stary anger protests rage in romania the bloc second poorest country leading to the nation's worst violence in more than a decade. eight pm in moscow as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story islamist parties are the overwhelming winners in egypt's first post revolution parliamentary elections the final results show the muslim brotherhood claims forty seven percent of the lower house parliament will hold its first session in two days time for more on this we go live or if an ocean a live with more in cairo hello maria so what do the results mean for the future of the country. well a matter of course the fact that the absolute majority over the first parliament of new age of post mubarak egypt will be taken by islamist and conservative parties which is which are the moves in brotherhood's affiliated freedom and justice party

that won forty seven percent you're right and even more conservative sellafield know a party about twenty five percent of the votes. means first of all kind of islam is they should old age means that the egyptian society rather secular right now will be put under strict religious codes and of course this is something people will not be happy with this is not something they wanted they've been fighting for more open democratic society and not religious ones so we can expect after these results announced people's protest to escalate even more actually seven weeks of the of the. of the election didn't manage to didn't succeed to stall tensions on the streets of egypt so now again we can see that. this movement can go even worse what

als does that mean of course since. brotherhood is supporting the supreme council of armed forces that took power from mubarak last february means that the militia that has been the backbone. in egyptian politics since the fall of monarchy in the nineteen fifties means that the military will stay longer in power and this is of course something also again something people here in egypt are not happy with because they say they want to do the revolution in two thousand and eleven to get rid of the and they don't want another one which is the military dictatorship right now this is how they take the things in egypt right now so again we can extract protests and tensions between military and people on the streets to escalate. our parties where if you know your reporting for us from cairo. 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 of the country because they think the presence of monitors has reduced the crisis in some areas r.t. sara firth is following the situation from damascus. the arab league ministers 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. syria's government now 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 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 it couldn't question really just how independently they were able to operate in the country all of the sizes the closer people were speaking to he said he didn't really seem to be taking in account of everything that was being said and 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 so 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 well there you are. where you are. you have to put in your mind that you have to. go. that's stephanie finn an escalation of the conflict here in the country will started off as a peaceful protest if it's become increasingly to fight that if you have been known to be in areas where now the government no longer have control over again you've got all these different factions no one really knows anymore he was the voice of the people and i think that from a number of people we've been speaking to that radio is in the area of major concern. and r.t. sorry for those currently visiting various parts of the country sending updates on the latest developments by her twitter stream her most recent tweet is from the town of zabadani in the south west of the country the scene of heavy fighting she

says there is an easy ceasefire there right now with half the town under government control by an armed opposition she also says the locals are very afraid that the violence might wear off again. in the korean capital zagreb police have been clashing with protesters who attempted to pull down and flag ahead of the country's membership referendum sunday recent surveys suggest forty percent of the people are against joining the european union patrick young from investment advisory firm devi advisors says it's easy to

understand because croats can see their neighbors in the block facing hard times. the key consideration here is that when we look at the croatian 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 out of touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple they've seen neighbors they've seen similar who are emerging european countries such as themselves people like slovakia slovenia is stony up all coming into the european union they've joined the euro zone and they find it the worst choice and chalice imaginable because slovakia nurses and 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 meanwhile romania one of the news newest member states is suffering the worst protests it's seen for years the second week running of thousands protesting demanding the resignation of the government and the president romanians have been suffering under harsh austerity measures imposed in order to secure a cash injection from international creditors artie's tom barton has more. things turn nasty in the streets as book or 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 deep testers bringing up fences and now been expected to clash with the police line here they started to throw bottles and other things at the police line and they're

going to try and push east 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. you earlier in the day thousands that poured into the remaining capital to demand the resignation of the malian president try and assess 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. not going to some 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. all the 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 to steal start my gay people for perth so we go to italy spain and germany to start to steal what fork we want john but we can see some if you look over the. i know some of the misnomer but it being true. just in stages the police are trying to move forward include a square with a meeting with a lot of resistance from the protests to see. as the crowd was broken up it revealed those affected by two guys. and the struggle of those seized the 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 that long and hard for tom but. whether in a max kaiser and stacy herbert compare the economic crisis to the recent costa concordia cruise disaster focusing on captains abandoning financial ships for program coming up at seven thirty g.m.t. here's a preview. so the 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 is is the market did it this guy saying he tripped into the life book and sell the way and lloyd blankfein and jamie diamond are saying well the market accidentally made me

a billionaire i don't know how. u.s. congress has yielded to massive online pressure and temporarily show two controversial anti-piracy bills this follows some of the largest ever hacker attacks on america's top government and entertainment industry websites and a mass internet blackout in protest of the bill's supporters of the legislation claim it will help protect copyrights online but internet giants like google and wikipedia say it will stop the free flow of information lawmakers have stressed that although it's too late the initiative could be revived trevor timlin the electronic frontier foundation says the laws are not just painted fighting privacy . 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 a 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 allow be allowed to cut off payment process or an advertiser from these sites just basically an allegation in and out of post court order and then again there was going to be broad immunity for internet 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 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 something everybody agrees with but the way they went about it was just completely. expansive and quite frankly ridiculous. stay with us here on r.t. is still to come this hour billions worth of products are going to waste in the u.s. this is

a. sort of the spoiled rich kid as it were we look at tons of still edible food filling bins but not stomachs in a nation where there are millions who still have to get by on food stamps. and taming the elements in the next winter olympics host city we need the people on daily patrol to find out pavel answers and ensure safety procedures. but first russia's announced plans to build manned space research colonies on the moon the country space agency is viewing partnership with nasa and other counterparts in the e.u. to put men back on the lunar surface permanently artie's peter over explains how scientists hope exploring the moon will help us better understand the nature of life back on earth. 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 to cause the the gravity of the moon much less than there is and get see the effect that 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 there i say that hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up a permanent home on the moon. well so far moon bases remain in the realm of science fiction but first some people there are ready to believe anything especially if you throw a long considered threat into the mix artie's laurie harshness went out to the streets of new york to prove it.

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 cast out. we cannot 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 that 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 calm people that to get into 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 where they were even if they did personally up there you wouldn't know anyway so. we don't always overstress. yeah but do you think common sense takes over a little bit oh ok we don't know that space but our moon think we would know.

tonight 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. in a country with an expanding waistline there are still millions in the us who go hungry but with tons of food going to waste each day some say the solution could be sitting on the sidewalk artie's marina porter 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 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 isn't liquid g.-o. and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he wrote much as 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 eat 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 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 on line at soup kitchens and ultimately searching through trash eating meat baby shower 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 excess and so waste is. really

necessarily a byproduct of excess and it's a bad habit of sort of a 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 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 writing because my expenses are first thing that goes food so the question is why pay for that which you can get for free marina

r.t. new york. as for inedible waste it can also be put to good use even in the art world you can head over to our web site to meet a russian artist who turns old industrial scrap into modern masterpieces. plus one of the world's most valuable books so rare first edition of a nineteenth century masterpiece depicting a life size north american species of birds went under the hammer for almost eight million dollars. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe beginning where the parliament approved immunity from prosecution for president ali abdullah saleh due to leave for the us to seek medical treatment he's been accused of suppressing

protests and killing the yemeni people but those working under the president could still face legal action so i will formally hand over power next month after thirty three years as the ruler and is expected to return to oman after his stay in the u.s. . divers have blasted more holes in the stricken cruise liner coaster concordia as they continue searching for survivors after a twelve victim was recovered 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 and hundreds of tons of diesel oil on board twenty people remain missing after the ship ran aground off the italian coast a week ago. i have the snow is always good news for skiers and snowboarders snowboarders but it could also spell danger for thrill seekers dennis blotchy spoke with those fighting avalanches in the host city of the next winter olympics sochi. avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their side. their mission to

keep the mountain peaks clear and say 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 local avalon chanters. 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 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. 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 there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to

slide for real prudes the clues are easy to discover if you know if like i was about 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 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. give up. calling dispatch over. there are no threats were given permission to lead the terrorists and started the cable cars. in february and march this resort will cost international ski competitions bringing new challenges for the avalanche team and 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 is below r t sochi.

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eight thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines islamist when an overwhelming majority in egypt's first parliamentary election since hosni mubarak was deposed a year ago the muslim brotherhood took almost half the seats in the lower house that will hold its first session in two days. if you from the arab league mission in syria pop between those saying the observers present reduced violence and others criticizing the group for a lack of progress their members meeting in cairo to discuss whether to extend the models were.