course we'll bring you more details of just to bring you up to date as well we're actually now hearing more information as well coming through the interfax news agency now reporting in the last minute as have been speaking to the one person has been killed there so just to bring you up to date what we know at least seven people reportedly taken hostage we're hearing one has died at a middle school in russia's volatile north caucasus that's according to russia's interfax news agency this is happening to null chick in the republic of kabadi no ball carrier. key websites were hijacked and thousands of internet freedom supporters marched outside of the major two prong protest in poland earlier on today it's because the country's just signed up to a global web piracy pact covering everything from movies and music to fashion and pharmaceuticals but its net stretch is wide jeffs he's in warsaw to explain it 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 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 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 postmen in central poland we are expecting more protests tomorrow 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 sopa 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. well let's talk more about this controversial agreement and bring into the conversation goes like this member

internet society in poland good evening well now we've all lent or borrow d.v.d.'s amongst friends either way but what you're advocating is a very different thing though you feel a bit responsible for things like actor being forced upon us because of that. bernie can. go on is a modern technology what i'm saying is we've all all talk a bit slower for you we've all lent we've all borrowed d.v.d.'s c.d.'s some of us can even remember records over the years but what you're advocating is a very different thing don't you feel responsible for bringing on something like actor. which we're a. modern view on copyright and other into the core property systems i mean it's obvious for everyone that those brought into look for property systems does not work in the digital age and obviously the young people the internet users seem that this piece of legislation is really out dated and doesn't cover day or needs

and we need a new kind of law that problem we've done is that the act that we basically. through freeze the system as if this now if we make it unable to change in the future and we need to change we don't need to change to make the system more oppressive more restrictions less democratic control we need a system which is flexible and which adapts to the in the very innovative economy and we're really afraid the this system will not come all right ok but i guess you're not arguing though against the fact that surely people who've invested in or created products that are then being freely swapped they do deserve something in return for their labors for example if i painted a picture and then someone prints it and sells postcards of it makes money for themselves doing that that wouldn't be right would it you agree with that do you or

don't you. think that we think that it's not really the internet doesn't work like that i mean on the internet we are active active consumers in the same time zone as we are active producers we communicate with other people we receive messages and we send messages and we very often send messages which we did didn't create that someone else created the message we wanted to forward to other people and internet is a public communications space and this is exactly the problem if i find a nice picture on the web and i want to show it to my friends i what i usually do is they put it on my blog right now because it's illegal and that there is something really wrong about what you are sol i guess this is a club just sort of butting in a second but i guess this is to clamp down on you stopping having advertising on your blog and maybe making money from it that's part of the issue here isn't it. i

mean the biggest part of the issue is that the i mean for most of the people i mean money are really not involved the people do those that those are not on the commercial scale that they're not money money changing hands so what we're afraid of the intellectual property systems a really kind of very oppressive for despite this this kind of communication and we and this is why this protests we have on the streets people are not afraid about some bad business. the they really don't care about it they could they do care about it is about themselves and that they may be prosecuted just for the act of the communication with other people and we've acted they were pretty much right i mean this is this is there is a half written into this nasty piece of a lot of the parts on putting more restrictions. and this is this is

not the way we want to go so what's the real aim here why do you think the authorities are doing this what's the grand plan. i think i mean i mean there is that there are central certainly there are certain countries which are very interested in mark dark. this is you know this is a primary car this is dropped by and because they. because of overt strong businesses rely on the corporate the laws and they want to enforce it all over the world and but this doesn't mean that this is good for the people and drum this is why we're here we have to stop this from holland because people feel oppressed by that people don't like the police government just doing what american companies though the government would to do because all these government is supposed to work

for the police people. ok you know so thanks for making your point so clearly yaroslavl from the internet society in poland really good having a program thank you thank. you but to the breaking news we started this with details coming through we're hearing as i just mentioned about five minutes ago one person has reportedly been killed tonight after a school siege in russia's volatile north caucasus now the news agency reporting that is russia's interfax news agency that we are at least seven people have been taken hostage at a middle school in the city of now all chick in the republic of the noble carlia a source in the region security services has told the agency that there are no children among the minds flashback to beslan of course two thousand and four but no children here and one little bit of good news police have surrounded the school we're told and additional anti terror and special forces units are being deployed to the school we're hoping to catch up with our correspondent in the region shortly

for r.t. we'll bring you more as soon as we've got him and he's got his head around the fact and we will update you of course throughout the next couple of hours here on r.t. . iran's threatening to switch off its oil supplies to europe before the e.u. or bargo comes into force in july parliament will discuss next week whether to make the move the you decided to stop buying a road you know a little bit to force to run back into talks over its nuclear program or spoke to surety show a photo from the campaign against sanctions and military intervention in iran she explained what message this move sends to you. the grace period that they had envisioned for six months for it is the embargo to take place may actually not be that graceful so iran is taking matters into his own hands another issue is that it shows a complex city of feeling in domestic politics and the power that the iranian parliament holds and that is accountable to its people and it's not going to just sit back and

watch what's going to happen to the national sovereignty off off iran and then me it shows the disconnect between. his harlem and him people because this is a model is not something which is going to be to the benefit of both and there's also a disconnect between a european governments and their parliament as well i mean it's not the most ideal situation for iran because iran has to find different consumers for the customers where it's all about either at the same time iran is going to be to decrease is dependence on the petrol dollar this is a very good thing in the lot longer and of course they remain middle class the small businesses who actually do business with your pin businesses there are going to suffer but that is the iran claims that that is for short term and in the long term this is actually going to lead to more independence for iran as a whole as as a nation not just not just one part of the society which is investing in foreign

businesses. always a few minutes divorce verses the crisis. low ball political and economic leaders meet here at the world economic forum to tackle the euro zone crisis and also the arabs brain meanwhile those who protest did activists that want their voices heard remain locked out. to come but next syrian troops have stormed a heavily populated damascus suburb where government forces pulled out earlier this week after clashes with opposition fighters the un security council could vote no in the next few days a resolution aimed at stemming the escalating conflict the draft calls on the syrian regime to comply with an arab league proposal for president sad to leave and pave the way for unity government russia has made it clear it will veto any u.n. resolution that allows for intervention or sanctions in syria itself meantime the arab league's crucial monitoring mission has resumed for the first time in a week because of the violence that's after the set but would still six gulf countries pull out and call on the u.n.

to act syria furthur is there for us. saying their good bye and heading home they've 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 wanted 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 there were logistical complaints to the observers seem to 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 was interesting that these countries is very interested in democracy and the have nothing this is the most interesting this is something pani will talk about. what will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country two parties are but what about to do about the west's talk about syria which would be changed and leave saudi arabia as it has damascus says rejection was no surprise both sides of the conflict of shame equal unwillingness 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 yet another remind of the spiraling situation. of the observers at such a crucial moment in the country's crisis is seen as controversial 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 evidence about human rights abuses on the part of the our so very same thing take to the u.n. and the evidence will be so strong that even russia and china would feel compelled to work but as of now one month after this mission started they seem to know the monitors things and i know more about what's going on the ground and they think. at the beginning and so you know looks like you know we're going back to square one as the death toll rises 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 wallet but for now those plans have been pissed on hold in fact much of the substance of the report that 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 would give anyone to help the syrian but the last decision in the hands of the syrian people not in the hands not all believe this could come soon so a national dialogue through these reforms despite damascus allowing the mission to be extended for another month and the observers officially saying that they can continue with the task behind the scenes and the sentiment is much less optimistic . it's a gloomy outlook for the country with little regional or international agreement on what action should be taken to stop the violence and putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as a very. artsy damascus syria. bring if they don't migrate you so one person is reportedly being killed tonight during

a school siege in russia's volatile north caucuses the agency. russia's interfax news agency we're hearing at least seven people were taken hostage in the middle school we can now talk to these correspondent the caucuses said pelosi dennys hi there and what more do we know this is only what he broke in the last ten fifteen minutes or so we have suddenly have not been confirmed yet we have heard reports one person has been killed can you bring us up to date with what you know so from what we know so far additional special forces have arrived on the scene in the capital kabul you know most right here after conflicting reports some of those are the coming in the seventies both the possible hostage situation and one of the all six schools this is from eastern had to be confirmed and a scene from one of russia's new agencies suggesting that sauce seven people none of them the work children were playing volleyball in the school gym as attackers entered the building they started shooting. we know that at

least one person has been killed as a result of the attacks the attackers. who lead the scene immediately after the. sound we know according to sources. couple of unocal car full sources the attackers were looking for. four members of law enforcement agencies this is said he says who said just just of that interview is no big thing a picture of mel figures the capital of the republican company the ball carrier is in the caucasus and it's no stranger to violent incidents nothing of this is connected with his hands in the past we don't know much about it at all the moment but it is. a city that's a lot of trouble in the past isn't it in the several sacks look very much similar to what happened today happens i'm a null six before in fact the vampyr west year several militants lucille's as

a result of we. operations against. terrorists similar operations were carried out. a month before that of sober last year. usually these are small attacks they are of. the militants a sorry thing primarily a lloyd's enforcement agency. the largest attack. in the recent years happen since two thousand and six several dozen militants sacked the city of knowledge six. they've also targets a police with law enforcement agents what do we know about these people the very carried out the attacks in the past can you paint a picture of who they are for our audience. well we know. mostly these were militants. they were. they were hunting police officers who were trying

to get through the arsenals police stations in all six i was there in two thousand and six and i saw always. myself. we know the. moves of these attackers either killed us us harm or. they were going. on trial they were sent in for oil so now we have to see what's going to happen and who were people behind this attack i'm sure we'll hear a lot of balls out of the coming hours absolutely says flossy thanks ever so much for now you have to say really on what we know you see on your map there where nelson is in the republic up within about korea where one person's been killed tonight for school siege. seven people were taken hostage but the only tiny bit of good news coming out of it we have no children involved there but soon as we get more details we'll of course bring you up to date on our correspondents across that

as well. now it's the second day of business in davos as the world's financial decision makers and top brass politicians make new plans to keep the global crisis at bay well they're making some profit along the way to no doubt well also on the table at the world economic forum in switzerland is fallout from the arab uprisings and try to find ways to breathe life back in the struggling euro zone wrapping it all up parties list is in davus. 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 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 geo political changes we've seen yields in egypt for example surged bar and cost be 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 the occupy protesters and activists are part of the conversation here at the forum. if you see the red signal on the ball over the screen there those indicating this breaking news in the has been in this last half hour one person reportedly been killed during

a school siege in russia's volatile north caucasus that information's been reported by russia's interfax news agency there are reports that seven hostages have been held at a middle school in the city of melt chick in the republic of couple of dino there it is on your map these reports still have not been confirmed three one news agency reporting at the moment since we know more we'll of course we're also hearing the attackers have now fled the scene is a bit more information come through a source in the region security services has told the news agency that there are no children at the school police the school surrounded additional anti terror and special forces units are being told are being deployed to that school that area since we know more we'll keep you updated of course these are not live pictures you're looking at don't believe i'll just wait for a gallery to tell me i think these are just a recent pictures this is archive pictures ok just want to confuse you they're all right so that's what we know at the moment we'll of course bring you more as we get to know more or this catch up with the business now.

welcome to business r.t. will start with nancy exclusive from davos the head of russia's state funded high tech corporation tells us he's looking for new inverses and as old as you buy says he's in the alps to meet a leading bankers that helped turn the wrist nano into an operation that's more like a public company. well this year we will sell ten percent shares of course at the private place but that's very very sensitive for and for our way from the state corporation into the business like a corporation disturber will do with consortium from the middle of the insurance we could be in this way 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 of

holder's participation. the major way should be on the show investors and i think that we need to what we need to hear is a board will put patients russian investors in. the famous for in the investor who are able to invest in high tech or. take a look at the markets this very quickly while i has now retreated some want to if we can say that from the gains that we've seen up just the forty two cents for light sweet and brant is up eighty three said that obviously following the fed decision to remain rates low u.s. markets therefore correcting we'll look at them in just a second first of all in the u.s. the u.s. dollar has almost had all of its losses versus the euro. pretty even right now as you can see there but the ruble managed to see some have to gains

in the u.s. markets are now seeing the correction as i mentioned before the dow jones is down by just the last nasdaq point three percent pretty much the same situation. actually no it didn't europe there was a positive session if we can move over there this was all based on the gains in the banking sector footsie up one and a quarter percent the dax almost two percent and russia also saw a positive session with the r.t.s. gaining more than the my six because of a gain in the ruble was as you know the audience is. dominated by the dollar dollar denominated assets my sex by the ruble among the main game is on the my thanks where mining stocks as you can see the north make will save us dollar among the biggest gainers in financials were also strong with those good negating thirteen and a half percent in just one section. of 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 extremely active 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 some more positive guys ladies in case of fungal america. always some more cautious men like for example they would. 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 the end of two thousand and eleven all right after a very short break kevin's back with the headlines you stay with that. you're.

old. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. this is r.t. live from moscow just one story to tell you about this breaking news we're bringing you we're hearing that a person's been one person has been reportedly killed after a school siege in russia's volatile north caucuses that's been reported by russia's interfax news agency in the last hour also reports that seven hostages are being held at a middle school there in the city of nell chicken the republican cup of the noble cardia some of these details start to be confirmed so you have one news agency

reporting it at the moment but it's a reliable one the attackers have now fled the scene a source in the region security services have told the agency that there are no children involved at the school police that we're hearing have surrounded the building additional anti terror and special forces units are being deployed there and just give you some background as well you saw it on them up these by the way are our cars you can see there are pictures don't confuse them with live ones we don't have those yet now is the capital of the republic of kabul deano. in the caucuses it's been as we just heard from our correspondent suffering from a number of violent instance in the past few months alone in november when the special operation by. security services several militants were killed then they were found to be planning a terror attack on the city also in october last year another atrocity was prevented when a bomb had been placed in a flower bed in one of the central squares of nell chick it was discovered by members of the public.