opposition forces. with the arab league observe a delegation is in cairo at the moment presenting findings that despite 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 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 this is the area that you see in the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the past few days a temporary ceasefire because between the government forces and free syrian army sweeping into the city to see what's been happening certainly it's an area extremely divided a one side you've got the government in control on the other side the free syrian army the arab league observers have been meeting some of the government officials here in downtown me to try and establish exactly what it is has been happening in

the city where the children have been showing us some of the bullet casings that they've found around the area all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting that's being going on. in this very nice was extremely concerning the people who are still living heard extremely dangerous situations not really clear who exactly is in charge think killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous indeed this is the remains of one of the houses it's really unsafe thank you were targeted by security forces people careless she says haven't done a chanting a cooling phrase or fish even close to the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution that prison and the light is like a. me that has 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 artie's reports there are doubts over whether it's peace they are 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.n.c. was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there present them and their to national community in order to reach this syrian people's freedom although it's been run by a paris based exile 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 perspective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in the 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 haven't come and supported and sponsored from abroad i think he likes opposition forces and their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences headquarters are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria now 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 us and sees initial entirely known armed peaceful stance. the council also sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this is it would lead to istanbul patios operation were to syria that the gas was being used to activists inside jeddah and they need 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 sooner or later 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. and coming up later in the program when the rose tinted glasses of the revolution give way to a crystal clear view of reality frustrated fires from the libyan revolt turn their backs on the country's new rulers what they see as failing to implement promised changes. they can also check out our website r.t. dot com for more first hand reports from countries where arab spring a phoria quickly gave way to disillusionment and outright has missed.

this week saw more clouds gathering over the standoff surrounding iran u.s. and israeli officials held close talks on friday regarding the tail situation in the persian gulf while the exact contents were not disclosed the u.s. was expect. two have urged israel not to rush an attack on iran while washington tries to garner additional global support against iran well before that israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu urged the e.u. jim bargain to rein oil as quickly as possible over a tehran's alleged nuclear weapons program we do while 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 war ships try groups arriving in the arabian sea caleb often from the anti-war group international action center says what the u.s. really wants is to regain control over iranian well that last decades ago. the

motivation for the u.s. to continue repressing the iranian people to assassinate nuclear scientists has nothing to do with any love of democracy it has everything to do with the fact of the iranian people rose up in one nine hundred seventy nine and took control of the oil resources and they have never ever forgiven them for that and the u.s. has never wanted to tolerate the fact that the iranian people and not show oil and not and not texaco control of the oil resources in iran and any threats of wars must be strongly opposed because these kind of wars serve the ruling elite they serve the wall street bankers and they don't serve working class people or millions and millions of unemployed people in this country if they cut the military budget they could put people to work there could be jobs but there's not jobs there's war there's continued threats of war and our enemies aren't in iran they're here in the united states in the halls of power in congress and on wall street was that regional attention simmering people are in 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 rather spartan recording studio in jerusalem one israeli jew has been reaching out to people in iran for fifty two years ties between tel aviv in 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 rain ians tune in 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 along some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror and what suspicions raised 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 sabotaging the iranian nuclear program 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 grimmer 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 their biggest joint military drill before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel where you ran it's the most blatant sign that an 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 point of jerusalem. as if sanctions have a taj and a military buildup near its borders weren't enough yet another front has opened up for the embattled islamic republic to run english language news channel gets the boot from british airwaves as patients whether it's internal of stance runs then details are coming up next hour here in r.t.

. this week romania has had some of its biggest protest 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 from duke arrests artist on barton has a story. night and day they come to scream that defiance biting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. our youth has no future they have no jobs. motor 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. they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it had. 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 their anger at the president. who. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption not one steep descent down down with disaster as parents left us with a heritage and we're leaving our children with just debt an international monetary fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions the remaining 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 now

those who hadn't been guilty for this situation that they didn't even profited from it played on those who had profited by the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst feelings let's not forget that we're in the eye of a storm of an economic the european still full around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequences that inevitably affect us too it's not good enough said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better or more every day this current inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or judy is to shorten the period as much as we come on fast as we can by fair elections with many that accepting there is no escape economically politics for them offers the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets here was lisa was here to know what is at the

foundation of god he was held on like elements for saturday after there was tara to watch it on the spirit of the president a little bit about the magic here and you can see why remain you want to tear it all down ya and start again yet on boston are able to read from any of the. and coming up a little later in the program the battle for scotland sovereignty find out how london switched its p.r. machine into full throttle and an apparent effort to suppress one's growing clamor for independence. plus the upcoming presidential election in russia stirs up political life in the country and we'll look at the twists and turns of the campaign trail. from an organized internet why a blackout to some of the biggest hacker attacks on top media and u.s. government websites this week saw an unprecedented internet revolt over a new web censorship legislation millions of net users and a web giant such as we get pedia joined together to stand against the proposed

legislation dubbed sopa and people the laws of passed would allow top media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down whole swathes of the web the same time the anonymous hathor group was retaliating against the shut down of file sharing site mega upload and claimed to have brought down the websites of the f.b.i. and the white house berry brown who's worked with anonymous on various operations believes them back up low shut down shows the true extent of government power the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments. is such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power. so in the way that you know this that this raid on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without sober already in place they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and shutting it

down and the future of the very near future. there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more military not goods situation gets worse in the grass and smells of war and the notable civil war in the us the kurds. and if you want to give your opinion on the protests that have washington reeling or read up on the anonymous activist group there is plenty more on our website at r.t. tough call. the battle over scotland sovereignty is heating up in the u.k. was the scots being told they may hold an independence referendum only if one and gives its blessing comes as the british government fearful over losing north sea world reserves unleashes a barrage of rhetoric against a bit as arches laura smith reports london's desperation is playing into the hands

of scottish nationalists. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world but on whom soil the country is closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who wants scotland to go it alone nationalist party leader alex salmond's promising scots will get a say on being single but london wants to cool the shots and get it done and dusted they have been told that a very serious they don't want to talk about the substance i sometimes feel when i listen to them it's not a referendum they want it's a never end i'm question that's have the debate and let's keep our country together . but why would scotland want to separate itself from a britain that still among the world's richest economies scotland with retained its own distinct national identity and the s.n.p. feels it's almost time to take that one step further and hope for

a yes vote from the scottish people would mean scotland would gain control over its own north sea oil and gas and represented in the international stage but it doesn't want to hold a referendum until two thousand and fourteen and that delay is letting london ramp up the scare stories telling scotland it'll have to pay the price such as. the billions of pounds british taxpayers spent keeping scottish banks alive that it would have to find its own currency and lose thousands of jobs when the navy head south not that it seems to pull the scots who see their country as having been strangled for long enough i don't think it's any of his business if we present a strong enough case to be independent then i can see that he can argue against. his shocked i think a shock to you but i don't think you seventy see the flyers a small school it's of never taken kindly to hearing stern words from the mother of

all parliaments down in london but for the nationalists it's a boost to the lackluster thirty percent support for a split mr cameron feels he had to the initiative but it's completely but. he's actually been the base with three things. i think is of a. moderate budget. in the last seven days with. so you know up to now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords at stake but alex salmond is a reputation built on restoring a proud scotland for prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith at him. on a sour away report on another political scandal the u.k. got involved in this time it's an international wall. top british official comes

clean about spying on russia admitting the country used a fake rock to snoop on the kremlin that's after six years of stony silence. crowds have stormed have quarters of libya's ruling national transitional council in the revolutionary hub of benghazi they were protesting the slow pace of reform and the current direction of the new authorities the demonstrators throw stones and let all bars. the building breaking windows damaging the car of a.t.c. chairman come till giulia young men founded anger and the level of compensation they see from the interim leaders for injuries sustained in their efforts to oust market after radio host and author stephen land then believes the crowds are unhappy with a new government serving as puppets of the west. the real world will be sitting in washington using their proxies sitting in the big icy tripoli where we're going to make war is i mean there is exactly the same thing america sets up

a mirror is judge of all these operations but america it will be a war there's no question that it we're going to have the head of nato was in charge of his operation and the africa i command in general here was his number two and a number three was a canadian general but in america already rethinking the tribes of libya a united in a resistance against nato and against the 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 for too long you will be impossible to know it all this week russia has seen a build up of political debate where the country's fifth presidential election looming parties are in english to look at how rival camps and candidates are lining up ahead of the vote what lattimer put in setting out his vision for the country as he eyes a return to the top job. with just under fifty days before the march presidential

election and major campaign is still simmering in the candidate's headquarters mr putin decided to unleash his powers of persuasion on the electorate and nonpublic speak for change he's decided to be more scholarly picking up the pen for the first in a series of articles outlining his vision for the future of russia what he's calling for its new economy to be built. the gravitation away from dependence on oil i standing welcoming political dialogue and the strengthening of civil society in russia putin however said people should concentrate on just what candidates are promising to do rather than the theater of personalities we need extended dialogue about priorities about long term choices national perspective and development this article is an invitation to such dialogue it's important to say that prime minister has never deny the possibility of establishing such

a dialogue and i just recall from his readiness and this is what is making people take the initiative into their own hands this week some of the most prominent participants of december's post-election protest pulled together to form the league of constituents so they all know where children learn the new public mood has blossomed people are showing a desire to make an educated go to know where their holes are going on the understanding that the country needs competitive politics those behind the other group are quick to point out they're not going to turn into a political party but do become a major support group for anyone wanting to make a difference with their vote i didn't have the elliptical activists are nothing without this type of newly found public support there to help boost them are the key to public support is the media and that's recruiting found he fell to a record low criticising one of russia's most popular radio stations and moscow for being too protester in its coverage. the prime minister told its editor in chief.

since you don't get mad when you come to me with liquid crap from. the government. all seem to realize they have to think fast and act quickly in order to get the ball rolling with the presidential elections just around the corner. which some say lasted for years the political life in russia. r t. hundreds of occupy activists rallied in front of washington's capitol hill on tuesday voicing their anger over the overwhelming influence of corporations on u.s. lawmakers the protest was authorized to take place on the capital's west lawn but anyone who has stepped outside of that sanctioned piece of land was arrested by police the rally signified a new wave of occupy protests as it happened in the very heart of the u.s. capital and turned into a street march for the white house as the final destination it reflects nationwide anger at congress which has seen its approval rating slumped to an all time low

forty's who the latest polls next hour to talk to a man who knows all about the lobbying behind the scenes of capitol hill anyone had to serve time in jail for his involvement in it here's a preview the problems the average citizen here is not engaged politically and when there are able to bring in money and influence members of congress to vote on things that are not good for the country and not good for the general interest because somebody with a special interest is pushing on it that's where the problem starts if you're a congressman and i give you a contribution and i want something from you that contribution may not be cold abroad but it is abroad at the end of the day. and just a few minutes which ravel to siberia to learn more about the lives of the local shamans who they are and what they believe in but that after a short break and updates on the top stories of that week.

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three. three. three stooges. video for your media project a free media r t v dot com. welcome back here with our tears over the top stories of the week the arab league is set to decide whether to give the go ahead to another month of their monitoring mission in syria while the opposition wants the u.n. security council to get involved. pushed to the internet erupts in a few over plans to expand web censorship striking back with internet why blackouts and massive hacking 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. prepares its well embargo over to ron's alleged nuclear ambitions all right now we have to siberia the spiritual world to as we follow the drum bit off the shaman or especially fourth that's coming up next. the sons. of beriah a dusk by year in chino one of the most celebrated and experienced chairmans east of lake baikal begins his show manic rituals today's ritual is designed to invoke the spirits healing abilities and thank them for their powers at one point during the ritual a spirit penetrating by his body is expected to help the shaman deal with people's issues as well as heal them when a shaman becomes aware of the onset of the state trance he puts on a cap that covers his eyes the cap protects the shaman from evil spirits and safeguards the onlookers according to popular bill.