policing 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 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 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 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 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 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. in this area and that's was extremely concerning the people who are still living hurt externally dangerous things. to

a shift not really clear who exactly is in charge think killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous and 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 on them by that. i think. that it out there and. meanwhile the opposition the 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 by 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 leader's 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 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 example about how the absence he has been recognized as the country's legitimate government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some each 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 series. national

council and it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored from a grade they even write opposition forces and they're made to go 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 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 region 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 isn't legal is that all paris operation where this year that the gas has been 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 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 marna shall be says one thing the observer mission to syria has accomplished is to show the 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 out of 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 would face shows

a positive sign because it is of the interest of no one of no one's interests that need two steps in they would be destruction they 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. coming up later in the program of the ballot for scotland solver. find out how monday and has switched its p.r. machine into full throttle in an apparent effort to suppress scotland's growing clamor for independence. and the power of the internet interaction a massive on line backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship leads to the suspension of funding anti-piracy laws . 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. going there 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.c.c. headquarters in benghazi 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 n.c.c. head abdul joe neel mass rallies have been raging for weeks and been ghazi considered the cradle of the revolution that toppled. took on child on 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 among 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 selling off the oil and natural resources and so over into to nato and now the thieves that is the rebels they're 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 colonial east of libya now if you don't want to believe what gadhafi said about what was going to happen all through the regime fell and everything that i would say that he said has come to pass then listen to you probably about to resign if he's not assassinated like the military head of the thought the units said libya is a. 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 about 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 of the global south about counting is underway in croatia is historic referendum on joining the e.u. zagreb signed an e.u. accession treaty last year and it could become the union's twenty eighth member by july two thousand and thirteen if all member states ratified the deal. is incur

a share for us. 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 slide away from london but it seems most likely that we 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 past 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 the e.u. access ssion would essentially hand away with hundred way croatia's independence to the e.u. it 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 croatia 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 in. 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. a water is not just here for herself her son left for me yes 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 the cesspool down down with disaster as parents left us with a heritage and we're losing our children just 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 pay for those who had profited the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worse. 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 these. are not the words of the foundation of the movie was held on like elements present. there was tara to watch it was unafraid of the president a little about the already here and you can see why when many of us want to tear it all down. yes. 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 set to approve an unprecedented embargo on iranian oil france says tougher sanctions are the only way to avoid military action and 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 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. tech problems relations with the u.k. have been a further strain this week over of london's decision to take iranian english language news channel press t.v. off 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 research u.k. based author and media analyst believes the channel is another victim of an ongoing

campaign against iran. 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 geopolitical 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. 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 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 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 web site r t v dot com including an attack down to the french president's website in retaliation for his backing of the closure of a file sharing mega load plus. if you've been following ukraine's or female movement check out their later show of naked anger in front of the indian embassy we'll find that story and much much more in our dot com. while across the atlantic a freedom of speech battle of a different kind was underway the u.s. congress buckle 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 the sopa and people walls 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 happier 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 and all the. news almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power. so in the way that you know this is right on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without so-called already in place you're going to know already a rest rest you may go out and shutting it down and in the future. there will be a number of other. military not. that you want and it's worse

in the grass and stones that want as you know to. now let's take a look at what else is making news around the world this hour 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 medical treatment in the u.s. after which he's 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 by which he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel patrolling a check point two churches in the area were also attacked meanwhile the death toll from a series of bombings in can no on friday now exceeds one seven d. and continues to rise islam a 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 off of the country's southern coast the ship set sail despite a travel ban imposed on life 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 a bell tower in an ancient part of the capital it's tradition to sound the bell one hundred eight times to herald the start of the lunar calendar year the night sky was also lit up by a fireworks display as across the country as more than a billion people celebrated the beginning year of the water dragon. 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 london says a divorce would come at a price artie's laura smith explains. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world but on. the country's closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who wants scotland to go it alone nationalist party leader alex salmond promising scots will get a say on being single but london wants to call the shots and get it done and dusted . they don't want to talk about the substance i sometimes feel when i listen to them it's not a referendum they want it's a never ending question they're trying to debate and that's keep our country together but why would scotland want to separate itself from

a britain that still among the world's richest economies scotland always retained its own distinct national identity and the s.n.p. feels it's almost time to take that one step further. yet 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 truth. thousand and fourteen and that delay is letting london ramp up the scare stories telling scotland it'll have to pay the price such as the billions of pounds british taxpayers spent keeping scottish banks alive that it would have to find its own currency and lose thousands of jobs when the navy heads south not that it seems to both 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 police to be independent then see that he can argue against it just

as shocked i think a shock to i don't think you should 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 mr cameron feels he had to the issue to but it's completely but viable he's actually been the best recruiting sergeant i think is of. margaret thatcher. in the last seven days with. 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 the prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith r.t.

edinburgh. and i'll be back with a recap of this week's main headlines in just a few minutes stay with art.

we have seen the damage it has done to our environment more chemicals what the poor probs we do not want any more and no deal molds. our core system it's just there was a does more experience and i'm just i'm just appalled but that's allowed to go on in america. we are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like a board to experiment to be used as guinea pig. oh now we have more questions than we have matters guards. like.

down the field fishel on t. up location on the phone i pod touch from the top story. which all teachers life on the go. video on demand. an omission st now with the palm of your. machine. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

world with. technology innovation all these developments around russia we've got the future covered. thanks for joining us six thirty here in moscow here's a quick recap of your headlines the arab league calls on syrian president bashar al assad to surrender some of his powers to a spice president and form a national unity government with the opposition. early results show croatia house voted in favor of joining the european union this comes as yet another member of the financially stricken union of romania rises up against its governments and the measures. and other stories that shape this week tension over iran's nuclear

program reaches new highs as they debates an oil embargo and the u.s. ups its military presence in the region. when it comes to big money in american politics lobbyists are the people who know exactly how it works jack used to be one long till 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 in order to gain political support for his clients in two thousand and six he was convicted of ripping off his clients jack abramoff served three and a half years in prison guilty of conspiracy fraud and.