i. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching archie with me and you see now it's two pm here in the russian capital twelve noon in damascus syria but we begin with the global activist group anonymous which just hit some of the most prominent websites in the u.s. including those at the white house and f.b.i. and the department 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 so the move comes hot on the heels of a mass blackout of thousands of websites including with a pedia in protest against controversial new web control laws washington hopes bills will be approved by lawmakers to curb illegal downloading and protect

copyright but critics say this will lead to censorship of the internet 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 u.s. and all governments. is such that giving them power to do one thing is almost always interpreted by themselves as a means of giving them power. so in the way that you know this that this raid on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without sober already in quotes they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down so imagine when so close. in the meantime my group project. operation dark. latest effort. to ensure. that those who support so our route intimidated and who was to make sure that these things don't happen in the future. very near future. there will be

a number of other. military. situation gets worse. and. your opinion matters to us so we're asking at our to go out column whether hackers and users can protect the internet from the u.s. led anti-piracy legislator so far the majority think they will be able to get their voices heard nineteen percent believe they will only discredit their cause by creating a haven for online crimes the same amount response respondents say some detentions don't work against fatah and guns while the rest suggest the proper political party should be formed to stand against the controversy log on to argue dot com have your say cast your vote. coming up next hour arches cross talk host peter the val as his guest whether the new legislation may completely change the face of the web. the

fact 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 through the division of it isn't true if 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 carried you know these are counterfeit drugs there are also if you look at the written material including when i you know harm in first harm children harm adults there's a serious there are serious consequences. and. members of the arab league are gathering this weekend to. her final report on the expired

observer mission to syria it's widely expected to condemn president bashar assad who has continued his crackdown on protesters despite promises to stop as art his way from notional reports there's little doubt that the findings but 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 the. that in syria protest has apparently failed to prove that months of bloodshed with no sign is going to stop anytime soon. how it holger 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 he was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there present them and there to national community in order to reach this syrian people freedom although it's been run by paris based exile

that hamdani in the absence he has been recognized as the country's legitimate government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some and nato countries which has made some doubt the council's innocent intentions and with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council perspective leaders was that they'd 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 they're made to go 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. is a dictatorial regime they 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 copper age and with the free syrian army fighters who defected from the stars military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance. the

council 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 the ball carriers operation where the syrian national council is being used to activists and i just need to look at that because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least leading to maybe the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint africa sooner or later it will force president assad out his attorneys 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 brief notion r.t. . of the syrian opposition is calling for a nationwide rally today in support of those imprisoned over the course of the uprising in the country reports suggest the government. deploying law enforcement

personnel at key sites around the capitol for more we cannot cross live to damascus joining us is independent journalist lucy failon live from damascus thanks for being with us lizzie what do you expect to happen today how big are these protests going to be. well i think that here in damascus large protests expect large protests it's really not likely to happen because this is of course a strong area of government support just last week we saw a huge demonstration in support of the president where of course he showed up to the demonstration himself may be small pockets of protests in areas such as me and i wouldn't expect any more than hundreds of people other areas such as there is a likelihood yesterday we did see some footage of protests numbering no more than in the in the hundreds of protesters that were convoys of.

fighters i believe from the free syrian army so just how free and peaceful those protests way is very difficult to tell but as for here in the mask as i wouldn't really expect anything significant you know the arab league has also just finished its observer mission in syria what do you think they'll have to say about the situation in the country. well i wouldn't really expect anything from the syrian government's point of view i wouldn't really expect anything to optimistic but of course we have to remember that before the arab league arrived nobody actually expected the syrian government to allow them into the country because they had up until about point paid a very important role in giving moral support of the syrian council the opposition here so there was a lot of surprise when they accepted. into the country and then there was even more surprise when actually the arab league didn't say the things that they were expected to say and they appeared to give a little bit more of an object of a. accounts saying that you know that the government was fighting against some

groups inside the country so we're expecting now that the arab league will request extended stay here which the syrian government has already said it would welcome but as i said we're not expecting so so from the point of view of countries like qatar and others who have really been pushing for regime change in syria that the arab league mission here hasn't been exactly as they would have liked it so we have seen in the last week that the prince of qatar openly called for arab troops to occupy syria as a common invade and occupy syria so really. the arab league that shows that the arab league has seen playing a little bit more of an object to some arab countries aren't too happy with it so we can expect for them to push for their objectives of regime change in other ways and this continues to happen through the media media war you know what the syrian

government supports of us winning the media war here yesterday i saw an example of that myself there were some reports that the area of. the lebanese border had been taken by the free syrian army and i went there myself last night and i as i drove today but i was very surprised to find no checkpoints by the syrian army on the way and i actually was allowed to go inside of a design and despite having seen footage on the television of convoys of free syrian army fighters i found out there was actually nothing and when i left i was told by the syrian army that i would be free to travel three zero down and on to the lebanese border so really objective a version changes your report correctly said continues and it is important to state that foreign intervention it's not something that is to be expected in the future is of course there is evidence that is of course already happening with support.

for the free syrian army from countries like turkey and places like it's going the route. and elsewhere so foreign intervention is very much already taking place there as for a nato intervention and that is something that the opposition is continuing to push for right there if you live from damascus thank you very much for your analysis this hour. well still ahead here on r.g.p. the sharp war tactics finding you at home u.s. find drones that have been used in washington's multiple military operations abroad are now keeping a close eye on american citizens too. but first the battle over scotland sovereignty is heating up in the u.k. with the scans being told they may hold an independence referendum only if london gives its blessing it comes as a fearful british government ridicule heavy rhetoric against the independent spirit but as arches 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. 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 have been told. 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 of the 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. one step further and hopes

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 a life that it would have to find its 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 don't see that he can argue against it is shocked i think a shutter i don't think you have any see the fires moment scot's 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 the initiative but it's completely but viable he's actually been the best recruiting sergeant the s. and p. i think is of. margaret thatcher. in the last seven days with. 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 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 were poured on an international blow for the country after former senior. special admits to

a spying scandal. but the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the fact they were caught doing a snooping stone for the modern day james bond of moscow is rock solid evidence for the key figure finally come clean. 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 case spying weapon in overseas operations of becoming a common tool for u.s. police stirring up privacy concerns among more and more americans are just we're an important iowa 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 department using unmanned spy plane said to catch suspects the remotely piloted war 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 out with cajuns 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 but as the u.s. government flies prying eyes through the sky 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 say we need this to cry. 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 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 to assault the acquittal two assault rifles flak jackets the modern police looked 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 closed 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 close new rules making it easier for law enforcement agencies to fly drones to americans 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. well don't hesitate to log on to our web site for the latest videos comments and analysis with our team dot com and here's some of what's there for you today tear gas prices molotov cocktails from many of joints to cooperate states. seeking the resignation of their of the leaders

of the country faces its worst protest in decades. and the brutal killing of the al to be a leader remains without investigation to months now we give you one lawyers opinion why i had to r.t. dot com for more. 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 it's come six years after moscow first presented without the case and after catching agents red handed our designer bennett has more from london. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but he didn't 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 this 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 delts 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 you're in it 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 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. 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 to the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much that spying itself but the fact they were caught doing it opposed to. called 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 to london. was briefly check what else is happening around the world today 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 here fear gas and water cannon to disperse the one thousand strong crowd syrians have been regularly demonstrating over cuts to education funding since

april twenty seventh. tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of yemen's capital sanaa demanding the country's president stands trial. for they remains in office just by signing a power transfer deal in november political turmoil has been ongoing in yemen for a year now over demands the president steps down. let's get the latest now from the business desk editors here say. hello there welcome to your business update here and else a washes passenger jets have ruled through the skies of the middle east in the bahrain one hundred seats you hoist superjet has been the star of the exhibition russians top officials see the region as a piracy market with and i think expected to quadruple that over the next two decades is already eyeing three to five super jets with

a final decision likely within months. upon a cave on how small. this is the middle east they blew off russia's new passenger aircraft the two points the bridge and its manufacturer there are a lot of aircraft corporations out there richard one of the priorities for the market for the company they believe the political situation here will feel that allies and the region want to. come forward. well secured it was the super project that became obama rain who by the way a professional pilot has profited packs of the plane and the benefactor of hope his intro told her you can real order a corporate boxer a company is already here. there's no plane similar to seepage it holds a unique need between planes like. serious 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 of the gulf area expect the group over there to their case their own war them to act our producers here compared to the secure border of the russian harlowe group the russian lights closing the show today with a new threat made of an aerobatic program and their fellow countrymen here believe that this is just the start of russia's current high ambitions middle east airspace . are clear from bahrain airshow. let's move on to the market is all is a raising days is now trading in the red as prices are suffering because of negative news coming out of the year as the euro weakening gets a dollar wall to continue in great and added to that fuel consumption in the u.s. dropped to its lowest level since september two thousand and one and the european stocks are lower as investors keep an eye on debt swap deal talks in graced the sun

say it's down around a quarter of a percent on the dax is losing half of the cent and here in moscow the market's all flat this friday and the my sex or indeed trading. makes the r.t.s. has been bouncing between games our losses my sites has been in the red so much of the day remains and now let's move on to the biggest movies on the mice that used to be t.v.'s lower affecting this. sentiments in the year as i call mine out west had sky is among the main ways as the company is about to finish taking pills for minority shareholders for a buyback which says this nicole is one of the ones on the rise today the company is planning to reduce production to adapt to a fall in global metals demand the mind also expects to report on around fifty percent increase in net profit for the year of two thousand and eleven. days in those figures about fifty five minutes time to do join me then i'll have

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the issues that so much about the next mayor is what i mean to say she needs to be a lot of people are hearing and supporters of the stump online piracy act claim they are losing billions of dollars a year to step on the internet opponents of social worth the injured. party live from moscow our top stories where wars are global hacking group cripples the web sites of the white house never be i in a series of attacks on major u.s. internet pages to advance a growing crackdown on final sharing services and the arab league observers wrap up their much criticized mission to syria i'm prepared to deliver their report as the syrian opposition beats a strong in favor of military intervention.