so please it has been the start of the. rest stop official say the region as a priority join us for more of that. it's five pm here in moscow this is our t. coming to you live now with our top story this hour america's government and entertainment industry has come under attack from a group of computer hackers known only as anonymous they took down web sites belonging to the f.b.i. department of justice and universal music group the group says its march ever attack is in response to the shutting down of the major file sharing service mega upload which is suspected around fifteen million daily users the outside forces have been arrested and are now facing prison sentences for copyright infringement american momi are currently debating new bills to curb illegal downloading which has been attacked as an attempt to censor the internet thousands of websites

including with a pedia went black in protest this week sarah brown who's worked with anonymous on farias operations says a huge cyber war could be about to start. a problem in 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 the raid on megaupload cards in this opens it shows that even without sober already in place they are already arresting and resting the owner load and shutting it down so i imagine with . the meantime my group project. operation which the latest efforts. to ensure that in the those who supports our route to intimidate or otherwise to mature. in the future very near future.

there will be a number of other groups that will. military. situation gets worse. and the notable civil war. coming up just after three thirty pm g.m.t. archie's cross talk host peter the debates with his gas the reason behind the proposed u.s. legislation. 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 is let's go 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 carol you know these are counterfeit drugs yes 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. now to syria where the opposition has called for rallies to be held across the country in support of prisoners held since the start of the government under arrest that's just by general amnesty granted by president earlier this week that has seen almost two hundred detainees released archies riff and looks at who is calling the shots in the protest movement. people taking to the streets may look like a real force of power and indeed be one. true test has apparently failed to prove that months of blood. with no sign is going to stop

anytime soon. howard ho jeff from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring 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 but 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 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 making the right 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. the town is another matter. is

it dictatorial regime cannot be moles without any pressure claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is now copper region with the free syrian army fighters who defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the us and sees initial entirely north armed peaceful stance. the cowsills to seize humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these likely foreign troops are i mean this is a the 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 the day to at least lead to maybe the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after is sooner or later it will force president

assad out on 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 that brief notion r.t. . meanwhile the arab league prepares to hear the final report from the observers it sent to syria and it's expected to determine the future of its expired mission there but some experts believe some members want military involvement not just observation missions and the media coverage is supporting them. the arab league has been playing a little bit more of an object over arab countries aren't too happy with it so we can expect. the purse for their objectives are very easy and change in other ways and this continues that though through the media media war you know what the syrian government is the books are calling the media war here yesterday i saw anything out of that myself that west our course that that area of ours. done near the lebanese

border had been taken by the free syrian army and i went there myself last night and i as i drove to that but i was very surprised to find no take for you by the syrian army on the way and i actually was allowed to go inside and despite having seen fix-it on the television probably of the free syrian army i found that there was actually nothing there and when i left i was told by the syrian army that i would be free to travel through as it would on the road to the lebanese border. still ahead of you this hour scotland makes this push for independence london valves to make any split from the u.k. a costly move for the modern day bravehearts wanting to go it alone. and israel pushes you around for an immediate environs oriel a decision that could leave other nations scrambling to find an alternative energy source. but first a multi-billion pound london core duel between russian tycoon between

a russian tycoon and chelsea football club owner. fugitive russian billionaire bertie spear is off he is close to conclusion the judge is considering her verdict in the financial battle after armies of expensive went to battle for their clients exposing some juicy details along the way well let's find out some of those details from our chief correspondent joining us live from london ivor this fight is one of the more extraordinary battles fought in london's high court for some time tell us more about this legal war dubbed the trial of the century. but it's certainly lived up to the billing it's been dubbed the trial of the century for two reasons really firstly because of the sea of money involved six and a half billion dollars at stake here making it the most expensive civil lawsuits in the u.k. legal these three but more importantly perhaps is the subject matter it's really laid bare all the dealings of ninety's russia in the wild east reaffirming all those. if there are that i don't think anyone actually thought because could

possibly be true but it turns out they are and what makes it even more unbelievable is that they've come from two of the main players in those turbulent times remand every moment. to former friends now arch enemies as for juicy details will some of the really big believe the recent claims we've heard are that he actually turned up to meetings wearing nothing but a dressing gown that he frittered away millions in the flash of a private jet that even signed off threatening text messages to his rivals with the words i'm watching you i'm dr evil promote it well he's been accused of every dirty tax dodging trick there is in the book things like transfer pricing offshore accounts artificial transactions even employing a staff made up entirely of disabled people to qualify for tax breaks and we also know that he was involved in the murderous alimony wars of the ninety's where we now know the shore through his own admission that one person was killed every three

day three days in that kind of grab for wealth but what this dispute really boils down to is the relationship between the two main areas he claims that they were business partners and that he was blackmailed by a remote which forced to sell his stakes and shares in in their oil companies for a fraction of their true worse so just one point two billion dollars things and he wants a lot more. he dismisses that payment as purely protection money paid to his political godfather of the banks for his mentor ship a severance package but it's very difficult to actually prove any of this because none of their. agreements were actually written down the meetings all took place and seem to be gentle and clubs in moscow private airports and it was all done in the shape of a manager or the drop of a briefcase carrying loads of cash because now i know it's up to the judge to decide whether if anything all of this is true. but regardless of which actually

survives this battle i think it's safe to say the real winner here is the british court system because believe me raking in as a result of this trial eighty dollars a second. well that is a tremendous amount of money i've ever been at reporting live from london thanks for that. well london has another conflict to resolve with russia after a former senior official admitted britain was caught snooping find out how moscow uncovered the secret of the spying stone on our website r.t. dot com complete with more pictures and video of. the battle over scotland split from the union is splitting opinion in an increasingly disunited united kingdom scots have been told they can hold a referendum on independence but only if london gives the birthing arches laura smith explains. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tar 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 them it's not a referendum they want it's a never ending 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 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 it hopes a yes vote from the scottish people would mean scotland would gain control over its own no. 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 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 see that he can argue against. his shocked i think a shutter i don't think you should have any say 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 but it's completely but viable he's actually been the best. thinkers of. 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 but alex salmond is a reputation built on restoring a proud scotland the prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who let the united kingdom come apart laura smith party at ibrox. still to come on our team with less than fifty days to go we take a walk up the current political climate in russia ahead of the march presidential election. first the us has strengthened its presence in the persian gulf with the aircraft. abraham lincoln sounding into waters off iran on thursday the movie is

seen as a test of tehran through solved after it warned america not to send more warships through the strait of hormuz tensions between the u.s. and iran intensified after the islamic republic thread to block the strait a vital transit route in response to further sanctions over its nuclear program washington to retaliate if you did cut off the passage. from antiwar group international action center says what the u.s. really wants is to regain control of oil that it decades ago. the motivation for the u.s. 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 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 show or oil and not and

not texaco control of the oil resources in iran 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 aren't in iran they're here in the united states in the halls of power in congress and on wall street. don't hesitate to log on to our web site for the latest comments videos and now with this it's all r t v dot com for you here's some of what we have lined up today here gas versus molotov cocktails romanians joined with global wave of protests through seeking the resignation of their leaders with the country facing its worst demos in decades. and the brutal killing of the ousted libyan leader is still not being investigated two months we give you one lawyers opinion why i had two hours to dot com from wanting to.

as russia's presidential candidates are busy ramping up their campaigns ahead of the march election some members of the public are increasing their efforts to ensure a transparent about in light of massive rallies against the parliamentary election in russia last month both are foreigners and protesters that they need to talk more parties are going to lose craig ages the temperature of russia's political life was just under fifty days before the march presidential election and major campaign is still simmering in the candidates headquarters mr putin decided to unleash his powers of persuasion on the electorate and nonpublic speaker for change he's decided to be more scholarly picking up the pen for the first in a series of articles outlining his vision for the future of russia what he's

calling for me to be built. the gravitation away from dependence on oil high spending welcoming political dialogue and the strengthening 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 it's important to say that prime minister has never denied the possibility of establishing such a dialogue and he just recovered from his rather nose 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 debate with constituents where should the new public mood is. 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 your group are quick to point out they're not going to turn into a political party but do 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 unity found public support there to help them are the key to public support is the media and that's because we can found he spoke to the crowd low criticizing one of russia's most popular radio stations and called last go to protester in its coverage the prime minister's. chief who noted you could sense it was going to say yeah i don't get mad when you cover me with liquid crap from dawn till dusk the government the opposition and the electorate all seem to realise they have to think fast and act quickly in order to get the ball rolling with the presidential elections just around the corner so if their house down which some say

lasted for years the political life in russia and roaring in will go it goes go r t . but second now on some other stories making headlines around the world this hour french president nicolas sarkozy says his nation is suspending military training operations in afghanistan after four foot soldiers were killed in a gun fight a rogue afghan soldier with since been detained was behind the attack that also injured a dozen more soldiers attacked by afghan troops and police are on their foreign partners has become increasingly common something sarkozy calls unacceptable so far eighty two french soldiers have been killed in afghanistan since two thousand and one. rescue operations at the site of the costa concordia cruise liner disaster have been suspended after the ship shifted again overnight twenty one people remain missing eleven were killed when the cruise liner ran aground a week ago and the ship's captain is currently under house arrest a new audio. tape appears to show the crew downplayed the extent of the catastrophe

only reporting electrical problems for half an hour after the vessel at the reef. that wraps up the main news block here on our team this hour up next to the business with kareen. thank you and he says hello and welcome to business update this hour russia's passenger jets have roared through the skies of the middle east at the back. to one hundred seats so who is super jet has been the star of the exhibition top officials see the region as a priority market where the airline traffic expected to quadruple there over the next two decades. is already eyeing three to five super chats with a final decision likely within months of the call has more this is the middle east they blew off russia's new passenger aircraft the bridge at its manufacturer there are a lot of acura operations out there richard one of the priorities to look at all that

but if they believe the political situation here will soon have a life and the region want to want it. comfortable secure it was for the super duper john mccain obama great move by the way a professional pilot has prospered back to the plate and about a factor of hope his interest will turn to real or to vote for obama a company is already here. there's no plane similar to see it holds a unique meet between things like. is more comfortable and it's up to fifteen percent more fish in its rivals. tropical but don't expect the group over the next two decades several of them to add crop producers here competitive to secure borders but the russian harlowe group there. my disclosing this show today with

a new threat made up an aerobatic program and their fellow countrymen here believe that they're just part of russia's current my ambition middle east airspace that can be called a bit of art for you probe operated and. let's have a look at the markets right now all it raising is raising early gains and is now trading in the red the prices are suffering because of negative news coming out of the eurozone with the euro weak down the dollar paul talks continue greece and added to the fuel consumption in the u.s. dropped to its lowest level since september two thousand and one. stocks in europe are lower as well as investors keep an eye on debt swap deal talks in greece the foot sea is slightly out this hour after government set tougher rules on budget deficits and the latest draft of plan physical teeth of the tax is losing nearly half a percent and here in moscow the markets have slipped into the bridge the my six

losing over two thirds of a percent over half of our folks at this hour the r.t.s. is down over a quarter of a percent and now let's see the biggest movers on them isaacs three to be is edging lower reflecting the sentiments in the eurozone coal mine a response guys among the main losers as well the company is about to finish taking bits from minority shareholders for a buyback of the chairs and noise maker bucking the trend of struggling actually struggling to buck the trend the company plans to cut production to adapt to a slowing global demand for mine also expected to report a fifty percent increase in net profit poorly year two thousand. in russia the central bank is trying to make it easier for foreign banks operating in the country to open new branches it's part of an effort to set up equal conditions for domestic and foreign lenders and the best to join the world trade organization banks from abroad will no longer have to make special requests to the central bank simplifying the registration process process a. and to russia add

a two thousand and eleven with a budget surplus of point eight percent of its g.d.p. however if excluding oil and gas revenues the country's expenditures still remain significantly higher the amount of money it receives. from the european department says this means that as a major concern over russia's economic safety. the budget should be formulated in a way that. insulates would be caught i mean from fluctuations you know pricey laws that are in the books are basically good but they are not being implemented until it was freshly dual in budget their policy is to be more prudent to reduce the deficit measured in terms of more an oil deficit maybe taking out revenues from oil and natural gas and the current budget or plants i'm not going to because they keep not all deficit very much levels which would be sustainable for russia in the

medium term. that's all that for now in iraq with what fifteen minutes time. you're. this is a lot. nolen sitting on the edge of present. the.

mixing reality and nothingness. but if you enter this time. the mystery of supernatural will reach you. shame you know siberia. is easy. to. get off sometimes you see a story and it seems so. think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. watching are to me a live from moscow are headlined strike back anonymous are both major u.s. government and corporate websites in response to a crackdown on a file sharing service and heading anti-piracy along the. syrian opposition calls for more massive protests demanding prisoners released just invite a general amnesty granted by president early this week. and a multi-billion pound battle between russian tycoon that among alba.