i don't agree with such statements in my videos but they do work. in that russia without putin would rise why not give away your country your beautiful girlfriend to some foreign guy what will happen to the caucasus nothing less just give it away to you spawning a war technically this video has made a very professional you can see that a highly paid special is did 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 very slim self described them in a phone as. hear from each other of government property or for your property comfort or. 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 she's the future is predicted to be filled with them online political other tars pushing the boundaries of a virtual world without borders that it's a democrat party. ok well of course another election battle front as well in the u.s. as a place to find updates and opinions on that on line right now using this state promises of prosperity and equality failed to fight off the disillusionment with the bomber's first felt by many americans that's one opinion that's voiced online and you can catch it now at r.t. dot com also threaten us with an oil embargo if you want to but we'll turn off the

tap first as we've been reporting tonight iran considering leaving europe high and dry even before its new sanctions begin details of r.t. dot com. it's the second day for the world's business bulletin a world business decision makers and top brass politicians planning it keeping global finance afloat not forgetting to make a profit along the way also on the table at the world economic forum in switzerland is a fallout from the arab uprisings and finding ways to breathe life back into the struggling euro zone lorad list and then said so words properly next from davos. 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 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 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 heels in egypt for example third bahrain cost be very high there so i think people are looking for answers to that and we have a number of events today they're geared towards discussing that very issue with some prominent leaders from tunisia and egypt here at the forum this year what 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

. so other news from around the world in brief now this hour in baghdad ten members of a single family have been killed as they slept after their house was blown up by insurgents two police officers their wives and six children died after explosives were planted around the home three people also died when a motorcycle bomb exploded in the northern city of kirkuk the latest in a string of attacks since the u.s. military withdrawal in december. the international medical aid group doctors without borders the suspending its mission in the libyan city of misrata because of torture carried out in its detention centers they say they repeatedly treated patients who've 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 right now several detainees reportedly died most of them accused of supporting the topple gadhafi regime. to high rise buildings have collapsed of the sense of real visioneer of five died there at least nineteen are still missing and emergency teams are working to try to find the survivors in the

rubble i want to see spoke of a strong smell of gas and an explosion just before those buildings collapsed. the first space mission of the year is underway and it got more than a few essential is on board as well a russian cargo spacecraft heading for the international space station having launched earlier from baikonur in kazakhstan the progress ships expected to reach its destination in two days it's carrying more than two and a half tons of fuel food and equipment as well as some presents for the proof from the families that are currently six people stationed in all but they were monitoring conducting scientific experiments looking ahead in just a few minutes we'll talk to a british author on the middle east to explain exactly was pulling the strings he thinks in the arab revolt also we've got sport coming up too with the union including news of maria sharapova dominating down under but it is thursday business next live from moscow.

well welcome to the program we start with an r.t. exclusive from there was the head of russia's state funded high tech corporation tells us it's looking for new investors as early as you guys says he's in the alps to meet leading bankers to help turn into an operation that's more like a public company. well this year we will sell ten percent shares of course mother at the private placement that's very very sensitive point for me now away from the state corporation into the business like a corporation and this terrible do with consorts all from my middle inch i'm going to be and that's why i made here was the middle of the president and we could be in the we are discussing this tactic steps into the strategy how to increase the approach here holder's participation. the major way should be all that you do show investors and i think that we need what we need to hear is

a board will potations russian investors in. the famous four in their investor who are able to invest in their company. going to the markets so while it's still in the black it's lost some of the steam that got a major boost the previous session on the u.s. fed reserve kept interest rates at record lows still at least the second half of twenty fourteen the low cost of borrowing and supporting the u.s. economy boosting oil demand this hour light sweet is slightly larger than one hundred and one dollars per barrel now when it comes to currencies the dollar is weakening versus the euro one thirty one fifty seven what we're seeing right now in the ruble is on the high oil price strengthening versus the dollar also by fifty two copecks. u.s. stocks are mixed this hour the dow jones up by just point three percent the nasdaq correcting after a strong session on wednesday and in europe the markets are still

a bit following that bad reserve decision and they expect the potential strength of the u.s. economy to benefit those across the ocean the vote c. is up by almost one percent the dax to how. this is the goes in picture for the session in a rush the r.t.s. m i six very strong the r.t.s. one of percentage points higher than the my sack so this is. because of the currency difference the r.t.s. is mainly nominated in dollars prize take a look at what's the moving in the my sax a boost in medals demand is pushing my desire service has lost some of the steamer we saw at the beginning of the session up just three percent at the close to one of the biggest gainers known as nichols is strong among banks and those of us dania second tier still who was the outstanding before march thirteenth and. the market seems to be very active. couple of days in terms of volume and terms of quote. 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 are of course more positive guys all ladies in case of fungal america there are always some more cautious men like for example they would came around. anyways 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 in the end of two thousand and eleven or i'll be back in fifty five minutes time to bring you an update the headlines are next with.

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the be. the book. says r.t. from moscow our top story is a must march in poland as the country signs of to a global pact to take down internet piracy it covers everything from movies and music to. fashion pharmaceuticals fear the deal will give big corporations too much power to take web users offline. every clashes in syria as troops storm a densely populated damascus suburb after a confrontation with opposition fighters last week he would security council could vote in the next few days now 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. debate. next to r.t. talks to a british author and middle east expert who explains what he believes was the arab spring turning point and that's still stoking the unrest. 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 islamicists jonell 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 its oil 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 people leave the 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 and that's 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 it 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 ians shot the first hour as it were 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 a 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 certainly is a mistake in control of most of the middle east what do you think the outcome could be for the majority shiites 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. 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. 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 sort of islam a screen 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. the 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 it's rather 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 and. south in syria it started in a city near jordan which is like being experiencing a drought for three years i mean 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 is 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 gap 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 and trying to criticize it will trying to illustrate just what a horrible bun. extremists these people are very string of credible reports that are showing 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 my goal western style democracy employer is unwilling freedom is what we're seeing in syria basically and islamic revolution absolutely if we've been hearing constant greatly exaggerated

predictions of the syrian regime's d. minus 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 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 day to existing pressure on the syrian also or sees it is a 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're going to do is what they did with libya before you

remember before the un resolution on libya the arab league convened 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 assad regime 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. 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 you know we're going back to square one and in contrast to libya so far western nations 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 it's far more 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 kut 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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politics internet. videos of fast becoming more powerful tools conventional to play . now thursday night sport. thanks for joining us this is for today plenty head over the next ten eleven minutes or so including the following. verses as a rank i russian on the belorussian will do battle for the is truly an open title this year with the world number one ranking all so let's take. a dozen not all at c.s.k. most school defeats on the do f a's in basketball surely the state perfect in the tournament. final calling to liverpool manchester city over two legs to book their place in the carling cup decider lower league side cardiff city awaits.

we begin at the australian open where there will be a distinctly eastern european flavor to the women's singles final this year and that is after maria sharapova booked her berth at the expense of patrick give each of us a few hours back their twenty four year old russian involved in a chuff all tussle against the czech shout for the eventually wrapping up the win six two three six six four that means the world over for will now take on victoria azarenka bello whose side are the winner also set to take over the world of on ranking from coraline most. so much to be back in a grand slam final stages in before she years ago here. it's nice to get that far again after losing quite a couple of years so that means a lot to me and i'm playing some. results and it's been near the last couple of times and i was still really wanted to.