fourteen were killed when a police car transporting prisoners was ambushed in the northwest and also you see sarah photos being to the town of adani it's been one of the sites of some of the fiercest battles between security forces and opposition groups. but this is the area that you seen the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the last few days a temporary ceasefire between the government forces and free syrian army so we've seen inside the city to see what's been happening certainly it's an area extremely divided on one side you've got the government in control the other side the free syrian army but it's actually an actual fight very very difficult to know exactly who is in charge here the people's houses that we were showing in the city center had been absolutely devastated by the fighting the arab league observers have been meeting some of the government officials here in downtown started telling 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 found around the area at all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting that's being getting are. very similar to what it is that it was extremely concerning the people who were still living heretick stream the 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 and this even cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution that this is an end to the fight is. not really that is done. and of the opposition syrian national council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country ripped apart by an arrest the council believes that arab league observers have been useless at ending the crisis and

insists that foreign involvement is the only way out because auntie's murray financial reports there are doubts about the opposition leader's true motives. 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 essence he 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 ass and see 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 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 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 carburetor in 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. 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 is a top is the ball carriers operation where this year that gas has been used to add a vessel that generates a regular jet because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least league to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint efforts sooner or later will force president assad

out while 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 refn ocean r.t. turkey. and a news out of tripoli now where the deputy leader of libya's ruling national transitional council says he's resigning after a series of protests against the country's new rulers on saturday crowds stormed the council's headquarters in the city of benghazi angry at the slow pace of democratic change protesters threw stones and metal bars of the building and the first acts of violence against libya's brand new interim leaders demonstrators have been rallying for weeks in benghazi the epicenter of last year's revolution against colonel gadhafi they accuse the leadership of lacking transparency and want to know how libya's assets to be used radio host and author steven london 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 the libyan war the real one will be seen here in washington using their proxies sitting in. tripoli where we're going to make what is almost a rebel fighters take a plane you know paid promptly treated probably knew what should and what i would draw it out they would have people who were promised it would stay in these people that end no say whatsoever everything is been secretly in the m.t.c. government ghostface is out of it which is only serving westen interest absolutely any no interest in ordinary libyans the tribes of libya a united in a resistance against needle in a sea m.t.c. government they want the country i expect retracted violence

a degree anything could happen. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. and still ahead a few in the program another country trying to rise from a revolution egypt now faces the consequences of the democracy they fought so hard for as islamists sweep the board in recent elections. reaches a boiling point in romania which source worst violence in years or stare at the protesters clashed with police for the second week running now people have been demanding that the president and the government step down that's against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax increases and the e.u.'s second poorest country are struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors and here's a tom barton are from because rest. night and day they come to scream defiance fighting 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. 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 when they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're boring the money because they don't have it . or is not just here for herself her son left from a year to italy to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to take dissent screwed down down with disaster as our 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 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 by 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 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 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 here. out of nowhere is the foundation of the movie was held on like it was for. him there was tara to watch it on the theory of the president a little about her jihad and you can see why remain you want to tear it all down. don't start to get me yet on barton i am going to read. you how. is that decision day in croatia for people who are now voting on you accession the outcome is hard to predict as recent surveys show the issue has split the country 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 his membership is approved by all twenty seven you states investment advisor patrick young says it's easy to understand those opposing the move because croats see how their euro neighbors have been suffering. the key consideration here is that when we look at the crew ition referendum there's been barely one and p. in the entire parliament who's actually been turning round of publicly saying anything against the e.u. itself so the fact that we have this amazing grind swell of support at something like forty percent easing credible it demonstrates the fact that the political classes are completely and utterly eyed of touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple big scene near a big scene similar who are emerging european countries such as themselves people

like slovakia slovenia is stony up all coming into the europe european union they join the euro zone and they find the worst poisoned chalice imaginable because slovakia nurses and pensioners are not getting paid a third of what they would get paid if they were working in greece and to add insult to injury they're actually paying money to the greeks in order to support their euro zone belike so they see neighboring countries such as hungry 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 few very very uneasy about things that are being said. but you're young they're talking about a new pressure on hungary and on saturday crowds of more than one hundred thousand took to the streets in the capital but have passed 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 bail out

talks with the i.m.f. prompting threats of court action this week the prime minister backed down in the route saying the legislation will be changed. a lot he's told barton is in the region he's following all of the developments for us but you can check out our twitter feed as well as thomas personal one for the latest on hungary's dispute with the e.u. as well as croatia is a referendum the latest updates on line of for you right now. you're watching r.t. europe and the u.s. have expressed their willingness to return to talks with iran over its controversial nuclear program but despite that the e.u. is seemingly still set to approve an embargo on iranian oil france even says the time to avoid a military intervention is running out fast and as for 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 straight through the strait of hormuz which iran has threatened to block in

response to sanctions or the strait is a strategic waterway which the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west have to pass through brian becker from the anti 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 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. in iran was the main issue discussed by american and israeli military officials when they got together on friday the two allies are at odds over the need for a preemptive strike against iranian nuclear sites washington not to rush into an attack but as all these 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 menasha 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 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 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

a blow some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror ran but 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 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 grumbly nation but. iran has many a name is. in mind 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 for iran 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 iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves policia r.t. jerusalem. just now turning twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow still to come for you in the program here on r.t. scotland pushes ahead for its quest for independence but london of ours to make any split from the u.k. a costly move for the modern day bravehearts wanting to go it alone. the u.s. congress has recalled two controversial antique piracy bills this week after a massive internet blackout and hacker attacks on government websites millions of net users and web giants such as wicked pedia joined together to stand against the

proposed legislation dubbed supper and paper if passed the laws would have allowed top media conglomerates and 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 and claim to have brought down the websites of the f.b.i. and the white house brown who worked with anonymous on various operations believes the upload shutdown shows that 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 themselves as a means of giving them power. so in the way that you know this that the raid on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without sober already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owner upload and shutting it down

in a very near future and. there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more. military not goods and situation it's worse in the grass and smells of war and the notable civil war in the us. and of a million people visited our web site r.t. dot com for more on sopa and pipa do join the masses let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills take a look at what else is available while you're there and talk. egyptian activists have been urging nationwide street protests saying the revolution is not over and the country is on a long way and is a long way from becoming democratic they want the downfall of egypt's supremes council of the armed forces and the handover of power to the newly elected parliament saturday's election results for the first post mubarak parliamentary vote so islamist parties capture an overwhelming majority of seventy five percent

the new assembly is to just sit for the first time on monday off a lap in a reporter 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. you

with r t live from moscow the battle over scotland's possible split from great britain is dividing opinion in an increasingly united kingdom scots of being told they can hold a referendum on independence but only on the government's terms and london says a divorce would come at a price lower smith reports. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world but on home soil the country's closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who want scotland to go it alone nationalist party leader alex salmond's promising scots will get a say on being single but london wants to call the shots and get it done and dusted . very soon 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 questioning their travel 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 always 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 represent itself on 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 heads south not that it seems to bother 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 shock to. the shutter i don't think you should have an easy the fires of. scots have never taken kindly to hearings stay. and 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 best recruiting sergeant the s.n.p. i think is of a certainly since margaret thatcher. in the last seven days with over a thousand members. saying 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 the prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who

let the united kingdom come apart laura smith r.t. edinburgh. we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow more news to come your way in just about two minutes time see that.

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same old. same its technology innovation all the least of melamine spun around russia we've dumped the future. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is a lie from moscow arab league officials say their observer mission in syria that expired this week will be extended for an extra month and the number of monitors will also be increased despite criticism from the syrian opposition which wants to see the u.n. step. croatia is voting on whether the country should join the e.u. the issue or the sparking protests and bani clashes the blog continues to be shaken

by anti austerity rallies with people now in romania rising up against their government. and other stories that shape this week tensions around tyrone's a nuclear program stood further by e.u. plans to impose an embargo on iranian oil and the u.s. is building its warships presence in the region. and the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand a web of ship it all leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy in the us. now when it comes to big money in america's politics so the people who know exactly how it works john used to be one you know tells us why he thinks washington is corrupt to the core you watching.