so but i'm going to show that you want that sober already in place here they are already arresting and arresting the owners of megaupload and shutting it down and the future of very near future and see there will be a number of other groups that will pop out using more military not goods situation it's worse than they were ask wait and see also to point out it's a notable civil war in the us and us and if he wants to give your piano protest that had washington reeling or read up on the anonymous had his group there's plenty more on our website at eight o'clock on. when users across the world rally to the cause of freedom of speech they may now have an unlikely ally iran's english language news channel press t.v. has been kicked off british airways and an episode it's called

a clear example of censorship it fishel reasons given are a number of broken agreements and paid by the press t.v. says it's being silenced for its dissenting views and leaves its being targeted for its highly critical coverage of issues ranging from the cost of a british royal wedding to last year's london riots till recent u.k. based arthur and media analyst press t v is yet another victim of the young going campaign against iran. 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 and that is the breakdown of relations between britain and iran at the end of the day i think that most of the criticisms of press t.v. are 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 approaches really groups repeatedly complain about it we know very well that the british government at the very highest level was discussing with the american ambassador here how to limit press t.v.'s output in britain 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 arraying in relations are at their lowest ebb a long period. they had as bang to rights and that was the reaction of a top former british official as he admitted that moscow caught the u.k. red handed spying on russia this comes six years after the kremlin first presented the allegations of how a fake rock was being used for espionage our desire barrett has a story. it's not exactly the most glamorous of james bond gadgets but he didn't in this fake stone was a high tech transmitted british spooks used to spy on russia yella geishas from

moscow have always been dismissed six years on there's a rock solid evidence the u.k. can no longer deny tony blair's former chief of staff come clean admitting british spies were caught red handed the spy rock was embarrassing they had us bang to rights clearly they'd 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 aiming 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. the moment of was the one behind the exposé and left no stone unturned but natural good. at first i had to ducts i thought it might be

a fake story or a political game but we cross check everything with multiple sources and it turned out to be true some footage we didn't include in the film was particularly convincing for example there was a video of a british spy you relating in front of the camera at caryl's and under a tree in the songs lying nearby you go wanted to look natural pretended that he needed to take a leak and you peed right in front of the camera before picking up the stone and leaving. but it was his word against theirs britain fiercely denied the allegations with tony blair laughing them off as russian propaganda the truth was buried inside the u.k. secret service headquarters supposedly never to be seen again so after six years of dodging the bullet wide net it now they're very embarrassing but i think that the british government has decided. to have bygones be bygones and say ok we made a mistake. and we want better religion from now on so i would see this as

a first step on the road to improve relations with russia this is the home of britain's spooks m i six the government is a broad we're not we 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 the post cold war. agreement supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt will be more careful from now on its . men into spies gals may be painful but there are much worse problems in store for britain with the threat in breakup together. coming up this hour in the program the battle for scotland sovereignty find out how london has switched its p.r. machine into full throttle and parents effort to suppress its growing clamor for independence. the coming presidential election in russia stirs up political life in

the country next hour we will get out of twists and turns on the campaign trail. hundreds of occupy activists rallied in front of washington's capitol hill on tuesday voicing their anger over the overwhelming influence of corporations on u.s. lawmakers the protest was authorized to take place on the capital's west lawn but anyone who stepped outside of that sanctioned piece of land was arrested by police the rally signified a new wave of occupy protest as it happened in the very heart of the u.s. capital and turned into a street march for the white house and the final destination it reflects nationwide anger at congress which is c.n.n. separable rating slump to an all time low according to the latest polls a little later this hour to talks to a man who knows all about the lobbying behind the scenes of capitol hill and even had to serve time in jail for his involvement in it here's a preview. the problem is the average citizen here is not engaged or want to play

and win here it will bring in money and influence members of congress to vote on things that are not good for the country and not good for the general interest because somebody with special interests is pushing for it that's where the problem starts if you're a congressman and i give you a contribution and i want something from you that contribution may not be called a bribe but it is the broad appeal end of the day. crowds have stormed to have choirs of leaders ruling national transitional council and revolutionary help of benghazi they were protesting the slow pace of reform out of current direction of the new authorities and it was found in metal bars and the building breaking windows and damaging the car and he says chairman i'll do a little young man vented anger at the level of compensation that received from the interim years for injuries sustained in their efforts to oust moammar gadhafi radio host and author of stealing land and believes the crowds are unhappy with

a new government serving as puppets of the west. all more rebel fighters storm look out of the guy or is he they used him grimly so. he'd been taking a probably a blue out he stole them they complain you know he probably treated a problem we. should have laws with brought up the people were promised they would have to say give me the people who have no say whatsoever everything is been secretly in t.c. government let's face it is a puppet. government serving with interest absolutely no interest in ordinary libyans protracted violence or waste in major media to ignore it. and i'll seek look at some other stories from around the world right

wing nationalist clash with thousands of demonstrators who took to the streets of the portuguese capitalism protesting history cuts to intervene and form lines to prevent the opposing groups from attacking each other portugal is locked into three year program of debt reduction in return for a bailout package from the e.u. and the i.m.f. . gyptian activists have been calling for nationwide street protests saying the revolution is not over and the country has a long way to democratic rule this comes after as long as parties captured an overwhelming majority of seventy five percent as he won the country's first post mubarak parliamentary elections and you sam was due to sit for the first time in just two days. early results suggest that newt gingrich has beaten the rival republican contender mitt romney in the south carolina primary it's come as a surprise after he finished last in two other states south carolina seen as a significant indicator when earlier has won the nomination for the presidential

candidates each vote since i can eighty turnaround means gingrich could establish himself as a true alternative and challenger to barack obama that of amber election. i just happened to hear an r t although we can sports news with kate's before it out though abi back with an update on the week's top stories. thanks for being. with.

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like the. market. i know what's really happening to the global economy for no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. from the reports. welcome back you're watching r t here is a reminder of the week's top stories the arab league is set to decide whether to give the doing now to another of months of your monitoring mission in syria while the opposition one senior curator council involved. pushed to the edge of the internet and rob said if you're a world plans to spam and web censorship striking back with the internet why blackouts and massive hacking attacks. israel and the us talk tactics over

a possible conflict in the gulf as they gather forces at iran's borders while the e.u. prepares unspoilt bargo over to ron's alleged nuclear ambitions. and iranian public anger spills over hundreds of arrests dozens injured police well violence and a nasa ongoing anti-government protests. because of the top stories of the week now when it comes to big money in american politics lobbyists are the people who know exactly how it works jack avram off used to be one and he tells us why you things washington is corrupt to the core. i'm sitting down with jack a going off once the most powerful lobbyist in washington referred to as the man who bought washington he had lived government officials in order to gain political support for his clients in two thousand and six he was convicted of raping office

clients jack abramoff served three and a half years in prison and guilty of conspiracy fraud and tax evasion mr abrams thank you very much for coming since your release from jail you've been very vocal about corruption in washington i read your book and i got a sense of your frustration about the fact that while you were sent to jail people involved in the same corrupt practices are sitting pretty in their offices on capitol hill well i'm a mum is frustrated that people didn't go to jail or prison and prison is not fun and i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy but i guess what i'm frustrated about is that when they had my hearings and trials and when i was sent off there was a big exclamation and celebration here they cleaned up washington but in fact they didn't clean up our show and so when i came out they have to rethink my life and what i was involved in i decided that if they want to clean up washington that i

would help them figure out exactly how to do during that senate hearing when you were publicly bashed by the senate is what were you thinking what were your thoughts as you faced the distinguished panel well i probably was thinking they were a little less distinguished than others were thinking i was reminded can simulate by every word out of their mouth they were among the many who participated in some of the corruption that they were accusing me of when one of the senators the senator campbell was accusing me of corruption and wrecking the democratic system i was thinking back to the breakfast. i had with him a couple years before where i handed him checks from my client's contributions and he said that they would never have a problem with his committee so i was thinking that basically about each of them i didn't know a lot of them personally because i had people working for me had a staff of about forty lobbyists and some of them knew the people who worked for made but. i found the whole thing to be hypocritical it was

a kangaroo court and it was a show people say you were tory it seems your ability to guide them first of congress i did you do that i don't think i was necessarily except on the margins much different than most of what goes on here but what happens here and what's unfortunate and which is what i did in terms of pushing over the lines even of this activity is lobbyists and people want something from congress raise money for congressmen give money to congressmen in terms of political contributions meals for them take them golfing take them on trips take them to sporting events and i probably did more of it than most did and i pushed over certain lines that are in the sand and broke the law but it is something that goes on far too often in washington he once said and i found it very very interesting that that once you just a moment you offered a job to congressional staff or you own them right there was no greater control that people could have over congressional offices tend to have the head of that

office know that they're going to comment a few months to come work for a lobbying firm from that minute on those people are focused on that lobbying firm their clients and it's not just me i saw it all over town and it's not something i invented something i noticed and something that i propose now to get rid of by banning people who work on capitol hill who are members of congress from ever joining the lobbying industry a big influence industry in america what did your clients want by investing in politics by investing in you mostly my clients one of the federal government not to . get all over the back and tax them and that. they're businesses most the lobbying is the plants in the government from doing things the industries and companies and so you're likely going to help them avoid going to exacerbate it when i got presented in punjab indian tribes and the way i got into it the first representation i had with the tribes was to stop the federal government from putting a thirty percent tax over the gross revenues of their gambling industry so it was

interesting about your case it was not just politicians who cheated but also you cheated your clients namely those indian tribes with gambling interests paid humanely and so on but i think it was a good idea it was guilty too was some of the efforts that we did for the clients in there or states were to stop their competition from taking away their markets they would crash their competition yes we would attack their competition and we would do everything we could to keep them from invading the market of our client and that's normal in america unfortunately for better or for worse that's not something we we made up we're going to have any regrets about doing that but i think one of the day i regret using the political process as a weapon against competitors because they pay into the day i don't think the government should be used like that i didn't have a problem with it then and i sure even if we're talking about millions of dollars in contributions it's peanuts for any big corporation it's a tiny fraction of what they make teachers get a sense of how powerless average americans are weighing the interests of big

guys like that are at stake on capitol hill well americans have a very tough time competing with these special interests special interests coming with a lot of money and you're right it's a miniscule amounts of money compared to what they could do and some of them do a lot of money but it's still a small amount of problems the average citizen is not engaged politically and when they're able to bring in money and influence members of congress to vote on things that are not good for the country and not good for the general interest because somebody with special interests and. pushing on it that's where the problem starts so what i propose in my book and the effort that i've been engaged in since prison is a way to separate money out of politics here and basically to say that if you're a lobbyist or you're somebody who's trying to get something from the government here you may not give a dollar politically of any kind and that's one of the four things that i propose to clean up the system i think is very important because the end of the day

political contributions and if i give you something if you're a congressman and i give you a contribution and i want something from you that contribution may not be cold a bribe but it is a broad at the end of the day how many members of congress are involved in corruption like having driver like well i mean ultimately every member of congress who's taking a check a contribution from a lobbyist or from a company or from a union or anyone who needs or get something from washington whether it's conscious or not they're involved in it also if you can't accept something from somebody without unless you're at that all do well yes absolutely they all do and what i'm saying is you can't as a human being if somebody gives you something you're going to feel gratitude and even if you don't do with that person once right there and you say look you can't buy my vote for two thousand dollars and most of them say that the issue is if you do something nice for me in my heart i'm going to have a few a little bit better about you and what i'm saying is that is the moment of the

problem if you're a public servant with all of the crimes that you committed there's still a sense that you are used as a poster boy a kind of a scapegoat for the corrupt system that is very much alive and kicking i want to ask him for out the supreme court decision from almost two years ago that allows on limited campaign contributions a lobbyist must be really happy about that decision some are some are and i think the decision was for the most part very good decision basically said that people shouldn't have the right to get money constricted i don't have a problem with that what i have a problem with the. people who want something back giving money even a dollar that's the difference with with me now corporations that profit with corporations are contradicting yourself you were just talking about how any contribution can be seen as bribery and now you're saying no being able to funnel as much money as you want these perfectly fine in today's politics no i don't think so i think people should have the right to get big i've been fairly consistent i do

not expect anything in return one on one why should you expect something in return there are a lot of people who give money in this country by the way because they like the ideology of the candidate like the candidate themselves they're not going in there and asking for a grant for a tax break or a contract most people don't do that but it still contradicts what you were saying a few moments ago and that is with any form of contribution especially a big contribution an elected official finds themselves in a situation when they told their benefactors if somebody is is worth a trillion dollars and they live in some form in kansas and they never have any contact with any congressman ever and they see some congressman they love him they want to give him a million dollars because they think they're kind that respect and they never ask for a thing from that person i personally think that's all right they have been very hard to track down who asked possibly i've talked i've talked to law enforcement about this about my ideas and once the laws are set in place i think that they are capable of figuring it out that decision only created a further complication in my view in the sense that it brought corporations them as

a possible donor to political efforts and again to think it effectively legalize this corruption and last one i think corruption is legal in washington right now thousands of people took to the streets across america to say no to jack paper miles to say no to corrupt politics in washington do you think there is a chance that action like that that awareness like that can change anything i think the occupy wall street movement had behind it some good in spain the problem is that they didn't organize themselves like the tea party group. instead which was political tea party movement had a dramatic impact on the last election and probably will still miss elections and i've spoken so to the occupy people quite a lot and told them that until they get themselves organized politically they're not going to be meaningful because in america street protests are really mean and people don't like street protests in america first of all the destructive there's vandalizing the unsanitary things that go on and most americans in repelled by that

what most americans will respect is political activism an organization on the left or on the right now i think that there is anger out there and say hey we don't have many money for hire lobbyists. well that might not be a bad thing but. you know american people don't need lobbyists they need to organize themselves i think that in america getting to first of all class and b. i think is very dangerous we've seen that every great. tarion movement in certainly in the twentieth century started with class and instead of class and be able to focus themselves not on those who succeed but those who choose to succeed in the sense of using the government and using the state to make their lives easier to make more money and there are plenty of those that get it like right i did like i help my clients do and like every lobbyist helps the lines do unfortunately had it not been for the jail time would you have been just as repenting as you are now if i hadn't had the thought if i hadn't had been destroyed i would love to sit here

and tell you i would have all of my own come to know how bad this was and you know i should have been doing what i should have been in that kind of lobbying but i'm not going to lie to you i would never thought that i thought i was doing the right thing that's the sad part of it all for me so as i look back i would have stopped i would have still been doing it instead of sitting here with you i'd be sitting on capitol hill negotiating something for one of my clients it took my getting killed for me to come to the realisation that i should have been there what do you plan to do. in the process of. possibly running up to the t.v. show thank you. this is claude. nolen sitting on the edge of.

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a massacre going anti-government protest. i'll be back on the top of the hour with more on those before the ad go we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of sports here's kate. hello welcome to the sports update and here are other top stories easy does it work on a dull sleepless night for those final sleepy i look up to rush into the quarter finals of the australian open. while top flight religious knowledge holds chelsea all to the style of the pool hall site in the day in the english premier league soccer the national later. alabama but no one in the russian final a difference between events in dubai the bookies told and then be an edge just golf a lot of meeting with zealots. but first a tennis and second seed rafael nadal has beaten fellow spanish with the honor

lopez and straight sets to book a place in the quarter finals of history and open. the two thousand and nine champion was broken only once as the east to a six point six four six two victory against his misfiring davis cup team made their presence felt a staggering fifty two unforced errors the dollar has yet to drop a set all matches open. well while going to do next they were not of the match mccain tom marshburn against me plus a margrove argentina's one martin del potro takes something called five out of germany trial for sam champion roger federer is about as fast rising local favorite but not in the late lunch. in the women's draw informed by the russians victorious as our anchor hit a nifty four time went out to brush aside the national of the czech republic six two six two three seed george to know that this ring victory down around. comes next up for azhar is.