a result of more bloodshed and a foreign military intervention at the u.n. security council resolution on syria is under consideration russia rejected the latest drop off put forward by e.u. and arab states calling for regime change in the country and allowing further action if damascus doesn't comply but it's going on in a stephen them and believes it's not a coincidence that the arab league throws its mission just as western policy up the calls for foreign involvement. oh my goodness that sounds like a no fly zone and different language it was an open sesame to direct intervention meeting was the observers were said it did syria they picked the wrong man to lead the mission the sudanese general. they thought they had the air man in charge who would deliver the goods against the side believing him for everything going on what a general do 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 intervention the best solution is the west syria's civil it's only a theory and here is a legitimate opposition in syria syria is that authoritarian state a reporter in the one that got even reported we get to go to a national poll that apparently got some credibility he said of bonjour already of syrians back aside for america and britain and the arab league and there's to intervene in syria use of fears and to have an arrogant resolution saying and all the power to it yet beauty in two weeks well assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which tell these people to to go. around one hundred observers are still in syria awaiting further instructions but gulf nations are not taking part they withdrew their monitors saying the mission has failed to hold the syrian government to its pledge to end violence but as sara firth reports weakening the fact finding

team leave syrians they're preparing for the worst. saying they get by and heading home they've said it's from the gulf states leave 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 wanted to stay. i don't want very much right from the word go the missions prove problematic the opposition accused the monitor's of being too closely aligned with the government the government's now accused of being part of a foreign conspiracy and there were logistical complaints to the observers seem to liquidate 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 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 and we are going to more democratic countries multi-party system but what about to do about the west's come up talk about syria which would be true changed and leave saudi arabia as it has damascus is rejection was no surprise both 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 is good enough evidence concrete evidence about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very keen 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 proposal being floated to increase the number of observers on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving wallet but for now these plans to be interest 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 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 would give anyone who held the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in their hands not all believe this could go on so it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreements on 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 is egypt coming up for you here in r.t. a year after its uprising back to tell here square as hundreds of thousands rally against the absolute power of the ruling military junta and its reluctance to step down. but still to come for the first u.n.

nuclear inspectors have started a three day mission to examine iran's atomic activities terrilyn says it's certain the talks the first in more than three years will prove its programs 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 adopted and i'm president it's set of sanctions against the islamic republic which include a complete embargo on oil supplies from iran that comes into force in july but iran is considering an immediate halt of oil sales to europe in retaliation well let's discuss the latest developments around the iranian crisis with manesh he's middle east studies program coordinator and professor emeritus of california state university. can we expect any breakthrough from this mission which is only shuttle for three days. you're right there actually going to be only three days. a year so.

all outstanding issues through. its debt is impossible. as mom had been better it was the poor there are. less than me. she would have me death is the case it isn't really my shit one should expect these three. years actually i have to say that if he was in. really came out well if of course iran cooperate and answer all the questions which is being asked to do then this idea of regime change will it be obsolete then wouldn't it and that would in fact be a way of iran wrong doing what you say are the real intention behind the i.a.e.a. . that's exactly true iran has already responded under the ages to the questions or the educations that us and he's very seriously in six hundred

seventeen pages and basically. some of the documents that forward that each. don't have to believe what they have been given. and they're all already. caught these are things. we never get there so it isn't really much. militants. as. to certain we will see such as an individual. who apparently was in nuclear scientists in iran and was dealing we. supposedly well. i mean iran refuse. given the need of. the last one. just few years for work i can see basically

reluctance so. quickly so whatever conclusions the agency comes up with it's going to be irrelevant from western view for example we've seen the e.u. imposing that embargo on iran's oil before those u.n. inspectors were actually visiting the country so many would say this is seen as premature is that in some ways supporting your argument that actually the i.a.e.a. is reports will mean nothing. basically what i'm saying it wasn't sure nuclear. development city on it would have been the support of terrorism if it wasn't for their. human rights in iran so basically what are excuses a series of menu option. which in some sense it is very similar to iraq. was a series of issues that the reason you don't see the the. or

the guns and very good one. or reckons of mass destruction are. ok. are you sure he's not going to be seven well let's talk more about the embargo itself iran predicts oil prices might jump to something like one hundred fifty dollars per barrel stressing it doesn't have eight doesn't actually have all the markets it can supply apart from the e.u. turkey for example has already said it's not supporting sanctions and will keep buying iranian oil then of course you have china and india so what effect actually will this ban have. well first of all the ban is going to be put into it as as you pointed out. what you also pointed out was that you don't need a parliament was. exporting for you to europe right away but from what. they have

decision and that you know. it is not really big debt much because the. two other countries as you mentioned to some asian countries as with us for the have seen on that so it's not going to meet on much at this point but it is possible that the price of oil it's very difficult to say what if they would. have predicted that the price of board would rise to something between hundred twenty five to one and. that oil has already been discounted in the marketplace so that the price which are which are right and just very briefly and finally any chance of any military action by the us if we do see for example the straits of hormuz being close i mean do you think this could ultimately lead to any sort of conflict now in the region just very very briefly there is zero

zero is a possibility well of course the military is premature ok. thank you very much your thoughts good to hear you're here on r.t. thank you very much. but we're keeping a close eye on the iranian on a nuclear saga on air and online for you you can head to our website r.t. dot com for more analysis and updates on the latest developments. u.s. occupy movement protesters once again turned violent in oakland california police fired tear gas at some two thousand demonstrators several hundred were arrested as attempted to occupy a vacant convention center before storming into city hall artie's marina port nine . 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 crosley twenty two thousand people strong ultimately what the goal was for this demonstration is for protesters to take over and the abandoned building where they wanted to create their new headquarters because as our viewers may remember crossed the country in the united states just a few months ago police departments are removed activists from their camps and this was an attempt for oakland optimist to set up a new headquarters but as the crowd grew stronger and larger of them too late the police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades act 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 came to occupy an optimist but as guys you know this is not the first time we've seen a fierce clash between officers and activists in oakland california i 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 occupy protests in america come against the background of the race for the white house electorate my talk being where the debt crisis you can find out what president obama's administration is putting top of it's to do list or export a better way to the leader state of the union speech

a little later. in the meantime it's been a turbulent week for poland which saw thousands of people protesting against the piracy pact their country has 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 censor the internet next year reports from warsaw. at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at the notorious anti counter fee trade agreement the idea of funding. for publishing the trademarked 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 to six 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 rights. to. the rights 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. groups and in some countries it needs to be ratified by parliament but not in every

country so we have another. source open people faired but actor is still an option for many many countries it was too much for one french e.u. deputy quit calling actor charade then came the twitter twist the micro-blogging site saying it can now censor tweets country by country friday is active protests in. war so we're expected to gather up to forty thousand people but a sudden big freeze kept many away never the last of the intends to rally for several more weeks hoping to urge warsaw's ruling circles to take a step back twenty one other e.u. member states along with poland signed actor but it's only here but the decision has caused so much controversy and public dissent the document is yet to be ratified by the country spar laments which certainly leaves the possibility of more protests everywhere across the european continent let's. see reporting from poland . and as our correspondent just mentioned there the micro blogging from twitter is

in a flap over censorship scandal of his own we've got more analysis on that on our web site including one suggestion that the move will ultimately back foreign governments. make it very clear that 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 policy what's a full conversation with internet liberty campaign aaron swartz on t.v. dot com also online at the moment. the internet's most famous whistleblower is getting ready to reveal even more t.v. . in his own talk show here are to all the details of that on our website. this week egyptians mark two years 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 are open for elections to the upper house of parliament this after islamist parties claimed an overwhelming majority in the lower house the new government is currently trying to develop a new constitution above all egyptians what the dissolution of the military council which inherited absolute power from the post president hosni mubarak political analyst ahmed but i told r.t. the military knows it's time is running out. most egyptians are still weary. of this supreme council of the armed forces and. the trials of the symbols of the old regime. and that is a general feeling of frustration at the small change. from the from the old regime and some members of the supreme council of the armed forces . who describe only for opposition. people just

a general lack of trust the words authority i believe that the sooner. the better for them do nor. very much aware of those and so far the road map has been fall to the letter. it appears not far behind coming up in the next hour in our team months after the fall of gadhafi acted n.g.o.s doctors without borders suspends its mission to libya after being forced to treat torture victims through a fence straight sent straight back for further interrogation. and more on that a little later if we hear a lot in the meantime president obama vowed to reform tax and fight poverty while hailing 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 struggling economy and the pressing problem of inequality bordered 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 and professor point sheldon foote from california state university police the address clearly demonstrates the policy priorities chosen by obama's administration. he used the cute little code phrase that we're going to have an enduring relationship with jeff in a stand which means we're going to have bases in that country and stay there for ever whether they want to serve. likewise he said regional gadhafi syria's next day and if iran doesn't behave there the 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 try to find any also said that we have

a pacific strategy and the world will know that we heard a number war. that was a thinly veiled threat against china even i mean how insane can you baby china is holding more than a trillion dollars of our debt we've got tens of thousands of factories there weird highly coordinated doing depended on them now and he's threatening them to. in election campaigning here in russia richard webb weapons that are on the front lawn of the battlefield now it is a country which over has been looking at the cutting edge tactics being used to win the hearts and minds over doesn't want is that you were right is a closer look at the grey suits and ties and slogans called out from the poor d m r the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered police invoke . today's complaining has gone online in a hot new trend in russia. with programming

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 viewer's attention not so although to me you are police video reach millions of lines it's not enough to just have the message 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. doing this you will.

have civil rights you. use the word it but. though you'll. hear. when you're. part of that what it was. like for them and that's. apart from catching images memorable catchphrases are used against those in the corridors of power up as a. blogger alex enough while me was the first upload his shot which is tongues online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party of the eaves and scoundrels the insulting phrase and first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magine of all media in russia and beyond a year after the party won in the parliamentary elections and reworked the catchphrase philistinism vote for the party of thieves and scoundrels for ten years of economic growth 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. my aim is to provoke to preen reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work. in that russia without putin would rise why not give away your country your beautiful girlfriend to some foreign guy what will happen to the caucuses nothing less just give it away to you responding and more technical the videos made a very professional you can see that a highly paid specialist did it 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 ad a 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 worrisome self described them in a phone as. hear from each user of government property or for your preferred comfort or. it's naive to expect politeness from any side when we are living in election year there are no holds barred in this war not. interfering in someone's private life with. 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 the future is predicted to be filled with them online political attari pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the gradual r t. we'll be back with the headlines we hear in our team very shortly stay with us life

here in moscow. wealthy british style. writers. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global

economy cause a report on our. this week's top stories now here on r t this is the weekly the league's mission arab nations observers work in syria and reports of an upsurge in violence damascus says that could make things worse. talks between iran and u.n. nuclear inspectors resume amid international attention to iran is considering stopping fuel supplies to the e.u. within days as a response to sanctions. also u.s.

anti corporate protests feel the full force of the war in oakland again with officers resorting to tear gas and flash grenades to disperse demonstrators and arrest hundreds. and multi-national proposals to stop web piracy spark mass protests in poland activists say their government is supporting internet censorship not copyright protection. be back with another some of those made news stories for in about fifteen minutes from now the mean time has been catching up with the head of russia's high tech state corporation. the economic forum in davos to discuss the country's business and political future that's in a special interview next on our team. was one action should russia's new government take to stop business leaders. and taking it out of the country.