says it's being silenced for more reaction and we're joined with you yvonne ridley a journalist thanksvery much for joining us here on r t press t.v. claims that the british watchdog has long been waging a controversial campaign against the station what do you make of these accusations of a biased approach toward that. well it's quite true and it's very much linked actually to your lead story about america. through we discovered that america the american government was putting pressure on the british government to pull the plug on press t.v. they've obviously passed that pressure on to off. today press t.v. pulled off the sky satellite platform. but we need to get this in perspective it would be like the b.b.c. been pulled off broadcasting to the isle of man. press t.v. has more than a dozen satellites around the world it will continue and of course it's streamed live on the internet w w w dot press t.v. dot so it will continue but it again it shows how the so-called free world free democracy don't like the truth and they will go to extraordinary levels of censorship to stop what they

must be thinking what on earth is going on here all right we have to leave it there journalist yvonne ridley thanks for your time or stay with us here on r.t. still to come this hour. with less than fifty days to go we take a look at the current political climate in russia head of the march presidential elections. turning to syria where the opposition is holding rallies across the country in support of prisoners held since the start of anti-government don't arrest this despite a general amnesty granted by president assad earlier this week that seen almost two hundred detainees released or he's wary of the notion it takes a look at who's calling the shots in the protest movement. people taking to the streets me look like a real force of power and indeed be one. but in syria protest has apparently failed to prove that months of bloodshed with no sign is going to stop anytime soon. howlett ho jeff from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring in an end to the violence is what the essence he was created for our main g