with program and bloggers making fun of the opposition portraying them in prayer outside the u.s. embassy on sundays claiming they are connected to the us state department and the opposition filming funny cartoons about politicians made out of lego. getting information out there is becoming easier all the time but the internet is a very different medium to television while on t.v. it's enough to just look into the camera like this to viewers attention not so although that to me you are police video reach millions of lives it's not a lot it just. it also has to be provoked to brazen and sometimes project a whole different image. it's no surprise then that as a character from harry porter became an overnight hit it's an industry doing this

you will. see what i see you stuck with something yes that ready to go you'll make it and you're sure that when you're critical of it would you. put a bug out there but it was just beat them. but i don't consider. apart from catching images memorable catch phrases are used against those in the corridors of power opposition blogger alex enough while me was the first upload his shop which is tongues online a year ago he labelled the ruling united russia party the leaves and scoundrels insulting the phrase it first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magine of all media in russia and beyond a year after party won in the parliamentary elections and reworked the catch phrase belittles the vote for the party of these and scoundrels for ten years of a. the growth of the party fees in scoundrels united russia. the mastermind behind

that video and state duma deputy robert proved his party can also fight its wars online broke out superpowers the use of being able to my aim was to provoke her to preen reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work. in that russia without putin would rise why not give away your country your beautiful girlfriend to some foreign guy what will happen to the caucasus nothing less just give it away to. respond in your technical videos made a very professional you can see that a highly paid suresh a list it would appeal to primitive responses but works one hundred percent first thought is that there is indeed no intro without put but videos from the opposition are just as. an added whole a trend of this election season eavesdropping on politicians and posting recordings

online or those taking part in a massive opposition rally in december were surprised to find out that one of their inspirations very slim self described them in a phone as yet of course we are here from each other a problem is our property or. your property or to your comfort or. it's naive to expect from any side when we are living in an election year there are no holds barred in this war not even interfering in someone's private life or. a lack of privacy for today's politicians is already a modern day reality and with fifteen million russians going online today about forty percent of the adult population she's the future is predicted to be filled with them online political other tars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the gradual than r t. that all of us. henri's latest videos and much more are available for you on our

website artie dot com here's what's waiting for you online right now from a web t.v. talk show host with the leaks founder julian assange just to get his own show right here on our team point out what you can expect from the program on the world wide reaction to the news on our website. and the sort of ration of the year of the dragon in thailand went up in flames as far works exploded setting homes on fire see what happened on t. dot com. the u.n. security council is expected to vote over the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the escalating conflict in syria the draft calls on the regime there to comply with an arab league proposal which would see. power

paving the way for a coalition government with the opposition becomes as the arab league's monitoring mission to syria suffered a setback after six countries pulled out of the u.n. tonight russia has made it clear it will veto any security council resolution that would allow foreign military intervention an estimated seven and a half thousand people have been killed since the unrest began ten months ago including civilians rebels and government forces has the latest from the nastiness . saying make it by heading it said it's from the gulf states leave. mission incomplete leaving behind a country in a deep in crisis it's never going to be easy. to. walk right in the way it gave the missions create problematic the opposition to keep them on it is it being too closely allied. with the government the

government's now accused of being part of a foreign conspiracy and there were logistical complaints to the observers seem to equipped on the ground and there were concerns that they were simply too few numbers to undertake such a major task but if things were bad at the beginning now they seem even worse following in saudi arabia's footsteps all the gulf states withdrew their observers off to damascus rejected their recent proposal that included president decides cede power to a deputy and form a unity government what's interesting is that these countries is very interested in democracy and they have nothing this is the most interesting this is something pani will talk about. what will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi parties are but what about to do about the west's talk about syria which would be changed and

leave saudi arabia as it has damascus is rejection was no surprise those sides of the conflict of shame equal unwillingness to soften their stance even when the daily death toll in the country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the road to damascus yet another in mind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial maybe into the country's crisis is seen as controversial the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is good enough evidence concrete evidence about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very keen to then take to the u.n. the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china would feel compelled to work but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the monitors things and i know more about what's going on the ground and they think. at the beginning and so. you know looks like you know we're going back to square one

as the death toll rises early a proposal being floated to increase the number of observers on the ground and provide them with un training could be a life saving one but for now these kinds of interests on hold in fact much of the substance of the report pieces on both sides seems to have been lost in the flurry of diplomatic activity now france and britain have joined forces at the united nations to try to end president assad's rule waving good bye to their gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in for the arab league i think. it's diplomacy will give anyone to help the syrian but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not all believe the screwed council so a national dialogue through these reforms despite damascus and the mission to be extended for another month and the observers officially saying that they can

continue with the task behind the scenes and the sentiment is much less optimistic it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreement on what action should be taken to stop the violence and putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a rate. r.t. damascus syria. well are coming your way this hour on the program. forty percent of watchers corn crop. ethanol food versus fuel why america's corn production has become a hot topic over whether it ends up on people's plates or at the pumps to help how the nation's cars. and activists are waiting to get their voices heard as a global decision makers gather at the economic forum in davos for their new business bash. street demos and cyberattacks i.v. . staged in poland against the government's decision to sign an international act

but enforces intellectual property rights also is expected to join the us canada japan and others in agreement similar to america's stop online piracy act which led to a p.d.f. temporary protest blackout last week. has more. the decision of the polish government to join in with the internet anti-piracy treaty known as the a.c.t.a. has already caused some dissent in the central european state several thousand people have gathered here choose the evening in front of the presidential palace here in warsaw to protest against what they believe could lead to serious censorship on the internet now the protesters held banners saying down with the censorship and also had their mouths shut with sticking tape as of symbolizing their protest against what they believe could be in fact the biggest censorship among polish websites in this country but this is not the only step which the protesters took against the signing of this treaty we understand that the hacker

group anonymous also hacked several governments and websites including the prime minister to fix website and digital culture ministries with along with a dozen other governmental websites which were also hacked by the group they own they also published a very stern warning a message saying that they have some very sensitive information about the polish authorities and should they continue with the signing of this treaty and the information with then may be published. as far as wonderstone according to many experts there's no turning back and the agreement will be signed the poland will join this treaty we're understand that this will happen during thursday in japan. there are a year after the ousting of egypt's hosni mubarak cairo's iconic central square has been occupied once again thousands of protesters have gathered to call for the interim government to immediately palate thousands have been killed in recent months as troops clamp down on several demonstrations. on trial but activists are

angry that some of these key allies are still pulling the strings a new parliament has been elected and is drawing up a constitution still reigns supreme. has finally been lifted but egyptian author. filmmaker for the sense that change is little. i don't see it as being that big of a shift i mean we lived under military rule for thirty years and that gave the government their storage had to do just about what they wanted today we live under military rule so to me it's just a formal matter and that they they lift emergency law while we live under the rule of a military dreamt up since the military took over general twenty eighth over fifteen thousand civilians that we know of have faced military courts and have received trials of anywhere between six months to fifteen years and a formal matter like lifting emergency law means absolutely nothing when we have

a newly elected parliament that is still under the thumb of military they've tasted power they have massive economic interests in the country again everything that's happened in egypt really needs to be looked at from an economic perspective in that there's a group of cronies of one box and his government that were in power they've been moved out of power and there's a new group of cronies that are in place and central to that group of power hungry rulers today are the military generals and they will not just let go and hand over power like that without having guarantees that their interests will be secured. the world's business elite searching for ways to reform the current state of capitalism and those most affected by the financial turmoil shunted to the sidelines the world economic for about the swiss resort of davos is opening its doors for a second day of debates what is there in this to has more. the there is an official agenda at davos and then there is an unofficial agenda at davos which is one that you also hear about and also that you see when you're on the sidelines and not in

all of these sessions that are kind of the official program we heard on the stage some concerns about capitalism some criticism about capitalism also we heard some defenses because of course at davos there are plenty of people to defend the current system of capitalism which they have benefited from brian moynihan the c.e.o. of bank america of america is one who was saying you know the western capitalism is subject to boom and bust this is part of it but come on there are so many people that we talked to when interviewed on our show that talk about how long and how painful the costs are of this bust that is it here by accident and has a lot to do with maybe some of the bailouts that his bank has benefited from and the boom years of easy money that they did as well so there obviously are plenty of defenders and we'll have to see if anything really comes out of that conversation i've seen some reports of billionaires depending. concerned about inequality and having concerns about capitalism in that regard we'll have to see if it just

amounts to some talk because i'm seeing a lot of little business action go along on the sidelines with participants who are bringing up inequality in this issue of inequality so i did talk to them and their concerns were some of the concerns that have been concerns from outside of davos over the years that these are a bunch of elite getting together to talk about solving the world's problems in a way that's not democratic as if they have actual implications and they do turn into policy in some way shape or form there's a lot of people locked out of that conversation but there is an occupy tinge to it and definitely a world economic forum focus so let's just hear from from their words what one of them had to say to me but overall they're saying they're improving the state of the world and to me that's truly going to you bruce stick at a two to tell you that their decisions and or are not working they're doing what they're discussing is going to have global ramifications that are going to affect the entire seven billion people on this planet. there is a big line at star con amidst all those people still be speaking not on the record some of these are in closed door sessions that press are privy to at all but some

are if they're really about talking about the impact of democracy the in baghdad people that are upset over inequality or is this about figuring out where the best investment opportunities lie that's what we'll have to find out we'll keep you posted but for now i'm lauren lyster here in davos. and the russian representatives at the forum in davos also have something on for this course in the business. and in the business bulletin board does russian business dream about the most that's right cheap all loans now that dream may come true speaking at the world economic forum in davos they had a new state agency tells business r.t. loans might become three times less expensive for russian exports details join me in about ten minutes c about. russian the progress spacecraft has launched from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan there's no one its way to the international space station this is the first space flight of twenty

twelve is expected to reach the us this after a two day journey to the ship is carrying more than two tons of fuel food and the equipment as well as personal packages for crew members from their families who are currently six people station that you know isis monitoring and conducting scientific experiments. for some world using before you know at this hour an eighteen story building has collapsed in the center of rio de janeiro reports say that two people are dead and up to eleven could still be trapped on the bubble dozens of firefighters and paramedics are working on the scene looking for survivors layers of dust and debris cover the surrounding area making the search difficult i would this is say there was a strong smell of gas in an explosion for the building collapsed. libya's defense minister has arrived in the town of bani walid after the lists of former leader of the market of the seize control of the area on monday the minister

has begun negotiations with the militiamen who drove out pro-government forces three days ago people were killed and twenty five others were wounded in the battle retaking of the town is a major challenge the new government of forty. one of the owners of the cruise liner capsized off the italian coast the noise telling the ship's captain to change the vessels route this comes after captain francesco schettino told a friend he was pressured by managers to steer the ship to the area where the collision occurred the company says the captain was going too fast to be so close to shore to raise the house arrest facing charges of manslaughter and abandoning his ship before all passengers were evacuated from the us. now the farms of rural america produce around thirty nine percent of the world's corn every year but not all of it ends up on dilute tables instead of feeding the hungry

almost half of the u.s. corn supply goes to making ethanol the waterpower american cars as artie's christine reports this has many asking which is more important food or fuel. it is a process that comes. with the price tag for the american way not just from farm to food. but from farm to fuel and this is where it all starts where the thieves are planted and the corn grows it is the most simple part of a process that has become anything but simple the production and use of ethanol one largely considered an environmental one has become very political being blamed for everything from the power of the state of iowa to world hunger fifteen percent right now all of the food increases in this country that you've seen in the last year are directly associated with this policy that policy a subsidy paid by the u.s.

government to encourage the production and use of corn ethanol it lasted thirty three years and cost more than twenty billion dollars oklahoma senator tom coburn led the charge to do away with the subsidy and won but the government mandate requiring oil companies to use ethanol is still in place so just about anywhere you go ten percent of what you put into your car is ethanol. even if your car is a race car. nascar's partnership with ethanol a sign that the pressure on the corn supply will continue forty percent of last year's corn crop. went to ethanol that leaves the other sixty percent to go toward food for people and animals and with the price per bushel more than doubling in the last five years it's no wonder food prices are going up when demand goes up for.

farmers plant more corn. and they can't. research scholar tim searching or says that leads to the shortage and increased prices of other crops and it's not just this country in other countries where people rely on corn meal as one of the only meals for their families. the price hike has been devastating. ethanol farmers and plant workers argue that the claims are exaggerated since leftovers are actually used to make high protein animal feed everything else from the fire or from the protein. and fat the corn oil is left over that is what over and ready to put animal feed and still it doesn't change the fact that one sixth of the world's corn supply is burned in american cars that is enough corn to feed three hundred fifty million people for an entire year.

raising the question of fairness in the increasing competition between fuel and food. in iowa christine for south r.t. . the business news is next i was in the target. almost twenty four minutes past ten am here in moscow watching business on r.t. russian exports will be able to get cheap loans things to a new agency created by a giant state bank. it will give up credits of just three percent annual interest rates that compared with an average of nine percent russian banks charge now in an interview at the world economic forum in davos they had a venue holding a frog called explained why now russian farmers have a hard time competing. with former rivals so intuitional bettis is simple it's clear for example you know that you supported him but you drive from brazil but you're from canada exposed to build the kind of the brazilian beneficial for what

their sport is just thirty four percent loads for him kitchen a good deal so the russian banks get a wide let's say civil group the floyd for example is such sure so it's just one more issue with. this procedure by which. we believe that's life we used. to kill myself to be fun to watch the funny. and larger markets are suffering some from the biggest capital outflows since two thousand and eight and vestment advisors calls were capital says in the past four months it reached two and three quarter trillion dollars and russia is no exception last year money was leaving the country faster than predicted but speaking at the davos economic forum the head of the country's direct investment fund told r.t. the negative trend should refer south to the presidential elections in march. if you put the people to the elections. to see the successful people although it will

be selection for you to do it yourself the risk we believe that to hold the pick up will be kicking off if you like three because russia led group called the stories told us what to do you know for sure there are the slow discussions with the leading investors to the world let me do this to russia we would do would open up new transactions to the next one looks at the full selection. and the sign now to have a look at the markets oil first and it's heading higher this hour but it got a major boost on wednesday when the u.s. fed reserve kept interest rates at record lows the low cost of borrowing supports the u.s. economy boosting oil demand this hour the guys topping one hundred dollars a barrel brand is at around one hundred and ten and a half dollars. and now on to equities asian indices are mixed tokyo's nikkei continues to slip further into bread sliding down from wednesday's close near

a three month high at home called the hang seng is gaining valued someone one and a quarter percent higher this hour as traders come back after the lunar new year holidays. and the russian markets are quite bullish on the opening in fact the r.t.s. has already managed to put on. well more those three quarters of percent the my sex is gaining one. and three quarters of a percent looking ahead of thursday's trade and russia have gained mazo from alpha capital says the focus will be on external events today we're going to see rule of ball call for us mark recchi nomic data which used to be special attention to so it will happen initial jobless claims will have home sales data will have global goods orders so all this should give us a bit clearer picture was going on in the us economy of course the market will be sensitive also or think the solution of the grid problem is to come out shortly

probably says the measure factor which hinders the markets from rolling. russian banks increase their assets by a quarter last year while the t.v. managed to grow almost sixty percent as a very bank is still ahead of its rival its assets succeeded three hundred seventy billion dollars which is twenty percent more than the year before bank of moscow rounds out the top five that managed to increase its assets by almost twenty percent after it went through as sanitation procedure and received a record state support. and that's all the latest from the business team on the back about fifteen minutes see that.

well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. the headlines that are vying for votes online new dynamic and russian politics as it millions of people take to the internet at the presidential elections borrow videos and creative campaigning. the un is under pressure to act on syria on the departure of six gulf nations from the arab league observer mission to the country the security council is expected to

vote in the coming days on a resolution that calls on the syrian president to step down. plans to enforce an. opponent thousands of people onto the streets after wave of cyber attacks on government websites testers are saying egremont designed to protect intellectual property rights will lead to censorship. talks to a british author whose recent book entitled after the arab spring predicted the egyptian revolution gives his expert views on the middle east next. i'm talking to joe and all bradley who's a foreign correspondent who's dedicated his life to writing about the middle east to publications all round the world in the wake of the arab spring he says fall from the democratic pluralism that the west assumed would take over what's in fact washing into the power vacuum is mists.