president to internet revolt of a new web censorship legislation the anonymous hacker group was retaliating against the shutdown of file sharing site upload claim to have brought down the websites of the f.b.i. and the white house millions of that uses on the web giant such as we can pedia joined together to stand against the proposed legislation dubbed sopa pipa the laws if pasta would allow top media conglomerates on copyright holders to shut down a whole swathes of the web traffic from the electronic frontier foundation says these laws go far beyond just fighting piracy. unfortunately the provisions were written so broadly that they would probably end up censoring millions of innocent users who never even thought about copyright infringement and the worst part was it wasn't even a stop online piracy. you know the bills didn't go directly after the owners of the site they kind of went around everything around it so it was going to be censored domain names or they were going to be delisted from search engines on the orders of

the government or corporations were going to allow be allowed to cut off payment process or an advertiser from these sites just basically an allegation in and out of post court order and then again there was going to be broad immunity for a net service providers to enforce these bills so they could end up over blocking sites and capturing innocent users and even blocking sites voluntarily just on the unofficial orders of corporations so that there was a lot of a lot of free speech problems with these bills overall goal of stopping online piracy you know it's it's something everybody agrees with but the way they want about it was just completely. expansive and quite frankly ridiculous. and if you want to give your opinion on the protest that had washington reeling or just read up on the anonymous activist group plenty more if you want our website r.t. dot com.

now at twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow the battle over scotland's sovereignty is heating up in the u.k. but the scots being told they may hold an independence referendum only if london gives its blessing its coming is the british government fearful of losing north sea oil reserves unleashes a barrel of rhetoric against the bed but as artie's laura smith reports london's desperation is playing straight into the hands of scottish nationalists. britain a three hundred year old union that once ruled the waves and tossed 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 end i'm question that's have the debate and let's keep our country together . but why would scotland want to separate itself from a britain that's still among the world's richest economies scotland always retained its own distinct national identity and the s.n.p. feels it's almost time to take that one step further and hope a yes vote from the scottish people would mean scotland would gain control over its own north sea oil and gas and represent itself on the international stage but it doesn't want to hold a referendum until two thousand and fourteen and that delay is letting london ramp up the scare stories telling scotland it'll have to pay the price such as the

billions of pounds british taxpayers spent keeping scottish banks alive that it would have to find its own currency and lose thousands of jobs when the navy heads south not that it seems to bother 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 i can't see that he can argue against that because if shocked i think is shattered i don't think you should have an easy in the fires moment scots have never taken kind. only to hearing stern words from the mother of all parliaments down in london but for the nationalists it's a boost to the lack luster thirty percent support for a split mr cameron feels he had the initiative but it's completely backfired he's actually been the best recruiting sergeant i think is of. margaret thatcher. in the

last seven days with her. so you know up to now the u.k. and scotland's key players will continue to cross swords at stake for 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 artie at him brah. a lot is coming to you live from moscow in the next hour here it's getting busy in russian politics as the upcoming presidential election stirs up political life in the country we look at the twists and turns of the company trail. crowds have stormed at the headquarters of libya's ruling national transitional council and the revolutionary hope of benghazi they are protesting the slow pace in the direction of reforms by the new author already as the demonstrators threw stones on metal bars of the building breaking windows and damaging the car and to

see chairman. young men vented anger the level of compensation they received from the interim leaders for injuries sustained in their efforts to. western companies meantime have flooded libya bombarding the state with offers to rebuild the infrastructure big government help destroy parties ochs on a boycott. they may have how to bring down the house. but they were very careful not to burn bridges as libya rises from the ashes of civil war the contras the poor the well into the fire and now mining to gas sheen undoing the damage the believe that russia benefited more than all others from trading with his regime is very widespread here and simply it's simply not true in two thousand and ten moscow was number seventeen on the least of libya's main trading partners accounting for just zero point four percent of its international

trade the countries that had the largest trading volumes a good. sized lead the one that spearheaded the campaign against the european union the united states and turkey and they're all on their own jostling for contracts to rebuild some of them help to destroy your. everything good good good. american business is still a bit of an oddity here but it's already catchy. construction firm honor richard peters arrived in tripoli just before their prizing to seal a multi-million dollar contract with get off his government the war and peter subsequent incarceration threw him off track but now he hopes to make up for it i don't condemn anybody even the people that work for him you don't have a choice here if you don't work for him what do you do die. to reach companies also involved in rebuilding iraq and afghanistan after the u.s. led invasion and libya is familiar turf he even says the country's business

potential make shamble all over other post conflict areas there's nothing they don't need here you know if you compare to like the united states everything they need everything we have you know everything there infrastructure has to be totally redone all the all the facilities you know and some of the things we are involved you know is executive centers with golf courses theme parks americans are not the only ones just looking for food called turkish airlines was the first to resume commercial flights to tripoli and they're now packed with businessman scouting for opportunities. even during get out his time turkey was pretty comfortable doing business in libya and was triple his fourth largest trade partner lost here but many now hope for even better deals following its early recognition of the rebel authorities definitely if you have a strong paternal ations we can. see. what it's

confesses and this is an instrument for the business. is not. the only ones who are so far slow wonder it claiming their business interests in libya or russia and china both countries for vocal in their opposition to the use of force in libya a stance that has already backfired most russian companies who did business in libya prior to the war are still has it into some personnel bag x. parts of war and that the waiting game may not be the best strategy yet. we're going to lose like we lost iraq syria and yemen will follow the sea they can drive russian others out of the market and then take advantage we have to work there we will take measures we're going to enter those markets but the ones losing the most i believe themselves in two thousand and ten their economy grew by about ten percent reaching abby thing like that growth now seems as having a load as building the country from scratch on

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the markets why not come then. you know what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report. with the top stories of today this week this is the weekly here on oxy the arab league is set to decide whether to give the go ahead to another month of the mission in syria this comes while the opposition wants the u.n. security council to get involved. pushed to the edge the internet. plans to expand online censorship. with the web wide blackouts and massive hacking

attacks. on the u.s. tactics over a possible conflict in the gulf. forces right along iran's borders. of iraq is alleged nuclear ambitions. public anger spills over hundreds arrested dozens of police. massive. protests. look at how a shift of power in georgia touched upon the nation's cultural life it left many talented musicians and artists all out of work and just scraping to get by with a special report coming up right now. the. no forgiveness. if you are fools.

go the fashionable news etc renowned georgian artistic director robert stuart or his presiding over a rehearsal of shakespeare's the tempest not so long ago he was forced to resign from his post as a director of a leading state theatre in tbilisi. the british invited me to london to see a future with the plan was that i will stage a play there hundred twenty twelve. today stuart a has to stage his productions abroad the international association of theater critics is up in arms over his exile. it was. then dismissed along with the steroid was the kind of political demonstration the next day after he was forced to resign thousands of people joined a rally in central tbilisi in front of the theater the company released a statement saying they can be no other artist directed them steward of the theater

. in one of his earlier comments president suck us really said the intelligentsia should be flushed you know just like when you flush the toilet the leaders of many state sponsored theatres were dismissed under mikala saakashvili nearly the entire faculty of the conservatoire and the academy of ops were placed senior professors in almost every university forced to retire. the town of gori capital of the georgian province of she to contemplate.

gori intellectuals have been discussing soccer latest decision. which is fairly a young and ambitious journalist is filming another story about robots who are george's independent media has been focused on his expansion. the trial of the t.v. company was founded in one thousand nine hundred nine. john doe not yet just barely started the venture with only a video recorder and a transmitter borrowed from a friend. he had barely any money and even less experience. john doe did everything with his own two hands sheer enthusiasm kept driving him forward. ten years later everybody in georgia had heard of the small t.v. company. we began experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three. in the following year defense

minister really tried to talk us into selling the company to him but we turned the request down that was when the problems began piling up the interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often beaten up and humiliated in public. in the summer of two thousand and ten the government decided to remove a monument to stalin from the town's central square journalists wanted to cover the story when both supporters and opponents of the demolition gathered on the square. that reporters wanted to present an objective story by filming both sides but they stood no chance to have a claim close policemen came up to us and told us not to film anything there they prevented us from performing our professional activities they attacked me and my camera we were detained and our camera was confiscated. after the square was cleared of demonstrators opposing the demolition the camera

was handed back to the journalists and released from the police station. we were able to film this part but when they gave the camera back to us something was missing they had to leave did the footage of the rally against the monuments demolition. the only part left was of these pro-government activists applauding him so that it was never john doe believes motive to make trial an opposition media but for several years now government officials have steered clear of his talk show . we make no distinction between the two sides we invited both of them to go on about the fact. that the opposition comes here but i don't the government keeps away that's why the government claims that we're in opposition channel but that's not true local officials turn down or imitation because they've been told by higher ups not to give interviews to our journalists or appear on our programs.

journalists from this regional t.v. company even from the building housing the local administration they are denied interviews and accreditation to important events. despite all the problems the t.v. company is still in operation with news bulletins going out daily the arrival of any political scene has thrown georgia's authorities into total confusion. billionaire seen a vanish villi has invested a great deal of money in the georgian economy but soon after he announced his intention to stand in the next presidential election the country's government stripped him of his citizenship the following is an excerpt from a vanished released first formal press conference held on november the first twenty eleven. beauty really dull the need for the people to regain a lost sense of justice is of crucial importance now even sack inner circle is

stricken with terror there is no trace of self-government everything is in the hands of one man's music. incidentally there was actually a time when those young people who are now in the government were in the pay of ivanishvili off what they must essentially he funded the state machinery he has built theatres among many other things. seventy year old artist. has been great expectations on a vanished belly he also has a serious bone to pick with the present day or forty's tamera's was unceremoniously fired from the academy of fine arts after a professional period lasting many years. i spoke out against the regime in public i gave interviews i didn't keep silent. in the

chancellor and this is what he said to me afterwards but you don't let us live what this is because i was there. he may have decided that giving me the sack was the easiest way of resolving the problem. tamer has lost his job but not his workshop so he began to devote more time to painting however there's hardly a place in today's georgia where he can show his paintings to the public georgia is not a wealthy country and there just isn't enough money to support artists museums can barely make ends meet. your campaign seek to create the impression that all is well in the country. do you know what kind of a nation is in the making. handful of people are well off while everyone else lives to ensure that lunch has a cushy existence. three. his

wife marina is an actress she's employed at the short time of yearly theater where robert stewart was artistic director for decades. this is one of the latest newspapers robert still writes in an article that could be deena ivanishvili will emerge victorious. oppositionists he writes that unless saakashvili leaves his post of his own free will he will face the same fate as colonel gadhafi and i write that between ivanishvili took his stance in the right place at the right time. when george's ministry of culture fired robert store a marina and her fellow actors at the theater took to the streets about five thousand people turned out to express support for their favor a director. all the traffic in the avenue in front of the playhouse was brought to

a halt. three we met face to face with the spectators who had adored roberts to rap all this time the actors were wearing such t. shirts as the face of this piece these words mean i'm fired i like the expression on his face he seems to be saying i'm fired so what after all his work lives on. the ministry of culture is official excuse for his sacking xenophobia. had asked why he made a secret of his armenian groups. going to the man keeps his father's nationality a secret. so the big question is who is more xena farm. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything.

someone asking him why did you make a secret of it. during a theatre festival in georgia in september twentieth levon members of the international association of theatre critics interviewed robert stewart for an hour asking him about all the details their conclusion about his misfortune was made in an open letter and supporter robert stewart of. f. numbers of the theater and supporters of freedom of expression we have been deep it is by him overlap with us throughout from his post by the georgian government like so many people around the bug we feared that the government had used certain statements as did to us that there were a pretext to put punish

a critical voice from within their teeth the community. the protests the letters by the theater's actors nor a direct appeal by international organizations could make the georgian government budge. saakashvili never forgave the director he saw as undesirable. and that the system i think it was a very good way to end more involvement with this theater. in syria typical for the theater. director out of the tradition stance and now it's martyr and to be good and i'm glad that i was kicked out by the government not by the actors that it would have been a real catastrophe for me. today robert stewart works abroad he had plans to stage shakespeare's tempest in moscow's

etc theater six months before he was exiled. for going to the problems you were but this is the problem a man expelled from his home together with his daughter who were being driven out of his senses for full swing through. those buttons well. many reviewers think stewart his production is actually about himself prosper over the play's main character is an avid reader scholar and artist. malana expels him from his home town because he fears the prosper will strip him of power. and this is the he cried to deceive the brewer to us to son i to the winds whose pity sighing back again did us but loving wrong. and steward a hopes he'll be allowed to stage productions in georgia. but this is

impossible for the time being. george's best theaters are run by the government the ministry of culture has no intention of finding stewart as productions. i won't give up so easily i will survive this trial. russians would be soon which brightened if you knew about it soon from finest impressions. who threw stones on t.v. dot com. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought

you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. of. georgia's capital tbilisi has acquired a new look in recent years the city's spirit and its unique architecture have been restored central tblisi attracts many tourists however several streets are still massive construction sites. for the borders but if you're gorgeous come here to see the city's historical center it would be good if they don't really care about its outskirts. is one of georgia's most successful restoration

architects the old central areas of several towns have been revamped. divied began as restoration work in the ancient town of signalling to. the job was nowhere near the scale of tbilisi but back then it was the first time that some. neighborhood school restored a simple change. then the amount of work and its intensity were overwhelming in the beginning. he just came up with a project to nearly nine months of continuous work with the plague. we only slept three or four hours a day. but despite all the difficulties we completed the job successfully.