military intervention at the u.n. security council resolution on syria is under consideration russia rejected the latest draft put forward by e.u. and arab states calling for regime change in the country and allowing further action if the math that's why political analysts even one man believes it's not a coincidence that the arab league froze its mission to have those western powers up to calls for foreign involvement. oh my goodness that sounds like a no fly zone to different language it was an open sesame to direct intervention meeting was the observers were sent into syria they picked the wrong man to lead the mission sudanese general. they thought they had the air manage your eyes who would deliver the goods against the side believing him for everything going oh i'm cool what a general we do what he said assad is cooperating it's exactly the opposite of what

the last one they wanted a pretext to step up whatever they have in mind which is some kind of you do day to day basis allusion is the way of syria's civil it's only a theory and here is a legitimate office issue that syria syria is that authoritarian state a reporter in the when they got a young reporter that we could do it go get a national poll that apparently got some credibility he said good bye enjoy really all syrians aside for america and britain and the arab league and theirs to intervene in syria since it is and to have an arrogant resolution saying and although we do would be happy in two weeks well assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which total each people who go to. around one hundred observers are still in syria awaiting further instructions but gulf nations are not taking part they would screw their monitors saying the mission has failed to hold the syrian government to its pledge to end violence but authorities sara furth reports

weakening the fact finding team leave syrians on the ground preparing for the worst . saying they get by and heading home they've 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 so you want the arab league monitors to stay. warm right from the word gay the missions prove problematic the opposition accused the monitors of being too closely aligned with the government the government's now accused of being part of a foreign conspiracy and they will it just to cool complains to the observers seem to liquidate on the ground and there are 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 after damascus rejected their recent proposal that included president assad cede

power to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these countries is very interested in democracy and to have nothing this is the most interesting this is something pani will talk about. or will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country two parties was about what about to do about the west talked about syria which would be true changed. lives because damascus is rejection was no surprise those sides of the conflict of shame equal unwillingness 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 yet another in mind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial mavin to the country's crisis is seen as controversial the arab league

essentially has no credibility on the arab street. what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish he's got enough everything is concrete everything about human rights abuses on the part of the also very same thing take to the un. 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 thing to know more about what's going on the ground and they think. at the beginning and so it all looks like it will be going back to square one as the death toll rises the earlier proposal being floated to increase the number of observers on the ground and provide them with u.n. trading could be a life saving word but for now those plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report that they agreed to 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 to that goal 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 but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not all believe this could go on so it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreements or what action should be taken to stop the violence and putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a very. artsy damascus syria. well if syria's locked in a spiral of violence libya is not far behind coming up on our team months after the fall of gadhafi and gio doctors without borders suspends its mission to libya to being forced to treat torture victims were then sent straight back for further interrogation. but first un inspectors have started

a three day mission to examine iran's atomic activities to iran says it's certain the talks the first in more than three years will prove its programs purpose is purely peaceful but the i.a.e.a. visit comes at a time when tensions between iran and the west are approaching crisis level on monday even nations adopted an unprecedented set of sanctions against the islamic republic which include a complete embargo on oil supplies from iran that's meant to come into effect in july but iran is considering an immediate halt of oil sales to the to europe in retaliation but let's discuss these latest developments around the arena and crisis with the same homage marandi who's a professor at the university of tehran and now joins us live from beirut thanks for being with both how significant could the outcome of this i.e. mission be and to what extent it might influence the situation surrounding iran's nuclear program. the iranians basically

are trying to show again to the international community. the nuclear program unease in iran is peaceful and of course when when i say the international community i mean that i mean the non-western world because usually the west considers itself to be international community on its own. the reality though is that. the i.a.e.a. currently has full time monitors in iran in this is something that we rarely hear in the western media and we have cameras in all of iran's installations so therefore there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program is anything but peaceful and a has no evidence on this the iranians are not very optimistic about the i.a.e.a. because it is heavily influenced by western countries it's not a democratic body most of the members on the board are european and north american

they don't represent the international community at all and the head of the i.a.e.a. is he owes his job to the united states if you look at the wiki leaks documents but again the iranians are attempting to resolve the issue despite the fact that in the past when iranians had attempted to put. the issue up front to negotiate and resolve the americans blocked it such as the tehran declaration between brazil iraq and turkey and more recently the russian step for step by step proposal that the west has and hasn't been supporting why do you think the e.u. adopted this embargo on iranian oil without waiting to see what this latest mission actually finds. well the united states and the europeans are basically engaging in acts of war against the iranian people as ron paul the us presidential candidate said himself. i think most iranians believe that the united states and the europeans are losing ground in the middle east and throughout the world and this is

an attempt to to seriously hurt iran. at this juncture the united states if the economy of western european and north american countries in comparison to their rivals is on the define the only thing that they have going for them one is a very powerful military in which the united states has control of almost all the oil wealth in other words arab regimes dictatorships in the rich region are all aligned to the united states and independent countries except for russia really don't have all that many choices for oil so china for example depends on oil from own from countries that are aligned to the united states and iran since it's an independent country if the united states was able to bring about a change in their stomach republican overthrow the political order there obviously that would put china in a very difficult position so the iranians believe that the real issue is not the

nuclear program it is iran independence and sovereignty iran has proposed postponed i should say for now a bill that would cut all oil supplies to europe within days and seen as a reaction to the embargo the idea is there do you think they'll actually go ahead with it. well that this is just not clear but many iranians are very angry towards europeans and americans and this is an extraordinary extra it's very extraordinary how europeans and americans misread iranian society if they wanted to create anger among iranians towards themselves they couldn't have done a better job in general the iranians do wish to move away from europe in the united states and they they believe that it's really of no use talking to these countries anymore so if the europeans want to punish iranians then iranians say well that's punish them for us but i don't know where the iranian parliament is going to take this issue just briefly now that about tehran's promise

earlier to block the strait of hormuz is that still a prospect i mean is that on the table and also do you think iran will come back to the negotiating table. well iran has always been at the negotiating table that has talked with the russians the new proposal they. tried to resolve in a previous issue on with regards to the production of uranium enriched uranium at twenty percent with the brazilians a very good web site on the iranian nuclear issue is race for iran dot com people can look at in that it's a very well documented tale the whole program the whole issue but in general the mood in iran is that it is the west that is that is promoting tension after all the iranians have not threatened to block the strait of homos on their own or just in some vacuum western countries have threatened iran constantly with war you

have military drones flying over iranian airspace you have western intelligence organizations murdering iranian scientists and scholars such as one of my own colleagues at the university of tehran and you have western organizations funding terrorist organizations in their capitals against iranians so it is basically western countries that are promoting tension the iranians say that if you block us in trying to make ordinary iranians suffer through sanctions then if the iranian nation is being strangled the iranians will retaliate otherwise iran wants peace and stability in the persian gulf region all right thank you for your thoughts professor sayed mohammad marandi from the university of tehran on the line from beirut where we continue to keep a close eye on the iranian oil and nuclear saga on air and online for you you can head to our web site art you don't compromise or analysis and updates on the latest developments.

for you as occupy movement protests once again turned violent in oakland california police fired tear gas and bean backgrounds of some two thousand demonstrators several hundred were arrested as they attempted to occupy a vacant convention center before storming city hall marches were an important 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 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 of then chile the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy activists warning 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 back in 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. well those occupy protests in america come against the background of the race for the white house military my or with a price i know what president obama the ministration of putting top of it to do this our expert evaluate the leaders state of the union speech. well it's been a turbulent week for poland which saw thousands of people protesting against the n.t. web piracy pact their countries signed up to that's along with twenty one other european states activists say the multinational deal which still needs to be ratified by the european parliament allows firms to censor the internet like sirus have ski reports from warsaw. at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at the

notorious anti counterfeit trade agreement the idea of funding. for publishing the. material it's somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes for. being used to kill somebody but with every passing rally the protest grew more political the crowds put prime minister to six 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. the right for our own interpretation of the second but that's not possible knows a lot from our government technically actors 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 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 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. actor is still an option for many many countries it was too much for one french e.u. deputy he quit calling act charade then came the twitter twist the micro-blogging site saying it can now censor tweets country by country. 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 war soldiers ruling circles to take a step back twenty one other member states along with poland signed an actor but it's only here but 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 so let's. see reporting from poland. well as the next day was mentioning there the microblogging from twitter is in a flap over censorship scandal of its own we've got more analysis on that on our web site r.t. dot com including one thing that the move might ultimately backfire on governments . twitter has said that make it very clear that their users your government is censoring you and i think that'll be a huge step in pressuring people to share the stuff that was censored but also pressuring governments to change their policies what's the full version with

a conversation i should say with internet liberty campaigner aaron schwartz on our dot com also online the internet most famous with the blowers getting ready to reveal even more on t.v. julian a bomb just launching their very own talk show here on our t.v. all the details on our website. deadly clashes between fighters belonging to libya's interim government and soldiers loyal to find colonel gadhafi in bani walid this week sparked fears of a new civil war but the national transitional council reportedly began a math thing forces including truck mounted anti aircraft cannons near the former stronghold of the gadhafi regime the bill that came after government troops were forced out of the rest of town the unrest mirrors the growing frustration in libya

many people accuse the m.t.c. of incompetence amid violent power struggles between former rebels so then a spokesman for british civilians for peace in libya explains why the council 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 there selling off the oil and natural resources and so over to nato and now the 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 other countries of the global south but libya's interim leadership also came under fire from the u.n. this week over failure to stop the torture of thousands of prisoners to

international organizations doctors without borders and amnesty international say detainees have been tortured and killed in recent months they also point to widespread abuse of former gadhafi supporters as largely as written osuna reports hopes are fading that the nato by government can actually offer a new beginning. doctors without borders known for going do their job in the most dangerous and notorious places around the globe but an end to see run libya the group has encountered a formidable obstacle they couldn't overcome burns from electric shocks and cigarettes heavy bruising and renal failure all this evidence of the continued torture 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

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. 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 empty seat of power is by itself raising questions. a high profile international team of human rights activists has been to leave here to

investigate some of the two that it present at eve's were with. in the province and there were guiding the air raids and directing them and court of directing them. if you are baited to protect. the thought you are it is very very accurate in a way that i myself saw the killing of so many people in front of more my eyes are so the killing of fifty one people in front of my eyes being dissed was fifteen years old and while all sides in the libyan 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 a recent united nations report has reviewed that up to eight thousand pro khadafi supporters have been held by militia groups in libya right now and with numerous occasions of torture and revenge killings throughout the country hopes of a new beginning for libya are fading quickly reef an ocean or r.t. . now libya isn't the only nation coping with post revolutionary unrest it's back to egypt clears where hundreds of thousands rally against the absolute power of the ruling military and its reluctance to step down have more on that for you next hour . but now president obama vowed to reform tax and find poverty while helping america's military during his annual state of the union speech much of the focus in this year's address was dedicated to the country's struggling economy and the

pressing problem in the quality body by the occupy movement obama also praised army advances abroad and the assassination of osama bin laden the speech is regarded as a pre-election chance for obama to sell his campaign to the public only fester paul sheldon foote from california state university believes the address clearly demonstrates the policy priorities chosen by obama's administration. are used that you little code for. we're going to have an enduring relationship. which means we're going to have bases in the country and stay there for ever whether they want to serve. likewise he said we kill gadhafi syria's next day and if iran doesn't behave there there after that so. it is totally contradictory to say that he's going to be able to pay down the american debt and expand government spending programs domestically with savings from bringing soldiers home for moore's

when in fact he has plans to expand what he didn't mention side of my name he also said that we have a pacific strategy and the world will know that we are number would. that was a thinly veiled threat against china even i mean how insane can you be china's holding more than a trillion dollars of our debt we've got tens of thousands of factories there we're highly coordinated doing depended on them though and he's threatening them to. short break now here on our team and i'll be back with a recap of the week's top stories we're covering this sunday. thank you.

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multinational proposal to stop when piracy sparked protest in poland activists say their government is supporting internet censorship not copyright protection next we bring you the story of an american farmer who is waging a war against a multinational corporation over environmental pollution and destruction. in japan with lot of scientists consumers and processors in importers and this document here is to convince version of the all the scientific studies the japanese have done using monsanto's data is over fifty pages long it has been all translated into english for me and that is on the food issue the food pardi.