in cities across the country in warsaw and what's left in other cities and towns protesting against this you don't. know the answer conversely trade agreement which was signed today by the people who are protesting there were holding banners down with the censorship and the internet believing that this agreement could in fact serious censorship on the internet and that many polish websites would be banned blocked they also had. glued to their mouths symbolizing this way that their mouths will be shot by this new agreement and we also know of several very harsh hacker attacks on polish governmental websites including prime ministers website including the digital and cultural ministry's websites the attacks were as far as we know performed by the anonymous hacker group very well known in the hacker world and they also published a very stern statement in fact saying that they had very sensitive information

about the authorities in poland and that they would definitely publish this information if that act paper is signed so now it's signed we are waiting for more reaction from these protesters in seoul there are several more european states which are waiting to sign this document some experts in fact. expected that the european union would avert signing this document given all the criticism but now if there's no going back it has been signed the only step which is left this is they would have written fixation of this document by the country's parliaments and we are expecting a certainly it will be ratified in poland given that the ruling party the party of the current prime minister is also ruling in the parliament has a majority and we there's a very slim chance that this document would not be ratified in the post parliament it would take effect and we could be expecting more protests the people who are protesting in the united states and here in poland they share the same values they afraid that the internet would be censored that the websites would be blocked and in. this whole situation here in poland comes just several days after similar

situations in the united states with hacker attacks of the anonymous group on governmental websites with. major websites like wikipedia and google partially obscured and blocking their websites in protest to the s.l. would be document we could be seeing the same situation here in the in europe the same which is happening in the united states. ati's alexia show us the reporting right now let's turn our attention out of out of syria where government forces are reportedly assaulting the city of hama dozens of people allegedly killed across the country over just the past twenty four hours at the u.n. security council is expected to vote over the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the escalating conflict the draft calls on the syrian regime to comply with an arab league proposal which would see president assad cede power paving the way for a coalition government with the opposition it comes as the arab league's crucial monitoring mission to syria suffered

a setback after six countries called out calling on the u.n. to act russia has made it clear that it will veto any security council resolution that would allow for 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 sara furthest the latest now from damascus. saying they get by and heading hey it's said it's from the gulf states leave the airport their mission incomplete leaving behind a country in a deepening crisis is never going to be easy so you won't want to stay. i don't want right from the word gay the missions prefer problematic the opposition accused him on it is of being too closely aligned with the government the government's now accused of being part of the foreign conspiracy and they will it

just tickle complains to the observers seemed ill 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 cede power. to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these countries is very interested in democracy and they have nothing and this is the most interesting this is something pani will talk about. what you will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi-party system but what about to do. the west's come up talk about syria which would be changed and leave saudi arabia as it has damascus is rejection was a surprise they sites of the conflict of shame equal willingness 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 rates damascus yes and no the remind the spiraling situation. of the observers is such a creature of a bid to the country's crisis is seen as clinch the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is good enough everything is concrete everything about human rights abuses on the part of the also very seem to think so the u.n. and 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 than they did. at the beginning and so it all looks like you know we're going back to square one as the death toll rises the earlier proposal being floated to increase the number of

observers on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving word but for now those plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report that they graded 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 goodbye to that gulf state colleagues some observers remain but it's small consolation syria didn't close the doors in front of the arab league i think. it's diplomacy would give anyone to help the syrian but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not our bleakness crude concept 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 very. r.t. damascus syria or who's coming to you live from the heart of moscow and still ahead for you on the program we are in the powerbrokers playground in switzerland to see whether dark horse falls on deaf ears. or do apologize having some technical glitches that are quite obviously or what it's the online election battle nothing is off limits as russia's presidential campaign hot stop political activists are moving away from traditional tactics embracing the internet whether promoting ideas or spreading fear as web campaigning is becoming a bigger part than ever before are to use your powers the story. is about as they

want is that you were right is that ones that are going to look at the race suits and ties and slogans called out from the poor d m r the traditional election season is there but they're no longer considered police. today's campaigning has gone online in a whole new trend in russia. with programming 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 attract viewers attention not so on the net to me you are police video reach me is

a lie it's not i'm not 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 potter became an overnight hit it's an industry doing the symbol. of i don't see what i see you stuck with something you just go to the door you'll make. sure that when you're going to do. propaganda but it will just be them. but it don't convince you of a puff from catching images memorable catchphrases are used against those in the corridors of power opposition blogger alex enough while me was the first upload his shot which is tongues online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party the leaves and scoundrels.

brazen first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magical media in russia and beyond a year after party won in the parliamentary elections and reworked the catchphrase felicity's a vote for the party of thieves and scoundrels for ten years of economic growth but the party of easing 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 supreme reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work. in that russia with. rides why not give away your country your beautiful girlfriend to some foreign guys what will happen to the caucasus nothing less just give it away to you responding and more technical this

video has made a very professional you can see that a highly paid survey shows it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent first thought is that there is indeed no intro with output but videos from the opposition are just. an out of 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 boris himself described them in a phone as. their. for me its future of government is. for your property what you comfort your. side when we are living in election year there are no board in this war not even to fearing in someone's private life so good. a lack of privacy for today's politicians is already a modern day reality and with fifty million russians going online today about forty

percent of the adult population. is predicted to be she deals with them online avatars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the grandchildren r t. all of our stories our latest video is much much more always available on our website r.t. dot com let's have a look and see what's waiting for you one line right now from the web whistleblower to t.v. talk show host wiki leaks founder julian assange gets his own show and will be right here on our t.v. and find out what to expect and the worldwide reaction to the news so that's standing by for you on our web site. at the celebration of the year of the dragon in thailand went off in flames as fireworks six below did setting the homes ablaze see this devastating footage at r.t. dot com.

now quarter past the hour here in moscow it is day two of us as political and political those who are political and business power brokers of the world economic forum are they look to restore confidence to the economy and to capitalism itself but for some though the current downturn isn't the fault of the system while others argue that radical reform is urgently needed lauren lyster is in davos for us. so far we've heard a lot of debate about capitalism and just various sessions of it which is a lot of talking but not necessarily solutions being put forward yet one thing interesting today although this is the world economic forum politics is on the agenda and a number of world leaders heads of state europe rats are here today some of that attention turns to the arab spring people here at the forum try to weigh the

economic implications are reports are coming that investors at davos are stumped over the arab spring and what that means for investment in countries like egypt that have seen their borrowing costs or and you still see protests on the street as we've seen a year after that uprising so for the business community the investment community that is really looking for merkel pledged more money they certainly didn't get what they wanted pledged instead that that the solution that eurozone leaders have had come to that she's kind of led the charge on for fiscal integration and structural reforms that is what she can offer at this point along with a plea for more patience so not sure that that's what investors want to hear that wanted more bailout money pledged the irony of course is that in a year where we've seen occupy movements really grow and really take a major news they've made it onto the agenda the world economic forum and a number of participants are talking about inequality yet the occupy protesters

that are here are by no means invited they're not having their voices heard within the forum there instead relegated of course to outside where you would typically expect activists to be limited to. the reporting by russian of representatives up before him in davos so they're also something that let's cross over to also tell you the business for moral. that's right and in the business bulletin last year emerging markets saw the biggest capital outflow since two thousand and eight and rushnell course was no exception but speaking. dabbles the head of the country's direct investment fund told business r.t. that negative trend could reverse starting in april why find out in ten minutes. are we seeing that soon coming your way this hour food for thought why america's corn production is fueling the fire of debate over whether it ends up on people's plates or at the pumps to help power the nation's cars.

more people are expected to protest in the egyptian capital with terrorist square already full once again and it comes a year after the hour sting of hosni mubarak thousands of protesters are desperate for the interim military government to immediately relinquish power dozens have been killed in recent months us troops clamping down on several demonstrations mubarak for the meantime is currently on trial but activists are angry that some of his key allies are still pulling the strings a new parliament has been elected and is drawing up a new constitution while the military still reigns supreme a mubarak era state of emergency law has finally been lifted but it gyptian author and filmmaker philip risk says that change is very little on the ground. 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 the authority 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 lived mergence the 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 they 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 new 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 is a group of ronis 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. it

with r.t. let's get some other world news for you now and have bombed a house in iraq killing ten people inside the home located about fifty kilometers south of baghdad it was owned by two policemen who were brothers they died in the attack ousted two infants a police spokesman says the house was leveled by the explosion. a suicide car bomber has killed at least four and wounded thirty one in southern afghanistan it was targeting a nato sponsored construction team as they passed through the rest of helmand province they were in the area to bring aid and support for the afghan government helmand has been one of the most volatile areas in the taliban's fight against nato troops. libya's defense minister has arrived in the town of bani walid after loyalists of former leader more market afy seized control of the area on monday the minister has begun negotiations with the militia who drove out pro-government

forces three days ago four were killed twenty five others wounded in that battle the retaking of the town is the first major challenge to the new government or thorpey. one of the owners of the cruise liner that capsized off the italian coast denies telling the ship's captain to change the vessels route this comes after captain francesco schettino told a friend that he was pressured by managers to steer the ship to the area where the collision occurred the company says the captain was going far too fast to be so close to shore sixteen bodies have been recovered since the ship ran aground the search continues. for seventeen more. the farms of rule america produce around thirty nine percent of the world's corn every year but not all of it ends up on dinner tables instead of feeding the hungry almost half of the u.s. corn supply goes to making ethanol in order to power american cars as artie's christine has our reports this has many asking which is more important food or fuel

. it is a process that comes. with a 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 rows 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 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 corn for the 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 devastated. ethanol farmers and plant workers argue that the claims are exaggerated since left overs are actually used to make high protein animal feed everything else from the fire or from the protein. in the 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 frizz out r t r now natasha is here with the

latest from the world of business. almost twenty five minutes past two pm here in moscow you're watching business r.t. emerging markets are suffering from their biggest capital outflows since two thousand and eight investment advisors cross border capitals says in the past four months it reached two and three quarter trillion dollars brush is no exception money is believing faster than predicted but speaking at the dallas economic forum the head of the country's direct investment fund told r.t. the negative trend should reverse after the presidential elections of march. if you put the people to the elections. the successful people all it will

do the elections for you to do it yourself seriously believe that this whole load the pickup with a chip in for facility to bring you those russian led group called the story is told it doesn't want you to be the foreclosure serves the slow discussions with the leading investors to the wall the ability to have to rush we hold on to those couple of seconds and you know what it would be fals election. and less now take a look at the markets oil first and it still in the black but the gains are more modest than earlier in the day and got a major boost on wednesday when the u.s. fed reserve kept interest rates at a record low the low cost of borrowing supports the u.s. economy boosting oil demand this hour the w g i's topping one hundred dollars a barrel brant is just under one hundred and eleven dollars. and now on to europe the european markets are higher as a sour following that u.s. fed decision i just mentioned they expected the potential strength of the u.s. economy to benefit those across the ocean both the footsie and the dots are trading

roughly one percent of the block the sour and the russian markets are continuing to climb this hour and the r.t.s. has once again pressed its highest point since last november it's up almost two and a half percent this hour now trading at around one thousand five hundred seventy mark and the my six is also keeping up the pace it's up one and a quarter percent. and on to the biggest movers on my six a boost in the demand for metals that is pushing the metal stocks are obviously severstal is now out of almost four percent whereas no one if it's steel is trading up around three percent and banking stocks are continuing to rally unimproved sentiment about the euro zone's debt crisis bear bank trading almost. four percent on the block this hour and now in two currencies the ruble is slightly lower to the euro but it's continuing its rally against the dollar all thanks to that fed reserve decision the dollar itself has dropped against the euro.

russian tycoon victor has once again posted the old his old assets he now says the listing of come chocobo up with new sooner than next year's the company's yet to finalize plans to improve production the i.p.o. is expected to take place in hong kong. so the latest from the business desk i'll be back and less than an hour.

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looking for in the deep siberian forests prevent a fire with the help of lasers in fibers plug your tablet of a new game egypt and libya feature begin all of that here in the with severe sputnik knology on stage here on r.g.p. we've got the future covered. half past the hour here in the russian capital this is aren't the time for your plans to enforce an piracy law in poland prompted thousands of people onto the streets and a wave of cyber attacks on government websites protesters saying the agreement designed to protect intellectual property rights will lead to censorship. a call for action the u.n. faces arab pressure to adopt a resolution on syria to push president assad from power but russia has made it

clear it will veto any security council move that allows for military intervention . and vying for votes online a new dynamic in russian politics as millions of people take to the internet ahead of the presidential elections with viral videos and creative campaigning holding more sway than ever. when we talk to a british author and middle east expert who predicted the egyptian revolution doing so long before the eruption of the arab spring. i'm talking to join our bradley he's a foreign correspondent he's dedicated his life to pricing about the middle east to publications all around the world in the wake of the arab spring he says fall from the democratic pluralism that the west would take over.