europe makes an internet piracy pact walk the plank rejecting the agreement which could have led 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 the army for all the details in a few moments also war of words a dispute over a law that allows russian to be used in ukraine sees riot police tackle angry crowds and kids. under minute matter that gave us all this scientists claim they're a step closer now to discovering the elusive god particle which could explain how everything in the universe exists.

this is r.t. it's midnight here in moscow my name's kevin now in our top story than a sigh of relief from the europe's internet users the parliament rejected the notorious online piracy treaty active the anti counterfeiting trade agreement was drafted to protect internet copyright laws but met with widespread outrage in europe for threatening people's web freedom apostles' correspondent tesser reports . 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 us 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 piece signing petitions to the petitions committee here in brussels arguing that the potential benefits of this act of bill wanted to bring through is far outweighed by the damage that it could bring david martin's who was steering this actual in in parliament had actually said that the devil in this case is in the lack of detail it was so vague that if 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 and fries in the european treaties for example and protect individuals and so they just couldn't have let it pass. a bit earlier i spoke with the citizens advocacy group founded jeremy zimmerman he believes that copyright laws must be reformed but not

at the expense of online users. this victory must be the beginning of something else and through the victory an actor we hope that the e.u. policy makers will understand that this endless spiral of repression that is being pushed for the last fifteen years by the entertainment industry has to stop that combating all cultural practices online is not an option and would only be done at the expense of our fundamental freedoms and of the very fabric of what is a free internet so we have concrete proposals and there already on the table of the you policymakers about reforming copyrights about making our cultural practices legal that sharing and remakes of cultural goods be made legal into the law so we can end this war against sharing certainly people are going to be arguing that ditching actually could be a green light for pirates and france just openly to fight briefly what do you say

to that argument. well what i say is that it's the notion of copyright itself that should be revised we all have the capacity today to participate in culture to to share to rip to remakes we're all participants to culture and it is a fundamental right it is copyright that should be adapted to society and not the other way around and not through opac democratic process or through act up but within parliaments with citizens being heard tell us what you think about this big story of the day online at r.t. dot com what you think about europe projecting out this is what you're telling your sister to look for those votes come out sixty nine percent of you believe the corporations ground them all just rebranded less than a fifth of you think it's as good as dead eleven percent this hour again not quite so what we agree with the first place and just four percent of you think it's cause for the pirates of the full story r.t. dot com the place you can cast your vote. on kevin now in this is out this payback

time barclays bank snow boss is being given a grilling over who knew what's in the rate fixing scandal that cost him his job it got warm but the story rumbling along today. but next a law in ukraine to recognize russian as an official language in some regions has seen hundreds protest in kiev police fired tear gas and angry crowds after the ukrainian parliament or rather approved a law without debate president at a covert says he'll console the experts before signing 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 the first time tempers have run high in ukraine no but in recent years it's been sitting politicians who've been getting physical as a leg. another day another brawl while ukraine's parliament deliberated over a controversial language law deputies used their fists to let their feelings be

known one of the central figures in another recent scandal can't you read. deputy police he says he was attacked by opposition politicians while trying to address lawmakers. when they were i had to finish my speech in order to stop 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. 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 leaves 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 but when you listen to the. you would never see fights in the soviet parliament you'll never see fights in north korean political structures a brawl as a last resort of delivering your point when vocal methods don't work can only happen in a democratic state it's not effective but still it's democratic. former deputy now political analyst the meat every day intends 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 roll over. a dip it just table is an endless source for improvisation i've counted at least eighteen things that ever table which could be used in a fist fight like the microphone or the hook which is used to hang one's back if they maim and seriously injured each other maybe this would have paved weave for

a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively. over the years fights in the rather have been attracting impressive audiences they are usually televised live on the parliamentary channel and the old favorite t.v. show will certainly hit the screens national wide again almost two years it had been relatively calm politically in this country and ukrainians had been deprived of televised fist fights 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. reporting from kiev in ukraine. but has been for the bosses the group of british m.p.'s who explain who was involved in what he knew about the fixing of interest rates all is wrong with the bob diamond well implicates senior figures ranging from the bank of england to the top levels of previous government results he sort of first in london then that hasn't been the smoking gun that many people were wondering if we 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 he looked visibly uncomfortable and he's being very very elusive when he's been 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 the e-mails relating to the great rigging believe. that he felt physically ill will say to 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

aren't 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 question has an answer to any of these questions directly about what exactly happened there but we know 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 since the bank of england know about what was going on and did they condone it. and that's really some of the big questions that we haven't seen the who is seeing bob diamond d. today in questioning we're seeing a lot of the political class nothing is really trying to distance himself right into all day separations but i mean it's given us an insight really into the very uncomfortably close relationship that is enjoyed by the city and by the politicians

in this country and this really goes so much wider as we said than just a few individuals and that's really what's prompted calls for a complete overhaul of the whole system i mean it's not just barclays bank this is implicated here of course you've got the bank of england under scrutiny now you've also got it called into question as to why after the last big financial crisis the government didn't do what they said they were going to do which is clean up the city. investment advisor patrick young in london told me that this case isn't just limited to barclays it's a global banking problem. 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 two thousand and nine power probably 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 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 this is not limited just to london's bankers i mean this is a global financial problem. science now to see that shapes the universe may have been finally discovered by scientists at the large hadron collider the higgs boson the so-called god particle is the subatomic matter which started it all it makes at the very fabric of our existence and he's played a role of it tries to explain it all. 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 because we have nor masters and we believe we

understand how the leave the basic walls but it doesn't sound to be real because this sort of played on mars and imagine that we have a theory which explain how it goes on mars and this is done using the hugues was and will come 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 boson 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 our correspondent peter all of a. protesters recross the u.s. have gathered in philadelphia for a massive occupy wall street demo an independent state twenty six activists have been arrested on sunday has been charged with disorderly conduct the occupy

movement started you recall last september in new york against corporate greed and the gap between the rich and the rest of the american population let's talk about occupy activists cullom openings on the line from either extreme with us earlier we spoke to an activist a couple of hours ago in philadelphia who said that turnout was disappointing what was meant to be a national gathering why is that you think. well it's the summer and also the occupy movement is going in many directions people have the park it was simply you know the slogans were all day all week occupy wall street and we are the ninety nine percent but now the movement has gone and embrace many other things i was at a march of postal workers in washington d.c. where our crowd of a hundred occupiers came and joined the postal workers as they confronted the postmaster general you know demanding that he be arrested for his efforts to shut down the postal service which is actually in the u.s. constitution yet they're still trying to privatizing those many different directions occupy has moved and so you know i don't surprise me that you know one particular aspect of it might have been small because it's global it's

a growing movement of young people who don't have a future because of the capitalist system the capitalist system is in a state of collapse and as a young people have nowhere to turn to but to go into the streets and demand justice and fight against the one percent the bankers and the corporations that have all the power and leave the people with nothing you say is growing there but could it be getting more fragmented therefore losing it. well i think i think it's maturing as a movement i mean the fact that there were such massive demonstrations for may first in new york city and all around the country where occupy wall street joined with the immigrant rights movement with the labor movement you know that shows a real political advance we haven't seen made a demonstrations like that in this country in a long time you know and joining with the immigrants rights struggle joining with the labor unions occupy wall street is really advancing into an advance political movement they can actually confront the one percent and demand a change of power was not a criticism of the time that wasn't the what you're asking for wasn't focused enough on how you address and that these days what we've heard as well. there are other movements into the republican team in philadelphia kind of as you got much in

common with them but is it time you guys maybe to politics instead you said you all but i'll you doing it mainstream enough you think. well i don't think it's a question of being mainstream and the tea party has nothing to do with occupy wall street you know the tea party they want to privatized everything closed the schools closed closed education and all the programs that have been want whereas occupy wall street is a movement against the one percent of the bankers and the corporations demanding justice and occupy wall street is very diverse there's many different views and you know some of it is going to be quote you know more a little mainstream the other view but it's expanding and it's growing and there's a mass movement from below and reflects the sentiments and the economic suffering that a whole generation of young people is feeling you know there are there is very little chance of millions of young people having a decent life you know in terms of economics you know the economic standard of living that our parents had is gone for people in the united states and the only the only choice millions of you have is to go out and confront one percent and talk

about possibly abolishing the capitalist system and taking power from this ruling elite. while you're on the line this sort of talk about yes they are. demanding of course the releases and the rest of the activists deleted tweets is a cold case going on about that as you know at the moment how much support. all those being prosecuted for protesting getting from other. guy getting enough support thing i think you know the slogan of diversity of tactics you know we're all together we may choose different ways of opposing the state but we're all together and also this twitter case really shows you know on the fourth of july there's going to be a lot of rhetoric coming from politicians about how great this country is we have all this freedom but look what's happened when people tried to use this freedom they got maced they got wrapped in orange nets they got clout by police officers all kinds of arrests that exposes the fraud of democracy in the united states where the one percent has the power and the people are still suffering but the people

around the streets and justice will prevail what your organization what's the state to organization to be do you think and. i think occupy wall street will only expand because the capitalists. them is in crisis and it's not going to be able to solve this crisis you know it's a crisis of overproduction technology creases and the wages go down and fewer people are hired and the more efficient production gets under the capitalist system the more poverty expands it's the classic you know thing that karl marx spoke of years ago overproduction the capital system is not going to be able to tell it things you thought activist khaled mopin the new york. we're going to say we'll keep our protest in the u.s. next to a full wall street insider explains why she switched sides to join the movement coming up.

for seven years she was a wall street insider to day she is an occupy wall street activists alexis goldstein joins me now to talk about her experience in one of america's most profitable industries alexis thank you very much for sitting down with r.t. thank you for having me since the start of the occupy movement in september two thousand and eleven you may be possibly one of the most vocal wall street insiders in the u.s. to come out and pretty much blow the whistle on the culture there you recently wrote an article saying that wall street major you cynical or depressed exhausted and paranoid and you felt everyone was out to screw you you spent seven years there

why did you put up with that kind of environment for seven years well i think it's a pretty easy answer you're paid pretty well on wall street and it's also pretty alluring you work with a lot of people that are very smart it's sort of this culture where everyone sort of feels superior and so you're always always jostling for position and so it's very competitive and i'm competitive and i you know in some ways enjoy that environment and you know you're paid better than really pretty much anywhere where else you work unless maybe you became an entrepreneur and hit it rich so there's a lot of things about it that are very appealing and sort of compel you to stay as long as you can stay the public often hears the stereotypes of wall street being toxic and pervasive and ruthless but you basically say that's all true can you give me examples of that i mean how is it as bad as you say face the reason it's so difficult is because no one goes on wall street to help the world everyone goes to

wall street to make money and so because everyone is there to make money you're in competition with everyone else and even though almost every bank or i think everything worked out in the most banks on the street you're not allowed to talk about compensation and in some big that's actually a fireable offense that doesn't stop people from spreading rumors or go. saying about how much other people are made so that's the sort of focus at all times isn't i being compensated fairly and my being compensated more in this person than i think it does a worse job than i do and so it becomes this this environment of envy and that's not a very comfortable happy place for a work it's all about how much money you're making you're in competition with everyone else right there is one bonus pool and there might be sort of sections of the bonus pool for different departments but you're always in competition with others and that makes for i think a pretty toxic environment you say that wall street so-called american dream is to earn enough money so that you can behave in a way that makes the very existence of other people irrelevant if that is the case

do you think the financial industry is threatened by the occupy movement i don't know that they are but i think that there is probably going to be a lot of flight from maybe wall street banks to hedge funds at least for the people that can make that move if they are threatened because that still at this point in this country a fairly unregulated space is the hedge fund space but it is that bubble right so i do think that there probably are people that aren't threatened that much by the occupy movement but i also think it's having some effects on recruiting so i do think it is having a small impact but it's probably not having much of an impact at the very very top because they are so disconnect there it's a bubble it's a very insular place and like i said in the article the goal is to make i guess you money if i can say that if you can and so if you have a few money you don't really care what's going on in the wider world in the article that you recently wrote you called on your friends who quote still do well behind

on wall street to come join the occupy movement how much more wall street employees are out there that share your sentiments you know there's more than you would think a lot of them still are employed though so they act in the misc past cities and then there's a number of people who have left one of my members in. a former driven. straighter i've worked with someone in the alternative banking working group who is a former quantity there's more of us than you would think and there are a lot of people on wall street who are disgruntled so that's sort of who the call was out to was my friends that are still there that i know would like to leave but for whatever reason i haven't done so yet in january u.s. president barack obama announced the creation of a residential mortgage backed securities fraud task force since the creation of that unit more than four hundred thousand homes have reportedly been foreclosed on and not one bank or employee has been charged or held accountable for fraud or

abuse that led up to the two thousand and eight financial crisis recently you took part in an event in which dozens of americans were volunteering their help to that task force you were out on the streets. a few people were arrested can you tell me more about that event so it is state of the line this task force there's five co-chairs of the task force they don't have an executive director yet but they have these five co-chairs the co-chairs whose office we had to sit in is that is attorney general eric schneiderman of new york he was recently profiled in this magazine the american prospect and he said basically i need everyone out there to help to make this as strong and thorough of an investigation as it needs to be so we had big signs with his quote on it about the strong and thorough investigation and we were chanting outside literally we're here to help we're here to help there's a lot of questions about this task force there's a lot of questions that we have there's

a lot of questions that the public has about you know why did they only have fifty people right now if you compare that to the enron investigation there were one hundred people and that was just one company you compare it to savings and loan there were a thousand we have seen no arrests and the ironic thing about the sit in was even though we were peaceful and we were talking with a rep from china. his office would come down they did not call the police but the building manager did call the police and the police were on the megaphone saying you know you have to we got to we've even though we were having a very you know fruitful discussion with the rep from the office and then the police decided to arrest four of the protesters for trespassing and so we now have four people who are arrested for going to the office and trying to ask questions and trying to offer assistance but we still have no no arrests for anyone who been responsible for bringing down the economy thank you very much for a time thank you for having me.

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