never was an isolated poland set to join the euro zone demand a greater say in decision making spanish in turn argued against excessive staring while everyone pressed the greeks to complete debt talks with its creditors. well there was one result however with twenty five of the twenty seven e.u. nations agreeing to german fiscal rules that would limit deficits and a new bailout fund for paul natal a member of the european parliament says democracy could suffer as a result. of this will go into primary secondary legislation which means that the people can be bypassed there will be referendums across the continent particularly and i'll agree there should be a referendum on this and what will happen is they would bypass the people on the street and. they will get exactly what they want but it is a complete before democracy the scary thing here that you have is once you start including with democracy and trying to change things i think you know the very slippery slope of the trying to put a lot of pressure to agree to this idea that it's really hard but you can all those goals with your commission are not and will oversee the tuxes is quite frankly the

fruits of democracy the oldest democracy in the world and if i was in athens at the moment on the streets demonstrating this well. and next hour in our interview we hear from martin callanan and i am a p from the u.k. conservative party to learn more about where the fallout of the year's first block summit will be felt and here's a short preview of what's coming up. but given. that i think they will default you know effectively. the loss that's being imposed. many could argue that the effectively a default anyway what is clear to me is the current debt. is unsustainable but you know i've got a member of the country the part of the euro zone. that the u.k. wants to have a say in what ever the euro zone decides. to be careful of we can give our opinions but you know we did not join the euro in the first place we are against the euro

being created. out of many pitfalls that there would be along the way it looks like finding out the hard way that you know you are seventeen countries economic policies into one currency zone while still operating seventeen different economic policies. britain is preparing for the greatest show and taking the possibility of a terrorist attack seriously london summer olympic preparations are calling on all corners of the nations to fancy us but as our panel reports such measures might only turn the capital into a city but simply proved to be ineffective. spectators may know who they're watching at the olympics but they won't know who's watching them surveillance drones like this could be circling the skies of london this summer police may use the spy cameras in their lympics anti terror attack ticks it will leave no hiding

place the drones can make out a car's number plate from heights of up to one kilometer privacy campaigners fear is the start of a slippery slope i think it be our salute tragedy for britain if the largest part of the olympic legacy was a surveillance legacy where we have stalled disappointments in the name of national security and then when the other books are over we keep using it very very serious with a purpose so that might not be adequately protected the spy in the skies been piloted before in britain by four police forces but never took off after one crashed into a river and the u.k. aviation authority failed to grant the necessary license that's the only legal requirement before this sort of surveillance becomes a reality at the olympics a minor hurdle for what's already britain's biggest peacetime security operation total cost over one point six billion dollars it is worrying that the security bill

has increased so drastically from initial estimates one of the reasons being given for this is so heightened risk of terrorism which seems incredible as an excuse at a time when the original estimates were made around the time of the london bombings when london was considered to be a very high risk so it seems incredible they got the estimates so badly wrong in the first place commandos speeding up the thames is one answer to a myriad of perceived terror threats this time a hijacked passenger boat they'll also be warships and get on the thames attack helicopters on standby even ground to air missiles ready to launch or vance before you even get to the security on the ground to give you an. idea of the numbers take the olympic stadium capacity eighty thousand ground security at the games is enough to fill sixty percent of that inside the venue will be over twenty three thousand security guards along with several thousand military personnel and then outside

a further six thousand troops along with twelve thousand police total just sawyer fifty thousand the budget is polluted by a hundred percent because initial estimates were woefully inadequate but that still couldn't stop two fake bombs being sneaked in under the radar at the stadiums dummy runs not exactly great value for money london organizers have tried to play down fees the olympic village will be a siege city but with such a massive security operation the plan the limb pick legacy of international friendship may not be the one that's actually left. bennett's london. now is take a look at some of the stories from around the world and over two thousand people have gathered in believe the main city demanding their government to resume construction of a controversial new road to go through amazon reserve. plans to build a highway were cancelled last year after indigenous drive members went on

a two month long march in protest now other communities are asking president to have a morale is to continue the project saying it would bring much needed konami developments to the region. here pro-government militia leader has been killed after a suicide bomber targeted his home in northwestern pakistan rival militants have claimed responsibility for the attack which follows previous clashes between the two groups in which hundreds of people have died three other people including a man son in law were also killed and a blast and eight more were injured. the head of the bangladeshi opposition and thousands of her supporters have staged a rally in the capital calling for early elections and a return to the old voting system an independent caretaker government used to oversee the process before it was dropped by the country's prime minister shake a scene last year demonstration comes after previous and the government rallies turned violent leaving three dab during clashes between protesters and security

forces. and it's time now for the business of date with a touch of stay with us. almost twenty five minutes past nine am here in moscow you're watching business on our european leaders on monday have managed to marry growth and austerity at their first summit this year twenty five out of twenty seven nations agreed to a strict budget discipline but britain and the czech republic refused to sign the document that imposes sanctions on members breaching budget rules some analysts who move brings europe a step closer to a fiscal union but also from the to be capital says the new rules will be hard to follow. it's true implications naturally not all countries will be able to adapt and be within the be within the limits and inevitably wever start pain penalties

and would prefer to to get out of the euro so there's not been need as many countries using this current issue which is not particularly great for intra europe trade and the second thing is it will gradually see more rifts between the european nations and maybe all together who. will become a currency for only the strongest will survive. i love check out the markets oil first and it's gaining value us traders get the message that greece is closer to the final stage of the talks with bondholders that brings hope the e.u. crisis might soon be resolved which in turn increases the risk for out of the appetite for risk risk this hour of the w. china's at around ninety nine and one third dollars a barrel brand is that one hundred now dollars. and now want to equities asian stocks opened lower but they're now posting moderate gains exporters are declining in tokyo in stronger yen toshiba is losing more than two percent of film the

shining around seven percent but industrial companies are pushing tokyo out of the red and hong kong the hang seng is gaining thanks to energy stocks including petro china and china petroleum chemical corporation. and it's less than one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow both the why six am the r.t.s. going to monday's trading session in the red the r.t.s. lost more than one percent of the bisects last point eight percent. russia's economic expansion is losing steam the g.d.p. rose four point two percent last year according to a mid january estimate by prime minister vladimir putin the final figures coming out later on tuesday while retail sales grew last year amid wage increases industrial production growth was cut house to four percent as the euro crisis tighten the demand for exports. samsung will open more than one thousand branded

corners and russia's top more while phone retailer euros set the south korean giant hopes the noble help reduced its market share the company will span from two to sixteen thousand dollars on setting up each corner euro set says the number of branded outlets within its chain could grow to three thousand in the near future last year samsung managed to grow its share to thirty six percent that's compared to around forty percent held by nokia. and that's a latest from the business team will be back in about fifteen minutes say about.

welcome back you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow reminder of the top stories syria still reeling from escalating outbreaks of violence as applied spreads to new york where u.n. security council members are set to reach consensus on. occupy d.c. protesters dig their heels in as they wait for a police crackdown after the deadline to leave their camp said by city authorities passive. plus a bittersweet victory for the year old twenty five you nation signed up for

stricter deb rules while the czech republic joined the u.k. in rejecting the much hyped pozole. well those are the headlines here in r t i'll be back at the top of the hour with more updates the meantime a bring you our interview show spotlights where elgar and off talks to a co-founder of russia's pirate party about what the internet of tomorrow will look like spotlight is next. hello yellow welcome to spotlight the show on our t.v. by now you know and today my guest in the studio is alex song that. the internet today is a place where almost any media is available for free for content providers this is a problem that costs money to make movies music and games they want protection for

their invest. how this can be achieved without risk setting freedom of information ideas so candid be a compromise or their formation battle is set to run forever we're asking one of the leaders of the russian foreign policy advocates league freedom of the internet alexander. during the last five years the world has seen the rise of the so-called pirate party these are groups struggling to reform copyright and patent wars in favor of free transfer of information at the moment there are pirate parties in about forty countries around the globe but some of the european ones take part in local legislatures and. even has two seats in the european parliament most of the world's hard party supported recent protests against b s o p a m p i p a bills in the last congress they claimed they were

a threat to freedom of information and an attempt to introduce censorship and i think that. the welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us today well first of all i'd like you to comment on the situation that we see in the united states the draft laws i mean this and people why did these laws why did the discussion of the. provoke such an outrage how could how could it change the lives of the ordinary americans if they if they're finally passed but only ordinary americans and i think for us it's very important that america now is the something like capital of the world and what the do and the. after some time with so involved for now situation and our life and we know that the internet has been using something some part of internet and isn't on america and if the. again lies this new to literary and the

rules of the game there it will be here and of course it's very dangerous and that they try step by step attempt after attempt to make these sort of totalitarian control on the internet and we know the first actions. including the arrest in of people for example in new zealand when all the silence. of course we are protesting and of course we understand that that is a not a bit but you're protesting here you're not. americans you're trying to protect the russians we're on the internet for the only everybody out everyone how everybody is now we are we are living in the world. people who live inside internet they are living in the world and not only in russia or in america and we live in a new reality in this reality we protect ourselves so if you virtual reality will in your realty because virtual reality is part of reality and maybe diminishing

part of the reality to be this is going research. maybe not because intellectual life is a life. in internet it is very important intellectual and. took to the sore point people it's not forced attempt and it is not lost of time it is part of big work all between grassroot networks civil society from one side and . authoritarian people in states that is national corporations and of course internet manipulating structures and which wants to make such a law that before court they can arrest resource so it is telling these unused hellenism not less. ok well on the eighteenth of january more than one hundred fifty thousand websites all to their web pages all went off

my protesting against us anti-piracy legislation spotlight to me there has more on the biggest online progress in internet history. for many internet users around the world. was a day when their favorite web pages were blacked out changed it was also the day when they learned two new acronyms and people abbreviations of the controversial american anti-piracy bills the stop online piracy act so far and tapped into. previously act the part when making their way through the u.s. congress those opposing the laws and their provisions have been written so broadly that they could eventually lead to some say ship on the mat and harm millions of innocent users internet giants such as google and you tube wakened the bills to

chinese style media control the online protest manned some of internet's largest and most popular resources like wikipedia shut down for twenty four hours the next day peaceful online protest gave way to a massive hacker attack when the group anonymous crippled the us government and the entertainment industry sites a response to the closure of the popular file sharing website mega. advocates of the online freedom celebrated on january twentieth when the us congress announced it would indefinitely postponed voted on so part and people the controversial legislation will now be rewritten in the hope of finding a better balance between online freedom and copyright protection but a compromise that suits everyone will be almost impossible to find making round two of the battle for the internet only a certainty. what you and your friends you colleagues are trying to

fight the sopa people have bills today but despite the decision on the bills the u.s. authorities have closed down the apple one of the biggest biggest foreign sharing sites in the world so doesn't that mean that the existing legislation is enough to to to to to to fight piracy in the man said so so why do you have to fight the soper people and why do they need this so people what's it all about first of all. enemies try to protect in different ways and of course we. people it will be more useful to attack for them easier. to all. because. of this deal it is a really stolen istic crack six this too because it is a field this make up

a lot you can point you can give it is the same as to arrest. big market because some people came there and do something. you know i would i would suggest. you know we weren't so nervous to exist when i was a kid we have these places in moscow where we shared stamps not example just so sure you're right and even even the soviets couldn't close them because we were not trading we would unities it is a training area and practice but we must resist in this way in this when this way it is a big battlefield including by the way a russia tool because in russia we have a big troubles with these problems because some structures want to control internet and some structures want to for example arrest you or because in your computer is something. that you buy. we have heard about serious problems internet problems in china yes but do you really as

a member of this pirate party do you really see any serious threats to freedom in russia are you serious about yes because we know some cases for example in carson and our region where some of the logical activists had very big problems called incremental problems because their computers were arrested because some product inside this computer was not. they have not only prepare us to have this product. in this way every single activist can be arrested. saw can be put in courts in more than reality and of course we are against it because. it's not a problem of money really it's a problem of control what's wrong with copyright. what's wrong with copyright for example author and i don't afraid of if somebody can

copy my book in the internet why because my copyright for me is that my name must be mentioned if my idea is in use but the problem of my meaning in this situation i don't think about it. so deeply that's all it is big big problem for me as an author because if my book is internet of course much more people want to buy it in reality in a short much more people because they prefer for example in the library to read it . a variant so i understand that it is problem of we're a little but of producers and their supporters as an author so you are not against books being freely published in the intruder here including your own books i saw dozens of them today in the net for free but you want your

copyright still to exist for you to be able to sell them ok not sell you don't own little them to my main interest in the author is a most my name must be mentioned if it doesn't use what so it is not my problem says alexander should be in one of the leaders of the russian pirate spotlight will be back shortly after great so stay with us doug. lines. to be soon which brightened a few. songs from feinstein crashing.

his friends down tante dot com. as it was shot four times in total in the air war as it were and the. story of the boys who are still in my body. then do people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem national rifle association was a group of basically retired military police love to shoot holes in i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and if what's in front of here is going to die that's all the training you really really need raise your hand if you know something's been shot ok but to live

without one of the philadelphia horns over streets. in jail or without a gun hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared for the full class including the teacher as it was. seventeen students and i say that i am one of seven or still. wealthy british style sons. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's culture the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines you know and do as a report on our. walking

back to spotlight algren oven just a reminder that my guest on the show today is alexander shubin one of the leaders of the russian pirate party mr shubrick you said there do you have nothing against your books being freely available in the internet but how will authors make their living if their books are available for free i mean there's a very really work of three ways very good for all of us and for me as an author i hope more than twenty books. involved in this problem first of all. is a mortar or treat and internet and all. trade off for good so which you can have in your hands and where a big part of people want to have books as

a reality not only the text in the computer for example i can say that our intellectual literature in russia now have. three thousand corp is five thousand copies of book and we have. millions of people and of course if my book will be widespread and internet more people want to wait not less it's first seconds for example imagine i want to write three books and i put an intern or three were whining and see if you prayed for this what money i will promote. will work with this book more. quickly there is there this is not and it is free choice for people who want to read my books and without a need to total by the way it is directly of course it is more useful for me ok i want to ask you a couple of questions about your party in general will pirates the pirate party we know pirate parties in europe are associated primarily with fighting for freedom of

information and against copyright laws but what is your broader vision of a society you will live to live in because as far as we understand today under the new more liberal laws you are getting ready to become a real political party in russia really we are of course a real political party with very wide program and now we are working for more concrete program of course but we have ideas about everything. has all parties know all the real parties and our key idea is not this copyright problem our key idea is computer democracy and democracy and we are for example in future against parliament because we think that really all decision can be. realized in internet so by all.