by the u.n. to these officials now we've actually been following them for the past five days and was become extremely clear is that certainly what is needed now is more facilitation of dialogue between all these different groups that you see now in the country between the opposition between the government one of the major questions that's 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 that's where the u.n. training is going to come and play a very pivotal role because what's desperately needed in the country right now are people who are very experienced conflict resolution to stop promoting genuine dialogue now between all the many different sides nuclear really was the need to bridge these widening gaps than in the town of zabadani we actually visited there yesterday with is that if he remained in the country this is the area that you see

in 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 been interested to see both thing 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 fact 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 was extremely concerning the people who are still living hurt externally dangerous situation it's not really clear who exactly. shards think

killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and this is the cost of the conflict that there has been devastatingly right at absolutely essential for everyone right now is the fight that kind of resolution that with an ad in the eye that. i think. that the that there are. meanwhile the opposition syrian national council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in a country where thousands have died in the an arrest the council believes the arab league observers have been useless in ending hostilities and it says that foreign involvement is the only way out artie's where if an ocean of the reports that there are doubts by some about the opposition leaders motives holly told john 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 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's freedom and the although it's been run by paris based exile about how the asson see 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 down to 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 that's not just their main. they haven't come and supported and

sponsored from a bread making rights opposition forces and they're made to go is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences headquarters are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria well we have. you know we have to be executed there howlett says he spent fifteen years in jail in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's just because his father supported the opposition he claims nothing has changed since then and the oppression has to stop but how is another matter claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is now cop rage in with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance to 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 top is the ball carriers operation where the syrian national council is being used to activists and that 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 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. turning out of developments in libya the deputy head of the country's national transitional council as analysis his resignation as a series of protests against the new government continues. with a q. . being an opportunist who switched allegiances from the khadafi regime is the uprising

started saturday crowds of protesters stormed the m.t.c. headquarters in benghazi agger by the way the council was handling the country's assets demonstrators threw stones and metal bars at the building breaking windows and damaging the car of the n.p.c. head abdul mass rallies have been raging for weeks in benghazi considered the cradle of the revolution that toppled the khadafi regime. offer an international consulting thinks the council's main goal was to secure western oil interests and not establish democracy. mission in libya for example who's not so we live in a country libya already had the highest standard of living in all of north africa where libya does have is the largest global oil reserve and the oil reserve in africa and that is with the national transitional council are being supported fuller in order that they should promote wester all companies with some financial interest in libya and the people will just have to be without the people have

already been killed and a little variable of 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 and bedded inside the united states the european union and israel. has voted in favor of joining the e.u. the initial results announced by the state referendum commission there is after more than half the ballots were counted not all the courage they were optimistic about the future prospects as protests spilled onto the streets on the eve of the referendum curry sure should join a bloc by july next year if its membership is approved by all twenty seven member states for more perspective on this i'm joined from amsterdam by political consultant boyan oha check thanks for joining us so is it the right time you think to join the e.u. given the recent economic problems within the block. well yes you know the process

of joining the you has started a long time ago and time everything was going well and it's like marriage you know you get married at some point things are going really well at some point might not be so good but if e.u. is all about cooperation then definitely not is the time to still join the e.u. and not just drain what it has to offer but also just to change it from the inside . rather than just looking at it from the outside now it appears that the minority but a significant minority forty percent of creations oppose membership do you think we can expect more protests yes you know why not protests are a sign of a healthy democracy in that sign that people are at least thinking about things and standing up for themselves so i'm happy about the protests about not to join you there posing not joining the e.u. even though i am for joining the e.u. . because of maybe even the government didn't really the propaganda of the e.u. didn't. point out all the negative consequences of doing it so i'm happy that these people have been going out to show it but it's also what the media has picked up

from it is what i see you know showing pictures of people fighting it's a very very very tiny fraction of what actually happens in croatia and also the sixty six percent of the people who just voted yes what do you think that as a nation curry and zagreb as the capital can offer the bloc in terms of the economic benefits to the union and vice versa. well gracious first of all for the european union is a huge underdeveloped yeah and yes developing markets so for every country does the value of that has a. technology that has the power to go in and either to do it to do business there or to use the markets that's a good thing for those countries so that countries of the existing you countries and for us. some benefits are really obvious like you. like the things that we will be you find there which we will have to know how to use and it's a i think ultimately on creation how it will make the benefits work for its her

loss of sovereignty and national identity always remain counter-argument i'll against joining a union or a block like this do you think that's a threat for croatia. well i think it's not really a threat it's more like a sacrifice that we will have to make you know to make a corporation all the work for us as well. as recently as some of you might know have been fighting ten years ago or it's from another union. i don't think people are very happy about letting that go and i don't think they will have to let it go they will just have to die and they will have to learn how to gain from the european union. one more question that we have is that the nation of creation as it is the southern southern tip of it is actually not connected to the rest of the land mass and you actually have to go through by land bosnia to get there do you think that's something that'll have an impact considering that bosnia herzegovina is not yet part of the well i mean that will be as big of

a problem i think as it was a problem until now i don't see why you would mention. yeah it is a funny thing that we have a disconnect don't think it would be a big problem for the u.s. government border regulatory. region all right so something that came to mind why on a posher critical communication consultant joining us from amsterdam thanks for your insight thank you. protestors have clashed with police on the romanian capital bucharest in the worst riots the country's seen for more than a decade for a second week thousands took to the streets demanding the resignation of the government and the president party's tom barton has the details from bucharest. night and day they come to scream that defiance biting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. our youth has no future they have no jobs. motive water is sixty she's worked

all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she is forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension. they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it. a water is not just here for herself her son left for may yet but it's a need to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president trying. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to take dissent screwed down down with disaster parents left us with a heritage and we're losing our children just debt an international monetary fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions the remaining in government has tried to force its financial house into water budget benefit cuts

slashed pay pension freezes falling living standards but some say it's the people who are now being forced to pay for the mistakes of the few who stayed the country economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for this situation they didn't even profited from it had to play for those who had profited the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst. let's not forget that we're in the eye of a storm of an economic european storm all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequences that inevitably affect us too. not good enough said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better or more every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or judy is to shorten the period as much as we can honest fast as we can by fair elections with many that 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 was the shouting. out of nowhere or the foundation of the movie was held on like it was presented. there was tara to the russian understanding of the president a little about her here and you can see why when many of us want to tear it all down. yes i'm often annoyed with the record remaining in europe and the u.s. have expressed their willingness to return to dialogue with iran over its controversial nuclear program despite that the e.u. seems about set to approve an unprecedented a bardo on iranian oil fred says tougher sanctions are the only way to avoid military action the us in its turn has 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 and seaway is a strategic passage for the majority of oil exports from the gulf to the west brian becker from the anti-war answer coalition thinks washington may be deliberately escalating the situation to create a pretext for regime 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 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 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. iran was the main issue discussed by u.s. and israeli military officials meeting on friday with washington opposing unilateral israeli action against iran's nuclear sites policy reports it's not only iran that fear is a strike there are also people in israel who feel like they're on the edge. from this rather spartan recording studio in jerusalem one israeli jew has been reaching out to people in iran for fifty two years ties between tel aviv in tehran off a bit in but it's never stopped menasha amir from reading the news in farsi every night and hosting a weekly show for listeners in the persian world to share the views he thinks around a million rain ians tune in and the topic they most want to talk about the possibility

of a foreign attack on iran and they are very much afraid that the iranian nuclear installations will be bombed by a foreign powers where they're israel or the united states or any other country but it's not only the rain ians who are suspicious of israel or america taking action people here in israel since something's in the air you can see signs of wink and nod from israeli officials when talking about it israel is signaling to the world. if the world doesn't do anything if the wall doesn't call for more fierce action or more crippling sanctions quoting the secretary of state clinton then israel would take the initiative and strike alone some wonder if israel hasn't already declared an unofficial war on terror ran but suspicions raised further after the assassination of another iranian nuclear scientist earlier this month while on his way to work putting everything together it is clear that whoever it is but it's

someone or somebody or some agency is very successful in infiltrating understanding last subaltern the iranian nuclear project the attack is the latest in a series of mysterious accidents linked to iran's nuclear program two aircraft accidents in the space of three years scientists disappearing equipment damaged and computer viruses and mishti and the fingers pointing at israel. and the united states this is a very respectable grammar notion but. iran has many enemies. you. is as good as them aren't it's not beyond imagination adding fuel to the fire the plan for israel and the united states to conduct their biggest joint military drill before the end of the year it would see thousands of american troops deployed in israel for

a ran it's the most blatant sign that in attacks coming but no one in israel will come on record and say there is a covert war on iran all talk of an israeli strike is limited to the airwaves policy r.t. jerusalem. tehran's relations with the u.k. have been further strain this week over london's decision to take iranian english language news channel press t.v. off the british air iran called the move a clear example of censorship british officials say the channel broke broadcasting rules of editorial control and failed to pay a fine imposed last year and press t.v. things it's been silence for dissenting views hilary say u.k. based author and media analyst thinks the channel is another victim of an ongoing campaign against iran. if this had been separated from geopolitics then no 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 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 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. across the atlantic a freedom of speech battle of a different kind was underway the u.s. congress buckled under pressure and recalled to 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 standing

against the proposed legislation if passed the sopa and people laws would have allowed top media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down large parts of the web without involving the courts at the same time the anonymous hacker group retaliated against the shutdown of the file sharing site mega upload claiming to have brought down the f.b.i. and white house websites in response barrett browsers work with anonymous on various operations and is sometimes seen as the face of the movement believes that make upload shut down shows the government can take action even without the laws in place. the problem is that the track record and all governments. is such that given the power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power many other things 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 of the 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 notable civil war in the us. this week a former british official admitted the u.k. spies have been caught red handed by russia it took six years from when the kremlin first made the allegations artie's ivor bennett explains how moscow left no stone unturned. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but hidden in this fake stone was a high tech transmitted british spooks used to spy on russia the allegations from moscow have always been dismissed but six years on there is rock solid evidence the u.k. can no longer deny tony blair's former chief of staff come clean admitting british spies were caught red handed the spy rock was embarrassing they had us bang to rights clearly they had known about it for some time and had been saving it up for

a political purpose. the embarrassing revelations confirmed the findings of a russian television report in two thousand and six it showed this video of a man slowing down and looking at the rock as he passed apparently an agent beaming top secret intelligence from a mobile computer to a digital drop point concealed in the stone another man was filmed picking up the rock and collecting the data out of the moment was the one behind the exposé and left no stone unturned but. at first i had to be dealt i thought it might be a fake story or political game but we cross checked everything with multiple sources and it turned out to be true some footage we didn't include in the film was particularly convincing for example there was a video of a british spy euro knitting in front of the camera that camera was hidden under a tree in the songs lying nearby the guy wanted it to look natural so we pretended

that he needed to take a leak n.e.p. right in front of the camera before picking up a stone and leaving. but it was his word against theirs britain fiercely denied the allegations with tony blair laughing them off as russian propaganda the truth was buried inside the u.k. secret service headquarters supposedly never to be seen again so after six years of dodging the bullet wide net it now they're very embarrassing but i think that the british government has decided. to have bygones are bygones and say ok we made a mistake. up and we want better relations from now on so i would see this as a first step on the road to improve relations with russia this is the home of britain's spooks m i six the government is a broad their job may not be secret but how they do it is or at least should be so the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the

fact they were caught doing it a post cold war. supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on all the bennetts to london. be back with a recap of the week's headlines in a few moments stay with us. there

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something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. last hour rounding up the week's top stories here at r t the arab league extends its observer mission in syria to saudi arabia withdraws its modern from the group critical of the lack of progress in ending almost a year of violence the opposition claims the observers have been ineffective and calls for the u.n. to step in. croatia votes in favor of joining the e.u. despite the issue previously sparking protests and violent clashes itself continues

to be shaken by. people in romania now wising up against their government. other stories that shape the week tensions around toronto nuclear program stirred further by plans to impose an embargo on iranian oil and the us building its warship presence in the region. the power of the internet in action a massive online fact that u.s. plans to expand web censorship leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy logs . up next our special report from nigeria there multinational companies instigate tribal tensions as a smokescreen to manipulate the country's natural resources that's coming up stay with us.