and her up to then call for the president to go. midnight in moscow good to have you with us here on our team our top story the u.k.'s finally admitted to spying on moscow after years of denial a former senior government officials confirmed they were startled when the f.s.b. discovered their survival the surveillance equipment as artie's ivor better reports from london m i six was literally rocked by the revelations. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but he didn't in this fake stone was a high take transmits of british speaks used to spy on russia the allegations from moscow have always been dismissed but sixty's on this rock solid evidence the u.k. can no longer deny tony blair's former chief of staff's come clean admitting

british spies were caught red handed the spy rock was embarrassing they had us bang to rights clearly they had known about it for some time and had been saving it up 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 out of the moment was the one behind the exposé and left no stone unturned. at first i had to be dealt i thought it might be a fake story or a political game but we cross checked everything with multiple sources and it turned out to be true and 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 it 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 the stone and leaving. but it was his word against his 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. cold 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 r t still to come in the program back from the blackout why a twenty four hour protest by weekend pedia made eight u.s. congressmen 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 damascus 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 the masters. how do you stop the fraction country than filling up a country where some cities now is that the rules say where the economy's on its knees and which children 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 fit diet of the city and case is not isolated you have to keep it in and i mention that mention of the west and i mentioned the russian dimension. everybody has on interests but russian foreign minister re-offend that most would not

authorize a un resolution involving military intervention is just a resident cooled with the main opposition in the country. we refuse on principle any type of miller. foreign intervention because it threatens their freedom is our country well for the model damascus has promised to push through reforms including parliamentary elections later this year but for some here that's simply not enough . this could have been done in the past 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 to start. your year thank god 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 a one sided discussion of a few. moments you can see your position want to take can't cause why not all syrians are true we all care about our country. as a country descends deeper into quite 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 these 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. this eerie and presence 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. need to implement reforms and he

actually called for having a broader government which includes the position i think every government here and there needs to update itself and i think. no for sure that need the form to form has to come and i think maybe in the coming months we'll see initiatives by the president of syria where we he he will invite the opposition to establish order to build the next government those people who want to build that country i think assad will invite them. divided syria to a brand new libya why the same western powers that brought the countries regime rumbling 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. you want to find out more details on the story you can always click on. there you can also check out the latest developments in the persian gulf terror ron is accusing washington of flooding europe's quote economic suicide by forcing it to impose an embargo on iran the oil of. the phobos riddle the russian

space scientists narrowing down possible reasons that the probe to mars failed to reach the red planet. the world's biggest most popular online encyclopedia is back on line after a self-imposed twenty four hour shutdown we deliberately blocked 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 law is designed to prevent illegal copyright the sharing of copyright material face criticism of a dangerous internet freedoms conor kennedy from the progressive change campaign committee says the bills could dramatically change the web. no one's 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 those 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. it was the target this just a day after twin blasts killed more than a dozen people in helmand province an insurgent stronghold. pakistan's prime minister has 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 capsized off 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 readying to pump more than two thousand tons of fuel from the ship

to prevent a possible oil leak. romania is gripped 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 point single step into feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. i've come here for the pain of their mean people 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 was sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in bucharest but now she's forced to pay

a social secuity out of her small pension. whether you're young or your pension you need a pension when you get older they need to give us a fair pension and not tell. they're borrowing the money because they don't have it had a war is not just here for herself her son left her mania but it's illegal to try and find work young romanians feel trapped under direct and most of their anger the president try and assess could protest as accuse him of trampling over democracy presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption the the who wants to descend down down with the sask who has parents left us with a heritage and we're losing our children just didn't see the problem it's the young ones that need to 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 and state that now those who hadn't been guilty for this situation that they didn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had profited you know the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worst doings 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 that's

not good enough said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better than once every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania. before jews used to shorten the period as much as we can fast as we can turn elections. with many of them accepting there was no escape economically politics for them off was the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets. of the foundation of the. territory should. the president about to be here and you can see why remain you want to tear it all down and start again. 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 the rebuilding process was artie's arks 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 the 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 least of libya's main trading partners accounting for just zero point four percent of its international trade the countries that had the largest trading volumes get off a plus sized lead the one that spearheaded the campaign against the european union the united states and turkey and they're all on our jostling for contracts to

rebuild some of them how to destroy. everything good good good good. american business is still a bit of an oddity here. it's already catching our construction firm on our richard peters arrived in tripoli just before their prizing to seal a multi-million dollar contract with 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 that work for him you would 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 lead to 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 were involved you know was executive centers with golf courses theme parks these people haven't really had any entertainment all these years so now you can imagine getting you know a theme park or a little disneyland americans and the only ones just looking for food called turkish airlines was the first to resume commercial flights to tripoli and they're now back to business man scouting for opportunities. even doing good at this time turkey was pretty confortable doing business in libya and was triple his fourth largest trade partner lost here but many now hold for even better deals following its early recognition of the rebel authority is definitely few have a strong paternal ations we could see it somewhat but that it would facilitate and this is an instrument for the business. is not the. only

ones who are still far small wonder it claiming their business interest in libya or russia and china both countries for a 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 i still have to tend to sound personnel back x. periods of war and that they're waiting game may not be the best strategy yet. we are going to lose libya like we lost iraq syria and the 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 they will say a few words about russian businesses being driven out then just step aside. but they once losing the most i believe them south in two thousand and ten their economy grew by about ten percent reaching abby thing like got growth now seems as

having a load as building the country from scratch subway car to see. libya maybe trying to move on from forty years of khadafi role but his children are demanding justice coming up the lawyer for the late leader's daughter explains dorothy why his death still hasn't been investigated stay with us.

the daughter all formally going to take a woman to dust he has hired and his reign noire to force the international criminal court to investigate the full circumstances of her father's day at the committee kaufman thank you very much for joining us here on. t. why have you agreed to take on a case of i should ask. has a judgment complained her father was 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 was a real crime which is the case stand at the moment 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 and by the time i make my next report

to the security council we'll see what they've done. my view is that in fact leaving it too late this is not the sort of investigation which can be put off for five months it's a complex investigation there's a need to examine the crime scene to perform forensic ballistic 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 why is the international criminal court so reluctant to speed up the investigation well the general rule of the i.c.c. is what's called the rule of complementarity that means that the mystic 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 the 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 gaddafi 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 i would only 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 authorities has put forward a concrete plan for bringing that say for example safely. 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 the conduct and prosecuted before the international criminal court for your experience what can the international criminal court do if it was willing. to get that

first of all i'm in the hands of the prosecutor at this present moment in time. once should get victim status before the court 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 ice and how is she doing well. 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 murder of her brother i must add. to

brutal murders which were witnessed by the whole world on various video clips she's with her mother and two brothers in a sense of how they all fare in as i said it's not easy for them on the one hand they are great. for the humanitarian protection which has been offered them by the algerian authorities i don't know how. 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 all her pen is seeking asylum anywhere 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 safe 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 say al islam will get a fair trial in libya once again it's

a very sensitive issue there is nothing for the present moment in time to make me believe that a fair and effective. based on the fact that the libyan authorities were ordered by the international criminal court to file a response to the pretrial chamber hundred in the matter of say for the by the tenth of january information concerning safe status and what the libyan authorities intentions are with respect to the polygonal forty's requested payment for filing their response and security concerns 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 and effective 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 of course the truth can be established and if the office of the prosecutor were sufficiently serious he would have initiated immediately. 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 and 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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