guarding the matter and they've promised a tough response to any foreign sanctions that could be put in place over the case a whole lot more still lined up for you on the program including a look at those coping with catastrophe. international sanctions cut syria off from the outside world depriving thousands of basic necessities while those who work in the country's agricultural sector was only for an end to war. cambodia is reportedly working to extradite one of the founders of the file sharing website pirate bay to sweden gottfried wark was arrested by local police following a request form from sweden where he was sentenced to a year in jail for copyright offenses he'd been living in cambodia for years more perspective now on his arrest with amelia under assault or an m.p. e.p. for the swedish pirate party. miller thanks for joining us today now after an

international manhunt and arrest cambodia says it's now preparing to send a golfer to wark to sweden despite there being no extradition treaty between the two tell us is he really that dangerous. or not i would very much doubt it. well then why is sweden so desperate to lay his hands on him. there was really really big international pressure on him going to. try out to make us give a harsh punishment to these three essential young men that were burning it or a tractor to get there in their time. this pressure still lingers on and there's major industrial nations and would rather think are still lying quite hard that it was going pressure on. other countries to hold intellectual interests assumes the arrest also came on the same day as a visit to cambodia by the u.s. trade representative and obama spokesman on trade issues do you think that could

have been of some significance. to draw any consolation ship between these two events i don't think that their innocence. but it is an amusing coincidence of course but why now i mean it's very interesting of golf or it has been living in cambodia for years how come now what do you make of the timing. so. i don't want to speculate on the specific timing of. police questions felt it was time i see what your party made major gains at the time of the pirate bay trial do you think that their case brought attention to your calls. definitely. they have been very defining for the right to be in speed and the way that they needed. to question their relationship with knowledge sharing and how

they. need to have so that they needed to communicate with each other as it was very very important for the public conscience consciousness of a copyright issues in sweden are you going to tell us when other countries that didn't have it of iraq or the country where are they now belgium where the communications infrastructure is all bad i would. possible are taught to look. at the level of debate people have of the level of self reflection people have about their communication is actually not worth saving they can safely have been. can safely be said to have created like you know just message in an entire generation a million start interrupted now you are a figurehead of the pan-european opposition to act and now that that treaty is gone it's said the e.u. law makers are trying to resurrect it or a version similar to it how concerned are you about that. so i'm not very concerned

about that actually the commission was very. in saying that they were not going to introduce activate measures and other trade agreements that said there is not right there isn't much to be concerned about like the current regulatory framework the european union is going to be investigated in the international trade agreements to . their trading partners and this is of concern because we actually need to use the european regulatory framework also it doesn't worry about it but i would be told me we have a parliament which is stronger now and it's possible that the parliament might be able to stand up for public interest to the scene and very briefly we are running out of time now at the end of the day piracy is rampant on the internet unfortunately methods of fighting infringement athlon start all over people's rights is there some sort of a compromise do you think. that i don't think that it's a relevant compromise to discuss we need to define kind of the terms of our own

interaction communication break. this is its own it. doesn't necessarily benefit the most from being trained in a previously versus copyright. dogma i don't think you are under starter m.e.p. for the swedish pirate party thank you. so i have for you later this hour an international clash over catch. the u.k. is accused of safeguarding the assets of the ousted egyptian regime with the property of some key figures in hosni mubarak's inner circle staying on touch despite international sanctions. plus the children's cartoon classics that may now only be suitable for adults a new age rating system for t.v. programs in russia draws up animated anger. the new international peace envoy to syria has described his job as quote near impossible

locked our brahimi went on to say that not enough is being done to stop the violence both on the side of the government and the brambles and as the death toll rises so do the streams of refugees fleeing syria to join the hundreds of thousands who've already left the situation has become so dire that jordan and the u.n. have appealed for seven hundred million dollars to help provide care and support sanctions to make ordinary life difficult in syria with canada alone ramping up its measures against damascus ten times this year and as oksana boyko reports it's now up to syrian farmers to act as a last line of defense against a humanitarian catastrophe. reaping the harvest of economic isolation and a good one farmers across syria are is busy as ever collecting the foods of their labor decades of economic sanctions haven't taught syria to rely on no one but

itself at least when it comes to agricultural production and there are no sour grapes about it now while the political pressure on syria is mounting this country is still fully able to feed its people. almost everything that adds up on syrian tables is growing here in the country south far from the clashes and this year spared the usual drought these fields are probably the government's best had against all sorts of foreign pressure aiming to undermine its support base. syria has experienced sanctions since the 1980's and it is told the country to be self-sufficient now i agree culture is well structured we have all the seeds fertilizers and water but they haven't been damaged by the sanctions or by the ongoing clashes i can say that agriculture still remains among the sectors least affected by the clashes well this place still looks like a sanctuary of peace and the actual war is heard here all too well seventy three

year old jimmy says he understands the young who want their country to change what he can't accept is their means. people who are misled and hold weapons fight the government and destabilize the country are wrong i hope they'll calm down we all need peace to return to syria. polarized on so many levels the syrian conflict has also drawn the line between villagers and city dwellers as violence continues in urban areas people in the countryside are working hard to feed the two warring parties attacking villagers out in rural areas isn't going to really help them in accomplishing their task which is to try to get assad out of power and so i think that's certainly not going to get the syrian peace. on their side so i think that the attacks are being concentrated in urban areas where they have the greatest chance to affect syria economically and potentially to strike out military targets in the lap or clashes are still the order of the day but twenty kilometers west

mohammad is trying to preserve one of his family's to be colonies the other new homes is thought to have been destroyed they couldn't access it for more than six months. they don't want to come into politics it's too dangerous now all they can see is they think using weapons was the biggest mistake of the. syrian beekeepers are absolutely convinced that the beast as superior to all foreign species is and i believe it to withstand hardship and the blood of their pastures and as clashes in the north continue taking their toll on the industry many here hold that there is the only answer of syrian peace will also be transferred today kippers it's not artsy syria. media reports have surfaced suggesting that the u.k. has failed to freeze some of the assets of top officials in the regime of former egyptian leader hosni mubarak the move targeting mubarak and his inner circle was

introduced in february last year after the leader stood down amid mass rallies joining us live now for more professor of international relations marc all meant. mark thanks for taking the time to speak to r.t. today now london says it doesn't have the legal grounds to fulfill congress' request to freeze these assets how legitimate of a reason do you think that is. well lawyers can find almost any of the different reasons by. the ins and the bigger problem is that seems to you. who lives in the us of survive you know all of this was due to her boss who was also the nickel political reasons it's a reward not for those who do what. it's for those who don't do it even when perhaps grounds voted as assets for something from all of it and some of our current and why do you think that is you think there could be some political

pretext behind britain's refusal to cooperate on this issue. to us makes us a specific aspects of the crisis in for instance egypt where it will stay in other countries where it's used as a political tool but also remember that it's all has in a very serious economic crisis and really the two areas of its economy that if we've held off of the bright lights of the thanking sector and its property sector the last two decades and now both of those are in a severe crisis so cutting off the enclosure of dubious forms of dirty money as it's almost called goes into the banks and into the property sector particularly in the high end property in london on the south eastern would be a huge blow to a fairly weak economy if that is already so the government here has both its international role. in the middle east for instance protecting some of the machine others but also one of the best if it were all it's all very weak at the moment because all the crises affect the banks risks so they have all sorts of british

investors british forces but also. the general overall economic crisis that can't really afford to crack down on these photos of money even though they are intentionally very destabilizing through viciously of the city of long term of the banking center and also perhaps even more if you can stave off to see people begin some rumors offer to have some close friends in the government some of the arab shakes and best folks who are. it was one hundred markets out in turkey now tell us what do you think could be going on with the assets the u.k. fail to freeze do you think that could have been shifted elsewhere well that's i think but of course part of the problem with expo is a place where you bring your money in or buy a nice house and other properties but also money coming out of london is de facto clean or can be cleaner from a city of london all of those that are going up and so on and so that's the big problem of the whole from just being a place where money comes to as you could say some people in britain and all the people that are actually acts simply as

a conduit whose money to go somewhere else absolutely disappear forever when the point of view of the countries who actually worked to earn it who lost any chance of getting it now britain applied sanctions against officials a month after the fall of hosni mubarak while switzerland for example froze the our assets within just a half an hour why is it that it took them so long. i suspect but there were serious negotiations as to who should use so five to particularly if i may say so who. didn't remember a lot of these are sets or doing business in britain. so we want to support her and that they were getting their bills paid by the very small our associates who saw the longest and and so far this is all part of the sleaze factor but most politics in terms of the elites have suffered a lot of sleaze recently and i think this is yet another sluice gates. to damage the founding of our elites and establish alright professor of international

relations here on our team our common thank you for your time. a drive to make russian t.v. more child friendly is under fire to clean up the country is our only prime time slot from songs of an adult nature but critics say the legislation a song big us that even cartoon might end up being hit by the ban artie's you've got this kind of reports. of violence. it's become almost as widespread in t.v. and popular culture as bad language. it's all right. creative for an adult audience graphic and explicit content is often watched when children something which russian legislators try to. people usually associate themselves with fictional characters they see on t.v. and if adults can understand and analyze that put children the characters both positive and negative are models which they absorb and take with. the new forces

t.v. radio and online media to market the programs they're showing way for each category meaning from six to eighteen moreover programs depicting things like sex. drugs and so on can now only be shown after eleven pm and euphoria there's just one problem just so it was a corner that there is a paragraph in this which is supposed to explain which content this applies to and we should doesn't like for example information of cultural and historic value but the stipulation is written so loosely nobody understands exactly what's cultural value and what sort of information is of such value just. the law doesn't give a list of films which are of special value potentially even the classics and soviet cinema animation could have banned for children like one theme a series of cartoons where the wolf sometimes smokes tobacco even though. it's

absurd. cartoons were used to me and those who knew me in their games are treating children in a positive. and smoking is merely a quibble it's up to media to discern for themselves which programs can be shown well and what age waiting to give them but an efficient commission will be tasked with any breaches of the greenways the penalties include a fine of up to six thousand even the possibility of the suspension of the stations broadcasting license for three months many people will agree an initiative of this kind was necessary however there are those the current law is workable since it could actually confuse both the viewers and the media while others believe if it is possible to police the media it's much more difficult to police the children often find a way to watch whatever they want anyway you want this kind of moscow as all get the latest market action now from our business staff arena the russian markets are

now closed and europe is in its last minutes of sasha how has the day although there has been quite a pause of care and that's despite the fact that we did have some negative there and i'll get to that in a second but first i want to talk about russia in the world trade organization its membership i should say and basically we did hear about a lot of fears about what this with to a local companies we caught up with the head of the second largest lender in the country that city b.m.i. we spoke to was under a course there and he explained why this would be great for financial companies here in the country it's like a lesson in financial crisis in america europe let us wish asian when we have actually the weakening of the international competition in russia and as you see the russian banks started to be more active in other parts of the world in europe in asia so i think that's a good time for us and banks to expand and that's what we need to be doing now.

now let's take a look at the markets will start with europe which right now is literally in its last minute of the trade in session would see that it's still going higher mining firms and particularly well in the trading session today in the us despite the fact that we've got data that showed that magnitude one factor in the sector more than expected for the month of august in the us are but as we can see there by the numbers it had no effect on investors nothing on cycle about currencies closing figures for the group or there was a girl which is now gaining against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the ruble a mixed picture as you can see there at the end of the trading session now let's take a look at the russian markets there were employees the territory and they and that they're both the r.t.s. and the my cigs gained over one percent the spine the volatility in the oil prices that we saw now if we focus on the asian pacific corporation summit which is being held in russia's far east this is what investors are focusing on russia of course is now acting like a bridge between europe and asia and it could help many global companies prosper in

the region and ahead of the summit artsy caught up with one of the biggest. holdings in the country that seem a group and the company explained why it believes that the region has so much potential. was chairing apec russia demonstrated that it is capable of using its soft power our initiatives in regional integration transportation food security and innovation growth have been supported by all other business council members russia will only be able to fully capitalize on its role of a geographic land bridge between europe and asia if it improves its own infrastructure and regulations at the moment less than one percent of all trade volumes between those two parts of the world a chance ported by russian territory it's literally nothing of the projects we are offering to develop will enable russia to increase the volume of transit through its territory by up to five percent or. three moamar that's life or they get the markets close of course i'll be bringing the exact figures next hour for the.

current thanks for that update marina. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few. question is that so much about the taxpayers and i mean to say she's been a lot of people at area forward to a lot of most folks on the eve of the meeting of the asia pacific economic cooperation regional group to what degree is the global economy now.

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the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the last i figure it's here's one of the major trails in the united states. i watch and they run run down my property and something about this noise. mean that cockroaches from coming over the wire is protecting the country i'm the kind of guy who doesn't mind good news pants dirty so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well that we all do some somewhere else.

well this is true science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. oh and welcome to you r t on terra taraji with your top stories the world's two largest armies those of india and china unveiled plans to work more closely leaving western countries on edge over their growing influence in the pacific. moscow threatens london with diplomatic repercussions if it runs its move to ban dozens of russian officials from entering the u k over their own budget role in the mud needs to face or a top lawyer died in custody. a long arm of the copyright industry reaches all the way to come vote via the one of the fugitive founders of the pirate bay file

sharing site now facing extradition to sweden. and the u.s. suspends training of some afghan security personnel after a surge in insider attacks on coalition forces and that's as nato admits it's failed to conduct a thorough background check on the recruits. those are the headlines for now do stay with us for peter lavelle's crosstalk.

hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle forward to blot of our stock on the eve of the meeting of the asia pacific economic cooperation regional group to what degree is the global economy now centered in the east and south are we living in the pacific century and if we are what does it really mean. to. start. to cross out the apec group i'm joined by and lee in new york she's an adjunct professor at new york university and author of what the u.s. can learn from china in cambridge we have william overhauled he is a senior research fellow with the ash center for democratic governance and innovation at harvard's kennedy school and here in the studio with me is the of on as easy as a professor of economics at cornell university right crosstalk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and only one of us stock in the end why should people know something about this why is it important it's important for

a number of reasons. one this is an organization that has been growing and clout and it is a sum it was a number of asian countries represented and many americans are not aware of this and with more and more activity going on in asia pacific and as you were posing the question is it the pacific century and i would say yes because you know the pacific region is growing in wealth and whenever you have growing wealthy a growing influence and power and you're going to start to see more of these countries join the rulemaking classes and this is going to create changes throughout the world ok. in cambridge are we going into the pacific century you know these are right countries represented. well you know. who we we've been in. the half century asian dynamism.

for the last half century and clearly. japan and. china. in an asia become much more important during this period and they they do join they were. the ruling class as it were. i think it's i think it's important to distinguish that from the idea that that power is shifting completely across the pacific we we actually don't know whether that's going to happen. when i was starting my career. americans were paranoid about japan taking over in the world and. now japan is one of the biggest problems in the world economy china may continue its minimalism or it may become another japan. may.

decline because it doesn't invest in infrastructure and education or it may continue to be the center of innovation and economic dynamism so it's a pacific century it's not clear at all clear what the waiting across the pacific will be ok then what do you think the weighting will be i mean is it is it going to be as a lot of people say this is china's club ok let's be fair it's china's club well one bit to look at is the following if we just look at what happened in the last four years we knew what we did there was the global financial crisis since the lehman collapsed and just didn't suppose the asian countries especially the members of the asian members of the impact. it's not doing like what they are doing now in terms of economic performance i think the global economic growth is close to zero now now the fact is now that we're going to grow because of the apec country

exactly exactly now with the global economy grow these three point five percent so it's of course it's not high but it's not too bad that's why some people report five is a lot for a lot of countries right now exactly in fact some people even question the global crisis because many people now using the global economic crisis but how do you call global economic crisis when the economy in the world is growing by two point five percent but the entity is precisely because of pull out by the asian members of the pack so from that standpoint i think i fully believe it and built in themselves the you know the importance of apec as the organisation and if i go back to it's growing importance because the european union is going down the trains i mean it is that one of the reasons why it's growing in importance well europe let me clarify you're going to bring on our sara lee are down the drain.