global web piracy pact covering everything from movies and music to fashion and pharmaceuticals but its net does stretch widely. is in warsaw to explain this for us. 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 it 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 and 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 posen in central poland we are expecting more protests to morrow on friday more so 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 i'll just give you a simple example for instance 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 the corporations can go in using this document in fact misusing this document as the protesters fear in poland and everywhere they protest against it certainly has some resemblance to the american soap bill which is also being discussed in the united states but the difference is that the bill is a moral american local thing the act is definitely international and it will

concern all countries which sign it in we are certainly in possibly for more protests across the european continent. or now let's talk to those you know so many of each a polish human rights activist and member of a foundation to protect people's privacy against modern technology and surveillance thanks for joining us on our to today we are already seeing to face extradition to the united states for illegal file swapping under current laws what difference my the act to a deal make to such arrests to think. that it's certainly to increase the possibilities for enforcement internationally the main aim to get behind proposal east to create a stronger bonds among countries that never corporator it closely. foresman so in my opinion this trend would definitely be worse if actor gets adopted by all.

negotiating parties but other critics say that actor is worse than america's notorious and privacy bills are what is the problem in your ear. well i do believe it's this same exactly the same tendency we see in both in many internal anti-piracy laws that were attempted in the us and the knock time did the main problem is that we see. the ignorance for the real problem of piracy online if politicians and volumes talking about reforming intellectual property or are they following the very concept that something might be wrong with the law as it stands now but they choose instead to choose to strengthen the enforcement measures which means that we basically create more pressure where there is only a look and this is why we see this process this disturbed me people to express their opposition to this political trend we've mentioned but the major backlash in

the united states which saw. if the multinational act to trade deal is worse then why is only poland getting angry whereas the mass protests do you think. i do think in the other countries we have seen a lot of anger maybe towards industries but it was definitely to be seen on nine as in the us and in the process of imported websites in poland so so much where it is in a sense are so much better if you like because there was not happy debate at all on the actor and people when they identify a good friend it was extremely late so we all thought excluded from the debate at all for excluded from that conversation how to deal with privacy and piracy and a whole problem we see online so therefore they. are just into the representative. now of great goods stolen movies i music understand these cost

billions in lost revenue here and i know these firms on particularly poor but that shouldn't really condone how would you how would you go about stopping. i was trying to be reforming does not i do think that if we if we see finally a complex deep reform of intellectual property law in the whole of the european union and beyond we might see that the problem of piracy the problem of keeping goods illegally comes to the end because this is a reaction to a very unclear a legal landscape and a very unfair situation that existed both internal and uncertain commercial because all night if we took all the problems comprehensively we might be able to solve it leaves out strong passion and to evolve going for enforcement and the only response that when it comes to an issue like this the act movement here the act of documents that you think the average internet user is actually going to understand the

implications here i mean it does seem to have some fairly murky details a lot of people might just not understand it and they i suppose that could be subject to problems here that's definitely a problem when we see all kinds of meats around. going on in polish media and police internet i think it's a general problem of contemporary politics that many issues are too complex for ordinary people or users to grasp so they have to rely on experts we as sort of social experts trying to provide this expertize these answers so people know what's going on but that's very rare that you have several experts working for free to help you understand normally you have to rely on the full institutions who are not very very much to be pretty bothered to explain these ideas so that's a real big problem of democracy and we really have a challenge of education or a human rights activist look at those you know so many of which thank you for joining us on our team today thank you. syrian troops have stormed 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. violence of the draft called on the syrian regime to comply with an arab league proposal for president assad to leave and pave the way for a unity government rushers made it clear that it will veto any u.n. resolution that allows for foreign intervention or sanctions in syria itself the arab monitoring mission has to resume for the first time in a week because of the violence that's after the. country's pullout former u.n. . is there and reports for us now. 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 never going to be easy so you want the arab league monitors

to stay i don't want right from the word go the missions prove problematic the opposition accused 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 observer 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 assad 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 to. work you will have

a new constitution we are going to more democratic country multi-party system but what about to do it. the west talk about syria which would be true changed and. leave saudi arabia as it is damascus is rejection was no surprise they sides 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 road to damascus yes and no they were in mind the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial mavin to the country's crisis is seen as clinching 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 some human rights abuses on the part of the are so very easy to then take to the u.n. and the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china will feel compelled

to work but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the monitors thing to know more about what's going on the ground and they think. 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 that service on the ground and provide them with u.n. training could be a life saving wallet but for now those plans have been pissed 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 front of the arab league i think. it's diplomacy would give anyone to help but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the

hands not believe this could come soon so a national dialogue through these reforms despite damascus allowed the mission to be extended for another month and. it is 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 agreements or what action should be taken to stop the violence putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a very surface r.t. damascus syria. is coming to you live from moscow and on the way in just a few minutes. versus the crisis. low ball political and economic leaders meet here at the world economic forum to tackle the eurozone crisis and also the arab spring meanwhile those who protested activists that want their voices heard remain locked out. of food fuel and a few surprises as

a russian rocket heads to the international space station for the first time this year by taking some cargo that the crew can't live without. the top job in the world's largest country is a highly prized position so meeting the other contenders requires some creative thinking those up for the russian presidency are using every avenue available to get their message out there. i think our show has been looking at the campaign as a vote attracting tactics most of our doesn't want is that we're right just like ones that are going to raise you some time and slogans cool down from the poor d.m. on the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered police invoke. today's complaining 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 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 on the net to me you are video reach millions of lines it's not just mass it also has to be brazen and sometimes project a whole different image. it's no surprise then that putin as a character from harry puta became an overnight hit it's an industry doing the symbol. of i don't see what i see you stuck with something. to.

make. sure that when you're in the would you. propose that what it was a speech. but at the conference of. 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 of the leaves 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 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 image to provoke to preen reality darker than that is often i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work but i see these putin and 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. your technical the videos made a very professional way you can see that a highly paid specialist did it 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. and now the whole 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 worrisome self described them in a phone as. hear from each other of from a reporter for your preferred cape report are. 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 fifteen million russians going online today about forty percent of the adult population she's the future is predicted to be filled with online political other tars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders exceeding the pressure of our party. and another election battlefront has opened up in the united states and our dot com is the place to find updates and opinions on that on line right now union state

promises of prosperity and equality fail to fight off the disillusionment with obama's first term felt by many americans that's one opinion that's being voiced online. also threaten us with an oil embargo if you want to but we'll just turn off the tap instead of iran that considers leaving europe dry even before its new sanctions begin those details that are to talk. it is the second day for the world's business decision makers and top brass politicians planning to keep global finance afloat not forgetting to make a bit of a profit along the way also on the table at the world economic forum in switzerland is fallout from the arab uprisings and finding ways to breathe life back into the struggling eurozone lauren lyster is a davos fartsy. today we heard from david cameron u.k. prime minister who had quite a 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 agreed 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 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 today we see the focus shift to the arab spring which obviously is a political geopolitical issue but was very much has economic ramifications as we see reports that davos investors are questioning what is the prospect of the change in the arab spring nations and what the prospects for investment are we've seen economic impacts of the geopolitical changes we've seen yields in egypt for example surged bahrain kaspi very high there so i think people are looking for answers to that and we have a number of events today that are geared towards discussing that very issue with some prominent leaders from tunisia and egypt here at the forum this year we've seen the occupy movement gather such steam and. 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 . lauren a lister reporting right there but will before we get to dmitri with a business or less to the world up to now here on out to some other international headlines a brief ten members of a single family have been killed as they slept in off about house was blown up by insurgents two police officers their wives six children they all died after insurgents planted bombs around their home three people also died when a motorcycle explosion happened in the northern city of cork they are the latest in a string of attacks since the u.s. military withdrawal in december. the international medical aid group doctors without borders is suspending its mission in the libyan city of misrata because of torture carried out in detention centers they say they repeatedly treated patients who had been interrogated also the u.n.

is concerned about the conditions in which some eight thousand five hundred people are being held in the country several detainees have reportedly died most of them a huge supporter of the toppled the regime. and it's home to mutiny in new guinea has been put down a group of around twenty soldiers put the defense chief and house arrest and demanded the reinstatement of the former prime minister he was displaced while abroad for medical treatment the man who replaced him said the crisis is making the country a joke amongst the international community it's the latest development in a power struggle between the two men both claiming to be the country's rightful beat. two high rise buildings have collapsed in the center of rio de janeiro three people have died at least twenty one are still investing emergency teams are now working to find survivors in the rubble i wouldn't spoke of a strong smell of gas i'm going to explosion just before the buildings collapsed.

but the first space mission of the year is underway and it's got more than a few essentials on board a russian cargo spacecraft is heading right now for the international space station having launched earlier from baikonur in kazakhstan the progress ship is expected to reach its destination in two days. more than two and a half tons of fuel food and equipment as well as some presents for the crew from their families there are currently six on board in all but we're monitoring and conducting scientific experiments. well and stacey's are going to be aiming their unique brand of financial fire at hollywood in just a few minutes that's right after the business update with dmitri. welcome to business starts with a nazi exclusive from davos the head of russia's state funded high tech corporation tells us it's looking for new investors and it's only to buy says he's in the alps

to meet leading bank is to help turn into an operation that's more like a public company. well this year we will sell ten percent share. at the private place but that's very very sensitive for and for now away from the state corporation into the business like corporation mr ford was consulted so from the middle of the insurance we could be and that's why i made here was the middle range president and we could be in the we are discussing this steps into the strategy how to increase the approach here holder's participation. the major way should be on the institutional investors and i think that we need to what we need to hear is a board will hear potations russian investors in. the famous four in their investor who are able to invest in

a high tech company. over there so you look at the markets this is in the black you've got a major boost on a wednesday when the u.s. fed reserve kept interest rates at record lows and the low cost of borrowing is supporting the u.s. economy boosting oil demand service our light sweet as up over one hundred one dollars a barrel. optimism about the fact that interest rates will be held low is actually supporting the russian a rube goldberg says the dollar it's up to fifty two. so the exchange rate is just thirty roubles twenty kopeks per dollar. let's move onto was stock markets now a dow jones is up on this again optimism that the dollar will remain cheap for another two years the dow jones is up half a percent nasdaq up point four percent second to what's going on in europe another

two hours to go till the close the footsies up one point three percent the dax two percent still on that optimism about the state of the u.s. economy without further decision and russia also positive on a stronger ruble high. well prices the r.t.s. up to an all percent my sex more than one percent this difference is because of the currency exchange rate let's take a look now what's moving the my sex abuse in metals demand is pushing mine as high as seventy. three percent it was much higher in morning trading though knows nickels up almost two percent and among banks the strongest is second tier because there's daily it's up but thirteen and a half percent in just one session. and the market seems to be very active. couple of days in terms of volume and terms of quotes. it's really positive for the banks although all the main russian banks and basically all of them are extremely active and growing it's also supported during the day by the news from there was

from several of the species of european leaders there of course some more positive guys ladies in case of fungal america. always some more cautious gentleman like for example they would came around. anyway so they seem to be closer and more on the same side in terms of their positions on the ways to solve the crisis than they have been and the end of two thousand and eleven kind of next see the headlines with you steve.

headlines. in poland as the countries signed up to a global act to take down internet piracy it covers everything from movies and music to fashion and pharmaceuticals it's free at the deal will give. 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 security council could vote in the next few days on a resolution. on the battle for russia's top job goes with creative thinking the new weapon in the arsenal of politics internet. video fast becoming more. conventional. my colleague kevin owen is here at half an hour's time but for now. to clear their support for a new kind of movement of the report is next. you know we hate banks but we hate hollywood even more. max there's been a call to.