and in business they're. now in the business. in twenty minutes time. in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshing the global hacktivist group anonymous has hit some of the most prominent websites in the u.s. including those of the white house the f.b.i. and the ministry of justice major film and music companies have also been targeted the attacks come in retaliation to a federal raid on the massive file sharing service mega upload which is around fifty million daily users the web sites bosses have been arrested and are now facing prison sentences the move comes hot on the heels of a mass blackout of thousands of websites including in protest against kind of virtual new web control laws washington hopes the bills will be approved by

lawmakers to curb illegal downloading and protect copyright but critics say this will lead to a sense censorship obviated net very brown who's worked with anonymous on various operations before says the latest hacker attacks are just the beginning. the problem is that the track record of the us and all governments. is such that giving them power to do news almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power. so in the way that you know the raid on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without already in place they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down so imagine when . latest efforts. to ensure. that those who support so are route.

but you know in the very near future. there will be a number of other. military. situation gets worse. and. european matters to us so we're asking our to dot com what you think the anonymous attack will be too let's take a look at the site now. so so far the majority of those who voted believe the u.s. government will crack down on the happed of this twenty eight percent saying this won't stop the bills becoming along but will just bring weeks of chaos nineteen percent reckon the u.s. congress will now vanderbilt's coming into force after the attack others believe the hacking group anonymous is just a bunch of kids i'm able to change. and cast your vote. and coming up later this hour our t's crossed asks is gas whether the new

legislation may completely change the face of the internet. business 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 affectively you should ask a stupid decision of it isn't. your 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 careful you know these are counterfeit drugs there are. actual written material that can be one i you know harm and first harm children harm adults there's a serious there are serious consequences where it's one thing if there's a history of a child that's going to object to these sides but the the problem here the problem here is in terms of how you go about remedying the problem. if there is

a problem that should be limited particularly if you're talking about a remedy that imposes very significant costs on the rest of us why it is that the rest of us should suffer all of these very serious consequences in terms of the interruption to the structure of the internet in terms of the censorship of sites. the members of the arab league are gathering this weekend to hear a final report on the expired observer mission to syria it's widely expected to condemn president bush on loss of who has continued his crackdown on protesters despite promises to stop as it is very often asked in our reports there is little doubt that the findings will be used to bolster calls for military intervention. 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 did hold jeff from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and britain an end to the violence is what the essence he 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 paris based exile. in the absence it has been recognized as the country's legitimate government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some a 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

prospective 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 their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts cortez 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 the tao is another matter his dictatorial regime i think cannot be no of without any pressure claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is now copywrite in with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance. because you also sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones and options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this is a way to istanbul paris operation where the syrian national council is being used to at us and i just need to watch it because they don't want their. just because

they want syria to be at least lead to make the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint soon only turn president assad out 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. also i have for this hour here in our team the sharp war tactics finding a use at home. for us by drones that have been used in washington small to build military operations abroad are now keeping a close eye on american citizens too. and israel jumps the gun ban and that in the out calls in europe can bargo radio while fast without waiting for weak economies to find a new supplier. the battle over scotland sovereignty is heating up in the u.k. where the scots being told they may hold an independence referendum only if one that

gives its blessing it comes as a fearful british government ramps up ridicule have a rhetoric against in a panels bit as artie's laura smith reports london's grandstanding is ruffling more than just feathers among the scots. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world but on home soil the country's closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who want 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 end i'm question that's have the debate and that's keep our country together. but why would scotland want to separate itself from

a britain that's 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 hope for 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 it own currency and lose thousands of jobs when the navy head south not that it seems to pull the scots who see their country as having been strangled for long enough i don't think it's any of his business if we present

a strong enough case to be independent then i can see that he can argue against that because shaktar i think a shutter i don't think you seventy see in the fires of. scots of never taken kindly to hearings stern 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 mr cameron feels he had to the initiative but it's completely but fire he's actually been the best recruiting sergeant i think is of. margaret thatcher. in the last seven days. so you know up to now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords at stake for alex salmond is a reputation built on restoring a proud scotland for prime minister cameron is the potential to become. let the

united kingdom come apart laura smith. while you may be mired in domestic affairs later in the program we report on an international blow for the country as a former senior official admits to us now. the embarrassments of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the fact they were cool doing. something stone for the modern day james bond of moscow's rock solid evidence forces a key figure to finally come clean. america's conversely use of its drones in asia may have caused overwhelming anger but now it's threatening to do the same at home washington's king spying weapon and overseas operations is becoming a common tool for us please stirring up privacy concerns among more and more americans. looked into the issue. 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 departments using unmanned spy plane said to catch suspects the remotely piloted more 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. as aerial surveillance devices drones can be armed with a wide range of surveillance technology including high powered zoom lenses and infrared ultraviolet imaging. as the u.s. government flies prying eyes through the sky lawmakers have neglected to. any

privacy protections for american citizens the agencies keep using more and more of these to justify their existence so they can say we need this to crack down on drugs we need this because there are a lot of robberies in this neighborhood we need this the united states is not only now a military industrial complex it's a homeland security complex they've merged into one in two thousand and six aero vironment a drone manufacturer received four point seven million dollars from the u.s. defense department to develop new on manned aerial vehicles. 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 tanks the assault vehicle to assault rifles flak jackets

helmets 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 propose new rules making it easier for law enforcement agencies like the world america's democratic sky more weapons used overseas to keep the u.s. safe now being considered a serious threat to u.s. freedom at home marina artsy new york. i don't. has

a day to log on to our website for the latest videos comments and analysis it's r t dot com and here's some of what's there for you. here gas versus molotov cocktails from a new joins the club of state see the resignation of their leaders as a country faces its worst protest in decades. can the brutal killing of the ousted libyan leader remains without any investigation for two months now give you one lawyers opinion why i had to r.t. dot com for more. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is pressing pressuring europe to impose an embargo on the radio while immediately over the country's nuclear ambitions the e.u. will decide on the sanctions in a few days but may delay their effect until july while countries look for and new

oil supplier iran has been threatening to block the strait of hormuz of the world fuel supply route if the sanctions are imposed a move could lead to military action. from the anti-war international action center says washington says the term and to get its hands on a radio oil after losing control of it 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 texaco control of the oil resources in iraq at 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 are in iran they're here in the united states in the halls of power in congress and on wall street. but you have a secret service has been literally iraq by the admission of one of the country's former top officials who confirmed that britain have been spying on russia this comes six years after moscow first presented its allegations after catching agents red handed i desire bet it has more. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but he didn't in this fake stone was a high take transmissive british spooks used to spy on russia the allegations 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'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. 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 and some footage we didn't include in the film was particularly convincing for example there was a video of a british spy euro knitting in front of the camera that camera was 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 a 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 why admit 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. in up and we want better relations from now on too 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 opposed. war agreement supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on i bet it. was now take a look at some other stories from around the world deadly roadside bomb explosion targeting a police car has killed one civilian in southeastern turkey twenty seven more people were wounded in the attack including seven point officers no one has claimed responsibility for the blast yet though kurdish rebels fighting for the region's autonomy have used roadside bombs against the military before. students have taken to the streets of the country's capital santiago demanding the government provides more funding for public education mass protesters joined the group and clashed with security officers police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse one thousand strong crowd students have been regularly demonstrating over cuts to education funding since april twenty. ninth of thousands of protesters took to the streets of

yemen's capital sanaa demanding the country's president stands trial ali abdullah saleh remains in office despite signing a power transfer deal in the vampyr political turmoil has been ongoing in yemen for years now demands the president steps down. argues the big show across dogs coming your way as we put the points of the controversial stop online piracy act to the test first though the business update with katie. welcome to the business program russia's passenger jets have ruled through the skies of the middle east of the bahrain the one hundred sixty why super jets has been the star of the exhibition washes top officials see the region as a priority market with expected to quadruple that over the next two decades paul ryan air is already eyeing three to five c.

for jets with a final decision likely within months. has more. this is the middle east they blew off russia's new passenger aircraft two points the bridge at its manufacturer there are a lot of the aircraft operations out there richard is one of the priorities that market for the company if they believe the political situation here will soon have a life and the region all morning carol are optional and comfortable secure demobbed for the super it's a project that became all bought for a group by the way a professional pilot has profited packs of the plane and the benefactress hope his intro will tell you the real orders for probe operate the company is already here. because there's no plane similar to seepage it holds a unique meet between planes like. serious jets like boeing but it is more comfortable and it's up to fifteen percent more efficient and cheaper than its

rivals. commercial airline traffic in the gulf area is expected to what group over the next two decades there i wore them back up producers here compared to the secure or the bottom of the russian part of the group the russian flights closing the show today with a new third set made of aerobatic program and their fellow countrymen here believe that this is just the start of russia's current file bishop middle east airspace but can't recall a bit of our fear from bahrain air show. russia's finance ministry may limit using cash in the country according to finance minister anton ferdinand off a counts for a quarter of all money in russia about two and a half times more than in developed countries will make his want to see commercial spending as well as salaries converted to normal cash transactions an incentive to reduce the cash economy was announced by the because last year it was criticized by

some who fear the move could tare security risks cast in the system feeds the shadow sector of the economy which in russia. still accounts for about a third of jews in pay. so let's have a look at those markets will get started with oil that is now in positive territory after trading near a one week low earlier on in the session all prices are reacting to the drop in u.s. government benefit cut falling to the lowest level in almost four years tensions in iran are also housing an impact wrestling to supplies and now on to the editing market is asian shares are on the rise with exporters and finds advancing on positive news from the u.s. with those positive u.s. dollars claims figures and also that's an expected bank earnings reports the positive news from europe is also helping to offer spain a thong softballs at lower yield in hong kong the gains are modest over because of data showing chinese manufacturing activity remain in contraction but still up. in

moscow the more his are trading the next thirty r.t.s. on the my sides are trading one on an opposite directions as you can see will be monitoring those figures all throughout the day for you let's see those figures movers on the mice next week tb is allowed despite positive news from your resigned all on call mike of us have got is among the main losers the company is about so finished taking bets from minority shareholders now buyback a bit shy as nobody's nicole is on the rise of companies trying to reduce production to adapt to a pull in global metal demand the miners also expect to report on around fifty percent increase in net profit for the year of two thousand and eleven is the goal proprietor from target dialog with. the four new year so many clients on the weighted russia show i would expect some profit taking from russian accounts but i still expect that the inflows funds will be high it will be strong

it showed the markets will will. continue growing up as for recommendations in this environment the environment in your opinion in china in the world still very shaky their communication is to buy liquid stocks as we saw. on thursday and friday most of the big accounts were buying look will be sort of good. my recommendations right now will still be just among liquid stocks. and that's it for now all have all business. updates and about fifty five minutes trying them.

when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world sues moore's enough obviously the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. more it's someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different culture when you get experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but it was a book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were all from beason up and humiliated in public and one of the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger is that we have been

deprived of the only means of earning a living and i have gone to the regionals of all the papers yes i'll be out there little i used the ownership rights on the basis of cocos freedom becomes just a stage prop. welcome back you're watching r.t. here's a look at the top. stories to web war as a global hacking group cripples the web sites of the white house and f.b.i. in a series of attacks on major u.s. internet pages through a vendor growing crackdown on file sharing services. arab league observers wrap up their much criticized mission to syria am prepared to deliver the air report of the syrian opposition beats its drums in favor of military intervention. and london ramps up its efforts bring to.