syria's state t.v. has reported that damascus regrets the league's decision saying may result in more bloodshed and foreign military intervention that the u.n. security council assert to discuss a new resolution on syria calling for a regime change and warning of further action if damascus fails to comply. russia has opposed document saying it can be used as a basis to solve the situation on top of this the e.u. imposed yet more sanctions against syria this week to further pressure president ah said the decision to freeze the observer mission comes after gulf nations withdrew the arabs or worse leaving people to prepare for the worst as sarah first now report. saying they get by and heading hey they've said it's from the gulf states lethal the air quote their mission incomplete leaving behind a country in a deepening crisis is never going to be easy so you want the arab league monitors to stay. i don't want their stories right from the word gay the missions prefer

problematic the opposition accuse devoted his of being too closely aligned with the government the governments know she's being part of the foreign conspiracy and they will it just tickle complains to the observers seem to liquid on the ground there are concerns that there was simply too few numbers to undertake such a major task but if things were bad at the beginning now they seem even worse following in saudi arabia's footsteps all the gulf states withdrew their observers off to damascus rejected their recent proposal that included president this seat to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these cultures is very interested in democracy of nothing and this is the most interesting this is something we'll talk about. what we'll have a new constitution and we are going to more democrats. contrie multiparty it was

about what about to do about the west talk about syria which would be changed and leave saudi arabia as it is damascus is rejection was no surprise they sides of the conflict of shame equal willingness to soften their stance even when the daily death toll in the country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the road to damascus yes and no they were in mind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial may even to the country's quite serious is seen as clinching show the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is good enough evidence concrete everything some human rights abuses on the part of the are so very keen to then take to the u.n. and the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china will feel compelled to work but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the

monitors things and i know more about what's going on the ground than they did. at the beginning and so it all looks like you know we're going back to square one as the death toll rises the proposal being floated to increase the number of observers on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving one but for now these plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report pieces on both sides seems to have been lost in the flurry of diplomatic activity now france and britain have joined forces at the united nations to try to end president assad's rule waving goodbye that gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in for the arab league i think. it's diplomacy would give anyone to help them but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not on. it's

a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreements a what action should be taken to stop the violence of putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a very. artsy damascus syria. well as syria simmers so too does libya months after the fall of gadhafi we're now going to enjoy a doctors without borders says it's suspending its mission to media after being made to treat torture victims who are then sent straight back for further interrogation. and the global markets are bracing themselves ahead of a crunch vote in the iranian parliament as the world's fourth largest group producer threatens to hold the oil supplies to your. u.s. police have used to tear gas and flash grenades against some two thousand occupy campaigners in oakland california around three hundred people have been arrested

the crowd was trying to seize one of the city's buildings to make it their new have quarters in a fortnight 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 optimiser to set up a new headquarters but as the crowd grew stronger and larger and then chile the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy atlanta

this morning 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 few or squashed between officers and activists in oakland california got in october since 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 kind of 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. and art has been following the

occupy protests in the u.s. since the very beginning so if you want to track the timeline of events simply log on to our website r.t. dot com well we've been to add the epicenter of the movement capturing shocking footage of the demonstrations that engulfed the us catch our online coverage also. a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle class households. obama makes his pre-election pitch to americans in the annual state of the union address stressing jobs and equality in a bid to appease growing anti-corporate sentiment and that shortly here on our team . well this week anger over the panning ratification of act new international airline anti-piracy agreement spilled out onto the streets of poland internet users say the new law along with similar bills now suspended in the u.s. is a form of censorship and violates human rights are just follow the outrage. at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at them that story is anti

counterfeit trade agreement the idea of funny seeing the site for publishing the would say dr mark material. is somehow illogical to me it's like let's say punishing the corporation both for this is knife for. being used to kill somebody like that would be used to monitor our internet activity i believe that talking through the internet email just being forums. on self-expression but with every passing rally the protest grew more political the crowds put prime minister government on the foyer for signing the agreement on thursday most governments the websites were hijacked by the anonymous hacker group i think they're trying to mesmerize us with. the promise is that there would be a sudden closer touch to the documents that says that we have rights. the right for

our own interpretation of the can 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 users 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 does this is such an abuse of power. think its 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 sopa bill 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 the act of three d. s. not. by a poly amounts it's made by 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 he quit calling actor ash a raid then came the twitter twist the micro-blogging site saying it can now censor tweets country by country pride is active protests in war so we're expected to gather up to forty thousand people but a sudden big freeze kept many away never the less they intends to rally for several more weeks hoping to urge war sos ruling circles to take a step back twenty one other issues. member states along with poland signed acts of

but it's only here that the decision has caused so much control over sea and public dissent the document is yet to be ratified by the country spar limits which certainly leaves the possibility of more protests everywhere across the european continent alexi russia. reporting from poland. that in our web site r t dot com you can trace a wave of public anger over attempts to police the internet from mass demonstrations to hacker warfare. well the need for more jobs more equality while giving praise for america's military for ease abroad the some of president obama's pre-election state of the union speech much of the focus in this year's address was devoted to canonic hardships in america the president played on dissatisfaction over wealth disparity

embodied by the occupy movement and cold for the rich to pay equal taxes obama also tout of military success in iraq and afghanistan and the cessation of osama bin laden the speech is widely seen as a three election opportunity for obama to sell his campaign to the public caleb moppin for the international action center tells us that america's double standards on wealth disparity was there for all to see obama speech. well the speech that was given made a lot of references to the united states is just one country we're all together we're all pulling together and we're all sharing the sacrifice but in reality there are people all across the united states laid off unemployed food stamps are being cut homes are being foreclosed and the only sacrifice the rich are even being possibly threatened with is the possibility that they might have their taxes go up well i don't see this country is as one nation of all of us pulling together i see

this is a country with two classes in it there's one class a small ruling elite that owns the banks the factories the oil wells and then there's the rest of us who have to sell our labor to the small ruling elite and i think any any push for a national unity is going to be sadly one sided. and in russia the build up to the presidential election is seeing new campaign tactics emerge candidates supporters and opponents go by using flashy and provocative messages on the internet where anything goes and. fight for votes. putting a revolutionary stamina to the test this week hundreds of thousands of egyptians poor back to tough we are square the iconic birthplace of the country's uprising but a year on the mood is somber and many egyptians disenchanted the day they are demanding the dissolution of the military council which inherited absolute power from deposed president hosni mubarak this as a gyptian 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 ahmed the dalai executive director of the transform even political center says the military knows it it's time its time is running out most egyptians are still weary. of this supreme council of the armed forces. who don't choose to be the symbols of the old regime. and that is a general. feeling of frustration over the smooth piece of change blues from the from the old regime and some members of the supreme council of the armed forces who would like to destroy any for the opposition. people just have a general lack of trust. i believe that the sooner. the better for them they know. the school. and so far

the road map has been to the letter. nearly liberated back in trouble doctors without borders announced its suspending its mission to levy over concerns that it's being made to treat interrogation of victims allegedly tortured by anti c forces and with thousands of cut off your loyalist still behind bars there is growing concern over the intentions of a nato bad government artist maria finished and now 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 from electric shocks and cigarettes heavy bruising and renal failure all these evidence of the continued torture of prisoners say the doctors and now after two inmates died from the 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 work on tuesdays 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 m.t.c. in the former gadhafi stronghold of bani walid locals pushed out their terms ishall council forces claiming 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 support for this time and this is part of the strategy of the west you know divide and rule and that was given the green light of the torture and

execution that we're seeing now so this is a 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 alleviate to investigate some of the two that it bears entity of were with their evolution in the frauds. and they were guiding the air raids and directing them and could have been eating them 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. are so 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 investigating what happened 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 supporters have been held by 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 for libya are fading quickly. r.t. . also in libya the national transitional council has reportedly begun amassing forces including truck mounted and to aircraft cannons near the rest of town of bani walid the true buildup comes after

a deadly clashes in the town earlier this week during which government buyers were forced out the unrest mirrors a growing frustration and maybe it was manic people fed up with anti incompetence and violent power struggles between former rivals patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spiked says he's not surprised by the latest events the national transitional council itself was very much something that was already chosen by the west not something that was chosen by the libyan people it was very much kind of put in place and then there were kind of helicopters in when gadhafi was gotten rid of so the thing that i find very striking here actually is that the n t c isn't doing itself any favors into the pro-democracy campaign is also seeing off. supporters as well warnings for a long time that this could happen in bani walid people were saying for at least two moments we may get a pro get off the uprising here and the m.t.c. did nothing about it so it's not surprising it does seem like the m.t.c. is impotence and this is reflecting the needs and desires of anyone in libya at the

moment and here in russia the internet ad has become the perfect arena for presidential campaigns the fight for the top job has taken a viral dimension as political activists try cutting edge tactics to win the hearts and minds of the people are just a has been looking at what's going on at the online battle front. doesn't want is that you were right is that was that it was that there was a very suits and ties and slogans cold out from the podium of the traditional election season fair that they're no longer considered police involved. today's complaining has gone online in a whole 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 show viewers' attention not so on the to me you are police video reach millions of lines it's not enough to just mass 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 potter 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're ready to cut again they're going to. make it and you're sure that the quickest way when you're going to do. propaganda but it will just be them. but i don't count it's up to you

about you apart from catching images memorable catch phrases 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 apes and scoundrels the insulting was brazen first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magine of all media in russia and beyond a year after 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 but 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 superpowers the use of being able to my aim was 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 disputing that 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 was born in your technical this video has made it very professional you can see that a highly paid special is did 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 i have a whole trend of this election season eavesdropping on politicians and. sting recordings online or those taking part in a massive opposition rally in december were surprised to find out that one of their inspirations for the recent song described them in a phone as. hear from its future of remover. for

your comfort your. 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 so. 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 she deals with them online political of atari pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders it's a democrat party. the lawmakers in tehran are set to approve an immediate halt of oil sales to europe in a vote due to take place in the country's parliament parliament today it's a preemptive move in response to foreign bargo on the radio while by the european union due to come into force in july by imposing the sanctions the e.u. leaders are looking to bring an answer to iran's disputed nuclear program meanwhile

a group of hardline iranian students have met a team of top i am specters that arrived in tehran for the highest level of talks on the nuclear issue for more than three years the activists protested against overwhelming western pressure and claimed their country has a right for a peaceful nuclear program soraya said for an independent researcher and ryder believes iran will eventually survive the oppression sanctions or warfare there's no doubt about it so this is nothing new and they will continue to do that but i think you ron has become well experienced in being able to fight off these wars and these covert actions and america and israel the western allies now europeans are only harming themselves iran i am confident we will eventually. taking a look now at other stories from around the world at least twenty six people have been killed and ten injured after a fire broke out at

a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in peru's capital lima the country's health minister said the center was unlicensed firefighters had to break through walls to rescue the residents while most of the victims are thought to have died from smoke inhalation. wheelchair users have chain themselves together blocking a busy street in central london protesting against planned welfare reforms demonstrators fear the changes will cut their benefits pushing manna into poverty the changes introduced to the u.k.'s welfare system are part of britain's toughest public spending cuts in decades. that brings us up to date here in r.t.e. i'll be back with an update of our top stories.

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to. the back and watching r t here is a look at the latest news in the week's top stories arab league and i use the syrian fact finding mission is frozen after the. islands escalates triggering pressure from the e.u. and tough talks at the u.n. security council. and revolutionary aftershocks deadly clashes and troop build ups in libya while the nature of hundreds of thousands stage fresh protests against

their ruling military john tell. us please take gloves off approach advanced occupy protesters in oakland firing tear gas and flash grenades arresting hundreds in the process. this week also saw a line anger are spilling into the streets as internet users in poland fought against a new international anti-piracy reman sina censorship and a human rights abuse. iranian parliament is set to vote on an immediate cut off of oil supplies to the e.u. at a preemptive strike against the blocs crude embargo on to iran during the summer something man of fear will backfire and europe's economy. well the next modern david and goliath battle as we reported how every cultural giants are trying to eliminate old fashioned farmers.