in 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 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 new clear really was the need to bridge these widening gaps than in the town is that the dunny we actually visited

there yesterday with you is that if he remained in the country this is the area that you see in the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the past few days a temporary ceasefire because between the government forces and free syrian army so we've seen in the cities to see both being 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 are. very dramatic. in this area it was extremely concerning the people who are still living here. stream the dangerous situation it's not

really clear who exactly is in charge who think killing him and that makes the situation very very dangerous and. cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution. invited. by the. area. 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 end rest the council believes arab league observers have been useless at ending hostilities and ince 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. howlett ho 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 two national committee in order to reach this syrian people's freedom and although it's been run by paris based exile but hamdani in the absence he has been recognized as the country's legitimate government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some and nato countries which has made some doubt 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 abroad think he writes opposition forces and their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts cortez 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 the town 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 have defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance. the

cowsills who sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this isn't a top is all paris operation where this year that gas has been used to add a vessel that jet that they made to look at that 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 after his sooner or later 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 omar less obvious says one thing the observer mess senator syria has accomplished as a 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 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 need to steps in there would be destruction they would 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's deaf they want to snoop on the kremlin. and the power of the internet in action a massive online backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship leads to the suspension of plundering 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. as 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 m.t.c. headquarters in benghazi angered by the way the council was handling the country's assets demonstrators stones and metal bars of the building breaking windows and damaging the car of the m.t.c. head toolchain real mass rallies have been raging for weeks in benghazi considered the cradle of the revolution that toppled colonel gadhafi. an expert on north african affairs says the council's main goal is to secure western oil interests not establish democracy. the mission in libya for example is not to be in the country maybe 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 and that is what the national transitional council are being supported for in order that they should promote wester all companies western financial interest and the people will just have to be read out but people have already been killed a little veritable 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. folk camping is underway in croatia's historic referendum on joining the e.u. zagreb signed in the e.u.'s session treaty last year and it could become the union's twenty eighth member by in july two thousand and thirteen if all member states ratify the deal is in croatia 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 that but it seems most likely that the 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 the next session would essentially hand away with hundred way croatia's independence to the e.u. was their central message of course is this this is a 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 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. or is not just here for herself her son left romania but it's illegal to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president try and. protest as 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 leaving our children with 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 by 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 every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania. or jews used to shorten as much as we can.

with many of them accepting there was no escape economically politics for them was the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. what should. the president. be here and you can see what made you want to take it all down and start again. europe and the us 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 they u.s. and 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 leaving 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. specters 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. relations with the u.k. have been further strain this week over london's decision to take iranian english language news channel press t v all 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 press t.v. believes it's being silenced for dissenting views filreis so you can't based author and media analyst believes the channel is another victim of an ongoing campaign and can start around thanks so much. if this had been separated from geo politics

you know with this would not have happened 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. 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 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 me in 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 attack downs the french president's website in retaliation for his backing of the closure of file sharing mag upload plus. if you've been following ukraine's famine movement check out their latest show of make it anger in front of the indian embassy you'll find that story and much much more at our team dot com. well across the atlantic a freedom of speech battle of a different kind is underway the u.s. congress buckled to pressure and recalled to weigh anti-piracy bills this week after a massive internet blackout and hacker attacks on government web websites millions of net users and web giants such as with a pedia and google joined together to stand against the proposed legislation if passed the sopa and people laws what 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 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 the track record and all the. news almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of power. so the way that you know this is they don't megaupload cards in the snow because it shows that even without soap already in place you're going to know already you're resting and resting your megaupload and shutting it down and in the future the very near 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 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 have medical treatment in the new west after which he's expected to return as head of the general people's congress party yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution force who's been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of which he has 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 into know 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 off of the country's southern coast the ship set sail despite a travel ban imposed on light bustles ahead of a storm the 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 any 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 fireworks displays across the country as more than a billion people celebrated the year of the water track it. this week a former british official admitted the u.k. spies had been called red handed by russia but it took six years from when the kremlin first maybe allegations artie's ever bet it explains how moscow left no

stone unturned. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but hidden in this fake stone was a high tech transmitted british spooks used to spy on russia the allegations from moscow have always been dismissed but six years on there is rock solid evidence the u.k. can no longer deny tony blair's former chief of staff come clean admitting british spies were caught red handed the spy rock was embarrassing they had us bang to rights clearly they had known about it for some time and had been saving it up for a political purpose. the embarrassing revelations confirmed the findings of a russian television report in two thousand and six it showed this video of a man slowing down and looking at the rock as he passed apparently an agent beaming top secret intelligence from a mobile computer to a digital drop point concealed in the stone another man was filmed picking up the

rock and collecting the data. the moment was the one behind the exposé and left no stone unturned but. at first i had to be dealt i thought it might be a fake story or political game but we cross checked everything with multiple sources and it turned out to be true some footage we didn't include in the film was particularly convincing for example there was a video of a british spy a 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 pretended that he needed to take a leak n.e.p. right in front of the camera before picking up the stone and leaving. but it was his word against theirs britain fiercely denied the allegations with tony blair laughing them off as russian propaganda the truth was buried inside the u.k. secret service headquarters supposedly never to be seen again so after six years of dodging the bullet wide net it now they're very embarrassing but i think that the

british government has decided. to have bygones are bygones and say ok we made a mistake. up and we want better relations from now on so i would see this as a first step on the road to improve relations with russia this is the home of britain's spooks m i six the government is a broad their job may not be secret but how they do it is or at least should be so the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the fact they were caught doing it a post called. war agreement supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on either bennett's london. i'll be back with a recap of this week's main headlines in just a few minutes stay with our team.

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thanks for being with us around the week's top stories in today's headlines the arab league calls all syrian president bashar al assad to surrender some of his powers to his vice president on forming a national unity government with the opposition. early results show croatia has voted in favor of joining the european union as yet another member of the financially stricken union romania rises up against its government. and other stories that shape this week tension over iran's nuclear program reaches

new as the e.u. debates on oil embargo and the u.s. ups its military presence in the region. up next join peter lavelle and his guests for cross talk. and. we welcome your boss not computor look at the biggest and most expensive elections money can buy this is how many american see what are called political action committees or super pacs are the super pacs good for democracy do they really inform and voters and our elections now.