spy rock was embarrassing they had us bang to rights clearly they had known about it for some time and had been saving it out for a political purpose. the embarrassing revelations confirmed the findings of a russian television report in two thousand and six it showed this video of a man slowing down and looking at the rock as he passed apparently an agent beaming top secret intelligence from a mobile computer to a digital drop point concealed in the stone another man was filmed picking up the rock and collecting the data. the moment of was the one behind the expose a and left no stone unturned but. at first i had to be dealt i thought it might be a fake story or a political game but we cross check everything with multiple sources and it turned out to be true some footage we didn't include in the film was particularly convincing for example there was a video of a british spy unit in front of the camera that carroll's hidden under

a tree in the songs lying nearby the guy wanted to look natural so we pretended that he needed to take a leak n.e.p. right in front of the camera before picking up a stone and leaving. but it was his word against theirs britain fiercely denied the allegations with tony blair laughing them off as russian propaganda the truth was buried inside the u.k. secret service headquarters supposedly never to be seen again so after six years of dodging the bullet wide net it now they're very embarrassing but i think that the british government has decided. to have bygones are bygones and say ok we made a mistake. up and we want better relations from now on so i would see this as a first step on the road to improve relations with russia this is the home of britain's spooks m i six the government is a broad their job may not be secret but how they do it is or at least should be so

the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the fact they were caught doing it a post called. war agreement supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on on the bennetts london. stay with us here on our team still to come in the program back from the blackout why a twenty four hour protest by we can pedia made a u.s. congressman backtracking on their support for a controversial anti-piracy measures. but first more than twenty people have reportedly been killed by syrian security forces across the country thursday all as the arab league observers reached the end of their month long mission they'll put together a report over the weekend the rising death toll in syria is pushing the e.u. to prepare even more sanctions against the massive they've already introduced penalties on ten separate occasions including an arms to marco and a ban on crude oil imports the u.n.

security council continues mulling over what course of action it could take russia introduced its latest draft resolution this week aimed at holding all sides of the syrian conflict accountable arky sorrow for has more from them ask us. how do you stop the fractured country and fooling in a country where some cities now is then below was a where the economy's on its knees and which children at being shot in the streets . it's a question everybody desperately trying to find an answer to you right now nobody knows what's going to happen so i'm a cooling fan minute she incidentally and this is a cooling diet of this city and case is not isolated to. mention that mention western dimension of the russian dimension. everybody has on interests russian foreign minister thank a lot for a refund that most would not authorize a u.n. resolution involving military intervention it struck

a resident cooled with the main opposition in the country. we refuse on principle any type of military. foreign intervention because it threatens the freedom of his own country. damascus has promised to push through reforms including parliamentary elections later this year to some hair that's simply not enough. this could have been done in the past but the killing in the violence pushed the population and the opposition and the people not to believe anymore in the promises of the regime. protestors had started by calling for reforms now more than ten months into the unrest and they simply want president is that. your backyard that many in syria right now simply want peace in their country they hate reforms might be a way to achieve that. the president announced we will have an expanded government

and independent opposition if all the parts were included this would be better for us all having different opinions is much better than having one sided discussion. the opposition want to take current then of course why not we are all syrians after all we all care about our country. as a country descends deeper into crisis this everyone's desperate to find a resolution it's fake that the government reforms will go some way to building a bridge between the two sides but those were forms have been a long time coming and with so many lives already lost they're going to come at a very high price so. the best guess. is syrian president's promise to speed up democratic reforms in the country political analyst kamil was and he thinks he could even offer the opposition a power sharing deal. the assad regime need to implement reform and he actually called for having a broader government which includes

a position i think every government here and there needs to update itself and i think know for sure that it needs reform and that reform has to come fast and i think maybe in the coming months we'll see an initiative by the president of syria where we where he will invite the opposition to establish order to build the next government of syria those people who wanted to build that country i think assad will invite him. from divided syria to a brand new libya why the same western powers that brought the countries really troubling down are now scrambling to cash in on the potential for reconstruction. plus a growing anger in romania where protesters are the latest in a global trend demanding their leaders step down immediately. but first there's

a new twist in the assassination of russian journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago another forensic examination of the murder weapon has found female d.n.a. on the gun of the main suspect chechen war and mahmud of was arrested in two thousand and eleven after several years on the run he's the one believed to have been the trigger man but his d.n.a. was never found on the weapon the expert who carried out the first forensic tests five years ago is now facing accusations of leaving the whole case up a blind alley and a guy who was shot dead outside her moscow apartment in two thousand and six and what became one of the most high profile murders in modern russian history. want to find out more details on the story you can always click on our team there you can also check out the latest developments in the persian gulf terror ron is accusing the washington of plotting europe's quote economic suicide by forcing it to impose an embargo on iran the oil of. the phobos riddle the russian

space scientists narrow down possible reasons that the probe to mars failed to reach the red planet. the world's biggest and most popular online encyclopedia is back on line after a self-imposed twenty four hour shutdown we keep pedia deliberately blacked out its english language web site in protest i propose anti-piracy legislation in the u.s. that could affect more than one hundred fifty million people the action by wikipedia and thousands of other sites eight senators withdraw their backing for the bills the laws designed to prevent illegal copyright sharing of copyright material face criticism of endangering internet freedoms conor kennedy from the progressive change campaign committee says the bills could dramatically change the web. no one is opposed to bills that fight piracy but at the same time we need to be aware that large corporations are going to be able to use these laws to drag their fair competitors into court instead of competing with them

in the marketplace for small innovators that don't have access to money for legal fees yet that just spells the end of the internet as we know it what's going to happen to innocent people innocent innovators who are brought into court and forced to shut down their web site even if they haven't violated the law this follows the end of the american dream it's really important that we have freedom and the ability for kids in college dorms and working in garages across the country to have access to capital and to be able to change the world from a college dorm room this could threaten that and that's why we in addition to three hundred forty of our members have decided to join the blackout solidarity movement against these bills small innovators are saying look out pay attention to these bills because they do threaten to kill the internet. turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe first to southern afghanistan where at least seven civilians have been killed in a suicide attack outside a nato u.s.

air base in kandahar although no military were killed the details no details had been given about injured nato personnel the taliban said it was to blame saying a nato convoy was the target this just a day after twin blasts killed more than a dozen people in helmand province an insurgent stronghold. sacristan prime ministers appeared before the country's supreme court on charges of contempt for failing to reopen a corruption investigation against the president the case against me dates back to the ninety's but he insists the president has immunity from questioning if found guilty he could face a person term and be barred from holding office. rescue efforts have resume for twenty one people still missing aboard a cruise ship that caps. italy's coast last week the search was suspended tuesday after the vessel shifted slightly eleven bodies were recovered from the wreckage so far a salvage crews are readying to pub more than two thousand tons of fuel from the ship to prevent a possible oil leak. romania is

a corrupt by the worst protests in a decade with demonstrators venting their frustration with government austerity cuts and corruption in the capital some sixty people were killed in clashes with the riot police who responded to stone throwing and fire bombs with tear gas parties tom barton has the latest from bucharest. night and day they come to screen defiance by a single stare at sea and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. of come here for the pain of their mean people the pain of the entire country for twenty two years old they have done is destroyed the entire country our youth has no future they have no jobs. motive water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she is forced to pay for his social security out of her small and. whether you're young or you're a pensioner you need

a pension when you get old they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're boring the money because they don't have it . the water is not just here for herself his son left to me yes but it's illegal to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped in the directing most of the rango the president try again but says school protest has accused him of trampling over democracy presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. on steep descent down down with dissent . parents left yesterday had to teach and we're losing our children just didn't the problem it's the younger ones. let me too to have a. good life you know mania and we are not allowed to have peace because of stupidity of high levels of government that parliament. and international

monetary fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions unlike in greece the remaining in government has tried to force its financial house into water budget benefit cuts slashed pay pension freezes falling living standards but some say it's the people who are now being forced to pay for the mistakes of the few who stayed the country economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for this situation they didn't even profited from it had to play for those who had profited the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst. let's not forget that we're in the eye of a storm of an economic european storm all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequences that inevitably affect us too it's not good enough said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better or

more every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or judy is to shorten the period as much as we can honest fast as we can by fair elections with many that accepting there is no escape economically politics for them offers the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets here was established to know what is the foundation for he was held on five percent of them there was territory captured under the president where he lives are about to have it here and you can see why remain you want to tear it all down yeah and start again. yes. turning now to libya where entrepreneurs and western companies are lining up for their chance to strike it rich in the war torn country opportunities are plenty for those hoping to cash in on the post khadafi rebuilding process as artie's arcs on

a boy who reports the same powers that helped bring down the regime are now the ones who stand in line to make a profit. they may have how to bring down the house. but they were very careful not to burn bridges as libya rises from the ashes of civil war big contras the poor the oil into the fire and now mining to gas sheen undoing the damage the believe that russia benefited more than all others from trading with get out his regime is very widespread here and simply it's simply not true in two thousand and ten moscow was number seventeen on the lease to flee dismaying trading partners accounting for just zero point four percent of its international trade the countries that had the largest trading volumes with. the one that spearheaded the campaign against him the european union the united states and turkey and they're all on their own jostling for contracts to rebuild believe some of them helped to

destroy your. everything good good good. american business style is still a bit of an oddity here but it's already catching up construction firm on our richard peters arrived in tripoli just before their prizing to seal a multi-million dollar contract with get off his government the war and peter subsequent incarceration threw him off track but now he hopes to make up for it i don't condemn anybody even the people who work for him you don't have a choice here if you don't work for him what do you do die. to reach your companies also involved in rebuilding iraq in afghanistan after the u.s. led invasion and libya is familiar turf he even says the country's business potential make shamble all over their post conflict areas there's nothing they don't need here you know if you compare it to like the united states everything they need everything we have you know everything there infrastructure has to be totally redone all the all the facilities you know and some of the things we are

involved you know is executive centers with golf courses theme parks these people haven't really. now you can imagine you know a theme park or a little disneyland americans are not the only ones just looking for food called turkish airlines was the first to resume commercial flights to tripoli they are now packed with businessman scouting for opportunities. even during good at this time turkey was pretty comfortable doing business in libya and was triple his fourth largest trade partner lost here but many now hope for even better deals following its early recognition of the rebel authorities definitely if you have a strong relations. with someone but that's to facilitate and this is an instrument for the business. is not. the only ones who are so far small wonder it claiming their business interests in libya or russia and

china both countries vocal in their opposition to the use of force in libya a stance that has already backfired most russian companies who did business in libya prior to the war are still has it into some personnel bag x. spirits of war and that the waiting game may not be the best strategy yet. we're going to lose like we lost iraq syria and yemen will follow they see they can drive russian others out of the market and then take advantage we have to work there we will take measures we're going to enter those markets they are waiting for us if interim government see we don't take care of the will say a few words about russian businesses being driven out then just step aside. but the ones losing the most i believe themselves in two thousand and ten their economy grew by about ten percent reaching abbey thinglike got growth now seems as have a load as building the country from scratch subway car to be shipped.

maybe trying to move on from forty years of had. but his children are demanding justice coming up the lawyer for the late leader's daughter explains why his death still hasn't been investigated stay with us. the daughter all four men begin to take a woman gadhafi has hired and is raiding noya to force the international criminal

court to investigate the full circumstances of her father's day at the could make health thank you very much for joining us here on r t why have you agreed to take on the case of i should gadhafi. has a jamaican place her father was murdered murdered in a brutal fashion the whole world saw it prosecutor the international criminal court has an obligation to investigate all aspects of the conflict which was referred to him by the united nations security council and that would include also the murder of mormon gadhafi especially since the prosecutor himself has stated that there are grounds to believe that this is a crime which is the case stand at the moment well at the moment i've written to the prosecutor i've asked him whether or not he intends on me investigating it i received a reply the reply was essentially that we're going to see what the libyan authorities do about it will give them about five months by the time i make my next report of the security council will see what they've done. my view is that in fact moving it

too late this is not the sort of investigation. which can be put off for five months it's a complex investigation there is a need to examine the crime scene to perform forensic political analysis to take evidence from objective witnesses all these sort of things have to be done it's not the sort of investigation that you can put off just for five months and see what happens what is the international criminal court so reluctant to speed up the investigation the general rule of the i.c.c. what's called the rule of complementarity that means that domestic state authorities if they are capable of performing an investigation should be left to do so in the present instance the forty's as they stand at present have the will capacity to carry out such best to gratian and that's why we're calling for the investigation to be conducted immediately the international criminal court issued

a warrant to persecute gadhafi in june of last year and then in october he was killed shouldn't the i.c.c. be willing to what happened to be suspect of its own investigation despite what the libyan government says and does. it's an obligation on the office of the prosecutor to investigate all aspects of the conflict at the present moment in time no one from the libyan or forty's has put forward a concrete plan for bringing let's say for example say from islam to justice and prosecuting him under the rule of law given that that's in fact the case i would have thought that the obligation rests with the office of the prosecutor to ensure that the libyan affair as i may call it investigated conduct and prosecuted before the international criminal court from your experience what can the international criminal court do if it was winning. the first of

all i'm in the hands of the prosecutor at this present moment in time. one. should get victim status before. caught in the situation in the libyan situation that of course is subject to the decision of the judges then i would examine whether or not there are legal grounds for requesting the judges to intervene and to expedite the investigative process what is your interaction with and how is she doing. daily interaction with her. situation is not simple she is currently under some form of restriction on her freedom of association on the other hand she is grateful to the algerian authorities for offering her some form of humanitarian protection. she's really traumatized by the the murder of her brother i must add. two brutal murders which were witnessed by the whole world on various video clips she's with her mother in two glasses any sense of how they all

failing as i said it's not easy for them on the one hand they are grateful for the humanitarian protection which has been offered them by the juvenile forwards these i don't know how. they are guests in the country by force of circumstances they don't have complete freedom of association complete freedom of movement so the situation is a complex one at all who is seeking asylum anyway else i can't comment on that at the present moment in time following what's happening with her brother safe of course she is and it's seriously concerned. she regrets the fact but safely hasn't been afforded legal representation at this moment in time. and she hopes that it will happen in the very near future do you think that seiko islam will get a fair trial in libya once again it's a very sensitive issue there is nothing to the present moment in time to make me

believe that a fair and effective trial company can go to do libya based on the fact that the libyan or thought scenes were ordered by the international criminal court to file a response to the pretrial chamber hundred in the matter say for the by the tenth of january information concerning safe status and what will the libyan authorities intentions are with respect to the libyan authorities requested payment for fighting that response citing security concerns or my belief is that if the security concerns are so serious that they prevented the libyan authorities from filing a response to a court order then the necessary conclusion i have to draw is that the same security considerations would prevent a fair ineffective trial in other words the libyan authorities should be ensuring safely is one hundred over to the hague in accordance with the arrest warrant what really needs to be done to establish the truth and cannot be established at all

when of course the truth can be established and if the office of the prosecutor were sufficiently serious he would have initiated an immediate investigation especially bearing in mind that the prosecutor has gone on the record and stated that this was in fact a potential war crime we shouldn't be sitting here today talking about why is an investigation taking place it should have started a few days after the murder itself thank you very much for talking to us here on r.t. and welcome. there

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of nigeria. on our t.v. . twelve thirty am in los cabos these are your r.t. headlines in london ed made some electronic spy rock by the f.s.b. in moscow six years ago belong to her majesty's secret service the u.k. had vehemently denied involvement in the scandal told. more tough sanctions against the syrian regime in the pipeline is the arab league observers mission readies its final report into how to stop the daily deadly violence over the weekend the regional body will decide whether to continue its own efforts or call for the u.n. to intervene. and romania gripped by mass protesters frustrated crowds call

for an end to the government's austerity cuts and corruption call for the president to step down some sixty people were injured in violent clashes among protesters and police in the capital. next we take you to nigeria a nation rich in oil where its own people suffer violence terrorism and poverty part two of the report coming up. but the best is yet to be seen most in the brush just a few meters away. in much doesn't know one. was a beaut. you hear. me walk was supposed to be full much well that's only.