he has reported that damascus regret the decision saying it may result in more bloodshed and foreign military intervention that's how the u.n. security council is set to discuss a new resolution on syria calling for a regime change in the mornings bergerac if the massacres fails to comply recreate russia has opposed the document saying it can be used as a basis to solve the situation on top of this imposed more sanctions against syria to further pressure the president now that the observers mission has been frozen people are preparing for the worst as artie's correspondent sara first reports. over the last few weeks we've accompanied the observers on many of their excursions into some of the country's most restive areas here this prison on the outskirts of damascus these are the prisoners they've been slated for release this evening and you can see the signing on this is being overseen by some of the arab league observers who have been here the person says enabled an increase in foreign media in the country many of also joined them on their trips is being considered

a slightly safer way of visiting these areas they are accompanied by government security offices and it's believed to at least hopes the worst there in that area security forces won't shoot that's what the people felt when the observers arrived at these places the protesters told us they felt temporarily safe enough to express the views. that's one save service leave and the protesters are left alone they tell us punishment usually fall is the other way to go. they are going to have the lowest to go state monitors withdrew at the beginning of the week after the observers had presented their opposed to the arab league with the hotel as the mother to said they could buy some of them with switching phone numbers and taking photos with colleagues their bags packed many of the monitors are now leaving. country and

their withdrawal has been seen as a major blow to the observer mission it seems that could turn out to have been a fatal one a senior source from the opposition with inside the country b. and c c has told r.t. that he thought observers were hoping to restart their mission seeing their decision was a kid into a form of protest against the growing violence here and perhaps once they come down they could resume their work but on the day that the goal stay mum says departed one observer has hinted to me that the rest of them might not be far behind and it seems the talks of further training for the monitors and increasing the numbers seem to have been forgotten about despite strengthening the mission being more important now than ever. to be seen on friday the monitors had taken the tailing journalists on a tour around the christian area of damascus where like most fridays here the streets were almost deserted they'd chosen not to venture further afield unimpressed afterwards we pushed on with some of the journalists to

a suburb now controlled by the free syrian army. but without the observers and the protesters concerned about the security forces imminent arrival was an extremely serious one when gunshots rang out in the distance we had to leave there was no guarantee that we wouldn't be caught in the middle of what locals tell us the regular crackdowns to try to regain control of the area for the time being the free syrian army remains in control without the services and many of these places will become almost inaccessible again with no one to monitor the current situation locals living in these areas say that they fear the danger has no greatly increased for them in now seems a question of when the observers will resume their mission so at a time when the conflict is in more desperate need of carving than ever before one small source of hope for many people has just been halted is going to make it that

much harder to establish exactly what's happening here in the country surface r.t. damascus and syria. but a koala steven lemon believes a new draft resolution against syria would open doors for intervention and it's not by chance the arab league has halted its fact finding mission. the new western grafter resolution just it's got language it saying if assad does not comply with the terms of that resolution then have dished a dish no measure will be considered well my goodness that sounds like a no fly zone a different way which it was an open sesame to direct intervention meeting war russia and china are determined to prevent this the observers were sent to syria they picked the wrong man to lead the mission to sudanese general be they thought they had the air man in charge who would deliver the goods against. believing him

for everything going or who what a general who he said to start is cooperating it's exactly the opposite of what the west wanted to hear they wanted a pretext step up whatever they have emerging which is some kind of intervention you could direct nato you can no needle say don't do it and it was one thing to me and i'm doing something you know it was or it could be prosecuted shem. a serious simmers so too does libya months after the fall of gadhafi playing out in jail doctors without borders says it's suspending its mission to me after being made to treat torture victims who are then sent straight back for further interrogation. in the global markets are bracing themselves to have a crunch vote in the iranian parliament as the world's fourth largest crude producer threatens to hold the oil supplies to europe. us police have used tear

gas and flash grenades against some two thousand occupy campaigners in oakland california the crowd was trying to seize one of the city's buildings to make it their new have quaters artist marina portnoy has more. it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty occupy occupy optimists 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 the 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 then chilly 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 police say that we officers have been injured according to the police they say members of the crowd began throwing things at times at the officers and that is what ultimately triggered this clash between police officers and occupy optimist but as you know this is not the first time we've seen a fierce clash between officers and activists in oakland california got 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 out some have said it's just blatant police brutality get just want to correct what i said at least three hundred people i have been arrested in oakland california since since late october not in october . we're on board now reporting there now marty has been following the occupy protest in the u.s. since the very beginning so if you want to track the timeline of events you can simply log on to our web site which is r t. well we've been out of the center of the movement capturing shocking food and shelter demonstrations that engulfed the u.s. so to catch all our coverage online that is original com and also. order all millionaires pay lower tax rates spend millions of middle class households. obama makes his pre-election pitch to americans in the annual state of the union

address stressing jobs inequality in a bid to appease growing anti-corporate sentiment that's next hour here on our team . this week anger over the panning ratification of actor a new international line anti-piracy agreement spilled onto the streets of poland internet users say the new law along with similar bills now suspended in the u.s. as a form of sounds or ship violates human rights or just like to ship ski fall the outrage . at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at the notorious anti counter fee trade agreement the idea of funding. for publishing the dried marked material. is somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes for. being used to kill somebody that will be used to monitor our internet activity i believe that talking through the internet email chatting forums form of self-expression but with every passing

rally the protest grew more political the crowds put prime minister government under fire for signing the agreement on thursday most governmental websites were hijacked by the anonymous hacker group i think they are trying to maximize us with . the promise is that. the document. says that we have rights. to. the rights for our own interpretation of the king but that's not possible knows a lot from our government technically act it should be a good thing protecting intellectual property ranging from music to design your bags but the global online community fears corporations will use it to police the web and take regular uses offline for harmless internet behavior it even includes a criminal charge for posting certain links when you have a copyright industry that's talking about extraditing

a person who has done nothing but linking to t.v. shows extradition does something useful murder and genocide this is such an abuse of power. think it's time is more than ripe for a serious review of what we want with copyright law and it's certainly not calling out just terrorists it certainly has a striking resemblance to the much debated soap of the. in the united states which sent even online giants like google and wikipedia to take direct action but the law was only meant to work locally across the atlantic while act would be applied more globally they are not. racial groups and in some countries it needs to be ratified by parliament but not in every country so we have another option so it's open people faired but actor is still an option for many many countries it was too much for one french e.u.

deputy quit calling act a charade then came the twitter twist the micro-blogging site saying it can now censor tweets country by country friday is active protests in war so we're expected to gather up to forty thousand people but a sudden big freeze kept many away nevertheless the intends to rally for several more weeks hoping to urge warsaw's ruling circles to take a step back twenty one other e.u. member states along with poland signed an actor but it's only here that the decision has caused so much controversy and public dissent the document is yet to be ratified by the country spahr laments which certainly leaves the possibility of more protests everywhere across the european continent let's see russia r.t. reporting from poland. and our website r.t. dot com you can trace the wave of public anger over attempts to police the internet from mass demonstrations to hacker warfare.

how putting revolutionary stamina to the task this week hundreds of thousands of egyptians poured back to career square the iconic birthplace of the country's uprising but a year on the mood is somber and man egypt disenchanted today they're demanding the dissolution of the military council which and heritage absolute power from deposed president hosni mubarak this as a gyptian is today vote on the upper house of parliament following lower house elections that saw the dramatic rise of islamic members the new government is also busy putting together the country's constitution well in council with also promised concessions including the lifting of the mubarak era state of emergency law but egyptian author and filmmaker philip risk says little will change. i don't see it

as being that big of a shift i mean we lived under military rule for thirty years and that gave the government the authority to do just about what they wanted today we live under military rule so to me it's just a formal matter and that they they lift emergency law while we live under the rule of our military since the military took over gender twenty eight's over fifteen thousand civilians that we know of have faced military courts and they have received trials of anywhere between six months to fifteen years and for a moment or like lifting emergency law means absolutely nothing when we have a newly elected parliament that is still under the thumb of militarily they've tasted power they have massive economic interests in the country again everything that's happened in egypt really needs to be looked at from an economic perspective in that there's a group of cronies of one box and his government that were in power they've been moved out of power and there's a new group of cronies that are in place and central to that are the military

generals and they will not just let go and hand over power like that without having guarantees that their interests will be secured. now i love or a bad back in trouble doctors without borders announced it suspending its mission to libya over concerns that it's being made to treat interrogation of victims allegedly tortured by entity forces and with thousands of khadafi loyalist still behind bars there's growing concern over the intentions of the nato backed government are just more if an option in our reports. doctors without borders known for going do their job in the most dangerous and notorious places around the globe but in n t c iran libya the group has encountered a formidable obstacle they couldn't overcome burns through electric shocks and cigarettes heavy bruising and renal failure all these evidence of the continued to churn of prisoners say the doctors and now after two inmates died from beatings the international group has stopped its mission in protest. patients were brought to us

in the middle of interrogation for medical care in order to make them fit for further interrogation this is an acceptable our rule is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions the news comes amidst rising anger with libya's interim government demonstrations in benghazi last week ended with the resignation of a high ranking member of the empty seat in the former gadhafi stronghold of bani walid locals pushed out the can also forces claim in systematic abuse it started with the very beginning of the rebellion very beginning of the insurrection the second day of the rebellion on eighteenth of february the african migrants were rounded up locked in a detention center and burnt to death and the n.p.c. expressed their support for this time and this is part of the strategy of the west

you know divide and rule that was given the green light for the torture and execution that we're seeing now so this is a clear recipe for civil war meanwhile the nato operation that brought the m.t.c. to power is by itself raising questions. a high profile international team of human rights activists has been to leave here to investigate some of may two that it bears entity of were with their evolution in the province and there were guiding the air raids and they addicting them and court again they think that if you are mandated. the approach to. that. it is very very accurate in a way that i myself saw the killing of so many people in front of me. i saw the killing go fifty one people in front of my eyes was fifteen years old and while all

sides and believe in conflict are to blame for violence and violations the human rights activists claim not all of them have been held responsible for their wrongdoing investigated what happens during libya's seven months civil war and the nato campaign to protect civilians this fact is the mission discovered again crimes against humanity but the goal was not good job but to shed light on what happened and not to repeat the mistakes in recent united nations report has reviewed that up to eight thousand prove supporters have been how they really should groups in libya right now and with numerous accuse ations of torture and revenge killings throughout the country hopes of a new beginning. are fading quickly. also in libya the national transitional council has reportedly begun amassing forces including truck mounted anti-aircraft cannons near the rest of town of bani walid

the troop buildup comes after deadly clashes in the town earlier this week during which government fighters were forced out there is currently confusion over what sparked the incident but manny point thing or add khadafi loyalists the unrest may or is a growing frustration and maybe it was manic people fed up with government incompetence and violent power struggles between former rebels so contrary down a spokesman for a british civilians for peace in libya believes the anti is failing to unite the country. the gadhafi regime could control the whole of libya could find peace among all the tribes the new regime cannot even control something in one town or one area i mean they turn libya into a war and if the hunting of black skins. selling off the oil and natural resources and so over to nato and now the thieves that is the rebels that will falling out with each other so really this is the freedom and democracy by nato it's all become very clear people of syria and the people of lebanon and the people of the global

south have to see what's happening in libya is coming to them if they're not able to defend themselves and stop this ruling western aggression against of the countries of the global south lawmakers in tehran are said to approve an immediate halt of oil sales to europe today in response to the latest set of sanctions from the e.u. the bloc adopted a full embargo on a rainy and crude due to come into force in july but iran has preempted the move something experts say will harm european nations most to the pan and on iranian reserves by imposing the sanctions the e.u. leaders are looking to bring in a chance to iran's disputed nuclear program meanwhile the group of i spect there is headed by the bodies deputy director general have arrived in tehran aiming to get the stalled nuclear issue talks of off the ground they will be at the highest level negotiations on the matter for more than three years during political analyst christopher hoare still told r.t. the measures adopted by the e.u. will harm the blog more than iran. this is not in favor of european

interests what we're doing there with this stupid and senseless and also wrong embargo and what we clearly see is that this happens upon washington's wishes so we have a few countries greece in the forefront with twenty five percent of its over oil imports in two thousand and ten that coming from iran but it then we have italy with thirteen spain with ten percent and in this regard some of the europeans have problems fulfilling the embargo eataly got a total exemption because they are not you know paying cash to iran but iran is paying its debts to eat or leave by delivering always so that will continue anyway so we do have a lot of european mostly homemade problems now and in addition to that we have problems with this oil embargo and as we see on the other hand i just spoke to some of your renewed friends iran will do quite well even under the embargo to follow

the iran oil saga as it unravels had to our website r t dot com twenty four seventh's for all the latest developments. all is fair when it comes to pre-election fever political wrangling in russia has spread onto the internet taking a viral dimension as political activists try cutting edge tactics to win the hearts and minds of the people i got to meet her child has been looking at what's going on at the online battle front. does it was that you were right is a closer look at the gray suits and ties and slogans called out from the poor d m r the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered politically in vogue. today's complaining has gone online in

a hot new trend in russia. with programming and bloggers making fun of the opposition portraying them in prayer outside the u.s. embassy on sundays claiming they are connected to the u.s. state department and the opposition filming funny cartoons about politicians made out of lego. getting information out there is becoming easier all the time but the internet is a very different medium to television while on t.v. it's enough to just look into the camera like this to viewers attention not so although that to me you are police video reach millions of lives it's not a lot it just. it also has to be brazen and sometimes project a whole different image. it's no surprise then that putin as

a character from harry puta became an overnight hit it's an industry doing the symbol. of i don't see what i see you stuck with something yes they go to the caribbean they're going to. make it and you're sure that the word is what you're going to get when you. put a gun there but it will just be them. but i don't think it's up to you but apart from catching images memorable catchphrases are used against those in the corridors of power opposition blogger alex enough while me was the first upload his shot which is tongues online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party of the eaves and scoundrels the insulting phrase and first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magine of all media in russia and beyond a year after the party won in the parliamentary elections and reworked the catchphrase felicity's a vote for the party of thieves and scoundrels for ten years of economic growth

with the party of these in scoundrels united russia. the mastermind behind that video and state duma deputy robert proved his party can also fight its wars online broke out superballs the use of being able to my aim is to provoke supreme reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work but i see because putin and russia without putin would rise why not give away your country your beautiful girlfriend to some foreign guys what will happen to the caucasus nothing less just give it away to you spawning a war technically this video has made a very professional you can see that a highly paid special is did it all and it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent first thought is that there is indeed no intro without put but videos from the opposition are just as. and now the whole trend of this election

season eavesdropping on politicians and posting recordings online or those taking part in a massive opposition rally in december were surprised to find out that one of their inspirations boris himself described them in a phone as. hear from each other of government property for your preferred comfort or. naive to expect from any side when we are living in election year there are no holds barred in this war not even interfering in someone's private life. a lack of privacy for today's politicians is already a modern day reality and with fifty million russians going online today about forty percent of the adult population she's the future is predicted to be should build with them online political other tars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the gradual ban party.

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and discover it to be. communicate with you while. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you. about your weather team here is a look at the week's top stories as well as the latest news arab league on ice the syrian fact finding mission is frozen after violence escalates triggering pressure from the e.u. and tough talks at the u.n. security council. and revolutionary aftershocks deadly clashes enter build ups in a levy a while and egypt hundreds of thousands stage fresh protest against. their ruling

military jumped on. us police take the gloves off approach against off the proper task was noble and firing tear gas and flash grenades at demonstrators. this week also saw online anger are spilling onto the streets as internet users in poland fought against a new international anti-piracy remain censorship and a human rights abuse. the iranian parliament is set to vote on a immediate cut off oil supply to the e.u. and a preemptive strike against the blogs and summer oil embargo on to iran but experts say if you were moved to backfire. coming up next here in our t.v. we caught up with head of russia's high tech state corporation ross non-o. . of economic forum in davos to discuss the prospects of the country's business and political future.