countries in the bloc signed up to the agreement with a vote on it for education due this summer in brussels may not get that far now let's talk about that luke samuels a physical commentator for the news magazines like wind the blue kite thanks for being with us it's not the first blow to this treaty is it what i've just talked about the initial m.e.p. responsible for the reporter not to resign describing the negotiations as a masquerade so what's wrong with this agreement. well i think it's worth having to think about what's wrong with the impetus behind a lot of lawmaking both in europe and in the united states around intellectual property and really questioning why it's at the forefront of a lot of people's minds i think the key issue here is that society is really failing to innovate and in a society which struggles to come up with genuine new technological innovations we do inevitably become more concerned with protecting intellectual property we see that over the last sort of fifteen years investment in research and development both in europe and the united states has remained complet

now on the sidelines of the brussels forum we're sitting down with mahmoud jibril now he was heading the economic and development planning body in libya at the time of the rule of colonel moammar gadhafi and he made her red led the uprising against the regime the interim prime minister of the national transitional council for about seven and a half months i thank you very much unsuitable for joining us today and the first question i would like to ask at this point today is the civil war really over in libya and who is in control at the moment a little first correct so there was no civil war in libya there was resistance again said the painter ship but we can see the little pollution did not start here we consider the group. and start. talking about development and we should only start tackling those issues an equal footing for old people as constitutional rights then quite considerable substance we have to have our national but he stopped as you know gadhafi has destroyed the libyan army and the destruction inside of it what you could if you brigades you know to protect the regime wo