something they wanted they've been fighting for more open democratic society not just one this 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 is supporting the supreme council of armed forces that took power from mubarak last february the militia that has been the backbone. in egyptian politics since the fall of monarchy in the nineteen fifties i mean 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 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 military and people on the

streets to escalate. reporting for us there and been able to order at the drucilla post who has written extensively on the muslim brotherhood says that the new egypt will be more hostile to the west than the old regime. people have called for democracy in egypt this is the result when people call for democracy they may not always this realize that the electorate has a very different vision of how they would like their society is run and then in other places such as western europe we have islamist hardline 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 thought out 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 and at neighboring libya around two hundred protesters stormed the building of the national transitional council's headquarters in the city of benghazi crowds have protested the slow pace of the country is moving towards democracy protesters threw stones and metal bars at the building breaking windows and damaging the car of the n.p.c. chairman. hundreds of young men many of whom were wounded in the revolution that toppled gadhafi vented anger at the level of compensation that they have received from the interim government they hope they have actually helped to install the demonstrations have been raging for weeks in benghazi with protesters also demanding more transparency about how the m.t.c. is spending the libyan assets radio host and author stephen london believes the crowds are unhappy with the new government serving as the puppets of the past. a couple of hundred former fighters all more rebel fighters storm out of it in big hours each day used in grenades took

a little while he ate the problem did it blew out the base sold out when it they complained you know they probably were going to treat it properly we were like sure laws were drawn up they the people were promised they would have a say in these people that if you no say whatsoever everything has been secret you every n.c.c. government let's face it is a puppet western serving western interests have simply having no interest in ordinary libyans i expect protracted violence i expect a waste a major media yet to ignore it. still ahead for you this hour. is not just stepping on the moon he could stay there find out russia's latest plans for the great beyond. the media have a responsibility. as.

we explore how people are to believe made up stories when you throw in a much hyped threat the president is out on the new york streets for the. arab league is set to decide whether to extend its mission to syria made fixed results for the observers as both sides question their effectiveness officials from the league have indicated the mission is likely to continue as the presence of monitors has reduced the level of violence in some areas. following the situation in syria. the arab league ministers are going to be meeting to present their findings on what's been happening ok in syria and to discuss what the next me will be now the arab league mission in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace. syria's government among other things that included the release of

political prisoners the withdrawal of 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 couldn't the question really just how independently they were able to operate in the country although the size of the force of people we're speaking to you he said. didn't really seem to be taking in account a very thing that was being said they obviously couldn't have had from every single person he wanted to speak to the scene another question that's raised about the question 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 the 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 now. 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 her. who. stephanie stand in the conflict here in the country will started off as a peaceful protest that it's become increasingly. very if you have been on the budget be in areas where now the government no longer have control again you've got all these different factions no one really knows anymore who have 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. the violence in the country has reportedly continued unabated after a rally of twelve thousand anti-government protesters in the city of zabadani the west of damascus for sending updates on the latest developments via her twitter stream in her most recent post from the scene of heavy fighting sara says there is a. ceasefire in place with half of the city under government. controlled by the armed opposition and she also says that locals are very afraid that violence will erupt again. police have clashed with protesters in croatia's capital zagreb where hundreds rallied in joining the european union ahead of the country's membership referendum clashes erupted when demonstrators attempted to take down and you flag recent surveys suggest around forty percent of the population are against

joining the union patrick young from the investment consulting firm devi advisors says the anti e.u. sentiment is easy to understand as croats can see their neighbors in the block facing hard to. 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 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 that's why it's going to be a very interesting to read referendum result tomorrow. romania is witnessing its worst riots and violence in over a decade for a second week running thousands of people are on the streets demanding the resignation of the government and the president parties tom barton reports. 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 the protesters bringing up fences and now bit expected to clash with the police line

here they've started to throw bottles and other things at the police line and they're going to try and push east fancies into the police line now. this is the violence everyone hoped that they could avoid today but it seems that it has broken out after all there's a fence being thrown. at. you earlier in the day fountains 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 means that this right has begun and it must not stop until we reach what we want but we need. back 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 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 was older hospitals 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 my gay people for a person so we'll 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 you know the missoni that is being drawn. just in stages the police are trying to move forward and clear the 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 tear gas. and the struggle of those seized. day and night protesters have been demanding big

political change remain here but is this is anything to go by the route to reform it long and hard for what tom bought. and you are with r t still ahead for you this hour. hungry well why wait grab a pizza if you look at ways people in the u.s. get good food for free. russia has announced ambitious plans are to send unmanned vehicles to the moon with the eventual aim of building a permanent colony cosmos hopes to work in partnership with the u.s. and the e.u. with the permanent base offering benefits for space travel and exploration artie's peter oliver has the details. 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 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 say they're hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up a permanent home on the moon so moon bases are still a thing of the future for now but some people are ready to believe anything laurie hardest hit the streets of new york to find out if the u.s. is really going to put

a man on the moon to spy on iran. 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 is the threat specifically. our safety has that. we can talk do you agree with his program. 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 humans 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 come people that they 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 put something up there you wouldn't know anyway. we don't know if.

yeah but do you think common sense takes over a little bit oh ok we don't know because that deep space but our moon think we would know. so it seems like some people are listening to what's being said and are thinking for themselves let's just hoping catch the much more subtle inaccuracy as they're bombarded with by the media every day. in the us an increasing number of people are struggling to make ends meet supporting their own needs or for that matter the needs of an entire family is proving to be a growing challenge and as our team is more important i reports those who can't get food stamps are looking down every avenue for nourishment. 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. doesn't look like 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 the each night i'm never found that's not a slice of the pizza here this is a 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 balls. 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 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 it was why did 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 the 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. are. plenty more stories available for you on line twenty four seven is a bit of what is awaiting for website a. brush. off its u.s. tour to learn more about their triumph and. check out our part culture section. plus. an international team of scientists has suspended its study of the deadly mutation of the h five n one bird flu virus find out why on our.

now look at what else is making news around the world first we begin in nigeria where the death toll after a series of coordinated attacks has climbed to more than one hundred fifty people the radical islamist sect who has claimed 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 that the attacks are in response to authorities refusal to release their members from. nearly two dozen occupy protesters have been arrested in san francisco after demonstrations turned violent there several after refusing to break from their human chain blocking the headquarters to. some demonstrators also threw furniture off a hotel rooftop organizers said the protest coincided with the u.s.

supreme court's decision years ago to remove limits on how much money corporations could donate to political campaign. parliament has approved immunity from prosecution for president ali abdullah saleh who is due to leave for the us to seek medical treatment he is being accused of suppressing protests and killing yemeni 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 as ruler and is expected to return to oman after his stay in the u.s. . the russian city of sochi is the host city of the next winter olympics and it's making safety the main priority heavy snow is usually good news for skiers and snowboarders but can also spell danger for the thrill seekers artie's dennis blocky joined those keeping the mountain peaks clear.

avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their saw and. their mission to keep the mountain peaks clear and see. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend skip full of magnificent but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day it's a real cool avalon chanters the avalanche team surveys every new can craney of the resort they say russians love to push the boundaries and many skiers like riding off the beaten track neat is the team's lead aspirant 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. 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. well 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 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 white beast will be more important than ever. r t sochi.

and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes stay with r.t. .

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