country have continued business around now one of the major questions this being 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 we've been following the observers to the last five days and what was very very clear was what's desperately needed in the country right now are people who have very experienced conflict resolution to start promoting genuine dialogue now between all the many different sides 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 nuclear really was the need to bridge these widening gaps than in the talents of the dunny we actually visited there yesterday with this he remained in the country this is the area that you see the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the past few days a temporary ceasefire because between the government forces and free syrian army so

we've seen enter the city to see all streaming hassling 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 fight very very difficult to know exactly who is in charge of 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've found around the area all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting that's been going out. in this area and that's was extremely concerning the people who are still living heard externally dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly is in charge who think killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and the shame and cost of the conflict in syria has been. devastating and absolutely offensive for everyone right now that i've been

trying to residence in the christian. right things. that are done. meanwhile the opposition syrian national council says it plans to press the un security council for intervention in the country torn apart by the own arrest council believes the arab league observers have been useless in ending the crisis and insists that a foreign government involvement is the only way out was our team or if the notion reports there are some doubts about the opposition leaders 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 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's freedom and although it's been run by paris based exile about hama going

in the absence he has been recognized as the country's lee determined 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 perspective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in the new libya so there is power broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in a new syrian regime libya's national transitional council and the syrian national council and it's not just their names they 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 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 the tao is another matter claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is. now copywriting with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the us and sees initial entirely known armed peaceful stunts. the cowsills to seize humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this isn't made to istanbul paris operation where to syria that gas has been used to

add to this and i jeddah they need to watch it because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of the day to at least lead to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after his soon only turn will force president assad out on 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. turkey. alister current director of the conflicts forum in beirut in a former new middle east mediator tell the earlier that despite the syrian opposition efforts many think western interference would end in disaster. they 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 in side syria most of whom are not anxious to see assad go even though they are very much in favor of reforms and demanding reforms are 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. the deputy leader of libya's ruling national transitional council says he's resigning after a series of protests against the country's new leaders on saturday a crowd storm 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 interim leaders demonstrators have been rallying for weeks in benghazi the epicenter of last year's revolution against the khadafi regime the queues the leadership of lacking transparency and want to

know how libya's assets are being used radio host and author stephen lennon thinks protests will continue against the government that crowd see as a puppet of the west. i think the government is taking orders from bill in washington and that's the way it's been all along and very good at war the real one would be sitting in washington using the a proxy he's sitting in a big guy secretly wherever and doesn't make what is no more a rebel fighters take a plane into a privately they're not even treated properly you will wait shouldn't laws would drop they the people who promised they would stay in these people get and no say whatsoever everything is in secret you in the n.c.i.c. get in that space is a complete waste and eliminate serving westen interest absolutely having no interest in ordinary libyans the tribes of libya a united in

a resistance against nato in a c n t c government they want the country i expect attracted violence a very anything can happen. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead another country trying to rise from revolution egypt now facing the consequences of the democracy it fought so hard boys islam is sweep the board in recent elections. but first anger is reaching a boiling point in romania which saw its worst violence in years as anti-us sturdy protesters clashed with police for the second week running people have been demanding that the president and government step down this against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax hikes in the e.u. second poorest countries struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors artie's tom barton has the latest from bucharest. 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. our youth has no future they have no jobs. mostly water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in broker rest but now she is forced to pay for 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 . a water is not just a self has some left yes but it's a need to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of the president try and. protest as accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with. long steep descent down down with disaster parents left us with a heritage and we're losing 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 to be expensive they remain in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for their situation that indian profited from the plate and 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 still all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequences. it inevitably effect us to just not good enough so that the opposition who argue of course that they could do that

every day discourage inefficient government stays in power is a day lost for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we come once fast as we can by fair elections with many of them accepting there is no escape economically politics for them off is the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. here in the noise of the foundation of the well don't i am an. austerity option. the president about to have you here and you can see why remain you want to tear it all down yeah and start again yeah it will correct. it's decision day for in croatia for people who are now voting on each session there the outcome is hard to predict as recent surveys show the issue has split the country down the middle

saturday police clashed with protesters who tried to pull down any new flag ahead of the referendum if the result is a yes vote will join the block by july of next year but only if its membership is approved by all twenty seven member states investment advisor patrick young says it's easy to understand those opposing the move because croats see how their euro neighbors are facing tough times. the key consideration here is that when we look at the croatian referendum there's been barely one and p. in the entire parliament she'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 of touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple big scene neighbors speak seeing similar who are emerging european. researchers themselves people like slovakia slovenia as stony are all coming into the european union they join the euro zone

and they find it the worst choice in 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 bailout so they see neighboring countries such as hungary i mean the government of hungry for the past two weeks have been vilified by the european union are not going to get into the argument to avoid whether or not the prime minister is right or wrong there but certainly people get very very unfairly very uneasy about things that are being said. patrick young talking about the pressure on hungary and on saturday crowds of more than one hundred thousand took to the streets of the capital budapest where they were supporting their government which recently came under fire from the e.u. for passing what brussels thought to be anti-democratic laws and it also stalled belo talks with the i.m.f. propping threats of court action this week to hungary and prime minister backed down in the dispute saying the legislation will be changed. parties tom martin is

in the region following all the latest developments you can check out our team's twitter feed as well as his personal one for the latest on hungary's dispute with the e.u. as well as the current referendum the latest updates all online for you right now. europe and the u.s. have expressed their willingness to return to talks with iran over its controversial nuclear program despite this the e.u. is seemingly still set to approve an embargo on iranian oil france even says it's time to avoid military intervention the time to avoid military intervention rather is running out as for the u.s. this week strengthened its presence in the region 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 sanctions the straits a strategic waterway which the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west pass brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition things washington maybe deliberately raising the situation take create a pretext for the change in iraq. the united states government has created an

artificial crisis that's first and foremost it's a manufactured crisis iran is complying with the. 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. 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 relations between london in

tehran took another hit this week iran said its to sing with its decision to kick its english language news channel press t.v. off british airways was a clear example of censorship the official reason cited for evoking the channel's license are breach broadcasting rules over editorial control as a failure to pay a fine that was imposed press t.v. says it's been silenced for its dissenting views it believes it's being targeted for its highly critical coverage of issues ranging from the cost of the british royal wedding to last year's london riots through a recent u.k. based media analyst and author thinks that press t.v. is yet another victim of the ongoing campaign against the country and its. if this had been separated from geo politics they know 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 probably is really groups repeatedly complain about it we know very well that the british government at the very highest level was discussing with the american ambassador 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. the u.s. congress were called to controversial anti-piracy bills this week after a massive internet blackout and hacker attacks on government websites millions of net users and web giants including weiqi pedia and google joined together to stand against the proposed legislation that was dubbed sopa and pipa if the laws passed

they would have allowed top media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down large portions of the web meanwhile the anonymous hacker group was retaliating against the shut down of file sharing site mega upload claiming to have brought down the websites of the f.b.i. and the white house barrett brown who's working with anonymous on various operations believes megaupload shutdown shows the government could act even without the laws in place. the problem is the track record in all governments. is such that. news almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power. so and the way that you know this is great on megaupload that shows that even without so-called already in place here they are already at rest rest megaupload and shutting it down and in a very near future. there will be a number of other. military not goods situation it's worse

in the grass and smells of war and the notable civil war. over a million people visit our web site r t dot com for more information on this story and join the masses let the let us know your opinion on the two controversial bills and take a look at what else is available at our t dot com egyptian activists have been urging nationwide street protests. saying the revolution is not over in the country is a long way from becoming democratic they want the downfall of egypt's supreme council the armed forces and a handover of power to the newly elected parliament saturday's election results from the first post mubarak parliamentary votes islamist parties capture an overwhelming majority of seventy five percent the new. please do to sit for the first time on monday but yeah lapping the reporter from 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 as

realized 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 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. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe in a farewell speech yemen's president ali abdullah saleh apologized for his mistakes and said it's time to hand over power he's leaving yemen to have medical treatment in the u.s. yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for a solid who's been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators he's not expected to return to the country. another bombing on

saturday night in the north nigerian state of she has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel patrolling the checkpoint two churches in the area were also attacked and while the death toll from a series of bombings in kanal on friday now exceeds one hundred seventy continuing to rise islamic sect boko haram claimed responsibility for the majority of the violence plaguing northern nigeria since christmas. republican presidential hopeful newt gingrich has convincingly won south carolina's g.o.p. primary in the u.s. the win comes as a surprise since gingrich finished last in two other states south carolina seen as a significant indicator that the winner there has won the nomination for the. presidential candidacy every time since one nine hundred eighty s. the turn around closes the gap between gingrich and fellow republican contender mitt romney is both look to challenge barack obama in the november election. is weaker russia saw a build up of political debate ahead of the march presidential vote rival camps and

candidates are winding up with vladimir putin setting out his vision for the country and some members of the public increasing their efforts to ensure a transparent vote artie's arena 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 a change he's decided to be more scholarly picking up the pen for the first in a series of articles outlining his vision for the future of russia what he's calling for its economy to be built. the gravitation away for all that it's well it's 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 had. the possibility of establishing such a dialogue 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 so they all know where should the new public mood has blossomed people are showing a desire to make an educated approach to know where their votes are going to standing up the country means competitors politics those behind in their group are quick to point out they're not going to turn into a political party but do calls to become a major support group for anyone wanting to make a difference with their vote i didn't have the elliptical activists are nothing without this type of unity found public support there to help boost them are the key to public support is the media and that's recruiting counties down to

a record low 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 not to take offense of those words saying i don't get mad 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 election just around the corner so after house down which is something a lot of the four years the political life in russia and roaring in wealth go in goes go r t. stay with us here on r.t. i'll be back with a recap of the headlines in a few moments. this

is claude. nolen sitting on the edge of. the present. miss. in reality it's nothingness. but if you enter this time. the mystery of supernatural creatures. shaman or siberia. when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more is you know far. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. were someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems after the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but. that was when the problems

began piling up. interviews are now off limits to our journalists they were often be seen up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living i have gone to the original sit all the papers. then legalized the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just a stage prop. it's six years.

seemed. eight thirty pm in moscow these are your r.t. headlines arab league officials say their observer mission in syria that expired this week will be extended for another month and the number of monitors will also be increased this despite criticism from the syrian opposition who wants to see the e.u. when step in. croatia voting on whether the country should join the e.u. the issue already sparking protests and violent clashes as the bloc continues to be shaken by anti austerity rallies with people in romania now rising up against their

government. other stories that shape the week tensions are around tehran's nuclear program stirred further by e.u. plans to impose an impartial on iranian oil in the us building its worship presence in the region. and the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship lead to the suspension of pending anti-piracy laws. when it comes to big money in u.s. politics the lobbyists are the people who know exactly how it works jack aber most used to be one until he was convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud for his role in an extensive corruption case he now tells us why he thinks washington is corrupt to the core of the interview coming up. i'm sitting down with jack off once the most powerful lobbyist in washington referred to as the man who bought washington he brought.