meanwhile an arab european draft resolution on syria which true russian scribus ism is being revived as the un security council or the initial tax was calling for regime change and warning of further action if to mass chaos why would fit on top of this the e.u. imposed yet more sanctions against syria this week to further pressure president assad the decision to freeze the fact finding mission comes after gulf nations withdrew vera observers leaving people to prepare for the worst authorities tera further reports. saying they get by and heading hey it's said it's from the gulf states leave the airport their mission incomplete leaving behind a country in a deepening crisis is never going to be easy see one of the arab league monitors to stay i don't want right from the word gay the missions prefer problematic the opposition accused him on it is it being too closely aligned with the government

the governments know accused of being part of a foreign conspiracy and they will it just tickle complains to the observers seemed ill equipped on the ground and there were concerns that they were 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 says cede power to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these counties is very interested in democracy and to have nothing this is the most interesting this is something funny we'll talk about. what we'll have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi parties was about what about to do. the west talk about syria which would be changed. lives would. it has to mask says rejection was no surprise they sides of the

conflict of shame equal a 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 their way to damascus yet you know they were in mind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a creature of a bid to the country's crisis is seen as clinching the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish he's got enough evidence concrete everything some human rights abuses on the part of the are so very easy to then take to the u.n. and the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china would 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 earlier proposal being floated to increase the number of that service on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving would but for now those plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report that graded 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 good bye to their 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 will give anyone to help the syrian but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not the arab league screwed council it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreements or what action should be taken to stop the violence paper. putting an end to the

crisis seems to be slipping further and further as a very. artsy damascus syria. was serious simmers so too does libya months after the fall of gadhafi renowned angio doctors without borders says it's spreading its mission to libya after being made to treat torture victims were then sent straight back for further interrogation. and the global markets are bracing themselves ahead of a crime she wrote in the iranian parliament as the world's fourth largest crude producer brands to halt oil supplies to europe. but first u.s. police have used tear gas and flash grenades against some two thousand occupy campaigners in oakland california from three hundred people have been arrested as the crowds trying to seize one of the city's buildings before later marching through the downtown area marches were an important has more. it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty. occupy optimists in oakland

california began demonstrating in the streets and hours passed the crowd grew stronger and stronger up to crosley twenty two thousand people strong ultimately what the goal was for this demonstration is for protesters to take over. and building where they want to 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 activist from their camps and this was an attempt for. optimists to set up a new headquarters but as the crowd grew stronger and larger of the intially the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy up to this morning to the police do you see members of the crowd began. throwing things at the

officers and that is what ultimately triggered this clash between police officers and probably up to this but as we know this is not the first time we've seen a fierce clash between officers and activist in oakland california got in october since late october there was these 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 police tear gas can canister and this is something that put a lot of criticism on the police department in oakland california they've been criticized for being very harsh with occupy octave as. well as has been following the occupy protests 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 r t v dot com we've been at the epicenter of the

movement capturing shocking footage of the demonstrations but engulf us and catch all of our coverage online also. quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates then 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 but shortly here on r t. but this week anger over the pending ratification of act new international online 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 or to select sirus have to follow the outrage. at first glance across poland. squarely at the story is and i counter fee trade agreement the idea of funding. for publishing the.

that's a trite marked material. it's somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes for. being used to kill somebody like 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 there would be a sudden closer touch to the documents that says that we have rights. to. the rights 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 that 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 the treaty is not made by 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 active charade then gamed the twitter twist the micro-blogging site saying it can now censor tweets country by country friday's active protests in warsaw were expected to gather up to forty thousand people but a sudden big freeze kept many away nevertheless they intend to rally for several more weeks hoping to urge warsaw's ruling circles to take a step back twenty one other issue 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's bar limits which certainly leaves the possibility of more protests everywhere across the european

continent let's see russia r.t. reporting from poland. but pro internet freedom activists across europe believe that bills like actor call for intolerable levels of intrusion into web users private affairs this is part of a line along a long line of attacks on civil liberties and internet freedom the actor agreement is just that there's going to be an acceptable level of surveillance on all of our internet connection is essentially what this agreement says it turns your internet service provider into a kind of police officer and that's really one of the problems of the changes that this agreement brings about it breaks copyright infringement a criminal offense which is in fact entirely new move. well on our website our two dot com you can trace the 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 phrase abroad that's the some of president obama's pre-election state of the union speech much of the focus in this here is a draft was devoted to economic hardships in america the president played on dissatisfaction over wealth parity and body by the occupy movement and called for the rich to pay equal taxes obama also treated military success in iraq and afghanistan and the assassination of osama bin ladin that free speech is widely seen as a play alexion opportunity for obama to tell us campaign to the public but jerome white a former presidential candidate for the socialist equality party thinks that no

actual change is possible in the u.s. . forty nine percent of congressmen are multimillionaires the average net worth of a senator is two point five six million dollars and the obama administration since coming in continuing that bailout of wall street cutting the wages of workers is done everything on behalf of wall street and they've ruined warded him by making sure that his campaign has received millions and millions of dollars of his top officials have been drawn directly from wall street including his last three chief of staff to the white house so the deuce again is a is an indication that this entire political structure it's not just democrats democrats and republicans alike are thoroughly impervious to the needs of the population they are in the pockets of the wealthiest one percent and no fundamental change is possible in america that's outside of

a political movement of the working class from below it's in opposition to this entire pollute. in economic order. and in russia the build up to the presidential election is seeing new campaign tactics emerge candidates supporters and opponents go viral using flashy and provocative messages on the internet where anything goes in the fight for votes. putting revolutionary stamina to the task this week hundreds of thousands of egyptians poured back to talk near square the iconic birthplace of the country's uprising i was there and indeed a year on the mood is somber and many egyptians are disenchanted they are demanding the dissolution of the military council which inherited absolute power from to polish president hosni mubarak this has you 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 the ruling council have also promised concessions including the lifting of the

mubarak era state of emergency law but injection 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 to me it's just a formal matter and that they may live to emergency law while we live under the rule of a military drone took since the military took over general twenty eight's over fifteen thousand civilians that we know of have faced military courts and have received trials of anywhere between six months to fifteen years and 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. 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 they will not just let go and hand over power like that without having guarantees that their interests will be secured

. meanwhile in libya the national transitional council has reportedly begun amassing forces including truck mounted anti aircraft kamin near the rest of town of bani why need the troop build up comes after deadly clashes in the town earlier this week during which government finders were forced out on rest mirrors a growing frustration in the country with many people fed up with government incompetence and violent power struggles between former rebels doctors without borders has also suspended its libyan mission over concerns that it's being made to treat interrogation victims allegedly tortured by and to see forces now with thousands of gadhafi loyalists still behind bars there's a growing questions over the intentions of the nato backed government if an ocean are reports. doctors without borders known for going do their job in the most dangerous and notorious places around the globe but an end to. 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 off the 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 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 m.t.c. in the former gadhafi stronghold of bani walid locals pushed out their terms you still 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 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 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 frogs and there were guiding the air raids and they addicting them and court of debating them if you

are mandated. approach to see. that if you go to bed it is very very accurate in a way that i myself saw the killing of so many people in front of me. or 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 wrongdoings investigating what happened during libya's seven months civil war and the nato campaign to protect civilians this fact the mission discovered again crimes against humanity but the goal was not to judge 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 raef notion or r.t. . well lawmakers in tehran are set to approve an immediate halt of oil sales to europe and a vote due to take place in the country's parliament today it's a preemptive move in response to a full on bar go on iranian oil by the european union meant to come into force in july by imposing the sanctions the new leaders are looking to bring in and to iran's disputed nuclear program meanwhile the group of raney and students protested at the capital's airport where i.a.e.a. inspectors arrived for the highest level talks on the nuclear issue for more than three years the activists said iran was suffering under overwhelming western pressure and claimed their country had a right for peaceful nuclear energy. poor all rich and independent researcher and writer believes iran will eventually survive the oppression. sanctions or

there's no downside about it so this is nothing new and they will. nish do that but i think iran has become well experienced in being able to fight off these forced and these covert actions and america and israel the western allies now europeans are only harming themselves iran i am confident iran will eventually sit by. well it seems all is fair when it comes to pre-election in favor of political wrangling in russia has spread to the internet taking a viral dimension as political activists try cutting edge tactics to win the hearts and minds of the people are choosing katherine the great show has been looking at what's going on at the online battle front. doesn't want is that you got whatever it is that was out it was very suits and ties and slogans cold out from the podium of the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered politically involved with. today's complaining has gone online in

a whole new trend in russia. with probably and bloggers making fun of the opposition portraying them in prayer outside the u.s. embassy on sundays claiming they are connected to the us 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 your viewers attention not so on the net to me you are police video reach millions of lines it's not just the mass it also has to be provoked to brazen and sometimes project a whole different image. it's no surprise then that as

a character from harry potter became an overnight hit. doing this you will. see what i see you stuck with some could use the word it but good though you'll make. sure that the word is which when you're going to do the proper got there but it was just beat them to you but i don't come to 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 shop with a tongue online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party of the eaves and scoundrels the insulting phrase it first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magical media in russia and beyond a year after the party won in the parliamentary elections and reworked the catch phrase belittles the vote for the party of fees and scoundrels for ten years of

economic growth with the party fees 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 in my name is to provoke or to preen reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work but i see these 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 the video has made a very professional you can see that a highly paid specialist did it all when it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent first thought is that there is indeed no intro without putting but videos from the opposition are just as blatant. and out of whole a 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 for the recent self described them in a phone as. hear from each user of government property or for your comfort or. it's 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 with. a lack of privacy for today's politicians is already a modern day reality and with fifteen million russians going online today about forty percent of the adult population future is predicted to be filled with them online political avatars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the gradual ban our t.v. . that brings up today with the weekly we're going to take

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world. series technology innovation all the moves developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. here with our table of the latest news in the week's top stories 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. revolutionary aftershocks deadly clashes and troop build ups in libya while in egypt hundreds of thousands stage fresh protests against their

ruling military jumped up. u.s. police take a gloves off approach against occupy protesters in oakland firing tear gas and flash grenades arresting hundreds in the process. this week also saw online anger spilling onto the streets as internet users in poland fought against a new international anti-piracy agreement. scene is censorship and human rights abuse. also the iranian parliament is set to vote on an immediate cut off of oil supplies to the e.u. in a preemptive strike against the box crude embargo on tehran do this summer something many fear will backfire on europe's economy next enjoy the beauty of a nature reserve hidden away in the caucuses declared a world heritage signed by you know sco it can be reached only by helicopter.