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well britain's future. it's three pm here in moscow this is r t coming to you live with me and he said now our top story the global hackett's group anonymous has hit some of the most prominent websites in the u.s. including those of the white house and the 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 fifteen 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 with a pedia in protest against controversial new web control laws washington hopes the bills will be approved by lawmakers to curb illegal downloading and protect
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copyright but critics say this will lead to censorship of the internet brown who's worked with anonymous fund various operations before it 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 given the power to do one thing news 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 place here they are already arresting and arresting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down so i imagine when so close. in the meantime my group project. operation dark. latest effort. to ensure that. in that those who support so our route intimidated and who want to make sure that these things don't happen in. very near future. there will be
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a number of other groups that will. military. situation gets worse. and. your opinion matters to us so we're asking at r g dot com whether hackers and users should protect the internet from the u.s. led anti-piracy legislation but take a look at the numbers so far the majority thinks that online freedom and speech must be defended sixteen percent believe they shouldn't and this will only discredit their cause by protecting cyber criminals almost the same amount of respondents say the rule of law overrides and titian all the brass and just an official organizations to be formed just stand against the controversy let us know what you think log on to our team dot com and cast your vote. and coming up for you this hour our chief cross talk host peter the value of his gas whether the new legislation may completely change the face of the internet. the fact is what we're
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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 is that. 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 that can i you know harm infers harm children harm adults there's a serious there are serious consequences.
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members of the arab league are gathering this weekend to hear a final report on the expired observer mission to syria it's one of the expected to condemn president bashar assad who has continued his crackdown on protesters despite promises to stop and his arteries were in financial reports there's 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 it hodor 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 their to national community in order to
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reach this syrian people freedom although it's been run by a 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 easy 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 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 call was in there are clear is national transitional council and the syrian national council and it's not just their names
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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 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 carburetor in with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from assad's military in was
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a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance. the cowsills the 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 paris operation where this year that the gas has been used to add a vessel that generates a regular jet that because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least late to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint efforts sooner or later 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. . the syrian opposition is calling for a nationwide rally today in support of votes imprisoned over the course of the
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uprising in the country reports suggest the government's deploying law enforcement personnel at key sites around the capital independent journalist who's a famine is in damascus with what's more on what's expected today. there may be small pockets of protests in areas such as me and i wouldn't expect any more than hundreds of people and other areas such as there is a likelihood yesterday we did see some footage of protests. at the protests is the voice of. fights as i believe from the free syrian army so just how free peaceful those protests were very difficult to tell because the syrian government is assuming the media were here yesterday an example of that myself from reports that the area of. the lebanese. had been taken by the free syrian army and i went there myself last night and i drove today but i was very surprised to find no
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checkpoints by the syrian army on the way and i actually was allowed to go inside and despite having seen footage on the television of convoys of free syrian army feiss i found that there was actually nothing so really objective a version change continues so is it important to state that foreign intervention it's not something that is to be expected in the future there is evidence that is of course already happening with support for the free syrian army from countries like kenya and places like it's going the route. and elsewhere so foreign intervention is very much forward to taking place as for nato intervention that is something that the opposition is continuing to push for. we still have for you this hour the sharp war tactics finding and use at home u.s. spy drones that have been used in washington's multiple military operations abroad . are now qualify on american citizens to. the battle over
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scotland sovereignty of heating up in the u.k. with scots being told they may hold an independence referendum only if london gives its blessing it comes as a fearful british government rounds of ridicule heavy rhetoric against the independent spirit but a search is laura smith reports london's grandstanding is ruffling more than just feathers among the scots. from britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world but on 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
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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'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 its own currency and. lose thousands of jobs when the navy heads south not that it seems to both the scots who see their country as having been
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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't see that he can argue against that because if shocked i think a shock to you but i don't think you seventy see the fires of the moment scots of never taken kindly to hearing 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. and p. i think is a simple certainly says margaret thatcher. in the last seven days we've had over a thousand members. so you know 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
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a proud scotland for prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith party at imbra. thought the u.k. may be mired in domestic affairs later in the program where report on an international well for the country as a former senior official admits to rest spying scandal. the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the fact they were caught doing it through big stone of a modern day james bond that mark out rock solid evidence for the kid figure to finally come clean. but first america's controversy the 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 is becoming a common tool for us. police stirring up privacy concerns among more and more americans are to. look into the issue. they are the cornerstone of
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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 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 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
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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 agency's keep to 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. humming-bird a palm sized q. looking spyplane weighing less than one pound there can be
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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 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 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 propose 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.
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freedom at home marina port artsy new york. well the runners in russia's presidential election do this march are starting to get active the country's current prime minister and candidate by the mayor has published a preview article on wanting the challenges the country faces are choosing to go to discuss fast as the current commotion and russian politics. with just under fifty days before the march presidential election and major complaints still simmering in the candidates headquarters mr putin decided to unleash his powers of persuasion on you have to hit a known public speaker for change he's decided to be more scholarly speaking of the pen for the first in a series of articles lining his vision for the future of russia what he's calling economy to be built. and the gravitation away. from dependence on oil high standing welcoming political dialogue in the strengthening
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of civil society in russia putin however said people should concentrate on just what candidates are promising to do rather than the theater of personalities we need extended dialogue about priorities about long term choices national perspective and development this article is an invitation to such dialogue but it's important to say that prime minister has never denied the possibility of establishing such a dialogue and i just recall from his rather knows that and this is what is making people take the initiative into their own hands this week some of the most prominent participants of december's post-election protest pulled together to form the league of constituents so they all know where she's from then the new public mood has blossomed people are showing a desire to make an educated vote to know where their votes are going on the understanding that the country needs competitive politics those behind in your group are quick to point out they're not going to turn into
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a political party but do hope to become a major support group for anyone wanting to make a difference with their vote i didn't have the political activists are nothing without this type of newly found public support there to help boost them the key to public support is the media and that's with bill clinton found himself touring the card while criticizing one of russia's most popular radio stations and called last go from being too protester in its coverage but the prime minister told its editor in chief not to take offense at his words since i don't get mad when you cover me with liquid crap from dawn till dusk on air that's. what i think. that's. why they're so there have no. fears i want to live. in the. well don't hesitate to log on to our website for the latest videos comments analysis and much more it's all for you at r.t.
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dot com and here's some of what's there for you today tear gas versus molotov cocktails were many have joined the club of states seeking the resignation of their theaters as the country faces its worst protests in decades. and the brutal killing of the outer libyan leader remains without any investigation for two months now we give you one more years of opinion on why i had to argue dot com for. 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 that's come six years after moscow first presented its allegations after catching agents red handed r t five or bennett has more. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but he didn't in this fake stone was a high tech transmits a british speaks used to spy on russia the allegations from moscow have always been
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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 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
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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 a camera that camera was hidden under a tree in the songs 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 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 for the very embarrassing but i think that the british government has decided to do a 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
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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'll have a bit. a brief look now at some world news this friday the french president nicolas sarkozy has announced his country is suspending all training operations for afghan troops and also warned of a possible early pull out of the french contingent the move was in reaction to an attack on nato troops in the eastern afghan province of copiers cop assertions say during which four french soldiers were killed the coalition blames
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a rogue afghan army soldier for the shooting the incident brings the total number of french troops killed in the afghanistan campaign to eighty two. million students have taken to the streets of the country's capital bank jago 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 the one thousand strong crowd students have been regularly demonstrating over cuts to education funding since last april. for a good debate show cross talk is coming your way as we've put the points of the controversial stop online piracy act to the task first though the latest business news with katie. hello a warm welcome to the business program that has been some relief for the eurozone after spain outfront successfully pushed through
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a keyboard they sold over fourteen billion years in the government debt securities however talks between greece and its creditors remain dead lot keeping the region's debt crisis on the boil that opponents said to bank says the way out is not easy but the e.u. collapse is not on the table. the worst that could happen. is that one or two countries and it was a one country will obviously mean greece could be forced to leave the eurozone but the eurozone is big enough to survive such a blow like like withdrawal of one country and that what makes me moderately optimistic is that the european central bank has instruments it has lever used so for quite recently they have started supplying the market which is banks with long term liquidity to admit their low cost in unlimited quantities which means
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that those banks have enough money to be able to buy sovereign bonds. and in russia the central bank is trying to make it easier for foreign banks operating in the country to open new branches it's possible that to set up equal conditions for domestic our foreign lenders as russia prepares to join the world trade organization by this from abroad will no longer have to make special requests to the central bank to simplify the registration process. the moving on let's have a look at the markets all is a raising gains as now trading in the red points is suffering because of negative news coming out of the euro zone with the euro weakening against the dollar while talks continuing greys and added to that fuel consumption in the u.s. dropped to its lowest level since september two thousand and one and as for the european markets they are indeed down with all that debt swap deal talks
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in greece dominating investor sentiment there the footsie has managed to claw its way back down it was a default in the black it's gone back down a huge government set tougher rules on budget deficits in the latest plan for fiscal treaty ok let's so. move on shall way and here in moscow the markets on this friday you've got a mixed feud just that by the yes on the my six off saw lots of the all cesspools bouncing between gains and losses but the mindset has been down for much of the day and it's set to close that we'll keep you updated later on by steak it's a let's move on it to the biggest mavis on the my sex p.t.b. is in that are reflecting the sentiments in the coal mine at ross had sky is among the main loses the company is about to finish taking bets from minority shareholders of a buyback which says not its nichol is on the rise the company is planning to
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reduce production to adapt to a full in global metal demond the mine also expects to report in around fifty percent increase in net profit for the two thousand and eleven. puzzle the business news and that is over from me at my colleague kareen at medical show we have the next hour with all your market or your business news right now that. if you're. going to take three days for free.
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free. free. free. free blogging live video for your media project that's free media gogarty dot com. at three thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories on our web wars a global hocking group crippled the web sites of the white house and the f.b.i. in a series of attacks from major u.s. internet pages to avenge a growing crackdown on file sharing services. arab league observers wrap up their much criticized mission to syria and prepare to deliver their report that says the syrian opposition beats it strongly in favor of military intervention.

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