frankly quite difficult to understand can you break it down for us what does this anti piracy pact set out to do. well this document called the courtesy trade agreement which has been signed by poland and many other countries other countries in fact including the united states. new zealand and others is the reason why tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets in poland is the reason why most of the governmental web sites in this country have been hijacked by the hacker groups including the anonymous hacker group which is well known across the world basically this agreement is all about protecting the intellectual property including movies books pharmaceuticals designer clothes and things like that but ordinary people fear that the big corporations will use it to police the web to take regular users offline so we've seen lots of protests in poland as i mentioned in the last several days we are also seeing protests being held today in the cities

of new berlin and poison in bozeman in central poland we are expecting of course more protests to morrow on friday in warsaw so the people here are very unhappy with this decision with the decision of the polish government to sign this document we also understand that several hacker groups have hacked into the polish government websites and the anonymous hacker group have sent out a very stern warning saying that it has very sensitive information about the polish authorities it will publish it unless the polish government decides to vote against the document the document that was signed by the polish ambassador in japan this morning so there's no going back only there's one case they were to fix the country's parliament which is to happen in the next several days it may still be averted there was a little chance because when they stand up the prime minister's party sponte is holding the majority in parliament so the document is almost sure it will be signed in poland. as you explained here and certainly there are

a lot of people getting really really upset over this and. and yet all of us as we all mostly now adays all internet users what does it mean for us this act movement what does it mean. well as i've said its main aim is to protect intellectual property but the problem about this document is that it was worked out in complete secrecy bypassing all governments and the general public had no access to it so that's why the regular users are afraid that this document would be used against them and in fact could be used by the big corporations to police the internet i'll just give you a simple example for instance you would say you create a website and you put links to your favorite movies on this website and big corporations can in fact start a criminal case against you saying that you violate the agreement so nobody knows to what extent corporations can go in using this document in fact misusing this document as the broadcasters here in poland and everywhere they protest against it

certainly has some resemblance to the american soul bill which is also being discussed in the united states but the difference is that the bill is a more american local thing the act is definitely international and it will concern all countries which sign it we are certainly expecting that another twenty six countries of the european union will sign this document as well though there is a certain protest movement in parliaments of these countries so it's not certain that all twenty six will sign them but definitely act the will will be passed in most of the european countries and we are certainly in possibly for more protests across the european continent. just thank you for shedding some light on these this new set of anti-piracy laws life from so well the deal has parallels as alexie were saying with america's anti-piracy plans they were shelved last week after a backlash including protests from internet giants like wikipedia which went on

a twenty four hour blackout one digital freedom activist who's the founder of sweden's pirate party says the laws are sure the governments are deeply in the pockets of corporations. i think it's an excellent example of the agreed just abuse of power by the corporate industry this legislation about putting people in jail was negotiated by corporations and our lawmakers just caught it in their laughter that is not how democratic society should work quite regardless of what this law says now what it does say of course it's all corporate interests so there's no hard yes there really if you look at how the net operates there's activists all over the place that give people back their rights that corporations take away from them and they are sort of our last hope at this point regrettably. we can really influence lawmaking what people are discovering which people discovered through force with

the so far and see far in the united states was that millions of people literally millions contacted congress and said we don't want this this is not what we stand for congress heard them and realize that if they follow the corporations rather than the voters then they lose their job and that's what changes policy in the end . you're watching are two live from moscow let's turn our attention to syria where the syrian troops are storming a heavily populated damascus suburb where government forces pulled out earlier this week after clashes with opposition fighters the u.n. security council could vote in 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 for president assad to leave and pave the way for a unity government russia has made it clear that it will veto any u.n. resolution that allows foreign intervention or sanctions in syria itself the arab

league screw monitoring mission has suffered a setback after six countries pulled out calling on the u.n. to act parties sarah first now explains. saying they get by and heading home it's said it's from the gulf states leave the airport their mission incomplete leaving behind a country in a deepening crisis is no the going to be easy so you want the arab league monitors to stay i don't want to break from the word gay the missions prefer problematic the opposition accuse the monitors of being too closely aligned with the government the government's now accused of being part of a foreign conspiracy and they will it just tickle complaints 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 after damascus rejected their recent proposal that included president says cede power to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these countries is very interested in democracy and they have nothing this is the most interesting this is something funny we'll talk about. well we'll have a new constitution we are going to more democratic contrie multi parties was a but what about. the west's talk about syria which would be changed and leave saudi arabia as it is damascus says rejection was no surprise they sides of the conflict of shape equal willingness to soften their stance even though it's been the daily death toll in the country continually rising the killing of the head of the syrian arab red crescent was on the raid to damascus yet you know the remind

the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a creature of a bid to the country's crisis is seen as clinching show the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish he's got enough evidence 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 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 you know 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 water 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 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 wouldn't you . anyone who held the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not the arab league screwed council so a national dialogue through these reforms despite damascus and the mission to be extended for another month and the if that is officially saying that they can continue with that 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. artsy damascus syria we're coming to live on the side of moscow still to come on the program here davos versus the crisis the leaders of the global finance and politics tackled the arab spring and the embattled eurozone switzerland's exclusive ski resort people who question the efforts. in the snow. also. few and a few surprises as a russian rocket heads to the space station for the first time this year is taking a few tons of vital cog early but the crew cannot do without. egyptians are valid to remain in the capital's career square after a rally marking the first anniversary of the uprising which toppled president mubarak protesters want a speedy handover of power from the interim military rulers one key demand has

finally been met that was to lift the mubarak era state of emergency but a egyptian author and filmmaker philip risk says the concession will bring little change. 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 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 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 newly elected parliament that is still under the thumb of the 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 thrones 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 security and in the quarter past the hour here in moscow it is the second day for business decision makers on top brass politicians in switzerland efforts to keep the global finance a float and not forgetting to make a bit of a profit along the way fallout from the arab uprisings is inevitably a major concern for the world economic forum and so is finding ways to breathe life back into the struggling euro zone these are lister is standing by for us at dubbo so good to see you the i.m.f. has been warning of contagion from the euro zone's troubles and what are leaders in davos proposing to solve this problem. well today we heard from david cameron u.k.

prime minister who had apply different message than what we heard from angela merkel yesterday when she opened up davos so david cameron came out and said that number of things that he believes the euro zone needs he said they need a quick speedy resolution to greet debt issuance is and fiscal transfers and order to deal with imbalances so sounds to me like he's calling for some kind of euro bond said that there needs to be a firewall big enough and said you know really right now the euro zone has none of these things now this is in contrast to angela merkel yesterday who said we're not going to pledge more bailout money even though maybe the investment community wants it we're promising you that that we believe this fiscal integration will solve the problem along with structural reforms geared towards things like creating jobs so different message from u.k. prime minister today but a couple things i thought were really interesting so he was asked about what all this means for the future of free market capitalism which is a debate going on here at davos and the emergence and rise of state capitalism and

david cameron continue to tout free market capitalism and the european model as the best for freedom and democracy but one thing that came to mind is what we've seen with the technocrats installed that are now running the governments of italy and greece and pushing through these reforms that were very much dictated or influenced by germany and what germany wanted also the e.c.b. that has been where reportedly occupy protesters have staged their protest against and the european central bank of course is not they're not accountable to. anything that the democratically elected politicians are they operate independently and privately so those are some of the questions that came up for me i tried to ask i raise my hand and i didn't get my question in but that's what that's my question for you u.k. prime minister david cameron the horrible we're trying to possible i'm for you there lauren so let's shift gears and talk about the occupy movement we understand that some of the occupy movement protesters have managed to reach this exclusive. resort in the mountains they had no luck in getting into the talks so far. no they

have and of course they're in there in igloos down the street where they will be all week and they've been for days they have a number of protests planned i guess the irony this year we've seen the occupy movement gathers that steam and really of course they would be expected to be at davos at the world economic forum the irony is that as i was reading one analysis they were saying it sounds a little like klaus schwab the founder of the world economic forum is channeling occupy and his rhetoric about the problems of capitalism the irony of course is that occupy protesters and activists are part of the conversation here at the forum all right laura list of in davos and will return to that in just a few minutes in our business update lauren thanks very much. the top job in the world's largest country is a highly prized position so beating your content does require some creative thinking those up for the russian president so you are using every avenue available to get the message out there he's. going to has been looking at the come payne's

vote a tactics. but why does it was that you were right is that was that it was that there was a race suits and ties and slogans cold out from the poor d m r the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered politically. today's complaining has gone online in a hot new trend in russia. with programming and bloggers making fun of the opposition portraying them in prayer outside the u.s. embassy on sundays claiming they are connected to the u.s. 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 which maybe is a lie and it's not enough to just have a mass which it also has to be provoked to brazen and sometimes project a whole different image. it's no surprise then that putin as a character from harry potter became an overnight hit. doing his usual bullshits reclusive i don't see what i see you stuck with some could use the word it but they're going to. make. sure that the word is work when you're critical of the would you. put the what it was as beat them to but i'm comfortable. 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 shot which is tongue online

a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party of the. and scoundrels the insulting phrase it first appeared on the net but quickly migrated to almost every magine of all media in russia and beyond a year after the 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 these in scoundrels united russia. the mastermind behind that video and state duma deputy robert proved his party can also fight its words online. but almost the use of being in my name is to provoke or to preen reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work and i see these putin that russia without putin would rise 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 respond in your technical videos made a very professional you can see that a highly paid specialist it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent your first thought is that there is indeed no future without put but videos from the opposition are just as blatant. and 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 the other person you hear from each user of government property or for 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 but. 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. is predicted to be she deals with online political other types who xing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the grandchildren r t. while another election battle front has opened up in the us and on our web site r t v dot com that's the place to find the update sunday opinions on that or go online to right now for example the union in a state promises of prosperity and a quality fail to fight off the disillusionment with obama's first term felt by many americans that's just one opinion that's voiced online. also threaten our so with an oil embargo if you want to but we'll turn off the tap first iran is discussing a plan that would leave europe high and dry even before the new e.u.

sanctions come into force all that and much more at your fingertips that are to dot com. in a moment is to be true with the business but for now in the first space mission of the year is underway and it's got more than a few essential is on board a russian cargo spacecraft now on its way to the international space station having launched a bit earlier from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan the progress ship is expected to reach its destination now in just a couple of days it's carrying more than two and a half tons of fuel food and of course meant as well as some presents for the crew from their families there are currently six people stationed in orbit who are monitoring and conducting scientific experiments. on the way here on our see the fight to the top of world tennis as maria sharapova battles down under i will get to meet you to update us on the latest our business.

thanks oriel and welcome to business art's emerging markets are suffering from their biggest capital outflows since two thousand x. vestments advisors across borders capital say in the past four months it reached a two point seven five trillion dollars russia is no exception money has been leaving faster than predicted but speaking at the devils economic forum the head of the country's direct investment fund told r.t. the negative trend should reverse after the presidential elections in march the people if you could about the upcoming elections. be. successful people and before the election the key for you to get yourself was a risk we believe that this will become a chicken flaw feel like. because russia group called these very strong guys like that to give the go for blood to be slow discussions with the leading investors in the world the best russia we load up the three sections of the next

one it will be falls election. all right well devils may be about big ideas but it's the contacts and negotiations done on the fringes that are and attraction for many delegates moscow's a deputy mayor and a shot on up in the alps he starts with developing the russian capital as a global financial center there he is joining me now live from davos hello andre how important is devils in promoting moscow and its services. it's very very important because that was a unique place where more than three thousand global leaders from business from governments and international organizations come together. absolutely different and it's the place where most school must be exhibited and to promote itself as a potentially interesting for all those people are going to. businesses and

countries. to me and intra business that is of course a very important task and it must be difficult i mean what are your priorities in doing this what are your priorities for moscow. i can mention three main priorities and number one is the investment climate in the country and it's a very tough task and the country's trying to solve it during the last fifteen years. ahead of. both. national and seated as well the second problem is the financial infrastructure it's the quality of stock exchange depository. financial technologies and takes burden for such a business and finally it's the so-called soft and hard infrastructure and it's mainly the problem itself it's the quality of transportation system health care and

education system their readiness for tourists. and preparedness so. it's security and quality environment so all these stuff must be in the mosco would like to be considered as an international financial center well mr sort of since you come to mention of improving stock exchanges as one of your priorities apparently russian markets need greater liquid it seems to attract i.p.o.'s where will that come from. the problem of chicken the next. we need more like we did see but we need this subject to be made. so i think the government should force this situation and every. privatization of through in many cases through and i proceed on to more school

change and definitely it will it's a lot like we did to you from around the world because main names are already in moscow and they are radiate through to buy good products but in the same time we should seeing that investment climate and russian you reach diction should be attractive as well we would like to get liquidity it during the i.p.o. and the russian stock exchange this is certainly one final question for you how much has the slowdown of the global economy been delaying your plans. you know that the russian economy is deeply depend on the economic international economic go conjunction and. it means that we need a growth we need. products and services we provide we need an economic activity in these. international financial

center in moscow. will or will be developed to foster and move the demand for such a service among russians and international businesses all right mr sort of thank you very much for your time and that was the deputy mayor of moscow and then a shot on of talking to us live from the swiss resort of babel. and that's all we have time for this hour we will be back next hour with an update so do join us if you can add lines and.

from the heart of moscow headlines now a mass march in poland as the country signs up to a global pact to take down internet piracy and covers everything from movies and music to fashion and pharmaceuticals but it's feared the deal will give big corporations too much power to take web users offline. heavy clashes in syria troops storm a densely populated damascus suburb after

a confrontation with opposition fighters last week the un a security council could vote in the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the escalating. the battle for russia's top job goes viral with creative thinking the new weapon in the arsenal of politics internet campaigns and you tube videos are fast becoming more powerful tools than conventional t.v. debates. on our t.v. talk to the british author and middle east expert who predicted the gyptian revolution long before the arab spring erupted you watching. 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.