tourist places around the globe but in end to see iran libya the group has encountered a formidable obstacle 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 the 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 terms usual

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 their 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 clear recipe for civil war meanwhile the nato operation that brought them to see to power is by itself raising question is. a high profile international team of human rights activists has been to leave to investigate some of the nato that it bears entity of were with. in the throngs and there were guiding the air raids. and directing them and could have been eating them if you

are mandated. the project. that you are it is very very accurate in a way that i myself saw the killing of so many people in front of my eyes i saw the killing of fifty one people in front of my eyes the youngest was fifteen years old and while all sides in the live in conflict are to blame for violence and violations the human rights activists claim not all of them have been held responsible for their wrongdoing. 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 to charge but to shed light on what happened and not to repeat the mistakes the recent united nations report has revealed 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. . libya's post gadhafi government the national transitional council has so far failed to bring peace and stability to the country. to harold r.t. people of bell and his guests on cross talk debate why the militias who overthrew the colonel to obey the new leaders is a preview. of 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 these are people who who who are 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 well what is seen here because this is not here only us what do we want to finish i

haven't said anything and you're interrupting me. i am staying here have you said. which are simply not true my problem. my problem with the n.p.c. is that a lot of the very exiles sort of 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 surrogates. 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 about these are not cronies of gadhafi as a matter of fact most of those people have been arranged out of the t.n.c. has brought in and i'm not even going to. we're exiles and so in a sense that is part of the problem and why they are not legitimate is because they really have no standing in the country at this point.

poland is swept by angry protests against the government support piracy treaty and protecting intellectual property rights activists say the actor dollars from the monitoring of tipitina's and freedom of expression and join several other e.u. countries in a closed door signing ceremony in japan on thursday. has more. i. i down with censorship at the end so i come to a few trade agreement known as act which poland signed on thursday has upset many internet users across the country in the small town of lubin 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 them for publishing the.

material. is somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes for. being used to kill somebody that will be used to our internet activity i believe talking through the internet email forums. 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. because they. strongly businesses. are property 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 would 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 are also sparked widespread protests however critics say actor was engineered in complete secrecy bypassing government procedures and the. criminal punishment it allows alerted many any legislation must be founded in the public 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 i 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 out just terrorists thank you thank you who 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 a war 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 lets you assess the r.t. reporting from poland. for those k of the u.k. pirate party says the agreement is just as art rageous 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 right. that we've seen the the soap agreement which was already dropped by the united states under a wave of 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 is so good it's actually going to mean that there's going to be an arms an acceptable level of surveillance on all of our internet connection is essentially what this agreement dollars is that turns your internet service provider into a kind of police officer and that's really one of the problems of the changes that this agreement brings about it breaks copyright infringement

a criminal offense which is in fact entirely new move. well still ahead few this hour the fiscal function of the year the world economic forum enters its third day as international movers and shakers continue talks about the future of the global economy. suppressing small business owners in india biting against the west's plans to open up the chains of the maker superstore. iran says it's considering cutting oil supplies to europe preempting and even bog you to come into force in july the country's parliament will discuss whether to make the move next week. you impose sanctions in an attempt to force it back to negotiation table its nuclear program iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad's tear owners ready to return to talks but its opponents need to compromise. from the campaign against sanctions and military intervention in iran says the country is

acting to protect its sovereignty. 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 another issue is that it shows a complex city offering 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 sovereignty off of the wrong there be it shows that disconnect between. his harlem and his people because this is a model is not something which is going to be to the benefit of people and there's also this kind of fifteen and 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 costumers where it's all about the same time iran is going to be to decrease is dependence on the petro dollar this is

a very good thing in the lot longer and of course they remain middle class the small businesses who would 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 iraq as a whole as a nation not just not just one part of the society which is investing in foreign businesses. while the u.s. and europe continue to be here to run with sanctions and strong rhetoric the suggestion of military action against the islamic republic leaves many americans cold well he's going to try to go into the streets of washington to gauge opinion. while the obama administration says its war with iran is still on the table and washington hawks come up with even harsher statements if we could break the iranian regime i think within a year the majority of americans may sense 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 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 u.s. should attack iran no no not at all so i think we should go 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 look all the republicans you've got certain ones over that who want to 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 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 as well 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 our team. well much more from just a few clicks away just log on to our web site to get the latest updates and all the best videos here's a taste for you security control over privacy violation the social network set to

become the f.b.i.'s main weapon in combating domestic threats and the details online. in a long shot one that republican presidential candidate puts forward the proposal of making me at something like america's fifty first state. plus mosque a crown's the young scholar at an annual student cuticle. the third day of the world economic forum is just hours from getting underway as the business elite prepare to tackle the global financial crisis and attempt to restore economic confidence the future of china and new razor is expected to dominate

today's agenda long with other vital issues that lauren mr 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 if the people here we will of course given that 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 one of 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 an 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 at 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 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 lauren lyster. and to get more on the business to you sort of being conducted by the world economic forum so from a financial updates in just a few minutes time. there are some world news in brief for you the saudi u.s.

plans to cut one hundred thousand troops and it's a bid for a smaller leaner military restructuring comes as the president prepares for hundreds of billions of dollars worth of next ten years this will still leave the u.s. military larger and stronger than it was 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 engines in the country are still high there as the taliban counters western troops often leading to civilian casualties. syrian rebels have clashed with troops in a town just north of damascus two hundred people were detained by security forces as they raided homes looking for weapons and suspects in the town of provincial governor hopes to negotiate a cease fire as a ten month revolt against president assad creeps closer to damascus moment five thousand people have died since the uprising began last march. to new york where

details of a shipment containing sixty kilos of cocaine seized last week u.n. headquarters have just been released a package marked with fake united nations insignia shipped from mexico through cincinnati organization spokesman read of the year when anyone located at the headquarters where the intended recipients officials believe it was the bundle attempts of drug traffickers to ship contacts into the u.s. . now fierce opposition to international supermarket giant setting up shop in india has forced a rethink many fear that such a move could force millions of shopkeepers across the country out of business supporters argue it would lower prices for consumers should it ripples. this dry food store has been in september saying 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 ago one of the six generations of our family grew

financially and provided us with everything but now seeing child one's way of life could be at risk after years of pressure the indian government decided to allow foreign multibillion 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 economists 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 but what do you think big student 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 big ships but we will not allow this to happen in india a lot of. the small business will be swallowed by the way small fishes are written by the big fishes in the sea these small family run businesses will be completely destroyed jeopardizing the financial situation of fam. isn't childers at the jail for now however opposition within india has stalled the decision from being finalized that 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 how modern the strongmen not least is an attempt to destroy one livelihood of the businessmen in india but we will not allow this to happen and resisting outsiders from potentially destroying his family's tradition priya sridhar r.t. delhi india. kareena will update you now on the latest business news. hello and welcome to our business update this hour raid on a sun is moving closer to increasing its share in the russian comic after vos 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 carl is going to expect south of us to have the lion's share of the alliances growing sales and russia.

there is a lot of progress hopefully shown i'm not going to tell you when but soon we'll be able to announce for you a positive conclusion hopefully weeks maybe months but i don't think it should last we have a goal of forty percent participation to help market share of the sea the largest part of feed when we come from well which is of a brand of of the us i think you'd be supported by rudolph robot side from the other side so it's got this a for team work made by three brands addressing different different people. but you middle east is among the issues dominating talks in davos direct foreign investment into the region was at its lowest level since two thousand and five continuing tensions are putting the company's business in the region at risk however russia's antivirus. is positive about its operations in the middle east speaking to r.t. in davos its founder said that the tensions have had no significant impact on the company's performance. present there were business in the middle east so there's no

effect of too much. still we are group in the middle east. which are working of course it's a pretty sure from there on this. situation in the region but it doesn't reflect our on our financial results our war. too much. let's have a look at the markets now oil is heading higher this hour on concerns about it weighing in exports the international monetary fund warns of a twenty thirty percent price spike if their disrupted grand blanc is trading at one hundred eleven dollars about. it's close to one hundred dollars. now into equities most asian stock markets struggle at the end of a modestly positive week bottle straining shares game with minors pushing the benchmark higher than sang is trading flat in hong kong a drop in volatile property shares dragged the markets after recent gains the nikkei is lower in tokyo as securities group fell two point nine percent in

a week the banking sector less than one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the western markets finished thursday's trading session high of the r.t.s. jumped over two and a half percent lies excited over one percent and looking ahead to friday a market analyst alexander rifkin believes that the upbeat sentiment in the russian markets is likely to start trading away. on friday we can see slight correction. probably will not be too strong because. news we have seen over the week or significant for the markets for the marketplace we see that the trend will see more optimistic than this was on the end of the poles and alone with. the positive january will be followed by a. as positive february as always all the eyes of greece all the eyes on also on the. news from there on the new measures probably introduced by the european union

as all the business is on the back about fifteen minutes of formal financial news here at. wealthy british scientists saying it's time to. find.

markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. welcome back the headlines for you now here about the shocking revelations in an already troubled post gadhafi libya as human rights groups accuse the military of torturing detainees to death i'm just international is ringing the alarm and doctors without borders has already pulled out of the city of misrata protesting the atrocities. poland witnesses further protests against the government signing of

an international policy pact designed to enforce intellectual property rights activists on the streets saying we meant. actor infringe on the internet freedom in need to online censorship. considers banning oil sales to europe preempting the e.u. is decision to stop importing oil from the country in july but as war rhetoric against terror on escalates in the west one americans a voice their opposition to any possible military confrontation. would have more news in about thirty minutes time but first the latest edition of technology update . oh and welcome to technology.