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 we 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 of 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 reported davos investors 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 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. laura list of the couple of world news headlines to make you aware of the syrian troops stormed their heavily populated damascus suburb where government forces pulled out earlier this week after clashes with opposition fighters and security council could vote in the next few days on a resolution aimed at stemming the country that's going to conflict in syria itself the arab league's crucial monitoring mission resumed for the first time week after the set by which saw six gulf nations pull out and call on the u.n. to act. 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 of explosives were planted around the home three people also died when a motorcycle bomb exploded in the northern city of kirkuk in the latest in a string of attacks since the u.s. military withdraw in december. past midnight now here in moscow next hour to talk to a british author and middle east expert who explains what he believes was the arab

spring turning point and who he thinks is still stoking the unrest. i'm talking to join our brantley he's a foreign correspondent he's dedicated his life to writing about the middle east of publications all around the world in the wake of the arab spring he says far from the democratic pluralism that the west would take over. what's in fact rushing into

the power vacuum is mists john l. 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 that the mavens 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 only going to cost to run we've seen today the local currency. level against the u.s. dollar in history and the fact is that iran explore a sizeable 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 the hawks in washington there are allies in saudi arabia and israel are absolutely determined to bring iran to its knees and it seems like it's now or never and

they're going for broke 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 if you look back at the arab spring the turning point came 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. crucial to containing iran and so essentially what we've seen is a sunny divide reemerge in the middle east with washington clearly backing sunny powerhouse saudi arabia a close american ally and saudi arabia in turn along has taken control. all 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 egypt and of course in syria 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 and so. 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 you say that that is that is the base groups who have stepped into the breach in many of these countries are you saying these were genuine people's uprisings at the time. the idea. behind it is that they hijacked the revolutions and precisely because they were in fact islamists 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 the impoverished neglected deep 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 here just after mubarak fell showed 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 provoked these revolutions foolishly declared their revolutions leaderless and they didn't have an agenda anyone who knows anything about revolutionary uprisings in the past knows that what happens in the post-revolutionary chaos is that the groups that are most disciplined. and most of. 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 and 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 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 demise for eleven months now if a popular revolution was going to happen it would have happened already the fact is 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 existing pressure on the syrian also or says it is overstepping its mark when it

makes demands while that in 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 u.n. resolution on 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 of 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 will feel compelled to work but as of now one month after this. they seem to night of the monitors

things and i 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 john all breathy thank you very much thank you. lou it. just seems.

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. to your top stories tonight one person killed in a school in russia. says the attackers have now fled the scene and security services say there were no children to school. in poland as the country signs up to a global pact to take down internet piracy it covers everything from movies and music to fashion of pharmaceuticals but it's feared the deal will give big corporations too much power to take users off along. the run friends to cut off its

oil supply the europe the fall the e.u. trade ban comes into force in july european states have decided to stop buying terrans oil in a bid to force the talks over its nuclear program. next to bring the story of one farmer who stood up against a massive multinational corporation to defend his rights and his property. in japan i met with a lot of scientists consumers and processors and in part of us and this document here is a condensed version of the all the scientific studies the japanese have done using month sounders data is over fifty pages long it has been all translated into english for me and that is on the food issues the food part of g.m.o. was months out always used a term substantially quadrant that the food is very similar but the japanese

scientists say that it is not substantially equivalent that food is different and that you have changed in a true genetic engineering or a genetic modification you have changed the structure of the food and it is not the same and it can have very harmful allergens or bacteria that because the viruses and the bacteria that they use for the transferring of genes are also in that food so it is not the same and it could have varied a possible long range health effects of by eating it in other words what monsanto presented to our governments in north america is false and that it is not safe ever it's not substantial equipment which means it's not the same as other regular food and that has been a major major announcement by the japanese scientists. in

north america the chain of transport is completely unprotected and open no one has ever thought of the idea of transporting and storing genetically modified grain separately no it is too late. it's very difficult to segregate the grain from regular grain and today they called her brain because you have contamination from the pit from the elevation from the trucks that are hauling it so it would be impossible to keep it separate so there's always be a small percentage of each or percent each that would mix a giver and so it would not be g.m.o. free. thus the borders are open for the export of genetically contaminated grain and also seat into the whole world. if you introduce g m o's there is no such thing as coexistence and after several

years it all becomes. i have also heard in europe the company saying that all the farmer has to do is leave a buffer strip fifty meters one hundred meters there is no safe distance it doesn't matter if it's fifty kilometers it will spread. so if you introduce j m o's it all becomes mo's after several years and to give you an example how bad it is in canada we no longer have any pure rub see we no longer have any pure soya it has now all g.m.o. is in canada i have often heard in europe and we were also told that in one thousand nine hundred six farmers can have a choice they can grow g m o's they can grow organic or they can grow conventionally there is no more choice left it all becomes g.m.o. was and you no longer can have an organic farmers.

they want control ok and they basically have control is what they have first they go in and they bought our seeds stay seed stock producer holden's corp i believe out of iowa and after that they have holdings has like a whole family or group of seed growers and the rule was that in ninety five they said in five years and after they told them you will be selling ninety percent monsanto product or you will not be in business selling seed so if they did not

push monsanto's product on the farmers they would be out of business and so that's what all the sea growers did they pushed the product on the farmers so they could stay in business. because if they were did not have holdings to grow their spread their seed stock they would not having to sell it it all changed it all changed overnight in one thousand nine hundred six it all changed and it's interesting that the way monsanto seems to enforce this saying is they go into the countryside and they try to determine who is clean in their own seed saving and cleaning your own seed for replaying the next years is a perfectly legal activity. but over the course the last ten years it's went from a perfectly legal and respected activity to one that is illegal. all because corporations have the money to own seed they own life. and what's even

worse about it is this is life that that the human kind of spent. eons developing. you know we took the soybean ten thousand years ago from nothing to what it is today and then monsanto comes along and search one little gene and then then they turn around and patent all the germplasm not just the g.m.o. but the the conventional portions of the seed and say yeah we own this too that's nonsense that belongs to humankind and in my mind. you know monsanto likes to call pirates or farmers of say their own seed pirate sea pirates they call us. but i think we ought to revisit who's the real pirate here these people stole our genetic heritage. you. give farmers lose their rights to use your own cd it becomes service of the land and we're back to a pugil system and that could quite easily quite quickly happen in

a third world country but it will also happen in north america and i think to some degree farmers already are in a service of the land already because he have to buy the say they have to from a certain company they have to buy the fertilizers they have to buy the chemicals especially for all from the same company you have to pay a fee to grow a crop on their land on their own land so i think already to our large degree we are already served on our own land by a multinational corporation like months adul. mark was is an organic farmer a neighbor of percy schmeiser together with a thousand organic farmers he sued monsanto for dermatitis

a rising from the contamination of their canola and mustard crop. the thing is what should always happen is the precautionary principle we should not allow anything out of the lab oratory into the environment especially to do with our food because it is so essential we all need food we need water we need air we should not allow this to happen. only six years later the supreme court of canada decided that they could not bring the case as a class action no every farmer has to claim his damages individually and assume the high risk and high legal costs.

when we were in switzerland last year one interesting thing is we had a journalist and well who was very surprised to find out that when we do surveys in canada about labeling g.m. foods that over ninety percent of canadians say we want mandatory labeling on foods and this journalist was so surprised he said we just assume we take for granted that in north america you're comfortable with g.m. foods look you've been eating it for ten years there seems to be no health effects . you see people when you survey them when you ask them they don't want this we are eating this unfortunately because we don't know it's in our food there's no labeling therefore we've been used like laboratory experiments where you've been used as guinea pigs and who knows we may be affected with our health as we speak with products that you purchase in the store anything that has soya or canola in it

or corn you have to be aware because the most likely contain transgenic or g.m. products. in canada it was approved by the canadian food inspection agency they're the ones that gave monsanto regulatory approval for the introduction but they only used the data supplied to them by months until. they never did no testing whatsoever and so when months satis head to the canadian food inspection agency it tips actually government it's almost like the real food then the government said well then we don't have to test it if it's substantially cuebid we don't have to have our own scientists check it did no testing whatsoever and that has really created a lot of peer in the canadian consumers because what are they really eating when

monsanto said it was safe one month sandow has a very bad track record when he was say p.c. bees were say eight you know orange was tape now are we to believe them when they say a g m o's or g.e. or genetic engineering it say i would never trust them one bit because they don't have a good track record because everything they said before or is false and a lie. also in the case of months santo's herbicide roundup there were studies demonstrating that roundup could be used without risk resulting in worldwide approval of the product many other studies so the negative health effects of the active ingredient to roundup life was eight months until itself warns the material safety data sheets of tissue damage bloody vomiting cardiac arrhythmia and a demon as a result of direct contact or ingestion of the toxin. and

they'll be a problem that round up the studies done in oregon shows that it is the third biggest carse from related illnesses in the state of california and eventually it originally we were told by a month central roundup is so sate you could drink it. with the advent of gene technology the chemical industry entered into the business of plant breeding dupont's among sento but. produces for about twelve point five billion dollars in ten years today the two chemical giants are also the biggest plant breeders in the world producing about three quarters of the world's g.m.o. crops. the height of gene technology cynicism is the so-called terminator technology it makes the farmers biologically dependent on the corporations the plants are

genetically modified in such a way that they are able to germinate only once sowing the harvest seeds is pointless the harvest is dead. monsanto flower has said. that they own anything they put their seed in or they develop what about if you put a gene into a human being does that say they own me has that say they own you.

but i was from one end of south africa whether it was john as were girl durban or her cape town cape town where the parliament is sat i was invited to speak there and then an incident happened in it or at the parliament had i'll never forget in town a mile one of monsanto's representatives also had given a small presentation and i had given a presentation regards how their seats implants is how it could be contaminated and coming out of the assembly the parliament assembly where i went face to face in two months had his representative from johannesburg and he and he was very very out of that i would say rude and a he said to me and shaking his fist to my face said nobody stands up to monsanto

we're going to get you and we're going to destroy you and no way and he also went on to say that when i get back to canada i was going to be in big trouble and sure enough three weeks later when i got back to canada monsanto launched another lawsuit against me tariff for a million dollars and for all their car cars because they said i was stubborn i was arrogant i didn't do what months and. won it and after another year of trial the judge the same judge as to first went out ahead in the federal court awarded monsanto one hundred fifty three thousand dollars a court cost they didn't get the million and so i am now faced with an additional costs if i wouldn't lose my case in this way in court. in may two thousand and four the supreme court of canada announced its decision one percy schmeiser did infringe upon the pavement owned by months onto a corporation by illegally seeding his canola which was contaminated with months antos g.m.o. scene and two because he did not actively use the patient is not required to pay

any damages two months ago. at the same time as the judgment is being announced an auto a british miser and his lawyer terry's a christie give a press conference in saskatoon there was. approximately two hundred thousand dollars judgment that was set aside by the supreme court of canada today and that to percy is a fairly major victory. i really feel that the fact that i can save money farm same a home without pain that costs to monsanto you know i was looking at a two hundred thousand dollar bill so that is a major victory to me. the court rules further the page and on the gene allows the owner to control the entire plant that is the paint on the gene has priority over the ownership of the plant. where it says she cries or.