fast as we come. with many of them accepting there is no escape economically politics for them is the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. these. days are the. option. the president about to be here and you can see what made you want to take it all down and start again yet. remain your. party's tom barton is in the region currently following the latest developments you can check out our team's twitter feed that said party underscore com on twitter as well as his first of all account for the latest on hungary's dispute with the e.u. also the latest on the croatian referendum which he says to fewer people to the polls than expected all that and more online right now. europe and the u.s. have expressed willingness to return to talks with iran over the country's

controversial nuclear program despite this the e.u. is still seemingly set to approve an embargo on iranian oil france even says it may be time time to avoid military intervention could be running out as for the u.s. this week it strengthened its presence in the gulf by setting 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 which the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west pass through brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition thinks washington may be deliberately escalating the situation to create the pretext version change. 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 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 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 us can do as it has in history carry out regime change. 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 a clear example of censorship the official reason cited for revoking the channel's license are a breach of broadcasting rules over editorial control at a failure to pay a fine imposed last year press t.v.

says it's being silenced for its dissenting views and says it was targeted for its critical coverage of issues ranging from the cost of the royal british royal wedding to last year's london riots hilary's a u.k. based author and media analyst thinks press t.v. is another ongoing victim of the campaign against iran. if this had been separated from geopolitics 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 geopolitical terms and that is the breakdown of relations between britain and iran at the end of the day i think the. 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 these repeatedly comes up pro 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 he's we've got a real limiting of dialogue in the me in the british media and i think that's a tragedy and sydney a tragedy at a time when british relations are at their lowest ebb long period twenty two minutes past the hour in moscow still to come on r t scotland pushing ahead for its quest for independence blood vowing to make it the split from the u.k. a costly move for the modern day bravehearts wanting to go it alone. but first the u.s. congress has recalled two 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 google and wikipedia joined together to stand against the proposed online legislation that was dubbed sopa and pipa if passed the bills would have allowed top media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down large parts of the web in the name of con copyright infringement at the same time

the anonymous hacker group retaliated against the shut down of file sharing site mega upload claiming to have brought down the f.b.i. and white house websites barrett brown who's worked with anonymous on various operations and is sometimes seen as the face of the group leaves of the mega upload shut down shows the government can even take action without the 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 is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power. so and the way that you know this that the raid on megaupload cars in this opens it shows that even without 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 as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more. military not goods situation it's worse in the grass and smells of war and the notables the war in the us the

kurds going to 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. the country's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for a solider who's accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators he's not expected to return to yet. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of thought which he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel patrolling a checkpoint two churches were also attacked in the area meanwhile the death toll from a series of bombings in keto on friday now exceeds one hundred seventy continuing to rise is a lot of a second boko haram claims responsibility for the majority of violence plaguing over the nigeria since christmas. the battle over scotland's possible split from great britain is dividing opinion in an increasingly disunited united kingdom scots

have been 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 artie's laura smith explains. 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 . 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 ending question that's have the debate and that'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 it hopes 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't see that he can argue against that because his shock to the thing is shattered i don't think you should have an

easy the fires of. scots of never taken kindly to hearing 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 this the comedy feels he had to be in the sheet to but it's completely but . he's actually been the best recruiting sergeant the s. and p. i think is of a hudson but certainly since margaret thatcher. in the last seven days we've had over a third bush. so you know 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 at him. be back with a recap of the week's main headlines in

a few moments stay with us here on r.t. . we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark and because of what the four props we do not want anymore nor do most. a core system it's just there was

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superior to. see if subliminally. we. eleven 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 the number of monitors waltz will be increased this despite criticism from the syrian opposition that wants to see the u.n. step in. croatia votes in favor of joining the e.u. despite the issue previously sparking protests and some violent clashes this is the bloc itself continues to be shaken by anti austerity rallies with people in romania

now rising up against their own government and. other stories that shape the week tension surrounding 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. and the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship he said this is spent in a pending anti-piracy bill. up next r.t. looks at how a shift of power in georgia through a shadow over the nation's cultural life leaving many many talented musicians and artists out of work our special report coming up. the. no forgiveness. if you are fools. go the fashionable news etc renowned georgian artistic director robert stuart or

his presiding over a rehearsal of shakespeare's the tempest not so long ago he was forced to resign from his post as a director of a leading state theatre in tbilisi. the british invited me to london to see a future the plan was that i will stage a play there hundred twenty twelve. today stuart a has to stage his productions abroad the international association of theater critics is up in arms over his exile. it was. then dismiss it all with this throughout was the kind of political demonstration the next day after he was forced to resign thousands of people joined a rally in central tbilisi in front of the theater the company released a statement saying they can be no other autistic directed them steward of the

theater. in one of his earlier comments president suck us really said the intelligentsia should be flushed you know just like when you flush the toilet the leaders of many state sponsored theatres were dismissed under mikala saakashvili nearly the entire faculty of the conservatoire and the academy of ops were replaced senior professors in almost every university forced to retire. the town of gori capital of the georgian province of she to contemplate. gori intellectuals have been discussing saakashvili latest decision. which is

fairly a young and ambitious journalist is filming another story about robert stewart george's independent media has been focused on his expansion. the trial of the t.v. company was founded in one thousand nine hundred nine. john doe not yet just really started the venture with only a video recorder and a transmitter borrowed from a friend. he had barely any money and even less experience. john doe did everything with his own two hands sheer enthusiasm kept driving him forward. ten years later everybody in georgia had heard of the small t.v. company. we began experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three. in the following year defense minister really tried to talk us into selling the company to him but we turned the

request down that was when the problems began piling up the interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often beaten up and humiliated in public. in the summer of two thousand and ten the government decided to remove a monument to stalin from the town's central square journalists wanted to cover the story when both supporters and opponents of the demolition gathered on the square. that reporters wanted to present was an objective story by filming both sides but they stood no chance to have a claim close policemen came up to us and told us not to film anything there they prevented us from performing our professional activities they attacked me and my camera we were detained and our camera was confiscated. after the square was cleared of demonstrators opposing the demolition the camera was handed back to the journalists and released from the police station. we were

able to film this part but when they gave the camera back to us something was missing they had to leave did the footage of the rally against the monuments demolition. the only part left was of these pro-government activists applauding that it was said that it was never jondo motive to make trial an opposition media but for several years now government officials have steered clear of his talk show . we make no distinction between the two sides we invited both of them to go on air but the fact is that the opposition comes here and the government keeps away that's why the government claims that we're an opposition channel but that's not true local officials turn down or imitation because they've been told by higher ups not to give interviews to our journalists or appear on our programs.

journalists from this regional t.v. company even from the building housing the local administration they are denied interviews and accreditation to important events. despite all the problems the t.v. company is still in operation with news bulletins going out daily the arrival of any political scene has thrown georgia's authorities into total confusion. billionaire seen a vanish villi has invested a great deal of money in the georgian economy but soon after he announced his intention to stand in the next presidential election the country's government stripped him of his citizenship the following is an excerpt from a vanished billie's first formal press conference held on november the first twenty eleven. beauty really dull the need for the people to regain a lost sense of justice is of crucial importance now even sack inner circle is

stricken with terror there is no trace of self-government everything is in the hands of one man it's not easy. incidentally there was actually a time when those young people who are now in the government were in the pay of ivanishvili. essentially he funded the state machinery he has built theatres among many other things. seventy year old artist. has been great expectations on a vanished belly he also has a serious bone to pick with the present day or forty's as was unceremoniously fired from the academy of fine arts after a professional period lasting many years. i spoke out against the regime in public i gave interviews i didn't keep silent. in the chancellor and this is what he said to me afterwards but you don't let us live what

this is because i was there. may have decided that giving me the sack was the easiest way of resolving the problem. tamer has lost his job but not his workshop so he began to devote more time to painting however there's hardly a place in today's georgia where he can show his paintings to the public georgia is not a wealthy country and there just isn't enough money to support artists museums can barely make ends meet. your campaign seek to create the impression that all is well in the country. do you know what kind of a nation is in the making. handful of people are well off of well everyone else lives to ensure that has a cushy existence. his

wife marina is an actress she's employed at the shelter. where robert stewart was artistic director for decades. this is one of the latest newspapers robert still writes in an article that would be dina ivanishvili will emerge victorious. oppositionists he writes that unless saakashvili leaves his post of his own free will he will face the same fate as colonel gaddafi and i write that between ivanishvili took his stance in the right place at the right time. when george's ministry of culture fired robert store a marina and her fellow actors at the theater took to the streets about five thousand people turned out to express support for their favor a director. all the traffic in the avenue in front of the playhouse was brought to a halt. we met face to face with the spectators who had

adored roberts to wrap all this time the actors were wearing such t. shirts as the face of these words mean i'm fired i like the expression on his face he seems to be saying i'm fired so what after all his work lives on. the ministry of culture is official excuse for his sacking xenophobia. why he made a secret of his armenian. the man keeps his father's nationality a secret. so the big question is who is more xena fabius. the president supposed to hide anything.

someone asking him why do you make a secret out that. during a theatre festival in georgia in september twenty seventh members of the international association of theater critics interviewed robert stewart for an hour asking him about all the details their conclusion about his misfortune was made in an open letter and supporter robert stewart of. f. numbers of the theater and supporters of freedom of expression we have been. by him overlap with us throughout from his post by the georgian government like so many people around them but we feared that the government had used certain statements as did to us that there were a pretext to put punish

a critical voice from within their teeth the community. the protests the letters by the theater's actors nor a direct appeal by international organizations could make the georgian government budge. saakashvili never forgave the director he saw as undesirable. in the system or i think it was a very good old boy too and more involvement with a theater. or a typical for the theater. director out of the tradition stance which include now it's mark turn to be good and i'm glad that i was kicked out by the government not by the actors there would have been a real catastrophe for me. today robert stewart works abroad he had plans to stage shakespeare's tempest in moscow's etc theater six months before he was exiled. for going to the

problems you were but this is the problem a man expelled from his home together with his daughter who were being driven out of his senses for folks with flu. viruses. many reviewers think stewart his production is actually about himself prosper oh the play's main character is an avid reader scholar and artist. melanne expels him from his hometown because he fears the prosper will strip him of power. in others is that he too cried to the sea that roared to us to sun i to the winds whose pity sighing back again did us but loving wrong. steward a hopes he'll be allowed to stage productions in georgia. but this is

impossible for the time being. george's best theaters are run by the government the ministry of culture has no intention of funding stewart as productions. i won't give up so easily i will survive this trial. this is claude. balancing on the edge of past and present. mixing reality as nothingness. but if you enter this talk of. the mystery of supernatural creatures. shaman of siberia on. wealthy british scientists are closing at the time to cut.

the. markets why not us can't. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on r g. georgia's capital tbilisi has acquired a new look in recent years the city's spirit and its unique architecture of being restored central tblisi attracts many tourists however several streets are still massive construction sites. forests come here to see the

city's historical center it would be good for they don't really care about its outskirts. give e.s.d. is one of georgia's most successful restoration architects the old central areas of said. towns have been revamped. began his restoration work in the ancient town of signal. the job was nowhere near the scale of tbilisi but back then it was the first time that several neighborhoods were restored simple changes like. that are but then the amount of work and its intensity were overwhelming in the beginning. of the park he just given up the project took nearly nine months of continuous work with the village. we only slept three or four hours.