bolstering this mission by increasing the numbers and also by 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 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 that's 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 new clear 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 these 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 seen into the cities to see full steam 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 here 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 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. in this area and that's was extremely concerning the people who are still. having heard extremely dangerous situation it's not really

clear who exactly is in charge think killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and this human cost of the conflict there has been devastatingly high and that's a linear sense of everyone right now is the fight that kind of resolution the president had in the market. i think. that is done there and. 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 arm rest the council believes arab league observers have been useless at ending hostilities annan says that foreign involvement is the only way out but as artie's maria financial reports there are doubts about the opposition leader's motives howley 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.n.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 the paris based exile. 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 bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in a new series. in regime libya's national transitional council and the syrian

national council well it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored from abroad they can write 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 i know 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 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 that all parents operation where this year that the gas is being used to activists and that generator 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 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 while his attorneys to stay with 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 omar in a sabi says one thing the observer mission to syria has accomplished is 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 the clear 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 preliminary 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 could face shows

a positive sign because it is of the interest of no one of no one's interests that need to steps in there would 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 later this hour the u.k. breaks its stony silence a top british official comes clean about spying on russia admitting the country used a fake wrong to snoop on the kremlin. and the power of being internet now action a massive on line backlash over u.s. plans to expand the web censorship leads to the suspension of pending anti-piracy longs. and out of developments in libya the deputy head of the country's

national transitional council has announced his resignation zz as a series of protests against the new government continue. has been accused of being an opportunist who switched allegiances from the gadhafi regime as the uprising taked off on saturday crowds of protesters stormed the empty sea headquarters and been angered by the way the council was handling the country's assets demonstrators throwing stones and metal bars at the building breaking windows and damaging the car of the m.t.c. head up to real mass rallies have been raging for weeks in benghazi considered the cradle of the revolution that toppled colonel gadhafi adrian so butchy an expert on north african affairs says the council's main goal is to secure western oil interests not establish democracy. mission in libya for example who's not in the country libya already had the highest standard of living in all of north

africa where libya does have is the my largest global oil reserve and the oil reserve in africa that is with the national transitional council are being supported in order that they should promote wester all companies western financial interests in libya and the people will just have to be read out but people have already been killed a little bit of all genocide has taken place as we've seen in iraq so in a way the same pattern is repeated over and over again that we are there's a double standard they say that they are promoting democracy but what they are basically doing is promoting good financial and political interest of the global power elite embedded inside the united states the european union and israel. well counting is underway in croatia's historic referendum on joining the e.u. zagreb signed in the e.u. ascension treaty last year and it could become the union's twenty eighth member by july twenty third seen if all member states ratify the deal party's tom barton is in croatia for more. sixty six percent of the population who did vote

voted for the four croatia to join you about thirty three percent against that's not as much as was predicted even a couple of years ago it was about seventy eight percent in favor so there has been a slight away from london but it seems most likely that the you will now go ahead to join the e.u. next july a lot of the more conservative element of society here feel very passionately that they do not want to join another union they see brussels is essentially another belgrade as far as they're concerned that could rule from a fun you have to bear in mind when you look when you're talking about croatia it's parsed 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 but a group of protesters who felt extremely strongly that the that this

referendum in that the e.u. access would essentially hand away with hundred way croatia's independence to the e.u. was their central message of course is this this is very strong debate that will go on about what the economic consequences are of for joining the e.u. for pro asia a lot of strong feelings about the e.u. have been felt here in pro aisha they've also been felt in other countries just a few days ago i was in remain here this is the second poorest country tree in the at the moment and they have been the largest protests there since remaining the fall of communism. night and day they come to scream their defiance biting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. with our youth has no few. 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. water is not just here for herself her son left her mania 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 as 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 pay 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 discouraged 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 and like it was for. them there was tara to brush it under the president live about to have it here and you can see why when many of us want to tear it all down. yes. you hear about 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 set to approve an unprecedented embargo on our rainy and oil francis' tougher sanctions are the only way to avoid military action the us 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 and 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. ron's relations with the u.k. have been further strained this week over at london's decision to take iranian the 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 filigree say you can't based author and media analyst believes the channel is another victim of an ongoing campaign against iran so much. if this had been separated from

geopolitics you know with this would not have happened some 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 so 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. has 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 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 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. and there are plenty of more stories to be found on our website r t dot com including attack me downs the french president's website in retaliation for his backing of the closure of file sharing. plus. if you've been following ukraine's famine movement check out their latest show of naked anger in front of the indian embassy in that story and much much more at our t.v. dot com. well across the atlantic a freedom of speech battle of a different kind to us under way the u.s. congress buckles to pressure and were called to anti-piracy bills this week after a massive internet blackout and the hacker attacks on government websites millions of net users and web giant such as wicca pedia and google joining together to stand against the proposed legislation if passed and the sopa people laws would have 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 upload quote me 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 in all governments. is such that given the power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power. so in the way that you know this is great on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without soap already in place you're going to know already a rest rest megaupload and shutting it down and in the future. there will be a number of other. military. situation it's worse

in the grass and smells of war and the notable civil war. now to take a look at what else is making news around the world with salwar yemen's president ali abdullah saleh 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 is expected to return as head of the general people's congress party yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for saleh who's been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of but which killed eleven people including several police and army personnel patrolling a checkpoint two churches in the area were also attacked meanwhile the death toll from a series of bombings in cairo on friday now exceeds one seventy and continues to rise islamist sect boko haram has claimed responsibility for the majority of the

violence that's plagued northern nigeria since christmas. at least sixteen people have died and one remains missing after an iranian passenger boat sank in the persian gulf all of the country's southern coast the ship set sail despite a travel ban imposed on line vessels ahead of a storm that captain who survived the accident is now being questioned by police. beijing rings in the chinese new year in spectacular fashion from the bell tower in any part of the capital it's tradition to sound the bell one hundred mi times to herald the start of the lunar calendar year the night sky was also lit up by fireworks displays across the country as more than a billion people celebrated the beginning of the water dragon. this week a former british official admitted the u.k. spies had been called red handed by russia but it took six years of from when the

kremlin first made the allegations bennett explains how moscow left no stone unturned. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but he didn't 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'd 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. the moment of was the one behind the exposé and left no stone unturned but much more at first i had to be dealt i thought it might be a fake story or a political game but we cross check 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 unit in front of the camera that carroll's hidden under a tree in the song was 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 we. haven't 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 why admit 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. agreement supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on all the bennetts london.

and i'll be back with a recap of the week's top stories in today's headlines in just a few minutes. thank you. wolf.

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area. recap of your headlines now being arab calls on syrian president bashar al assad to surrender some of his powers to his vice president and form a national unity government with the opposition. early results show croatia has posted in favor of joining the european union yet another member of the financially stricken union romania rises up against its government's anti-authority masham's and other stories that this week the tension over iran's nuclear program reaches new highs as they continue to paint on oil embargo and the us up to its military presence in the region. right now we had to siberia

a more spiritual world as we follow the drum beat of the somme on our special report is next. the sun's early in siberia a dusk by year in chino one of the most celebrated and experienced showman's east of lake begins his show rituals today's ritual is designed to invoke the spirits healing abilities and thank them for the 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 showman becomes aware of the onset of the state trance he puts on a cap that covers his eyes become protects the shaman from evil spirits and safeguards the onlookers according to popular belief ordinary people are not supposed to see the shamans eyes at such moments because this might cause them home then the shermans crone comes into play this.