meanwhile the opposition syrian national council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country ripped apart by unaddressed the council believes arab league observers have been useless at ending the crisis and insists that foreign involvement is the only way out but it's not he's morea for national reports so there are doubts about the opposition leader's true motives. howlett hold 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 international community in order to reach this syrian people freedom although it's been run by paris based exile 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 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 i think he likes opposition forces and their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts cortez are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria i know we have. you

know we have to be executed there hallett 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 copper age in 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 isn't a top is the all paris operation where this year that the gas has been used to at versailles jeddah they need to watch it because they don't want they want to

destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least lead to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after his sooner or later 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 it in reef notion r.t. turkey. and crocker the director of the conflicts forum in beirut and form a new middle east mediator they told me earlier here on r.t. that despite the syrian opposition is efforts by anything western and affair and so could ultimately end in disaster. opposition is is deeply divided the syrian national council which was set up to model the libyan benghazi transitional council does not reflect the pinion inside syria and it's very clear and by that i mean opposition opinion inside syria most of whom are not sanctions

to see go even though they are very much in favor of reforms and demanding reforms should take place they fear that external intervention certainly anything on the libyan model would be a disaster internally and would carry the state towards either sectarian civil war. and news out of tripoli now the deputy leader of libya's ruling national transitional council says he's resigning after a series of protests against the country's prime 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 on metal bars at the building in the first acts of violence against libya's interim leaders demonstrators have been rallying for weeks in benghazi at the center of last year's revolution against

colonel gadhafi they accuse the leadership of blocking transparency i want to know how libya's assets are being used radio host and author steven leavening believes the protests will continue against the new government but crowd would see a simply puppets of the west. i think the government is taking orders from the government watching and that's the way it's been all along and very. real seeing in washington using their proxies sitting in. tripoli we're going to make it all more rebel fighters take a plane you know privately treated probably knew what she. while i would draw it out they have people who were promised they would stay in these people that have no say whatsoever everything is been secretly in d.c. government ghostface is a puppet which. westen interest absolutely any no

interest in ordinary libyans the tribes of libya a united in a resistance against needle in the m.t.c. government they want the country i expect retracted violence avery anything can happen. or let's get back to one of our main topic stories here on the issue of the arab league observer mission to be extended for one extra month in syria to see if it can help in any way to quell the ongoing violence there the sara further is now standing by for us to give us a more details are from the street level there sara mixed reactions to the mission's president so why are they deciding now to to stay on an extra month in the country. well really at the moment this remains the only path open at the moment and so of course they're going to want to perceive this now that the decision to extend the mission came as no surprise to anybody really that was

already expected indeed while the of service delegation has been meeting in cairo here in syria the observers who are made in the country have continued their visits around now what's really crucial about the meeting today is the decision to kind of bolster this arab league observers mission now they're going to increase the number of observers on the ground and they're also going to receive training from the u.n. now that's very very important because one of the major questions has been raised at the end of this particular mandate was just how successful the mission had been in sort of advancing the situation here in the country certainly a very mixed reaction on how much they've been able to achieve and said this is where the u.n. train is going to prove very very important because some of the people we've been speaking to the people who have been protesting the people on the ground in some of the conflict areas have been saying to us you know really what they wanted with

action not people simply turning up and taking photographs they needed more to be done so certainly this sort of increase in the powers of this arab league mission going to be very very important indeed we've been following the observers for the last five days and what was very very clear was what's desperately needed in the country right now are genuine peacekeepers people who are very experienced conflict resolution because of course in syria at the moment you've got very different narratives it depends on he speaks where you go in the country is very very hard to get a grasp on exactly what is happening and so that is going to prevent equally sure that they're going to be able to get people in now to train me of service to be able to start building structures from the ground up with these people to stop promoting genuine. dialogue now between all the many different sides because of course the longer it takes to reach a political solution here in the country we seem to conflict becoming increasingly armed and these divisions just keep on widening

a. new clear really was the need to bridge these widening gaps than in the town of zabadani where you see in every conflict between the free syrian army and the government eva recent days at the moment they've managed to reach a sort of uneasy cease fire we actually visited there yesterday with the of service he remained in the country. 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 because 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 on the other side the free syrian army but it's actually an actual five 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 with the children who

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 this being a gang are very very similar to that in this that it was extremely concerning that people who were still living heard externally dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly is in charge thing killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and the seeming 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 there is an end to the might. by the. money that is done in that area. and still ahead for you in the program here in another country trying to rise from the ashes a revolution egypt now faces the consequences of the democracy had for so hard for as sweep the board in the recent elections.

reaches boiling point in romania which stores worst of on it saying yes to your sturdy protesters clashed with police for the second week running now people have been demanding that the president on government both step down against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax increases and the e.u. second poorest country struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors. reports from bucharest. night and day they come to scream their defiance biting austerity and a feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence . our youth has no future they have no jobs. murray 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. or is not just here for herself her son left romania but it's illegal to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president try and assess coup. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. we want to take dissent screwed down down with disaster 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 steered the country

to economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for the situation they didn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had profited the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's 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 jews used to shorten the period as much as we can honest fast as we can by fair elections with many of them 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 these. are not the words of the foundation of the world on like it was for. them there was terra to russia under the president live about to have it here and you can see why when many want to tear it all down. don't start to get me yet on bart and i remain yeah yeah. artie is coming to you live from moscow it is decision day in croatia for people who are now voting on e.u. accession and the outcome is hard to predict as recent surveys show the issue has split the country right down the middle on saturday police the protesters there tempting to pull down an e.u. flag just ahead of the referendum if there is old 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's

easy to understand those opposing the move because croats have been seeing their euro neighbors facing a tough present and past. the key consideration here is that when we look at the true asian 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 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 stony up all coming into the europe european union they join the euro zone and they find it the worst choice and challenge some magical because slovakia nurses 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 have been vilified by the european union i'm not going to get into the argument to find out 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 talking about e.u. pressure on hungary on saturday crowds of more than one hundred thousand took to the streets in the capital but it passed they were supporting their government which recently came under fire from the e.u. for passing what brussels considered to be anti democratic looms but also store the bailout talks with the i.m.f. prompting threats of court action this week the prime minister backed down in the road saying the legislation will be changed and artist on barton is in the region he's following all the developments for us here you can check out all of these twitter feed as well as his personal one of the latest on hungary's dispute

with the e.u. as well as croatia it's referendum the latest updates online view twenty four something. 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 military intervention is running out fast as for the u.s. this week it strengthened its presence in the region by sending a second aircraft carrier to the arabian sea is reportedly planning to stay all through the strait of hormuz which iran has threatened to block in response to sanctions the strait is a strategic waterway which the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west pass right through dallas to discuss the situation around iran and possible ways out of the crisis with the author michael winter now is joining us live from boston

i thank you for coming on the program here at all today many say the commotion surrounding iran's nuclear program is actually being hyped up here do you think you think tehran can do anything to convince the world it's not aiming to create a bomb. well i believe one one possible scenario which i'm sure there are many with the to promote it so it was. the way to grow the show isn't so random. greed a show that would rule the world that they're really not seeking nuclear weapons. around has a right to nuclear power what they're trying to do is greener power for their country so our african countries. another point is they could take away the our the mainstream media in america values in this show because the media in

america americans believe whatever comes on this all over the mainstream media tells them if iran were to take the initiative and try to create a show that is monitored by. the left. let them go everywhere let the cameras follow let a ram through to the world that they're not seeking a nuclear weapon so you say as you suggested the creation the invention of a program by iran to to allow people to have almost a one way or another to inspect for themselves to follow i.a.e.a. inspectors to various nuclear plants i'm looking at a recent article that you penned where it says that the current mainstream media mantra in the us is that iran is trying to produce a bomb that they need to be stopped of with the with the elections coming up soon in america a lot of the republican presidential candidates are get hammering this home that iran is a threat to all people security the i.a.e.a. has before has allowed many inspections to be performed they've signed no less than

three agreements to not develop nuclear weapons if indeed there was this television program put in place let's imagine your idea were actually put into fruition what extent do you think it could actually do to change the government's policies most people didn't view the libya as a threat. why agree with them. the story is changing i think this all has to do with perception you know the mainstream media in america this created the perception that iran is trying to create a bomb in which case they're going to go and blow up israel or whatever basically. and that's completely i'm saying because iran is well aware of it they're going to be nuked out of existence or someone's right to do that. or. go on and on and so i can just jump in here just for a moment as well. what would you propose to do what you propose rather would take a while to implement in the e.u.

for the meantime is that to decide on a symbolic go on iranian oil just next week tehran has been threatening to block the strait of hormuz if indeed the sanctions have put in place if the sanctions go ahead will kind of response you expect in tire on a model myself fall into the hands of israel in america perhaps to a stationing that troops along the area. i think that. ultimately in a quick answer i don't think that iran will block this for a reason i believe that is because if they do that the u.s. has made it very clear that they're not going to allow that to occur i think that iran's going to step back and they're trying to. as long as they can what i'm almost considering at the end of the ability. we go back to the phoenix conference of two thousand where the united states progress for new american century. were going on trying to they had a list of countries that they wanted to take nonna moves dollars name changes and

iran is the last one we're already got all the you know libya ways we just. go on with syria right now i don't think that iran will. will block the strait. i think hostilities are going to happen regardless of. because i believe the u.s. is just. while this child in program may be is an idea that through the world that iran is not seeking nuclear weapons yet i think the ultimate. goodness out of this with the arena or the united states will lose. its force it will lose its momentum . the rank of group the u.s. would have to step back take a look and try to come in iran a from a different angle which also just buys time around what reason i mean i see as you say in your article to the wind it needs to be taken out of the warmongering sails

of congress and the obama administration no wind and no movement of the ships of war michael went i'm afraid we have more time that's all we have today live from boston in the u.s. thank you for coming in to see thank you very much. the u.s. congress has recalled two controversial anti piracy bills this week after a massive internet blackout on hacker attacks on government websites millions of net users and web giants such as with a p.d.f. join together to stand against the proposed legislation it's dubbed stop and pick up 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 it to have brought down the websites of the f.b.i. and the white house eric brown who worked with anonymous on various operations believes the mega upload shut down 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 giving them power to do one thing use almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power many other things so and the way that you know this that this raid on mega upload cards in this opens it shows that even without soap are already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owner and shutting it down and in the future the very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more more military not goods and situation it's worse in these rascals and smells of war and the notable civil war in the us. over a million people have a now visited our website r.t. dot com for more on software and pippa do join the masses and let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills and take a look at what else is available for you twenty four hours a day at r.t.

talk. egyptian activists have been urging nationwide street protests saying the revolution is not over and 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 so islamist parties capture an overwhelming majority of seventy five percent the new assembly is due to sit down for the first time on monday get off a lap and 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 and 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. all right i will be back with a recap of the week's main headlines in just a few moments hope you'll stay with us here on out.

we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals what the poor probs we do not want any more and no deal holds. our core system it's just there was a does more experience and i'm just i'm just appalled that that's allowed to go on in america. eating this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the board to experiment to be used as guinea pig. will now we have more questions than we have answers to guards. like.

will the. science technology innovation all these developments around russia we've got the future covered. in the evening here in the russian capital this is our time for you headlines 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 but that's despite criticism from the syrian opposition which wants to see the u.n. step. is voting on whether the country should join the e.u. the issue will really sparking protests and clashes outside as the bloc continues

to be shaken by and the austerity rallies with people now in romania rising up against their government as well. and there are other stories that shaped this week tensions around to iran's nuclear program stirred further by e.u. plans to impose an embargo on iranian oil and the u.s. building its warship presence in the region. by the power of the internet in action massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand the web censorship at least to the suspension of pending and piracy was. up next to a nazi a very special report from nigeria where multinational corporations instigate infighting and tribal tensions all as a smokescreen in order to manipulate the country's vost natural resources thank you for watching us here. but the best is yet to be seen lost in the brush just a few meters away.