they couldn't overcome burns from electric shocks and cigarettes heavy bruising and renal failure all this evidence of the continued torture of prisoners say the doctors and now after two inmates died from beatings the international group has stopped its mission in protest patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care in order to make them fit for further interrogation this is an acceptable our rule is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions the news comes amidst rising anger with libya's interim government demonstrations in benghazi last week ended with the resignation of a high ranking member of the m.t.c. in the former gadhafi stronghold of bani walid locals pushed out the council forces claiming systematic abuse it started with the very beginning of the rebellion very

beginning of the insurrection the second day of the rebellion on eighteenth of february the african migrants were rounded up locked in a detention center and burnt to death and the n.p.c. expressed support for this time and this is part of the strategy of the west you know divide and rule and that was given the green light of the torture and execution that we're seeing now so this is a recipe for civil war meanwhile the nato operation that brought the m.t.c. to power is by itself raising questions. a high profile international team of human rights activists has been to leave here to investigate some of may two that it bears entity of were with their evolution in the fronds. there were guiding the air raids and they elected them and court have been making them if you are mandated. three reveals that. it is very

very accurate in a way that i myself saw the killing of so many people in front of more my eyes i saw the killing go fifty one people in front of my eyes there was fifteen years old and while all sides in the libyan conflict are to blame for violence and violations the human rights activists claim not all of them have been held responsible for their wrongdoings investigating what happened during libya's seven months civil war and the nato campaign to protect civilians this fact the mission discovered again crimes against humanity but the goal was not the job but to shed light on what happened and not to repeat deadly mistakes in recent united nations report has reviewed that up to eight thousand supporters have been held by militia groups in libya right now and with numerous occasions of torture and revenge killings throughout the country hopes of

a new beginning for libya are fading quickly. r.t. . well libya's post gadhafi government national transitional council so far failed to bring peace and stability to the country coming up later here our people about his guests on cross-talk debate why the militias who overthrew the colonel are reluctant to a new leaders. who the hell is the n.p.c. who are these people after all these months it's still very opaque who are they. well you know we we know that these are people who who who were privileged under the old regime and who decided they could be more privileged under a western style regime i think you know this thing about wanting democracy when when i've seen it i know you didn't hear it because there's just no you're only us when i don't even finish i haven't said anything in your interrupting me. i am

saying there you have you said. which are simply not true what my problem is that my problem with the m.t.c. is that a lot of the. exiles that have come back and some of my actually lived in the suburbs of langley and that's my issue ok my issue is that these are western gets. as a matter of fact one of the issues in libya is right now that when you talk to libyans they refer to the t.n.c. the transitional council as a government of foreigners and so i think you put your finger right on the these are not cronies of gadhafi as a matter of fact most of those people have been arranged out the t.n.c. has brought in and i'm not even if you were going to. lose a number of them were exiles and so in a sense that is part of the problem and why they're not legitimate is because they really have no standing in the country at this point.

more angry protests have broken out in poland after the government signed a little known international anti piracy treaty activists say the agreement known as an actor opened doors for the monitoring of online activities that infringe on freedom of expression poland joined several e.u. countries including france and portugal in a signing ceremony in japan on thursday a correspondent and actually our staff ski has more. with censorship the end so i can interview trade agreement known as. which poland signed on thursday has upset many internet users across the country in the small town of lupul in alone several thousand people hit the streets fearing the treaty would allow corporations to crackdown on the freedom of speech online the idea of punishing you for publishing the. material. is somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes

for knives being used to kill somebody that will be used to our internet activity i believe that talking through the internet e-mail for a form of self-expression this was yet another rally in a whole string of protests held in poland since tuesday large crowds in several cities voiced their anger at the government for signing the document most of the country's government websites were hijacked by the anonymous group they had threatened to reveal sensitive information about the authorities should they go ahead with the act there are certain countries which are very interested in. this is. this is job. because they. truong businesses. or property laws and they want to enforce it all over the world but this doesn't mean that this is good for the people and this is why when we have

this protest in poland because people feel oppressed by that essentially actor is about protecting intellectual property from music and books pharmaceuticals and. similar in form to the stalled u.s. bill so people that also sparked widespread protests however critics say actor was engineered in complete secrecy bypassing government procedures and the criminal punishment it allows alerted many in the legislation must be founded in the public eye. opinion of what's right and wrong when you have a copyright industry that's talking about extraditing a person who has done nothing but linking to t.v. shows extradition does something useful murder and genocide this is such an abuse of power think it's time is more than ripe for a serious review of what we want with copyright law and it's certainly not calling

. just terrorists thank you thank you doubt this will happen given that prime minister to six party hold the majority in the save the government says the agreement is not a threat to freedom but maintain the internet should not be a space of legal. but protesters say they will bring even more people to warsaw central square on friday to stop it becoming law in the space of just three days protests unfold have managed to gather tens of thousands of people and while this is still little chance that this bill would not make it through parliament the rallies unlikely to die down alexina shastri r.t. reporting from poland. well knows that k. of the u.k. pirate party says the agreement is just as outrageous and harmful a similar piracy legislation abandoned by lawmakers in america following mass protests. this is part of a line along

a long line of attacks on civil liberties and internet freedom the actor agreement is just the right step in. the scene the the soap which was already dropped by the united states under a wave of wave 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 put it it's actually going to mean that there's going to be an unacceptable level of surveillance on all of our internet connection is essentially what this agreement dollars is it turns your internet service provider into a kind of police officer and that's really one of the problems of the changes that agreement brings about it makes a copyright infringement a criminal offense which is in fact entirely new move. what's on the head for you

this out of school function of the year the economic board has its third day as leaders from around the world to new talks about the economy. and suppressing small business why shop owners in india are fighting against the west brands to open up the chains of superstores. iran says it's considering cutting oil supplies to europe preempting and you in bog due to come into force in july the country's parliament will discuss whether to make the move next week congress or even those sections in the term to use. its nuclear program iran's president would ever do jack says iran is ready to return to its need to compromise. from the campaign against sanctions and the true intervention in iran is the country is now taking action into its own

hands. the grace period that the vision for six months for it is going 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 the midst of politics and the power that the iranian parliament holds and that is accountable to its people that it's not going to just sit back and watch what's going to happen to their national sovereignty off off the wrong their nature shows that this can mix between. his harlem and him people because this is a model is not something that is going to be to the benefit of both and there's also this kind of between 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 costumers where it's all about that at the same time iran is going to be to decrease this dependence on the petro dollar this is

a very good thing in the long. longer and of course they reign in middle class small businesses who actually do business with european businesses there are going to suffer but that is the. wrong claims that that is for sure and in the long term this is actually going to lead to more independence for iraq as a whole as a nation not just not just one part of the society which is investing in foreign businesses. well despite sanctions and harsh rhetoric from europe and the us when it comes to bombing iran many americans say they oppose the idea of war would be eternal mistake what is going to the streets of washington to gauge opinion. while the obama administration says war with iran is still on the table and washington hawks come up with even harsher statements we should brace the iranian regime i think within a year the majority of americans may says that their opposition to more wars which is reflected in always and polls is being ignored in washington residents of

charlottesville in virginia took the matter to their city council which passed the resolution calling on the federal government to and all its wars and avoid starting a new one with iran the biggest threat right now is that we will get jackknifed into or a war against iran which would be a disaster for the people of iran and for the people of charlottesville and the rest of our country david swanson is the co-author of the resolution adopted by the charlottesville city council. popular will as always been against wars unless pushed in dragged by very manipulative propaganda and they have been trying those who want war on iran have been trying unsuccessfully for years to get the american people on board i went out on the street to see how many people i would meet who want the u.s. to attack iran. do you think the us should attack iran no no not at all the last

thing we should do though it's a terrible idea one of the worst ideas i think i have heard a while yeah that would be horrible yeah because they're good guys but because. i think another war is just a horrific idea but look on the republican side you've got certain ones over there now who want to give just can't wait to get us in war it really doesn't look good at all do you think the u.s. should attack iran yes just one out of more than a dozen interviews and it's not just people on the street but many experts in the security field warn against starting a war with iran including the former acting director of the cia people keep saying that the military option is. it is still on the table i think it would be a very bad option but the latter one to use one of the big problems with iran is that if you get into. an open confrontation a military confrontation your risk a cycle of retaliation and response. with great difficulty seeing where the end point is the question one may ask is how does washington continue talking wars with

so many americans against them i have a hard time thinking of any example of any issue on which the conduct of our government in washington or responds with majority opinion war is not some kind of exception the public is against bailouts for bankers the public is against subsidies for energy companies the public is against wars the public is against just about every decision made on important issues in washington the fact of the matter is that majority of americans don't want a new wars on their plate poll showed they were opposed to u.s. involvement in libya's law but the government went about it anyway many says that the rift between what americans want and what leaders do in the name of the american people is getting larger i'm going to check our reporting from washington marty. now the third day of the world economic forum is just austan getting on the way as the business of the prepare to tackle

a global financial crisis an attempt to restore economic confidence the future of china and eurasia is expected to dominate today's agenda along with other parts of the seas ati's lorna's to reports. it's day three of the world economic forum but things are certainly not slowing down if anything they are continuing to get more into the problems the economic problems that really are the ones that are a focus of the globe and at the people here we will of course given out here a lot more on the eurozone crisis this is really something that has cast a cloud over this entire forum with it being the headache for the global economy as angela merkel pointed out in her remarks probably quite fit only when this forum opened up but will also hear on a number of other issues we will hear about politics there will be discussion of the arab spring implications we'll hear from the prime minister of tunisia we'll hear from the presidential candidate egypt about what the arab spring means for those economies and also for investment we'll also hear more on emerging economies

and on the big guys we'll hear about china's economic outlook why is there pessimism with the economy that's expected to grow nine percent it's a great question we'll see what they come up with and also a number of russian participants will speak about the global energy outlook financial competitiveness and also the future of eurasia so those are some of the things that we're going to hear on the official agenda but do not forget it davos there is a whole other agenda which is what is happening on the sidelines and in private meetings and in private parties bilateral meetings for diplomats business meetings for any kind of executives or people trying to get investment whether it's a charity or a state or a country so this is a lot of what goes on here we'll keep you posted on how this all unfolds on day three but for now from the world economic forum in davos switzerland i'm laurin leicester. to get more of the business deals that are being conducted at the world economic forum stay tuned for a financial update that's coming up in the center. some world news in brief for you

this hour the u.s. plans to cut one hundred thousand troops it's big for small to the. military the military restructuring. for hundreds of billions of dollars worth of cuts over the next ten years this will still leave the u.s. military larger and stronger than it once before the wars in iraq and afghanistan the government will continue to spend around eighty eight billion dollars a year on combat operations in afghanistan tensions in the country continue to simmer as the taliban counters western troops are leading to civilian casualties. syrian rebels have clashed with troops here town just north of damascus two hundred people were detained by security forces as they raided homes looking for weapons and suspects. that would ensure governor hopes to negotiate a cease fire as of ten months ago against president. closer to the last us more

than five thousand people have died since the uprising began last march. to new york now where a shipment containing sixteen kilos of cocaine has been seized at the u.n. headquarters mail group the package marked with fake united nations insignia which shipped from mexico through cincinnati. spokesman says neither the u.n. nor anyone hated that they had waters where the intended recipients officials believe it was the bungle attempts of drug traffickers trying to ship objects into the u.s. . now fierce opposition to international supermarket giants setting up shop in india has forced the government to rethink and they fear that such a move could force a millions of shopkeepers across the country out of business or supporters argue it with their prices for consumers we should have reports. this dry food store has been instituted they're seeing chalons family for six generations it's one of the many small retail stores that have been operating in this market in old delhi for

hundreds of years when i want to help six generations of our family grew financially and provided us with everything but now saying child one's way of life could be at risk after years of pressure the indian government decided to allow foreign multiband retailers namely grocery stores access to india's market now the likes of tesco and walmart could finally have access to one of the fastest growing middle classes in the world until now india only allowed single brand foreign retailers like reebok to enter the country even though the indian economy opened up more than a decade ago a condom it's here argue that the country needed at least five years to build up its domestic multi brand retail sector before allowing foreign competition into the country but now politicians argue that it might be the perfect time for foreign companies to enter india's five hundred ninety billion dollar retail sector the politicians behind the push say that farmers can make more money and consumers will

pay less for food if the stores are allowed into india these retailers could provide organization to india supply chain by cutting out unnecessary middlemen president obama and other western leaders have also been putting pressure on india to allow their stores to open in the country arguing that they could provide jobs to millions of indians but small business owners still argue that it's an idea that would jeopardize their way of life. the big story we're going to businesses will not be able to compete with and they will find it hard to say all right so this is a conspiracy against us to shut us down and open the big shops but we will not allow this to happen in india. the small business will be swallowed by the way small fishes are wreaking by the big fishes in the sea these small family run businesses will be completely destroyed jeopardizing the financial situation of fam . childers for now however opposition within india has stalled the decision from being finalised store owners like singh chauhan are watching the debate closely

wondering if his family's business and the old delhi that he's known his whole life will suddenly change. this is an attempt to destroy the businessmen in india but we will not allow this to happen in india resisting outsiders from potentially destroying his family's tradition priya sridhar r t delhi india. not in the business news is next here not with korea. it's twenty four past eight am here in moscow welcome to business with a double dip recession in europe all but in reality the confidence problems also drag on the rest of the world and international things the global growth this year will slow to three point three percent from four percent it was predicting just a few months ago we're also not immune yeah laugh says the country should focus on targeting inflation to protect itself from external shocks. russia leads to the

ruble to be flexible flexible x. or straight is a very important component of a successful inflation targeting for sure and this is the experience from all countries that have made that transition and here russia is moving in the right direction i think there's a realisation that you cannot target both at inflation at the same time so the banker rush has a lot a lot more flexibility in the ruble since two thousand and it also has defects that . if things get worse in the us or globally a flexible actions they will help to some extent insulate the russian economy so it also has that effect that to limit the effect on russia. of the crisis. ray noticed sun is moving closer to increasing its share in the russian comic after the us speaking to r t at the devils economic forum the head of the alliance said that the agreement could even come within weeks its plan to raise the share from

the current twenty five percent to fifty percent call is called expect after the us to have the lion's share in the alliance is growing sales in russia. there is a lot of progress hopefully i'm not going to tell you when we'll be able to announce for you it was difficult for you weeks maybe months but i don't think you should we have a goal of forty percent participation general market share of the sea the largest part of feed when we come from which is of a brand of off the laws. by rudolph. from the other side so it's got it's a fair teamwork made by three brands different different people. let's have a look at the markets now all is heading higher that's our concerns about iran you know exports the international monetary fund warns of a twenty thirty percent or a price spike if they're disrupted when bland is trading at one hundred eleven

dollars per barrel while it's close to one hundred dollars per barrel down to equities asian shares a mixed after weak stock to friday trading falling off the wall street however banks are on the rise in hong kong with heavyweight a chase p.c. adding almost half a percent in tokyo some exporters sell lower. losing more than four percent after its results fell slightly below consensus that's. ahead of the opening value in moscow the russian markets finished thursday's trading session higher the r.t.s. jumped over to a half percent bottom isaacs added over one percent looking ahead to friday market analyst alexander rifkin believes that the upbeat sentiment in the us markets is likely to start trading away. on friday we can see a slight correction. probably not be too strong because. we have seen over the week or significant for the markets for the market we. will

see more optimistic than this was on the end of the poles and alone with. the positive generally will be full. as positive february as always all the eyes are on greece all the eyes on was on the. news from there on the new measures probably introduced by the european union well that's our update for this hour but i'll be back in about fifteen minutes with.

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protest against the government signing of an international anti piracy part they say the agreement after the infringe on the internet freedom and lead to online censorship. under iran considers banning oil sales to europe preventing the e.u.'s decision to stop importing oil from the country in july as tensions rise between tehran and the west t. to the streets of washington he would order americans think of a possible military confrontation. next on r.t. the latest edition of our moscow out program today with an italian twist.