court battle two months after that and as i said just was talking to another lawyer that it could be the biggest win for us or for the people concerned about the most and time only tell and i'm sure that this ring court in four or five years will have to revisit because whether we saw its of their decision could mean that a corporation could control almost anything that be put your genes into anything to put their patents are that's the way it stands right now also some people legal people have expressed that maybe it was a white decision that eventually now monsanto will be faced to be able to have to control what they put into the environment for although i built the issue and if they puts up an environment that the parent ate and it's no they can't control don't take a second look at it if they put something in there and going to end up with massive lawsuits which can break the company.

i was just been talking with nathan busch the wonderful new yesterday and he was really telling me he said i had a great victory yes to be and he said that we should own up dairy and really give encouraging encouragement but he said what now has happened is that monsanto could farmers could break monsanto. hey if every farmer would pull up wants hand and say i think they're some of your g.m.o. canola or soy beans or my people come and get it we don't want it here or i've i we think some of your g.m.o. seeds have controllers to our being very mice he'd come and get it how it wants how to be able to take a plant out of a farmer's field how would they know if it could all plant when it's to see just say and the flowers the same so much sounder couldn't they couldn't do it.

or. so. companies the ground of appeal that we were wanting to win on was the one that would say that you know just because you have a patent to or gene or a cell that doesn't give you a patent to a plant the other part of the problem is what what responsibilities do biotech companies have to farmers for patented material that escapes and causes damage that issue is yet to come up although the you know in that respect the legal battle as far as percy is concerned is drawn to a close and many many people around the world had paid their hopes on that ground of appeal and hope that we would succeed but it don't think it ends the war the war is going to continue you'll continue in a different form i think this is a matter that parliament needs seriously to look at the impact if and now we're

going to say in this country that you can give patents to people that allow them to control organisms that spread themselves around that raises implications that were raised in this case that need to be addressed by parliament and i i hope their advice to do so. but i want to ask you a question it's being reported by our national broadcaster this morning that the supreme court ruled that you deliberately. supplanted it jeanette. modified monsanto's seed in your crops and i just want to know if this is a correct report or if you could straighten the record for that for once and for all in my view if you're not planting something intending to grow around it ready crop meaning some crop you're intending to spray with round up. you know i don't see where that goes but as far as the supreme court was concerned in the lower courts. to that to that the cultivation of plants with the gene in it was

sufficient to be infringement today as a personal as i said it's a personal victory. six years of legal battle when we stood up to monsanto back in one nine hundred ninety eight we never realised it would ever go this far and then when the other point i'd like to make. especially comments from that with about the biotech industry you always have to remember monsanto late the lawsuit against me i did not play the lawsuit against monsanto they were the ones to start it and then we took my wife and i took the position that a farmer should never ever nooses rights who's used to seed from year to year and that was the basis we fought that for the rights of bombers who didn't. want. things they.

want sat close cotton on the gene is valid and where ever that geno rise by what ever means in any higher life form day old and control that light form and when i used that term higher life form i don't only mean seeds or plant it's bird species animal even a human being so now we have more questions than we have at your state canada in regards who owns the light. if. you. really believe it. since two thousand and four percy schmeiser has not planted canola on his farm and

is growing wheat oats and peace instead but increasingly there are volunteers of roundup resistant canola on his fields he informed monsanto which tested the plants and confirmed them as being their patient and canola but they would not remove the plants unless a full release a non-disclosure agreement was signed. and in that release form first of all they said we can never ever talk to anyone to the press or i knew what the terms of settlement work and he wanted us to sign give all our rights away well that was no way we're going to do that this new way we give our freedom of speech away edna and that take they would. they wanted us that we could never take them to court for the rest of our lives and it wasn't only pretty myself it was our children they what that did they would add to that the sign of the two that they would never speak if you're wrong it's been sent and that's a reason why we didn't want to sign it because there's no we want to give it right

away to a corporation. my father said ok we won't remove the plants then that i call points out will then we are going to remove my will get help and we will move remove the plant and we will send you the bill might sound silly mediately send us an e-mail and said you're not allowed to do to those plants whatever you want because they're our property so i told them it's your property it's on my property we're on the land we pay the taxes get your property off our land. percy hired a neighbor to remove the plants and send the bill to months on to over a total amount of six hundred canadian dollars monsanto refused to pay and luis mizer filed a claim in the local small claims court. can you imagine the end bears going to monsanto a billion dollar corporation coming to court for six hundred dollars but five

minutes before the trial might sadhu agreed to settle out of court and they agreed that there would be no gag order my wife and i could talk about it i could talk to you about it here tonight so it was not only a great victory for ourselves but now it opened it up for all farmers. in every part of the world if you are contaminated you know have an avenue where you can take my cat and not only monsanto you could take syngenta dupont to court if you were contaminated contaminated because now a precedent has been established. when i travel around the world and i meet so many people so many organizations that have such a dedication they want good food they want safe food and they don't want the environment

our air our land our soil contaminated with poisons and then when i see how hard these people work and for what they believe in he gives me the courage and the strength to carry on.

you've read his leaks now watch his show the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange will host his own program right here on r.t. . with the u.s. economy still on the ropes president obama pledges nother platform for change during his annual state of the union address. and the coming full circle thousands of egyptians angry at slow reforms gather in central cairo as the country marks the uprisings first anniversary.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow i'm wrong reception parties are getting a new talk show the world and media is already in a spin over its host it's the man who's exposed the wrongs of the highest levels of government and the military the wiki leaks founder julian assange let's get more now from our london correspondent laura smith standing by for us here my lord this really sounds like it could be the talk show to watch how did how did all of this come about. well it became clear to us that you in essence wanted to make this program it's going to be and also hosted by him and of course everybody knows about julian assange and his name has become famous some might say infamous as the founder of the web site wiki leaks which released the biggest mass disclosure of secret information coming out of the us in history and it's going to be broadcast

it's nice to be on o t it's going to focus on his favorite topic which of course is control of a c he's going to be talking through the series to ten what he calls iconic vision and how it. basically we can be doing is discussing issues old today with people he says will shape looks like essentially he's going to be challenging them on his ideas for how to secure a brighter future. paying over slavery we are going to be broadcasting this series of programs exclusively here on our t. and we're hoping that it is going to be as explosive as these wiki leaks releases and of course everybody is asking themselves whether that's going to happen and it's going to be filmed in the location where russia has been subjected to bail conditions for the last one hundred fourteen days without any charges having been leveled against him severally it could be

a very explosive charge lower we're already seeing a reaction out of almost every single news all around the world huge response to this announcement here on our three other program there would still weeks away from going on a. that's right hundreds of articles have been written prior to the announcement that it would be broadcast on artfully and generously it's an issue that is very big on twitter at the moment as well we knew already on choose day that julian was going to make this show but we're only able to reveal today wednesday that he is going to be broadcasting it on our t.v. and in fact of course i mean as knowledge himself is that is a huge name and just the timing of the filming of this series is quite significant in that the first episode is going to be short just a week before he goes to the sea queen court here in london in order to fight his own going extradition request to sweden for questioning on on these alleged sexual assault charges that's a case that's been going on for

a year now he says he's going to be delivering a new type of television of course he's no stranger to the camera i've interviewed him myself and he's done a lot of interviews through the course of these extradition hearing and also about the wiki leaks leaks and he says he's essentially very well placed to do a program like this because he calls himself a pioneer of a more just world and a victim of political repression himself so hundreds of articles it's very much in the on twitter as well we can't reveal the details on the guests they have to remain a secret for now but we will be having exclusive trainers and previews here not to say watch this space and looking forward to it all to you laura smith there live in london thank you. but the news executive. held talks with astonished to secure this program we've been talking about he says that our new host is full of fresh ideas. there were quite interesting discussions we said in our office after

christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be the only channels we right now to get our silence but i think it's quite natural that the future will be on our t.v. i mean r.t. always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any new story the show the real reasons behind the news that you would see on the mainstream channels when we talk to julian was very calm and relaxed which you would expect of course from someone who's been under house arrest for more than four hundred days he was very full of ideas and some of them were born as we talked so i think this will be a very hard hitting show. that he is coming to live in the heart of moscow to other news now as the u.s. presidential race picks up pace to head of november's vote obama is trying to ratchet up support for reelection he delivered his annual state of the union address making new promises of change your head he's a guy named you can was listening. his goal was to highlight his achievements and

lay out new promises as far as the message policies he speech was full of heartfelt success stories about the economy and jobs creation but there is a lot of skepticism among american social inequality in america is now at a level unseen since the great depression the top one percent of the wealthiest in the country are making a killing while the middle class is shrinking dramatically and that is getting wider american jobs are being outsourced to other countries president obama's state of the union speech sounded motivational full of good intentions but the fact that almost all his major economic initiatives got bogged down in congress like the jobs act that he put forward last year is giving a sense to many that he might be saying all the right words but they may not be necessarily followed by on the foreign policy front he ran on promises to end wars but while he pulled troops out of iraq and started winding down the war in afghanistan with a pledge to bring all troops home by two thousand and fourteen america's wars

didn't stop president obama bombed levy a last year to the tune of bringing about democracy also the u.s. may now be on the verge of an all out confrontation with iran in the speech he once again said all options are on the table washington is now actively building up its military presence in the persian gulf region new u.s. drone bases are popping up in the arabian peninsula so we see that while president obama went through with the promises to scale back on the record of ghana's then he's been actively building up a platform for possibly new wars president obama certainly prides itself on his role in killing osama bin laden and a number of other terrorists but the means by which the u.s. is going about the task of chasing down terrorists raises a lot of red flags so some experts argue that what washington is doing is fighting terror and provoking terror at the same time but in president obama's presentation everything sounds just great on the war on terror front. he's got a nature to counterpoint that when our president obama reiterated his commitment to

cutting down on military spending and trimming beyond forces by u.s. professor poll shelton foote says that his pledges at all and so with washington's foreign policy calls he used the cute little code phrase that we're going to have an enduring relationship with death in a stand which means we're going to have bases in that country and stay there for ever whether they want to serve. likewise he said regional gadhafi syria's next day and if iran doesn't behave there the after that so. it is totally contradictory to say that he's going to be able to pay down the american debt and expand government spending programs domestically with savings from bringing soldiers older moore's what in fact he has plans to expand what he didn't mention trying to find any also said that we have a pacific strategy and the world will know that we are number one.

and that was a thinly veiled threat against china even i mean how insane can you be china's holding more than a trillion dollars of our debt we've got tens of thousands of factories there we're highly coordinated doing depended on them now and he's threatening them to. it's good to have you with us you're watching r.t. live from moscow it's now ten minutes past the hour still to come in the program a meeting of monetary minds the business and banking elite descend on dark horse for the world economic forum find out how much focus will fall on the reforming the global financial system. plus searching for a fair salary why a legal loophole in india has left many without permanent jobs or stable income. thousands of egyptians are gathering in cairo's to reus square marking a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak but it's not

a celebration they're still angry at the slow pace of reforms it's also a landmark day in the country as almost thirty years of emergency rule is being partially lifted although some key police powers will remain ending the draconian laws being one of the protesters key demands but there are still many for whom it's just not enough they won't rest until the army steps down as artie's maria phenomena reports from cairo. a year after its historic revolution in egypt is far from calm protests have become a part of everyday life and no longer an event one of the revolutions and a significant achievement i. could never believe would come out and speak out like this that there are several reasons for egypt's people to take out to the street following the uprising that ousted mubarak last february the country's economy is struggling unemployment is at its highest in decades and while the newly elected

islam is dominated parliament debate the country's future resentment grows against military rule and the feeling they hijacked the revolution was organised we want them to do what the military should do to protect its citizens and not rule the country. in want to be sure that there will not destroy our solutions achievements they betrayed us the military dominated egypt's politics since the fall of the monarchy sixty years ago some skeptics say the twenty eleven revolution did little to change this trend. when mubarak toppled down people welcome to the supreme council of the armed forces to lead the transition but the initial euphoria began to fade when the military council was still in place six months later after one bloody crackdown on peaceful protestors after another playmate least eighteen lives tober there isn't any doubt left here scaf should go i believe that they're

there i mean i believe that we don't want them anywhere here in this chair that's what i believe in the words and that's what most of all i know believe and we will work whatever as these are works and discard are scared because the boon arabic for army lawyers campaign they worked through the army's wrongdoings between our female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories under the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to military trials that are against less than two thousand in mubarak's thirty years claim it's leave when the new president is elected in june but if you believe the promises that once were broken so easily some also fear that a general smith stay all behind the scenes reluctance to relinquish their power they've had for decades with protests pushing them to leave the one thing is clear

the fight is not yet over grief notion r t cairo. well egypt now has a newly elected parliament with the muslim brotherhood holding the majority of seats of the army has pledged to give up power when a new president is sworn in with an election expected to be held now that will be in june well across the program here on r.t. that is coming your way next hour period of elena's guests will be debating the country's future for now a quick preview for you. if the united states wants to ingratiate themselves with the egyptian people what they've got to do is we've got to offer you man. ceri made we've got to offer loans and services to the egyptian people and not so much you know cut the government i mean if you think it's on their side and we wish nothing but the best for them but well i don't i think most egyptians don't believe that ok after thirty years it's hard for them to believe that the last twelve months hasn't changed and i think that's why we've got a lot of work to do here a lot of you want to. ruin tensions if you just leave egypt alone completely and

let them decide for themselves let them decide their own foreign policy if they want to tear up the peace treaty with israel. i mean you're saying there isn't just ourselves it should be there is politics but there's a lot of humanitarian relief that we can help and that's the kind of work we should be doing. now a quarter past the hour here in moscow there is confusion over events in the libyan town of bani walid after moammar gadhafi loyalists seized the city on monday i reports of five people killed up to twenty five injured in clashes with government forces but libya's interior minister says it's not clear who actually controls the city and claims the clashes erupted due to internal disagreements between rival militias meanwhile elders in the town say they'll appoint their own local representatives and reject any interference from the interim authorities fighters for the national transitional council have now set up checkpoints outside bani

walid it comes as the n.c.c. has been struggling to unify its armed forces violent protests in several cities across the country prompted at the council's chairman to warn of a possible civil war journalist simon ourself says many libyans feel they're just not getting what they fought so hard for. the thing about revolutions is they're not simply passive events there is a whole awakening of the population in the middle east but also in 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. 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 is very how can i put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there is 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 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. and so you 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 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. well we do have plenty more news and stories for you on our website of course r t dot com let's have a quick look now of what you can find there while america defends itself against cyber terror one former spy chief says the country's actually responsible but waging web attacks on other regions find out all the details online also trading a real gold for black gold iran will reportedly bypass the latest round of western sanctions by accepting the precious metal as payment for its oil exports the full

story standing by for you at r.t. dot com. artie's coming to you live from moscow where the so-called one percent the global business elite have now descended on davos switzerland to seal lucrative deals and search for the salvation of capitalism and that means it's time for the world economic forum that kicks off today perhaps unsurprisingly though the ninety nine percent who have been worst hit by the financial crisis have been locked out and left to look in from the outside list to reports all right i'm here i made it to davos and the world economic forum not my first time i'm not alone no return to.