flagrant interference with the internal affairs really the sense here from damascus is that the government here are working on their own reforms they want the arab league mission to focus on their job of course the problem is you've got countries in the arab league like saudi arabia like qatar now seeing the sense that they're preaching democracy to syria when of course they themselves don't have democracy. brushes and stances once again that this should be seeking resolution with alice for an intervention now i've actually spoken to the national coordinator council which is the opposition within the country they welcomed the maven again reiterated best felt that as long as there is no move towards foreign military intervention they're very very pleased with the response from the arab league mission because you still got observers on the ground it's expected that that mission is actually now going to continue possibly for another month and possibly with the extension of their powers and their numbers as well of course what you don't want to see happen

now is that the arab league mission which is really the only route there remains a plenty for seeing dialogue in the country to now have blocks put in its way so the question really is how to make the mission the observer mission more effective because as we've been witnessing in the past couple of weeks really at the moment in the country what you want to be thing is the sightedness and not third the division. or civilization. or. going. to homes the conflict has moved ever closer to the country's capital now many damascus suburbs are also in brussels in the conflicts between government forces and the armed opposition well this is all that's left of many of the houses now inside just absolutely gutted it's broken glass you've got bullet holes lining the walls you've got close around the house where people have left. then behind fleeing

very quickly you can really see here the devastating consequences that this conflict has heard for picking up the pieces won't prove easy amongst the opposition themselves there are worrying divisions and as the conflicts become increasingly violent there are now areas of the country where it's unclear exactly he's in control what do the people here. think with the syrian army having control . over this you are not told. a lot of numbers by a number of secrecy the heart of who's in charge and so you know. the division the diversion of the stuff. league observers look set to remain in the country for another month trying to build the basis for multi-party elections if you seen by the international community or that you are just sort of or you are into a position you have to put in your mind that you have to work with the other side

working with the other side this is their look instead of targeting it with thousands killed bringing the different factions to the negotiating table is going to be a major task sara for. damascus syria the e.u. has imposed fresh travel bans and asset freezes on the syrian regime as punishment for the ongoing violence but as sarah marusek a political analyst from syracuse university says the opposition is also partly to blame for the bloodshed and that pressure should be put on both sides to start talks. of course there are certain parts of the opposition that should share the responsibility for the there are a good amount of syrians who are dedicated to peaceful demonstrations who have been showing up on the streets and have been resisting calls to violence but then there are also many dangerous segments of the opposition who have long used violence we see this as more and more especially over the last several months with

a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to opposition that's becoming increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian infrastructure syrian government institutions the police and also innocent civilians are getting killed in syria and so really the violence now is a two way street and it's really a failure of the syrian mission the observers if they're not going to the pressure on both sides it's unrealistic to force one side to make all the changes when there is violence coming from both sides what's going to happen to the silent majority of syrians who are not protesting are they going to be attacked by the more militant forms of protesters are they going to be injured in some sort of process that is not going to facilitate dialogue that's going to facilitate chaos. e.u. members have voted to impose further sanctions on iran in an attempt to curb its nuclear ambitions which maintains are purely peaceful the measures target the

iranian oil sector the country's main source of foreign income banning any future contracts russia expressed its regret over the move saying about undermines diplomatic efforts to solve the crisis. has more. it's sensually a total oil embargo it will have immediate effect on new contracts but that existing contract will be allowed to run for another six months they've also agreed on a ban on gold and gold trade and other precious metals with the iranian central bank all of these of course aiming to financially and economically cripple iran over its controversial nuclear program with western leaders still insisting iran is trying to build nuclear weapons while tara ron denies this now the e.u. embargo follow strict new way u.s. sanctions that were passed into law by president obama in january so as far as the e.u. is concerned by july it will be a full and total implementation of these new sanctions this is unprecedented in terms of the scope and the desire to potential effects on iran but it is also one

president in terms of its potential economic impact on the european union itself let's not forget the e.u. imports up to twenty percent of rain in all its second biggest buyer and one of the twenty seven the biggest buyers within that are at least spain and greece the very same countries that are now struggling to deal with that sovereign debt crisis greece in particular heavily depended on the radio oil with up to one third of its total imports from iran also it's relying on terror for easier credit terms so they will definitely have to find alternatives for these countries these are what the leaders will have to talk about how to cushion the potential economic impacts on the several member states and of course because of all the uncertainty oil markets have already reacted pushing oil prices up and higher oil prices will just mean higher prices of goods. meanwhile prince britain and germany they were willing to negotiate the sanctions if tucker and hope the tomic activities but. columnist and asia times correspondent says iran's patient patience is just about to end. the p

five plus one as it's called the five permanent members of the security council plus germany dish should sit down theoretically by the end of this months with iran in this stumble the whole thing is brokered by turkey to start talking again about about iranian nuclear program but i wonder if iran has any incentive at the moment any fact the hard line there is interest say exactly that. the sanctions and if they are fully implemented on july first we're going to close down this street of hormuz as a reaction this is something that they need to see terms of their internal public opinion because they're being pressured all the time by the europeans the americans and europeans any really an eighty million iranians are asking themselves what is our government doing to defendants in effect that we have the right to to to develop a peaceful nuclear program and there is no evidence anywhere by day by national intelligence estimates in the united states that they are developing

a nuclear weapon. coming up later in the program the twists and turns of russian politics as the electoral campaign intensifies a presidential hopeful vladimir putin wants to get tough on immigration. and now to libya where at least four people have been killed and twenty others wounded as forces still loyal to colonel gadhafi attack to the former leader stronghold of bani walid earlier the national transitional council's leader warren said that the country was on an edge of civil war weeks of protests in the city of benghazi forced his deputy to resign on monday the demonstrators many of whom helped overthrow the previous regime are angered by the slow pace of reform and as a lack of transparency in the n.t. sees handling of but countries assets patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spiked says the events in libya are not surprising given the fact that the council was not chosen by the people. now i find that very interesting actually because well what i mean the national transitional

council itself was very much something that was already chosen by the west not something that was chosen by the libyan people it was very much kind of put in place and then there were kind of helicopters in when gadhafi was gotten rid of so the thing that i find very striking here actually is that the n.t. you see isn't doing itself any favors in terms of pro-democracy campaign is also seeing off the. support is this world of warnings for a long time that this could happen in bani walid people are saying very least two months we may get a program off the uprising here and the m.t.c. did nothing about it they were warned now bani walid to apparently been taken so it's not surprising and it does seem like the m.t.c. is impotence and this is reflecting the needs and desires of anyone in libya at the moment there was a lot of congratulates you talk by cameron see a bomber who gets a bit of a distance but was still involved after the fall of gadhafi i think they're going to be very reluctant to admit that what they didn't do was bring about democracy in

the country. and in neighboring egypt the newly elected parliament has had its first session most of the seats are occupied by the islamist parties that clinched an overwhelming victory in the first post mubarak elections but as artie's maria financial reports many now feel they are just going to play by the rules set out by the old regime. piers a growing option here in egypt already that with these with this new poll and changes will actually not be as dramatic as people in the revolution demonstrators protesters have expected them to be the muslim brotherhood should have been just as faulty has indeed the first vote in the bar of egypt mostly because it had voted had promised people old aid to how to keep production transitional transition from ministry to civil power something people have been calling for have been demonstrating for since the supreme council of the armed forces took power from

mubarak last february because to them they say that the ruling generals have been actually representing the old regime something they've been trying to gays and something actually the revolution has been designed to gets read off but even today we have ninety signs indicating that the islam is in this new poll and the muslim brotherhood as well as some of the business section talk to get. a vote actually going most law to cooperate we scoff and that's why many people who have been able to speak to here in prague road say they feel a little bit mich. croatia voted sunday in support of a bid for membership the yes ballot however wasn't a solid one with more than half of all eligible voters simply ignoring the national referendum the country is now set to become the union's twentieth state by july next year but only after all the other members ratify the move croatia was split on the issue with those in opposition saying there is nothing to gain from

a bloc currently experiencing its worst ever financial crisis analysts say as are going to must focus on reforms to stave off the country's credit rating and boost the economy before they become a fully pledged member and as artie's tom barton reports the divisions are here to stay even after the yes vote. violent scenes in the croatian complicated it's the country's new referendum that setting. lists are being made behind me the police came to the protest as a way to say take and seize protest his late sixty's diminish the tense here in the creation capital and find things has been doing really well now. only. these empty protesters say the government is trying to suppress

the dissenting voices they are joining with surrender croatia's independence to brussels. in another street nearby the foreign minister is trying to convince people to session is vital to the current economy actually. stability that scale can lead it into the credit rating of the ratio. that is translated into membership of the union gracious budgets would be in serious trouble everywhere you turn in croatia the e.u. is being discussed whereas most. the political class no longer question the europhiles stands public views different points in the soup for you to tell us we come into or see and touch all our fish and that's our biggest threat you know if you go there after you told us you have to pay the e.u. has regulations those that don't want to obey must stop trading here in memphis you

know we have two sons who are employed and maybe because of that i would be privacy them reasonably similar you know they're loaded to me worries about solvency local industry and economic well being a former student and there are still some voices in parliament think the benefits of well joining. the coalition we're not going with our heads high up we're going to already because our economy our non-existing our exporting is pretty bad our b d p is very low so we don't really have anything to offer to back out on the streets the arguments quality not continue with ferocity with such strong emotions it seems unlikely this referendum result the nation's division and the european membership top bottom. romania's foreign minister has been fired after making insulting comments about anti-government protesters calling them quote

violent slum dwellers protesters gathered in book university square said the dismissal did not go far enough and called for the resignation of the president as comes amidst almost two weeks of violent clashes in the country as the e.u. the second poorest nation romanians are creasing wage cuts and tax increases as their country struggles to meet the demands of its international creditors. russia's a presidential election is less than fifty days away and the candidates are setting forth their agendas prime minister and contender bloodied putin has published a second major newspaper article this time outlining his plans to unite russia's multi-ethnic society artie's peter all over reports. but talking on multiculturalism a migration vladimir putin praised what he sees as russia's long history as a multicultural nation a history he says goes back to the days of the russian empire it said it there have

been some very serious problems though when it comes to migration and integration of migrants in russia that these problems over the last twenty years since the collapse of the soviet union were very serious indeed in our problems that russia is still struggling to to deal with today speaking about what the results can be of migration going wrong he warned of the rise of nationalism the rise of xenophobia these type of issues that we saw acted out in real life eight in moscow in two thousand and ten with ethnic clashes taking place i'm right next to the kremlin in the heart of the russian capital he hits out at those that seem nationalism right he hit out at those who have slogans such as stop feeding him stop funding the caucuses saying well the caucuses are a part of russia talking of multiculturalism he said that russia had a very unique system of multiculturalism something very different to say what happens in europe where he said basically multiculturalism had failed and that russia system was something that had to be he's

a very different manner over to me and said that there's no way that you can completely get rid of all illegal immigration into russia but if he's elected president in the elections in march that he hopes to be able to to make significant cuts to the amount of people that are arriving in russia illegally now he wants to do this by toughening the laws to try and deter people from entering the country illegally he also wants to see a system put in place not just to monitor foreign immigrants coming into russia but also to monitor internal migrants also by twenty thirty he wants to see an exam put in place to those wanting to come and settled and live and work in russia but they have to be able to pass the russian language exam also an exam on russian culture russian history so those are the things that he wants to put in. the issue of migration multiculturalism. as the march vote approaches r t is keeping a close eye on the pre-election campaign including. a scandal flares up around

a veteran liberal candidate violations in the registration process may force him to quit the race log on to r.t. dot com for all the details on that story. let's now take a look at some other news making headlines around the world both houses of the french parliament have asked to bill making it a crime to deny to dealings one and a half million armenians in one thousand nine hundred fifteen by the ottoman empire the vote on the armenian genocide came despite threats from turkey to cut ties with france ancora has already suspended military political and economic ties with paris for the bill to become law it's still has to be signed off by president sarkozy who's of whose party proposed the move turkey denies the massacre that's considered by many to be the twentieth century's first genocide. the founder of file sharing website mega offload kim dot com will remain in police custody after a bail hearing on monday in new zealand prosecutors argued dot com who also goes by

the name kim schmitz was a flight risk because he has multiple identities access to money and a history of criminal charges u.s. authorities want to extradite dot com claiming he made nearly two hundred million dollars by copying and sharing copyrighted material he has denied all the charges. two more bodies have been recovered from the capsized costa concordia cruise ship off of italy's coast seventeen people are still missing after the ship ran aground a week ago environmental fears continue to grow as a sudden shift in the vessel could rupture the ship's fuel tanks there are about half a million gallons of heavy fuel and hundreds of tons of diesel oil still on board. the u.s. often calls for democratic change in the middle remains were going to recognize the right. to self-determination president of the palestinian national authority mahmoud abbas who's been on a visit to the russian capital talked about the latest. next

. visit is the final stop on your european tour. still waiting for a resolution to the statehood issue what do you expect from russia's leadership at this stage the issue of palestinian rights is being decided according to international law. the russian federation as well as the soviet union before it has

been regarded as one of the key principle hopes for the palestinian people since the nine hundred seventy s. when the late palestinian president yasser arafat visited moscow our nations have enjoyed good relations it's not only the result of the role that russia plays in the region but also due to the fact that russia was a great power a member of the united nations security council and a member of the quartet of middle east mediators this is why we focused so much on strengthening our relations and why we expect russia to play a positive role recently the quartet took a number of steps calling for negotiations without doubt we coordinate our position with russia. the countries to get an understanding of where palestine stands what it should do and what it shouldn't. this is why we visited the u.k. germany and have now come to russia we hope that the talks with israel currently underway in jordan will result in a positive outcome but if they fail we would need to have

a list of further steps to be taken and in putting together the action list we want to listen to the opinions of the countries i mentioned earlier and russia in particular. the negotiations are just a way to gain time they say the talking bring about solutions or agreement. that. what stands behind that statement. means they want to preserve the status quo something we completely reject all illegal settlements all illegal buildings must be torn down and removed from palestinian territories perhaps the israelis have a different vision although in the past they have left their illegal settlements on the sinai peninsula and sharm el sheikh and returned back to their borders we have the same situation in lebanon believe some of the settlements there even with that

they want to preserve the existing situation of the palestinian territories and to convince the international community to accept that they want to make us accept this vision but we will never accept it. netanyahu said that he gave you a twenty one point detailing the israeli position by doing so he refused. despite. what the document all about. three times in september two thousand and ten the first time in washington on an invitation from president obama and the second time in sharm el sheikh the third time we met was on the twenty fifth of september and he's. well we talked for four hours and discussed all the issues yet the talks ended with no positive results no discontinuation of the development of the occupied territories no changes to security policies the israeli way they intend to occupy the west bank and the

heights for another forty years. this is colonial policy and. this is not the logic of a person interested in constructive talks and peaceful coexistence with his neighbors i don't refuse to meet but i need to have a good reason now i get twenty one point proposal and what are these twenty one points are they just some headlines or indeed a list of twenty one issues that need to be addressed by our peoples. today we only need to discuss two issues borders and security why would we want more issues to be. did he think it was a secret but it's no news and it's not of any practical use either it is not appropriate for a prime minister to submit this way a document that simply. borders security the jewish state etc with no clear indication of what is actually expected of the other party.

do you think current events in the arab world could strengthen. and help. internationally. still no clear position common to all arab countries yes there are revolutionary changes taking place but it will take time to figure out what results they brought about the countries we want to work with in order to strengthen our position will need time to get back on their feet and build their states under the new conditions however the general arab stance on the palestinian issue has not changed the people who lead these revolutions are the same people who supported the palestinians in their pursuit of independence and these people have not changed. what has changed is that attitude towards their leaders and their governments but that is their internal matter and we don't get involved the arab stance on the palestinian issue has remained the same. on the other thank you very much for being with us to be wish you every possible

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thanks for being with us half past the hour here's a quick recap of your headlines syria rejects arab league proposals for president all of the cede power to his deputy and the formation of a national unity government with the opposition damascus calls the initiative an interference and it's an internal affairs and an attack on syria's sovereignty. the e.u. slumps more sanctions on iran targeting the country's main source of income for the oil the union has reiterated that the move is negotiable provided. its nuclear

program that the west sees as a threat and then returns to the negotiating table. and croatia says yes to either membership but for turnout for the referendum and violent protests takes pose deep divisions within the balkan nation the country is now set to become the union's twenty state by july of next year but only after all the other members ratify the move. now it can only be reached by helicopter but the stunning scenery all the caucuses nature reserve in southern russia is definitely worth seeing with your own eyes you can take a tour of your own right now in our special report here on our.