the consideration russia rejected the latest drop put forward by e.u. and arab states calling for regime change in the country and allowing further action if the mascot doesn't comply political analyst david letterman believes it's not a coincidence that the arab league froze its mission just as western powers up the calls for foreign involvement. oh my goodness that sounds like a no fly zone to different language it was an open sesame to direct meeting war the observers were saying it is syria you know they got the wrong man to lead the mission sudanese general. they thought they had the air man in charge who would deliver the goods against the side believing him for everything going or what a general who he said has started 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 to action

based solution is the worst year you said well it's only a theory it's usually a chimera opposition in syria syria is that authoritarian state a reporter in the one guy or did we get to go to a national poll that apparently got some credibility said that joran he of syrians . for america and britain and the arab league to get to the end in syria years of three years and to have an arrogant resolution saying and although i would do what you are unique in its two weeks well assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which total these people go. around one hundred observers are still in syria awaiting further instructions but gulf nations are not taking part they withdrew them on to saying the mission had failed to hold the syrian government to its pledged and violence but as sara first reports weakening the fact finding team leaves syrians on the ground preparing for that was. saying they get by and heading

home they've said it's from the gulf states leave to the airport then 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 prefer problematic the opposition accuse them on it is it being too closely aligned with the government the government's now accused of being part of the foreign conspiracy and they will it just to cool complaints to the observers seem to liquid on the ground and there were concerns that they were simply too few numbers to undertake such a major task and 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 this conference is very interested in democracy and they have nothing and 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 multi-party it was about what about to do about the west talk about syria which would be changed. 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 on the road to damascus yet another remind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial maybe into 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 is get enough evidence concrete evidence about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very easy to then take to the un 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 hazel being floated to increase the number as it service on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving but for now these plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the reform 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 goodbye 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 but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not of bleakness good gossip it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreements and 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. also coping with unrest as egypt coming up a year after its uprising it's back to tell his square his hundreds of thousands rally against the absolute power of the ruling military and its reluctance to step down. but still to come for you this hour but first u.n. nuclear 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 program its purpose is

purely peaceful the i.a.e.a. visit comes at a time when tensions between iran and the west are approaching crisis level on monday even ations adopted an unprecedented set of sanctions against the islamic republic which included a complete embargo on oil supplies from iran professor marandi from the university of tehran says the fact the ban was approved just before the a visit shows talks are unlikely to change the west's approach to iran the 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 installations so therefore there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program is anything but peaceful and. has no evidence on this the iranians are not very optimistic about the 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 b i a 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 the 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 by step proposal that the west has and hasn't been supporting meanwhile to ron is preparing a response to the e.u. in bargain iranian lawmakers are considering an immediate halt of oil sales to europe. and activists from the campaign against sanctions and military intervention in iran says the measure shows tehran is powerful enough not to succumb to economic pressure. the grace period that they had envisioned for six months for it is going

to take place may actually not be that graceful so iran is taking matters into his own hands and the other issue is that it shows the complex if you are feeling in the midst of politics and the power that the iranian parliament holds and that is accountable to its people and it's not going to just sit back and watch what's going to happen to the national. the wrong to issues really an excuse for deepening that confrontation between iran and the list i see as the same time that is imposing does involve those on iran if you see that some european countries are selling more arms to the countries the arab countries of the persian gulf so they are benefiting from the iran the phobia they start creating in the region so why solve the problem with negotiations why some countries are cashing in where we're keeping a close eye on the iranian on a nuclear saga on air and online you can head to our website r t v dot com for more

analysis and updates on the latest developments. for us occupy movement protests once again turned violent an oakland california police fired tear gas and bean bag rounds at some two thousand demonstrators several hundred were arrested as an attempted to occupy a vacant convention center before storming into city hall what is more important has more. it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty occupy occupy occupants in oakland california began demonstrating in the streets and it was hours past 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 act 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 far as we know this is not the first time we've seen a fierce clash between officers and activists in oakland california got 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 are key point protests in america come against the background of the race for the why tells me he might or could be with the crisis why no one present moment administration is putting top of goods. to do list breaks but in any way it's the leader's state of the union speech . that's a little later for you but in the meantime it's been a turbulent week for poland which saw thousands of people protesting against the piracy pact their countries signed up to 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 sense the internet and get 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 is 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 government under fire for signing the agreement on thursday most governmental websites were hijacked by the anonymous hacker group i think they were 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 looking 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 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. 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 a charade then came the twitter twist the micro-blogging site saying it can now

censor tweets country by country. active protests in. war so were 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 to. states along with poland signed act 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 let's. see reporting from poland. one of our correspondents in the micro blogging from twitter is in a flap over a censorship scandal of its own we've got more analysis on that on our website called me pleading one suggestion that the move will ultimately backfire on governments. make it very clear to their users your government is censoring you and

i think that will 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 conversation with internet campaign aaron swartz dot com also online of the moment. the internet's most famous whistleblower is getting ready to reveal even more t.v. . in his own talk show. all the details on our website. this week egyptians marked a year since the beginning of the country's uprising hundreds of thousands flooded into tahrir square the iconic birthplace of the revolution and today the polls opened for elections to the upper house of parliament this after islamist parties claimed an overwhelming majority in the lower house a new government is currently trying to develop

a new constitution but above all egyptians want the dissolution of the military council which inherited absolute power from deposed president hosni mubarak political analyst told r.t. the military knows its time is running out. still weary. of this supreme council of. the. symbols of the old regime. and that is a general feeling of frustration at the small change. from the all blue zeman some members what was have been done to the horses. opposition. people just a general lack of trust the words what i believe that the sooner. the better for you nor. much of

a goose and so far. has been all through the letter. libya is not far behind coming up next hour martini months after the fall of gadhafi ngo doctors without borders suspends its mission to libya after being forced to treat torture victims who have been straight sent straight back to further interrogation. more now in about an hour from now here on team president obama vowed to reform tax and find poverty while hailing america's military journey his annual state of the union speech but of the focus in this year's address was dedicated to the country's struggling. and the pressing problem of inequality bonded by the occupy movement also praised army advances abroad and the assassination is on the bin laden speech the recount of this opinion action chance for obama to sell his campaign to the public face and pull sheldon foote from california state university but leaves the address clearly demonstrates the policy priorities chosen by obama's administration

. stick. is getting strong he used the cute little code phrase that we're going to have an enduring relationship with him to stand which means we're going to have bases in that country and stay there for ever whether they want us or. likewise he said regional gadhafi syria's next it if iran doesn't behave they're there after that so. it is totally contradictory to say that he's going to be able to pay down the american debt in mixed race and government spending programs domestically with savings from bringing soldiers older moore's what in fact he has planes to expand what he didn't mention chided by day me also said that we have a pacific strategy and the world will know that we have heard a number was. that it was

a thinly veiled threat against trying to 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. in election campaigning here in russia it's web weapons that are on the front line of the battlefield parties are trying a good job has been looking at the cutting edge tactics being used to win hearts and minds. as a way out is that you were right is that was that it was very 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 involved in. today's complaining has gone online in a whole new trend in russia. with program in 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 was. 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 although that to me you are police video reach millions of the excite line it's not a lot it just. it also has to be provoked to brazen and sometimes project a whole different image. it's no surprise then that putin as a character from harry porter 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 when you're critical

of it when you. put up a gun there but it was just beat them. but i don't compare it's. apart from catching images memorable catch phrases are used against those in the corridors of power opposition blogger alex in the valley was the first upload his shot which is 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 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. the use of being able to my aim was to provoke her 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 was born in your technical video has made a very professional way you can see that highly paid specialist it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent your first thought is that there is indeed no future without put but videos from the opposition are just as blatant. and i have a 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 user of government are appropriate for your preferred comfort. 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. 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 the future is predicted to be filled with online political other tars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the catch of on our t.v. . what kind of us have busy storming the web those demanding a fair vote have got behind the wheel to protest hundreds of cars flying the color white as a symbol for a free pole a circling the center of moscow it's the latest rally following the parliamentary

elections in december that is going off. scores of drivers are taking part in this a run across most going support of feral actions it's called the white wings and it's taking place on the garden ring which is one of the main transport arteries of the city the rules are simple anyone could take quarters as long as they have a vehicle and fix any whites object on to it be it a white ribbon a bolo an a or whatever this is one of a series of protests are rallies which have been taking place in moscow and across the country since the parliamentary election in december tens of thousands of protesters gathered for the two biggest of rallies moscow is seen since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. more just one for the fourth of february. more the opposition is bracing itself for a ferry running thousands gathered in the city of a catherine to support the ruling party hopeful that amir president this is the

second mass rally to support his candidacy this week. twenty seven minutes past the hour and russian capitalism a quick look at what else is making news around the world in this house world update several taliban negotiators have become talks with the u.s. in cata the two sides of thought to be discussing trust building measures including a prisoner transfer and authorities reportedly also funding to move forward with peace talks the taliban has previously refused to recognize the government of afghan president hamid karzai. grace's rejected plans for an e.u. budget commissioner to take power of its taxes and spending under the german proposal athens would have to pay its debt before spending any more money greece in its investors are now nearing a deal that could see a second euro zone bailout an agreement must be reached within a few days before the next round of money can be paid. you're watching the weekly on r.t. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in about twenty minutes from now stay with us if you can .

today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. well with the. technology innovation all the latest developments

around russia we've. covered. wealthy british style. market. scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy. if you just. live here in moscow this week's top stories now the league's. arab nations hold their observers work in syria reports of an upsurge in violence and says that could make things worse. talks between iran and u.n. nuclear inspectors resume amid international tension iran is considering stopping

fuel supplies to the e.u. within days as a response to sanctions. or protests feel the full force of the law in oakland again and offices resorting to. demonstrators and arrest hundreds. and also reporting the national proposals to stop whether. mass protests imposed on activists say the government is supporting internet censorship not copyright protection. well coming up next caught up with the head of russia's high tech state corporation at the economic forum in davos to discuss the country's business and political future that interview is next. what's one action should russia's new government take to stop business leaders stealing money and taking it out of the country the basic.