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. well it seems washington is working flat out to get its hands on alleged copyright violators around the globe the founder of file swapping website mega upload the two was arrested in new zealand just last week on kong based company could face extradition to the u.s. as well rick for this he's founder of the swedish pirate party told me believes the anti-piracy bills being pushed through congress will violate basic human right. 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 out just 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 this model in the face of civil liberties it's the business model of the business that house and change not all civil liberties. reading us news headlines around the world first international monetary fund the

i.m.f. swarm of the global economy is in grave danger from a euro zone spillover europe said to be headed for a mild recession this year which the i.m.f. says will cause a worldwide financial slowdown and even emerging markets won't be immune meantime trading has been volatile because of worries that the deal with greece's private investors could fall through. egypt is to partially lift its decades long state of emergency from wednesday a year now after the start of a popular uprising that ousted president mubarak but the draconian laws will still be applied in cases of what's described as quote thuggery rights groups claim that will still be an extensive police powers remain allowing them to justify cracking down on this. this late into the french parliament for clearing what is called a discriminatory and racist bill that murders freedom of thought the law would see people get up to a year in prison for denying the mass killing of armenians by ottoman turks nearly

a century ago mania says one of a half a million were killed in the massacre but turkey claims the numbers much less the bill still needs to be signed off by president sarkozy to become a long. it's coming up to midnight twenty one moscow time next an in-depth look at the ongoing strife in the arab world and a few possible solutions maybe to r.t. sophie shevardnadze speaks to russia's main envoy to africa. here on r.t. .

you know my deal 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 time i have 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 and 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 the mob get together how to we see it live get back to know each 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 over 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 its own 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 libyan political elite is not ready to sit at the round table that's actually which russia was. prosing 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 when you talk to them and dream about a so-called dubai scenario they want to see libya as a mediterranean resort with a five star hotels because you know isn't all that stuff but some people love thinking about the purity and islamic identity 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 he will be in the government and the new libyan judicial system should show that it really share is the values of human rights rule of law and democracy in the new libya and that was my message when i was talking to. the lead in tripoli on the twenty first of december i also asked him about the initiative of i.c.c. in hague to bring the case of a system nation of warmer khadafi 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 libya does not have anything in common with the previous regime let's talk about syria now that's been top news 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 assad's 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 they don't want to insult anybody but that's more important the more crucial the geostrategic role for the international stability of many other countries were covered by so-called arab spring that's why dealing with syrian peace we have to play political chess but not american football can i ask you about the arab league i mean isn't it are they in a position to actually make demands such as a such 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 no to mediate to build

bridges what is important to mention here is that we are protecting syria but not the 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 in syria the 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. national reconciliation more and more difficult i think that i was 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 have serious to think of that a civil war can all be a political solution how much help thank you very much thank you so much indeed. easy of nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the wild and learn. test yourself and become free. to. see what nature can give you on on t.v. .

we have seen the damage it has done to our environment more chemicals what the poor crops we do not want any more no dmoz. our core system is just there was a does more experience and i'm just just appalled that that's allowed to go on a murder. we're eating this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like a board to experiment could be used as guinea. pigs all now we have more questions than we have had to see guards. like. the.

blind russians would be so much brighter if you mean about song from finest impressions so. please for instance on t.v. don't come. twenty four seven. this is r t live from moscow and these are our top stories fresh round of attacks in libya as gadhafi loyalists retake one of their former strongholds of bonding when the supporters of the old clashed in several cities across the country. states will drop service from syria as the troubled country rejects an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad to go. for more sanctions. and india reportedly finds a way to buy iran's oil despite the e.u.

. pay for black gold the yellow card. next to the next thirty minutes r.t. takes you to see the stunning scenery of the caucasus nature reserve in southern russia so our special report coming right up. southern russia. this faraway place can be reached by helicopter. the first few special permission to travel around here.

such it only allows them to film the landscapes it's about all this close read it's all set up i can't tell you how beautiful. weather is right back up. to. this place you know. a world heritage site. of the coastal area of the caucuses.

a long time ago the people of the caucuses used to shepherd droves of sheep across the a bug of lambs were often targeted by hawks even today let. me bring hawks back to this past. july. this is a bearded vulture i need is the bugs and the. birds of this kind bigger nests on low lying logs all of thirty or forty kilometers from here. but when they go hunting for. fifty kilometers in search of food. they're interesting creatures. the above go is situated close to the great a northern slope of the caucuses mountain range from the grassland you can get a panoramic view of the mountain ridge of the caucuses nature reserve. there is also a clear view of mt fished one of the highest points in the western caucuses

the local problem let's try to get the mountains in frame filming is best done from the highest point on the bar go it's about nine hundred meters above sea level here dimitri is teaching a son killed how to set up for the filming. look. normal you can see that the lighting is on one side or the mist covers most of the valley . we don't want to film only the mist we need to focus on the foreground look at the grass gleaming in the sunlight and it's light of the valley is dark. so the light strip will show this shot to the best advantage now over. the greater northern slope is

a continuous chain of mountain ridges tops by snowy peaks millions of years ago there was a vast sea in this place the smallest part of it the black sea is now hidden behind mountain ridges they form a shield in the way of warm breezes blowing from the sea the warm air creates a sub tropical climate in the foothills of the southern slope of the greater caucuses ridge there is a moderate zone further upslope the kingdom of eternal snow and ice on the mountain tops is more than three thousand metres above sea level. which is the. i'm going to film these magnificent landscapes we never know in order to show them. to the hundreds of people who never ventured here. or were either because they have no time. when you go because they don't understand the meaning of nature. be able. to go lie side by

side with the pass translated from the caspian language means the mountain of caucasian goats the reserve is the only habitat of western caucasian goats in the wild here they don't move about very much a small herd might well stay for decades in the same area high in the mountains one thousand nine hundred metres. the only trail leading across the past begins in the above go grassland. caucuses reserve ranges often use it to make rounds of the area they always do it on horseback a round trip usually takes one week. where they come across perches interests on this path is broken europe is the only way here there are rocks on one side and i think a tangle of red and rain on the other it is very difficult terrain.

to. pull. the ranges camp out in small parts and it's always cold in the mountains at night. shortly before dawn the metering kill had to a small flat mountain top according to an old caucasian legend do you often meet

the sunrise in the mountains lives a long and happy life. real if you can never seem to go and you're right in the video the sun will rise from behind the pass. we're going to choose the highest point for filming meaning you will only have ten to fifteen minutes for that.

because i said to the sun rise is a mystery to use to it no single one is ever the same the doesn't mean. it's truly wonderful. the nearest settlement is far away radio is the only means of communication with human civilization. hey folks if you're listening to our movement the radio show us your house once again and you get to the last term and talked about the history of the caucuses nature reserve good you can go to the small studio broadcasting the movement show is in the town of scores of kilometers away from the a bar go for schoolchildren tell locals about the caucuses reserve journalist. oversees the programs the children talk about the reserves animals surviving trees mountaintops and rare plants. they draw on their experience as reporters and

engineers working in various protected areas therefore they always fully prepared for the program when they go on there. the would have then i think when people look at it and they try to imagine one place a tree saw a long time ago. as for me i always have this on the county feeling that my agent stature martin significant in front of these or inspiring giant. one of the most famous parts of the caucuses nature reserve is the growth situated close to the black sea coast the oldest tree here is over

a thousand years old. the grove has survived several generations of tourists and many natural disasters. according to scientists the greatest of them took place some eighteen million years ago. a rupture in the earth's crust created a natural labyrinth and the gorge the gorges bed was filled with water from mountain stream. this landscape has undergone no changes since then. visitors are fascinated by the mysterious origin of the grove and the agent trees there in they think of it as a living relic of the distant past. i can tell you that i really do feel mystical about it was that people rarely break the rules here they're not eager to destroy or cut things down to the bush that some people might say i'm crazy but i honestly believe nature herself is at work here and i think this place is protected

by higher forces it's. a small canyon and the outer edge of the grove marks its natural boundary in the north the west and east in horns of an infamous mountain river called the hostile joint where the canyon is at its most narrow and the never ending war of war is a sign of its dangerous allure. then you'll love. this canyon is notorious because the water rises quickly when the snow melts or after terentia already has been with a view of the whirlpool formed a strong water splashing against one side of the ravine and then against the other while the water anything that falls into the whirlpool gets sucked down to the bottom you people trying to swim will walk across and end up drowning were you there have been several deaths as a result. we live over to me that's why this place is infamously known as the

devil's grace in the bottle. there are four major waterways in the caucuses reserve a river is one of the deepest which dam has been put up but the small hydro power station supplies electricity to the huts in the upper reaches of the reserves northern sector ranges stay for the night. but the vote by. claiming there is a. w. bush will wherever you can get from any spraying a small river or ditch your morgan about what he sold fit for drinking and. international rafting competitions take place on the belle i river every year the route is extreme rapids and near impossible to clear.

the way to the future this month chunks by particles that make up the fabric of the universe find what you're looking for in the deep siberian forest prevent a fire with the help of lasers in fibers pull out your tablet of a new gaming religion and let the in feature begin all of that here in novosibirsk technology update here on a larger we've got the future covered. we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark and we called what the

poor props we do not want any more new deal modes. of course system is just there was a does more experience and i'm just just appalled but that's allowed to go on america. eating this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like a board to experiment be used as guinea pig. now we have more questions than we have had to guard. like. a cargo helicopter flies through a mountain coolidge before it reaches the weather station and juga good is situated

in the mountains of the caucuses nature is a as an altitude of more than two thousand mixes above sea level it is the optimised station in the western caucuses its total square is two hundred eighty two thousand head to our reserve is the only one in russia that occupies the territory of three russian regions it's really unique. the directive the caucuses reserve personally oversees the rotation of strong and food supplies in this remote area. the helicopter rarely stops at juga for more than twenty minutes but even such a short period of time is enough for dimitri says enka and his son killed to get several shots on take.

i. most of the world's weather stations located in major cities record changes in the atmosphere resulting from industrial waste and vehicle fumes the data collected juga and similar stations is important for fundamental research into how the earth's climate changes in areas situated far away from manmade sources of pollution. now the temperature a jugar is fifteen degrees above zero but a couple of days ago trees were falling to the ground under the impact of strong gusts of wind which by the way where the snow is usually one meter deep around this time in december temperatures were unusually high in november it may well turn out to be the warmest november in twenty five years. each day courses reserve staff record temperatures when villa.