those are attracting tactics. but why doesn't want is that you were right is that laws are going to look at the way 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 whole 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 reach millions of lines 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 in addition to doing this you will. see what i see you stuck with something yes that ready to go you'll make. sure that the quickest work when you're going to do. but i got there but it was just beat them. but i don't compete it's up to you about you 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 a tongue online a year ago he labeled the ruling united russia party the. and scoundrels the

insulting phrase it 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 of one vote for the party of fees 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 wars online broke out superpowers the use of being able to my aim was to provoke to pin reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work but i see disputing 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 responding or

technical this video has made a very professional you can see that a highly paid specialist it appeals to primitive responses but works one hundred percent 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. hear from each from a reporter for your comfort or. naive to expect from any side when we are living in 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 feet in. million russians going online today about

forty percent of the adult population. is predicted to be shielded with online political other types pushing 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 updates and opinions on that go online right now for example union in a state promises of prosperity and equality 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 as dimitri with the business but for now is 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 a quick moment 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 r.t. the fight to the top of world tennis as maria sharapova battles down under i will get to first though 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 and eight meant advisors across border 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 people are thinking about the upcoming elections. sees a successful people. for those elections the group with a good set was a risk we believe that this will become a chicken flocks if you like three because russia macro economy is very strong because what did you get the. largest reserves to be so no discussions with the leading investors in the world the best of russia we would not couple of transactions in the next one month it was before the elections or i will devil's

maybe 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 of in the alps he starts with developing the russian capital as the 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 cool must be exhibited and to promote itself as a potentially interesting for all those people are going to. businesses and countries a place to make financial business and 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 priority is the number one investment climate in the country and it's very tough. on the countries trying to solve it during the last fifteen years. ahead. both. national and city because well the second problem is the financial infrastructure the quality of stock exchange depository. financial technologies and tax burden for such a business and finally the so-called soft and hard infrastructure and it's mainly the problem itself it's a quality of transportation system health care and education system. for

tourists. and preparedness to risk. security and 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 a 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 the more school stalker exchange and definitely will it

trucked a lot of liquidity in from around the world because main names are already in moscow and they are radio two to buy good products but in the same time we should seeing that investment climate and russian you raise diction should be attractive as well if we would like to get liquidity is during the i.p.o. on 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 russia and the 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 the. 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 thank you very much for your time and that was the deputy mayor of moscow and they 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.

thank you. party is coming to you live from the heart of moscow over the top of your 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 u.n. security council could vote in the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the escalating conflict. and 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. next year in our t.v. talk to the british author and middle east expert who predicted the egyptian revolution long before the arab spring erupted you watching. i'm talking to join all broadly he'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 was in fact

rushing into the power vacuum is islam ists join al bradley thanks very much for talking to us today now we'll start with the situation in iran because it's very much in the news at the moment the e.u. has banned all new oil contracts with the country and it plans to extend sanctions on the iranian central bank how much do you think that's going to cost iran the e.u. and the global economy in general it's certainly going to cost to run we've seen today the real local currency. level against the u.s. dollar in history and the fact is that iran explore a sizable amount of resort to the you and coupled with american sanctions unilateral sanctions are already in place against iran it's going to hurt but what we're seeing essentially is the first phase of economic warfare against iran and the problem is that the west has iran all wrong just as it has the middle east all wrong he believes that sanctions will increase the divide between the regime and the people and historically this doesn't happen there's no proof that this happened

whatsoever it's people feel pressured and they look where that pressure is coming from the west and so it makes them more anti west and that's the only logical outcome he also hopes that if there is serious instability as a result then because iran is very ethnically and geographically divided that certain groups will rise up against the regime or there will be a popular uprising but again it's wishful thinking it's not going to happen at all and we saw years of sanctions in iraq didn't we is that a comparison that you draw you know and then we saw a war on all. all of this is leading to war hawks in washington there are allies in saudi arabia and israel are absolutely absolutely determined to bring iran to its knees and it seems like it's now or never and they're going for broke so what will happen next you think well what does that usually involve what they're hoping for

is that iran is backed into a corner and some incident occurs whether by accident or design that makes it seem that the rain in the first hour as well and then because there is very little support in the west for unilateral strike against iran the fact is especially if it's done at the behest of israel and they need iran to do something whether it's the u.s. carrier mine in the strait of hormuz or whether it's just rhetoric on the part of the iranian regime. it's everyone's up upping the ratchet to the extent that something has to happen and the americans wouldn't militarized to the extent that they have if they weren't expecting the final outcome outcome to be war do you see that that could be the a rainy and looking the straits of hormuz the gulf oil export reaches that now promising that they well you know though it's not saying that it will do that just

as a result of sanctions it's threatening to do that in the event that it attacked and that's just one of many things that iran is threatening to do and has the capability to do it you are very worried about ethnic divisions all through the middle east comes the fore in both iran and also in syria if sunni islamists gain control of most of the middle east what do you think the outcome could be for the majority shiite iran obviously all of this is news for iran i think if you look back at the arab spring the turning point. in late february when saudi arabia was given the go ahead by washington. and what happened then is related very much to everything that's happening now because it's the only country that is a majority ruled by a sunny minority and iran has the story claims to the island and the u.s.

navy's fifth fleet is based there crucial to containing iran and so essentially what we've seen is a sunny shia divide reemerge in the middle east with washington clearly backing sonny powerhouse saudi arabia close american ally and saudi arabia in turn along has taken control of the revolutions out swearin so for example its funding and into the main islamic party in tunisia the muslim brotherhood and more extremist groups in in egypt are on the record as saying they go substantial funds from saudi arabia the yemeni government has openly criticized for interfering in its internal affairs and funding radical islamists and of course in syria they are the main opposition is made dominated by the muslim brotherhood and the so-called free syrian army is dominated by not only radical jihadi is from within syria but also jihadi is from throughout the region where we're told constantly that there's no

real threat because these are moderate islamic parties but of course the definition of moderate makes absolutely no sense in any rational because saudi arabia is often described in the western media as a moderate arab state and i lived in saudi arabia for three years and i can assure you there is absolutely nothing moderate about our country at all you say that that is that is the miscreants who have stepped into the breach in many of these countries are you saying that these weren't genuine people's uprisings at the time . they idea. behind it is that they hijacked the revolutions and. precisely because they were in fact islamic inspired the beginning in tunisia could never have been because these lebanese for either in prison or and the muslim brotherhood in egypt openly came out against the revolution initially the problem is that the motivation for these revolutions was economic internees here for example it started in the

deep south even. south in syria it started in a city near jordan which is been experiencing a drought for three years and in egypt an extensive opinion poll carried out even among those who went to her just after mubarak fell showed that only nineteen percent of the free and fair elections and free expression and so on of the top of their gender their main priority sixty five percent was the economy now the people who are evolutionists foolishly declared their revolutions leaderless and they didn't have an agenda anyone who knows anything about revolutionary uprisings in the past and specifically around the most ready for the seventy nine revolution in iran knows that what happens in the post-revolutionary chaos is that the groups that are most disciplined. and most ruthless politically then fill the vacuum and so when you couple that with the fact that they're then with the funding that we've been talking about from saudi arabia qatar able to manipulate the electoral process

. they were perfectly poised to to step into the into the cap and fill the vacuum and that's what they've done what about the free syrian army is what they're fighting for a genuine democracy and you'll see whether or not they're fighting for democracy is an open question what kind of democracy we then have to us and i'm just appalled and go to the coverage that this jihadi outfit is being given you can't get a word in edgeways in trying to criticize it all trying to illustrate just what a horrible bun. extremists these people are very string of credible reports that have shown that. especially another gulf states have been funding jihad is not only from within the country but from libya for example and elsewhere and i find it very difficult to believe that. it's all to go western style democracy

employer is unwilling freedom is what we're seeing in syria basically said islamic revolution absolutely if we've been hearing constant greatly exaggerated predictions of the syrian regime's demise for eleven months now if a popular revolution was going to happen it would have happened already the fact is that though they may have no great love for the cucumber face president. the. general feeling of better the devil we know and you talk about the arab league do you think that the mission in syria has essentially played into the hands of days to exacting pressure on the syrian also or says it is overstepping its mark when it makes demands while the mediating the arab league essentially has no credibility on the arab street and everyone knows that it's the top of the g.c.c. and so it's a means not to create momentum that the arab league itself can then implement

although it counting and has imposed sanctions and they suspended syria and could possibly impose a no fly zone what they are going to do is what they did with libya before you remember before the u.n. resolution on libya the arab league and conveniently almost all of those who voted were from the gulf cooperation council in support of the no fly zone in libya what the arab league mission is trying to accomplish is get enough evidence concrete evidence about human rights abuses on the part of the us a very seen to then take that to the u.n. and the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china. but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the monitors seem to know more about what's going on the ground than they did at the beginning and so it all looks like it'll be going back to square one and in contrast to libya so far western nations in the adamant that they're not going to go into syria why do you think that it doesn't have

a seaport. in the way that it's not on the coast in the way that for example. benghazi was on the coast in libya and so. difficult militarily to get in supplies it's also not resort to resource rich. you know obviously they went into libya because it has a great deal of oil and they continue to support saudi arabia and because they have a great deal of oil and gas there's no great payoff immediate payoff when it comes to syria but there is a great deal to be gained politically but they can buy time and they're hoping for an internal collapse or barring that the arab league somehow money she's to weaken the regime enough that we've heard for example the. mayor of cut saying that arab league troops should be sent in and so the west is quite happy for the time being for the arabs to do their dirty work john thank you very much thank you.

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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. hardwell a big very warm welcome to you you know coming back into the studio for the latest action from your world of sports i want to start to the year is turning into four rushers queen of the courts exactly right maria sharapova she's back in the big leagues rory she's into the is truly an open final we're going to have a look at how she got there in just a second. well indeed great to have you with us this is sports today plenty ahead over the next ten minutes including the stories and. sharapova versus azarenka a russian on a belorussian will do battle for the really an open title this year with the world

number one ranking also stake. a dozen in moscow defeats on a dual effort is in basketball's year only to stay perfect in the tournament. final count on liverpool darren manchester city to book their place in the carling cup decider for a second tier side part of city away. we begin truly an open where there will be a distinctly eastern european flavor to the women singles final this year after maria sharapova boot her birth at the expense of petrak a few hours ago the twenty four year old russian involved in a tough old tussle against the czech sure hope of it though eventually wrapping up the win six two three six six four that means the world number four will not take on the turiaf run for their decider the winner also set to take over the world.