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 the 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 who preaches 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 luban and pose in central poland we are expecting more protests on friday and 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 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 more of 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. liles k. of the u.k. pirate party says this deal made in secret could be just as harmful as the recently

stalled similar bills that in the us sparked outrage across the world. this is part of a line along a long line of attacks on civil liberties and internet freedom the agreement is just the right. of these moves that we've seen the. troops already dropped by the united states draw a wave of. protests now the actor agreement has the potential to be just as dangerous or even more so to the very fabric of the internet and our economy so so that it. really what is the problem now the question is under the name of dealing with copyright infringement it's actually going to mean that there's going to be an acceptable level of surveillance on all of our internet connections

essentially what this agreement says the turns your internet service provider into a kind of police office and that's really one of the problems of the changes that agreement brings about it breaks a copyright infringer a criminal offense which is in fact entirely new move on the way in a few minutes an arab spring on the slopes of the how. global political and economic leaders meet here at the world economic forum to tackle the grow zone right there and also the arab spring meanwhile those protests did activists they want their voices heard remain locked out. and now tie round where parliament is set to decide on whether to block oil supplies to europe the move comes after the e.u. imposed sanctions on iran and her temper forced her back to the negotiation table over its nuclear program the e.u. is all oil embargo comes into force in july. from the campaign against sanctions

and military intervention in iran says the country is now taking action into its own hands. the grace period. that the vision for six months for does go to take place may actually not be that graceful so iran is taking matters into his own hands and the other issue is that it shows the complex feeling in the midst of politics and the power that the iranian parliament holds 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. the wrong there the it shows that this can make. his harlem and his people because this is not something which is going to be to the benefit of the people and there's also if this is going to fifteen european governments on their parliament as well i mean it's not the most ideal situation for iran because iran has to find different consumers for good customers where it's all about at the at the same time iran is going to be to decrease is dependence on

the petro dollar which is a very good thing in the lot longer and of course they remain middle class small businesses who actually do business with your pin businesses there are going to suffer but that is 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 a nation not just not just one part of the society which is investing in foreign businesses in syria government troops have stormed a town north of damascus that's become a stronghold for rebel resistance opposition activists say almost fifty people were killed and thursdays on rest including ten children meanwhile the arab league secretary general is due at the u.n. security council to present his position as the body needs to discuss the situation in the country the arab league submitted a resolution which calls for president assad to cede power and establish a unity government however any prospect of foreign intervention or sanctions has

been imposed by russia and syria itself the arab league's monitoring mission has resumed for the first time in a week after six countries withdrew their some. mort hearties and sarah firth reports. saying they get by and heading home the observers from the gulf states leave the airport their mission incomplete leaving behind a country in a deepening crisis it is never going to be easy to see what they are being hunted to this day i don't want to write from the word gay 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 seen to liquidate 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 to have nothing and this is the most interesting this is something pani will talk about about syria or will have a new constitution we are going to more democratic country two parties are but what about to do about the west come up talk about syria which would be true changed and leave saudi arabia to mask 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 the spiraling

situation. of the observers at such a crucial mavin to 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 is good enough evidence concrete everything about human rights abuses on the part of the are so very seen to then take to the un 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 things and i 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 as the death toll rises the proposal being floated to increase the number of observers on the ground and provide them with u.n. trading could be a life saving would but for now these plans to be interest 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 that 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 the arab league screwed council so a national dialogue through these reforms despite damascus and the mission to be extended for another month. 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 on what action should be taken to stop the violence of putting an end to the crisis seem to be slipping further and further as rates. are to damascus syria.

to developments in libya and now international medical aid group dot. without borders is wrapping up its mission in the libyan city of misrata claiming continued torture in the country's detention centers the group has been working in the city since august twentieth love and then say they've treated a total of one hundred fifteen detainees suffering from torture related words the organization says it has reported all the cases to misrata authorities but nothing has changed since january they claim several patients returned to the interrogation center were tortured again political analyst dan glazebrook says the n.t. c.n.n. western supporters are aware of the torture that i've done and have little desire to stop it. it started with the very beginning of the rebellion the very beginning of the insurrection the second day of the rebellion on eighteenth of february so if the african migrants were rounded up locked in

a detention center and burnt to death by the rebels and this really set the tone and this kind of behavior by the rebels now the so-called government has continued ever since and the n.p.c. expressed support for this kind of behavior they've given out mixed messages when the town of to while ago was ethnically cleansed of all ten thousand of his black residents last year then president of the n.p.c. mahmoud jibril he actually said. what how he was questioned about it and he said well what happens the people have to work is the business of the people of misrata no one else's business that was given the green light for the torture and execution that we're seeing now being this is part of the strategy of the west you know divide and rule is the oldest imperial trick in the book what do they do first of all they destroyed completely the existing state state operators produced ok or so then now this is the interesting part they buy from the electoral process the biggest most popular and most organized political grouping in the country just recently the m.d.c.

announced no doubt the prompting of his western paymasters that a new electoral role law would be that gadhafi loyalists so-called would be barred from taking part in in the elections so this is a clear recipe for civil war. more stories are available for you on line there for you right now. we look into the moon could become america's fifty first state as a republican presidential candidate newt gingrich announces his plans to populate the lunar landscape and also. dancing their way to glory rest of those marines will be ballet troop winds a claim in britain and secures a prestigious award for more attempt at art and culture section on line that our team dot com.

the second day of the world economic forum has wrapped up in davos switzerland the day saw british prime minister david cameron call for a bolder approach toward the euro zone's debt crisis parties lauren lyster house of the details what else was on the table. 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 degrees of 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 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 let's now look at some other news making headlines around the globe in baghdad ten members of a single family have been killed as they slept after their house was blown out by insurgents two police officers their wives and six children died after explosives were planted around there are three people also died when a motorcycle bomb exploded in the northern city of your quote they are the latest

in a string of attacks since the u.s. military withdrawal in december. and attempted mutiny and papa would new guinea has been put down a group of around twenty soldiers put the defense chief under house arrest and demanded that the former prime minister be reinstated after 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 leader. six bodies have been recovered from the rubble of three high rise buildings that collapsed in rio de janeiro on wednesday at least one thousand people remain unaccounted for emergency teams are working at the scene but say the chances of finding anyone still alive are very little officials are investigating if a legal building work led to the collapse of the buildings. eight men have been found shot to death in the mexican city of monterrey the body of

a woman was also found nearby and may be connected to the killings police discovered the bodies after local residents who reported hearing gunfire officials say the incident could be telling to an ongoing turf war between rival drug gangs. next start he talks to a british author and middle east expert who explains what he believes was the arab spring turning point and who he still thinks.

i'm talking to join all broadly he's a foreign correspondent who's dedicated his life to writing about the middle east 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 washing into the power vacuum is. john 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 global economy in general it's certainly going to cost to run we're seeing today the rear of the local currency. against the u.s. dollar in history and the fact is that iran is. sizable amount of

the you 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 their allies in saudi arabia . israel 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. and what happened then is related very much to everything that's happening now because it's the only country that is a majority ruled by

a sunny minority and iran has the story claims to the island and the u.s. navy's fifth fleet is based there crucial to containing iran and so essentially what we've seen is a sunny divide reemerge in the middle east with washington clearly backing sonny powerhouse saudi arabia close american ally and saudi arabia inter along has taken control of the revolutions out square and so for example it's funding and the main islamic party into his ear 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 the there's no real threat because these are moderate islamist parties but of course the definition of moderate makes absolutely no sense

you say that that is sort of islam a screams 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 you. deep south in syria it started in a city near jordan which is been 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 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 ruthless politically then fill the vacuum and so when you couple that with the fact that they're then with the funding that we've been talking about from saudi arabia qatar able to manipulate the electoral process. they were perfectly poised to to step into the into the cap and fill the vacuum and that's what they've done 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 that though they may have no great love for the cucumber face president. the. general feeling of better the devil we know and you talk about the arab league. do you think that the mission in syria has essentially played into the hands of days to existing pressure on the syrian also or sees. the stepping its mark when it makes demolish 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 all very cunning 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 libya the arab league being unconvenient lee 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 on the part of the very scene to then take that 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 seem to know more about what's going on the ground than they did at the beginning and so it all looks like it will be going back to square one john albright they thank you very much thank you.

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thanks for being with us six thirty here in moscow and here's a quick recap of your headlines thousands march in poland the government websites are down by half as opposed to warsaw sorry in international anti-piracy agreements the pact was negotiated in secret and covers a broad swathe of copyright material from pharmaceuticals into films. from iran considers cutting its oil supply to europe before the european union sanctions are

coming to the line the move comes as an attempt to head off the trade ban imposed earlier by some european nations to curb problems with their program. in syria arab league observers resume work after a week's break in are already said to take the findings of england security council however any prospect of foreign intervention or sanctions has been imposed by russia it says government troops launched an all out offensive on a protest talbott in a damascus suburb. those are the headlines this hour now peter lavelle and his guests debate what's in store for the new libya cross-talk is next.