assessed the situation at another site which saw some of the fiercest battles between security forces and armed opposition groups. well the arab league 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 then 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 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 seen 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 especially it's an area being a divided one side you've got the government itself. the arab league observers have

been meeting some of the government officials here. to try and establish exactly what it is that's been happening in the city where the children have been showing us the bullet casings that they found around the area at all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting this being getting on. to what it is that it was extremely concerning the people who are still living her to extremely dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly is in charge she's being killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and the shimon cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution and the might it. not be done here and. now the opposition syrian national council says it plans to

press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country ripped apart by on rast the council believes are oblique observers have been useless at ending the crisis and insists the foreign involvement is the only way out is on his maria financial reports there are doubts about the opposition leader's true motives. holly told jeff from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring 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 exile but hama continued the asson sea has been recognized as the country's legitimate government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some easy 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 brokering 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 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 cooperating with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance to the cowsills to seize humanitarian corridors and buffer zones and options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this isn't a top istanbul paris operation where the syrian national council speak duets vesa that jed i 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 linked to

label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after his sooner or later it will force president assad out while his attorneys 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 that reef notion asti turkey. and out of libya where the ruling national transitional council has seen public fury in the city of benghazi at the epicenter of last year's revolution against colonel gadhafi crowds storming the council's headquarters angry at the slow pace of democratic change protesters threw stones and metal bars at the building in the first act of violence against libya's interim leaders demonstrators are in rallying for weeks in benghazi they accuse the leadership of lacking transparency and want to know how libya's assets are being used radio host and author stephen leatherman believes protests will continue against the government the crowd see as puppets of the west. i think

the government is taking orders from the government in washington and that's the way it's been all well and very good at war the real one will be seeing in washington using their proxies sitting in the big guys secretly where. it was all more rebel fighters take the plane you know privately they were treated properly you will wait shouldn't while i was withdraw but they were the people who were promised it would stay here and these people get any no say whatsoever everything is in secret you m.t.c. go a bit let's face it is so obvious western illinois is serving western interests absolutely every no interest in ordinary libyans the tribes of libya a united in a resistance against nato in the m.t.c. government they want the country i expect retracted violence

a degree anything could happen. here with r.t. hand still ahead for you in the program yet another country trying to rise from revolution in egypt prepares for democracy activists continue to call for more nationwide protests. and with less than fifty days or so ago we take a look at the current political climate here in russia just ahead of the presidential elections in march. now ten minutes past the hour here reaches boiling point in romania which soars worst of violence in years as anti austerity protesters clashed with police for the second week running people have been demanding that the president and the government step down that's against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax increases in the e.u.'s second poorest country struggling to meet the demands of his international creditors his artie's tom

barton in bucharest. night and day they come to scream that defiance by single stare at sea and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. 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's forced to pay for a 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. or is not just here for herself her son left her name yes but it's illegal to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president try and. protest as accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. he wants to descend down down with

disaster and parents left us with a heritage and we're leaving our children just didn't. 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 their remain in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for their 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 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 every day discourage inefficient government stays in power is a dane lost for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we can honest 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. of the shadows here to know what is the foundation of the well don't like ours we have them there was tara to watch it on the theory of the president a little about the magic here and you can see why remain you want to tear it all down and start again yet in boston i look around for many of. you watching r.t. live from moscow it is decision day in croatia are there for people who are now

were voting on a new accession of the outcome is hard to predict as recent surveys show the issue has split the. right down the middle on saturday police clashed with protesters attempting to pull down an e.u. flag just ahead of the referendum if the result is a yes vote croatia will join the block by july next year but only if its membership is approved by all twenty seven states investment advisor patrick young says it is easy to understand those opposing the move because croats can see how their euro neighbors are facing have been facing excuse me some recent tough times. with 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 groundswell of support at something like forty percent easing credible it demonstrates the fact that the political

classes are completely and utterly touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple big scene near big scene similar who are emerging european countries such as themselves people like slovakia slovenia is still near all coming into the europe european union they join the euro zone and they find it the worst choice and chalice imaginable because slovakia nurses and engineers i know are 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 belike so they see neighboring countries such as hungary i mean the government of hungry for the past two weeks has been vilified by the european union i'm not going to get into the argument to find whether or not the prime minister is right or wrong there but certainly people get very very and feel very very uneasy about things that are being said. patrick young i was talking there about e.u. pressure on hungary and on saturday crowds of more than one hundred thousand

protesters took to the streets of the capital budapest they were supporting their government which recently came under fire from the e.u. for passing what brussels considered to be anti democratic laws it also stalled or bail out the talks with the i.m.f. prompting threats of court action this week to hungary and prime minister back down in the well saying the legislation will be changed. but artist tom barton is in the region he's following the developments for us here at the check out our twitter feed as well but also is a personal one is the latest on. the e.u. as well as croatia as a referendum those latest updates online for you right now. europe and the u.s. have expressed their willingness to return to talks over iran over its controversial nuclear program but it's why the e.u. was seemingly still set to approve an embargo want to iranian oil france even says

the time to avoid military intervention is fast running out of the u.s. this week it strengthened its presence in the region by sending a second aircraft carrier to the arabian sea it's reportedly planning to sail through the strait of hormuz which iran has threatened to block in response to. the strait is a strategic waterway which the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west pass through brian becker from the war coalition says washington is deliberately escalating the 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 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 iran i refused to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty does not allow. specters 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 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 iran was the main issue discussed by the american and israeli military when they met on friday the two allies are at odds over the need for a preemptive strike against iranian nuclear sites with washington not so rushed into an attack and reports many in israel are still expecting a war at any moment with indications that covertly 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 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 iranians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility of a foreign attack on iran 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 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 war 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 waste 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 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 grown man asian but. iran

has many. times it's not beyond imagination adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct the biggest joint military drill before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel and 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. and relations between london and tehran took another hit this week iran set a decision to kick its english language news channel press t.v. off british airwaves was quote a clear example of censorship the official reason cited for invoking the channel's license are a breach of broadcasting rules over editorial control and failure to pay

a fine imposed last year when press t.v. says it's being silenced first dissenting views and believes it's being targeted towards highly critical coverage of issues ranging from the costs of the british royal wedding to the last years in london riots fuel race based author and media analyst a police press t.v. is yet another victim of the ongoing campaign against iran. if this had been separated from geopolitics then you know what this would not have happened 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 israeli 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 me in the british media and i think that's a tragedy and certainly a tragedy at a time when british relations are at their lowest ebb for a long long period. you're watching our scene live from moscow it's good to have your company today just ahead for you next hour britain gets caught red handed find out how moscow on uncovered the secret of the spying stone forcing u.k. officials to come clean. the u.s. congress recalled to controversial anti piracy bills this week after a massive internet blackout and the hacker attacks on government websites millions of net users on the web giant such as wiki pedia join together to stand against the proposed legislation dubbed stop and pipa if passed the laws would have allowed top

media conglomerates banning copyright holders to shut down large portions of the web at the same time the anonymous hacker group was retaliating against the shut down of file sharing site mega upload the claim to have brought down the websites of the f.b.i. and the white house barrett brown who worked with anonymous on various operations believes the mega upload shutdown shows the government will act even without these laws in place. the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments. is such that given the power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by them so. that means giving them power. things so and the way that you know this is right on mega upload causing this opening that showed that even without the already in place here they are already arresting and arresting the owner megaupload and shutting it down and in the future very near future. there will be

a number of other groups that will pop up using more more military not the. situation gets worse in the grass and filth that's going to be notable the war in the us. a million people visit our web site r.t. dot com for more on the sofa and pippa join the masses let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills and take a look at what else is available while you're there. talk. egyptian activists have been urging nationwide street protests saying the revolution is not over the country is a long way from becoming democratic they want the downfall of egypt's supreme council of the armed forces and the handover of power to the newly elected parliament saturday's election results from the first post mubarak parliamentary vote saw islamist parties capture an overwhelming majority of seventy five percent and u.s. embassy is to just sit for the first time on monday yoko flap in the report a jerusalem post says the new egypt will be a much tougher

a 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 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 going to be a much more religious conservative place and much more hostile to the west you're watching r.t. live from moscow this week russia has seen a build up of political debate ahead of the march presidential election rival camps and candidates are all lining up with vladimir putin setting out his vision for the

country and some members of the public increasing their efforts to ensure a transparent ballot sees a renewed lucia has more. with just under fifty days before the march presidential election and major campaign was still simmering in the candidate's headquarters mr putin decided to unleash his powers of persuasion on the electorate and nonpublic speaker 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 its new economy built. the gravitation away for dependence well like spending 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 denied the possibility of establishing such and they just become friends his ravenous 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 where should the new public mood has blossomed people are showing a desire to make an educated vote to know where their votes are going on the understanding that the country needs competitive politics those behind in their group are quick to point out they're not going to turn into a political party but do hope to become a major support group for anyone wanting to make a difference with their vote i didn't have the political 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 what computing found himself too in

the crowd criticizing 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 if you could answer those words since you don't demand when you come to me with liquid crap from dawn till dusk the government the opposition and the electorate 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 so if their house down which some fail lasted for years the political life in russia and roaring in wealth go in dollars go artspeak. and i'll be back with a recap of the headlines in just a few moments see assuring.

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