doctors without borders known for going do their job in the most dangerous and notorious places around the globe but in n t c 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 these 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 their 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 support for this time this is part of the strategy of the west you know divide and rule 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 empty seat of power is by itself raising question it's. a high profile international team of human rights activists has been to leave to investigate some of make sure that it bears entity of where with. the friends.

there were being the air raids. and court have been raping them if you are baited to protect the reveals that you are 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 of fifty one people in front of my eyes the youngest was fifteen years old and while all sides and 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 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 to judge but to shed light on what happened and not to repeat the 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. . there's further fallout from the notorious international online piracy pact that's being signed around europe in france and he has quit calling the act to deal in poland thousands marched in protest and even m.p.'s down the anonymous hacker groups mass to show their contempt let's hear reports from warsaw. i. don't with censorship at the end so i counter 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 libyan alone several thousand people hit the streets fearing the treaty would allow corporations to crackdown on the freedom of speech online the idea of funding. for publishing

the. marriage material. somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes for. being used to kill somebody that will be used to monitor our internet activity i believe that talking through the internet email jockeying. for 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 john. and because de. jong

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 to. texting intellectual property from music and books to pharmaceuticals and clothes similar in form to the stalled u.s. bill sober and 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 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 out just terrorists. but. if you doubt this will happen given that prime minister to six party holds a majority in the save the government says the agreement is not a threat to freedom but maintained the internet should not be a space of legal. but protesters say they will bring even more people to war so central square on friday to stop it becoming law in the space of just three days protests and phone 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. the r.t. reporting from poland. well a few minutes from now the euro undergoes financial forensics in switzerland. the

house and have nots gather in the swiss alps at the davos world economic forum to try to sort out the highs and lows of the global economy deeply in trouble and the future of the eurozone and we'll have more coming up. and five names are cleared to run. russia's top job in march we tell you who's winding up iraq. but first here's opposition demonstration has taken place in a damascus suburb with two people reportedly killed the area is now under control of the free syrian army and our correspondents are firth was there when violence flared up she now joins us live sara good to see you're ok tell us what did you see there. well this was in the damascus suburb of the as he said it. and we went there with various members of the press and if they would actually started the day with the arab league observers and it was thought that they were going to travel to one of these areas that what what they ended up doing was just

sort of circling around the city here in damascus and going back to the hotel where that they say that point other members of the press it decided to push on and visit this particular suburb and essentially when we got there we were met by the free syrian army now have control of the area and they showed us around they took us into the stand there was absolutely massive anti-government demonstration going on there's a funeral procession going on at the same time as well so we were able to speak to the people who were living in this area to speak to some of the free syrian army members as well because of course very little is known about who exactly these people are we we know a lot of them are all the defectors and speaking to a number of them we were asking how exactly they were able to gain control of some of these areas one of the people were telling us was that the security forces tend to be relying on heavy weaponry this side into certain areas where is the free

syrian army much more of a guerrilla movement i mean we were there with these people with sort of like weaponry that they had. and they said that really does that mean even being able to gain the ground in places like this really have made it very very clear to us just . how divided the country is now becoming whilst we were that there was sort of a moment of confusion we did hear gunshots in the background some of the crowd got nervous and started running which point we we were all sort of told it was safer to leave and we've then left that area a very tense situation certainly a very dangerous situation for the civilians in this area as well you gave these suburbs you can see bullet holes in the walls it's not really clare and so much of the culture now who exactly has control and as he said you know the fact that this is now happening in a suburb just fifteen minutes will say from the city center here in damascus where he goes to show you just how much the situation here is now deteriorating. so are

the u.n. security council is to consider a resolution later on friday backing the arab league's calls for president also to go but russia is still far from happy are things. absolutely well i mean they've made it clear that they're not going to back the western resolution waltz it doesn't rule out the sanctions the military intervention they've put their own proposal forward and you've had this sort of back and forth with neither sides really being able to come to some form of agreement i mean the big sticking point here really is a military intervention and i mean what we've seen in the last week with the arab league monitors meeting and the report that being presented and then the withdrawal of the arab league monitors is that he suddenly had this big leap now to the next step which is going to the u.n. security council but really the sense that there is this sort of middle bit there's missing the middle bit trying to work towards some sort of solution that still is

pushing for dialogue not simply jumping ahead to military intervention there's been a lot of criticism from different sides about that decision by some of the gulf states to withdraw that monitors i mean even from the arab league monitors he remains here really the sense was at the weekend a mission that's really very very vital right now rather than strengthening it we seen the numbers depleted and has really been a major setback for them and now of course you've got the discussions at the u.n. security council but what was very clear here is equal so many different factions in the country it is even more still here in the country very very hard to really understand him exactly is in charge where he was the voice of the people because this is originally a peaceful protest movement even now got increasingly arms opposition groups and those reports today that saudi arabia that could target have said that they're going to be backing the opposition and providing funding and arms as well and the

last thing that anyone wants to see here is the name is that this conflict has become even more and even more violent because the daily death toll is you know just devastatingly high at the moment talking to the people in this suburb today they were extremely emotional you know the people here. this country have lost all sense of safety all sense of security and at the moment really a lot of the focus here is just how do you get that back as soon as possible really and so many people simply don't think the military intervention is the way to do that that would simply be pushing the country even closer toward civil war right are too sorry for of reporting live from damascus thanks for that update and stay safe. well iran could cut off its oil supplies to europe as early as next week when iranian m.p.'s signaled when they could flick the switch with parliament preparing to debate on sunday is to preempt the e.u. embargoed set to start in july which is designed to try to force iran into talks

over its nuclear work to iran's repeatedly said in recent weeks that it's ready to do just that but the u.s. first wants iran to prove its atomic program is peaceful nuclear inspectors are due there in the coming days prior from the campaign against sanctions and military intervention in the wrong things europe and the u.s. aren't really interested in talking. 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 hand and the other issue is that it shows the complex feeling in the midst of politics and the power that the iranian parliament holds and that is accountable to its people and it's not going to just sit back and watch what's going to happen to the national. off the wrong foot nuclear issues really an excuse for deepening that confrontation between iran and the list actually has the same time that is imposing does involve those on the wrong if you see that some

european countries are selling more offers to the countries to the arab countries of the persian gulf so they are benefiting from iran the phobia start creating in the region so why solve the problem with negotiations why some countries are cashing in by deepening the conflict already. we're keeping an eye on developments around iran of the world's other flashpoints that are to dot com many other stories there too here's what's on the line today how one country is overhauled reverberated rolls by twenty five years after mikaela got about twelve introduced. to the u.s.s.r. we assess the excesses and struggles. and nature gives norway a night to remember sit back and enjoy the show with one of the most spectacular northern lights displays in a very long time it's all available on our to use for you to channel right now. but the delegates in davos have got their money on the table today as the world

economic forum assesses the dollar euro and want the start of the euro zone in the future of heavily indebted greece's and negatively on the cards with cautious optimism and sharp criticism alike artie's lauren lyster is in doubt. we heard from a number of. also from vice president economic and monetary affairs for the european commission we heard them all speak today in a panel and strike an optimistic note that they believe that things will be resolved now many people would disagree with that but as far as the people on stage . and was confident that the greek bondholders will come to an agreement on greek debt write downs and haircuts this week and that's kind of what made the major headlines and also believing that the fiscal compact the tighter fiscal compact for the eurozone will come together and a meeting on monday and that would impose of course fines for people that are countries rather break the deficit and debt ceiling rules we saw today that spain

their unemployment rate came out a seventeen year high of twenty two point eighty five percent the finance minister from spain says that this is the biggest issue facing the spanish economy and we know spain is one of the largest economies in europe also a lot of disagreement over there as own solutions we've seen george soros we've seen david cameron we've seen some finance ministers to timothy geithner say a larger fire wall is needed basically saying more bailout funds need to be committed from angela merkel's remarks we heard earlier this week she was trying to convince people that europe would be fine without pledging more money timothy geitner we did hear from today the u.s. treasury secretary i thought was pretty interesting he said that the two biggest issues facing the u.s. economy that will determine its outcome are what happens in the euro zone and whether or not the u.s. congress can agree on some short term solutions for the u.s. economy i thought this was quite interesting because although yes the eurozone economy very much weighs on the united states i've heard from italian economists for example that year and the u.s.

they're much more pessimistic about europe and maybe part of that is coming from the fact that it is an easy scapegoat for u.s. politicians to say oh what's going on in the u.s. is dependent on europe when in reality the u.s. has some major problems of its own a major debt overhang. blick the fed has been very active in trying to reflate the economy but unaffected unaffected does bar high unemployment more than sixteen percent for people that either don't have work or want more work you know these are some real issues that the euro zone has nothing to do it and a congress that is bitterly divided in an election year is not likely to pass much so some real concerns that are being addressed here. well five candidates are in the running for russia's top job in march the electorial commission's confirmed applicants for the presidency an artist peter all over the short list for you. the central election commission of put the rubber stamp on the five names that will be running for the top job in russia on the fourth of march now those going for president will be glad to meet putin from the united russia party going to be sure

gandolfo only communist so to give it all all full of their russia vladimir zhirinovsky from the liberal democrats and the independent candidate billionaire. could all four of those five do actually have their current jobs in office to do they are well thought of the approaches the prime minister the rest of the leaders of their respective political parties. put all of his the the the only candidate who doesn't currently hold office slot of a pittance but he must be going about his job as prime minister he was in siberia a few days ago in his hometown of st petersburg to day. not so much campaigning as they say is really going about that role of being the pm we have seen as amy how brutal the only kind that doesn't currently hold office he's in siberia at the moment trying to show his face and press the flesh amongst those who perhaps maybe don't know who he is the. billionaire owner of the new york fed the new jersey nets is is someone a familiar face in moscow and st petersburg he's going out to the the far east of

this all of the far east of the siberia to try and show his face there to make sure he can talk support as for the other candidates we've seen that he should and also given the lib dems on sunday but also from a russian speaking in the duma just behind me to say they are the leaders of their respective parties they turning up support in their own way as is gone off from the communists so it is starting to slip into the next gear as we approach that election on the fourth of march let's take a look now at some other news from around the world embrace this hour a blast a few more procession outside baghdad killing at least thirty one people and wounding sixty expose and struck as mourners gathered to bury a person killed today earlier there have been more than two hundred deaths since the beginning of the year with increasing sectarian attacks. american troops that in december. the firm that owns the capsized cruise ship are italy's coast is offering passengers fourteen thousand dollars each in compensation and also

promises to refund medical and transport expenses and the cost of the holiday sixteen people are confirmed dead while over a dozen remain missing the ship ran aground off tuscany two weeks ago with more than four thousand people on board. sixteen kilos of cocaine have been seized at the un headquarters in new york it turned out last week marked with a fake u.n. is cigna and came from mexico the global body insists neither it nor its staff or the intended recipients is thought to have been a bungled attempt by traffickers to get drugs into the u.s. . up next is the latest business with dimitri stay with r.t. . welcome to business. cannot make for is displaying signs of a split personality this year the likes of the i.m.f. david cameron and george soros warning of a potential catastrophe as well on the other side there's

a number of heavyweight industrialists who think much of the rescue work has already been done among them is a very cost in the head of russia's second largest bank. there was a practical discussions on for example the introduction of new regulations for. banks and financial sector. capital where they quit on their of course it will take maybe two to three years to implement it but at least there's not just a general debate some very practical things which now being discussed though there's still debating the future of europe. a lot has been at a lot of discussions already happened between the politicians and it looks now the common solution in a much closer that was one or two years ago despite global economic uncertainty russia's largest lead does burbank achieve strong results and twenty eleven seventy

chairman says the financial performance has probably made it one of the world's top ten banks in cost to income ratio burbank is now strongly counting on overseas expansion plans to make five percent profit abroad within three years since he got a call told r.t. about the bank's expansion stretch. yes we launched offices in germany china and india last year but the most important thing is that we agreed to buy the eastern european bank international we're going to close the deal on the fifteenth of february and start operating in eight european countries who are also interested in pollution turkish markets it's hard to talk about the new deal so far but we see great opportunities for acquisitions. the sale of a state's own stake in burbank may take place that this year deputy chairman of russia's central baghdad. so is the government is counting on the price of around one hundred rubles around three dollars a share the state is selling a seven point six percent stake in the. state of the markets at this hour crude

is heading for a weekly gain in three months on signs of economic recovery in the u.s. international monetary fund warns about twenty to thirty percent oil price spike directly in exports disrupted brant blend is that over one hundred eleven dollars per barrel light sweet is above one hundred. european markets are still makes this with the u.k. stocks down heavyweight barclay's is weighing on the index following in european sectors south on worries over the a sovereign debt crisis mining stocks also we're going to show you stocks also pressuring the footsie b.p. shares are down one and a half percent. here in russia the markets are sitting pretty much where they started struggling for direction the r.t.s. and the my stocks are down by just a modest point two point one percent the second was moving the my six financials

are still strong as burbank beginning point six percent energy majors are despite high oil prices down. and steel makers continues to slump in the market for us with a seven percent production increase in twenty eleven. currencies now and that's pretty peculiar. situation rule is pretty flat though you can say it's down versus the dollar versus the year on the global market the euro is stronger than the. double dip recession and all but the reality the continent's problems will also drag on to the rest of the world the international monetary fund now thinks global growth this year will slow to three point three percent from four percent that it was predicting a few months ago russia is not immune but the institution says the country can realize its growth potential it could be less exposed to external shocks if it focuses on four key economic policies one is to firmly anchor the government budget

on a target for the deficit target we have recommended should be four point seven percent of g.d.p. and it should be achieved by two thousand and fifteen second is motor to policy focused on low and stable inflation firmly anchored by the center by small fee for liberation for the third is to develop the financial system and show it stability so it can mobilize say being directed to the productive investment to settle here it's very important to strengthen supervision to give the central bank the adequate powers to pursue active and substantive supervision of banks to avoid that you have that deep stock based system and. you should force. to improve the investment environment here there's a whole range of issues that have to do with the role of the state in the quality has roots in relation this red tape has to be corruption that has the court system

. very well defined the progress has been slow the good positive exception is that russia is now moving forward towards. which we think we have major benefits not just for russia but also for the countries. for more business stories and all the interviews the business tsotsi go to for example you can always log on to a website called forward slash business i'll be back in fifty five minutes time with an object.

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loeb. live from moscow our top stories a massive opposition rally is underway in a damascus suburb with reports of several people killed the area is now under control of the free syrian army you ran is said to debate a new resolution which backs are of the calls to get president assad to go. libya's new leaders face accusations of torture as doctors without borders pulls out of

accused city saying the same patients queue for turning but with new interrogation injuries it's raising key questions among human rights groups about the people nato helped to bring to power. the public politicians and hackers lash out against an international online piracy pact with the french m.e.p. has quit over which while rallies continue in poland to stop the secretive deal getting regular internet users. up next here in our technology update checks out a high tech center in siberia to see what it has to offer don't miss it. oh and welcome to technology update this month we've ditched the bright lights and credits streets of moscow for snow cover no.