to lead the transition but the nissho euphoria began to fade when the military council was still in place six months later after one bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters after another claiming at least eighteen lives of tober there isn't any doubt left here scaf should go i believe that they're there i mean our life i believe that we don't want them anywhere here in this chair that's what i believe in words and that's what most of what all i you know believe and we will work in whatever happens as these are works week and discard are scared because a boon arabic for army lawyers campaign they worked through will the army's wrongdoings be to no female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories under the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to military trials that against less than two thousand and mubarak's thirty years. claim it and leave when the new president is elected in june but

a few believe the promises that once were broken so easily some also fear that the generals may stay all behind the scenes reluctance to relinquish the power they've had for decades with protests pushing them to leave one thing is clear the fight is not yet over grief an option r t cairo. well do head over to r.t. dot com for the latest from egypt as well as thoughts on what the revolution has really brought and here's what else we've got lined up for you right now at our dot com the u.s. is tightening the noose around net freedom but a former spy chief has come clean about cyber snooping and even digital attacks on other countries. and big business gets one over on the politicians as iran's sanctions do little to stop western oil john's trading with terror on details on that on c dogcart. as the world's business top brass descends

on switzerland some of the so-called one percent are saying capitalism is widening the pit of inequality but the economic elite from about forty nations at the davos economic forum are out to save the financial system stem the crisis and of course seal a few lucrative deals lauren lyster is at the ski resort for us where she also met a few who were locked out of the talks. it's certainly on the agenda talk of remodelling capitalism debate about capitalism and they can talk all they want though you have to wonder how serious people are about that discussion when many of the corporations that are present here are those that have benefited from this this type of capitalism so although klaus schwab the founder of the world economic forum has said that capitalism in its current form has no place in the world around us these are the corporations and banks that are represented here many of which have benefited from government bailouts in the case of banks from central bank easy

money policies in the case case of many banks and corporations so whether or not these are the right people to be having that conversation to be talking about reform i'm not quite sure you also have to remember that while the official genet agenda yes deals with capitalism the unofficial agenda of davos is very much about making corporate deals and that might in fact from the official agenda as you can probably recall some corporations here shell out up to three hundred thousand dollars for a membership to the world economic forum in order to be here they're shelling out that kind of money presumably for more than to talk about capitalism there have been reports in the past every year of the deals that go on the networking of this some sixteen hundred business leaders including a thousand executives they're here at davos some of these sessions dealing with remodeling capitalism specifically talk about the occupy movement is identifying some of these problems with capitalism that they're supposed to be talking about here at this forum bailout inequality those being some of the issues however none of the occupy activists have been invited they're building igloos not too far from

where the davos forum is taking place there very much highlighting this occupy movement that is swept the globe klaus schwab was asked about that he said it's hard to identify a leader that was his excuse we're not likely to see them here unless of course mr schwab himself goes down to those igloos and maybe recruits a few so that we do hear those voices inside the fore. that is laura lister reporting right there where you watching r.t. live from moscow twenty two minutes past the hour here russia's president says he's willing to meet with opposition members including representatives of those who protested against what they called the unfair parliamentary vote to retreat medvedev also promised that an exciting political season will follow the upcoming presidential elections peter oliver has more. one of the main points that president medvedev made today was that it's well he really isn't done with politics just yet now of course he will step down in the role of president in march after the present

new presidential elections but he has said he hinted that perhaps he could appear on the ballot paper again going to see me office now. that to me a putin has said should he be elected as president in march his elections then he will make to me to get if his prime minister something which may get if they accept it no it could have as has said though that no matter what happens in the elections in march he will remain in politics now he also said that he was willing to meet with the leadership of the opposition leadership and leaders behind protests which took place following the pala mentary elections we saw in that december here in russia now he said he wasn't willing to meet with individual protesters but that organizes those people behind the protests that he was willing to sit down with them and discuss their grievances though this was an address by the president to a group of journalism students at a moscow university plenty of things that were being discussed one of them was the

case of mikhail khodorkovsky the president saying that the holocaust he case shouldn't become a political football that shouldn't be politicized and also dismissed rumors they've been circulating that last summer he had planned to release the jailed tycoon he said there is no truth in that whatsoever now because these were journalism students that he was speaking to and the subject of journalism and the media did crop up person image did of saying that there was too many state owned television stations in russia and that they really need to cut down the number of those perhaps only having worn as the mouthpiece of the government and to have more private television companies and more private news stations in the country. talking to mentor now with the business. thanks rory as we've been reporting on r t the world's biggest economic forum is taking place in the swiss resort of davus this year the get together is being elder

under the banner of reshaping capitalism prompted by four years of financial turmoil and political protests the global elite will grapple with the thorny issue of how to create a fairer world when you see the compensation gaps that exist the unemployment levels that exist whole generations of employed potential employees that don't have jobs today the youth in different parts of the world yeah there are some fundamental issues that have to be looked at and quite frankly if we don't start with ourselves to understand our role from a business standpoint in dealing with these issues i don't know how they're going to be solved i mean to me this is a classic example of how it's a complex issue it clearly requires collaboration between the business community between governments and key policymakers and that degree of collaboration doesn't exist it's pretty hard to see how these problems are going to be solved but i want term. market watchers claim this is likely to be volatile for investors but

emerging markets look appealing certainly when it comes to fundamentals which remain strong among the bric economies the risk aversion though comes from the euro zone crisis which is fueling a global recession joshua told him from russian telecoms major m.t.s. believes emerging markets are the only place to go for those wanting to capitalize on the growth. it's sometimes a challenge given the volatility that we see in global economies to get people interested in emerging markets however for the medium and long term we feel that investors need to look towards emerging markets because this is going to be the most natural place for growth in the world russia has what everybody needs resources to some degree intellectual capital and we feel that we're in a good position to capitalize on the long term. look at the markets oil is falling for a second raising allegations of just really is that it will join europe been boycotting the union while this is being offset by a rising u.s.

stockpiles of crude nevertheless we're seeing a drop of eighty five cents for light sweet crude. the stocks now in europe the trading in the red way down by pharmaceuticals and telecommunications shares of ericsson tumbled by as much as forty percent after the firm reported a sixty five percent profit decline for the fourth quarter banks also under pressure on a more upbeat note chip maker holdings added more than three percent in london boy by robust earnings from apple will look at them in the second and now to russia equity markets. they're backing the global trend banking and energy stocks are among the main gain a second look at what's moving them isaacson dedes burbank and the t v are both rallying on improving sentiment about the euro zone's a debt crisis that more than two percent however russia's world major lukoil the biggest private company is down hard four percent after dropping almost two percent in the previous session. and now the ruble is set new highs for twenty twelve

against the dollar and the euro in my sex trading liquidity squeeze in the russian banking sector driven by tax payments in the oil price have been supporting the currency the euro is also down against the bill off to the european central bank was said to be opposed to restructuring its greek bonds. sold the business news for now we will be back next hour with an update.

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both control dangerous knowledge and control like no one should have that great input patterns on nature and right as long as my wife and i have quite within us we will always fall down and fight for the rights of farmers always and beautiful 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 our seeds were planted again. he also ruled that all our profit from our ninety ninety eight the north probably 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 property as usual the power company had the surrounding vegetation controlled by applying the herbicide roundup 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 the normal rate that you would spray. roundup 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 multi-national 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 heels 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 for. system to the pesticide round in smokers region three farmers agreed to plant monsanto's new g.m.o. canola. due to a heavy storm during the harvest freshly cut g.m.o. canola drifted into percy schmeiser fields 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 nine hundred ninety eight schmeiser 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 bay 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 on grounds of environmental pollution see destruction and slander from that time on months out o. how 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. 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 myth.

haven't kennedy ation or whatever but these are things that happen. he did everything to bring us down financially and mentally and that's what they're doing is to be mentally and financially break people. just the are totally ruthless they have no ethics they have no morals it's the bottom line. and. i had a trust fund to help 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 no 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 was and finally i said to her is it 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 count 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 month santo 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 judgment 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 paul and flown then to win by birds or by direct sea flown and away in by or farmers transportation if your contaminated against your wishes you 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 thousand nine hundred eight he would. 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 of a problem is contaminated if it's half percent one percent two percent it does not matter you no longer own your seeds or plants. after this decision percy schmeiser and his wife were 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 photos and 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 no 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 doubt poland and i guess 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. months santo'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 them 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 is seeds he must pay monsanto about forty dollars license fee on each hector he owns each year he must permit want soundest 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 might sound or can take all its profit or monsanto can make him destroy his crop and a farmer 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 of monsanto takes her rights away have a farm even taken months hundreds of courts so all her freedom of speech or expression is taken away total domination and controlled by a multinational over a farmer just like stamping that farmer into a 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 in a bow 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 sandoz investigators arrived on my farm it was price of a 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 and 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.