by opposition forces. the arab league observers delegation is in car at the moment presenting their findings that the spy the arab league observers mission monday having finished you can see they continue to travel around the country to look at what's going on the us been seen as further evidence by some people that this mission is to continue possibly for another month one of the observers that i spoke to earlier of camera when i asked whether they would be staying here longer whether the mission would be extended he said it looked like it would be so certainly that seems like that could be the next step now of course they do you have to wait for that delegation in cairo to present the findings and so that next that to be decided because we've also heard that the monitors themselves have been at all save exactly how to present the situation to decide what the next that should be now today they've been here in survey done this is the area where we seen intense conflict recently now in recent days the free syrian army actually managed to gain

control over this resort town and the army withdrew their tanks slightly further why now we seeing today is very much a town divided you've got the government forces still in control of one part of the town and the free syrian army and control in another part is an easy stalemate at the moment they everyone's are very unfair to the people that it was looking like he would like to live free. in the past few months because recently that really was the. only thing having temporary thinking human cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly hide and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution the prison and the light is. really that is done. opposition activists from syria's national council have formally asked the arab league to refer the crisis to the u.n.

security council but as our national reports there are doubts over whether it's peace the hour after. howlett ho jeff from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring in an end to the violence is what the s. and c. was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there present them and their two national committee in order to reach this syrian people freedom although it's been run by paris based example that hamdani in the absence he has been recognized as the country's legitimate government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some and nato countries which has made some doubt the council's innocent intentions with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council prospective leaders was that they be given

a major seat at the table in a new libya so there is power broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in a new syrian regime libya's national transitional council and the syrian national council and it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored from abroad think he writes opposition forces and their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts cortez are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria i know we have. you know we have to be executed there howlett says he spent fifteen years in jail in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's just because his father supported the opposition he claims nothing has changed since then and the oppression has to stop but how is another matter

claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is. now copywriting with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the u.s. and sees initial entirely known peaceful stance to the cows who also sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this isn't made to it's still all patios operation where this year that the gas is being used to activists in that jeddah they made to look at that because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least lead the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after his soon only turn will force president assad out his determined to stay but the question remains exactly how long should

these people have to wait for the bloodshed to stop and how many of them will actually see the end of it. turkey. at a later in the program when the rose tinted glasses of the revolution give way to a crystal clear view of reality frustrated by the unbelieving a revolt turned their backs against the country's new role as what he saw as failing to implement promised changes. and you can also check out our website arche dot com for more first hand reports from countries where arab spring afore you quick point gave way to disillusionment and outright pessimism. now this week some more clouds gathering over the standoff the routing iran u.s.

and israeli officials held close talks on friday regarding the tan situation in the persian gulf while the exact contents were not disclosed the u.s. was expected to have urged israel not to rush an attack on iran while washington tries to garner additional global support against tehran before that israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu urged the e.u. to embargo the rating oil as quickly as possible over ten rounds alleged nuclear weapons program meanwhile iran has been threatening to block a key trade route out of the persian gulf if sanctions are imposed on its own exports the u.s. has been amassing forces in the region with thousands of troops sent to israel for war games and to battle ships tried groups arriving in their. drive that are from the anti war answer coalition says washington has escalated this situation to create a pretext for regime change in iran. the united states government has created an artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's

a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the. iran does not have a nuclear weapon iran is not threaten its neighbors iran has not started a war with any of its neighbors israel on the other hand has hundreds of nuclear weapons and unlike the run refuses to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. inspectors into its country so there's not really a nuclear menace or a nuclear danger from iran and so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of the artificial crisis the real goal is the united states government has embarked on a course of extreme economic aggression against iran with the hope that by creating economic suffering economic isolation economic misery that part of the population will rise up or become disenfranchised with the government so that the u.s. can do as it has in history carry out regime change. well the regional tensions simmering people are in an age not only in iran but also in israel as policy

reports many there are expecting a war at any moment and some experts say covert warfare is already underway. from this a lot in recording studio in jerusalem one israeli jew has been reaching out to people in iran for fifty two years ties between tel aviv and tehran off a bit in but it's never stopped menasha amir from reading the news in farsi every night and hosting a weekly show for listeners in the persian world to share their views he thinks around a million a rainy and two min and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility of a foreign attack on iran and they are very much afraid that the iranian nuclear installations will be bombed by a foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country but

it's not only the rain ians who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel since something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce action for more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror and what suspicions raced further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but if someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding last subaltern the iranian nuclear for the attack is the latest in

a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses unleashed and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very respectable nation but. iran has made moves. is as good as mine it's not beyond imagination adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct the biggest joint military drills before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel where he ran it's the most blatant sign that in attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on the run all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves. jerusalem and as if sanctions and

a military buildup near the borders weren't enough yet another front has opened up for the embattled islamic republic to run thing with language use challenge gets the boot from british airways as patients whether for their stance runs their details are coming up in just a few minutes here on our team. out to similar scenes now in romania which this week has had some of its biggest protests in years outraged with pay cuts and corruption people gathered in the streets of bucharest to call on the country's president to step down on friday hundreds were arrested and dozens injured as police used tear gas to disperse crowds. dumbarton has a story. night and day they come to scream defiance biting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. of come here for the pain of their

mean people the pain of the entire country for twenty two years old they have done is destroyed the entire country our youth has no future they have no jobs. mostly water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she is forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension. whether you're young or you're a pensioner you need a pension when you get old they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it had a water is not just here for herself her son left for may yet put it to me to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of that around the president try and. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to descend screwed down down with disaster as parents left us with

a heritage and we're losing our children just debt the problem it's the younger ones let me too to have a. good life you know mania. and we are not allowed to have peace because of stupidity of high levels of government that parliament. and international monetary fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions unlike in greece the remain in government has tried to force its financial house into water budget benefit cuts slashed pay pension freezes falling living standards but some say it's the people who are now being forced to pay for the mistakes of the few who stayed the country economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for this situation they didn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had profited the government

blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst. let's not forget that we're in the eye of a storm of an economic european storm all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequences that inevitably affect us too. not good enough said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better or more every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we can fast as we can by fair elections with many now accepting there is no escape economically politics for them offers the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. if you know the noise the foundation of the. stereo to what should. the president about to hear and you can see what made you

want to take it all down and start again yeah. we're going to do it. while plan is still ahead on the program here in our team including espionage embarrassment for the u.k. it's cobre decision comes clean about spying on russia admitting the country used a fake rock to snoop on the kremlin and that's after six years of stony silence. from an organized internet wide blackout to some of the biggest hacker attacks on tommy and us government websites this week saw an unprecedented internet revolt over a new web censorship legislation you know autumn is hacker group was retaliating against the f.b.i. shut down a file sharing website upload and brought down the websites of the department of justice and universal music thousands of websites including joined together to stand against the proposed legislation sopa and pipa the laws if passed would allow

top media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down whole swathes of the web pulitzer prize winning political cartoonist mark fury believes it's all part of a show put on line and effective government. what i see is the congress of the united states is largely a do nothing congress in the face of economic calamity and this is really been their attempts to say hey we're doing some about the economy we're going after all this on my entire thing which really you know is not as big of a problem is they're making it out to be so you know yes it's terrible but i think they would do a hell of a lot better if they went after offshoring jobs and you know things that really made a difference in the economy you know in a more large scale so i think a lot of this is grandstanding and it will continue to happen i mean there's there are going to be government attempts at blocking the internet or controlling the internet you know from now to infinity you know it's always going to be an attempt

but that's way issues like this and movements like this and you know people coming out to speak out against this are important and if you want to give your opinion on the protests that have washington reeling or read up on the and tapped it as a group there splay more on our website at our team dot com. and as a web users across the world rallied to the cause of freedom of speech they may now have an unlikely ally iran is english language news channel press t.v. has been kicked off the british airwaves and after so it's called a clear example of censorship the official reasons given are a number of broken agreements and fine the press t.v. says it's being silenced or it's standing and believes it's being targeted for its

highly critical coverage of issues ranging from the cost of the british royal wedding to last year's london riots hillbillys and u.k. based author and many analysts believes press t.v. is yet another victim going campaign against iran. if this had been separated from geopolitics you know with this would not have happened and some other kind of sanction would have been would have been made and the deal would have been struck so i think the press t.v. has been viewed through geopolitical terms so that is the breakdown of relations between britain and iran at the end of the day i think that most of the criticisms of press t.v. i've been due to its coverage because you know it sees the middle east very differently for example than the mainstream media in britain this repeatedly comes up probably is really groups repeatedly complain about it we know very well that the british government at the very highest level was discussing with the american

ambassador here how to limit press t.v.'s output in britain so now what we've got is we've got a real limiting of dialogue in the may even british media and i think that's a tragedy and certainly a tragedy at a time when british arabian relations are at their lowest ebb for a long long period. crowds have stormed a half waters of libya's ruling national transitional council in the revolutionary help of benghazi they were protesting the slow pace of the direction of the reforms by the new sorties demonstrators loose stones of metal bars of the building breaking windows and damaging the carbon to see chairman the young man found in anger at the level of compensation that we've seen from the interim leaders for injuries sustained in their efforts to oust moammar gadhafi western companies meanwhile have flooded the media bombarding the state with offers to rebuild the infrastructure their governments helped destroy our music on a boy who has more. they may have how to bring down the house.

but they were very careful not to burn bridges as libya rises from the ashes of civil war big contras the poor do well into the fire and now lining to gas sheen undoing the damage the believe that russia benefited more than all others from trading with get out his regime is very widespread here in tripoli but it's simply not true in two thousand and ten most school was number seventeen on the least of leave this maner trading partners accounting for just zero point four percent of its international trade the countries that had the largest trading volumes would get off as a precisely the one that spearheaded the campaign against him the european union the united states and turkey and they're all on their jostling for contracts to rebuild believe some of them helped to destroy your. they're doing a very good to good. american business style is still a bit of a novelty here but it's already catching up construction firm on our richard peters

arrived in tripoli just before their prizing to seal a multi-million dollar contract to get off his government the war and peter subsequent incarceration threw him off track but now he hopes to make up for it i don't condemn anybody even the people that work for him you could have a. here if you don't work for it what do you do try. to reach companies also involved in rebuilding iraq and afghanistan after the u.s. led invasion libya is familiar turf he even says the country's business potential make shamble all over other post conflict areas there's nothing they don't need here you know if you compare it to like the united states everything they need everything we have you know everything there infrastructure has to be totally redone all the all the facilities you know and some of the things we are involved you know is executive with golf courses theme parks americans are not the only ones just looking for food called turkish airlines was the first to resume commercial flights to tripoli they're now packed with businessman scouting for opportunities.

even during get out this time turkey was pretty comfortable doing business in libya and was tripoli's fourth largest trade partner lost here but many now hold for even better deals following its early recognition of the rebel authorities definitely if you have a strong relations with. its confesses they. are meant for the business. is not. the only ones who are still far slower hundred claiming their business interest in libya or russia and china both countries for vocal in their opposition to the use of force in libya a stance that has already backfired most russian companies who did business in libya prior to the war are still has it into some personnel bag x. periods of war and that the waiting game may not be the best strategy. we're going

to lose like we lost to iraq syria and yemen will follow the sea they can drive russian others out of the market and then take advantage we have to work there we will take measures we're going to enter those markets but the ones losing the most ugly. themselves in two thousand and ten their economy grew by about ten percent reaching abbey thinglike got growth now seems as heavy load as building the country from scratch subway car t. ship. they had as bang to rights that was the reaction of a top former british official as he admitted that moscow car the u.k. red handed spying on russia this comes six years after the kremlin first presented the allegations of how a fake rock was being used for espionage our desire bennett has a story it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but he didn't in this fake stone was a high tech transmits of british spooks used to spy on russia the allegations from

moscow have always been dismissed but six years on there is rock solid evidence the u.k. can no longer deny tony blair's former chief of staff come clean admitting british spies were caught red handed the spy rock was embarrassing they had us bang to rights clearly they had known about it for some time and had been saving it up for a political purpose. the embarrassing revelations confirmed the findings of a russian television report in two thousand and six it showed this video of a man slowing down and looking at the rock as he passed apparently an agent beaming top secret intelligence from a mobile computer to a digital drop point concealed in the stone another man was filmed picking up the rock and collecting the data. the moment was the one behind the exposé and left no stone unturned. at first i had to delts i thought it might be

a fake story or a political game but we cross check everything with multiple sources and it turned out to be true some footage we didn't include in the film was particularly convincing for example there was a video of a british spy unit in the front of the camera that camera was hidden under a tree in the songs lying nearby the guy wanted to look natural so we pretended that he needed to take a leak n.e.p. right in front of the camera before picking up a stone and we are covering it but it was his word against theirs britain fiercely denied the allegations with tony blair laughing them off as russian propaganda the truth was buried inside the u.k. secret service headquarters supposedly never to be seen again so after six years of dodging the bullet wide net it now they're very embarrassing but i think that the british government has decided. to have bygones are bygones and say ok we made

a mistake. up and we want better relations from now on so i would see this as a first step on the road to improve relations with russia this is the home of britain's spooks m i six the government is a broad their job may not be secret but how they do it is or at least should be so the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the fact they were caught doing it a post cold war agreement supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on either bennett r.t. london. just ahead our teams interview with a top american lobbyist as well as all the weekend sports news with kate for that bring you up to date on our top stories of the week stay with us.

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welcome back you're watching our team here is a look at the top stories of the week the arab league is set to decide whether to give the go ahead to another month of the euro monitoring mission and see. while the opposition once the un security council to get involved. pushed to the edge of the internet or robson a furor over plans to expand web censorship striking back with the internet why blackouts massive king attacks. israel and the us talk tactics over

a possible conflict in the gulf as they gather forces at iran's borders while the e.u. comparisons well in bargo over to ron's alleged nuclear ambitions. and in romania public anger spills over hundreds of rested and dozens injured as police quell violence amid a massive ongoing anti-government protest. now when it comes to big money america's politics lobbyists are the people who know exactly how worse jack adam often used to be one and he now tells us why he thinks washington is corrupt to the core. i'm sitting down with jack off once the most powerful lobbyist in washington referred to as the man who bought washington he brought government officials in order to gain political support for his clients in two thousand and six he was convicted of ripping off his clients jack abramoff served.