fourteen have reportedly been killed in a roadside bomb attack on of carrying prisoners in the northwest of the country. joined the observers as they visited a town near the syrian capital damascus now controlled by opposition forces. with the arab league observe a delegation is in cairo at the moment presenting findings that despite the arab league mission mandate 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 i spoke to earlier off 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 the free syrian army take control of and in the last few days a temporary ceasefire 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 the to try and establish exactly what it is that's 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 this be getting are very very dramatic. very nice was extremely concerning the people who were still living her to extremely dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly is in charge he's been killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous indeed this is the remains of one of the houses that civilians say thank targeted by security forces people careless pieces haven't done a chance saying a cooling. the scene in cost of the something has been devastating like that sense

of everyone right now find a resolution to this if. that is done. and opposition activists from syria's national council have formally os the arab league to refer the crisis to the u n but beirut based political science professor eugene dub boost believes the regime is strong enough to withstand the opposition's attempts to stop it is the post a lot of the other arab regimes which were caught off guard by the arab spring syria has been preparing for this for decades they knew when they came to power that they were minority government and they knew they had to expect this sooner or later i would say that she. is nor surprise that it took so long for this rebellion to take place so they're very well prepared their power structures are intact it's crumbling on the edges slightly but i would say from

a pure power perspective syria's regime is not threatened but both sides would recognize each other i.e. the best government recognize the opposition and the west recognize that the bath regime is here to stay at least for the foreseeable future i think we have a chance at some serious negotiations. you without your life from moscow are coming up just a little bit later in the program here when the rose tinted glasses of revolution give way to a crystal clear view of reality egypt gets a new political base with islamic parties dominating the recently elected parliament sparking concerns of the country will now become a diplomatic headache for the west. you can also check out our website r t v dot com for more first hand reports from countries where arab spring euphoria quickly gave way to disillusionment and outright pessimism.

it's good to have you with us today this week saw more clouds gathering over the standoff surrounding iran u.s. and israeli officials held closed talks on friday regarding the tense situation ongoing in the potion 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 him go iranian oil as quickly as possible all of this over to ron's alleged nuclear weapons program meanwhile iran has been threatening to block a key trade route out of the potion gulf if sanctions are imposed on its own exports the u.s. has been amassing forces in the region as of late with thousands of troops sent to

israel for war games and to watch it strike groups arriving in the arabian sea brian becker from the anti war coalition says washington has escalated the situation to create a pretext change in iran. the united states government has. aided in artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the i.a.e.a. 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 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 and and with regional tensions simmering people are on edge not only in iran but also in israel and saudis paula silly reports many there are expecting a ward any moment some experts say warfare is already well 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 the 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 be rainy and 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 actions or 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 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 and last sabotaging the iranian nuclear project 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 many enemies and. is as good as mine and 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. it's the most blatant find that in attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and

say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves policy r t jerusalem. and if sanctions sabotage and military buildup weren't enough near its borders yet another front has opened up for the embattled islamic republic tehran's english language news channel gets the boot from british airways patience with its alternative stance runs those details coming your way in just a few minutes here on our team. this week romania has had some of its biggest protests in years outraged with pay cuts and corruption people gathered in the streets of book arrest to call on the country's president to step down along friday hundreds were arrested dozens injured as police used tear gas to disperse the crowds from book arrest artie's reports. night and day they come to scream that defiance by saying austerity and the feeling the government

isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. with our youth has no future they have no jobs. motive 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. is not just here for herself her son left for may yet but it's a need to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president trying. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to take percent screwed down down with disaster 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 and 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 play for those who had profited the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worse. 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 every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or judy is to shorten the period as much as we can honest 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 the. way the foundation of the well don't like it was presented. there was tara to the russian understanding of the president a little about the magic here and you can see why when many of us want to tear it all down. and start again from boston. and there were similar scenes of violence in croatia as you're prepared to vote in a referendum people there are right now at the polls or voting on whether the

country should join the european union and the earlier survey suggested over forty percent of the population are against the move on saturday police clashed with protesters in the country's capital at least three were aggressive also reports of injuries taking place scuffles started when demonstrators tried to remove an e.u. flag from the center of the city. well it is time boston is in croatia now following the referendum and gauging the public mood you can check out our teams at twitter feed or as well as is a personal one does have some rather skeptical comments about membership coming from people in the street while politicians say the population just isn't informed enough about the opportunities that union offers get those latest updates on. from an organized internet wide a blackout to some of the biggest hacker attacks on top media and u.s. government websites this week's or an unprecedented internet revolt over

a new web censorship legislation the anonymous hacker group was retaliating against the f.b.i. shut down a file sharing website mega upload and brought down the websites of the department of justice and universal music thousands of web sites clued in with a p.d.f. joined together to stand against the proposed legislation dubbed software and the people the laws of passed would allow top media conglomerates copyright holders to shut down the whole swaths of the web pulitzer prize winning political cartoonist a mark fiore believes it's all part of a show put on by an ineffective 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 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 had washington reeling all read up on the anonymous to first a group that's plenty more details on all of that website gone cold.

and as web users across the world rally to the cause of freedom of speech they may now have an unlikely ally iran's english language news channel press t.v. has been kicked off british airwaves in an episode it's called quote a clear example of censorship the official reasons given are a number of broken agreements and an unpaid fine but press t.v. says it's being silenced for its dissenting views it believes it's being targeted for its highly critical coverage of issues ranging from the costs of the british wedding to last year's london riots filreis say u.k. based author and media analyst believes press t.v. is yet another victim of the ongoing campaign against iran. if this had been separated from geopolitics then no 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 geo political terms and 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. ad 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 pro is really groups repeatedly complain about it and 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 me in the british media and i think that's a tragedy and certainly a tragedy at a time when british arraying in relations are at their lowest ebb for a long long period. this is our crowds have stormed the headquarters of libya's a ruling national transitional council and the revolutionary hub of benghazi they were protesting the slow pace on the direction of the reforms by the brand new war thora to use the demonstrators through start. building breaking windows damaging

the car as well of empty seats chairman abdul jalil gunmen vented anger at the level of conversation they're perceived from the interim leaders for injuries sustained in their efforts to oust moammar gadhafi western companies meanwhile have flooded libya bombarding the state with offers to rebuild the infrastructure the government's help to destroy party talks on a boyfriend. 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 become trees the poor the oil into the fire and now mining to gas sheen undoing the damage the believe that russia benefited more than all others from trading with that opposition is very widespread here and simply it's simply not true in two thousand and ten moscow was number seventeen on the least of libya's main trading partners accounting for just zero point four percent of its

international trade the countries that had the largest trading volumes get off and leave me the one that spearheaded the campaign against the european union the united states and turkey and they're all on our jostling for contracts to rebuild believe some of them helped to destroy your. everything good good good. american business style is still a bit of an oddity here but it's already catching our construction firm on our richard peters arrived in tripoli just before their prizing to seal a multi-million dollar contract with 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 don't have a choice here if you don't work for him what do you do try. to reach companies also involved in rebuilding iraq and afghanistan after the u.s.

led invasion and 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 centers 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 good at 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 someone that's

confesses to. the business. that's the only ones who are so far slow wonder it claiming their business interest in libya or russia and china both countries boucle 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 back x. purpose of war and that the waiting game may not be the best strategy yet. we're going to lose like we lost iraq syria and yemen will follow the sea they can drive russian others out of the market and then take advantage we have to worry. here we will take measures we're going to enter those markets but the ones losing the most i believe. in two thousand and ten day economy grew by about ten percent reaching abbey thing like that growth now seems as heavy

a load as building the country from scratch subway car to see ship. check out some of the international news for you in brief this hour of the total number of people now killed in bomb attacks in northern nigeria as over one hundred sixty hospitals were operating close to capacity over the weekend authorities have lifted the daytime curfew imposed in kano city the scene of the bombing but most people remain home fearing further attacks by juries in northern states have been rocked by a wave of violence since christmas. egyptian activists have been calling for a nationwide street protests saying the revolution is not over the country has a long way to democratic rule this comes after islamist parties captured an overwhelming majority of seventy five percent as they won the country's first post mubarak parliamentary elections the new assembly is due to sit for the first time in just two days in a reporter at the jerusalem post says the new egypt will be

a much tougher political partner for the west. 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 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 this is r.t. they had us buying to rights that was the reaction of a top former british official as he admitted that moscow quote the u.k. red handed spying on russia has come six years after the kremlin first presented

the allegations of how a fake rock was being used for espionage. bennett has the story. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but he didn't in this fake stone was a high take transmissive british speaks used to spy on russia the allegations from moscow have always been dismissed but sixty's on these rock solid evidence the u.k. can no longer deny tony blair's former chief of staff's 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 but. at first i had to be dealt i thought it might be a fake story or a political game but we cross checked 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 hurin it in front of the camera at caryl's hidden under a tree in the songs lying nearby the guy wanted it to look natural pretended that he needed to take a leak n.e.p. right in front of the camera before picking up the stone and leaving. 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 why admit 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. well admitting to spy scandals may be painful but there are much worse

problems in store for britain with the threat that it could actually break up altogether coming up next hour here of the battle for scotland's sovereignty find out how london has switched its p.r. machine into full throttle in an apartment of effort to suppress scotland's growing clamor for independence. and i'll be back with a recap of the week's top stories on the headlines of today in just.

for the top stories over the weekend today this is the weekly on. the arab league is the set to decide whether to give the go ahead to another month of the monitoring mission in syria all of this while the opposition wants the u.n. security council to get involved. pushed to the edge of the internet erupts in a furor over plans to expand online censorship striking back with web wide blackouts and massive hacking attacks. israel and the us talk tactics over

a possible conflict in the gulf the forces of iran support us while the e.u. prepares its oil embargo overtones alleged nuclear ambitions. and in romania public anger spills over hundreds arrested dozens of its police quell violence amid a massive ongoing antigovernment protests. when it comes to big money in america's politics lobbyists or the people who know exactly how it works and used to be one. things washington is corrupt to the call. i'm sitting down with jack abraham 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.