europe makes of internet piracy pirates walk the plank rejecting the agreement which could of big corporations cut off people's whereabouts. if they actually for the opposition last been saying that is a grave threat to individual freedoms will do only for all the details in a few moments. war of words a dispute over a law allowing russian to be used in ukraine sees 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.

eight pm wednesday night here in moscow welcome if you just joined us you're watching r.t. with me kevin now in and first this hour sire relief today from europe's internet users little earlier on the e.u. parliament rejected the taurus online piracy treaty act the anti counterfeiting trade agreement was drafted to protect internet copyright laws but met with wide rage in europe for threatening people's web freedom up today it is our brussels correspondent. 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 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 and 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 intellectual property rights and they're claiming 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 e-mailing any peace sign a petition 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 and fries in the european treaties for example and protect individuals and so they just couldn't have let it pass this was sort of course split in europe wolf for more let's talk to stephanie he's not specialist from the german pirate party joining us from berlin thanks for being with us now there's a seemingly noble origin to protect from copyright theft what's the main reason it failed them. three problems understanding you best laid plans all talk slower stuff and a hi there now this seemingly noble origin didn't it was to protect from copyright theft why do you think it failed. to really had to fail because it was not only about copyright infringement it was

about civil rights in fact so we needed to make it fail and we are lobbying against it with people all over europe as the main problem with the act of war that it was . to where in the sentence of the treaty so you couldn't know what will happen one actress or actor. what do you say to the organizations which support actor employ more than one hundred twenty million workers in europe it provides a lot of work they say they depend heavily on intellectual property to support their businesses won't stop being treated like i hurt their jobs in the end what do you say to those people tonight. i had told this people. bring our business models that we as a user would use which are easy to use where we can get a movie or. a few clips without anything and then we will buy your products

but if you treat everyone else in the beginning that we just understand this you're saying you get it first and then you'd be willing maybe to pay for it later you're . no what i what i say is bring the products into the internet where we can buy c.d.'s or movies directly on the net without any problems so give us a movie for five or six or seven euros and we will buy it the point is not that we are not willing to buy things but the product that we are not able to buy movies or television shows and original language so it's very hard for. me to get serious in the original sound because no i don't want to buy it i understand but the figures you're talking about there you convince that's a fair market rate for the amount that it costs the produces for instance to make these programs. well there's

a market for for for programs therefore for movies for music and everything but the products to get these. to get into this market for the consumer it's not that easy so it's very hard for us to buy shows from from the u.k. germany or from from from switzerland or from from the netherlands. we need. a policy for for movies and music that we can get it from anywhere in the world for a fair price of let's bring this up to date now that it's dead of the water as it stands act at the moment in europe but of course it's not dead in the water in other countries around the world think in u.s. and japan is it. well there could. be. when six countries. in their education. through the parliament act i will not. we're not start on the world and i hope for myself that

even if some countries have signed that they will not send it through parliament. ok i. was doing it they are the only ones that's not the problem act i will only be valid after six partners have signed through parliament thanks make your thoughts a clear stefano about the actor specialist from the a german pirate party live and i. would like to know what you think about this story big story of the day what do you think about europe projecting out to the web site. websites i ask you that question so this is what in a sober half of you believe the corporations were on the ball just rebranded it now it'll come back in a different guise has increased this hour a little bit in the number of you who think it's as good as dead as you can see there's slightly fewer of you this are not quite certain what agreement means in the first place while the remainder think it's the cause for pirates and fraudsters to rejoice r t there is a place where you can always have your say on the big stories of the day.

buckley's by former bosses grilled by british m.p.'s to explain who was involved and what he knew about the fixing of interest rights. whether bob diamond will implicate senior figures ranging from the bank of england to the top levels of previous governments big story this one i correspondent sara firth is across for us in london sara bob diamond spent several hours being questioned by some very peeved looking employees as he dropped any bombshells yet. no well certainly 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 wasn't really hasn't been giving much away at all at the beginning of the questioning and he lived visibly uncomfortable and he seemed 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 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 and he is being very elisa's of the ones that they are also and it's really that calls that there should be an independent judge led inquiry perhaps that would get more but a real sense of frustration here that you know more isn't being revealed in that we're not going to get to the bottom of exactly what's been happening and of course

there's some big questions that remain to be answered be seen 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 but we know a lot of people are wanting to know now what exactly happened he was involved in. senior white will begin with know about what was going on since the bank of england know about what was going on and did they can dana and that's really some of the big questions that we haven't seen and that we're going to need have answered to get to the bottom of. bombshells are very similar lot of questions but one thing that seems pretty clear is that the banks were setting their own rules by the looks of it was being said about and doing something about it does not mean the future. well what you've seen is once again i mean remember this is just the latest banking

scandal of the past four years we've had a whole stream after the financial crisis of these types of revelations i mean this really goes so much further than just a few rogue traders but what you're seeing bob diamond d. today in questioning we're seeing a lot of the political class now doing 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 in this really goes so much wider as we said than just a few rogue 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 was clean up the city and i mean people defending the government actions is that the some attempts

have been made but you know clearly not enough is being done and so you know that's really what you're seeing here and this huge criticism anyway of the sort of revolving door you have between the city and the government you've seen tony blair former prime minister walking into a job at j.p. morgan you've got one of the m.p.'s leading the questioning today a former member of barclays bank and you saw bob diamond in the questioning calling the m.p.'s by their first names i mean once he fettled into it it all seemed uncomfortably familiar and certainly he didn't seem to have too much trouble evading those questions and so you know really what we want to see here and what people are calling for is this and serious action to be taken and this is going to go right the way across the board this is going to have to involve the regulators and the banks and a very close look at why the government is allowing economic policy to be so heavily dictated by these people as a lot of people have been asleep at the wheel here. he shouldn't have been and now

we're obviously having to clean up the mess so furthur our correspondent in london thanks ever so much for bringing us up to date on that one and indeed was staying in britain for our next story to britain could restrict immigrants from greece as well as other euro zone citizens prime minister david cameron says it's an option on the table in case of what he calls extraordinary stresses and strains caused by europe's sovereign debt crisis becoming hopes that doesn't happen and will do whatever it takes he says to keep britain and its economy safe he rules of the free flow of people to live and work around the group's member states concerns mounting in britain though about a wave of migrants from struggling states like spain like greece if their economies continue spiraling live back to london should we go and talk about this with georgie who reads from the states for magazine where he edits the staggers blog george thank you for being with us david cameron says the possible restriction of greeks to britain is a legal position but is it legal by e.u. standards. things that it's not there's never been a situation in which one member states has been allowed to limit immigration for

a long standing member state it's true to say that transitional controls can be and have been imposed on the new members such as the european recession countries but as things stand the free movement of people is one of the fundamental principles of the treaty and i think it's very hard to see britain being able to delegate that but i wonder georgiev times they are a changing ring cameron and is known to want to be tougher on immigration also of course german chancellor angela merkel said immigrants must do more to integrate in european societies because of the boundaries are going back up across europe slowly i think i think that i think it's true to say that that countries are taking a more skeptical view of immigration and certainly in times of recession. the far right party is right wing parties tend to wear more supports and so that puts pressure on. moderate centrist leaders to act but i think there's

a big difference between national countries choosing to limit immigration in the e.u. as a whole choosing to abandon the principle of free movement of people cameron suggested he could do it in the case of greece the problem is that under article eighteen of the e.u. treaty. it's your band basically from discriminating according to nationality and so if you wanted to. controls greece you'd have to impose controls on immigration from every country and is cameron going to accept a situation in which u.k. citizens are unable to work and live in the rest of the e.u. i do think he is a good point i mean over seventeen million people rather work in the euro zone in may that's eleven percent of the working population i guess the practical excuse being used here is the tightening up policy may help that. well i think i think. that's what's called the lump of labor fallacy the belief

that there are a finite jobs a finite number of jobs in the economy and they have to be distributed according to the evidence actually actually suggests that migrants increase the demand for labor as well as the supply of labor so when workers when british him employ employers choose to take on polish workers they're not. it's not the case that if you restrict immigration those jobs would have gone to british workers they wouldn't have existed at all so actually immigration i think in general is a win win both for the migrant and for the host country there's a school of thought isn't there the britons dragged it seals all along on the the whole european project i mean david cameron also floated the prospect of a referendum on quitting the e.u. which got his fellow employees very excited and of course britain also backed out of europe's new tighter fiscal rules just a few months but you look at it it kind of appears that this drug abuse heels

should britain reduced to zero ties what the ramifications of that be. well i think the ramifications would be would be significant because it has been the policy of both labor and conservative governments for decades to to to remain close to europe and to and to pursue integration even if they haven't said so margaret thatcher is seen as a very euro skeptic prime minister but she signed the single european acts which was. more to increase your pain integration than any other european treaty in cameron's case that we are seeing a situation where britain is moving increasingly closer to the e.u. exit cameron's position is that he wants to secure its new from the new fiscal union one. powers in the area of social policy but really the rest of the e.u. is that it's a prospect of them agreeing to that dave priority is addressing the euro crisis and

for them this is tedious for our britain. over sovereignty is a distraction and actually that then puts cameron and in very difficult position because his m.p.'s will say renegotiate renegotiation has failed it's not in britain's interests to britain it's losing more than against in the e.u. and so the withdrawal is the only viable option and then i think it would be very difficult for cameron to reject that argument because his whole position is based on the premise that you if you can't that power should be repatriated and then if it turns out they can't be then i think that they'll be very little positive case for britain to stay in the e.u. george appreciate your thoughts political commentator for the new statesman in london thank you. the law in ukraine to recognize russian as an official language in some regions has seen hundreds of people protesting kiev

police fired tear gas at the angry crowds of the ukrainian parliament or rather approve them all without debate present in a covert says he'll consult experts before citing 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 of running high in ukraine but in recent years it's been seething politicians who've been getting physical as letters asking reports now. another day another brawl while ukraine's parliament deliberated of a controversial language law deputies use their fists to let their feelings be you know one of the central figures in another recent scandal party of regions deputy i.g.p. . 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 lee's 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 they are blocked because of who you would never see fights in the soviet parliament you'll never see fights in north korean political structures brutal as a last resort of delivering your point when the vocal methods don't work and can only happen in a democratic state is not effective but still it's democratic. former deputy now

political analyst meet 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. it depicts his table is an endless source for improvisation and 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 we for a new breed of politicians able to actually work effectively. the years finds rather have exacting impressive audience they are usually televised live on the parliament channel and they all 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. reporting from kiev in ukraine. of what's happening in ukraine with the lecturers your skill on twitter as well as his regular updates on the twists and turns in kiev. now the speed that the seed rather that shapes the universe may have finally been discovered by scientists in the large hadron collider a big story today for scientists the higgs bo's'n or god particle is the subatomic matter which started it all it makes up the very fabric of our existence or all of it traces its genesis. 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 norm ourselves and we believe

there but we understand how they leave the basic walls but it doesn't sound to be real because this sort of laid on her mouth and imagine that we have a theory which explains how it goes on mars and this is done using the things was unwelcome just completed a month a difficult 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. peter. all over there in the past only science exams but you did too dimitri with the business hi there very good afternoon now let's talk about america quite there the markets there certainly shut for those fourth of july celebrations here and i did better in mathematics and yes the volumes were forty percent or thirty percent lower than

usual so indeed a very quiet day and the only thing preventing traders in europe from falling asleep really was the grilling of bob diamond the former c.e.o. of barclays let's take a look at what's actually happening right now in europe well the markets are closed these are the closing values they managed to close slightly in the red so also another interesting story manchester united f c is going public it's aiming to attract one hundred million dollars in the u.s. market so that's something to look into if you have your interested in for four of course over all the commodities markets oil is continuing to decline it's pretty much the only trading thing right now which is over because of the closing of the. u.s. markets for independence day we have still electronic trading going on here in the in the oil so it's a very also a very low volumes there but it's down on the hopes that on the first day when we

have monetary policy meetings with the e.c.b. and the bank of england there will be some sign of further stimulus measures to support the markets so boiled right now is correct. also on commodities food prices may rise as a fifth of america's crops face damage from the drought wheat corn and soybean prices are already at four year highs although they're not trading today big grain exporter russia one of the top three is also seeing heavy rains which have pushed prices up further some experts fear countries will now bring back the export ban so we saw during the summer extremes of two thousand and ten to guarantee supply. meanwhile in the currencies markets the russian ruble lost some value versus the dollar but that was pretty expected after a very big jump in the previous session the euro is losing also against the greenback as

a lot of money is going into cash actually right now back into cash and going into into the dollar because we have been seeing indeed some selling today over on the russian market so we've seen the fourth consecutive session of gains today and that was again on low volumes to my six games to said the r.t.s. barely moved that's because of the weaker ruble it gets to buy. now on the my six some interesting stories that rosneft was down but that's kind of expected because of the oil price after val's was down zero point one percent after saying it received one hundred twenty six million euros in a loan from its partner right now to modernize cars and camels was up bucking basically the trend throughout the whole day because of increased production. also capital outflow from russia significantly declined in the second quarter of the year which is a very good side this time investors took a nine and a half billion dollars out of the country just

a third of the volume we saw in the first three months of the year however capital outflows so far this year have amounted to forty three billion dollars which is almost twice as much as the same period two thousand and eleven that's a very of course important reputational factor for the russian economy ok thanks for the update we were with you get an hour or so now on the way next view is the american citizens demanding a different kind of independence this fourth of july more on that after the headlines with me next.