so that's. right no. i mean this is. all. there is. everywhere or i did write about the place. it's about the. bad but this is about the i mean this is. becoming like a madman. there are. experts say that the gas burned off in nigeria which by itself be sufficient to satisfy the energy needs of the whole continent of africa billions of cubic meters that we saw in the bowels of the earth go up in smoke day and night. that famous overpressure in the point. in reality the companies make so much money from the oil that they don't even care about the gas they pump at the same time. these massive

panels also create acid rain so that the water from the sky is no longer drinkable . garrison in charge of site surveillance court will have a visit we spend several hours negotiating bargaining explaining ourselves to the higher ups over the telephone. reputation and his work with amnesty international in particular allow us to get out of trouble. a former farm worker said this dean is the leader of most of the movement for the survival of the ogoni people its founder the writer can sorrow we. denounced both the dictatorship and power in the eighty's and the ravages caused by shell the largest of the old companies present in nigeria. in a sham trial in which he was accused of murder and despite the process stations and anger of the whole world he was condemned to death and. along with eight other

members of the movement. which companies are your sallies yeah. i did visit. several musea i want to know about company that got mad at that but i know it's also something and. you haven't committed to walk in nigeria companies are the ones as possible. of course gries isn't going to decide i'm going to don't come together because they know that when government is it going to get out of their minds other companies that want to articulate the problems that this is our programs. take to permanently escorted synesthete has no car no address and no children or anyone who hinders all production in nigeria is under threat of death. the village of a creek is even crossed by

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clearly on the. spirit now right down to the or right on to decide if i could one of these areas there was a day we go from there we saw five also if i want everybody we don't check into. all of this i did write your histories are dead on the trees are dead. on here we used to fish we were fishing no fish. he's condemned for ever one day spiel i sell discovered that he's been he's very. large do we see it is so with us because we're always afraid to people damages and composition.

we mustn't lump everyone together not all the companies behave or have behaved as badly as shell and nigeria. it's just the worst one amongst them. offshore total allows us to go from installation to installation. the jack ryan is a motionless vessel position by satellite with its derrick and its pipes it conforms to the stereotypical image we have of oil drilling. beneath the boat three thousand meters of water and the oil pockets are a further two thousand meters below the sea bed. and apocalyptic day in harsh conditions a few months back a crane dragged three men into the sea one die. for the nigerians on board the wages are you know you earn

a good living in oil whether you're black or white. it's a big country they've got a big bunch of fried you know that want to. tell you it's a big country i brought us up to be. happy possibly. not i want to be i don't know but. on the floor below we can clearly see a pipe plunging into a pool the heart of the ship. this is the umbilical cord fixed to the seabed. inside the slide the rods that were drilled down to the deposit.

and the oil is reached they install a sort of giant valve several stories high over the drilling has been done it and the engineers have a very pretty nickname for it. but. the point here we are in front of the christmas tree is that when you cool it the christmas tree which you know the christmas tree it's the wellhead and ridges and charges that was based on you since you have all this must stay here i know. i. got my. face. yeah. yeah. so if it was a. christmas tree they'd be days if i've spoke to for. this is it's what. has been done with the price i feel like since something both about fire is going on we will be to go to. my front. to do

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roundup of the week's top stories on headlines at the arab league extends its observer mission in syria by a month as saudi arabia withdraw its monitors critical of the lack of progress in ending almost a year of violence. early results show has voted in favor of joining the european union this comes as yet another member of the financially stricken union romania rises up against its government's staring measures. and other stories that shape this week tension over iran's nuclear program reaches a new highs as the e.u. debates over in a boil embargo and the u.s.

ups its military presence in the region. and the power of the internet in action i'm massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy walls . thank you for being with us i'm karen two o'clock here in moscow arab league officials say it's a team of monitors who will continue its mission to implement a peace plan to end the crisis in syria that's comes of saudi arabia decides to withdraw its contingency saying the syrian government is not following through with its agreements aimed at ending the bloodshed and as our t. sara firth reports there's a desperate need for professional mediators in the region conflict. crucially was also expected to happen is that they are going to be bolstering this mission by increasing the numbers and also by providing training by the un 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 it 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 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 does need 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 it in the past few days a temporary ceasefire because between the government forces and free syrian army so we've seen in sadr city to see the last 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 in 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 found around the area all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting that's been going on out there to see very similar to this that. fourth extremely concerning the people there with the living heard extremely dangerous situation not really

clear who exactly is it shows think killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and this human cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly right at absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution the president of the invited. that is done in. the meanwhile the opposition syrian national council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country where thousands have died in the arrest the council believes arab league observers have been useless at ending hostilities and insists that foreign involvement is the only way out but as artie's maria financial reports there are doubts about the opposition leaders motives holly told jeff from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring in an end to the violence is what the 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 although it's been run by paris based exile about how the absence he has been recognized as the country's leader de mint government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some 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 financially. 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 courters 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 copper age and 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 cows who also sees 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 has been used to at yes and that general made to watch it because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least league to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint africa sooner or later it will force president assad out 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. dr amarna sabi says one thing the observer mission to syria has accomplished as to show abuses that have been committed by both sides. i think it's time in syria for dialogue and the

president president assad has created the platform for such dialogue in the same time the arab league has declared an extension for the monitors mission the other monitors mission in syria the arab monitors mission is as your report just stated a few minutes ago that it's lacking manpower it's lacking equipment it's lacking training it needs more time to actually build a comprehensive report on what's there however the first report the trillium in a report has been leaked to the media and i have i have had access to parts of this report this report shows that the there are some grave violations on both sides. the opposition or what the so-called syrian free army you have been also using heavy gunfire against civilians it's time that the opposition would face. shows

a positive sign because it is of the interest of no one of no one's interests that nato steps in there will be destruction there will be chaos as was the case in libya and as we have seen recently in libya things are not really turning into the beautiful democracy that everybody was dreaming off and the same will happen in syria. and now to developments in libya the deputy head of the country's national transitional council has announced his resignation as a series of protests against the new government continue these gold has been accused of being an opportunist who switched allegiances from the gadhafi regime as the uprising kicked off on saturday crowds of protesters stormed the n.t.s.c. headquarters and ghazi angered 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 m.t.c. head. mass rallies have been raging for the four weeks and benghazi considered at

the cradle of the revolution that toppled colonel gadhafi. a spokesman for british civilians for peace in libya says the council is failing to unite the country. the gadhafi regime could control the whole of libya could find peace amongst all the tribes the new regime cannot even control something in one town or one area i mean they turn libya into a war and of the hunting of black skins they are selling off the oil and natural resources and seventy to nato and now the thieves that is the rebels they are all falling out with each other they can't even be paid by their own masters in what they have done which is actually perform regime change on behalf of the former colonialists of libya now if you don't want to believe what gadhafi said about what was going to happen after the regime fell and everything that i would say that he said has come to pass then listen to you who is probably about to resign if he's not assassinated like the military head of the thought the units had said libya is in danger of descending into

a bottomless pit so really this is the chief of freedom and democracy by nato it's all become very clear people of syria and the people of lebanon and the people of the global south have to see what's happening in libya is coming to them if they're not able to defend themselves and stop this ruling western aggression against other countries in the global south. vote counting is underway in croatia's historic referendum on joining the e.u. zagreb assigned to a session treaty last year and it could become the union's twenty eighth member by july two thousand and thirteen at all member states ratify the deal for more on this we're joined live from croatia by our very own tom barton tell me how exactly did the referendum vote play out. well karen the preliminary results have all been collected and it's ended up a bit like this it was a turn to forty three percent it's under fifty percent of those eligible to vote but the rules mean that it's most likely that result is binding and it's come out

about sixty six percent of the population who did vote voted for the full croatia to join the e.u. and about thirty three percent against that's not as much as was predicted even a couple of years ago it was about seventy eighty percent in favor so there has been a slide away from that but it seems most likely that the will now go ahead to join the e.u. next july well there were protests on the eve of this vote can we expect to see some more. it's hard to say at the moment those protests were kicked off yesterday in in central zagreb a group of protesters who felt extremely strongly that the that this referendum that the e.u. access would essentially hand away would hundred way croatia's independence to the e.u. it was their central message. that you have to bear in mind when you look when you're

talking about throwaway share it's charts especially in these last twenty years since the end of communism in the former yugoslavia croatia has fought very hard for the independence it has now not to like many other members who joined the e.u. it was involved in in the balkan wars and a lot of the more conservative elements of society here feel very passionately that they do not want to join another union they see brussels as essential in another belgrade as far as they're concerned that could rule from a fun now that's not the view of the majority of the population but a lot of the population have a disconnect with their political class here the political class have said this is a good thing that nearly all unanimously europhiles where is the population of morse said that the debate has featured quite

a lot of misinformation and ignorance here in croatia a lot of people who if things. don't have all of groves torn up the fleets of the tallinn trawlers will come and steal all the fish things like this that simply aren't borne out by the evidence but nevertheless that has meant that the that the debate around it has been very rocky essentially the pro camp says this is very good economically for croatia croatia in in a very weak economic position at the moment and one. the. credit rating is nearly jumped and it's because of this excess exception that that credit rating and foreign investment will be rescued the people on the camp say well that's not a team so we're also going to be joining in. to

talk about it it seems like we're starting to lose you but very briefly is it the right time for croatia to join the e.u. with all the recent economic troubles and it seems that the anti european union feeling is kind of spreading throughout the block. absolutely of course there's this this is a very strong debate that will go on about what the economic consequences are for joining the e.u. for croatia and that they are. not really born with as i say a nearby rumania where there has been the biggest protest stints the fall of communism there was the government play centrally involved but the austerity measures that have been put in place in romania mass protests there calling for the government especially the president to resign there's been really harsh cuts there to public sector salaries there's been cuts in all benefits there's been freezing pensions

a lot of people say this is just too harsh we really can't cope with that. or country. we do and i was there watching some of the strength of feeling and some of the very aggressive protests with battles between protesters and police just a few days ago. night and day they come to screen their defiance fighting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence that was 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 is forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension when they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it had

a wire is not just here herself her son left rumania put it to me to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. he wants to descend down down with disaster as parents left us with a heritage and we're losing 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 there are many and.