as between syrian security forces and opposition groups in the past three days a syrian official told state t.v. the mission's suspension will encourage more violence by armed groups and is and that 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 with a motion that should not contain any threat of sanctions or imply outside intervention political analyst stephen leatherman 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 war the observers were saying into syria you know they picked the wrong man to lead to mission the sudanese general. they thought they had the air man in

charge who would deliver the goods against the side believing him for everything going oh i will what a general i'll be doing he said a star is cooperating it's exactly the opposite of what the last one they wanted a precarious just step up whatever they have in mind which is some kind of. the best solution is the way syria's civil it's going to see it here is a legitimate office issue that syria syria is that authoritarian state a reporter in the when they've got a young group or did we get to go to a national poll that apparently got some credibility he said good bye jari all syrians aside for america and britain and the arab league and theirs to intervene in syria years and spears and to have an arrogant resolution say and although i would do what you are unique in the weeks well assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which total east. intensifying fighting between the

syrian army and opposition groups sara 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. clear message from the protesters in a suburb of damascus as a funeral takes place. we don't want killing 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 come to us you know they feel safety is being provided by the free syrian army the guerrilla body made up of many 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. say far 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 to tear erasing 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 calling 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 a far cry from previous calls that dialogue in saudi arabia no talk to further the opposition. could cost even more lives the same 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 town 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 but it remains a precarious situation in a moment of confusion the crowd gets nervous and starts to run at one point gunshots still says where they've come from. oh you can favor a lot of confusion here on this face even if you are running in the different

direction it's not exactly sure what's going on well that's really not a safe situation to bear 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. 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 nine thousand demonstrators have been arrested artie's more an important has the details. what triggered this violence it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty occupy occupy activists in oakland california began demonstrating in the streets and as hours passed 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 empty 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 optimiser to set up a new headquarters but as the crowd grew stronger and larger of then chilly elise in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy activists at least nineteen of those protesters have been arrested a local and police saying that we officers have been injured according to the police they say members of the crowd began throwing things at times in the officers and that is what ultimately triggered this clash between police officers came to

occupy an optimist but as guys we know this is not the first time we've seen a fierce clash between officers an activist in oakland calif got in october in late october by former u.s. marine by the name scott olsen was left in critical condition without a head injury from being struck in the had 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 if you come to new york city clearly is the way that the demonstration that the movement suffered a little bit of a blow because a 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 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 the 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 are these more important reporting for us there now moving on to poland where protesters are refusing to give up the find over the anti web piracy pact their country has signed up to more demonstrations are planned against the multinational deal for good in secrecy that activists say allows firms to censor the internet and the e.u. official has resigned over the treaty which was signed by twenty two european countries earlier this week. a report 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 vendetta judging from the number of masked

men and cameras such resemblance was tangible the film character fought for revolution these people are also standing for a 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 common it's a week of numerous mass rallies across the world with people protesting against the internet censorship act it 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 work is under threat because of actors obscurity with the international backed worked out in complete secrecy issues with. first of all. the. possibility of illegally censoring

information the government. is 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 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 you anymore this practice considers the harm governments are pretty nice in the steadily scenes they are. point of view or order a tactic and. not ratify act and they will have a second fault so after a week of ignorance i think suddenly they realize that the process.

to become law in poland actor 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 kind of thing i think there will be a lot more. two weeks i think because. i think. prime minister has been adamant war so would not give in to and 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 alexi russia. reporting from warsaw in poland. twitter is in a flap over

a censorship scandal of its own it is after the microblogging from said it can now remove tweets country by country if they flout local laws needless to say users are furious at the potential free speech purge liberty campaign or schwartz told 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 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 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 sofa in the us or act in europe and i think it's just going to build people realize they have this power now they can when 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's going to have censoring people. u.n. team has arrived in iraq for the first talks on the country's atomic plants in over three years the country's nuclear program which the iranians insist is a peaceful is the source of rising tension with the west which fears it's for military purposes the european union is planning to ban iranian oil imports by july but tehran is planning to stop sales imminently. retaliatory move to use more smith

is in london where anti-war protesters are fearing the worst in the continuing standoff that 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 the they say is becoming more and more likely as sanctions are imposed recently by the e.u. both on oil exports and on financial assets and of course that also you cite saying the reason that killing both any raney 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 to see that the tools in the long run he is.

financially in terms of human life. people feel. only raul is not just a. it's brutal as. big a very skeptical of being held in a cage. 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. holding on to something pull the pin they'll be coming out on the streets repeatedly to protest against. our. reporting for us there and you are with are just ahead even the winter children won't stop global warming getting their people hot under the collar. would you be willing to blow dry your hair anymore yes that i'd be willing to do it would you be willing to dry your clothes on the line and

never use a machine i don't know about that the resident six people in new york what they would sacrifice to save the planet. then we head off to sochi skiers put the slopes through their paces for the first time before they welcome the winter olympics in two years. 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 because shooters 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 greek bond holdings that would reduce the country's debt by more than one hundred billion euros and to pave the way for the next tranche of a vital 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 lauren lyster reports on what key finance years have in store for greece and other debt stricken countries. 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 . sluice of 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. artie's law unless you're reporting for us there are now online at our to find out about those who headed for the world economic forum not in the business it. has three activists from the feminist group stage a topless protest in davos against the economic also. this is what's greeting visitors at an australian natural history museum but some of the

kids clearly want their history a little less vivid we've got the prius. the official. video. now taking a look at other news from around the world making headlines this hour. the nigerian army has shot dead a suspected boko haram insurgents during a gunfight in the country's east it follows a warning from the supposedly of the violent islamist that they will kill more security personnel and kidnap other families 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 shari'a law enforced throughout nigeria. and 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 unable to escape the cause is being investigated. a french tourist has been killed after a group of better when zone. 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 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 a luxury cruise liner with over four thousand on board ran aground go on reefs off the telling 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 of skiers and organizers hope it's all downhill from here on this blog explains. it's no weekend called in the caucasus mountains but it's the hottest time for ski fans many like this couple even keen promus far as 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 write so badly and now we had this 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 of tracks that will be able to compete with many european resorts it means six to ten thousand tourists will be able to stay here because you're on seasonal warm weather left a few foreign destinations a little high and dry but at the end staff 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. two thousand and fourteen winter olympics it will mean poorest 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 why i went down the hill so if you'll excuse me. sochi. is waiting for me at the bottom of the slopes i think i would be encouraged to ask you a little bit more now the snowy slopes may bring skiers together but our fluctuating weather continues to divide others in the international community harvest's 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 do 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 that yes yeah yeah i absolutely absolutely beside your virtual for 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 futile a little the other day was moaning about the current opposed to lose the clock on the market were going to 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. that wraps things up for this hour but i'll be back with

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a two thousand strong occupy demonstration in oakland california after demonstrators tried to take over a vacant building for their new headquarters. protesters in poland to continue fighting the international anti-piracy plan to base a brings internet censorship under the guise of protecting copyrights. and after two weeks of talks deadlock greece ended monday's created now being near a deal within days that will reduce the country's debt. that does it for me but in about thirty minutes time my colleague marina josh will be here with a full look at your news but up next enjoy the beauty of a nature reserve hidden away in the caucasus declared a world heritage site by unesco it can be reached only by helicopter or t's special report is coming your way.