live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said no way it's great to have you with us six pm here in the russian capital two pm in london but we begin with the america's government and detainment industry which has come under attack from a group of computer hackers known only as anonymous they took down websites belonging to the f.b.i. department of justice and universal music group but the group says its largest attack ever is in response to the shutting down of the major file sharing service megaupload which is affected around fifty million delhi users the websites bosses have already been arrested and are now facing prison sentences for copyright infringement american lawmakers are currently debating new bills to curb illegal downloading which have been attacked as an attempt to censor the internet fountains

of web sites including wicked pedia one when black in protest this week let's not get more reaction from patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spikes that sees its mission as fighting non liberal ideas i understand thanks for being with us mr hayes we've already seen the organized internet blackout and hacker attacks what else do you think we're likely to see in this fight against the proposed bills. well i think it's very striking actually that you had you know we could pedia voluntarily blacking out which i think a very dramatic snapshots of what would happen should be true and then just a couple of days later you have the u.s. government forcing a major site to shut down with fifty million users a day this is a website that generated four percent an estimated four percent of the web's traffic and it's now just gone. we could see much more regular occurrence of this. if these acts are put through also i think we could see the u.s. government designating other sites as sites that it doesn't like and pursuing them

internationally this legislation they want to bring through that wikipedia and others who are protesting earlier in the week could potentially have massive impacts upon the web as we know it internationally not just in america it could mean that they could effectively have jurisdiction to close down sites worldwide that actually far more easier ways than they've managed would make or uploads whether they manage to close that down on a technicality now though i think we would start as i think those who are protesting against the legislation say that it promotes online censorship and disrupts the web architecture it seems like you know you agree with that but then how do you effectively protect people's work on mine. well i think well i mean i think some of the protesters i must say should be making a much stronger case for online freedom than they are doing i think the problem of a lot of the anonymous attacks you know i'm a great campaigner for internet freedom but i think the problem with some of the

anonymous attacks is that they're closing down websites themselves affectively fighting things to shit with censorship which is to an extent problematic i think really what we need to do here is really sit down have a debate around how to state the stewards the reason why websites like make your uploads so popular because they provide a fantastic service to users the world over what you've got is very reactionary attempt from america and from the entertainment industry to just effectively try and close down everything there are a lot of legitimate uses of the file sharing sites it's become a revolutionary force in many ways of sharing information people can upload documents of a.c.t big foot in the mail what they're trying to do is just to counter one particular problem they're trying to close down the whole thing i think what needs to happen is the to be much better at both getting up to speed to providing better services better than things that may go uploads and also just trace the copyright infringements not close down the whole thing that really is the way of censorship in north or terry unism google has said that it's collected more

than seven million signatures in the u.s. for a timeline petition to congress against the bells how do you see the future of these drafts. well i think the obama administration is getting very very nervous indeed the phone lines the phone systems frankly melted in the white house the other day during the week of pedia protests and it does seem like they're going to buckle under under pressure but at the same time they've gone and done this so they they've arrested people in new zealand they've closed down when the largest websites in the world it doesn't really show that they're listening to public concerns about this and i think what could happen as a result of this going through be even a modified version is that the web as we know it's web two point zero which is the fine by user generated content where people put up their own material could effectively disappear it could mean that what you have is a much more tightly regulated internet which could have massive implications for

freedom of speech file sharing for the sharing of information worldwide so i think it's really important that we don't take the internet as it exists now for granted and resist all of these attempts to regulate the web and to say hey a lot of these pirates a lot of people putting out websites are actually doing something really quite innovative and dynamic that's why they are getting a real audience for its place work with these people let's put this develop a more dynamic in collaboration with people rather than just trying to shut it down strangle it and stifle what is one of the most democratic initiatives of the last decade or two right patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spiked thank you very much for your thoughts on this issue. well coming up next hour cross talk host peter the valve debates with his guest the reason behind the proposed u.s. online 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 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 it is not always just movies and music it's also physical goods that are carol you know these are counterfeit drugs because there are also maybe a little written but i really can do when i you know harm infers harm children harm adults this is serious so 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 anti-government unrest

that's despite a general amnesty granted by president earlier this week that has seen almost two hundred detainees released or just reaffirm no snow looks at who's calling the shots in the protest movement. people taking to the streets may look like a real force of power and indeed be one but but in syria protest has apparently failed to prove that months of bloodshed with no sign is going to stop anytime soon. khalid ho jeff 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 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 with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council prospective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in a new libya so there is power broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in a new syrian regime the national congress and there are clear is national transitional council and the syrian national council well 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 moved 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 known 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 of 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 league to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint africa sooner or later will force president assad out while his determined to stay but the question remains exactly how long should these people have to wait for the bloodshed to stop and how many of them will actually see the end of it or if an ocean r.t. turkey. meanwhile arab league prepares to hear a final report from the observers that sent to syria and that's expected to determine the future of it expire mission there but some experts believe some members want military involvement not just our survey showed missions and the media

coverage is supporting that. the arab league has been playing a little bit more of an object some arab countries aren't too happy with it so we can expect them to push for their objectives of regime change in other ways and this continues to happen through the media and media you know what the syrian government is assuming the media will hear yesterday asked or any songs about myself. and the lebanese who had been taken by the free syrian army and i went there myself last night and i as i drove to see but i was very surprised to find no checkpoints by the syrian army on the way and i actually was allowed to go inside if it's on and despite having seen footage on the television of the free syrian army feiss 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 through as

it would on and on to the lebanese border. well still ahead for you this hour scotland makes this push for independence but lie down to make any clip from the u.k. a costly move for the modern day braveheart wanting to go it alone. and israel pushes europe for an immediate embargo on in brainy an oil decision equitably of other nations scrambling to find an alternative energy. but first a multi-billion pound london core duel between russian tycoon and chelsea football club owner roman abramovich and russian fugitive billionaire boris berezovsky is close to conclusion the judge is considering her verdict in the financial battle after armies of expensive very thorough went to battle for their clients exposing some juicy details on the way our correspondent in london ivor bennett has more. it's been dubbed the trial of the century for two reasons really firstly because of the sheer money involved there's six and

a half billion dollars at stake here making it the most expensive civil lawsuit in u.k. legal history and more importantly perhaps is the subject matter it's really laid bare all those dodgy dealings of ninety's russia and the while these reaffirming all those stereotypes 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 a belief the recent claims you'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 as for promote it well he's been accused of every dirty tax dodging trick there is in the book and we also know that he was involved in the murderous alamy wars of the ninety's where you now know for sure

through. own admission that one person was killed every three days in that kind of grab for her wealth but what this dispute really boils down to is the relationship between the two main results he claims that they were business partners and that he was blackmailed by a remote village forced to sell his stakes and shares in in their oil company sydney for a fraction of their true worst ever move which though he dismisses that payment as purely protection money paid to his political godfather of the next two years for his mentor ship a severance package now i know it's up to the judge to decide whether if anything all of this is true regardless of which survives this battle i think it's safe to say the real winner here is the british court system that is believed to be raking in as a result of this trial eighty dollars a second well london has another conflict to resolve with russia after a former senior official admitted britain was can't find out how moscow uncovered

the secret of the spying stone on our website party dark complete with more pictures and video. the battle over scotland split from the union is splitting opinion in creasing the disunited united kingdom france have been told they can hold a referendum on independence but only if london if that's why i think arch is more smith explains. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and heart of the known world but on home soil the country's closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who want scotland to go it alone nationalist party leader alex salmond's promising scots will get a say on being single but london wants to call the shots and get it done and dusted . they don't want to talk about the substance i sometimes feel when i listen to them it's not a referendum they want it's a never ending question have

a debate and let'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 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 head 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 don't see that he can argue against that because if shocked i think a shutter i don't think you have any see the flyers. scots have never taken kindly to hearing stay. and 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 list of common fuels you had to the issue to but it's completely but for you he's actually been the best recruiting sergeant the s. and p. i think is of a vote certainly says margaret thatcher. in the last seven days we've had over the bush. so you know up to now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords at stake that 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 party. coming up to nineteen minutes past the hour still to come on our team with less than fifty days to go we look at the current political climate in russia head of march a presidential election. the u.s. has strengthened its presence in the persian gulf with the aircraft carrier abraham lincoln sailing into waters off iran on thursday the move is seen as a test of tehran's resolve after it warned america not to send more swore ships through the strait of hormuz tensions between the u.s. and iran intensified after the islamic republic threatened to block the strait of vital oil transit in response to further sanctions over its nuclear program washington valid to retaliate if you're wrong to cut off a passage. from antiwar group international action center says what the u.s.

really wants is to regain control over iranian oil that last decades ago. the motivation for the u.s. 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. for that and the u.s. has never wanted to tolerate the fact that the iranian people and not shell oil and not and not 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 iran they're here in the united states in the halls of power in congress and on wall street. but they don't hesitate to log on to our web site for the latest video comment analysis and

much more all at r t v dot com for you here's what we've got lined up today tear gas and molotov cocktails romanians join with global wave of protests are seeking the resignation of their leaders but the country facing its worst demo in decades. and the brutal killing of the ousted libyan leader is still not being investigated two months on we give you one more years of pain and why add to our to be done. now 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 vote in light of massive rallies against the parliamentary election in russia last month but authorities and protesters admit they need to talk more

marches arena could lose could gauge the temperature of russia's political life. with just under fifty days before the march presidential election and major campaigns still simmering in the candidate's 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 its new economy to built. the gravitation away from dependence on oil high standing welcoming political dialogue in 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

and it's important to say that prime minister has never denied the possibility of establishing such a dialogue and they just become friends his ravenous 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 where should i 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 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 him in found himself touring the card

while criticizing one of russia's most popular radio stations and go from being to pro western in its coverage. the prime minister told its editor in chief not to take offense at his words since you 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 realize they have to think fast and act quickly in order to get the ball rolling with the presidential elections just around the corner so after hunched down which some say lasted for years the political life in russia and roaring in was go go our team. green is here next with the latest business stay with r.t. . thank you any said hello and welcome to our business update a south thanks for joining me russia is pushing so fast to fast track construction of its southern energy link to europe south stream pipeline their green light for the natural gas line from the black sea to central europe will be given in december

this year the head of the gas export monopoly aleksey miller says the company has all the sources to be deadlines to remind you the south stream pipeline is a project developed jointly by gas prom at least any france's and germany's school . and europe's up and coming passenger jets the airbus three hundred three hundred twenty will soon boast russian titanium the country's monopoly. seal the deal with airburst deliver a trial shipment of its production the quality of the products meet the standards of the european plane maker a large order will be paid however there is no report on the value of the contract . there's been some relief for the eurozone after spain and france successfully pushed through a key bond sale and they sold over fourteen billion euros in government debt securities however talks between greece and its creditors remain deadlocked keeping

the region's debt crisis on the boil ahead of poland's central bank says that the way out is not easy but collapse is not the table. the worst that could happen. is that one or two countries and i would say 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 was droll of one country and what makes me moderately optimistic is that the european central bank has instruments it has lever used so far quite recently did. started supplying the market which is banks with long term liquidity very low cost in unlimited quantities which means that those banks have enough money to be able to buy bonds. let's take

a look at the markets now has raised early again and is now trading in the red prices are suffering due to negative news coming out of the eurozone for the euro weakening against the dollar while talks continue in greece and added to that fuel consumption in the u.s. dropped to its lowest level since september two thousand and one and european stock markets are lower as investors keep an eye on debt swap talks in greece chinese manufacturing activity showed signs of contraction is also in focus and here in moscow stocks decline as oil slips into the red. losing point eight percent this hour probably r.t.s. is dropping a half a percent now let's see what are the biggest moves on the. lower reflecting the sentiments in the eurozone coal miner is among the main losers the company's about to finish taking bets from minority shareholders for a buyback of its shares and norris nicholas struggling to buck the trend the

company plans to cut production to adapt to a slowing global demand my also expected to report a fifty percent increase in net profit for the year two thousand and eleven. well that's it for now but stay with us for headline news coming up right after this.

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