problem is that the european union really cannot solve its own internal problems at the moment rather it's in total denial about the problem about the euro and actually i think there's a huge amount of disagreement as to whether really expansion is safe or not and to a certain extent i mean the croatian example has been pushed very very hard by its natural allies in germany and austria in order to try and get them into the group

but we're already seeing all sorts of difficulties with croatia's near neighbor serbia who have been effectively at the moment their membership is being parking but you be towed out the whim of the germans so there's a huge amount of politics going on behind the scenes here and actually it's not clear that the european union is really open with welcome arms to see new members coming into the group like it was with the accession countries of poland hungary and so on say it for nine years ago after her executive director of investment david advisers thank you for coming out are to you today. well romania which is one of the e.u.'s newest members is suffering us worst protests in years for the second week running now thousands of people are demanding the resignation of the government and the president romanians have been suffering under harsh austerity measures in posed in order to secure a cash injection from international creditors bottom 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 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 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 there's 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 and you have 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 us all that we all want to siskiyou to leave. but later on the mood became more militant. bankrupt you know the 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 my gang people for a person 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. why now some of the missiles 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 protest is here. as the crowd was broken up it revealed those affected by take us. on the struggle of those seized. day and night protesters have been demanding big political change and remain here. but is this is anything to go by the route to reform will be a long and hard fought on bottom part. i don't know to today here on our own stacey herbert compare the economic crisis to the recent costa concordia cruise disaster focusing on captains though abounding abandoning financial ships full program are coming your way at seventeen thirty g.m.t. right here on our team. 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 all the way lloyd blankfein and jamie dimon are saying well the market accidentally made me a billionaire i don't know if. this is r.t. live from moscow now russia has announced plans to build a band research colonies on the moon the country's space agency is viewing possible partnerships with nasa and counterparts in the e.u. to put men back on the lunar surface permanently. explains our scientists hope

exploring the moon will help us better understand the nature of life back on our planet. 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 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 would 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 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. reporting right there will do bear in mind of plenty more stories always available for you on line twenty four seven here's a bit of what's awaiting you right now on our website on so you don't come see how waste is being put to good use in the art world you meet a russian artist who turns old industrial scrap into modern masterpieces. plus one of the world's most valuable books a rare first edition of a nineteenth century masterpiece depicting a life size north american species of birds just went on the bahamas for almost eight million dollars.

just now in 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 with tons of edible food going to waste each day the solution to the country's problem could just be sitting on the sidewalk. explains the number of people on food stamps has reached an all time high for more and more people are going hungry for one in three americans live in or near poverty and suffering hungry 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 they seem 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 wrote midgets through garbage bags

on the streets of new york city here's another truth we're tons. edible food is thrown out each night i'm never found that's not the size of the pizza here this is a bigger 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 of the 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 should be wasted and thrown away. otherwise it would end up. on top of the landfill somewhere and has to be 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. 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 access and so we. 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 or in other countries us taking more than we need and wasting it affects the prices of food the availability of food so yeah i guess that was why they made the film there was a sense of. the injustice of food waste something of a paradox society defined both by we still consumption and an ongoing struggle to make ends meet i 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 marine upper nile r.t. new york. are now let's check out some other headlines from around the world for you this hour we'll start with yemen in our world update the parliament has approved immunity from prosecution for president ali abdullah saleh you believe for

the u.s. to seek medical treatment he's been accused of suppressing protests and killing his own people however those working under the president could still face legal action so they will formally hand over power next month after thirty three years in rule and is expected to return to amman after his stay in the u.s. . divers have blasted more holes in the stricken a cruise liner costa concordia as they continue to search for survivors after a twelve victim has now been recovered booms have been placed around the capsized ship as the light fuel begins to seep into the water near the vessel there are about half a million gallons of heavy fuel than the hundreds of tons of diesel oil on board twenty are still missing after the ship ran aground off the italian coast a week ago. good news for skiers and snowboarders but can spell danger for thrill seekers denise talked about fighting

avalanches the host city of the next winter olympics of course being such a. sore cheez 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 for a 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 can craney 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 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 you know if the guy can people who are thirty by thirty centimeter call him 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 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. their known threats were given permission to lead the terrorists and started to 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 wide beast will be more important than ever done as will all ski r t sochi. and in just a moment i'll be back with a recap of our top stories to stay with us.

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three. three. three. three broke video for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com. very well welcome to you this is live from moscow with me. time for your headlines at the future of the arab league mission in syria between those saying the observers presence has reduced the violence meantime others slamming the group for a lack of progress members are now meeting in cairo to discuss whether to extend the monitors work. and see austerity gathers pace in the e.u. this time protests in romania other blocks second poorest country leading to the nation's worst violence in more than

a decade thousands of people have been out on the streets demanding the resignation of the government and the president for more than a week now. it's not just stepping on the moon he could be there to stay russia is planning to build up permanently manned space right there on the surface of the moon other countries. are viewing possible partnerships with nasa and its counterparts to make the ambitious project. all right up next to go off talks to ballet star david hole bug all about what it feels like to be the first foreign premier of moscow's famous bolshoi theater spotlight is now. coming. to a.