providing training 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 this really 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 that's made that's where the u.n. training is going to come and play a very pivotal role because was 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 his that 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 all streaming 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 fight very very difficult to know exactly who is in charge of the people's houses that we were showing in the city center had been absolutely devastated by the fighting with the children who have been showing us some of the bullet casings that they've found around the area all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting that's been going out. there it was extremely concerning the people who were still living hurt externally dangerous situation it's not really clear. exactly as it shows his think killing hate and that makes the

situation very very dangerous indeed this year because of the conflict that there has been devastatingly right at absolutely essential for everyone right now is the fight that kind of resolution the president had the night that i can buy the cars. that are down there and. 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 towed 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 essence he was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there

present them and their international community in order to reach this syrian people's freedom and although it's been run by paris based exile about 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 broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in a new syrian regime libya's national transitional council and the syrian national council and. it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored

from a brave thing right opposition forces and they're made to go is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the essence is hot quarters 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 in with the free syrian army fighters who 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 all parents operation work this year that gas has been used to at us and that generator they 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 lead to maybe the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after is sooner or later 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 that 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 city and free army you have been also using heavy gunfire against civilians it's time that the opposition shows 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 empty sea 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 abdul mass rallies have been raging for the four weeks and bengazi 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 so ranty 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 twentieth 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 turnout 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 four 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 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. was their central message and 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 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 put collation and more circumspect said that the debate has featured quite a lot of misinformation and ignorance here in croatia

a lot of people who if things. will have the olive groves torn up fleets of italian trawlers will come and steal all the fish things like this that there simply aren't borne out by the average of us 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 a very weak economic position at the moment and one. the. being. pretty rating is nearly jumped and it's because of the success exception that that credit rating and foreign investment will be rescued the people on the camp say well that's not a certain we're also going to be joining. us . all week to talk about 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 here opinion 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. don't get really bored with c.n.n. by remaining where there has been the biggest protest stintz the fall of communism there was the play centrally involved but the austerity measures that have been put in place in romania mass protests they're 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 the benefits there's been three days in pensions a lot of people say this is just too harsh we really can't cut it with that. many

of the senate or country. eat 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 biting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence i mean our youth has no future they have no jobs. motor 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 when they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're borrowing the money because they don't have it. or 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 rango president. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption not who wants to take the cesspool down down with disaster parents left us with a heritage and we're losing our children as debt and 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 the 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 still full around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequences that inevitably affect us too it's 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 now 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 lisa was here to know what is the foundation that he was held on five hours. after him there was tara to

watch it was on the spirit of the president a little about the magic here and you can see why when mania wanted. europe and the u.s. have expressed their willingness to return to dialogue with iran over its nuclear program but despite that the e.u. seems about such to approve an unprecedented embargo on iranian oil france says tougher sanctions are the only way to avoid military action the u.s. in its turn has strengthened its presence in the region by sending a second aircraft carrier to the arabian sea it's reportedly planning to sail through the strait of hormuz which iran has threatened to block in response to sanctions the 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 says washington is deliberately escalating the situation to create a pretext for regime change in iran. 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 u.s. can do as it has in history carry out regime change. tektronix relations with the

u.k. have been further strained over this week over london's decision to take iranian english language news channel press t v 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 but press t.v. believes it's being silenced for dissenting views phil reese a u k based author and media analyst believes the channel is another victim of an ongoing campaign against iran thanks so much for being with us 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 geo political terms that 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. i've been d. . to it's coverage because you know it sees the middle east very differently for

example than the mainstream media in britain these repeatedly comes up probably is really groups repeatedly complain about it we know very well that the british government at the very highest level was discussing with the american ambassador here 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 while across the atlantic a freedom of speech battle of a different kind of our way the u.s. congress buckled to 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 such as wikipedia and google joined together to stand against the proposed legislation if passed and people laws whatever allowed top

media conglomerates and copyright holders to shut down large portions 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 barrett brown who's worked with anonymous on various operations believes the mega upload shutdown shows the government will take action even without new 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 for many other things so and the way that you know the rate on mega upload tides in this opens it shows that even without so already in place here they are already arresting image arresting the owners of mega upload and shutting it down and in the future the very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more more military methods and

situation gets worse and then graphically until such point as the notable civil war in the us occurs. now look at what else is making news around the world us our yemen's president. left his nation after a farewell speech in which he apologized for his mistakes and said it's time to hand over power he's leaving the country to have medical treatment in the u.s. after which he says expected to return as head of the general people's congress party yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for saleh has been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north of nigeria and state of by which he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel trolling a checkpoint two churches in the area were also attacked meanwhile the death toll from a series of bombings in kano on friday now exceeds one hundred seventy and continues

to rise as lama sect boko haram has claimed responsibility for the majority of the violence that's plagued northern nigeria since christmas. the battle over scotland's possible split from great britain is dividing opinion in an increasingly disunited 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. british a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world . oil the country's clues to than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who wants to go. nationalist party leader alex salmond's promising school we'll get to say on being single but london wants to cool the shots and get it done and dusted the day that

the british don't want to talk about the subjects i sometimes feel when i listen to them it's not a referendum they want it's i never read them question. travel debate and let'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 i hope yes from the scottish people would mean scotland would gain control over its own north sea oil and gas and represented in 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 head

south not that it seems to pull the 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. see that he can argue against. his shocked i think a shutter i don't think you have any say in the fires of. scots of never taken kindly to hearing stern 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 in. the initiative but it's completely by via he's actually been the best recruiting. i think is of. margaret thatcher. in the last seven days. so you know up to now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords at stake for alex salmond

is a reputation built on restoring a proud scotland for prime minister. and is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart norris method at imbra. and i'll be back with a recap of this week's main headlines in just a few minutes stay with our to. the

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russians would be so much brighter if you knew more about some from funniest impressions. stunts on t.v. don't come. thanks for being with us at half past the hour roundup of the week's top stories in headlines the arab league extends its observer mission in syria by a month out saudi arabia withdrawals its monitor is critical of the lack of progress in ending almost a year of violence. early results show croatia has voted in favor of joining the european union this comes as yet another member of the financially stricken union in romania rises up against its governments and the measures. and other stories

that shape the week tension over iran's nuclear program reaches new highs as the e.u. debates an oil embargo on the u.s. ups its military presence in the region. and the power of the internet in action a massive all mine backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy laws . when it comes to big money in american politics lobbyists are the people who know exactly how it works jack abbott i'm all for used to be one until he was convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud in an extensive corruption case he now tells us what he thinks of corruption in washington. i'm sitting down with jack off once the most powerful lobbyist in washington referred to as the man who bought washington he brought government officials to.