you. start on t.v. dot com. europe makes an internet piracy pact walk the plank rejecting the agreement which could have made big corporations cut off people's web access. to victory for the opposition who has been saying that it is a grave threat to individual freedoms will join me for all the details in a few moments. also war of words the dispute over a law allowing russian to be used in ukraine says riot police tackle angry crowds in kiev. and the minute matter that gave us all this scientists claim they finally found the elusive god particle which could explain how everything in the universe exists.

eleven pm wednesday night here in moscow welcome if you just joined us this is our team kevin zero in our top story a sigh of relief from europe's internet users earlier today the e.u. parliament rejected the notorious online piracy treaty act the anti counterfeiting trade agreement was drafted to protect internet copyright laws but met with wide outrage in europe for threatening people's web freedom brussels correspondent tess are a citizen follow the day's developments for you. there were already a lot of signs very very strong opposition leading up to today's vote that it will be rejected by the european parliament the arguments opposing of the fact that this possible passage of this could possibly infringe on a lot of individual freedoms especially when it comes to internet freedom so out of the four possible outcomes in parliament what happened today is that they have rejected this counterfeiting trade agreement and what it essentially means is that

europe as a whole will be out of this agreement and this has been signed by several other countries including the u.s. australia and if this is to be ratified by six of those parties europe will not be a part of it europe is considered as one entity the main concern really here is the loss of freedom and just more monitoring from authorities in favor of those people lobbying commercially for the intellectual property rights of their climbing especially for example the entertainment industry is not for individual for people who are using the internet what they want here is simply freedom to do what they what they see as a very democratic platform and so millions of people had signed on directly emailing any peace signing petitions to the petitions committee here in brussels arguing that the potential benefits of this act of bill of wanted to bring through is far outweighed by the damage that it could bring david martin who was steering this act to bill in the parliament had actually said that the devil in this case is

in the lack of detail it was so vague that it is indeed passages opens the floor for interpretation of possible jailing of individuals and so he says that the european parliament is simply cannot guarantee the individual freedoms in fright in the european treaties for example and protect individuals and so they just couldn't have let it pass. some of the correspondent in brussels let's go live to talk more about this we're joined by the leader of the pirate party u.k. laws the forest. over one hundred million workers are employed reorganizations who should pour through their jobs depend heavily on. electoral property wote stopping treaties like you seem to they like with act to put them at risk at the end of the day no not at all and max despite the wild claims that the copyright lobbyists there was no actual proper evidence to show that act was going to help anyone either in terms of jobs or in terms of growth for the economy in fact today is a historic victory for democracy and for citizens in the. narrow dalby its

interests and also the shady backroom deal it's worth pointing out that act two was not just reject it was comprehensively crushed. david martin said that this was actually the largest employer rejection of the measure that was supported by the european commission as you were mentioned in your report that there were many activists and grassroots organizations working patiently for months and years and without without their work this agreement would have been waved through by our representatives so i think it's really a big victory for all democratic action i think it's now time for our records into tubes to stop our and i think it's clear that it's becoming increasingly politically poisonous to be anti internet so it's time to listen to citizens once

it's can you though really sleep easy to bed tonight along with the other fellow web users i mean today it's bits but a victory but there are similar draft measures reportedly lying around in brussels ready to be discussed how might they be amended from back to in order to be more palatable maybe in the future is there more to come well we're certainly warning while today is a moment to actually to celebrate actually this democratic victory there is possibly more to come it's worth saying that even european commission is. still making noises to the fact that this might not be the end of the road. but there's still the question of the european courts from cairo for us in the pirate party movement it's never been about some kind of in our opinion it's been about taking a decision on low and the top future of europe day we've chosen freedom of

restriction today and on july the fourth we've seen a declaration of independence from special interests but indeed the fight is not over by any real ok act the question for europe at the moment as it stands do you think they'll ever be a pan global set of rules coming into place. well i think it's i think what's really clear is that it was a fundamental mistake to try and mix so many different things together but also equally it's a fundamental mistake to try and negotiate to such a treaty behind closed doors but it also without countries like russia india and china it's typical arrogance of western countries to imagine that we can just push some things through i do i'm actually looking forward to what's changing and now actually moving away from the negative and payment industry agenda and they actually think about aza to be protecting digital freedoms and actually talking

about how shared culture and actually access all to the internet and to technology that will benefit all european citizens and all world one citizens laws last thought from you there is a school of thought that today that act has been turned in europe where piracy is going to be encouraged is one step forward is it a free for all now in your eyes no not a top i think it's worth remembering what the many objections to act were was essentially setting up a surveillance. turning turning your internet service provider into copyright but it was not just about intellectual property also. like a medicine you know warning that you could in fact the ability of developing nations to access a portable generic drug so this is a tremendous victory for democracy against actually what would have been hugely

damaging green. thanks for your thoughts loss leader of the power of party u.k. live from manchester at r.t. international thank you. now we want to know what you think about this big story what do you think of a rejection well you can tell us of r.t. dog com thanks for taking part if you have so far this is how your vote your thoughts are stacking up this but more of you have joined the majority in fact believe in the corporations rather nor will we brand that on the fifth if you think it's as good as dead eleven percent not quite certain what the agreement means in the first place just a few of you think it's cause for the pirates afford to rejoice for persepolis our party dot com is the place where you can always have your say on the big stories of the day. up ahead this hour with me kevin no it's payback time barclays banks now boss has been given a grilling over who knew wats in the rate fixing scandal that cost him his job. but next a law in ukraine to recognize russian official language in some regions as seen hundreds

protesting. police fired tear gas at the angry crowds after the ukrainian parliament the rather approved the law without debate president a covert says he'll consult experts before he signs the law critics fear it will dilute ukrainian sovereignty and increase moscow's influence if russian is used in official business it's by no means though the first time tempers of run high and ukraine in recent years it's been this see the politicians have been getting physical as artie's alexia reports now on. another day another while you. trains parliament deliberated of a controversial language law deputies use their fists to let their feelings be known one of the central figures in another recent scandal party of regions deputies by the police and chunka says he was attacked by opposition politicians while trying to address lawmakers. when you were i had to finish my speech in order to start the voting five to six people attacked me i'm

a former weightlifter and could provide a strong physical reply but i didn't want to because then everyone would have said i was a thug but it was hard to restrain myself especially after a bottle was thrown at me after these events i received threats and had to move my family. is going to heated debates have often ignited into all out rage inside the rada two years ago when parliament was due to ratify agreements with the moscow on the stand that leads of russia's black sea naval base small bombs went off and the rada speaker had to hide under an umbrella from a rain of rotten eggs thrown at him it may look like chaos and anarchy but for some in ukraine's political circles it is in fact democracy in action and when you listen to them there was a through you would never see fights in the soviet parliament you'll never see fights in north korean political structures with a brawl as a last resort of delivering your point when the vocal methods don't work and can

only happen in a democratic state of that is not affected but still it's democratic and the ballot former deputy now political analyst the media very very intense to disagree he says deputies are weak and cannot bring anything to a logical conclusion neither the law making process nor the fights that is why he published a guide on how they should your old. a dip in just table it is an endless source for improvisation i've counted at least eighteen things that ever table which could be used in a fist fight. it was like the microphone or the hook which is used to hang one's back. and seriously injured each other maybe this would have paved we for a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively. years finds rather have exacting press it would be it's usually televised live on the parliament channel and the favorite t.v. show will certainly hit the screens national wide again for almost two years it has

been relatively calm politically in this country and ukrainians have been deprived of televised fistfights within the parliament but now with a parliamentary election looming this fall deputies are expected to intensify their fight for the right to work inside this building let's see russia r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. but least banks full of bosses being grilled by british m.p.'s today to explain who was involved in what he knew about the fixing of interest rates is wrong whether bob diamond will employ senior figures ranging from the bank of england to the top levels of previous government he's r.t. sarah ferguson london. really that hasn't been the smoking gun that many people were wondering if we'd see it's been a bit more of a down squid actually to be honest with you we've seen him being questioned for a number of hours now and he hasn't been giving much away at all at the beginning of the questioning and he looked visibly uncomfortable and he seemed very very

elusive when he seemed sort of quizzed a little bit harder by some as they send peace a little bit disappointing what we have seen from him say far he described the actions as reprehensible at one point he says when he saw all of the e-mails relating to the great rigging believe. that he felt physically ill will so do a lot of people remember this really does have a huge impact it's said that this rigging that went on at barclays will have affected homeowners it will have affected businesses so you know that really just takes it back to the importance of this questioning and a lot of people feel already that it is simply hasn't been strong enough and that the m.p.'s who were there leading those questions just on hitting him hard enough on necessarily asking the right questions be seeing the deputy governor of the bank of england paul tucker he submitted himself for questioning to try and clear up some of the issues that surround the speculation over the telephone call between

him and the former chief executive bob diamond now book done instead the questioning has an answer to any of these questions directly about what exactly happened there. a lot of people are wanting to know now what exactly happened he was involved did senior white who figure is know about what was going on to the bank of england about what was going on and did they condone it and that's really some of the big questions that we haven't seen on the what you're seeing bob diamond d. today in questioning we're seeing a lot of political class nothing is really trying to distance himself read into all day separations but i mean it's given us an insight really into the very uncomfortably. relationship that is enjoyed by the city and by the politicians in this country and it's really gets a much wider as we said than just individuals and that's really what i want it calls for a complete overhaul of the whole system i mean it's not just. implicated here of course you've got the bank of england discreetly now you've also got it called into

question as to why after the last big financial quite this the government didn't do what they said they were going to day which is clean up the city. sir first in london there for us no man is getting his teeth into bankers ethics for a while now is investment adviser patrick young he's on the line from london as well even patrick bob diamond didn't take the chance today to to name and shame those who were complicit in the rate fixing this cost him his job and hammered the bank he spent years building up why didn't he bring anyone down with him is busy because there was no one to name and shame or was he just full of the spirit of human kindness. i think there's a great deal more to play out in this story and it's very difficult to work out kevin why he's decided not to name someone but he's left us with a very interesting trail i think and ultimately that looks as if it follows all the way right back to the last government you'll remember the labor party was in power for many years in the u.k. it how they remarkably maeglin maniacal finance minister gordon brown who went on

to become an utterly incompetent prime minister and i think there's little doubt that there was are far too cozy an appallingly cozy relationship between the banks and gordon brown i think it's only a matter of time before that's likely to come and in the meantime there could be collateral damage collateral damage to the bank of england and indeed other parties and aspects of the regulatory system so three sculpts already three top executives of barclays will more follow in other banks even in barclays. oh i think there are a lot more scouts to follow here i mean what we've got is a situation where the banks were ultimately during the course of the years running up to the credit crunch of two thousand and eight two thousand and nine palpably incompetent very few people really have paid any price within the banks then we had this incredible wave of money where the government force reasons that are really no one don't need to themselves swarm the banks with money but effectively didn't get a good pint of flesh out of them to reform the system and then we've got this

situation knowing what of course it's finally come out that what the banks were actually doing was they were manipulating their own interest rates which is basically like having a business and saying you can set the wholesale price and you can set the retail price and ultimately of course they didn't do it in the interests of the consumers they did it in the interests of the banks patrick and what you're saying there none of this is good for london's reputation as a world leading financial center but you know end of the day is it possible to instill morality and ethics into something like banking. oh look i think it's two things first of all it's not good for london in the course of time at the moment but then on the other hand the difficulty is this is not limited just to london's bankers i mean this is a global financial problem that the bankers have basically been given two parts i think first of all actually when we look back at this period in history and when we talk in five or ten years' time we will see that this was the peak of buying for power can you instill morality and the bankers of course you can but you have to

get the system right and the system has to be reasonable which is that essentially bankers should not be given a free check they should not be given rewards when the bank makes money and when the bank loses money they have no punishment and they still get rewards the whole system has been effectively socialized so that the community are paying for the bankers and the bankers can be as incompetent as they want because they always walk away with the cash that's the tragedy there is a morality and finance but there's a great deal that has to be done to the banking system in order to make it truly compliant with the sort of community that we need and also to fund our businesses in the future you mention the collateral damage side of. the others recover their image of the business after this what do they need to do to restore trust. well i think they need a wholesale change root and branch from the top to the bottom i mean the difficulty is let's face it customers aren't particularly happy with their u.k.

banks in the first place because actually retail customers of u.k. banks tend to find that banks like barclays are unbelievably incompetent and i think the situation that we have to see and we're going to see is actually technology is going to be what changes this whole instance because already people are moving away from banks they're moving toward turning to not just all the stuff list alternatives like building societies and credit unions but we're starting to see a new technological function it's a thing called peer to peer lending it's essentially like e bay for finance and it's a long individuals and corporates to lend money to each other and just cutting the bank side of the system because unfortunately the banks themselves have overplayed their hand they've been proven to be incompetent and as you say there are going to be a lot more heads to roll because ultimately it looks as if all the banks were effectively complicit in what i think is going to end up being seen as somewhat of a government laden scam which has hurt every businessman and indeed every consumer

not just in britain but everywhere around the world that has you looked out the library interest rate investment advisor per year in france coming to our london studio tonight could see you thank you. there's a way to go whistleblower julian assange she's at the ecuador embassy in london again tonight seeking asylum while sweden is still pushing for extradition the question on sex charges in the u.s. is to get hold of him for alleged espionage during his months under british sons produced a much talked about interview series that aired here on this channel laura smith bridge the key moments of it them. i'm julian assange. it is true where he will be expose the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn us going after what he was promised an insight into the world tomorrow and in twelve episodes julie and i saw and interviewed opinion formers and activists

from across the political spectrum. class and with the first guest being hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah the program proved it wasn't going to hold back from the get go talking to a man the mainstream media has ignored for six years what we called for in seriousness which is dialogue and he said the reform act was going to be carried out because the alternatives to that no one cause of the me first i see somebody was inside syria because of the sensitivity of the situation in syria also that just because they need to civil war and that this is exactly what america and israel want for syria elsewhere the joined up europe project came under fire from david horowitz in a show that pitted the outspoken right winger against radical leftists. the age old ideological fight threatened to turn physical had they been in the same room oh my god i've never had a i blazed its own horowitz maintains europe is dead agrees it was

a disastrous spirit europe europe is a cultural theme park it's significant that's what happened that's what your welfare state that just took you out of the pie i have had personal experience with a socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like the other party the global politics sea change also made waves but two more on the guest list the eminent thinkers tariq ali and noam chomsky the world protest movement showing martin pulled. on no longer fit for purpose to them the answer could lie in latin america. a couple of times one of the most striking things that's happened is the most repressed part of the population of the. population has moved into the. political arena i want to know i am not defending it i think he is a dirtbag i think he is

a dirtbag he obviously has no problem using his fifteen minutes of fame to sleep with anyone who is crawling dividing media opinion but getting real people talking today in a soldier's show hit the ground running and the public on the twitter sphere have an appetite for more nothing short of groundbreaking revolutionary broadcasting. gaging then significantly representative of the times i missed it looking forward to season two of julian assange show but there's no guarantee season two can happen and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a guy would have one forcing. nobody would know who is a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life the feeling is mounting that the u.s. would indeed prosecute julian ass off for way or worse given half

a chance he's currently here at the ecuadorian embassy inducted waiting to hear whether he'll get asylum that it's still the prospect was first raised off mike during his interview with the ecuadorian president for the show broadcast on r.t. mutual admiration is clear in the interview and it ends on a friendly but chilling note. it is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and we welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. a source has given us a glimpse into the future shape of the world we live in while his own future hangs precariously in the balance. london. give us some sort of good feedback about this program during the songes entire series if you want to catch any of it again if you missed any of those shows the streaming whenever you want to see it on our

website or t.v. dot com now talking of which these are some of the stories i got mine up to my there are two claims that the long time palestinian leader yasser arafat was poisoned by polonium we're reporting tonight on details would supposedly shed light on his death. plus his good pictures the jump started which gave these russian devils a swinging time good bit of time where the video was online from the super bowl party dot com. our science section next than the sea that shapes the universe but here finally have been discovered by scientists to the large hadron collider the higgs boson the god particle is the call it is the subatomic matter which started it all and makes up for the very fabric of our existence these people all of a traces its genesis at the chalkboard. scientists working at the large hadron collider have said that they've discovered a new particle which is consistent with the higgs bo's'n all the elusive god particle now why that is so important is well if this proves to be the higgs bo's'n

it proves right a whole lot of theory that scientists have been working with for the best part of fifty years now concerning the creation of the universe how it works and most importantly why things have muss up until now we've only been able to really theorize mass into equations concerning particle physics if we look at it this way the main theory worked within this area of science is the well less than grandiose name of the standard model and if we think of that as a jigsaw puzzle with a whole load of different pieces missing if this proves to be the higgs bo's'n well that fills in some of those missing pieces giving scientists a clearer picture of what they're working with now it's all very very complex science in fact some of those working at the large hadron collider of said that it's well probably easier to find the higgs boson than to explain it to the lay person imagine good we have a planet which is populated by of course we have no muscles and we believe we

understand how they leave the basic walls but it doesn't sound to be real because there's hope to play longer muscles and imagine that we have a theory which explain how it could give them muscles and this is none using the things was unwelcome just completely different well it's already being heralded as potentially the discovery of the century certainly of recent time in science we are hearing from cern from the large hadron collider that it could take them around a year to definitely say whether this is the higgs bosun this particle that they've found but certainly it's very exciting time for the scientific community and all eyes will be focused on cern to see where this takes us in the future. and peter said he's going to be testing me on it later great. looks at whether post-war iraq can cope on that program coming up our brother played in the headlines here on r.t. cochin live from moscow thanks for being with us.

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