anyway to work towards bridging these gaps just back from syria who knows firsthand reports thanks very much indeed sara for. well meanwhile in egypt clashes between police and protesters have resumed on saturday offices used tear gas and fired shots at demonstrators overnight tried to storm interior ministry building for a second time seven people have been confirmed dead as a violence grips cairo and several other cities rest to a spot where seventy pounds died after that clash two days ago that is accuse the police of failing to prevent a tragedy thousands of demonstrators in cairo also called for the ruling to tell so to. the middle east analyst who had fires as egyptians are furious that many of us to listen back to generals are still in place. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it it really have on powers and they are demanding the door will be transferred quickly either to

a government or to an elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i link this to something that happened a couple weeks ago when the military council ordered the security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s based n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the military council is very hasn't been in transferring power to democracy forces they want to deal with a force which most likely will be the muslim brotherhood there is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down here in a leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if the other again regime is going to rock what is happening right now is that large segments of civil society specifically the youth of egypt who began their overall and their hope was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood and the son of his . youth are angry at the government because they don't want the military council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear that

egypt is moving towards another of their again regime. allows humanitarian. groups accused libya's new government of abuse in the country's detention centers it's been revealed that a former senior official in may of been the latest victim of torture libya's x. some bastard to france died in custody twenty four hours are detained by militia group reports claim that voters of sixty two you'll. show evidence of bruising and other woman's rights groups say that torture executions of become commonplace in makeshift prisons run by former rebels middle east expert in journalists. whether she's dead is in the spotlight because the same militia that allegedly killed him is also duffy's son custody. i don't think the militia responsible for the the likely torturing to death of mr berg will be held account but there's a lot of interesting political games going on in libya it seems to me very clearly

is that why this focus now on this entire new militia is because there's a tiny militia there's entirely people are holding saif al islam and the west especially the i.c.c. are very fearful about what this one tiny militia are going to do with stifle islam so i feel islam hasn't had access to a solicitor as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely is that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to have been tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france protests have been raging across europe against last week's signing of the new copyright treaty which enforces intellectual property law on the internet opponents say the international actor documenting forces censorship is a violation of human rights and it's artie's tom barton reports now more demonstrations are expected over the weekend. the streets may be snowy but here in

sweden the heat is being turned up in that most modern of political debates surrounding internet freedom protests have been called here in the capital as part of a wider reaction in europe and the u.s. against laws perceived to infringe on the public's access to the internet but target this time factor the anti counterfeiting trade agreement signed by countries around the world the people behind the law point out that it's important to try and protect the copyright of the people who make music to make video and distribute it around the world if you say well everything should be free world perhaps no one will write any books or produce music or fields etc. because it's not often those against it say it's a wolf in sheep's clothing a way for governments to control their access to the internet and that it was held

in secret but it was designed to be very punitive to those found breaching copyright rules the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet today ideas battle it out for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need to ask anybody's permission to present new ideas and. all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and millions of young people are rising up in anger the formation of pirate parties not just here in sweden but elsewhere in europe is evidence of how high the status of those internet freedom campaign is has risen and there's politics not just in the european parliament but also on the streets internet freedom campaigners are urging people to put their views across before the european parliament votes on

this in june to try and stop the legislation before it's made whether it's done in parliaments and in political boardrooms or on the street few expect this to be a calm debate somebody reporting that well some well news in brief for you now this hour iran's supreme leader has issued a warning about retaliating against the west over sanctions that include an oil embargo creasing threats the speech came as a response to the statement from the u.s. defense secretary panetta who said israel is right you can bomb their ground within months the u.s. and the e.u. have imposed a number of financial and oil sanctions against iran over its disputed nuclear program which they suspect used to make it. at least thirty seven people have been killed in south sudan during the shoot out of the peace meeting gunmen in trucks arrived and began shooting indiscriminately after a fight broke out at a gathering meeting was designed to bring an end to recent violence have

a stolen livestock hundreds have been killed in recent weeks as a result of the disputes. and europe's worst cold snap in decades has now claimed the lives of one hundred seventy five people one hundred have died in ukraine alone many from frostbite and hypothermia extreme temperatures even cause the black sea to freeze off the coast of mania but it is in remote areas have been cut off with trucks on able to transport supplies heavy snow to the closure of schools and ports across europe. now as the u.s. presidential election hots up the contenders are competing hard to make it to the white house next to online journalist laurie half an ist to find out what people in new york think about the race for the oval office. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are duking it out with the gloves are off what is the world's make of these candidates this week let's talk about that do you think

there's any difference between mitt and newt. no i think to both. church who are sort of exclusionary and don't think a lot about the people they're supposed to serve and they're a big difference between mitt romney and newt gingrich of which is there's no difference ron paul's republican think there's a difference with him really that of the same for the much. better business room. he's done a lot into a somewhat companies in the period yeah but he's also like gotten a lot of people out of jobs with his business he's been a little bit ruthless in his business and so you've got so much more to you so why would you trust him to represent you in represent the common man oh i don't trust him at all gingrich i don't like either. he's a little funny or his rhetoric is funny to watch entertaining is that important in a presidential candidate. i'm not going to vote for either one of them so it doesn't matter if you had to choose someone to run the u.s.

who would you choose. the wrong person to ask i really like any of you candidates yeah but we got a big one we got a two zero mary i really doubt in our heart honestly dying good luck to us raise good luck do you think the rest of the world should care about what they who becomes the next president think so you why just by saying the fact that you're marching global superpower to figure out what should feel as what's going on have you seen any coverage at all in scotland or yes but so news. and when you see it what do you think. will. good luck to you. yeah right of to talking heads. so it seems like here in times square today people have mixed emotions about who should be the next u.s. president let's see what u.s. citizens have to say about it come november. our interview show spotlight is just ahead but the headlines are coming your way next stay with us.

old means of protection can be used. when global supremacy desert stage. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine u.s. has spent fifteen billion dollars in the prostate for the entire program that we

are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another hundred fifty billion dollars that's larger than many country's entire military budgets went off things because the best form of france. in a touch like a well trained army. villages in ruins. a land where time stands still. all becomes a scene of nothingness. the mysterious sounds of russia.

that's have a look at the headlines now tens of thousands of. foreign against the russian leadership the kremlin is trying to show that next month's presidential election is very transparent with more observers and story line webcams of polling stations. the u.n. is expected to vote in a draft resolution on syria and russia warns the text needs to change before it can be proved the kremlin says it's not balanced enough nice to possible intervention in syria hundreds of reportedly being killed by government troops with terrorists

who are trying to sway the vote at the u.n. . vote in protest against the police in the military government escalating current of course in egypt with several people killed and hundreds wounded demonstrators are accusing the police of negligence on the rich council. that we put the russian prime minister's economic ideas on the microscope in our interview. next. i.

hello again and welcome to the spotlight play into the show on r.t. i'm older now and today we're talking about economic challenge despite the recent global turbulence and crisis russia has managed to keep it stuck on a me and a lot but even the most efficient models become obsolete one day and new ways are to be found to meet new challenges prime minister and presidential candidate lead a potent has published his version over how the russian economy as to be changed in the new rest future the article the world we welcome in general but some critics claim it's contradictory and say put in didn't propose any real solution so is the program a real remedy all rather intellectual speculation we're asking journalist shawn

ramsey and the bladder or some out. russia's prime minister vladimir putin has recently been sharing his vision for russia's development in this series of pre-election manifestos published weekly in major russian newspapers the first antico outlined his vision funded relies on russian society and was particularly it dressed to the country's middle class the second touched upon issues of migration and. you know for. this week's article the third is considered by many of the most important so far as a deals with the country's economic revival who don't present a case for ending russia's dependence on raw materials and sets two thousand and twenty as a deadline for reform. by then russia's hyper exports should double the same is expected to happen to the country's average salary couldn't also offers ways to attract capital into russia's economy among other things he insists on the

so-called luxury tax for the wealthy. our general working to show thank you very much for being with us well first of all you both read the article have you find something in this article that indicates that if putin is elected or russia is facing major economic changes be my guest please. well i think probably russia is on the move my feeling is that. good good things happening in russia the basically people are working hard there's a lot of interest in making russia a global economic power and it's a good thing so you know it's not only mr putin here we're talking about the russian people you know hundred forty million people who want to do something and want to book but let's talk about the article that it did you get in the question that putin is ready if he's reelected to start real change in the economy

the main point of this article is that we have no exactly how and when it is not a program it's just a dream and he said in general i want to see a rusher in this picture but it just so you know and that is the point which is criticized from many people i guess absolutely they are absolutely right and i have to tell you. russia it russian economy has a very long history like any other country and definitely we have some negative questions in the in our previous history and he didn't see us didn't tell us how to reorganize the koval how to do or to do to make the main direction of economy how to change the country of gods and oil production company to some yard as for example maybe to the company which will do the country which will produce

gasoline or something else and he we have no this articles show. i understand putin's intention to to be objective to to be like a what will lie all we do we write articles so we try to be objective but when i read he's not a journalist he's the prime minister and i would be president so i get an impression that trying to. be objective he's writing this article as somebody who's observing the economic situation russia from the outside looking forward bearing no responsibility for the twelve hour so who is he addressing himself well that's interesting yeah i guess i get that feeling also because he deals very lightly with certain major very important and fundamental issues in russia's economy which was that the soviet union was a very powerful industrial country that did have a lot of what is what is used the term of its kind of its own new technology it had

created its own area of expertise and a lot of independent from the rest of the world because of that because of the the wall the russian word for technology today is no how no how. is the russian front technology that that's right and even kids now i mean i talk to kids about movies because i also make films filmmakers yeah i talk to kids and they don't know even new russian classics much less so the world is changing and russia is changing too and you really get that feeling i first came here in ninety one and then i was again spent some years here in the beginning of the nineties saw the coups saw the political the political movements but many way back to back to that subject i think. it's it's kind of you usual thing is well we what we want to do but he's you know of course there are

a lot of specifics that can't be covered in four page letter but to me i guess you have the mistake a huge mistake it is the position of the person who declared before we had a very poor in economical way country yeltsin and all this period will try to improve the situation and now dear friends and how it's a electorate i have to receive the possibility to start to look to looking forward and to do something that's not the position from the people of the foreigner or robber or point of view gets their position of a person who says yes we did something but it's not enough but we did something and we have to do something well here's a quote from the russian prime minister on why russia should develop modern technologies. russia must play a bigger part in the international division of labor not only as a supplier of commodities and managers but as

a number of regularly operated carting engine technology at least some sectors otherwise we are doomed to deplete our resources by constantly changing them for expensive war in technology to produce consumer goods materials and pharmaceuticals that we cannot develop ourselves. the world this quote basically means that russia has not over a current dependence on commodities which has been the goal of putin's government that is going to produce presidency and the medvedev presidency but. the article it doesn't contain any explanation why wasn't it over here yet the point is excuse me the point is that he wrote what you want to listen to here. it is very good for you yes this were well it's a it's i'm sorry it's a it's a good thing here he was if he was a presidential candidate from the outside it would be good to try to give people

what they want to hear but when you're the presidential candidate from the inside he has been president have been for it he owes explanations to people does he know if you remember the very old movie where talking about movies but by an irony of asked a small girl little the little baby what do you want that i will cut your hair or you will go to the summer house. and the girl said yes that's our how this here to you want you prefer you said yeah it's a good idea but i have no time just in this small article to give the explanation about how it is a program of the government it's not mine but in general i want to show you the way you want to go by this week yes you said that's it it was a problem now it does a presidential candidate from the outside not the reelected one zero zero zero explanation. grateful to people the good dogs so he well his critique he could

critique he made he talked about how certain government but you so confident it has it has a word but he doesn't want to give them up they can't be answered inside the country . this is a well. i don't know i have to say there's a cultural gap here like for americans we do criticize ourselves and it's more every minute you know but russians i mean there's a certain thing that from living in russia i don't know if that's changing but kind of classically you don't criticize yourself too much well colorfully you're going to say russians are more self-critical than americans but we don't we don't get so critical when talking to foreigners we so frugal with each other you know will i thought against you if you were not alone together yeah i think you're russians are very self-critical in terms of criticizing the russians and if you're a large on each other yeah you know the high standards of living standards lie like that but when it comes to themselves to say ok i made

a mistake i did something wrong i mean what what is our position here in all around or is it but you didn't think that he had a make you made a hint about mr mediator he said we lost four years i dream that dmitri will come in the will stall these roses and it was my huge mistake and now i have to restart it once more time and that's why i declare to you what we will have to do that is the answer i guess well did you did you get at least a hint from this article on war is put in the to do to my country less dependent on all forces who i did it's a it's a very kind of nice sounding plan i think it's seductive but again the question is says quite simply just like in the case of obama obama's finishing. for years he probably made a lot of promises and now his goal is going for reelection he's not criticizing

himself and saying i should have fought harder and i didn't have i didn't have clear when creating a medical system we don't really know about the we're calling me every trial and said all right so in the sense is it sounds good to me but how is he going to do it right there it's the question and i have to attract your attention on the one thing everybody said it's a very bad thing that the economy of russia belongs to the gas and oil and we somebody declared we have to build new factories which will be reproduced oil and to produce the gasoline and to bring it to the market will but nobody have to ask himself who care about our give them who we are in a common market with our blood again because in a world war there are a lot of store maybe we have to do something else say journalist sean ramsey of lattimer somalia the spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay with us there we go.

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best so the but . i our. the back. to our. right welcome back to spotlight i'm al green i'm just a reminder that my guests on the show today are a journalist sean ramsay a journalist and filmmaker and vladimir so mad businessman it's and journalist and writer and a filmmaker that's out for governor thank you very much both. for being here just a reminder that we are discussing the latest article published in they and one of

the russian papers by a part of about lattimer put in the presidential candidate and now let's listen to another quote let's hear what the prime minister says about what awaits the russian manufacturers in the w t l mark. i can see all the challenges that our exemption to the w g o's pushing before a number of industries exposed and i would like to assure them that i will do my best to cushion transition based problems however the manufacturers of industrial and technological goods must be clearly aware that the days of competing in the single national market have gone now one there will be no profitable. issues are high tech products and there will be only one market the global one. so here's the doctor again who promises to question but are you proud or anti w.r. in terms intel i mean for russia what was your storage in my opinion i every my

time i i was again is this the person because we are talking about how to develop in a different kind of directions our economy if we will try to produce shoes or dresses or food or something else we have a lot of samples as which come to us abroad from abroad like improv and like we hear and see for example you have are such a gold rush and very rarely are the jackets yeah so how you will have to organize the competition between us so if we will open the gates you have to know what you will do next time if your. introduce somebody or some attention to come to your market you have to understand what you will do we have an all the same you we have no plan that is the biggest mistake but in general to be involved in the world economic relations definitely is good.