open democratic society not just one of these of course is expected to fact tourists which is a very important part of it gyptian economy because tourists don't want to go to the country where they are forced to cover their faces and hands of course since moved in brotherhood just supporting the supreme council of armed forces that took power from mubarak last february the militia that has been the backbone. gyptian politics since the fall of monarchy in the nineteen fifties means that the minute you 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 key to shape and they don't want another one which is a miniature dictatorship right now this is how they take the things in egypt right now so again we can expect protests and tensions between ministry and people on the

streets to escalate. a reporter for the jerusalem post who's written extensively on the muslim brotherhood says islam is coming to power in egypt is actually the kind of democracy that was envisioned during last year's revolution. people have called for democracy in egypt this is the result when people call for democracy may not always realize that the electorate has a very different vision of how they would like their society is run than in other places such as western europe we have islamist hard line parties coming to power and it's going to be an earthquake for both egypt and for the region the muslim brotherhood has been preparing for this moment for decades they have a very detailed agenda for how they wish egypt to look like and it's a very different egypt from what we've known until now it's going to be a much more religious conservative place and much more hostile to the west. meanwhile across the border in libya crowds have vented their fury at the pace of

democratic change there around two hundred protesters stormed the grounds of the transitional government's headquarters in the city of benghazi demonstrators use hand grenades to walk to. the headquarters demanding a meeting with the interim leaders there were protests police invent the revolution toppled colonel gadhafi regime started last february activists say they want transparency and justice from the new leaders as well as a review of the new election laws they say were drafted without consulting the public. stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour a man who's not just stepping on the moon he could stay there find out what his latest plans but the great beyond. does the media have a responsibility to guide them down the better path let me should have their mind of the room we explore how ready people are to believe made up stories when you throw in a much higher threat but what does that mean verite set out on the streets of new york. but first the arab league is deciding their next steps to take 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 r.t. sorry for has more from damascus. the arab league ministers it going to be meeting to present their findings so what's been happening. and discussed what that makes me will be now the arab league mission with in the country to even see the implementation of the arab peace plan by syria's government among other things that included so many think that it's good business and the with the government treats and tanks and some of the towns and fifty how successful the sadly. it's to face it will be from the arab league mission in the final days here in the country not all questions re. as to the neutrality and the credibility of the mission

certainly seeing the way that they operated it couldn't the question really just how independently they were able to operate in the country on other sites as the force of the t.v. set. didn't really seem to be taking a i can't have everything that was being said obviously couldn't have cared from every single person he wanted to see in another question that's raised about its 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 i can 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 advisers to the government and indeed the previous government here in syria we can listen to his opinion on the situation. the situation. we.

know we can experience if you are syrian and you like syria. where you are. you have to put in your mind that you have to are. working with. the certainly seen an escalation of the conflict here in the country will start it off as a peaceful protest if it become increasingly on the fight from there 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 really is an area of major concern. so artie's sorrow for reporting and she's on top of the stories going on in syria visiting different parts of the country and sending her latest updates where the story of her most recently from the town of the savage daddy in the southwest of

the country she says is the scene of heavy fighting and now there's an amazing ceasefire going on the town under a government controlled by the opposition and she also says locals are very worried that the violence could play or up again. it's. the. police in the current capitals zagreb out of class with protesters who attempted to pull down any new flag ahead of the country's membership referendum sunday recent surveys suggest forty per cent of the population are against joining the e.u. patrick young an investment advisory advisor from the firm devi advisor says it's

easy to understand because croats can see their neighbors in the block facing hard times. but key consideration here is that when we look at the croatian referendum there's been barely one and key in the entire parliament actually turning round to the 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 incredible 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 seeing neighbors speak seeing similar who are emerging european countries such as themselves people like slovakia slovenia is stony up all coming into the europe european union. they joined the euro zone and they find it the worst poison 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 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. romania which is one of the newest members of suffering its worst protests in one year for the second week running phallus of people are demanding the resignation of the government and president romanians have been suffering under harsh austerity measures imposed in order to secure a cash injection from international creditors artie's tabart reports from the girth . things turned nasty in the streets is because rest. protesters have been peaceful for the past few days but now with the demonstrations turned five. fighting as proof going out between

police and protesters just behind me you can see deep testers bringing up fences they're now going to expect it to clash we define leigh's line. they started to through portals and other things that the police line and they're going to try and push c.-span cease into the police line now. this is the violence everyone hoped that they could avoid today but they seemed that it has broken out after all as a fence being thrown. you earlier in the day sounds that poured into the remaining capital to demand the resignation of the main president try and assess opposition politicians address the crowd all that didn't just come from all over the country it means that this right has begun and it must not stop until we reach what we want but we need. not mention people are upset because they've lost their job so this because the

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 excuse and leave. but later on the mood became more militant. even to the fact she was older posts old. schoolchildren the country have to walk five kilometers through the snow to school that the youth nowadays what choice do we have to go out and start to steal start migrating people for perth so we'll go to italy spain and germany to start to steal what fork we want jobs but we can see some if you look over the line now some of the missiles but it being thrown. just in stages the police are trying to move forward and cleared a square with a meeting with a lot of resistance from the first test to see you. guys.

as the crowd was broken up it revealed those affected by take us. on 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 fought to bottom out. later today max keiser and stacy herbert compared the economic crisis to the recent kosta couldn't corti a cruise disaster focusing on captains abandoning financial ships for program coming up in the next hour here's a preview. so this should tino he's brought to shore he's now everybody knows he's abandoned ship his excuse coast to concur 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 diamond gave to congress i tripped and fell

into tarp that well the reality would be the one that they are as is is the market did it this guy saying he tripped into the lifeboat and sell the way lloyd blankfein and jamie diamond are saying well the market accidentally made me a billionaire i don't know if that upper. russia has announced plans to build manned research colonies on the moon the country's space agency is viewing a partnership with nasa and e.u. counterparts to put men back on the lunar surface permanently or to peter all for explains how scientists hope exploring the moon will help us better understand the nature of life back on earth. ross 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 could also be a very good place to build spacecraft to cause 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. well while moon bases are so far science fiction some people seem ready to believe anything especially if you toss a long thread into the mix. check it out on the streets of new york.

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. 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 is the threat specifically. our safety. we cannot. do you agree with his program. 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. things i'd 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 the radio internet so it's if you know even if you're a. disease you know you find so many interpretations so which one is the right. 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 inclination to get into it if you ever tried to have a meaningful discussion with someone about politics i try. every day it's pretty pretty bad to be ever going to know where they were even if they did you wouldn't know. we don't know. yet but do you think common sense takes over a little bit ok we don't know because that space but our moon think we would know.

so 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 right on the sidewalk or teens were important. 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 is a geo and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he wrote through garbage bags on the streets of new york city here's another truth were tons of edible food is thrown out the each night i've never found that's not the size of the pizza here is the reason reason bagel the twenty seven year old musician makes his way from the bakery to the telly 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 falls. and some of the 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 should be wasted 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 or my 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 it was why did 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 food so the question is. why pay for that which you can get for free marina point i am

artsy new york. take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe starting in nigeria where the death toll after a series of coordinated gun strikes has climbed to more than one hundred fifty people the radical islamic sect boko haram claims responsibility for targeting different locations including police stations and the regional police headquarters the group which is behind a string of bombings in the region recently claims the attacks are in response to authorities refusal to release their members from jail. nearly two dozen occupy protesters were arrested in san francisco after demonstrations turned violent several were arrested after refusing to break their human chain blocking headquarters blocking the headquarters to the world's wells fargo bank some demonstrators and furniture off a hotel rooftop organizer said the protests coincided with the u.s. supreme court's decision two years ago to remove limits on how much money corporations could donate to political campaigns. the yemeni parliament's approved

immunity from prosecution for president ali abdullah saleh is due to leave for the u.s. to seek medical treatment he's been accused of suppressing protests and killing yemeni people but those working under the president could still face legal action solly will formally relinquish power next month after thirty three years in control and is expected to return to oman after his stay in the u.s. . heavy snow is always a good news for skiers and snowboarders but it could spell danger for thrill seekers dennis polaski talk with some of those fighting avalanches in the host city of the next winter olympics sochi. avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons in their song and. their mission to keep to be clear and see. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend. magnificent but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prized it's

a little. 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 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 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 back of a lot of thirty by thirty centimeter color 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. they're not. given permission to lead the terrorists 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 games when the venue faces. learning to tame the white beast will be more important than ever. are. plenty more stories a click away. here's what's on a website for you right now. see how waste is being put to good use in. a modern masterpiece. and one of the world's most valuable first edition of

a nineteenth century masterpiece depicting a life size of north american goes on. for almost a million dollars. be back with a recap of the headlines in a couple of minutes stay with us here on r.t. .

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twelve thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines when an overwhelming majority in egypt's first parliamentary election since hosni mubarak was deposed a year ago the muslim brotherhood claims almost half the seats of the lower house that will hold its first session in two days. if you leave mission in syria top between those saying the observers present reduced violence others criticizing the group for a lack of progress members now meeting in cairo to discuss whether to extend the monitors were in syria and. police clashed with protesters in croatia's capital

where hundreds take part in a rally against us head of sunday's membership referendum recent surveys suggest. forty percent of the population are against or you know. within the e.u. itself more anger protests in romania the bloc second poorest country leading to the nation's worst violence and more than a decade thousands have been out in the streets demanding the resignation of the government and president for more than a week. up next moscow out stay with us here on r.t. .