a twist in the gas dispute between ukraine and we're also supplies a liveries and steve says it's on the way out of the deadlock journey for more on that visit. it's seven pm here in moscow this is archie coming to you live from need to now with our top story this hour america's government and entertainment industry has come under attack from a group of computer hackers known only as anonymous they took down websites belonging to the f.b.i. and department of justice and universal music group while the group says its largest ever attack is in response to the shutting down of the major file sharing service mega upload which is affected around fifteen million galli users who have size bosses have been arrested and are now facing prison sentences for copyright infringement american lawmakers are currently debating new bills to curb illegal downloading which have been attacked as an attempt to censor the internet thousands

of web sites including wicked p.t.o. went black in protest this week patrick hayes a reporter from mine magazine spiked believes the proposed u.s. legislation might make the web as we know it ceased to exist. we could see much more regular occurrence of this. if these acts are put through also i think we could see the u.s. government designating other sites as sites that he doesn't like and pursuing them internationally it could mean that they could effectively have jurisdiction to close down sites worldwide actually far more easier ways than they would make or uploads the web as we know it's web two point zero which is the fine by user generated content where people put up their own material could effectively disappear it could mean that what you have is a much more tightly regulated internet which could have massive implications for freedom of speech for file sharing for the show. airing of information worldwide i

think is really important that we don't take the internet as it exists now for granted and we resist all of these attempts to regulate the web and just say hey a lot of these pirates a lot of people putting out web sites are actually doing something really quite innovative and dynamic that's why they are getting a real audience for its work with these people let's put this develop a more dynamic where in collaboration with people rather than just trying to shut it down strangle it's an stifle what is one of the most democratic initiatives of the last decade or two. well in about thirty minutes r.t. is crosstalk postpaid of the valve debates with his gas the reason behind the proposed us online legislation. the fact is what we're trying to do is enforce u.s. copyright laws on foreign companies whose copyright laws may be different from ours and what we're saying is if you don't follow us law in terms of copyrights then we have the right to shut you down the other part of the problem is actively through

the use of it is another. you're objecting to the fact that people are trying to stop sites that are pirating american american intellectual property and it's not always just movies and music it's also physical goods that are carried you know these are counterfeit drugs there are also if you look at the written material including our you know harm in france harm children harm adults this is serious so there are serious consequences. now to syria where the opposition is holding rallies across the country in support of prisoners held since the start of government unrest that's just a general amnesty granted by president earlier this week that has seen almost two hundred detainees released parties where if an arsenal looks at who's calling the shots in the protest movement. people taking to the streets

may 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. how it hold 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 s. and c. was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there present them and their two national committee in order to reach this syrian people freedom although it's been run by a paris based exile that hamdani in the absence he has been recognized as the country's legitimate government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some even and nato countries which has made some doubt the council's innocent intentions

with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council perspective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in a new libya so there is power broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in a new syrian regime the national congress and there are clear is national transitional council and the syrian national council and it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored from abroad i think he likes opposition forces and they're made to go is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts courters are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria now we have. you know. we have to be executed there howlett says he spent fifteen years in jail in the one

nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's just because his father supported the opposition he claims nothing has changed since then and the oppression has to stop but how is another matter. his dictatorial regime they cannot be most of without any pressure claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is now carburetor in with the free syrian army fighters who defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance to the cows who also sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this is a top is all parents operation where this year that the gas has been used to

activism and gender and they need to watch it because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least league to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint africa sooner or later it will force president assad out while his determined to stay but the question remains exactly how long should these people have to wait for the bloodshed to stop and how many of them will actually see the end of it or if an ocean r.t. turkey. when meanwhile the arab league prepares to hear the final report from the observers that sound to syria expected to determine the future of its expired mission there but some experts believe some members want military involvement not just observation missions and the media coverage is supporting them. the arab league has been playing a little bit more of an object some arab countries aren't too happy with it so we can expect them to push for their objectives of regime change in other ways and

this continues to happen through the media and media you know what the syrian government supports of us winning the media war here yesterday i saw any songs of that myself from reports that the area of. the lebanese. had been taken by the free syrian army and i went there myself last night and i as i drove to see but i was very surprised to find no checkpoints by the syrian army on the way and i actually was allowed to go inside and despite having seen footage on the television of the free syrian army feiss i found out there was actually nothing and when i left i was told by the syrian army that i would be free to travel through as it would on and on to the lebanese border. still ahead for you this hour scotland makes this push for independence but london valve to make any split from the u.k. a costly move for the modern day bravehearts wanting to go it alone. and

israel pushes for europe for an immediate embargo on iranian oil a decision that could leave other nations scrambling to find an alternative energy for. a multi-billion pound london court duel between russian tycoon and chelsea football club owner among a bit more which a fugitive russian billionaire very very exotic is close to conclusion but the judge is considering her verdict in the financial battle after armies of expensive various went to battle for their clients exposing some juicy details of our way parties correspondent in london ira bennett has more on those. it's been dubbed the trial of the century for two reasons really firstly because of the sheer money involved there's six and a half billion dollars at stake here making it the most expensive civil lawsuit in the u.k. legal history and more importantly perhaps is the subject matter it's really laid bare all those dodgy dealings of ninety's russia in the wild east reaffirming all those stereotypes there are that i don't think anyone actually thought because

could possibly be true but it turns out they are and what makes it even more unbelievable is that they've come from two of the main players in those turbulent times remember him over. to former friends now arch enemies as for juicy details will some of the really big believe. the recent claims we've heard are that he actually turned up to meetings wearing nothing but a dressing gown that he frittered away millions in the flash of a private jet that even signed off threatening text messages to his rivals with the words i'm watching you i'm dr evil as for sure he's been accused of every dirty tax dodging trick there is in the book and we also know that he was involved in the murderous alamy wars of the ninety's where you now knows. sure through his own admission that one person was killed every three days in that kind of grab for for wealth but what this dispute really boils down to is the relationship between the two main there is also he claims that they were business partners and that he was

blackmailed by a remote village forced to sell his stakes and shares in in their oil company never a fraction of their true worst ever move he dismisses that payment as purely protection money paid to his political godfather of the banks for his mentor ship a severance package now i know it's up to the judge to decide whether if anything all of this is true regardless of which may actually survive this battle i think it's safe to say the real winner here is the british court system who is believed to be raking in as a result of this trial eighty dollars a second. well london has another conflict to resolve with russia after a former senior official admitted britain was caught snooping find out how moscow uncovered the secret of the spying on our website party dot com complete with more pictures and videos for you. the battle over scotland split from the union is splitting opinion in an increasingly disunited united kingdom scots have

been told they can hold a referendum on independence but only if london gives its well i think r.t. is more smith explains. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tough the known world but on home soil the country is closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who wants scotland to go it alone nationalist party leader alex salmond's promising scots will get a say on being single but london wants to call the shots and get it done and dusted . they don't want to talk about the substance i sometimes feel when i listen to them it's not a referendum they want it's a never ending question of the debate and that's keep our country together but why would scotland want to separate itself from a britain that still among the world's richest economies scotland always retained

its own distinct national identity and the s.n.p. feels it's almost time to take that one step further and hopes a yes vote from the scottish people would mean scotland would gain control over its own north sea oil and gas and represent itself on the international stage but it doesn't want to hold a referendum until two thousand and fourteen and that delay is letting london ramp up the scare stories telling scotland it'll have to pay the price such as the billions of pounds british taxpayers spent keeping scottish banks alive that it would have to find its own currency and lose thousands of jobs when the navy heads south not that it seems to bother scots who see their country as having been strangled for long enough i don't think it's any of his business that we present a strong enough case to be independent then i don't see that he can argue against that because if shocked i think

a shutter i don't think you have any see the fires of. scots have never taken kindly to hearings. and words from the mother of all parliaments down in london but for the nationalists it's a boost to the lackluster thirty percent support for a split list of comedy fuels you had to be an issue to but it's completely but for you he's actually been the best recruiting sergeant the s. and p. i think is a bit hard to cope certainly says margaret thatcher. in the last seven days we've heard over of those numbers. so you know up to now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords at stake but alex salmond is a reputation built on restoring a proud scotland for prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who led the united kingdom come apart laura smith r.t. edinburgh. still to come on r t with less than fifty days to go we look at the

current political climate in russia i had a martin presidential election. but u.s. officials use the war tactics to fight crime on home soil to the dismay of citizens claiming an invasion of privacy. the u.s. has strengthened its presence in the persian gulf with the aircraft carrier abraham lincoln selling into waters off iran on thursday the move is seen as a test of tehran's result after it warned america not to send more warships through the strait of hormuz tensions between the us and iran intensified after the islamic republic threatened to block the strait of vital oil transit route in response to further sanctions over its nuclear program washington vowed to retaliate if you ron did cut off the passage book out of martin from antiwar group international action center so the u.s. really wants to regain control over iranian oil but it was decades ago. the

motivation for the us to continue repressing the iranian people to assassinate nuclear scientists has nothing to do with any love of democracy it has everything to do with the fact that they are. ronnie and people rose up in one nine hundred seventy nine and took control of the oil resources and they have never ever forgiven them for that and the u.s. has never wanted to tolerate the fact that the iranian people and not shell oil and not and not texaco control of the oil resources in iran and any threats of wars must be strongly opposed because these kind of wars serve the ruling elite they serve the wall street bankers and they don't serve working class people or millions and millions of unemployed people in this country if they cut the military budget they could put people to work there could be jobs but there's not jobs there's war there's continued threats of war and our enemies aren't in iran they're here in the united states in the halls of power in congress and on wall street. don't hesitate to log on to our website for the latest videos comments and analysis of all of our team dot com and here's what we've got lined up for you there today gas versus molotov cocktails romanians join the global wave of protesters seeking the

resignation of their leaders but the country facing its worst demos. and the brutal killing of the ousted libyan leader is still not being investigated two months on if you want lawyers opinion why head to our team dot com for more details. well as russia's presidential candidates are busy ramping up their campaigns ahead of the march election some members of the public are increasing their efforts to ensure a transparent vote in light of massive rallies against the parliamentary election in russia last month both authorities and protesters admit they need to talk more archies arena collusion gauges the temperature of russia's political life. with

just under fifty days before the march presidential election and major campaign is still simmering in the candidate's headquarters mr putin decided to unleash his powers of persuasion on the electorate and nonpublic speaker for change he's decided to be more scholarly picking up the pen for the first in a series of articles outlining his vision for the future of russia what he's calling for its new economy to be built. the gravitation away from dependence on oil high spending welcoming political dialogue in the strengthening of civil society in russia putin however said people should concentrate on just what candidates are promising to do rather than the theater of personalities we need extended dialogue about priorities about long term choices national perspective and development this article is an invitation to such dialogue it's important to say that prime minister has never denied the possibility of

establishing such a day and they just become friends his ravenous and this is what is making people take the initiative into their own hands this week some of the most prominent participants of december's post-election protest pulled together to form the league of constituents more action for a new public mood has blossomed people are showing a desire to make an educated vote to know where their votes are going to standing up the country needs competitive politics those behind the new group are quick to point out they're not going to turn into a political party but do hope to become a major support group for anyone wanting to make a difference with their vote i didn't have your logical activists are nothing without this type of newly found public support there to help them is the key to public support is the media and that's what who put in found himself during the card criticizing one of russia's most popular radio stations and moscow for being too protester in its coverage. the prime minister told its editor in chief not to

take offense at his words since you don't get mad when you cover me with liquid crap from dawn till dusk the government the opposition and the electorate all seem to realise they have to think fast and act quickly in order to get the ball rolling with the presidential elections just around the corner so if their house down which some say lasted for years the political life in russia then roaring in will go go r t. let's not check out some other stories making headlines around the world this friday french president nicolas sarkozy says his nation is suspending military training operations in afghanistan after four of its soldiers were killed in a gunfight a rogue afghan soldier who have since been detained was behind the attack but also injured a dozen more soldiers attacked by afghan troops and police on their foreign partners now becoming increasingly common something sarkozy calls unacceptable so far eighty two french soldiers have been killed in afghanistan since two thousand and one.

rescue operations of the find of the coast a concordia cruise liner disaster have been suspended after the ship shifted again overnight twenty one people remain missing eleven were killed when the cruise liner ran aground a week ago and the ship's captain is currently under house arrest and you want to ok but piers to show the crew downplayed the extent of the catastrophe only reporting electrical problems for an hour and a half after the vessel hit. america's use of spy drones are causing a stir on home soil they're becoming a common tool for domestic law enforcement as artie's were important i explained the extra set of eyes in the sky is upsetting many americans. they are the cornerstone of america's military arsenal dropping bombs on bosnia pakistan afghanistan libya and yemen a manned aerial vehicles known as drones have become the trademark of washington's

war missions targeted assassinations and spying operations overseas but today a local police department using unmanned spy plane said to catch suspects the remotely piloted war weapon is flying domestic u.s. local police and federal officials are increasingly using drones under the auspices of keeping citizens see police departments are using them in the united states or even i think. almost two hundred sixty six applications that have been approved for police departments to use drones as aerial surveillance devices drones can be armed with a wide range of surveillance technology as the u.s. government flies prying eyes through the sky lawmakers have neglected to create any privacy protections for american citizens the agencies keep using more and more of these to justify their existence so they say we need this to crack down on drugs

we need this because there are a lot of robberies in this neighborhood the united states is not only now a military industrial complex it's a homeland security complex. the newest and smallest invention is hummingbird a palm sized q looking spy plane weighing less than one pound there can be a very lucrative market in the united states for drones with police departments who are already militarized the modern police look like the military and so now they're going to be using military women first lawsuit has been slapped against the u.s. department of transportation for allegedly withholding records pertaining to the domestic use of drones currently the american public cannot find out why drones are being used or who is controlling them every corner there is a close circuit camera watching what you're telling so now we don't only have i'm on the ground we have them from the air this month the federal aviation

administration is expected to close new rules making it easier for law enforcement agencies like the world america democratic stuff more weapons used overseas to keep the u.s. safe now being considered a serious threat to u.s. freedom at home marina port artsy new york. let's get the latest now from the business fast carina joins us stay with our team. hello and welcome to our business update this hour we go straight to our top story another twist has emerged in the gas dispute between ukraine and russia over supply deliveries has come up with a blueprint of what it sees as a way out of the deadlock it wants its gas transportation pipeline to be jointly operated by russia ukraine and the european authorities this will help it keep a neutral position in talks and attract funds to overhaul the pipelines russia had

earlier pushed kiev to sell the gas pipeline in exchange for cheaper prices ukraine will be happy to keep it but claims high gas prices may do whale calling. and russia is pushing so fast to fast track construction of southern energy linked to europe south stream pipeline the green light for the natural gas link from the black sea to central europe will be given in december this year ahead of the gas exports monopoly and extend miller says the company has all the sources to meet deadlines to remind you the pipeline is a project developed. italy's any. and germany's with their small. europe's coming passenger jet the air bus three hundred twenty neo will soon boost russian titanium the country's titanium monopoly reassume poa visit sealed the deal with airbus to deliver a trial shipment of its production if the quality of the product meets the standard

of the european plane maker a larger order will be placed however there's no report on the value of the contract. and let's look at the markets now all is a raising of the game that is now trading in the red prices of suffering due to negative news coming out of the euro zone to the euro weekend as the dollar talks continue in greece and added to that fuel consumption in the west dropped to its lowest level since september two thousand and one stop. so the us start off on a cautious note said after three straight days of gains weight by these over greek debt talks stocks are also a affected by disappointing earnings results and european stock markets are mixed as investors keep an eye on the debt swap talks in greece chinese manufacturing antibody that showed signs of contraction is also in focus the forces fluctuating from positive to negative so as the dax. and here in moscow stocks decline as oil

slips into the red the my xix is losing point eight percent of the artist as half a percent in the red at the start and now let's have a look at the biggest movers on the rise x. levy is edging lower reflecting the sentiments in the eurozone coal miner response is among the main losers the company is about to finish taking bids from minority shareholders for a buyback of its shares and noise clinical has slipped into the red of a company plans to cut production to adapt to a slowing global demand for my also expected to report a fifty percent increase in net profit for the year two thousand and eleven. other back with more in less than one hour journey from.

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oh sure is that so much about the experience i mean to me to be a lot of people at various supporters of the stumble online piracy act claim they are losing billions of dollars a year to step on the internet opponents of sopa worry the injured. are watching r t live from the russian capital our top stories this friday hikers strike back anonymous cripples major u.s. government and corporate websites in response to a crackdown on a file sharing service and pending anti-piracy was. led syrian opposition hold more massive protests demanding prisoners released by the general amnesty granted by president earlier this week critics say no matter how many concessions the government makes the opposition.