intervention let's talk to dr yaml working now he's a political analyst and professor at the lebanese international university joining us on the line from beirut professor very good evening thanks for being on r.t. today germany has said that the upsurge in violence cited by the arab league is a signal for the u.n. security council to act now significant is it that the observer mission has now gone on ice so to speak what do you think. the observers mission was stopped by the arab league because the results of the first round of monitoring in syria didn't go the way qatar or saudi arabia wanted to do to go in the sense of indicting the regime in order to transfer the file to the united nations council so that's why what happened was an interruption of this mission which was giving credit actually to the regime especially by insisting on.

the existence of armed insurgents throughout syria which justifies the crackdown of the regime on these military ordered on these armed. groups that's why it was interrupted specially that there was a will. to you to transfer the file of syria to the united nations council in order to take action to come up with a resolution and all due to enforce a regime change that goes by the will of the united states and its western allies so had not been for the russian decision to block such a resolution which was clearly stated by russian officials so doctor what you're basically telling me is that none of this is a surprise to you we're told you things will be pre-planned there. definitely it

was pre-planned because it goes by the previous interview to transfer the file of syria into the united nations the first time it happened and last october. there was a resolution but it was blocked by russian and chinese vettel then they were the americans transferred the file back to the arab league in order to try to indict the syria through the arab league however it didn't work they sent monitoring mission to syria it went against the scenario that was said by the united states by giving about by by stating that there are insurgents throughout syria which justifies actually the policies followed by the regime by cracking down on armed insurgents which was a fact denied by the western countries and by their arab allies and well that's why this surrogate i was to ask you what about these extra hundred arab league

observers that will be staying on there in syria what's their purpose now do you think. i think that the moment the decision of the arab league to withdraw these. small knitters i think that their mission is over by now and if they choose to stay and keep going by their mission depending on the decision of the. successive governments i think that their reports will not be acknowledged by the arab league or they will not have the cover of the arab league specially that they are financed by the. league of gulf states the six gulf states that were financing especially led by saudi arabia and by qatar doctor we've only got thirty seconds i want to get your thoughts the pressure growing on the u.n. from western and arab nations as well as the syrian opposition we've documented all this to take action on president assad and sat china and russia as you've just been

saying steadfast in refusing any regime change in resolution where is this going to go do you think just thirty seconds the crisis will go on we will face a civil war in syria similar to the case of algeria and the one thousand ninety's and i don't think that there was this will lead to a regime change but it will be a long crisis ok thank you ever so much she thought a german awake a professor of political analyst and professor at the lebanese international diversity there it thank you a bit intensifying fighting between the syrian army and opposition groups r.t. sara firth is being to the area near the capital which was recently taken over by rebel fighters now she reports of the opposition as united against the regime they are poles apart on their methods. i can message from the protesters in a suburb of damascus as a funeral takes place. we don't want killing don't we don't want to.

see children killing we don't read them we don't we we will do you have to live. here i mean this this is going to all come to us you know they fail safety is being provided by the free syrian army the corella party made up of many army defectors like to say its presence here has enabled protests like these to go ahead . the military cannot come in anymore because the free syrian army is protecting us we support the free syrian army and we support. the former army colonel heads the f.s.a. from the brute he's been steadfast from the start and his calls the foreign military intervention of his safe are void of partnerships with any other opposition elements he sees differs significantly inside the country and the national coordination council one of the leading opposition groups remains adamant that

foreign military intervention would make an already to tear erasing situation even worse while the security position has caused some areas to get out of control and it seems that there is a war between two groups outside the country and it's the syrian national council pitching itself as the main opposition but it too has failed to unify the many different opposition factions and this lack of unity has hampered the growing coups for direct u.n. involvement russia and china remain firmly opposed to a resolution that would leave the door open to foreign military intervention and in a far cry from previous calls that dialogue in saudi arabia is no tool to the opposition this could cost even more lives say many nice lead to find rebel groups who you have to work with working with. the f.s.a. say they have little choice but to use weaponry to protect civilians. who have this

main square here in town where people come out and protest even the security forces try to come in but we protect them this is what's happening here but it remains a precarious situation in a moment of confusion the crowd gets nervous and starts to run one point gunshots. where they come from or from. favor. that a lot of confusion here in the states even if you're reading in the different directions it's not exactly sure what's going on at all that really not a safe situation severe right now and all of this happening just fifteen minutes from the city center is just a day before it's government demonstrations so position can show continues to gain ground the divisions within the country have never been clearer. i don't care. that the art.

and the money that. was here is keeping a blog updated fully for you where she's posting extensively on the situation in syria you know fun images from various parts of the country and have made it on the t.v. side of it yet with us we will bring them to you if you want to keep abreast the latest pages you'll see people writing in something but the damascus. down the official location. i pod touch from the. video. feeds now in the palm of your.

polish protesters are refusing to give up the fight over the anti web piracy the countries signed up to more demos are planned against actor the multinational deal forged in secrecy they say the activists also say allows firms to censor the internet the e.u. official an e.u. fishel rather resigned over the treaty which was signed by twenty two european countries earlier this week our correspondent legs school reports now from warsaw. a passer by from england confused scenes on friday in central warsaw with the filming of a sequel for the hollywood movie before of in-depth judging from the number of masked men and cameras such resemblance was tangible the film character fought for revolution these people are all still standing for change to stop the anti-cancer feed trade agreement act from becoming law in poland minus fifteen degrees centigrade is definitely not an excuse for thousands who gathered in central warsaw friday protests common it's a week of numerous mass rallies across the world with people protesting against

internet censorship actor may have a positive aim to protect intellectual property but these protesters fear it will be used to police the web and take harmless websites offline eighty engineer martin says he is work is under threat because of actors obscurity with the international backed worked out in complete secrecy issues with quite obvious. first of all. the possibility of illegally censoring information the problem is that it's very unclear the negotiations have lost since two thousand and four and nobody's been told anything unlike the week's massive anti active protests in poland friday's showdown had clear political overtones while the majority of the crowd was voicing no to the treaty a large chunk was directing their anger at the government and experts say the scale of the. discerned has managed to make war soldiers ruling elite nervous the

government was promoting itself as being modern as being people probably internet and people trying to keep them accountable so when they discover that the government is supporting something without it was purely political answer to no we don't believe in any more of this but this considers the harm governments are pretty nice in the steadily scenes of their point of view are already tactic and the n.l. that they may not ratify act and they will have a second fault so after a week of ignorance i think suddenly they realize that the protests are much deeper much broader and much more serious to become law in poland act and needs the approval of both the polish and european parliament nobody knows for sure how long this might take but protesters say they will continue piling the pressure on the authorities to stop this happening i think it came as a complete shock nobody expected this and nobody expected. to. do

this kind of thing i think there will be a lot more. to last for at least two weeks i think because. i think long it will take to actually. prime minister to been adamant war so would not give in to and blackmail in the streets with what was initially acquired social protest has become politically broader with every rally ask elating in both the numbers present and the level of aggression let's see russia. reporting from warsaw in poland. while running alongside this twitter is in a flap over a censorship scandal after the microblogging firm said it cannot remove tweets country by country if they float local laws needless to say use a furious at the potential free speech i spoke to liberty campaign irish swarts he told me that countries that censor and twitter should expect this to. important thing to understand about twitter as policy though is that it's reactive if they

get it in response to government order a court order and what's nice about twitter is because it's a real time service the government is going to be slower than twitter almost always you know by the time you get a court order asking someone to take down a tweet and by the time twitter reviews it and it goes through all the policies it is will probably be passed and everyone on twitter will have read it already it'll have been really tweeted hundreds of times twitter has been especially admirable in how they deal with this in that they are particularly highlighting tweets that have been censored by the government so there's no none of this disguise that goes on with some of the other major companies where things just suddenly disappear and you don't know why twitter has said they'll make it very clear to their users your government is censoring you and i think that will be a huge step in pressuring both people to share the stuff that was censored but also pressuring governments to change their policies we've seen this incredible uprising all around the world against censorship in various forms whether it was so openly u.s. or act in europe and i think it's just going to build people realize they have this power now they can win changes not just from companies but from governments and the

more people realize that the more people are going to get involved and participate and the more that happens the harder time everyone is going to have censoring people who want to see live from moscow just ahead of even the wind chills no still global warming getting people hot under the collar. and they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally and financially that's the world we live in the resident asked people in new york what they would sacrifice to save the planet some interesting answers coming up but also we skedaddled to sochi is ski has put the slopes through their paces for the first time before they welcome the winter olympics finest to. the ratings firms keep raising the blows on the beleaguered euro zone now fitch has downgraded five countries they include spain and italy which are the big worries of course because of this size if they failed leaders in key finance he is a struggling to try to find a remedy to the debt crisis at the annual world forum. that's where the list of reports. we've seen leaders not only from the euro zone but from other countries

financial and political leaders also continuing to fight and to argue over the proper solutions for the eurozone crisis and at the center of it is a lot of people pushing for a larger bailout fund for a for a secure fire wall the irony is that as they're talking about this we hear that germany wants greece to hand over control of its fiscal budget as a condition for the next bailout package the further irony is that we've seen capitalism really be one of the topics one of the issues here at this davos questioning of capitalism in its current form is still serving the global and these western nations and i just heard david cameron in his remarks at davos asked about this and he said you know despite the problems i still believe that the capitalism in its current form and western democracies is the best first serving freedom and

democracy at the same time that we see not only technocrats managing it to push through very difficult budgetary reforms in italy in greece these are people that were not democratically elected now to go a step further we have germany wanting greece to hand over control over its budget entirely this sovereignty over its fiscal matters. to the chief economic correspondent the british newspaper the independent who told me believes greece has already come to the fold in reality. i don't think you have to be a whiz at math to figure out that is not just the indebted us of some countries of birth but also the euro the common currency is a single currency for an area where some countries need a devaluation i don't know whether technically greece is going to be in default or not but if your repay the thirty or forty cents in the euro your debt and the

write down is going to something like that could be for you to say forty if you're lucky if you're unlucky that kid any rational will say he is a country defaulting on its debts but the technically that is whether it take it seems to me to be not that relevant because once you deal with greece ok you try and have to put a fireball behind that but people may say look if i'm not going to get my money back on greece why should i learn to portugal why should i lend to spain why should i lend to italy when i can see the train of thought there letting you know too in about ten minutes time the cars report takes a swipe at the politicians and bankers who aren't doing enough to reassure the markets and the people that recoveries around the corner. but the bank of england urged against despair because all crises come to an end eventually he says he looks pretty miserable doesn't think he's a dog like usually very telling people don't despair you don't look like you're

about to top yourself you tried to have a smile and butter like clown nose on really like a burning look out the clown those are always delivering that economic numbers of urban gang has got that british kind of in the bag have blitzed on general luck which is not fooling anybody and of course the u.k. economy is contracting why because the debt in the banking sector continues to expand and nobody's doing anything about that mervyn can wake up. and ran into to resume talks with you a nuclear inspectors in turn around this weekend it's the first discussions of a kind of more than three years there's already a tense diplomatic backdrop of course with the e.u. ready to ban all imports by july while to rand's planning to make the first move by cutting the supply possibly next week out is laura smith is in london where antiwar protesters are fearing the worst. the people here are saying that this is just the

first step instruction over many again that calling a possible war with iran they got it here outside the u.s. embassy in london and that message is very clear you can see on the banners all around me saying don't attack iran they're calling on people to stand up and be counted and oppose a possible war with iran which these they say is becoming more and more likely as sanctions or even recently by the e.u. both on oil exports and on financial assets and of course that also citing the recent killing of any rainy and clear scientists which they say was carried out by idly is israel or the u.s. they saying that there are growing threats against iran and they're here to show you that there is very little public support in this country anyway for a war with iran people have seen in this country the tools in the wrong and he is they know. they've been extremely costly financially in terms of human life

and people feel there's a war on iran is not justified it's brutal it's by the same rules as the laws rules and the big were very skeptical about this being held to the key location here in london outside the u.s. embassy to protest against what these people are calling the spread us imperialism at least they and the government and the mainstream media in this country is building on something and they'll be coming out on the streets repeatedly to protest against. around the world in brief no top stories this the nigerian army says boko haram insurgents during a gun fight in the country's east it follows a warning from supposed leader of the violent islam a sect that they will kill more security personnel and kidnap their families now we could go boko haram killed more than one hundred eighty people going to bomb attack in the northern city of cairo book our own wants sharia law more wide force throughout. this is the son of god of fire tear gas at demonstrators rally against

the court's decision to allow the president to run for a third term protesters then threw rocks broke barricades and started fires the president's kind of the seat was in question because the constitution changed in the year two thousand just after he took office to impose a two year limit of term well i did like a way to believe that that law now doesn't apply to him because he was elected before it came into effect. the ski slopes of such a are in place for the next winter olympics now then comes the test to make sure they meet world class standards the russian resorts facilities are hosting their first skiers and organizers hope it's all downhill from here. blots case planes more. it's no weekend called in the caucasus mountains but it's the hottest time for ski fans many like this couple even promise for a say bierria for the season's grand opening in sochi now that. it's thirty snowing

a month ago so much snow who wanted to ride so badly and no one had the chance. super this is also cool to a brand new resort just off the black sea coast but the numbers just plan to attract ski fans who might otherwise prefer a winter break in france or switzerland kilometers those tracks that will be able to compete with many european resorts means six to ten thousand tourists will be able to ski here to show your work and seasonal warm weather left a few foreign destinations a little high and dry but at the end staff here it was i who got to became snowed under with work as skiers sort of new resorts just a little while and you know for beautiful. believed and everyone enjoyed. very positive feedback this morning yes that's true. but they're also cudos biggest test is yet to come in february and march just events for the two thousand fourteen winter olympics it will mean two or just will be strictly are pissed but for now

they're making the most of the snow the freedom and even the romance amid the russian winter it's greener of there the snow is soft and i was supposed to kiss and that's why i went down the hill so if you'll excuse me. r t sochi. well a snowy slopes may bring skiers together but tenuous link this hour fluctuating weather continues to divide others in the international community for this hour as people in new york they are willing to go to cool down global warming. today legislators are introducing more and more bills to help curb the effects of global warming what are you willing to do to help out this week let's talk about that would you be willing to blow dry your hair anymore yes. would you be willing to dry your clothes on the line and never use the drag machine i don't know about

that so it didn't that it depends would you be willing to change your behavior like say walking to any destination that's under two miles instead of driving like what i'm doing today is a yes yeah yeah yeah absolutely absolutely it's a. virtual well it's good what about showering for under a minute. i'm always. pretty much broke. a lot of things money not the kind of personal lives the clock on the market. do you think most people are willing to change their daily behavior even though they are proud to call it selfish you know they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally and the world we live in whether or not you're willing to change your energy consumption habits now the bottom line is you might just have to in the future if global warming continues to progress.

get a quick snippet of time to let you know what we're doing on air tonight on a lot of course start to dot com we've always got the world covered but you might be interested in these stories to the toronto saurus this terrorizing with talk this is what's creating visitors the australian natural history museum but some of the kids clearly want their history a little less vivid. we've got a pretty story panic. also these of russian workers have been labeled by the opposition well in fact they're rallying behind the presidential candidate let you know putin. we hear their reaction and why they're. proud of who they are and what they stand for. because reporters promise coming up in just a couple of minutes time right after a recap of today's top stories here on r.t. live from moscow with me kevin no it thanks for watching.

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market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark amoco probs we do not want any more new g.m. olds. of course estimates because there was a does more experience an arm to. just appalled but that's allowed to go on. eating this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the experiment to be used as giving. out more. cards in light.

of the. technology innovation called the least of elements around russia. the future. around the world from moscow this is are these are our top stories russia is the new u.n. draft resolution on syria as well acceptable targeting regime change in paves the way for possible foreign intervention the arab league's. mission in syria the upsurge in violence that. protestors in poland vowed to continue fighting against

a national. politician to support the tories played agreement activists said allows governments to police the internet or the guise of protecting copyright. as five nations credit schools get cut including spain and the e.u. leaders and key finance experts are struggling to try to find a solution to the crisis of the world economic forum. next to look at the global financial headlines in the kaiser report which today is a distinctly fruity flavor. back strasser this is the kaiser report yes we have. obama we have no obama today stacey i guess you're talking about the state of the.