towns all across the bit risks are indeed very high that the country may fall into civil war the most modern the most deadly incident happened in the town of bani walid. southeast of the capital tripoli once known as duffy's main stronghold the forces loyal to the full moco no khadafi managed to take control over the city and did manage actually to raise the green flag at one of the city's gates the green flag symbolize in khadafi that office ruling as far as the local officials have been reports in least five national transitional council people have been killed we can say for sure what was the reason behind this violence and of all the we know that the same day the libyan justice minister announced that the international criminal court had allegedly agreed to let say for this month the duffys son to be tried in leaving and until even more although it hasn't been confirmed by the

i.c.c. itself judge ellis say that the violence and this announcement may be connected just hours later violence erupted in another part of the country in the eastern part in the town of bint goes he was known as the rebel stronghold and later on we've been hearing about the volunteers around people there on the capital they've said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes reporters that but also we can see that the n t c a warning that the country may fall into civil war with the situation very dangerous trying to calm down for tacit and trying to take control over the tensions and not to follow them to escalate further. we've seen that. protest in benghazi when people have been demonstrated against and to see if the m.d.c. just trying is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little success. both weak human rights groups in the middle east presented

extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in libya by a lot of forces during last year's war investigative journalist some a soft told me that many libyans feel the revolution was hijacked and they disappointed with it. the thing about revolutions is they're not simply passive events there is a whole awakening of a population in the middle east but also libya and people saying well this is not what we have not prizing for and the victims themselves you know the victims the new victims you know supporters of the old regime saying well you talk about democracy where is our inclusion in this so you get the sense there is this fracturing the new actual law is very. going to put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there's a reintroduction of tribalism and touches networks and so on and so you know. that there is a lot of disquiet in every corner of the at the moment it's a truism but there's no such thing as a clean wall and civil war is the most brutal affairs and so you so you can imagine . nato but i need to imagine nato really pushed the envelope and they broke the

resolution they were there to defend civilians that was the mandate and they were and they essentially became the rebel the rebels air force and so they were attacking in the the all you know almost total annihilation of very messy very brutal and i think there's quite a lot of acts of revenge taking place as well. gulf nations are pulling their arab league observers from syria and even though the mission has been extended for another month the saudi dominated gulf cooperation council also wants the u.s. most powerful group to put new pressure on damascus to end the bloodshed syria's foreign minister accuses some arab states of joining an international conspiracy against the country and of a blatant interference in syria's internal affairs damascus insists it'll continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against chaos syria's already rejected an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad to step down the use impose more sanctions to further squeeze the regime result to syria first reports next it's the syrian people who bearing the brunt. trying to shine

a light on what's happening in the country the observer mission looks set to continue now for another month but every day here is proving more and more of a challenge to the people. due to the european sanctions in syria to argue in syria we don't have any tourist we don't have any foreigners the e.u. has no one pays its eleventh consecutive round of sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the essential regime it is we've been finding out the cascaded sanctions this woman syria's struggling economy actually they are going to see the syrian people in a way or another i mean if they have governmental sanctions to be imposed that they're business with the syrian government not with the people but the power is completely outside this door in the center of damascus at the moment and this is one of the main criticisms aimed at the economic sanctions this that this simply

affecting the low every day syrian people is that most businesses in this area now are dependent upon these type of diesel generators that are needed because our cars have become an almost daily part of people's lives there not everyone can afford to back up at home with his wife and children and then says when the power cuts out the family simply have to make a generator is very expensive it costs like. sixty thousand three hundred pounds as i know it's not cheap and it's not just families and small businesses that are being affected oil production has fallen dramatically after an export in buggy and the cost of raw materials here has risen as one official from the chamber of commerce tells us a plummeting currency and rising prices have pushed many businesses to take their trade and money elsewhere in the business of money don't put all the money in the

business keep somebody maybe outside maybe. this is the. market because norm or cash money money for. entry to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. how do. you know. i'm harvey. but you will be with the stops. and one. of the spy cools the dialogue is being political and economic pressure on the country that's been favored in attempting to result the play steps the arab league observed in mission has also made little headway safe then they say they were there simply to investigate and to reports there have been numerous calls for even more

observers to be allowed into the country i think the real issue is that the syrians need to allow him a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging a much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're generally not killing innocent people one of the go to the the sanctions impact is heavily contested is this need doubt that they are putting pressure on an increasingly isolated government many people in the country it will say made an already desperate situation even worse. damascus syria. coming out of the program on our t.v. one sided limits. very disappointed in fact discuss state i took effect from that you know you pray student faces extradition to the united states on charges of breaching copyright and burned to a british or american treat it is being slanderous on balance live comment on by coming up shortly. next the rams apparently found

a way to stay in business despite the new e.u. all embargo an asset freeze and is reportedly now agreed to pay around in gold for its oil and some of us dollars reports suggest iran's biggest customer china could follow suit prostrate as a new delhi with the latest. india actually has already bought iranian oil using gold instead of u.s. dollars and this is extremely significant because every year india actually spends twelve billion u.s. dollars on iranian oil and now actually beijing is also saying that it might want to jump on board with new delhi and also look into some sort of agreement with iran to continue to get oil new delhi and beijing actually account for forty percent of the imports of iranian oil the e.u. only counts for twenty percent obviously we've been talking about all week about this oil embargo that the e.u. announced on monday that they're hoping to roll out and put into place by chalabi

first and obviously if new delhi and beijing find a way to continue trading with iran using gold instead of u.s. dollars this would severely hurt what the european union in washington is trying to do russia has also said that it wants to continue trading with the run using domestic currencies instead of u.s. dollars obviously the point of the e.u. oil embargo would be to bring iran back to the negotiations table over its nuclear program obviously iran has consistently maintained that this is the peaceful nuclear program the west believes that they are potentially developing nuclear weapons so in response to the was announcement on monday that it will place in oil embargo on iran and iran has that that it's going to shut the strait of hormuz which is actually worth twenty to thirty percent of the world's oil supply shuttles through in the united states is that it will absolutely not allow that to happen even sort of alluding to the fact that it could potentially use military force to

make sure that that strait stays open moscow has also said that think sions are obsolete form of sort of punishing a country and that it's actually going to be counterproductive and another interesting thing to note here is that if beijing and new delhi continue to trade with iran with gold it's actually going to increase the value of gold. decrease the value of the u.s. dollar at the global reach their current. push the reporting for us. from the independent indian think tank believing that america's domestic policies the driving force behind the pressure being applied on iran right now that. iran has been one of the key foreign policy issues in the republican debate and in the united states and as a result there's been a lot of pressure from these into this within the u.s. to sort of ramp up pressure. against iran and i think that's that's why we're seeing a lot of this action and talk over the last couple weeks for years now the u.s.

has been trying to include other countries in its attempts to isolate iran and then for a while it was actually working because of it strange that countries like the like india for example were unable to invest in iran because the companies that did would have been penalized by being shut out of american markets certain countries like india turkey china and even russia are now looking for other creative ways to engage with iran while insulating themselves from punitive action by the united states and some of these actions including as was just before paying in gold and dollars and also building new independent entities that don't even participate in western markets so that they would be insulated from from any any penalties. thought of neil patrick coney from the an independent indian think tank called the institution talk to me a bit earlier on from new york. vigils being held at moscow's domodedovo international airport exactly a year after the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall there people laid flowers in

the lit candles for the victims of the tragedy where a suicide bomber blew himself up killing thirty seven investigators identified the man as a twenty year old from russia's republic of english trained by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year four others have been detained they're about to be charged but one of the world's most wanted terrorist doc or morrow who claims he must abandon the bombing is still a lot. more news review wanted online on our website r.t. dot com where now new guidelines in the u.k. could see drug smugglers and street dealers avoiding prison even if they caught with heroin or cocaine or explained online from us tonight. and we're about to feel the brunt of it tomorrow the largest solar radiation outburst in six years hits the earth threatening communication and power blackouts how bad could it be we let you know. u.k.

student faces extradition to the united states for setting up a website giving people free access to movies online that's not a crime in britain but in america he could get up to ten years in prison is because of a controversial treaty between the two countries originally intended to extradite terrorist suspects resulted over bennett found out the deal is putting many british citizens in extremely vulnerable position. from running a website in his bedroom with links to pirated movies to up to ten years in a u.s. federal prison richard o'dwyer is the latest victim of the u.k.'s controversial extradition treaty with america his actions aren't even a crime in britain but counters copyright infringement in the us for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. perry's going to impact the gulf states i don't think that you brigid site t.v. shack was seized by u.s. authorities last year this is what you see on the home page now he didn't host any

illegal videos itself but posted links to where users could find them u.s. prosecutors claim richard banked two hundred thirty thousand dollars in advertising revenue from the site although he's never been to america they claim his actions had a direct consequence is their duty been treated unfairly so i. guess because he was just pro extradition for a while after it all that but i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we. know although he were there when he's i'm not sure if you were there last time before when he said made a good strong argument but all went out of the window completely. you know giving up no no we can't go. to the. the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty was signed in two thousand and three supposedly to bring international terrorists to justice but many feel it's unfair to british citizens

it makes it far easier for america to extradite someone from the u.k. than the other way around so far extraditions of five to two in america's favor veteran british m.p. simming campbell's leading a review of the treaty by his party the smaller partner in the governing coalition what i argue for is that the position of a british citizen should be no worse than that of an american to and at the moment you think it's impound striker and i'm in no doubt that out of bounds i think richard was innocently caught up in something which was never intended to deal with people like him gary mckinnon case is another that's left british m.p.'s crying out for change the asperger's sufferer has been fighting extradition for seven years he's wanted for hacking into pentagon files that he claims he was searching for evidence of u.f.o.'s a recent parliamentary debate on the treaty was so one sided in favor of changing

it that a vote wasn't even needed but what's happening in there is still not enough to stop richard o'dwyer is pending extradition his case is certainly highlighted the need for something to be done but any changes could be too late for him his case is now in the hands of home secretary theresa may who has been accused of abandoning plans to change the treaty richard and his family will get the chance to appeal the decision at a higher court but their options are rapidly running out either bennett r.t. london or washington is working flat out to get its hands on alleged copyright violators both at home and abroad the founder of file swapping websites upload was arrested in new zealand last week of face extradition to the us and yet the far reaching out of piracy bills that are going through congress have been shelved let's see all this planet. talk to rick from the founder of the swedish pirate party rick thanks for being on r.t. as i just mentioned there the piracy bills on hold we witnessed in way the internet

campaign where sites like wikipedia went off in protest for twenty four hours it seemed to be effective nonetheless america's still going after file swappers with the same kind of vigorous drug smugglers and terrorists what do you think about that very concerned i mean any legislation must be founded in the public opinion of what's right and wrong when you have a copyright industry that's talking about extraditing a person who has done nothing but linking to t.v. shows extradition that something useful murder and genocide does not people sharing music and television for falls ok but i mean about how you dress it up it is kind of stealing as well as me getting movies and music for free surely the government's got to do something was not stealing you know if it weren't stealing we wouldn't need the copyright law in the first place property lord suffice but anyway where we are is that this law is so out of touch with public opinion that i

think if you don't reduce it no the next generation of law makers are going to just grab it all together this is such an abuse of power think is time is more than ripe for a serious review of what we want with copyright law and it's certainly not calling out the day just terrorists if you have the top job in the world can sort this out how would you do that i mean protests against the planned legislation played the bills would undermine the basic nature of the free internet i know you say the same you feel the same but where this full of pirated material how do you stop the stealing while keep while keeping the web free of control the same time is a problem. it is the corporate monopoly has come up with freedom of speech just like you say and given monopoly for the. entertainment industry and the values that we achieved during the enlightenment freedom of expression freedom of speech that

as a politician it's obvious that the latter has precedence if a business cannot sustain its business model in the face of civil liberties it's the business model of the business that house and change not all civil liberties ok i mean there's nothing i can say to change your mind on this i know. i'm not going to argue from the record companies point of you're not going to argue it from the artist point of view i think we're getting a taste of what governments can do to take down sites they see as being infringing and how far do you think they would go at the end of the day well look at so by this floor there was. at the pointing of a finger the copyright industry would be able to shut down legal competitor in another country shut down income revenue shut down their website from the internet would resign and burden of proof they will be shut down or not they'll be proved innocent united's. even if they will you can see russia will determine if

they are playing the very principles and legal principles that. was revolutionary at the very very serious. to shut down your lot as well we lost the jew at the end they're not being serious of course rick founder of the swedish pirate party hope you can hear me thank you for being on the program more news from around the world prefer a wave of car bombings has killed fourteen wounded more than seventy across the iraqi capital the blasts happened mainly in shia areas of baghdad threatening to revive sectarian conflict in the country again though violence has dipped in iraq in the past few years attacks is still common more than two hundred people have been killed there in a month since the u.s. military withdraw. egypt is to partially lift its decades long state of emergency from wednesday gear after the start of a popular uprising that ousted president mubarak but the draconian rules will still

be applied in cases of what's described as quote buggering rights groups claim the battle still mean extensive police remain alone and justify cracking down on demonstrators. the i.m.f. international monetary fund's warn that the global economy is in grave danger from the euro zone spillover europe is said to be headed for a mild recession this year which the i.m.f. says will cause a world financial slowdown and even emerging markets will not be immune markets have been volatile because of worries that the deal with greece's private investors may fall through. turkey's prime minister's late into the french. harlem and for clearing what he calls a discriminatory and racist bill that murders freedom of thought the law would see people get up to a year in prison for deny the mass killing of armenians by ottoman turks nearly a century ago media says one and a half million killed in the massacre but turkey claims the numbers much less the bill still needs to be signed off by president sarkozy to become more. you have

today with the latest from our shortly rough on our travels again r.t. takes you to beautiful place in southern russia the stunning scenery of the caucasus nature reserve all revealed in about ten minutes time after the business now with dmitri. thanks kevan the ruble here to twenty is well high against the dollar on tuesday the number of factors are pushing it higher gluing stronger crude prices and shrinking liquidity in the banking sector now economist alexander if you're from the e.c.b. capital believes the effect is temporary and the currency will weaken later this year. well i think that it's a temporary phenomenon that's a first quarter effect and the ruble is helped by a stronger current account because of seasonally high experts and this is now a low imports and. liquidity so we expect there will to be strong in the first quarter and then to grady

a week into what's their second half of the year. unemployment in russia of well at the end of last year jobless rate dropped twenty basis points from november to six point one percent in december according to a survey by bloomberg analysts that expect the raise with significantly higher actually anticipated it increased to six point six percent. investment in fixed capital like machinery and building jumped six percent larger last year and i was speaking to modernization commission president of attributed the rise to the growing economy and state support for investors however he said the level of investment was still not enough for a country with the potential for. almost two thirds of gold mines expect the price of gold to keep growing this year according to a survey by price waterhouse coopers the majority of them for cars the peak of two thousand dollars for and one of the reasons given is new financial instruments that provide exposure to the price of gold is trading at around six hundred sixty four

dollars a choice. rather it's moved to stock markets now and in the u.s. they are flat and mixed this is as investors are worrying the greece the debt deal made for through now for really the same reasons greece's private creditors continue to ca to the terms of hope for that swap deal we're seeing a negative picture of the close in europe the footsies down half a percent the dax point three percent slightly better than they were faring throughout the session with banks some of the biggest losers seem in. in germany also losing after reporting a drop in cisco first group. in russia very similar picture of the zero zero sound however said my six point seven percent at the close they were driven down by banks and out of these stocks notably lou poor lost one point eight percent of the company said it's planning to invest more than a billion dollars in oil richard traps tito fields in siberia chemicals group i

could all know was bucking the trend up almost two percent at the close and reported no most five percent increase in production for the year in twenty eleven investment strategies the exam. police hope that they beat yesterday's close by. these are red numbers a lot better huge volumes are pretty low and today people have no conviction therefore the direction of the market really a little direction on the russian market so that will be different tomorrow but we will be back in fifty five minutes time with nothing of this is the journey.

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time very good to have you with us tonight these are our top stories fresh rounds of violent attacks in libya as gadhafi loyalists retake one of the former strongholds of bani walid supporters of the old and new regimes have clashed in several cities across the country. gulf states withdraw observers from syria as the troubled country rejects now a broken peace plan calling for president assad to go meantime the e.u. slaps more sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds

a way to buy iran's oil despite the boggo as it's set to pay for gold but the yellow. makes to take it to a spectacular nature reserve just one of the hidden gems of the caucasus.