originally intended to extradite terrorist suspects but bennett found out for the deals putting many british citizens right now in explaining the 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 u.s. for the judge that was enough for richard's mother it was devastating. perish the experience about this moment with you richard 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 direct consequences there i have to be treated unfairly slightly. here because he was just pro extradition well i've heard all that but i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we are as. he would there when nice i'm not sure if you were there last time before when he said with a good strong argument that all went out the window completely or as you know giving a no no we can't get the time for. 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 about slavery i'm in no doubt that it's out of bounds richard dryers are innocent they caught up in something which was never intended to deal with people like 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 but 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 artsy london. but this is washington's working flat out to get its hands on alleged copyright violators both at home and abroad the founder of file swapping website mega upload was arrested in new zealand just last week he could face extradition to the u.s. to direct felt vinge founder of the swedish pirate party who believes the only piracy bills being pushed through congress will violate basic human rights are 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 as 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 our teenagers terrorists the corporate monopoly has come up with freedom of speech and given monopoly for the entertainment industry and the values that we achieved during the enlightenment freedom of expression freedom of speech 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. take you around the world in brief the international monetary fund the war the global economy is in grave danger from the eurozone spillover europe 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 meantime markets have been volatile because of worries that the deal with greece's private investors may fall through the latest live business for a couple of minutes from now egypt is to partially difference decades long state of emergency from wednesday a year after the start of the popularizing uprising that ousted president mubarak at the end of the day but the draconian laws will still be applied in cases of what's been described as buggery rights groups claim but will still mean extensive police powers remain allowing them to justify cracking down demonstrators. a wave of car bombings has killed fourteen and wounded more than seventy across the iraqi capital the blasts happened mainly in sheer areas of baghdad threatening to revive sectarian conflict in the country violence has dipped in iraq in the past few years attacks are still common more than two hundred people have been killed there in a month since the us military withdrawal from turkey from ministers late into the

french parliament for clearing what he calls a discriminatory racist bill but his freedom of thought the law of see people get up to a year in prison for did nine the mass killing of armenians when ottoman turks nearly a century ago i media says one of a half million were killed in the massacre of a turkey claims the numbers much less will still needs to be signed off by president sarkozy to become law. could have a fire when it's time to take an in-depth look at possible solutions to the ongoing strife in the arab world of sport ahead with kate as well in the next half hour but next as get across the latest business as promised with dmitri. thanks kevin the ruble headed twenty twelve high against the dollar on tuesday number of factors are pushing it high including stronger crude prices and shrinking liquidity in the banking sector economist alexander you can hear from b. to b. capital believes the effect is temporary and the currency will weaken later in the

year so 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. so we expect the rouble to this one in the first quarter and then to a great deal that we can tell with their second half of the year. moving on now unemployment in russia at the end of last year jobless rate dropped twenty basis points from november to reach six point one percent in december according to a survey by bloomberg analysts had expected the rate to be significantly higher with an increase expected at six point six percent. and that's been fixed capital like machinery and building six percent in russia last year speaking to the modernization commission president medvedev 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 that russia has. and almost a half of russians see very confident of growth over the next year according to a survey by accountants pricewaterhouse coopers not slower than of the beginning of twenty eleven one sixty percent were predicted good times ahead global peers are even less optimistic with only forty percent forecasting growth in twenty twelve. friers move over to the stock markets and in the us they are flat and slightly negative investors worry that a greece debt deal may fall through the jones down point four percent the south pretty much the same picture the close in europe as agree senate private creditors continued to negotiate over the terms of a hoped for debt swap deal therefore it was a close index point three percent with banks being the biggest losers which is also

pretty much the same picture we're seeing at the close in russia banking energy stocks pushing the r.t.s. and m i six indices down point four point seven percent respectively notably lukoil was a big loser down one point eight percent the company is planning to invest more than one billion dollars in oil rich arab state of field in siberia but the chemicals company is up almost two percent of the causes reported nor most five percent increase in production for the year of two thousand and eleven investment strategist at exxon the critiquer wraps up the day straight. but we start with the it beat us. the number so low that huge volumes are pretty low and today people have no conviction for the direction of the market. for business news next hour i will be here as always and kevin is next with their lives to say.

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a does more experience and i'm just just appalled but that's allowed to go on in america. we are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the board to experiment to be used as guinea pig. oh now we have more questions than we have had three guards. like. you know how 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 realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

welcome you watching our team live from moscow our top stories at ten thirty pm moscow time fresh rounds of violent attacks in libya and gadhafi loyalists retake one of the homes running with me supporters of the old and new regime several cities across the country. states with the observers from syria as the troubled country rejects not a brokered peace plan calling for president assad to go meantime the e.u. stops more sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds

a way to buy iran's oil now despite the e.u. a bog it was set to pay for black gold with the yellow card. next an in-depth look at the ongoing strife in the arab world and a few possible solutions maybe. speaks to russia's main envoy to africa. you know my dear old chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation calls and also presidential envoy to africa it's great to have you with us thank you for having me here so we start from the latest news in libya in the country has been swept with violent protests and government crisis you as an expert what is your version what's going on has nato led to lacasse failed in the country

last been to tripoli it was on the twenty first of december last year. i had the chance to meet with all the main players with the most awful of the julian with the prime minister with the foreign minister where the oil and gas minister and i spent the whole day in tripoli and i still have a feeling that i was in a very fragmented city three or four militias hating each other competing with each other sometimes shooting each other and it seems like the pieces of. political puzzle do not get together how long until we see it live get back to know it has to take time and it has to take goodwill from all the sides which were involved in a very long lasting conflict which to my personal opinion was a real civil war and in some areas of libya this civil war is not the word in the south there is the whole desert area as an area of well to the certain extent no man's land it's out of control of. new governmental forces it's zone of tribes it's

a zone all of the controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time fully b.-a will last for quite a significant period of time if need be and political elite is not ready to sit at the round table that's actually which rushed. i was proposing last summer which african union was proposing last summer which president of south africa jacob zuma will be proposing on the twenty ninth and thirtieth of january in a disability that's the african union summit african union summit to my mind may play a very positive role in putting that roundtable in the center of tripoli or any other libyan city in order to inspire the process of national reconciliation but that's all political talk if you look at the last of an ordinary libyan guy was he better off before or now before the ordinary libyan guy it's very difficult to say because there are ordinary libyan guys and big guys the ordinary libyan guys in tripoli and

ordinary libyan guys and desert living with that tribes and these are very different ways of living some people are happy to and i saw it physically in tripoli some people are happy to drink openly in the moonshine which was absolutely prohibited in the time of warmer today and some people are really happy with that fact because then the favor of sharia laws everywhere in the country some people when you talk to them and dream about so-called dubai scenario they want to see libya as a mediterranean resort with five star hotels because you know isn't all that stuff but some people love thinking about the purity and islamic identity some people talk about necessity of establishing sharia law all over the country and all these lawmakers world and all over the arab world there are so many competing different points of view you can probably see today that you can find in libya even within one family total unanimity of views what are the chances that his son safe islam

will actually get a fair trial a lot will depend on that that would show the new face of libya actually i think that new libyan government and the new libyan judicial system should show that it really share is the. well years of human rights rule of law and democracy in the new libya and that was my message when i was talking to most of the lead in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiate the of the i.c.c. in hague to bring the case of a system nation of moammar gadhafi to international criminal court actually his response was a very reserved and after that they said that it's very important to show to the international community that you leave does not have anything in common with the previous regime now that western companies are lining up to get lucrative deals with the new libyan authorities where does russia stand with that some of the

russian companies have already. started their operations in libya like you guys probably have his working together with any of jeep for extracting oil the russian railroads are ready to give back the russian companies are talking to their counterparts in libya about returning to libya i got a very clear message from the political leadership and from the prime minister when i was in tripoli on the twenty first of december that you libyan government welcomes russian companies to be back so why not ok let's talk about syria now that's been top place for a while now what makes syria different from other countries that have been subject to the. arab spring and at this point how big is assets support base because we don't hear much about that syria is different because syria is a cornerstone for political settlement in the middle east and the geo strategic role of syria is sorry to say that and i don't want to insult anybody but it's more

important than more crucial than geostrategic role for the international stability of many other countries were covered by so-called arab spring that's why dealing with syria in case we have to play political chess but not american football is that what people want in. i mean and to say i don't think that the idea of intervention into syria is strategically speaking it's a wise idea i think that what syria needs today it needs more political efforts it needs political dialogue and that's why i heard with the regret that president bashar assad said that he is not in favor of the continuing of the mission of observers sent by the arab league he got pretty upset when russia seriously think that the observers and by the arab league can play the role as a factor of stability when russia also offered several times that the russia can be a docking mechanism between the government and the opposition unfortunately all our

proposals are being rejected for the time being can i ask you about the arab league i mean isn't it are they in a position to actually make demands such as i sat ship step down isn't their role really to mediate rather than i demand anything like that but i think that their role is to mediate that's what the secretary general is saying and that's what he's proposing now to mediate to build bridges and we need russia strongly believe that regional organizations should play a more important role in today's international politics what is important to mention here is that we are protecting syria but not a syrian regime we are protecting syria as the country we are protecting syria as a nation we want to help syrian people and syria as a country so you bring up a very important point because at this point if you look at it from the outside it does look like a full fledged war that's been going on for a while do you think a regime change in syria in order to protect the syrian people it's reasonable i

seriously think that today the syrian political elite has to understand that the civil war will not lead to any political solution it will produce more blood from both sides it will produce more hatred and it will make a. national reconciliation more and more difficult i think that our syrian friends from all the camps involved in this fight should look at iraq you scenario should look at the libyan example should look at other sad examples spender's law make world of a set examples in africa we seriously think of that a civil war cannot be a political solution what do you think finances and arms that free syrian army the syrian opposition delegations and we were meeting here in moscow i think at least for syrian opposition delegations were not hiding sources of finance they were saying that finances coming from different sunni states different kompany as

individuals what we see in syria today and i really regret to see that we see more and more of a conflict security and conflict between the shia and the sunni bashar assad belongs to a family which is an ally we family the shia family the majority of the population in syria soon is and unfortunately that is one of the biggest problems of the middle east today we see more and more competition between the shia and the sunni in some cases it is represented by the competition between iran and turkey but in some cases it is represented by the competition between different political and really shows a religious circles within one state how big a says support base at this point well i think that the support is rather substantial but it's not enough to arm all the opposition and to start massive war or mason mess of invasion against the syrian army so you just got back from

sub-saharan africa are the vibes of the arab spring felt there in the region at all one of the most concerning. results of the so-called arab spring particularly with the war in libya is the problem of arms trafficking in the softer the zone in sub-saharan zone i recently visited. me and morocco and for these four countries and what is happening in the desert what is happening in in the soften zone is a real nightmare one of the tribal leaders said to me what happened in libya on the mind the market i said what market today saw get the chinese made manpads which is an along for american made stinger costs the price of two kalashnikovs it's for nothing and i think it's a real problem it's a real problem because uncontrolled thinking may end up somewhere in the south of africa or somewhere in the south of europe do you think the fight for don't mean

nation over at the african research this could just have a lasting well the it's not the fight it's a kind of competition. suddenly many countries which forgot about the african continent during the ninety's recognized that africa is the only continent in the world where you can get the assets for the real prize or sometimes for the prize which is on the the market and today we see competition between many countries in the african continent it's not chinese domination like it was in the ninety's we see turkey was iran we see russia we see western countries will see brazil we see other players india malaysia i mean all the new economies of there and all the new economies all the emerging economies want to buy to peace thank you very much thank you so much indeed.

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easy to. see. the top stories for maté fresh rounds of violent attacks in libya as khadafi 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 through to observers from syria as the troubled country rejects an arab brokered peace plan calling for the president of the sound to go meantime the e.u. slaps more sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds a way to buy iran's oil now despite the u.n. boggo is itself a paper black gold and the yellow card. scotch up with all the day's sport kate

scott the latest for you. thank you for joining me for the tuesday night sports roundup and here at the top stories. top out reigning champion kim clijsters beat out going wild number one caroline wozniacki to reach the semifinals of this straight you know. while fed express roger federer cruises into the semifinals with a straight sets victory of a crime martin del potro let's face rafael nadal. from dugout to talk talk the manager harry redknapp goes to court in london where he denied the use charges of tax evasion. but first a tennis and reigning champion kim clijsters has beaten outgoing world number one caroline wozniacki to reach the semifinals of history and open despite injuring her ankle in her previous match the twenty eight year old belgian overpowered the dane to win six three seven six in scorching temperatures ensuring wozniak you will lose

her number one ranking after sixty seven weeks the top. you know i was i was happy with that i was playing just started to try to be a little bit more dominant again. you know she stepped her game up and started serving better in the second set. so i knew that you know i mean we've both had a really good day and the norm first errors really went for shots and good serving and good returning. good so i started laughing every time because the media has talked to me sometimes like i'm finishing my career and i only have one year left and you know time is running out but the fire has caught a few years in front of me and i still improve and you know. a number of australian open so the number of years of i will dance in french open so you know. i'll definitely do my best and child to china to win one are even more urgent you know of the.