you've been fighting for more 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 minister that has been the backbone. egyptian 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 tater 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. in 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 they 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.

in neighboring libya around two hundred protesters stormed the building of the national transitional council's headquarters in benghazi crowds have protested over the slow pace the country was moving toward democracy protesters threw stones and metal bars the building broke windows and damage the car of the n.p.c. chairman abu julio hundreds of young men many of the world wounded in the revolution that toppled gadhafi vented anger at the low cash compensations that didn't cover their basic needs mass demonstrations have been a regime for weeks in benghazi with protesters demanding more transparency about how the n.t. you see the spending libyan assets the city was the cradle of where the revolution toppling the khadafi started last february. the arab league is deciding what to do next in syria where air for ports 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 are more from damascus. the arab league ministers are going to be meeting to

present their findings of what's been happening ok and to discuss what the next me will be about the arab league mission in the country to oversee the implementation of the. syrian government most of the things that included the release of political prisoners who withdrew the government troops and tanks from some of the towns and cities how successful this five league mission has been to play simple we actually followed the arab league mission in that 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 clued into question really just how independently they were able to operate in the country although the size of the force. didn't really seem to be taking a i can't very think they couldn't have had from every single passenger he wanted

to see in 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 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 now. the situation. taking place no 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.

working with the other side uses them to. effect change the stephanie scene an escalation of the conflict here in the country will start it off as a peaceful protest if it becomes increasingly armed in fact the very if you have nandan seargent be in areas 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 i think that from a number of people we've been speaking to that really is an area of major concern. turning back to the situation in libya now we're joined by radio host and author steven lemmon via skype to talk more about the situation there thanks for being with us so protests have been raging for weeks now why do you think the government doesn't address the concerns of the people in this case. well i think the government is taking orders from the government in washington and that's the way it's been a lot of this was a washington operation with key nato partners britain france we know who they are can turn to our other nations i mean egypt was

a blow in follow on the eastern front you were just in egypt was sending arms in egypt reports of egypt egypt commandos coming in i don't think big numbers but some time spent special forces did u.k. washington and france said send special forces they were leading all kinds of things after the fact. people call on the government to be more transparent in handling cash flowing in from abroad now italian prime minister mario monti is in libya pledging billions of dollars for reconstruction and security projects aimed at protecting the oil facilities and infrastructure there do you think the money will actually be well spent well he's pledging money for the big corporate interests me its value and he certainly isn't putting any money to the libyan people they will get entirely shut down and can i mention this i wrote a few days ago a very brief report that twelve thousand u.s. forces were presumed in all to ready to come in occupied

libya i found another report i haven't written about it at least six thousand and now and what are they doing what else you got in all facility where did you find that information. i got it from cynthia we can it all right from the congresswoman is a former congresswoman from texas just sent here she e-mailed me all right protesters are now demanding to sack they get off the air or officials do you see another conflict on the horizon there. well i think there's been a conflict go alone there were reports that i found in writing this in a washington post saying a couple of hundred former fighters former rebel fighters storm out of it in big guys eat they used hand grenades to blow up the heat protecting the problem and it blew out they they stole the problem is they complain you know paid promptly

they're not being treated properly new election laws was brought up they the people were promised they would have a state in the east that people who have had no say whatsoever everything is been secretly in the n.c.c. get a bit let's face it is a puppet western government serving westen interests absolutely having no interest in ordinary libyans are i misidentified cynthia mckinney that she's actually from georgia but libya is expected to hold elections in april two thousand and twelve do you see the islamist coming to power in libya as they have another arab states across north africa including egypt we've been reporting recently well i don't think it makes any difference because the real power will be sitting in washington using their proxies sitting in the big guys to tripoli where they haven't been and make it what it is i mean this is exactly the same thing america sets up a mirror is the challenge of all these operations america the libyan war no question

it is very apropos the head of nato was in charge of this operation of the africa command a general ham was his number two and a number three was a canadian general but america read everything they have in france to most of the late word but american drones that an awful lot of forming a lot of american body was banned the u.s. media reported virtually nothing about this american people or to. only a guy they don't know what's going on and the fighting never stopped there was an incident in the last week and two rebel fighters still on that oil platform they were angry just the way they're angry about the problem and they stoned it all platform they don't helicopters attack helicopters came by and gun them down come down on their own forces killed them in cold blood this is what they expect they enlisted these people to fight you here cheating them down oh here

angry anything can happen i expect attracted violence and one more thing i saw a reformed koran. i think it was libya as well let us try though i'm sorry this was a report in crowd are you published yesterday. i don't have been even the writer in front of me but he said the tribes of libya a united in a resistance against nato and you see m.t.c. government they want their country back again and i expect protracted violence i suspect the west the major media to ignore it but before too long it will be impossible to know what i hope russia today will come. thanks for your time author and radio host steven levitt. stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour man is

just not stepping on the moon he could stay there find out what his latest plans for the great. have it. sort of the spoiled rich kid as it we're going to look at tons of edible food still edible food filling bins but not stomachs in a nation where millions are having to get by on. first in creation's capital zagreb police have clashed with protesters attempting to pull down in the e.u. flag ahead of the country's membership referendum sunday a recent survey suggest forty percent of the population are against joining the european union patrick young from investment firm devi advisor 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 n.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 eyed 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 as stony are all coming into the europe european union they join the euro zone and they find it the worst poisoned 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 eight or nine years ago. romania which is one of the e.u.'s newest members is suffering its worst protests in years for the second week

running thousands are demanding the resignation of the government and president or manias have been suffering under harsh austerity measures imposed in order to secure a cash injection from international creditors artie's tom barton has more from bucharest. things turn nasty in the streets as book or arrest. protesters have been peaceful for the past few days but now with the demonstrations turned file. fighting as proof going out between police and protesters just behind me you can see the protest is bringing up fences and now going to expect it to clash we define lee's line. they've started to throw the ball tools and other things that the police line and they're going to try and push cspan cease into the police line now. this is a voluntary one hope 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 thousands that poured into the remaining in capital to demand the resignation of the remaining president try and assess the opposition politicians address the crowd will that change has 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 going to some people are upset because they've lost their job service because their pension was cut in others because they're being humiliated every day there's one thing that unites is all that we all want to say excuse to leave. but later on the mood became more militant i don't know if it bankrupts you know the fact she's older hospitals schoolchildren the country have to. five kilometers through the snow to school. the youth nowadays what choice do

we have to go out and start to steal start my game people for a purse so we go to italy spain and germany to start to steal what fork we want jobs 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 testers here. as the crowd was broken up and revealed those affected by take us. on the struggle of those seized. day and night protesters have been demanding big political change in romania. but if this is anything to go by the route to reform will be long and hard fought tom bottom. later this hour max keiser and

stacy herbert compared the economic crisis to the recent kosta can courtier cruise disaster focusing on captains abandoning financial ships for program coming your way in the next hour here's a preview. so this ship tino he's brought to shore he's now everybody knows he's abandoned ship his excuse kosta can cordie at captain says he tripped and fell into lifeboat and that's the reason why he abandon 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 analogy would be the one that they always 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 space agency is eyeing a partnership with nasa and new counterparts to put men back on the lunar surface permanently artie's peter all over explains how scientists hope to explore the moon will help us make better 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 nearest celeste steele neva 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 all moot now this all sounds very science fiction books 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 its. craft from could also be a very good place to build spacecraft of course the the gravity of the moon much less than there is on earth would get see the effects 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. in a country with an expanding waistline there are millions in the u.s. who still go hungry but with tons of food going to waste each day some say the solution could be sitting on the sidewalk artie's marine important 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 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. doesn't look like

geo and although is a dumpster diver instead of paying for food he wrote midges 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 never found that's not the size of the pizza here this is a raisin 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 is this food as you can see is still perfectly edible and there's no sense that it 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 eating meat a 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 food so the question is why pay for that which you can get for free marina poor nial r.t. new york. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the globe beginning in nigeria where the death toll after a series of coordinated and bomb attacks has climbed to more than one hundred fifty

the radical islamic sect boko haram claims responsibility for targeting different locations including police stations on 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 prison. nearly two dozen occupy protesters have been arrested in san francisco after demonstrations turned violent several were arrested after refusing to break their human chain blocking the headquarters to the wells fargo bank some demonstrators also threw furniture off a hotel roof organizers said the protests coincided with the supreme court's decision two years ago to remove limits on how much money corporations can donate to political campaigns. yemen's parliament has approved immunity from prosecution for president ali abdullah saleh due to leave the you 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 at the helm of his country and is expected to return to oman after his stay in the u.s. . heavy snow is always good news for skiers and snowboarders but it can spell danger for thrill seekers artie's dennis polaski spoke with those fighting avalanches in the host city of the next winter olympics sochi. so chiefs avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their side. their mission to keep the mountain be clear and say. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend skip perth full of 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 cranny of the resort they say russians love to push the boundaries and many skiers like riding off the beaten track is the team's lead expert he uses

computers and weather stations to monitor the snow fall but being the 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 if you know if the guy can have a lot of 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. skipper told calling dispatch over.

there north rats 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 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. r t sochi. back in a couple of minutes with a recap of the day's top stories stay with us here on r.t. .

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one thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines is the most when an overwhelming majority of egypt's first parliamentary election since mubarak was deposed the muslim brotherhood takes almost half the votes. to future of the arab league mission in syria caught between those same the observers presence at reduced violence and others slamming the group for a lack of progress. police clashed with protesters in croatia's capital where hundreds took part in a rally against joining the ahead of sunday's membership referendum. within the

e.u. itself. or with protests in romania the bloc second poorest country leading to the nation's worst violence in more than a decade. kaiser report coming up stay with us. hi i'm asking for this is the kaiser report sexual favors for chicken the nuggets oh my goodness i can hardly wait to get that story but first let's talk about the sinking the ship max you're not talking about the global economy or are you because that's our first headline cruise ship captain refused order to return to a ship so more information is emerging about the coast to concur and the captain's role in abandoning ship now when something first went wrong the port in italy called the ship and he said no no problem if there's.