really highlighting the difference separating everybody else from the elites that are meeting here they have that isn't damage which many people are talking about but they're very much here now as far as what exactly is going to go on i'll do my best to show you that the more of looking at these reports of what the press is going to be able to do it looks like i'm not going to be able to see a film or go a lot of the places that i would want to go except for maybe in thirty minute increments what's a day hopefully as supported by someone from the world economic forum for me to lock down from some of these big business leaders and heads of state and central bankers exactly what they're talking about these sessions if i may not be privy to but that is what i'm going to try and do i'm going to do my best to bring you all of that and i will be here be your intrepid reporter until then back to. what some international news in brief now syria has agreed to extend the mandate of the arab league observers mission by month the mission was set up at the end of last year to monitor the regime's compliance with the league's plan to end the violence that

they just reports claim sixty people were killed in until government protests across syria on tuesday and the u.n. says more than five thousand people have died in the last two months almost two hundred. syrian forces have arrested scores of suspected members of the most group during raids in the country's northern city of qana bako around sect said it carried out a series of bombings in the second friday which at least one hundred five people died due to the group is considered the most violent radical organization not your response times and that's last year. hundreds of demonstrators in argentina met by violent place they protested in front of the british embassy one desirous of a disputed fork and on it's just as demanded britain hung the territories over to argentina and refused to send one but it to support to be any tension between the two countries are significant shocking to me and they did the whole thing tonight

and into the system you have to point to claims and territory. rescue teams are searching for seventeen people still unaccounted for after crews lining up signs dotting twenty and coast new footage has emerged showing images of boating debris inside the vessel. only tiriel the ship out and using explosives to blast into more in its sixteen bodies have been recovered since the ship ran aground twelve days ago. india's labor laws a promise of full time workers a range of benefits from decent wages to paid holidays but those from the country's poverty stricken regions aren't always so lucky employers have found a legal loophole leaving many workers exploited through the fear of losing their jobs at any moment pressure levels. it's got one of the fastest growing populations in the world and getting india's eager young workforce into skilled jobs is no mean feat business tycoon mini shopper well thinks he has the answer

a temp agency that trains and then touts its labor. existed all over the world temporary stuffing so it would but do know what we've heard somebody of the five minutes for the last five years filling posts and bringing home a paycheck it sounds like a perfect match but for indian firms there are extra more dubious benefits india's tough labor laws make it hard to fire workers plus permanent staff get decent hours holidays and a living wage none of which apply to hiring temps it's a cost cutting gifts keeping employers smiling all the way to the bank india has always been a famous destination for foreign companies to outsource their work at a cheap cost but a growing trend here is for indian companies themselves to outsource their work force to agencies like tim lee instead of hiring workers for themselves everywhere from malls to restaurants in india are using agencies to hire and manage their workers for the shopper who insists his workers do benefit vital training they are

unlikely to get in india as many poverty stricken region in the woman who film you know really cannot afford to buy the expensive education it's going to be for who have those skills but. they don't have been grooming them because some pawn three agrees she's unrolled in one of the many nationwide team lease training centers to improve her english skills and enroll in a computer accounting course to make her stand out from the crowd to potential employers. the major coffee i was very warned to nervous about searching for job interviews i'm not fluent in english so i'm good teachers because english get motivated and gain some confidence but critics say jobs people like some end up in should be higher paid employment and because the agency keeps the jobless figures down many believe it's bloody india. boy tackling its labor law means which lets firms get away with dire wages and sacking staff on a whim but shovel insists the priority for those on his roster is putting bread on

the table and that is really where we came in and said that look a job is better than no job and employers were not hiring people because they were scared of him because we were laws we were saying look there are lots of kids who actually are not trying to move too often employers or use the law as a weapon in their hands too he didn't blow it was there just war and an opportunity to get a job preassure either r t new delhi india. where the business news is next with kareena. thank you kerry hello and welcome to business here in r.t. entrepreneurs are surging around the world according to a new report by the global entrepreneurship monitor however that's not the case when it comes to russia over seven thousand people were surveyed in the country and the findings show that russia is lagging behind not only its brics peers but also the majority of eastern european countries now and of course has more. there are almost four hundred million businessmen and fifty four countries and about

a quarter of them are planning to add at least five new jobs over the next five years and we're talking about countries like brazil china australia and the united states now one that comes to russia the picture is pretty grim the number of new firms account for just five percent of business is that's the third to twenty five percent in china which places that at the bottom of the list of developing countries and russia is also want to come in for nationalize ation with fewer businesses offering their goods and services to foreign markets. corruption. when you suppose should get more taxes from small business at this point all the taxes almost all the taxes go. for their own lives and then some of taxes go up as a subsidy it means there is no the rich food we should pull forward from the

development of business and they should get this they should get this money means the very very pleased between the number of small businesses small businesses and the budget. high level of has. the majority of small and medium sized businesses do not believe there will be a positive change and this is of course a bad sign for government plans to diversify the economy away from raw materials and make it less vulnerable to external financial songs. almost happened rather than feel very confident of growth over the next year according to a survey by price waterhouse coopers that's lower than at the beginning of two thousand and eleven when sixty percent were predicting good times ahead here's even less optimistic with only forty percent forecasting growth in two thousand and twelve. let's take a look at the markets heading. rising stockpiles in the west are offset by concerns

that iran could disrupt shipping in the persian gulf now into equities in russia stocks climb as fears about prospects for the eurozone is stronger than expected economic data japan's nikkei is up over one percent on the back of the weakening yen that is posting earnings for exporters and sang is closed for public holidays and one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow let's look at tuesday's closing question markets ended in the red. percent while the lies extra point seven percent. russian stocks fell to their lowest in a week on tuesday stalled greek talks and we could all cut investors' appetite for risk those trades those traders who are chasing russia at this point prefer to buy energy stocks that's according to economists. from russia. very much popular these days in russia partly due to where it will prices are

partly due to. one of the. best performing sector in russia stock market in two thousand and eleven i think there are some divisions over some of the other sectors including banks. metals and mining for example. but the oil and gas sector seems to stand out in a way right now as one of the more popular one of the more attractive ones there was appears to be pulling out of the no severe crisis which crushed its national currency last year its getting three billion dollars support from an anti christ is fond said by regional states including russia deputy chairman of the u. ration development bank said gay shuttle of details how the country's prospects have improved and the risks that remain. the position program of. percent of g.d.p. of this country. so given. the

current account of the country is showing signs of improving. we have a historically high international reserves which is very close to two months of imports villagers had never had we see clear signs of stability in belarus is the challenge to. all countries including russia and kazakhstan is how the global economy will shape up in the in this year well that's all we have for you this hour but don't forget you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com thanks for watching.

sure is that so much different each musician on the mark when egypt unfinished business a year on the revolution that used to be spirited appears to have stalled the military rulers who replaced with. wealthy british style it's time to.

go. to. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy because a report on. talk about the headlines for you that barack obama pledges another program for change during his annual state of the union address his approval rating suffering and the republicans turning up the heat the president is trying to ratchet up support for reelection. in libya gadhafi loyalists claim they've seized control of the town of bani walid abolish the government appointed military council there the country's interim rulers admit they're not sure who's really in charge of the city saying the

violence was of course fine turning problems. and coming full circle into square thousands of egyptian protesters angry at the lack of reform are expected in central park countries marking the first anniversary of its popular uprising that toppled president. next we bring you the story of one farmer who stood up against a massive multinational corporation to defend his rights and property rights in a special report that's next. both to control the nature of knowledge and control like no one should have that

great input patterns in nature and right as long as my wife and i have to wait for then us we will always fall down and fight for the rights of farmers always a bugle to use their seed from year to year no one should take that right away from anyone. this is why the judge ruled number one if you are contaminated by gates your wishes by might satisfy most you'll no longer own your seeds or plants faith become the ownership of a corporation in this case points out. he

also ruled we were not allowed. to use or seeds or plant again. he also ruled that all our profit from our ninety ninety eight can or crop goes to my temple. in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven as a result of a simple discovery life changed dramatically for the seventy year old farmer a power line runs along the edge of percy schmeiser probably as usual the power company had the surrounding vegetation controlled by applying the herbicide round up but in spite of this powerful chemical volunteer canola plants continue to thrive among the wheat this can all it was sprayed with four times their normal rate that you would spray. round up and yet it has not died so it's a very powerful. resistant canola to round up so it's definitely monsanto's seed

that is here we've created our real big frankenstein. the pesticide roundup produced by the multinational concern monsanto is the most widely sold spray in the world monsanto made its canola resistant to round up this means round up kills every plant without exception only monsanto's genetically modified canola remains alive. it was introduced without really much testing being done and i think even at that time when it was introduced in the middle of the ninety's that even the governments were taken in by what these corporations told what it would do like increase heals and less chemicals and more nutritious and i think the government even believed the corporation. in ninety ninety six the chemical giant monsanto introduced its brand of canola into canada

a brand. system to the pesticide round up in smoke as region three farmers agreed to plant monsanto's new g.m.o. canola. due to a heavy storm during the harvest freshly got g.m.o. canola drifted into percy schmeiser spiels his work of fifty years of breeding was destroyed because his harvest was contaminated by monsanto seed. but on top of that monsanto turned him the victim into a culprit. august ninety ninety eight so mice are was sued by months on joe for having illegally planted the corporations paid into g.m.o. canola. he was to be forced by a court decision to pay damages in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars and all this for a canola seed he did not want in the first place. under the patent law it says to violate a patent you have to use the patent in my case i never use monsanto's patent i

never sprayed their chemical round up on my fields so i never used their patent. but percy schmeiser would not let himself be intimidated he filed a counter suit against the chemical called brazen grounds of environmental pollution see destruction and slander from that time on monsanto had the small wheat farmer spied on and pursued like a criminal. in summer ninety nine hundred nine the situation became even more menacing for days detectives with cars were in front of smiters driveway following him on to the fields and observing his every footstep. and we found out afterwards by taking license numbers that they were people hired by monsanto and also monsanto representatives himself they didn't even stop by the field they would even drive into our yard here and i don't know if it was just. a

method of intimidation or whatever but these are things that happen. and they did everything to bring us down financially elementary and that's what they're doing is to mentally and financially break people. the are totally ruthless they have no ethics they have nor morals it's the bottom line. in. the end. i had a trust fund to pay for some of my legal bills and some time ago i get a phone call from the manager of the bank saying they were going to close out that account and they wouldn't give me nor explanation so i went to see the bank manager which was a lady and i asked her why do you want to close out this account you have to give

me a reason even under the bank act you can't just close somebodies account out and she wouldn't tell me what the reason words and finally i said to her is that because of monsanto and she said yes. and i said why and she said monsanto went to the head office and said to the head office of the canadian imperial bank of commerce if you don't. percy schmeiser is he who trust fund out we will cancel all of our phones with the canadian imperial bank of commerce across canada. in two thousand and one smiles or was ordered in his months on to a trial to be about four hundred thousand dollars in damages and costs the court to take it for granted that smites us canola fields contained ninety five to ninety eight percent of months santo's g.m.o. canola the judgement is a scandal of twenty eight test results only for back such a figure the rest varies between sixty nine and zero percent with contradictions

and different evaluations most samples were procured behind my suspect not one of them was taken in his presence the decisive expert witnesses in court were either months on to employees or paid by months on to the judgement left people stunned worldwide today even canada's government admits that g.m.o. canola is everywhere. and what the trial judge ruled their first trial judge rule is what made the case become internationally known overnight what can happen with farmers when you introduce g.m.o. and the judge ruled this number one it does not matter how a farmer is contaminated and he went on to say cross pollination with colin flow and then the wind by birds or by direct sea blown and away in by or farmers transportation if your contaminated against your wishes you will no

longer own your seeds or plants have become the ownership of monsanto under patent law we had about five hundred and fifty hectors stated to rapeseed in one nine hundred ninety eight he was. ruled because of the contamination all the profit from our crop in one thousand nine hundred eight goes to monsanto another important issue he mentioned he said it does not matter how much a problem is contaminated if it's half percent one percent two percent it does not matter you will no longer own your seeds or plants. after this decision percy schmeiser and his wife are very demoralized just like many farmers who had been following the case percy decided to appeal the ruling and took the case to the higher court but after two more years of legal battles the no three hundred thousand canadian dollars of legal expenses the judges again ruled if

you were contaminated with months sometimes genes you no longer own your seeds and plants then we only had one avenue left and that was the supreme court of canada first of all we said to the supreme court that a farmer always should have the right to use his seeds from year to year if on his own farm and the most had partnership to my wife and myself by that time was that no one nor corporation no individual should ever have the right to put a patent on higher life forms like a seed or plant. when i use the term higher life form i mean any lifeform whether it's a bird be an animal face or even a human being. if

you have a patent on that gene that's in that poland and it gets in your field you don't longer own your seeds or plants so you could have one plant g.m.o. and all these could be regular organic but true patent law they can claim all of your plants. because you don't know which one is g.m.o. which is not. in one thousand nine hundred six when it was introduced farmers were told three main things had always be a bigger yield or it would be more nutritious and less chemicals and within three

and four years we found out that the total opposite happened we're now using more chemicals in ever before and more powerful and more toxic chemicals because it has become a super wheat the other issue is that the quality is much poorer and and so now we have and then also poor eels and to give you an example of that he even the united state department of agriculture just a short time ago indicated that they yield on soybeans was down about fifteen percent with the introduction of g.m. most. monsanto's technology contract virtually turns the former into an accomplice of the agro chemical industry he has to buy new seeds every year with the technology surcharge and only then is he allowed to cultivate the seek the natural right of every farmer to replant his harvest seeds is waived by contract. i have a contract here for monsanto and i'll just give you some of the clauses in that

contract. a farmer must always buy his seeds from monsanto. he must only buy the chemicals for a month's handle he can never use the seeds he must pay monsanto about forty dollars a license fee on each hector he owns each year he must permit monsanto's police force to come on his way and for three years after the contract even though he may only grow jammu one year and months sounders police could go in your grain race they can go in your fields they can get your tax records your programming records with or without your permission and if a farmer commit some violation of the contract monsanto can take all its profit or monsanto can make him destroy his crop and the parmer is not allowed to say anything to anybody about it. no the multinationals with these contracts are

exercising more power than any government would ever dare to do months saddle india or two thousand and three contracts have another cause added which states that a farmer can no longer sue months or take months and go to court or lay a lawsuit against monsanto no matter for what reason it could be whether its poor see poor crops they'd no longer consume us out almost takes their rights away have a farm even taken months and are to court so all their freedom of speech expression is taken away total domination and controlled by a multinational over a farmer because like stamping their primary into into the ground he has no longer any rights with and that's basically what the judge ruled in my case against montana's case against me monsanto's patent law is over or not oh farmers rights. and we hope that the supreme court will change that and give the rights back to the

partners where they belong not to multinational corporations. in all of north america there are hundreds of farmers under the same threat as percy schmeiser only a few of them have had the courage to come foula to talk about. david runnion from indiana is one of the few that is standing up to months on no but even he took half a year before going public with his story on santa as investigators arrived on my farm it was price of one thirty at night pm they. did not identify themselves i really did not know who they were until about three days later. i was informed from a local feed mill where i have my seed cleaned every year after twenty years and

they inform me that that's who they were that they were investigators for monsanto and investigating me for patent infringement. all they will i want to know the investigators was what kind of. grow kind of wheat do i grow or what kind of corn do i grow and the herbicides i you and also whom do i sell my products to they want to name and phone numbers and at that point i refused to cooperate and i ended the conversation. so anyone they investigate they will definitely find will have someplace a positive identification for genetic material.