if these acts are put through also i think we could see the u.s. government designating of a science is science that he doesn't like and pursuing them internationally it could mean that they could effectively have jurisdiction to close down sites worldwide it is actually far more easier ways than they would make or uploads 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 for file sharing for the sharing of information worldwide i think is really important that we don't take the internet as exists now for granted and we 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 nice work with these people let's put let's develop

a more dynamic. in collaboration with people rather than just trying to shut it down strangle it's and stifle what is one of the most democratic initiatives of the last decade or two the u.s. senate's postponed a test vote on the controversial web control bills in the wake of the online protest campaign barrett brown who's worked with the hacker group anonymous on various operations told r.t. earlier that if the u.s. decides to push through the legislation it could start a huge cyber war. the problem is that the track record of the us 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 for many other things so and the way that you know this that this raid on mega upload cards in this opens it shows that even without sopa already in place few they are already arresting and resting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down so imagine when still post perhaps in the meantime my group project pm. initiated operation dark heart which is the latest effort.

to ensure sopa that the and that those who support so are rather than intimidated and otherwise to make sure that these things don't happen again and there sure are very near future and still see there will be a number of other groups that will pop up using more more military not goods and situation gets worse and things will escalate until such point as the notable civil war in the us occurs and coming up just after serving seven thirty pm g.m.t. r.t. cross talk host peter lavelle debates with his guest the reason behind the proposed u.s. legislation. in the business 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 isn't the way to is not so if you're objecting

to the fact that people are trying to stop sites they're pirating american american intellectual property and it's not always just movies and music it's also physical goods that are carrot you know these are counterfeit drugs there are also maybe a little written material including i you know harm infants harm children harm adults this is serious there are serious consequences. and the u.s. isn't the only ones facing accusations of censorship britain is under fire after the country's media regulator revoke the license of press t.v. the iranian english language broadcaster watchdog says the channel is in breach of regulations because it doesn't control its content press t.v. says it's being silenced for more on this let's talk with hilary so u.k. based media analyst and author thanks for your time so press t.v.

has claimed for months that british authorities were planning to shut down the station what do you make of their decision. well obviously press t.v. failed to comply with one or two matters i mean they said he didn't pay the fine and they refused to accept that overall control should lie in it in london whereas in fact it is a an arm of iranian state t.v. so there were issues there was certainly on a technical level you know this process has been unfolding for a while i mean there's been a they've been at loggerheads for a while of course it was so many things so many of the programs have been sanctioned because they have a very different world view to offer calm but i suppose at the end of the day i think they were willing to oblige just to ward off come required them to do which they felt would be maybe going all day nice but as a result of this process means that they're off any british platform if you think the violations cited by britain's media watchdog are serious enough for it to be taken off the air. well i think what happened to the iranian journalist. was

was wrong and i think that this was in the midst of the turmoil after the iranian presidential election in two thousand and nine but my view is that if this had been separated from geopolitics then no this would not have happened some other kind of sanction would have been would have been made and the deal would have been struck so i think the press t.v. has been viewed through geo political terms that that is the breakdown of relations between britain and iran the watchdog says it's apparent that editorial control of the channel actually rests in tehran how crucial do you think is that fact in the decision to take press t.v. off the air in the u k. well i don't think it's crucial i think it's been used by off and i think that the iranian authorities have been unwilling to abide by what i asked them to do that is the leaders of the people who run press

t v so you know look at the end of the day i think that most of the criticisms of press t.v. ad been due to its coverage because you know it sees the middle east very differently for example than the mainstream media in britain this repeatedly comes up pro israeli groups repeatedly complain about it so there's been you know they've been at loggerheads for so long that i think that we know by the way from wiki leaks we know very well that the british government at the very highest level was discussing with the american ambassador how to limit press t.v.'s output in britain so we certainly know that press t.v.'s journalism is not reviewed purely in terms of its journalism but it's viewed in terms of british arraigning relations finally given the current significant plunge in political ties between the u.k. and iran how significant do you think is the timing of this move. well one sincerely hopes that there isn't any link between the timing of this and any

potential military action and something that would be my view i also think it's very sad because i think that if diplomatic relations break down other avenues need to be in place for countries to discuss matters so i think this is hugely counterproductive because to some extent press t.v. was a window on an alternative view it was a window on what the iranian government felt but also a legitimate view with a view for example of the palestinians and the israelis not as equals in the sense that the the british media considered you know the occupied and the occupy is as equals and deserving of the same kind of press attention on press t.v. took a very different view as to american policy in the middle east so now what we've got is we've got a real limiting of dialogue in the me in the british media and i think that's a tragedy and certainly a tragedy at a time when british relations are at their lowest and for a long long period all right we have to leave it there phil aris u.k. based media analyst and author thanks for

a perspective. will stay with us here on r t lots more to come this hour including scotland making its push for independence but london vows to make any split from the u.k. a costly move for the modern day bravehearts looking to go it alone. and with less than fifty days to go we take a look at the current political climate in russia head of the march presidential vote. but first to syria where the opposition is holding rallies across the country supporting prisoners held since the start of the anti-government an arrest this despite a general amnesty granted by president assad earlier this week that seen almost two hundred detainees released artie's marie if an ocean a 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 in syria protest has apparently failed to prove that months of bloodshed with no sign is going to

stop anytime soon. howlett 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 two national committee in order to reach this syrian people's freedom and although it's been run by paris based example that hammock and you know the asson sea has been recognized as the country's lee determined 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 perspective leaders was that they be given

a major seat at the table in the new libya so there is power brokering 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 and there are clear as national transitional council and the syrian national council and it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored from a brave thing he writes opposition forces and their main to go is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts cortez i'm not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about a democratic regime if i go to syria i know we have. you know we have to be executed there hallett 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.

his addicted. it 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 cop rating with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from assad's military in was a clear shift from the us and sees initial entirely known armed peaceful stance to the cowsills to seize humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this is a day to istanbul paris operation where this year that gas has been duets vesna jeddah they 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 label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after his soon only turn 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 it. turkey. that of the syrian national council is on his way to cairo to lobby arab league officials ahead of the group's meeting sunday he wants the observer mission in syria handed over to the u.n. security council who the opposition alternately hopes to establish a buffer and a no fly zone in the country some experts believe there are arab league members leaning toward military involvement as well. are we expecting now that the arab league will request to extend its stay here which the syrian government has already said it would well come 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 it really is 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 . artie's correspondent is also in syria at the moment following all the developments there keeping you up to date you can check out sara first twitter feed for all the latest that's at r.t. underscore com. a multi-billion pound london court door between a russian tycoon and chelsea football club owner roman abramovich and fugitive russian billionaire boris berezovsky is close to conclusion the judge is considering her verdict in the financial showdown after armies of expensive lawyers went to battle for their clients exposing some juicy details along 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 a six and a half billion dollars at stake here making it the most expensive civil lawsuit in the u.k. legal history but more importantly perhaps is the subject matter really laid bare all those dodgy dealings of ninety's russia in the wild east reaffirming all those stereotypes there are that i don't think anyone actually thought because it 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 move its results to former friends now arch enemies and juicy details with some of the really big a belief the recent claims you've heard all of that there is also he actually turned up to meetings wearing nothing but a dressing gown that he frittered away millions in the flash of a private jets and then 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 and we also know that he was involved in murderous alan manuals in the ninety's will you now know for sure through his own admission that one person was killed every three days in that kind of grab for wealth but what this really boils down to is the relationship between the two main there is also he claims that they were business partners and that he was blackmailed by a remote village forced to sell his. in the oil company for a fraction of the true worth of a movie he dismisses that payment as purely texan money paid to his political gold fund of the banks for his mentor ship a severance package now it's up to the judge to decide whether if anything all of this is true 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 eighteen dollars

a seconds. has another conflict to settle with russia after a former senior official admitted the u.k. was caught snooping find out how moscow uncovered a secret of the spying stone on our website r.t. dot com please complete with pictures and video. of the battle over scotland split from the union is splitting opinion on an increasingly disunited united kingdom scots have been told that they can hold a referendum on independence only if london gives its blessing laura smith more. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed the known world but on whom soil the country's closer than ever to a messy divorce. this is the man who wants 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

i've been told that the process they don't want to talk about the substance i sometimes feel when i listen to them is not a referendum they want it's a never read them question let'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 and. yes. people would mean scotland would gain control over its own north sea oil and gas and represented in 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 in life that it would have to find its own currency and lose thousands of jobs when the navy heads

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. school it's 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. but it's completely. for now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords at stake alex salmond is

a reputation built on restoring a proud scotland for prime minister cameron is the potential to become the man who led the united kingdom come apart. at. some other stories making headlines across the globe french president nicolas sarkozy says his nation is suspending military training operations in afghanistan after four soldiers were killed. in a gun fight a rogue afghan soldier has since been detained he was behind the attack but also injured a dozen more soldiers attacks by afghan troops and police on their foreign partners have become increasingly common and some things are close he says is an acceptable so far eighty two french soldiers have been killed in afghanistan since two thousand and one. rescue operations of the site of the coast a 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 leaky go ship's captain captain is currently under house arrest a new audiotape appears to show the crew downplayed the extent of the disaster only reporting electrical problems for a half hour after the vessel struck the ring. news block as russia's presidential candidates are busy ramping up their campaigns ahead of the march vote some members of the public are stepping up their efforts to ensure a transparent election but in the light of the massive rallies against the parliamentary ballot in russia last month both authorities and protesters and made the need to do to talk to talk and discuss more arena go to the temperature of russia's political life. with just under fifty days before the march presidential election and major campaign 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 be built. the gravitation away for all that it's well i standing 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 deny the possibility of establishing such an unjust record from 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 so they all know where children in the new public mood has blossomed people are showing

a desire to make an educated vote to know where their votes are going to standing up the country needs competitive politics those behind the new 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 are the key to public support is going media and that's with new groups in town he stopped to record while criticizing one of russia's most popular radio stations and moscow for being too protester in its coverage. the prime minister's. chief. crap from. the government. all seem to realize they have to act quickly in order to get the ball rolling. around the corner.

which. for years the political life in russia. with a business stay with us. and i welcome to a business update this all thanks for joining me another twist has emerged in the gas dispute between ukraine and russia over supply deliveries kiev has come up with a blueprint of what it sees as a way out of the deadlock it wants as gas transportation pipeline to be jointly operated by russia ukraine and the european authorities this will help it keep a neutral position in talks and attract funds to overhaul the pipelines russia had earlier pushed. pipeline in exchange for cheaper prices ukraine would be happy to keep it claims high gas prices may do whale its economy. and russia's pushing it too fast track construction of its southern energy link to europe the south stream

pipeline the green light for the neutral gas link from the black sea to central europe will be given in december this year ahead of the gas exports monopoly unlike say miller says the company has all the sources to meet deadlines and to remind you the pipeline is a project developed jointly by italy's any france's e.d.f. germany's been told. you have been coming passenger jets the airbus three hundred twenty neil will soon boast rushes to tell you the country's titanium monopoly business sealed a deal with air bus to deliver a trial shipment of its production if the quality of the product meets the standard of the european plane maker a large order will be placed however there is no report on the about the culture. let's have a look at the markets now in europe close in the red on worries about debt swap talks in greece chinese manufacturing activity that showed signs of contraction was also a focus and at a quarter of

a percent lower while the dax ended below that and here in moscow stocks closed lower on friday with a drop in oil prices the last point eight percent reality has nearly half a percent and now the. see the biggest movies on the right things the t.v. ads lower every flag thing the sentiments in the eurozone coal miner a spot sky was among the main losers north korea kill is also on the downturn the company says it plans to cut production to adapt to a slowing global to bad equity strategist peter weston from atlanta capital wraps up today's trade. so we seem to be in a mode now where negative news doesn't really matter and people cling on to the positives. and the backdrop for that russia has been quite positive so russia has closed up on the week we've seen good movements and good interesting gas prom the dividend story which might not get as much attention as it probably should have having come back from london this world is increasing interest in. i would say for

the first time in about a year's time and the other thing you know we feel now is that the conviction now from the bull and the bear camp the not that convinced anymore it all of course in just what's happened good but i think russia is actually in a sweet spot for the first time in a long time and i think that could pose potentially continuous long as we don't see any major major negative news item. that's the business news but don't forget you can always find wall stories on our website r.t. dot com slash.

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markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. nine thirty pm in moscow the zero. packer strike back anonymous cripples major u.s. government and corporate websites in response to a crackdown on a file sharing service and pending anti-piracy legislation. syrian opposition holds more mass protests demanding more prisoners be released despite a general amnesty granted by president assad earlier this week. and a multi-billion pound battle between the russian tycoon roman abramovich and fugitive mobile boris berezovsky in a london court finally approaches its conclusion. and coming out of u.s.

anti-piracy laws and who's likely to cash in on them among the topics discussed in today's edition of capital account that's coming up stay with us. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. now the federal reserve has more than tripled the size of its balance sheet since the financial crisis printing money in order to do it whose decision was that not yours unless of course you're one of the handful of members of the federal open market committee next week they meet some are predicting more quantitative easing may be on the menu but what is all this money printing really amounted to talk about it and speaking of bailouts. so do you know that taxpayers actually made money on the wall street bailout. well they say maybe not on g.m. but they did on the the on.