watching on the line from moscow i'm marina joshie 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 department of justice major film and music companies have also been target its hacks come in retaliation to a federal raid on the massive file sharing service megaupload which has 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 media in protest against controversial 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 censorship on the internet very it brown his worked with anonymous on

various operations before says the latest hacker attacks are just the beginning. of the problem is that the track record of the u.s. and all governments. in such that given the power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power. so and the way that you know this that this raid on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without sopa already in place here they are already arresting resting megaupload and shutting it down so i imagine when. in the meantime my group project. operation dark. latest effort. to ensure. that those who support our route intimidated and otherwise to make sure that these things don't happen again and in the future the very near future as you'll see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more military not goods and

situation it's worse in the grass and cells which point as the notable civil war in the u.s. the kurds. and coming up after eleven thirty am g m t r t's crossed asks his gas whether the new legislation may completely change the face of the internet. is what we're trying to do is enforce u.s. copyright laws on foreign companies whose copyright laws may be different from ours and what we're saying is if you don't follow us law in terms of copyrights then we have the right to shut you down the other part of the problem is affectively that's going to do some of it is because. you're objecting to the fact that people are trying to stop sites that are pirating american american intellectual property and it's not always just movies and music it's also physical goods that are kyra you know these are counterfeit drugs you know there are also written which really can be when i you know harm and first harm children harm adults there's a serious there are serious consequences. and.

members of the arab league are gathering this weekend to hear a final report of the expired observer mission to syria it's widely expected to can damn president bashar asad. who has continued his crackdown on protesters despite promises to stop and also 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 the one. thing syria protest has apparently failed to prove that months of bloodshed with no sign is going to stop anytime soon. khalid ho jenny from the syrian national council the country's

main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring in an end to the violence is what the essence she was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there present them and their to national community in order to reach this syrian people's freedom and although it's been run by paris based exult about hamdani in the absence he has been recognized as the country's lee determined government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some even and nato countries which has made some doubt the council's innocent intentions with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council perspective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in a new libya so there is power broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off

financially or they've been promised a major role in a new syrian regime the national congress and there are clear is national transitional council and the syrian national council and it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored from abroad i think he likes opposition forces and their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts courters are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria now we have. you know we have. to be executed there howlett says he spent fifteen years in jail in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's just because his father supported the opposition he claims nothing has changed since then and the oppression has to stop but how is another matter his addicted terrorism cannot be most of without any pressure claiming they're only

going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is now carburetor in with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely nor armed peaceful stance to the cows who also sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this is a top is that all carriers operation where this year that the gas has been used to at yes and that jeddah it's a major one. they want to destabilize here either because they want syria to be part of nato at least lead the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint afterwards soon only turn president assad out and 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 you this hour here in r.t. the sharp war tactics finding a use at home i spy drone up and used in washington's multiple military operations abroad are now keeping a close eye on american citizens to. and is jamz the gun any minute any al calls in europe in barga running oil fast without waiting for a weak minded one supplier. the battle over scotland sovereignty is heating up in the u.k. with the scots being told they may hold an independence referendum only if the one that gives its blessing it comes as a fearful british government ramps up ridicule have a rhetoric against the independence bit but as r.t. as laura smith reports london's grandstanding is ruffling more than just feathers among the scots. the in britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and toss the known world

but on home soil the country is 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 ending question travel debate and that's keep our country together. but why would scotland want to separate itself from a britain that still among the world's richest economies scotland always retained its own distinct national identity and the s.n.p. feels it's almost time to take that one step further and 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 its own currency and lose thousands of jobs when the navy heads south not that it seems to bother scots who see their country as having been strangled for long enough i don't think it's any of his business that we present a strong enough case to be independent then i can't see that he can argue against that because if shocked i think a shutter i don't think you have an easy the fires of. scots have never taken kind . the hearing's 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 viable he's actually been the best recruiting sergeant the s.n.p. i think is a pope certainly says margaret thatcher. in the last seven days we've had over a third bush. saying up to now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords at stake but alex salmond is a reputation built on restoring a proud scotland for prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith r.t. edinburgh. while the u.k. 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 a spying scandal. but the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much that spying itself but the fact they were caught doing it. snow brings down from

a modern day james bond as moscow rob solid evidence forces of the state to finally come up with. america's controversial use of its drones in asia may have caused overwhelming anger but now it's threatening to do the same at home washington's key spying weapon and overseas operations is becoming a common tool for us police stirring up privacy concerns among more and more americans are these marine aboard niall 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 the 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 drones 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 and lawmakers have neglected to create any privacy protections for american citizens the agencies keep using more and more of these to justify their existence so they 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 unmanned aerial vehicles. the newest and smallest invention is hummingbird a palm sized q. looking spyplane weighing less than one pound there can be a very lucrative. in the united states for growth with police departments who are already militarized tanks to assault the at all to assault rifles flak jackets the modern police look like the military and so now they're going to be using military women a 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's a closed circuit camera watching what you're telling so now we don't only have a law on the ground we have them from the air this month the federal aviation administration is expected to pose new rules making it easier for law enforcement agencies to fly drones to 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 port artsy new york. don't hesitate to log on to our web site for the latest videos comments and analysis it's r.t. dot com here's some of what's there for you. in tear gas versus modify fields romania joins a club of states seeking the resignation of the early years as a country faces its worst protests in decades. and the brutal killing of the ousted libyan leader remains without any investigation for two months now to give you one

the lawyers opinion why so hard to argue not call for more. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is pressing europe to impose an embargo on iranian oil immediately over the country's nuclear ambitions. the e.u. will decide of sanctions in a few days but may delay their effect until july while countries look for a new oil supplier iran has been threatening to block the strait of hormuz a final world fuel supply route if the sanctions are imposed a move the u.s. says could lead to military action caleb maupin from the anti-war group international action center says washington's determined to get its hands on iranian oil after losing control of the gates and though. the motivation for the us

to continue repressing the iranian people to assassinate nuclear scientists it 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 of the iranian people and not shell oil and. texaco control of the oil resources in iran and any threats of wars must be strongly opposed because these kind of wars serve the ruling elite they serve the wall street bankers and they don't serve working class people there are 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. the u.k. secret service has been literally rocked by the admission of one of the country's former top officials who confirmed that britain had been spying on russia this comes six years after moscow first presented its elevations after catching agents

red handed i desire bennett has more. the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but hidden in this fake stone was a high tech transmitted 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 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 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 unit 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 the 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 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. and 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 to. war agreement supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on all of the bennett london. analysts briefly now take a look at what else is happening in the world a deadly roadside bomb explosion targeting

a police cars killed one civilian in southeastern turkey twenty seven more people were wounded in the attack including seven police 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. killing and 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 water cannons to disperse the one thousand strong crowd students have been regularly demonstrating over cuts to education funding since april when you have been. tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of yemen's capital sanaa demanding the country's president stands trial all you have done a solider made in office despite signing a power transfer deal and of amber political turmoil has been ongoing in yemen for here and now over demands the president steps down. this year's first grand slam

event in tennis is in full swing in melbourne and we'll bring you the latest results in about twenty five minutes here in our team so stay with us for that if you can before that though let's see what's happening in business with kate. hello there welcome to the business program russia's passenger jets have rolled through the skies of the middle east at bahrain. the one hundred c. c. high super jets has been the star of the exhibition washes top officials see the region as a priority market with traffic expected to quadruple over the next two decades as already eyeing stories of five super jets with a final decision likely within months. over how small. their fares the middle east they blew off russia's new passenger aircraft to parts of georgia its manufacturer there are a lot of the aircraft corporations out there richard is one of the priority for market for the company they believe the political situation here wolf is that

a lot and the region want it i am a lot sure i am comfortable secure the bomb the super duper job became the obama brain who by the way a professional pilot has profited packs of the plane and about a factor of his interest will tell you the real order of the probe operate the company is already here. a plane similar to seepage it holds a unique nice between planes like. jets like boeing but it's more comfortable and it's up to fifteen percent more fish and cheaper than its rivals. commercial airline traffic and the gulf area is expected to what group over the next two decades several move them to aircraft producers here come here to secure borders but the russian part of the group the russian was close with this show today with

a new survey made of aerobatic program and their fellow countrymen here believe that this is just the start of russia card how bishop middle east. airspace. rivers are clear from bahrain. russia's finance ministry may limit using touch in the country according to finance minister anton said he ran off accounts for a quarter of all money in russia that's two and a half times more than in developed countries lawmakers want to see commercial spending as well as salaries concert has to not only cash transactions an incentive to reduce the cash economy was announced by bankers last year but it was criticized by some who fear the move could carry security where it's cash in the system feeds the shadow sector of the economy which in russia still accounts for about a third of g.d.p. . ok let's have a look at those markets will get started with oil which is now in positive territory after trading net

a one week low earlier on in the session all prices are reacting to the drop in u.s. jobless benefit claims falling to the lowest level in almost four years so tensions in iran are also having an impact on the reckoning to curb surprise now let's move on to the equity markets asian shares are on the rise with exporters and banks and evolves you know positive news from us with those positive u.s. stock was claims because as i was saying and also combined with that is the best than expected bank records the positive news from europe is also helping to off to spain and france sold bonds at the lovely yield in hong kong the gains are modest because of data showing chinese manufacturing up to fifty remained in contraction but both horses are indued out and the european stock markets have started the day off. despite those positive figures coming from asia under us we'll be monitoring those diggers throughout the day and see how they develop and so now

they all met. in moscow the markets are trading mix this friday the r.t.s. is on the rise after trading fact last. and it's down around a quarter of a cent in the black on them i think to stop things get it south south out of the red today ok let's have a look at those individual moves that p.c.b. is lower despite positive news from the eurozone coal miner bass parts guy is among the main losers the company is about to finish taking bets from minority shareholders for a buyback which says that is nicole is on the rise the company is planning to reduce production to a done so for the global metals demand among also expects to a portion of our fifty percent increase in net profit for the year of two thousand leather if you go from one dollar. before new year we so many clients are under weighted russia. i would expect some profit taking from russian accounts but i still expect that the flow of funds will be will be

strong so the markets will. will continue going up as for recommendations in greece and warm still we the environment in europe and in china in the world still very shaky their condition is to buy liquid stocks as we saw. on thursday and friday most of the big guns were buying gas probably. sort of good but i have my recommendations right now will still be just among liquid stops. the russian central bank is trying to make it easier for foreign banks operating in the country to open new branches as part of an effort to set up equal conditions for domestic and foreign lenders as russia's joining the world trade organization by its from a board who no longer have to make special requests for to the central bank simplifying the registration. was often i'll be back fifty five minutes more business more

markets did you mean them. all. when clinton comparable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more is enough obviously. the president who

isn't supposed to hide anything. or 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 in the book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often 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 original sit all the papers i'll be at the little ice the ownership rights on the basis of cause freedom becomes just a stage prop.

but imagine watching r t these are the top stories web wars 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 to the advantage growing crackdown file sharing services. arab league observers wrapping up their much criticized mission to syria and prepare to deliver the orders of syrian opposition beats his drums in favor of military intervention. and london ramps up its efforts to bring the scottish and.