and forces and the forces loyal to the ousted leader more money could be taken place in different towns all across the bit risks are indeed very high that the country may fall into civil war the most of all and 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 mo conal 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 rule in this far as the local officials happen recluses least five national transitional council people have been killed the same day the even justice minister announced that the international criminal court had allegedly agreed to let say for the slum to duffy's son to be tried in leaving and on the leave in hold although it hasn't been

confirmed by the i.c.c. itself judge ellis said that the violence and this announcement may be cannot just hours later violence erupted in another part of the country in the eastern part in the town of been going as he was known as the rebel stronghold and later on we've been hearing about the ball and rolland to put it there on the capital they said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes reports is that but also we can see that's then to see a warning that the country may fall into civil war with the situation very dangerous trying to calm down fatah says and trying to take control over the tensions and not to load them to escalate further. we've seen that. protest in benghazi when people have been demonstrated in the against and to see if the m.d.c. just trying is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far was little success meanwhile human rights groups in the middle east accuse nato of

a war crimes carried out in libya during last year's war investigative journalist simon to solve says many libyans feel they are not getting what they were fighting for. 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 rising for and the victims themselves you know the victims the new victims the old 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 electoral law is very. going to put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there's a reintroduction of tribalism and touching his networks and so on and so you know. that there is a lot of disquiet in every corner of libya at the moment it's a truism that there's no such thing as a clean war 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 they essentially became the rebel 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 that's quite a lot of acts of revenge taking place as well. mascot's has agreed to allow the arab league to extend its syria monitoring mission to the country by a month that's comes as six gulf nations pull out there are observers frustrated at what they see as the government's lack of commitment to the peace process the saudi dominated gulf cooperation council also wants the u.n. security council to put 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 blatant interference and its internal affairs damascus insists it will continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against chaos syria's already rejected

a recent arab league proposal that calls for president assad to cede power to his deputy and form a national unity government on top of this the e.u. has imposed yet more sanctions to further pressure the regime but as sarah firth reports it's the syrian people who are fairing the product. 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 is proving more and more of a challenge for the people. due to the european sanctions receiving a good studio we don't have any choice we don't have any for most the e.u. has no pace it's eleventh consecutive round of sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime as we've been finding out the cascade of sanctions because syria is 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 by big

business with this government with the people with the power that's completely outside the door in the center of damascus at the moment and this is one of the main criticisms aimed at the economic sanctions is that this simply affecting the laser every day syrian people if that means. business is in this area now i depend upon these drugs these are generated by the media because i think on an almost daily blow people's lives. the 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 do generator is very expensive 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 trades and money elsewhere in the business of money don't put all of the money has a business keep somebody maybe outside. group. this is the. make use of market because nor more cash money money for. and true to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah. or i have you. but your who. stops. spike cools the dialogue is being political and economic pressure on the country

that's been favored in attempting to resolve the crisis the arab league observers 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 in a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging and much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're generally not killing innocent people then one of the go to when they the sanctions impact is heavily contested this new doubt that they are putting pressure on an increasingly isolated government that many people in the country they've also made an already desperate situation even worse. damascus syria. still ahead spinning the web and washington is working hard to get a copy right preachers not only at home but also

a broad with the violators being treated as terrorists and drug smugglers details coming up later in the program. india could start paying iran in gold for its crude oil purchases that is according to israeli website file the move is an attempt to work around the sanctions imposed by the west over to france nuclear program effectively bypassing the freeze on iran's central bank assets and as priya sridhar reports china could follow soon. 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 iran using domestic car and seize 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 a 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 an oil embargo on iran and iran has said that it's going to shut the strait of hormuz which is actually where 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 an 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 and decrease the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency. neil patrick calling from an independent indian think tank believes it's america's domestic policies that are the driving force behind the pressure being applied to iran iran has been one of the key foreign policy issues in the republican debate in the united states and as a result there's been a lot of pressure from these interests 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 talking 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 the 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 he just goes before paying in old growth and dollars and also building new independent for entities that don't even participate in western markets so that they would be insulated from from any any penalties the u.k. student may spend up to ten years in an american federal prison he faces extradition to the u.s. for setting up a website that gave people links to access free movies online something that's not

even considered a crime in britain and it's all due to a u.k. u.s. treaty originally intended to extradite terrorist suspects but as artie's ivor bennett reports many think the deal is undermining the rights of british citizens. 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 rigid 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 there to be treated unfairly slightly. here because he was just pro extradition for well after it all about but i'm just going to go with the other side anyway so. all that work that we put in. there and all but he would there when he's 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 clean or giving him no no we can't be held. accountable. 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 in bonds record i'm in no doubt that it's out of bounds 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 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. washington has set its sights on copyright violators all across the globe but the founder of file sharing website mega upload was arrested in new zealand last week and is also facing possible extradition to the state's proposed anti-piracy bills currently stalled in congress have sparked protests around the world and are now being revised rick fall of inch from the swedish private party believes such laws may violate basic human rights. 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 its small business model in the face of civil liberties it's the business model of the business that has to change not all civil liberties

. him memorial service has been held at moscow's them idea the international airport marking the anniversary of the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall people laid flowers and lit candles to remember the victims of the suicide blast that killed thirty seven people one year ago investigators identify the bomber as a twenty year old from russia's republic of chechnya trained by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in special operations last year and four others have been detained and are about to be charged. some more world news in brief for you this hour the international monetary fund has warned that the global economy is in grave danger from a eurozone spillover europe is 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 will not be immune meanwhile trading has been volatile because of worries that the deal with greece's private investors may fall through. egypt is to partially lifted its

decades long state of emergency a year after the start of the popular uprising that president mubarak but the draconian laws will still be applied in cases of what's described as thuggery rights groups claim that will still mean extensive police powers remain allowing them to justify cracking down on demonstrators. a wave of car bombings has killed fourteen and wounded more than seventy across the iraqi capital the blast happened mainly and shia areas of baghdad threatening to revive sectarian conflict in the country no violence has dipped in iraq for the past few years attacks are still common more than two hundred people have been killed there in a month since the u.s. military withdrawal. coming up next an in-depth look at the ongoing strife in the arab world and then a few possible solutions artie's sophie shevardnadze speaks to russia's main envoy

to africa. you know my deal chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation culson also presidential envoy to africa it's great to have you with us thank you for having me here so we'll start from the latest news in libya in the country has

been swept with violent protests and government crisis us an expert what is your version what's going on has nato led to lock receive failed in the country 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 with 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 the mob get together we see it live get back to each has to take time and that 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 of 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 controlled arms trafficking so i think that the difficult time fully b.-a will last for quite a significant period of time if we build political elite is not ready to sit at the round table that's actually which russia was proposing last summer we. 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 at 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 the 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 the 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 there are so many competing different points of view you could probably see today that you can find in libya even within one family total unanimity of views what are the chances that his son. would 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 all the i.c.c. in the 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. 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 but don't want to insult anybody but it'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 i said 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 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 one hatred and it will make national reconsider. more and more difficult i think that i was here in france from all the camps involved in this fight should look at iraq a scenario should look at the libyan example should look at the sad example spenders lawman world of us have examples in africa we seriously think of that the civil war can all be a political solution thank you very much thank you so much indeed.

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communicate with. three. nature can give you. thanks for being with us at half past the hour here's a quick recap of your headlines loyalists of the late leader moammar gadhafi abolish n.g.c. authority in the town of bani walid saying that the administration of the areas now in their hands has come it's just a day after a bloody battle between the transitional council forces and local minit militia has claimed at least five lives. damascus green lines an extension to the arab league mission in syria that's probably best six gold states withdraw their support

questioning the regime's commitment to the peace plan meanwhile the e.u. has extended its economic and travel sanctions as well as targeting twenty two individuals connected to the government. through nicely reports emerge that iran is it still accepting gold as payment for its oil exports effectively bypassing the latest round of sanctions imposed by the u.s. and europe china could be the next country to follow in india's footsteps. takes you to see the stunning scenery all the caucuses nature reserve in southern russia that's our special report. southern russia.