last three days a syrian official told state t.v. the mission's suspension will encourage more violence by armed groups and is aimed at increasing pressure on the united nations for foreign military intervention the security council is split on how to end it 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 lebanon believes it's not by chance the arab league has halted its mission. oh my goodness that sounds like a no fly zone to different language it was an open sesame to direct intervention meeting with the observers who were sitting into syria you know they picked the wrong man to lead the mission sudanese to. be based off the air manage your eyes fill with deliver the goods against the side believing here for

everything going on what a general we do he said assad is cooperating it's exactly the opposite of what the last one they wanted a pretext to step up whatever they have in mind which is some kind of you to be solution is the way syria's civil it's only to see it's usually a chicken in office issue that syria syria is you know sorry to hear you see a reporter in the when we got to you or did 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 to get to the end in serious and say here's and to have an area again resolution saying and although i would do it yet be unique in two weeks well assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which total these people. sticking with a. story amid intensifying fighting between the syrian army and opposition groups

artie's sarah 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 this damascus as a funeral takes place. we don't want to linger don't don't we don't want to. see children killing we don't read them we don't know what we will do you have to live. here i mean this i mean this is going to be all come to us up to now they feel safety is being provided by the free syrian army think availability made up of many defects is they could say it's presence here as unable to protest 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 broad he's been steadfast from the start and his calls for foreign military intervention. say far 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 deteriorating 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 cause 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 have no talk to further the opposition. it could cost even more lives they say many loosely defined 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 time 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 and the moment of confusion the crowd gets nervous and starts to run one point gunshots are heard. where they've come from or from. a lot of confusion here on the safe haven i've been reading in the different directions just not exactly sure what's going on you know 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 control continues to gain ground the divisions within the country have never been clear a. day i do you do us 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 rally at least a thousand demonstrators have been arrested for more on this so we are now joined by marina. live now marina thank you for joining us what has triggered violence in oakland. well what triggered this violence it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty occupy occupy optimists in oakland california began demonstrating in the streets and hours past the crowd grew stronger and stronger up

to roughly twenty two thousand people strong ultimately what the goal was for this demonstration is for protesters to take over and abandoned building where they wanted to create their new headquarters because as our viewers may remember crossed the country in the united states just a few months ago police departments are removed activists from their camps and this was an attempt for oakland optimist to set up a new headquarters but as the crowd grew stronger and larger and thankfully as you mentioned sean the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy activists at least nineteen of those protesters have been arrested oh plume policing. we officers have been injured according to the police they said

members of the crowd began throwing things at. the officers and that is what ultimately triggered this clash between police officers and occupy optimist but as far as we know this is not the first time we've seen a few years clash between officers and activists in oakland california dropped in october in late october there was a least three hundred people arrested and a former u.s. marine by the name scott olsen was left in critical condition with a head injury from being struck in the head by a police tear gas can canister and this is something odd that put a lot of criticism on the police department in oakland california they've been criticized for being very harsh with occupy optimus some have said it's just blatant police brutality get just want to correct what i said at least three hundred people have been arrested in oakland california. since late october not in

october now the occupy wall street movement has started a while ago back in mid september a little more than four months and it also started in your neck of the woods how has it turned out so far as an overall theme of well if you come to new york city clearly. the demonstration the movement suffered a little bit of a blow because new york city mayor michael bloomberg removed the optimists from zuccotti park where they were camped out but i can tell you this they are still in the planning stages they are still very much committed to this movement it's just that it's very cold in new york city right now the winter is here it's hard for these activists to come and stand in a park there are allowed to sit or lay down there anymore but they are indoors spread out through new york city planning to take this movement out into the streets come spring and this movement has punctured through. although we are the most powerful leaders in the united states i'd even say u.s.

president barack obama we heard him addressing. the citizens of the united states just a few days ago in his state of the union address and he was sort of trying to you know hang on to the narrative that the occupy wall street movement started and that is a fight for income inequality occupy wall street has been fighting against what they call corporate greed huge wealth inequality between the rich and the poor they want for the united states to be a country that has more on more equality more opportunity for everybody and this message started in new york as you mentioned and it basically infected all the states throughout the country and then moved out into the global sphere we saw men seeking place all over the world this is a message in a movement that so many citizens are relating to considering how broken the u.s. economy still is if u.s.

officials and politicians are betting on the fact that this is dying down they're betting wrong because i could tell you that once the weather gets warmer you are going to see these activists in new york city back in the street if they have to go up against a police officer some of them told me they will they said they're willing to risk anything they have nothing to lose because at this point so many of them say they've lost their jobs they've lost their homes and they need to be fighting for something and if that's if that means equality in the country they're willing to do it all right thank you very much more important reporting from new york staying on top of this as always. polish protesters are refusing to give up the fight over the anti web piracy pact the very countries that signed up to more demonstrations are planned against the multinational deal forged in secrecy that activists say allows firms to censor the internet and you official has resigned over the treaty which was signed by twenty two european countries earlier this week

well actually 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. judging from the number of masked men and cameras such resemblance was tangible the film character a forceful revolution these people are also standing for change to stop the anti-cancer free 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 common it's a week of numerous mass rallies across the world 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 his work is 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 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 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 discover that the government is supporting something. it was purely political answer to no we don't believe you any more of this but this considers the harm governments are pretty nice in the

steadily. their point of view already tactic and the and 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 . 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 and i think it came as a complete shock nobody expected nobody expected. to. do this don't you think i think there will be a lot more. last for at least two weeks i think because. i think how long it will take to. regulation is the prime minister to has been adamant war so would not give in to and to blackmail in the streets with 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 let's see russia. reporting from warsaw in poland. twitter is in a flap over a censorship scandal of its own after the microblogging firm said it can now remove tweets country by country if they flout a local laws needless to say users are furious at the potential free speech purge liberty campaigner aaron swartz told r.t. that countries that censor and twitter should expect to backfire. important thing to understand about twitter as policy though is that it's reactive 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 repeated 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 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 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 the u.n. team has arrived in iran for the first talks on the country's atomic plants in over three years the country's nuclear program which of the iranians insist is peaceful is the source of rising tension with the west which fears it is for military

purposes the european union is planning to ban iranian oil imports by july but tehran is planning to stop sales imminently to the e.u. in a retaliatory move artie's lawyer smith is in london where anti-war protesters are fearing the worst in the continuing standoff. the people here are saying that this is just the first step instruction over many again that calling a possible war with iran that got a tear outside the u.s. embassy in london and that message is very clear you can see on the ban is all around me saying don't attack iran 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 are imposed by the e.u. both on oil exports and on financial assets and of course that also citing the reason that killing almost any rainy and scientists myspace it was carried out by

either the israel or the u.s. they saying that it's a growing threat against iran and they're here to show you that there is a very little public support in this country anyway for a war with abroad people have seen in this country the tools in the wrong and he is . the baby for. the financially in terms of human life. people feel those a war only raul is not just a. it's brutal as. the last. big a very skeptical of being held at each location outside the u.s. embassy to protest against what these people are calling this great evil u.s. imperialism they say the government and the mainstream media in this country is building something and they'll be coming out on the streets repeatedly to protest against. laura smith reporting for us there now 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 within the coming week while the final details are as yet unknown private investors are expected to agree to write off more than half of greeks bond holdings that would reduce the country's debt by more than one hundred billion euros. to pave the way for the next tranche of a viable bailout from that you knew and the 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 lauren lister reports on what you leaders and key finance years have in store for greece and other debt stricken country. 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 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 twelve 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. artie's lauren lyster reporting for us there now online at r.t. dot com find out about those who are headed for the world economic forum. has a three from the group stage a topless protest. against the economic elite also. this is what's greeting visitors at an all natural history museum but some of the kids clearly want their history a little less vivid we've got the prehistoric. the official. pulled from the. video. feeds.

other news from around the world of this hour. the nigerian army has shot dead the eleven suspected insurgents during a gunfight in the country's east it follows a warning from the supposed leader of the violent islamist that they will kill more security personnel and kidnap their family a week ago 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 injured in a fire which swept through a drug and alcohol rehab center in the capital of peru local media reports say more people died because patients were locked in their rooms an able to escape the cause

of the fire is being investigated. and french tourists has been killed after a group of bedouin. opened fire while trying to rob a currency exchange in the egyptian resort of sharm el sheikh 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 the sunken costa concordia cruise liner bringing the death toll now to seventeen sixteen people remain missing meanwhile operations to pump fuel from the tanks of the right ship have been delayed because of bad weather the luxury cruise liner with over four thousand board ran aground two weeks ago on reefs off the italian coast with the captain later being arrested. the ski slopes of sochi are in place for the next winter olympics now comes the task to make sure

they meet world class standards the russian resort 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 hardest time for ski fans many like this couple even keen promus for a say period 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 will be able to compete with many european resorts it means six to ten thousand tourists will be able to ski here because you're good and seasonal warm weather lets a few foreign destinations a little high and dry but then staff here at the 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. but there also kudos biggest test is yet to come in february and march. two thousand and fourteen winter olympics it will mean more is too will 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 great if there is snow is that it was supposed to kiss and that's my window so if you'll excuse me. but like. our t. sochi. what a perfect way to end a day on the slopes well that's all for now i'll be back with the headlines in. a couple minutes.

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and broadcasting live direct from our studio from moscow to the star to find out. the arab league suspends its observer mission in syria citing escalating violence in damascus criticizing the move foliage and it is aimed at increasing. pressure for foreign intervention and will also encourage more violence from armed groups.

the police used tear gas and flash grenades at a two thousand strong demonstration in oakland california after demonstrators tried to take over a vacant building for their new headquarters. the protesters in poland to found to continue fighting the international anti west piracy pact that they say internet censorship under the guise of protecting property. and after two weeks of talks deadlocked greece and its lenders could now be near a deal within days that will reduce our country's. next because a report. has or this is the kaiser report yes. we have no obama today stacey i guess you're talking about the state of the banana republic let's look at.