fake stone was a high tech transmitted british spooks used to spy on russia yella geishas from moscow have always been dismissed but six years on there is rock solid evidence the u.k. can no longer deny tony blair's former chief of staff 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. the moment was the one behind the exposé 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 checked 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 you're a knitting in front of the camera that carols hidden under a tree in the song was 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 cold war ago. supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on on the pinots. the f.b.i. website has been the latest target of the anonymous activists it's part of their largest ever attack on u.s. government science shutting the department of justice is a portal earlier federal authorities raided mega mega upload a service with one hundred fifty million users and fifteen million daily visitors

seven were arrested with its founders and employees now charged with copyright infringement this follows the massive blackout of thousands of websites including wicked pedia in protest against the controversial plan that law the stop online piracy act and washington hopes that the bill will be approved by lawmakers to curb illegal copying and protect copyright but critics say it will lead to censorship of the web world wide brown who has worked with anonymous on various operations before says the u.s. government has chosen the worst time to take down the file sharing service. it could've come in a worse time and sort of the government's standpoint they could not have chosen a worse time to take down their. coming as this is the day after all these websites blacked out in protest of soho and this obviously to make upload issue flawless into that on the other issues so now in addition to everything that was

planned in terms of attacks and payoffs for today. and several like of operations you know we were done on the banner of operation micro victory will look like it's there will not be a war bills only on the senate with the intent of doing these things there will be in fact few bills put in by the technocratic members of the congress that will specifically seek to stop these sorts of things and it's not going in for a while this process by which i mean it's going to be impossible for us within just a few weeks or a few days to prevent any more than shills to go full order to prevent things like make a close from being raided but if we can get to that point and it's a number of steps and the first step is showing people the lobbyists that are congressmen except that it's not going to be practical to be on their side because in the long term this is the winning side. and of course as always your opinion matters to us so we're asking at our t.v.

dot com what the anonymous attack will lead to so far forty four percent of those who have voted believe the u.s. government will crack down on hacktivists insist on the proposed new law and thirty two percent think that this won't stop the bills were becoming law but will just bring weeks of web chaos and sixteen percent reckon that the u.s. congress will stop the bills becoming too long after the attack and about eighty percent are skeptical about the significance of the hacking group anonymous log onto our t dot com and cast your vote. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called for an embargo on iranian oil saying sanctions on iran must be intensified to due to the country's nuclear ambitions as a tense standoff between tehran and washington continues the islamic republic warns it will block the strait of hormuz a vital world fuel supply route if its national security threatened a move the u.s. says could lead to military action. from an anti-war group international action

center says washington is determined to get iranian oil controlled just the last 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 the iranian 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 us 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 war is 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. syrian forces have retreated from the rebel held

town of zabadani under a local cease fire but violence rages on across the country arab league observers have reached the end of a one month mission to try to broker peace and are to compile a report over the weekend over twenty people are reported to have been killed across the country on thursday. more than six hundred since the monitors arrived to the rising tide of ots are pushing back to prepare more sanctions on damascus following ten the previous measures already introduced the un security council continues to mull over what course of action it could take russia introduced its latest draft resolution this week holding all sides of the syrian conflict to account but is firmly against foreign intervention r.t. sarah ferguson a country. how do you stop the fractured country from falling apart a country where some cities now is then below was a where the economy's on its knees which children being shot dead on 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 mcauliffe the minute she incidentally this a cooling that diet of this city and case is not isolated. and i mention that mention the west and i mentioned mention. everybody has own interests but russian foreign minister sergei lavrov refund that most would not authorize a u.n. resolution involving military intervention has 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 the country. damascus has promised to push three full names including color mentioned elections later this year to some hit 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 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. moment the opposition want to take current then of course why not 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 these were the 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. the syrian president has promised to speed up democratic reform in the country political analyst come out was me thinks he could even offer the opposition a power sharing deal. that's a regime need to implement reform and he actually called for having broader government which includes position i think every government here and there needs to update itself and i think the outside 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 initiatives 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. still to come on r t romania becomes the latest european country to buy protests. angry demonstrators are the latest part of a global trend to demanding that leaders step down immediately. there's a new twist in the nation of russian journalist. five years ago another forensic examination of the murder weapon has found female d.n.a. on the gun the main suspect. was arrested in two thousand and eleven after several years on the run he's the one believed to have pulled the trigger but his d.n.a. was never found on the gun the expert who carried out the initial forensic test

five years ago is facing accusations of leading the whole case up a blind alley. was shot dead at her apartment building in two thousand and six in what became one of the most high profile murders in russia's modern history. now on to some world news in brief for you this hour first we go to southern afghanistan. at least seven civilians have been killed in a suicide attack outside a nato u.s. air base in kandahar in afghanistan although no military have died no details have been given about injured nato personnel the taliban said it was to blame saying a nato convoy was the target it comes just a day after twenty blasts killed more than a dozen people in the helmand province an insurgent stronghold. the speaker of the palestinian parliament and member of hamas wake has been arrested at the israeli army checkpoint between a role model and a jerusalem the israeli military says he has been detained for terrorist activities

whilst of the palestinian authorities claim the rest is intended to hamper peace talks and parliamentary sessions almost one sixth of the one hundred. thirty two members of the palestinian parliament including two former ministers are currently detained by tel aviv the israeli imprisonment of palestinian m.p.'s has hindered them meeting in formal sessions since two thousand and seven. minister has appeared before the country's supreme court on charges of contempt for failing to reopen a corruption investigation against the president a case against you so. it's back to the one nine hundred ninety s. but he insists the president has complete immunity from being questioned the prime minister has been given to explain why he would not reopen the corruption case against president zardari if convicted he could face a prison term and be disqualified from holding public office. rescue efforts have

resumed for twenty one people still missing on a cruise ship which capsized off the italian coast last week the search was suspended tuesday after the vessel shifted slightly eleven bodies have been recovered from the wreckage so far a salvage crew is prepared to pump more than two thousand tons of fuel from the ship to prevent a possible oil leak. the greek government is continuing talks with investors to try to beat a deadline to secure vital funds to. athens it needs of the next installment of bailout funds to meet a debt repayment deadline in two months thousands of workers hit the streets to voice their destructive austerity all as the i.m.f. says it needs to raise up to five hundred billion dollars to buffer the world against any further european slump. romania is gripped by the worst protests in a decade as demonstrators show their frustration with government austerity and corruption in the capital some sixty people were injured in clashes with riot

police who responded to stone throwing and fire bombs with tear gas. and reports from bucharest. night and day they come to scream that defiance biting austerity and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence i'm in. 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. mostly water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in book arrest but now she is forced to pay for her social security out of her small pension. 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 borrowing the money because they don't have

it. is not just here for herself her son left her mania but it's silly to try and find work young romanians feel trapped and directing most of their anger at the president try and assess could protest as accuse him of trampling over democracy presiding over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to be sent down down with disaster as parents left us with a heritage and we are leaving our children with just a dent in 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 remain 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 steered the country to economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for the 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 worse. 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 every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or jews used to shorten the period as much as we can honest

fast as we can by fair elections with many of them 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 the shadows here what is the foundation to build on that. there was territory captured by the president about the magic here and you can see why when many out want to tear it all down get out and start again yet in boston i remain. as a libya is trying to move on after forty years of colonel gadhafi is rule his children are remaining are demanding justice next to the israeli water of the daughter of the late leader explains to r t why his death still has not been investigated.

the daughter of all four may be a dictator muammar gadhafi has hired an israeli noir to force the international criminal court to investigate the full circumstances of her father's day at the big 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 legitimate complaint her father was murdered murdered in a brutal fashion the whole world saw it the 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 that would include also the murder of normal 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 by the time i make my next report to the security council we'll see what they've done. my view is that that some frightening 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 compare this to could not assist 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. 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 we don't believe the authorities 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 the 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 liberal forty's is 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 the conduct and prosecuted before the international criminal court for your experience what can the international criminal court do if it was willing. first of all i'm in the hands of the prosecutor at this present moment in time. one . 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. daily interaction with her. to ation 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 severely traumatized by the. under her brother i must add. to 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 faring 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 algerian authorities but only other. guests in the country by force of circumstance 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 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 fact that 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 say al 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 drug company can go to do libya based on the fact that the libyan authorities were ordered by the international criminal court to file a response to the pretrial chamber hundred of the matter say for the by the tenth of january information concerning safeness status and what all 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 and effective trial in other words the libyan authorities should be ensuring safe 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 you are not welcome. please. please. just so. sit. smug.

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c c c c . and welcome back you are watching our take blood with us let's get a look at your top headlines. between a rock and a hard place london now owns up to spying inside russia using an electronic gadget inside a fake stone founded by russian security services in moscow six years ago it is the first british confirmation with a former top aide to axe prime minister tony blair saying it was embarrassing that the british have been project handed. the f.b.i. website become the latest victim of hackers with the anonymous group as they wage

it the largest attack ever on the us government and music industry websites this comes after the us authorities are shot a popular call before illegal downloads and charged seven people with copyright crimes. with the arab league mission in syria seeking to broker peace drawing to an end the bloodshed continues with twenty dead on thursday alone and around six hundred killed by security forces since the mission began a month ago meanwhile that you are just more tough sanctions against to be assad regime. plus rage on the streets of romania with crowds demanding the resignation of their government imposed more sturdy measures and higher taxes to please the international monetary fund in return for another fight alone violent clashes among protesters and police and bucharest have left scores injured. next to peter lavelle and his guests discuss the rao over planned u.s. legislation which critics say will censor the internet worldwide.