on monday even asians adopted the president instead of sanctions against the islamic republic include a complete embargo on all supplies from iran and some randy from the university of toronto as the fact that the plan was approved just before the agency 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 insulations so therefore there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program is anything but peaceful and i 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 be head of b i 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 turkey and more recently the russians to step by step proposal that the west hasn't . hasn't been supporting. but we're keeping a close eye on the iranian oil and nuclear saga on air and online just head to our website oddly dot com for more analysis and updates on the latest developments. a u.s. occupy movement protesters once again turned violent an oakland california police

fired tear gas and some two thousand demonstrators several hundred were arrested as they attempt to talk vacant convention center before storming into city hall parties miniport known as more. it began around saturday afternoon when roughly two hundred fifty occupy 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 empty 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 adventure late the

police in oakland began firing tear gas and flash grenades at the occupy activists warning to the police they said 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 optimist but as you 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. for despite the increasing

violence in the arrests sarah flounders from the international action center has told me a little earlier on r.t. the future of the occupy movement is still very broad. to very much achieving its goals in terms of waking up the youth in the us waking up working people in the us to the reality the reality that poor and working people are losing more and more and that one percent actually one thousands of one percent is gaining a normal new wealth so that they are very successful in drawing attention to that despite a shutdown by the media and by the police and that movement is very determined to continue and to find new tactics you're with are to live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day but much more coming up to you later in the program pre-election education groups russia we take a look at how politicians are making a push for pot on the internet. that's still to come but

first the arab league's observer mission in syria has halted its work saying it's concerned over reports of a rise in violence more than a hundred people thought have been killed in fighting between security forces and rebel groups in the last few days alone russia has criticized the league's decision to end what it described as a useful instrument and called for more monitors in syria for the latest syrian capital damascus or why exactly did moscow criticize the suspension of the mission . well those a sense really that whole saying this mission was a very very crucial time in the country right now would simply flame an already very very volatile situation and unfortunately that's what it seems has happened here we've had reports of escalating violence indeed even in the center. of damascus the you could hear gunfire today coming from the suburb areas where the conflicts are as we said really seem to have flared up in the wake of this

observers mission being whole says now russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was speaking during his to of the asia pacific countries and he said he didn't know why such a useful tool had been treated in this way certainly it cos i'm surprised me seeing this observer mission. and to to hold they've haven't really seem to recover from that setback when the gulf states with them on it is last week now at the time i spoke to one of the observers and he hinted that possibly the rest of the would follow and it seems that that's been the part that's been taken now they've been stalled there are questions over whether it will actually restart that's not clear at the moment now the foreign minister had also said that this action having car that at the same time as the government saying that they would extend the observers mission to vent have observers with toward iran as questions of course the arab

league had said that they'd go stated with tool that monitors because they felt that they hadn't succeeded in being able to get the syrian government to fulfill their pledges to end the violence now a lot of concern here in the country we know that the arab league came upon a number of stumbling blocks but there were solutions put forward when they presented their report last week amongst them increasing the monitors getting the u.n. training that seems to have been completely overlooked in the flurry of diplomatic activity that we see very very unfortunate indeed. seeing this mission being wholesale and very concerning because really this was the one piece of paper that a lot of people have hit the result being the situation with reasonably quickly and a way to stop the violence and things now that that's been halted that's been taken off the table say very concerning it day just briefly sorrow that how bad is the situation in syria right now you have there in damascus what have you seen what have you heard. well the situation just seems to be escalating almost daily as we

said many of the suburbs now and world affairs conflicts you've got areas where the free syrian army have gained control and heavy fighting has broken out between the security forces and then we've been into some of these areas we've met the people now what is extremely clear here is that it's still a very very confusing situation you don't know exactly who is in charge and not much is really known about the free syrian army themselves and you know that is concerning to these people that the government still claims that armed gangs they spoken to other people who said the simply army does that is they're not heavily armed and they're there to protect the civilians in this area and that's a really important point here is that these civilians that we've seen in these towns that are now under the very complex of fighting over in a very serious situation and it really feels like in a political interests at this point to overshadow a what is the imperative for many people here in country which is to stop the

violence answer me the danger of these people i remember you go so many different narratives hit very very strongly opposing narratives it's not clear what's going on is very confusing situation the question really is how do you fix the problem with the arab league with u.n. intervention without really understanding it and the arab league mission with here to try and understand what exactly was happening and it seems that's now being taken off the table certainly the feeling here is that always again to lead to some form of the intervention and it's very very concerned because the repercussions of halting that mission of whole thing that move towards dialogue or rule ready being seen here in the country at the moment or to sort of live in damascus thanks very much indeed for that update well political analyst stephen leatherman believes it's not a coincidence of the arab league for its mission just as western powers are the calls for foreign involvement. well my goodness that sounds like a no fly zone and different language it was an open sesame to direct intervention

meaning war the observers were sent into syria they picked the wrong man to lead the mission because sudanese general. they thought they had the air manage your eyes who would deliver the goods against a side believing him for everything going on who what a general he do what he said assad is cooperating it's exactly the opposite of what the west 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 status here is a legitimate opposition in syria syria is an authoritarian state a reporter in the one that got yet reported we get to go get a national poll that apparently has some credibility he said good bye jari of syrians back 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 it will the power do it deputy in two weeks well assad absolutely should in diplomatic way which total east people go to. also coping with unrest as egypt coming up a year after its uprising it's hard 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 here and in the meantime preliminary peace talks between the u.s. and the taliban has started in qatar the two sides of thought to be discussing trust building measures that could pave the way for actual negotiations aimed at ending the decade long afghan war well to discuss the prospects of this and other talks we're joined live from the u.s. by investment journalist jordan george well we've got those us back talks underway in qatar but also we're seeing a separate initiative now from afghanistan and pakistan why we're seeing this this is this may be a snub from karzai against us because he wasn't that happy about the cut out all

this was. absolutely not basically this is going to be very difficult for the united states to pull off i mean in my opinion pakistan is the biggest problem facing united states more so than iran at the moment and it's the news that talks the talks have to be you know they have to appease pakistan afghanistan and the taliban as well as with me very difficult to pull off but the time of these talks is you know very but for obama right now they're actually you know they're not calling them discussions or their preliminary discussions like you said or trust building measures that you know as you might as you will but if the talks summary talks about well they're talking about possibly releasing some full on tunnel bait prisoners and it's been a big sticking issue for a bomber whose promise to close the prison has not risen the election year they're talking about you know possibly releasing some prisoners and at the same time this might give the united states a way to end

a war you know saying we made peace with the taliban in afghanistan and. pakistan have to come on board as well but it could be a way for them to back out and gracefully is that is that a way of maybe a way of also acknowledging the fact that many analysts are saying that the u.s. military operation has failed and should have been there in the first place. i mean you know this is a huge political issue right now the united states i mean the economy is tanking people are on employed and you and we've been there for ten years now afghanistan spend trillions of dollars it's a huge political issue in the break going on and you know many people feel that a war has gone on some people feel has and should have started and some people and many more americans are agreeing that the war has gone on far far too long and it's costing billions and billions of taxpayers' dollars you know so basically you know from my point of view it seems odd that you know so it was in afghanistan and they failed and united states intelligence i mean they have excellent elegance there

apparatus is phenomenal they know the terrain in afghanistan so for them to think they could waltz in there for a super six months and come right out and you know farfetched they must have known that this war would take a long time all right so they're all peace talks taking place now all due to take place is there real optimism that these talks could actually lead to peace in afghanistan and if so when what's the point of this. everything is very vague bill you know the first of all they say no not really peace talks are just the preliminary discussions and also i think would be very very difficult to pull off and there is no time frame from line that stand you know they have to appease pakistan and afghanistan i mean you know and the taliban the taliban wants just what every other organization wants they want to have some say and you know in some power sharing and they felt like they've been they've been disregarded sidelined so they've opened up an office in qatar and you know they want to be part of the

process but we know a strong not just just briefly you know how strong and cohesive the taliban is at the moment certainly when you compare it to. what's going on with pakistan and indeed the u.s. over the afghanistan problem do you think there is a chance that we could see taliban rule returning once again to afghanistan what was possible of the top. don't you know the talks fall horribly wrong i mean the taliban may want some bill want a prisoner release as well they want some of their members to be off the you know the kill list i think the u.n. has the thing is i don't see how this can be pulled off without afghanistan pakistan the taliban any the united states sitting down together in the same room because i can just see some back backroom deals between afghanistan and pakistan. possibly the taliban in afghanistan and taliban in pakistan certainly you know i think that all members have to be involved in the talks for the any chance of peace

and for it to work properly george we'll leave it there thanks very much indeed george joining us live from the usa thank you. well it's been a turbulent week for poland which saw thousands of people protesting against the anti web piracy pact countries signed up to along with twenty one other european states and i to say the multinational deal which still needs to be ratified by the european parliament allows firms to censor the internet next year to shift the reports now from warsaw. at first thousands across poland directed their anger squarely at the notorious anti counterfeit trade agreement the idea of punishing the site 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 we have. the right for our own interpretation of the can but that's not possible knows a lot from our government technically active should be a good thing protecting intellectual property ranging from music to designer 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.

and in some countries it needs to be. every country so we have another. 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 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 twenty one other issue member states along with poland signed 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 spahr laments which certainly leaves the possibility of more protests everywhere across the european continent

let's see russia r.t. reporting from poland. well as our correspondent in the micro blogging from twitter is in a flap over censorship scandal of its own because more analysis on that on our website r.t. don't come including one suggesting that the move will ultimately backfire on governments . or 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 the full conversation with internet liberty campaign aaron swartz on dot com also online at the moment. the internet's most famous whistleblower is getting ready to reveal even more on t.v. sanjay is launching his own talk show on r.t. all the details on our website free.

this week egyptians martie 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 want the dissolution of the military council which inherited absolute power from the post president hosni mubarak political analyst i mean what are we told r.t. the military knows it's time is running out. all this supreme council of the armed forces. the. symbols of the old regime. and that is a general feeling of. change. from

the from the all delusion and some members of the supreme council of the armed forces. to describe. opposition who people just have a general lack of trust the words authority i believe that the sooner. the better for you nor the. very much aware of those and so far the road map has been fall to the letter. when it comes to violence libya isn't far behind coming up in the next hour in our months after the fall of gadhafi respected n.g.o.s doctors without borders suspends its mission to libya after being forced to treat torture victims the event sent straight back for further interrogation. and election campaigning here in russia or its web weapons that are on the front line of the battlefield. has been looking at the cutting edge tactics

being used to win hearts and minds but it's about the way it is that is that was that was very. suits and ties and slogans cold out from the poor d.m. are the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered politically in vogue. today's compelling has gone online in a hot new trend in russia. with programming and bloggers making fun of the opposition portraying them in prayer outside the u.s. embassy on sundays claiming they are connected to the 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 viewer's attention not so

although that to me you are police video reach millions of lives 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 have lost the stick with something yes they're ready to. make it and you're sure that the when you're critical of it when you. put a gun there but it will just be them. but i don't think it's up to you about 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 sharp 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 philistinism 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 stay duma deputy robert slagel proved his party can also fight its wars online. the use of being in my aim was to provoke 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 disputing 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. respond in the technical

of the videos made a very professional you can see that a highly paid specialist did it with good 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 now the 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 maurice named self described them in a phone as you have of course we are here to meet you are a problem as our reporter for your property or your comfort or. it's naive to expect blockiness from any side when we are living in election year there are no holds barred in this ward 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 fifty million russians going online today about forty percent of the adult population the future is predicted to be filled with only line political other tars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the gradual r t. you're watching the weekly. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories for you very shortly don't go away.

we have seen the debt. down to the environment mark chemicals what we do not want anymore in. our core system is just as i was a does more experience and i'm just appalled but that's allowed to go on. eating this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the board to experiment and be used as getting. old now we have more questions than we have access to guards. like.

wealthy british style holds. on to. the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on. the twenty four hours a day this is. the week's top stories hit the league's beleaguered mission in arab nations. in syria reports of an upsurge in violence russia says that could make things worse. for talks between iran and un nuclear inspectors resume amid international tension iran considering stopping fuel supplies to be even within

days as a response to sanctions. also u.s. protests filled the full force of the lord opened again this is a. flash grenades to disperse demonstrators under arrest hundreds. of multinational propose. it's to stop with piracy sparked massive protests in poland and to say the government is supporting internet censorship copyright protection. so that brings you up to date for the moment in today's edition of the weekly about with more for you in half an hour from now the meantime r.t. caught up with the head of russia's high tech state corporation reason or know the economic forum in davos to discuss the country's business and political future and that interview is next week on r.t. . used to choice what's one action should russia's new government take to.