global news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow with me rule research i welcome to the program the arab league is deciding what to do next in syria where if reports are true the violence is unabated it's rumored the group will extend its observer mission in the country because they think the presence of monitors has reduced the crisis in some areas sara firth is following the situation there. 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 we're here in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace plan by the syrian government now among other things that included the release a 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 a question really just how it independently they were able to operate in the country on the other side reports from people we're speaking to he said the arab league monitors didn't really seem to be taking in account of everything that was being said they obviously couldn't have heard from every single person here 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 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 now . the situation. taking place now we are weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria although you are. where you are. you have to put in your point that you have to. go. look. that says anything an escalation of the conflict here in the country will started off as a peaceful protest has it become increasingly to fight some day if you have been on the 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 radio is an area of major concern. for the reporting right and she is currently on a trip to various parts of syria signing up to all the latest developments twitter stream the most recent postings from the town of herself adani in the southwest of the country the scene of heavy fighting sara says there's an uneasy cease fire with the heart of the town under government rule the other half are controlled by the opposition says the locals are very afraid the violence will flare up again. if.

you watching r.t. live from moscow is the most parties are the overwhelming winners in parliamentary elections in egypt the final results show the muslim brotherhood claiming forty seven percent of the lower house parliament holds its first session in just two days time when it will start to select a committee responsible for drafting a new constitution that's course are not. standing by in cairo maria just tell us what exactly do these results mean for the country as a whole. well rory of course it is too early right now 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 a 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 almost five hundred member bodies 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 it will be the people responsible for new for these that will be people. who go into shape actually a 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 over 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 war in these elections is openly supporting the supreme council of armed forces took 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. 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 through all 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 violence 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 factor out of here in egypt. live in cairo thank you. for you although it is 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. sort of a spoiled rich kid as it were you look at the tons of still edible food filling bins and not stomachs innovation where millions are getting getting by are just on food stamps some are. also taming the elements of the next winter

olympics host city we meet the people on a daily patrol to hunt the other launchers and try and ensure safety for skiers. in the capital as a grip police have clashed with protesters attempting to have called out 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 croats don't want to join up saying there's nothing to gain to share their view are there any benefits here or downfalls well i think it's shared 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 publicly saying anything

against the e.u. itself so the fact that we have this amazing groundswell of support at something like forty percent easing credible it demonstrates the fact that the political classes are completely and utterly out of touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple they've seen near the scene similar who are emerging european countries such as themselves people like slovakia slovenia is stony are all coming into the euro european union they've joined the euro zone and they find it the worst poison chalice imaginable 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 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 of on 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 its state kossovo you've got all sorts of issues a right thing 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 of those 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 is pretty decisive mr chirac was determined to shoehorn but gary and remaining into the e.u. as fast as possible and i don't get me wrong there are things that the european union dollars 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 he vetoed at 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 petra executive director of investment david advisors thank you for covering our to you today. well romania which is one of the e.u.'s newest members is suffering its 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 his time 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 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 phillies line . they've started to throw bottles and other things at the police line and they're going to chime 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 that poured into the remaining in capital to demand the

resignation of the remaining president try and assess could opposition politicians address the crowd in 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. but later on the mood became more militant. bankrupt and all 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 marking 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. i know some of the missing but 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 the day and night protesters have been demanding big political change remain here. because this is anything to go by the route to reform will be long and hard fought tom but. i know that it's a day here on our own states you compare the economic crisis to the recent costa concordia cruise disaster focusing on captains though abounding abandoning financial ships program 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 yours 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. because artie 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 partnership with nasa and their counterparts in the e.u.

to put men back on the lunar surface permanently his patrol of explains are scientists hope exploring the moon will help us better understand the nature of life back on our 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 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 that hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up a permanent home on the moon. but reporting right there well do bear in mind are plenty more stories always available for you online twenty four seven here's a bit of what's awaiting you right now on our website on com see how waste is being put to good use in the art world we meet a russian artist who turns old industrial scrap into modern masterpiece. 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 under the hammer for almost eight million dollars.

just now at 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 marina explains 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 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 the same country that loves so much to consume calories. also loves to waste that. this isn't liquid

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 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. 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 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 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 meat or the documentary dive follows filmmaker germy seifert and his friends in the back alleys and rubbish piles of los angeles as thousands of dollars worth of edible food is salvaged. 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 over consumption 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 fellow 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 marine a point i am r.t. new york. our 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 of president ali abdullah saleh usually 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 light fuel begins to seep into the water near the vessel there are about half a million gallons of heavy fuel than hundreds of tons of diesel oil on board twenty are still missing after the ship ran aground off the italian coast a week ago. it's good news for skiers and

snowboarders but can spell danger for thrillseekers artie's denise talk to those fighting avalanches the host city of the next winter olympics of course that being such a. sochi avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their side. the mission to keep the be clear and see. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend skip magnificent but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day it's a little cool avalon chanters. 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 learn it 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. 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 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 can heal or thirty by thirty centimeter call him 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. ski patrol calling dispatch over. their known 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 ahead 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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