with russia opposed to a new resolution on syria drafted by the e.u. and arab states that warns of further action if damascus fails to comply moscow says the motion should not contain any threat of sanctions or imply outside intervention political analyst stephen london believes it's not by chance the arab league has halted its mission. oh my goodness it sounds like a no fly zone to different language it was an open sesame to direct intervention meeting with the observers who were saying it is syria you know they picked the wrong man to lead the mission the sudanese general be based off the air manage your eyes well with deliver the goods against the side believe me here for everything going to what a general we do he said assad is cooperating it's exactly the opposite of what the west want to be they wanted a pretext to step up whatever they have in mind which is some kind of edition of

a solution is the way syria's civil it's only to see it's usually chicken opposition in syria syria is that authoritarian the reporter in the when guardian reported it we get to go to a national poll that apparently go some credibility so that the. syrians. for america and britain and the arab league and there's to intervene in syria's and fears and to have an arrogant resolution say and although i would do it yet to weeks well assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which totally speak. amid intensifying fighting between of the syrian army and opposition groups are firth has been to an area near the capital which was recently taken over by rebel fighters as she reports although the opposition is united against the regime they are poles apart on their methods. a clear message from the protesters in

a suburb of damascus as a funeral takes place. we don't want to go we don't want to. see. children killing we don't read them we don't we we have to live. here i mean this this is going to all come to us in our they feel safety is being provided by the free syrian army the guerrilla body made up of mainly army defectors who 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 the armed safe are voided partnerships with any other opposition

elements he sees differ significantly inside the country and the national khuda nation council one of the leading opposition groups remains adamant that foreign military intervention would make an already deteriorating situation even worse whole while the security position has caused some areas to get out of control of 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 calls 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 a far cry from previous calls the dialogue qatar and saudi arabia no talk to further the opposition i mean this could cost even more lives say many nice lead to

find rebel. you have to have good. working with. the f.s.a. say they have little choice but to use weaponry to protect civilians. who have this mean square here in time with people who come out and protest even the security forces trying to come in but we protect them this is what's happening here that it remains a precarious situation in a moment of confusion the crowd gets nervous and starts to run one point gunshots still says where they've come from. i know you can't believe it but a lot of confusion here on the states even if you're reading in a different direction just not exactly sure what's going on well that's 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 major pro-government demonstrations so position can show continues to gain ground the divisions within the country have never been clearer.

yeah i do yeah and we have a developing story out of the united states right now where police have used tear gas and flash grenades against protesters in oakland california where around two thousand people have taken to the streets in an occupy wall street demonstration at least ten demonstrators have been arrested after some of the crowd started throwing objects out police activists who want to take over a break in building that will serve as their new home base saying the authorities have made it impossible for them to meet ya compile wall street movement which has spread across the u.s. and abroad began more than four months ago to protest against social and economic inequality. now polish protesters are refusing to give up of the fight over the anti web piracy pact their countries that have signed up to more demonstrations are planned against the act the multinational deal forged in secrecy that activists.

allows firms to censor the internet in the e.u. fishel has resigned over the treaty which was signed by twenty two european countries earlier this week. the reports 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. judging from the number of mosques men and cameras such resemblance was tangible the film character a forceful revolution these people are also standing for change to stop the anti counterfeit 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 comments a week of numerous mass rallies across with people protesting against the internet censorship act in 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. engineer martin says

he's working under threat because of actors obscurity with the international pact worked out in complete secrecy issues with. legally censoring information. it's very unclear the negotiations have lost it since two thousand and four but it's been so 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 public dissent has managed to make war soldiers ruling elite nervous the government was promoting itself as being modern as. people probably internet and people trying to keep them accountable so when they discovered that the guy.

porting something like that it was purely political no we don't believe this but this considers the harm governments are pretty steadily seen to their point of view . and the and that they might not ratify 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. to become law in poland 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 and i think it came as a complete shock nobody expected nobody expected. i think there will be a lot. because. prime

minister has been adamant war so would not give in to blackmail in the streets but what was initially a quiet social protest has become politically broader with every rally ask elating in both the numbers present and the level of aggression. reporting from warsaw in poland. twitter flap over a censorship scandal it's after the microblogging firm said it can now remove tweets country by country if they flood local laws needless to say users are furious at the potential free speech purge liberty campaigner and schwartz told r.t. that countries that censor and twitter should expect this to backfire. the important thing to understand about twitter's policy though is that it's reactive if they get it in response to a government order or 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 will probably be passed and everyone on twitter will have read it already it'll have been retreated 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 now 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 soap in the u.s. or act in europe and i think it's just going to build people realize they have this power now they can when change is 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's going to have censoring people. iran is banning sales of oil to the european union and.

move after the e.u. banned oil from iran the lawmakers in tehran have finalize a draft bill to be discussed on sunday immediately halting crude oil sales in response to an embargo on iranian fuel to begin the summer iran is also to restart talks on sunday with nuclear inspectors in tehran the first such discussions in over three years the country's nuclear program which would mean iranians insist is peaceful is the source of rising tension with the west which fears reason you is planning to ban oil imports by july but tehran is going to make the first move by cutting supply earlier possibly even by next week. protesters are fearing the worst in the continuing standoff three people here are saying that this is just the first step in st many again that calling a possible war with iran and. the u.s. embassy in london and that message is very clear you can see on the ban is all

around me saying to iran that calling on people to stand up and be counted and oppose. the wrong which these they say is becoming more and more likely. that. the recent killing. they say was carried out by israel or the u.s. they saying that it's threat against iran and that here that is a very little public support in this country anyway with a broad. tools that he is. only. it's. big liberties

got to. being held. outside the u.s. embassy to protest against what these people are calling this u.s. imperialism they say the government and the mainstream media in this country is building something called little deeper than they'll be coming out on the streets repeatedly to protest against. laura smith reporting for us there in your report just ahead how even the winter chills don't stop. getting hot under the collar. would you be willing to. hear any more not that i'd be willing to. sign on the line and never use the machine i don't know about that the president asked people in new york what they would sacrifice to save the planet. when we have off to. put the slopes through the paces for the first time before they welcome the winter olympics finest in two years' time. the first signs of

hope have emerged after nearly two weeks of deadlock in talks between greece and its creditors over the country's huge debts negotiators say a deal could be closed with the coming week while the final details are as yet known private investors are expected to agree to write off more than half of greek bond holdings that would reduce the country's debt by more than one hundred billion euros and pave the way for the next to tranche of viable bailout from the e.u. and international monetary fund to keep the country afloat the search for a remedy for the paralyzing eurozone debt crisis has been center stage at the annual world economic forum in davos switzerland. reports on what. you find. for greece and other debt stricken country. we've seen leaders not only from the euro zone but from other countries financial am. 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 from an exclusive that reuters had a european source has reported that germany wants greece to hand over control of its fiscal budget as a condition for the next bailout package the sovereignty over its fiscal matters 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 globe and we've seen klaus schwab the founder of the world economic forum want to have a meeting with him and be outspoken about the problems of inequality and in fact income inequality or inequality itself is identified by the world economic forum as the top risk for two thousand and twelve in past years it's been things like the decline of asset prices and in two thousand and told that's the top risk

interesting language right it's not a problem that needs to be addressed it's not it's really you know making life so difficult for so many across the globe it's the risk. he's one leads to reporting for us there now online at r t v dot com find out about those who headed for the world economic forum not wearing a business suit. as three activists from the feminist group stage a topless protest in the davos against the economic elite also. this is what's greeting visitors at an australian that natural history museum but some of the kids clearly want their history a little less vivid. in korea started paragon mark. down the official. to go on the phone pod touch from the top story. on the go. video on demand.

and all right now with the palm of your. question. the march of the multinationals in india is threatening to wipe out millions of smaller grocery stores while it's a likely to mean cheaper food and jobs boost the pre-packed food future well and a generations of local market traditions. discovers. this dry food store has been set then they're saying chalons family for six generations it's one of the many small retail stores that have been operating in this market in old delhi for hundreds of years want to help six generations of our family grew financially and provided us with everything but now sing chalons way of life could be at risk after years of pressure at the indian government decided to allow foreign multiband retailers the likes of tesco and wal-mart access to one of the fastest growing

middle classes in the world until now india only allowed single brand foreign retailers like reebok to enter the country even though the indian economy opened up more. and i decade ago economists here argued that the country needed at least five years to build up its domestic multi brand retail sector before allowing foreign competition into the country but now politicians argue that it might be the perfect time for foreign companies to enter india's five hundred ninety billion dollars retail sector the politicians behind the push say that farmers can make more money and consumers will pay less for food if the stores are allowed into india these retailers could provide organization to india supply chain by cutting out unnecessary middlemen president obama and other western leaders have also been putting pressure on india to allow their stores to open in the country arguing that they could provide jobs to millions of indians but small business owners still argue that it's an idea that would jeopardize their way of life. once the big

stores open up small businesses will not be able to compete with them and they will find it hard to survive so this is a conspiracy against us to shut us down and open big shops but we will not allow this to happen in india. the small business will be swallowed by the way small fishes are written by the big fishes in the sea these small family run businesses will be completely destroyed jeopardizing the financial situation of families and children for now however opposition within india has stalled the decision from being finalised store owners like singh chauhan are watching the debate closely wondering if his family's business and the old delhi that he's known his whole life will suddenly change. this is an attempt to destroy the livelihood of the businessmen in india we will not allow this to happen in india resisting outsiders from potentially destroying his family's tradition preassure either r.t. delhi india. now taking a look at other news from around the world. the nigerian army has

a shot dead or alive and suspected boko haram insurgency during a gun fired on the country's east it follows a warning from the supposed to. leader of the violent islamist sacked that they will kill more security personnel and to kidnap their families we could go a boko haram killed more than one hundred eighty people during a gun and bomb attack in the northern city of kano boko haram wants sharia law enforced throughout nigeria. at least twenty six people have been killed and ten injured in a fire which swept through a drug and alcohol rehab center in lima the capital of peru local media reports say more people died because patients were locked in their rooms unable to escape because of the fire is being investigated. a french tourist has been killed after a group of bedouins opened fire while trying to rob a currency exchange in the egyptian resort of sharm el shaikh

a german tourist and two locals were also wounded the shooting began after police arrived and tried to stop the thieves they escaped however with an unknown amount of money. divers have found the body of a woman aboard of the sunken costa concordia cruise liner bringing the death toll now to seventeen sixteen people remain missing meanwhile operations to pump the fuel from the tanks of the wrecked ship have been delayed because of bad weather a luxury cruise ship with over four thousand on board ran aground two weeks ago on reefs off the italian coast with the captain later arrested. the ski slopes of sochi are in place for the next winter olympics now 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. explains. it's no way unschooled in the caucasus mountains but it's the hottest time for ski

fans many like this couple even promise forests a period for the season's grand opening in sochi it's neat to see mrs now that. it's thirty snowing a month ago so much snow who wanted to ride so badly and now we had this chance. super this is also cool to a brand new resort just off the black sea coast with a number of plans to attract ski fans who might otherwise prefer a winter break in france or switzerland kilometers those tracks throws up but will be able to compete with many european resorts means six to ten thousand tourists will be able to ski here to be sure and seasonal warm weather lets a few foreign destinations a little high and dry but at the end steph here it was a cougar became snowed under with work as skiers sold out new resorts just a little while and you. 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 about split in two thousand. winter olympics it will mean more is to be strictly on this but for now they're making the most of the snow the freedom and even the romance and the russian winter it's greener if there is snow is so much that it was supposed to kiss and that's my window so if you'll excuse me. while the snowy slopes may bring the skiers together but our fluctuating weather continues to divide others in the international community and asked people in new york how far they're 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 do not blow dry your hair anymore yes that i'd be willing to that would you be willing to dry your clothes on the line and never use or drag machine i don't know about that you know it's about it depends would you be willing to change your behavior like say i walk into any destination that's under two miles instead of driving like what i'm doing today is a yes. yeah absolutely absolutely is a. virtual for me well it's good what about showering for under a minute. i'm always skin and they were pretty much broke sawlogs so the electrical futilely of the mother saves money don't become the postal is the clock on the marker or do you think most people are willing to change their daily behavior even though i'm a little proud to call them selfish you know they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally unfortunately that's 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. and that wraps it up for now i'll be back with a look at your headlines in just a couple of.

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five thirty in the morning here in the moscow glad to have you with us let's talk about why. the arab league suspends its observer mission in syria citing the escalating the violence and the massacres criticizes the move alleging it is aimed at increasing pressure for foreign intervention and will also encourage more violence from armed groups. protesters in poland to continue fighting the

international anti but obviously. there are politicians who support the notorious trade agreement and say it allows governments to police the internet under the guise of protecting copyrights. and after two weeks of talks of deadlock greeks and lenders could now be near a deal between games that would reduce the country's debt meanwhile the euro zone crisis has been the focal point of the annual world economic forum in the dock. and up next in this month's technology update gets closer to the secrets of the universe and looks at what siberia has to offer the science of tomorrow.