there actually also is a what the next that should be but it seems very very likely now that they are going to extend the mission for another month but crucially it was also expected to happen is that they going to be bolstering this mission by increasing the numbers and also by providing training by the u.n. to these officials now i actually spoke to one of the arab league observers who have remained here in the country whilst the delegation has been in cairo just the other day he said it did seem very likely that it was going to continue and now we've actually been following the past five days and what's become extremely clear is that certainly what is needed now it is more facilitation of dialogue between all these different groups that you see now in the country between the opposition between the governments certainly that's where the u.n. chaining is going to come and play a very pivotal role because a lot of people here we've been speaking to have been asking really if the arab

league observers are really the right people for the job what people want to see now is a very experienced peacekeepers who are able to build these structures from the ground up to facilitate this dialogue and this is going to be outside the essential moving forward because of course the arab league mission has come under criticism during the time he's been in the country because he's seen the violence continuing and so really every second now that this conflict continues we've seen it escalating we've seen it becoming increasingly armed so it is absolutely essential that if the mission is extended that there is now further action is able to be taken by these monitors on the ground to be able to promote the. more clearly really was the need for that scene then in the town is that the heavy fighting recently between the three syrian army and the government treats we were there just yesterday with the observatory remains here in the country and that you can see quite clearly that the situation there. nobles really show exactly he's in charge

exactly what's going on now and that's why. tension now that in the absence of any other way for the third league mission continues is what and indeed is able to do more than it has done safe. 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 enter the city to see being hostile. it's an area extremely divided on one side you've got the government in control of the side the free syrian army but it's actually. very very difficult to know exactly who is in charge the people's houses that we were showing in the city center had been absolutely devastated by the fighting where the children have been showing us the bullet casings that they found around the area that all the houses in this part you can

see the destruction from the fighting that's being going on but they see a dramatic. end this day with extremely concerning the people who are still living her to extremely dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly is in charge being killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and this even close to the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution. to the find it. done. meanwhile the opposition syrian national council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country torn apart by an arrest the council thinks the arab league observers have been useless at ending the crisis and insists that foreign involvement is the only way out or tease me if an ocean reports that there are some doubts about the opposition leader's motives. howley tone 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 international community in order to reach this syrian people freedom although it's been run by paris based exult that hamdani in 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 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 play which is 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 courters 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 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 it was a clear shift from the absence these 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 is a day to istanbul paris operation where the syrian national council speaker duets visited jeddah 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 efforts soon only terry 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 that raef notion asti turkey. the deputy leader of libya's

ruling national transitional council says he's stepping down after a series of protests against the country's new leader it's saturday crowds stormed the council's headquarters in the city of benghazi angry at the slow rate of democratic change then demanding the government's resignation protesters threw stones and metal bars at the building in the first acts of violence against libya's interim leaders demonstrators have been rallying for weeks in benghazi the center of last year's revolution against the khadafi regime they accuse the leadership of lacking transparency and watching know how living its assets are being spent we're now joined by adrian sobriquet expert on north african affairs and international consultant thanks for joining us here on our team lending us here insight so libya's interim leaders were not elected so to what level do you think they're pursuing the people's interests. well i think that first of all we have to understand that when countries are overrun invaded their populations bombed violence is always what it was what for. all those after that we've seen throughout

history in vietnam in iraq in afghanistan we've seen the during world war two we have this debate about how you grew up with you know during the cold war so it should be no different in libya libya has is not a civil war libya has been invaded officially by the u.n. and nato basically nato as a military force but they are both acting as instruments for the united states britain france and the european union as a whole especially if only because of the historical ties so in a way what we are seeing is how the wealth the interests of these of the western powers in libya have used this invasion have used internal strife and promoted it so that all this in-fighting will go on all countries have horrible important internal strife even britain even the united states and even the european union and world we have seen i believe is how terror organizations like the cia m i six and there will be nato stopped and the u.n.

stepped in in an airstrike role what do you think is the foreign footprint in libya right now actually. well that's the point i wanted to make sure we call them the dirty tricks department at the cia m i six and the mossad have taken advantage of all these internal strife and they literally split the country into two calling those in benghazi with the national transitional council as freedom fighters but we're seeing that they're not really freedom fighters we've seen the same process and we've seen the same process in egypt also now in syria the end game nationally goes into iran directly so what we are seeing is our foreign western powers are taking advantage and promoting the so-called arab spring but in fact in the end it's geopolitics its oil and it's also trying to take advantage of our wealth in that region especially for the geopolitical interests of the state of israel the united states calls the shots in the world but in a way israel calls the shots in the united states the national transitional council has the support of western powers who help force out the but they say they don't

have enough money to improve life in their country why do you think that is. well because the mission in libya for example is not to improve life in a country libya already had the highest standard of living in all of north africa where libya does have is the largest work global oil reserve and the top or the reserve in africa and that is what the national transitional council are being supported for in order that they should promote western oil companies western financial interests in libya and the people will just have to be without the people have already been killed a little veritable genocide has taken place as we've seen in iraq so in a way the same pattern is repeated over and over again where there's a double standard they say that they are promoting democracy but what they are basically doing is promoting the financial and political interests of the global power elite embedded inside the united states britain the european union and israel . both egypt and libya the revolutions that toppled the previous regime seem to

a failed to achieve democratic process that people set out to those people who are out in the free it's fresh streets frustrated by the lack of reforms do you think there are frustrated as to why democracy hasn't emerged well absolutely says we're not the finding democracy i remember that on march of last year hillary clinton visited tunisia and egypt because she wanted to quote ensure that egypt has the kind of the market see that we want to see and the kind of the market see that hillary clinton and barack obama and the bushes want to see is definitely not the kind of democracy that egypt and all the countries of north africa in the middle east really need because it's not democracy at all it is merely puppet governments subordinated to money power and they quote democracy it's a border they so you know islam they don't want you don't you think the islam those who came to power recently in egypt are going to follow washington's line. we are seeing the infighting because there are factions that want to follow the washington line of there are always the fact that so so that's what the western powers do i

mean again in afghanistan in iraq in egypt is just a right internal strife in the hope that as that insurgents try settle down they will be able to think that as bad as they have no interest for the people of egypt or any of those countries whatsoever and the people in libya say they want the current authorities to go many of them want them to step down given the tribal divisions in the country how do you see its political future do you think it will become a solid peaceful state run by a government no there's no way that it could be called a sovereign state because it has been invaded and there is no sign that that invasion will love let up as a matter of fact iranian television are informing that there are quote thousand groups in iraq in libya probably not true but there are reports that there are twelve thousand american troops and model ready to take over for example the town of brega where all the oil refineries are so this whole thing smells of oil and not of the national interest of the libyan people all right a gentle boosie north africa expert an international consulting thanks for your insight. anger is reaching

a boiling point in romania which saw its worst violence in years as anti austerity protesters have 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 increases in the second poorest country which is struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors artie's tom gardner has more 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. no water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she's forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension. they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it. is not just to herself her son left her name yes but it's enough 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 the long steep descent speed down down with disaster parents left us with a heritage and we love our children just that. an international monetary fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions the remain 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 their many and state them and now those

who hadn't been guilty for their situation that they didn't even profited. plate and those who had profited by the government blames international economic conditions however for the country as well as religious let's not forget that we are in the eye of the storm of an economic european still all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic. sequences that inevitably effect us to just not good and so the opposition who argue course that they could do better or more every day discourage inefficient government stays in power is a day lost for name or jews used to shorten the period as much as become 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. these are. the noise of the foundation of the

well don't i am an. austerity the corruption. the president about to have you here and you can say i remain you want to tear it all down yeah and start again yet on boston are able to read. me while it's decision day in croatia for people who are now voting on a new accession the outcomes tough to predict as recent surveys show the issues split the country down the middle saturday police clashed with protesters who tried to pull down a new flag ahead of the referendum if the result is a guess well courage will join the block by july of next year if its membership is approved by all twenty seven in new 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 seen neighbors speak seen 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 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 yun talking about the pressure on hungry and on saturday crowds of more than one hundred thousand took to the streets of the capital budapest supporting their government which recently came under fire from the e.u. for passing what brussels thought to be anti-democratic laws but also stalled bell out of talks with the i.m.f. prompting threats of court action this week to hungary and prime minister backed down in the dispute saying the legislation will be changed. artie's tom barton is in the region following the latest developments you can check out his 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 all those updates online. europe in the u.s. have expressed their willingness to return to talks with iran over the country's controversial nuclear program despite this the e.u. seemingly still set to prove an embargo on iranian oil france even says the time to avoid military intervention is running out as for the u.s. this week it 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 the sanctions the straits a strategic waterway with that which the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west passes through brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition says washington may be deliberately escalating the situation to create the pretext for regime change in. 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 so what is the cause what's the cause of the crisis of

the artificial crisis the real goal. 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 and tehran took another hit this week iran said a decision to kick its english language news channel press t.v. off british airways was airwaves was a clear example of censorship official reason cited for evoking the channel's license are a breach of broadcasting rules over editorial editorial control and a failure to pay a fine imposed last year press t.v. says it's being silenced for its dissenting views it thinks it's being targeted for its critical coverage of issues ranging from the cost of the british royal wedding to last year's london riots which will receive based off of a media analyst things press t.v.

maybe another victim of the ongoing campaigns against the country. 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. out been due to its coverage because you know it sees the middle east very differently for example than the mainstream media in britain 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 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 may even 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. stay with us here on r t coming your way in the next hour espionage embarrassment for the u.k. as moscow reveals the secret of britain spying still find out why it took london six years to finally come clean after the kremlin showcases of a rock solid evidence. the u.s. congress has recalled 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 wiki pedia and google joined together to stand against a proposed legislation that was called sopa and pipa if the laws had passed they would have allowed top media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down large parts of the web at the same time the anonymous hacker group retaliated against the shutdown of the file sharing site mega upload it is claimed to have brought down the f.b.i. and white house websites barrett brown who's worked with anonymous on various operations believes that the upload mega upload shutdown shows the government can even take action without the new 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 power. so and the way that you know this that this raid on mega upload causing this opens it shows that even without sopa already in place here they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down and in the future a very near future and. there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more. military not goods situation gets worse and things will escalate until that point as the notable civil war in the us. take a look 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 sollie 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 he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel patrolling the checkpoint two churches in the area were also attacked the death toll from a series of bombings in k.l. on friday now exceeds one hundred seventy continuing to rise the islamists claim responsibility for the majority of the violence plaguing northern nigeria since christmas. and presidential hopeful newt gingrich has convincingly won south carolina's republican primary in the u.s. but when it comes as a surprise since gingrich finished last in two other states south carolina is seen as a significant indicator the winner there has won the nomination for the presidential candidacy every year since one thousand nine hundred the turn around closing the gap between gingrich and fellow republican candidate mitt romney as both look to challenge barack obama in the november election. be back with

a recap of the week's headlines in a few moments stay with us here on. when

an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world sues moore's you know fog. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. worth someone asking him why do you make a secret out that when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you go experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but. that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often beason up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger in fact we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living and i have gone to the regionals with all the papers. the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just.

nine thirty pm in moscow these iraqi 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 that it wants to see the u.n. step in. croatia voting on whether the country should join the e.u. with the issue already sparking protests and violent clashes this as the bloc continues being shaken by rallies with people in romania now rising up against their government. tensions around tehran's nuclear program stirred further by e.u.

plans to impose an embargo on iranian oil and the us building its warship presence in the region. now it's time to head over to siberia and a spiritual world we follow the drum beat of the shah our special report coming up . the sons. of beriah a dusk by year in chino one of the most celebrated and experienced shamans east of lake baikal begins his shell manic rituals today's ritual is designed to invoke the spirits healing abilities and thank them for their powers at one point during the ritual a spirit penetrating by his body is expected to help the shaman deal with people's issues as well as heal them when a shaman becomes aware of the onset of the state trance he puts on a cap that covers his eyes the cap protects the shaman from evil spirits and safeguards the.