with the un expected to take action on of the syrian crisis activists in the country cry massacre as hundreds are allegedly killed by government troops in the flashpoint city of homs. violent protests against the police and the military government escalate in cairo and across egypt with several people killed and hundreds injured. as election fever hits mosco with just three months to go before the presidential vote tens of thousands are expected to demonstrate on the streets of the russian capital a little later on saturday. it

o'clock on a saturday morning live from moscow this is our team with top news and commentary let's get right to those top stories now the u.n. security council will meet later on saturday with a vote due on a draft resolution on syria the text has been softened out russia's request dropping demands for regime change and fresh sanctions this comes amid unconfirmed reports from syria of a new crackdown in the city of homes with hundreds allegedly killed more important has more from new york. i friday morning the russian foreign ministry issued a statement saying that it could not support the revisions of the draft resolution as it was because it's not just address all of the concerns a lot of sentences leave room for interpretation and i think that is the issue that russia has with the text of this resolution it's just not going to leave. any doors

opened for regime change in syria because basically russia china and many other countries have vocalize the fact that the security council should not be used as a tool to impose regime change in any country around the world in this case in particular to syria it should be the security council should be new moving towards coming to our peaceful solution where both parties see in part in a conflict should come together at the table russia has its main concerns in the aftermath of what took place in libya it is now trying to see repeated circumstances in syria in the meantime there have been reports from opposition groups in syria that roughly two hundred people have been killed in renewed violence in the city of homs according to the syrian observatory for human rights the army is shelling the city of fresh ashes in other cities syria house also gave up for it clearly this violent conflict is garnering attention from all parts of

the world as the on international community continues to find a way to to reach some type of consensus on how to garner and lead to a peaceful solution in syria or to smyrna port now reporting for us there meanwhile over in egypt police used tear gas and fired shots at protesters who have been trying to storm the interior ministry building for two days seven people have been confirmed killed as violence a grip cairo and several other cities the unrest was sparked when more than seventy football fans died during and after matches clash three days ago protesters accuse the police of failing to prevent the tragedy thousands of demonstrators in pyro are also calling on the ruling military council to give up power washington based middle east analyst walid far as says the egyptian people are furious that many of the generals are remnants of the contested mubarak regime toppled a year ago. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council

because it is really have powers and they are demanding the door spousal will be transferred quickly either to a government or two and elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i just feel something that happened couple weeks ago when the military council ordered the security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both and education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s u.s. based n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the military council is very has been in transferring power to democracy forces they want to cut the deal with a force which most likely will be in the muslim brotherhood there is something very odd about the fact that egypt broke down and are going to carry and leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if they're again regime is going to rot what is happening right now is that large segments of civil society specifically the youth of egypt who began to revolt and that revolt was taken away by other political

parties including the muslim brotherhood in the south as those youth are angry at the government because they want the military council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear that egypt is moving towards another out there with that regime and you are with our team still ahead for you this hour the debate over copyright flares up again. the anti-piracy treaty is designed to protect intellectual property has europeans in revolt find out why they say it violates their basic rights and. plus an unusual attraction and find out why a robot called roxy is on locking the hearts of men looking for lost. in exactly a month from now russians will head to the polls to vote for the next president but this saturday in moscow tens of thousands are expected to demonstrate for four elections as well as rally in support of. and against the current leadership. now.

people thank you for joining us first of all since the controversial parliamentary election in december we've seen several mass rallies so what's going to be different this time. what we're going to see this time is a march towards. people marching along the road that's just behind me here this will be. what's expected to be tens of thousands of demonstrators to march towards square which has been the. people who have come out to protest what. they call. vote from the the fall of december now this is a sanctions protest the sanction demonstration which means that the authorities said that the protesters must remain within the letter of the law.

thousand police officers are expected to be on hand in order to keep the police keep the peace i beg your pardon now in terms of who's going to be attending we've heard from the independent presidential candidates. says that he doesn't tend to to be at the protest however he doesn't he said he doesn't plan to give any speeches from the other main contenders the other people on the ballot for the presidential race they are expected to be here it's very unlikely that they they will come to this protest but yes we're going to see as they march along with the to the center of the city. square on the banks of the river for a demonstration there. peter as it seems that the masses are seemingly letting their voices be heard the kremlin has vowed to make changes after the vote what has actually been done since then. that's right since the elections in december we have seen. through some of the promises they made to make changes to the

electoral system we've seen the very expensive program of putting. people at home. if you will. at the. independent. take place. say that one of the criticisms that. radio and in other media. said that he's going to. in order to give the of the. of the way all right thank you very much peter we know you're going to be staying on top. now we are

closely following the. rush. to get all of the latest information along with the background. thank you. thank you. we.

protests have been raging across europe against last week's signing of a new copyright treaty which enforces intellectual property rights on the internet opponents say the international act document enforces censorship and is a violation of human rights and its artie's tom barton reports more demonstrations are expected over the weekend the streets may be snowy but here in sweden the heat is being turned up in that most modern of political debates surrounding internet freedom protests have been called here in the capital as part of a wider reaction in europe and the u.s. against laws perceived to infringe on the public's access to the internet but target this time back to the anti counterfeiting trade agreement signed by countries around the world the people behind the law points out that it's important to try and protect the copyrights of the people who make music to make video and distribute it around the world if you say well everything should be free well

perhaps no one will write any books produced music or fields etc. it would disappear but less because it's not profitable for those against it say it's a wolf in sheep's clothing a way for governments to control their access to the internet and that it was held in secret but it was designed to be very punitive to those found breaching copyright rules the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet to that idea of battle it out for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need to ask anybody's permission to present new ideas and. all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and millions of young people are rising up in. the formation of pirate

parties not just here in sweden but elsewhere in europe is evidence of how high the status of those internet freedom campaigners has risen and there's politics not just in the european parliament but also on the streets internet freedom campaigners are urging people to put their views across before the european parliament votes on this in june to try and stop the legislation before its mate but whether it's done in parliament and in political boardrooms or on the street few expect this to be a calm debate. reporting for us there now as humanitarian groups accuse libya's new government of abuse in the country's detention centers it's been revealed that a former senior official may have been the latest victim of torture libya's x. ambassador to france has died in custody twenty four hours after being detained by a militia group reports claim that photos of sixty two year old brother show

evidence of bruising and other wounds rights groups say that torture and executions have become commonplace in makeshift prisons run by former rebels middle east expert and journalist chandan rubbishes death is in the spotlight because the same militia is holding colonel qadhafi son. i don't think the militia responsible for the the likely torturing to death of mr will be held account but there's a lot of interesting political games going on in libya it seems to me very clearly is that why this focus now on the money militia is because there's a tiny militia there's entirely people are holding saif al islam and the west especially the i.c.c. are very fearful about what there's a tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif islam doesn't have access to a sinister as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entire knees that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play

that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to being tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. well quite a bit of a shift now to a groundbreaking new robot that could soon be paving the path for romantic relationships around the world an american and innovator has created a doll with a human like quality she talks and senses touch and technology experts believe this could be just the beginning of what's to come in the future our team is going to she can has the story. when toys for boys become more than toys originally when i first got her i call her my synthetic girlfriend but it's actually progressed to the point where it's like you know my she's my wife thirty seven year old dave cat from detroit says he's been in a relationship with his sex doll for more than ten years and it's in it or in her

that he found his better half slackers that's not even worth getting out of bed at this point these days dave cats bond with a dog seems like a joke to many but according to a british artificial intelligence researcher dr david levy in a few decades romance between humans and robots will be a common thing i'm completely convinced that within about forty years people will be falling in love with robots and even marrying them and this could be the great grandmother of the future perfect robot mate meet roxie america's first sex robot talks and senses touch what are you wearing. will you know. you want. by the way. you keep touching her.

artificial intelligence engineer doc hines believes that he created the perfect alternative for those who for different reasons can't or are too busy or too. lazy to connect with human beings we created like a bridge that gap between you know going in maybe going out with someone else you know just meeting someone in a bar or what have you and just randomly maybe picking up a social disease instead of dealing with it you could have the sex robot that would be your companion and not only listen to you talk to you interact with you public opinion about sex robots now is well mostly giggles. that's what it's for robotic sex when i wait a minute isn't that marriage i mean by would not be the saddest christmas gift ever i thought you could use this i. seems

to be very serious about his creation the japanese are even more serious about robots. every new model there looks more lifelike. with the surge of interest in robots lawyers are starting to look into legal implications of the possibility that these sex robots can break up marriages psychologists in the meantime warn robots could transform human notions of love and sexuality forever and we're going to ask people on the street what they think about the prospect of having a relationship with a robot no never that's just wrong and stupid. human woman you know can you imagine a relationship without kitchen fied. oh it out no one talking back to you. yeah but there's never been there you go for

a robot definitely in the future bill is allowed. while most of us feel that the possibility of having an affair with a robot is something in the very distant future for some. it's already reality. reporting from washington r.t. . well different things happening in washington for example as the u.s. presidential election heats up the contenders are competing hard to make it to the white house next to online journalists went to find out what people in new york think about the race for america's highest office. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are duking it out with the gloves off what is the world's make of these candidates this week let's talk about that do you think there's any difference between mitt and newt. who

are sort of exclusionary and don't think a lot about the people they're supposed to serve in there big difference between mitt romney and newt gingrich the public is so there's no different ron boswell looking thing here there's a difference with him not really the same very much. better business. yeah but he's also gotten a lot of people out of jobs with his business he's been a little bit ruthless in his business. so why would you trust him to represent you in represent the common man oh i don't trust him at all gingrich i don't like either. he is a little funny his rhetoric is funny to watch entertainment is that important in a presidential candidate. i'm not going to vote for either one of them so it doesn't matter if you had to choose someone to run the u.s. who would you choose i'm the wrong person i really like any of your candidates. yeah but we got a big why didn't we got to choose one area i really don't know i honestly don't

like to us raise a kid like you think the rest of the world should care about who becomes the next president. should. have you seen any coverage at all in scotland or yet. when you see it what do you think. well. good luck to you. yeah right to talk yeah yeah yeah so it seems like here in times square today people have mixed emotions about who should be the next u.s. president let's see what u.s. citizens have to say about it come november. now it's time to take a look at some other world news in brief for you this hour. iran's supreme leader has threatened to retaliate against the west over sanctions that include an oil embargo speech came after u.s. newspaper reported that defense secretary leon panetta believed israel was likely

to bomb iran within months to stop it building a nuclear bomb some diplomats say requests made by the u.n. nuclear agency talks this week with iran have further raised the pressure on tehran to address allegations of a secret arms program. at least thirty seven people have been killed in south sudan during a shootout at a peace meeting gunmen in trucks arrived and began shooting indiscriminately after a fight broke out at the gathering the meeting was designed to bring an end to recent violence over stolen livestock hundreds have been killed in recent weeks as a result of disputes about cattle. europe's worst cold snap in decades has now claimed the lives of one hundred seventy five people one hundred have died in ukraine alone many from frostbite and hypothermia the extreme temperatures even caused the black sea to freeze off the coast villages in remote

areas have been cut off with trucks unable to transport supplies heavy snowfall has led to the closure of schools and airports across europe. the practice of islam in kyrgyzstan has historically been the moderate. but some for most free and open state is now finding stricter strands of the religion flowing into the country often funded from abroad process of radical very easy worries many in a land prone to instability after two revolutions in the last few years alone. reports. on all. kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of man praying at the country's central square just underneath the lenin monument even in this bastard years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as islam does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims

but you need to pray or chant mosque can almost be a logical and lifestyle differences that exist among the various branches of this one here in kurdistan because they told me has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all find some who have a less than common with each other than they do of christians or jews who just people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed us about it mixed with germany's and the magic customs they could use a version of islam has long been more of the moral code then the religious doctrine is how cheap a society where women are just as the active and ambitious as men and when religiosity when tandem hand with good education but that is starting to change. after the collapse of the soviet union kurdistan has seen a very fast growth of islam and some of it is domestically driven poverty poor

education corruption mistrust of authorities all of that is putting people towards religion but much of it is also driven from abroad countries like pakistan saudi arabia kuwait a very generous when it comes to building. islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the rich is adopted and open door policy. these are followers of the to believe jemaah a group of islamic missionaries originated from pakistan its members have come up in many terrorism investigations and as a result the group was labeled extremist by many european governments in kyrgyzstan that community is growing fast. teach people heart of fun happen it's hard to believe life in accordance with his wishes and by teaching all this with. while genders are becoming increasingly separated in public women and not left out in

fact they are at the forefront of these lawmakers sturgeon's in kurdistan. all the more than half of students in this islamic academy and females and their number has tripled in the past few years. when they graduate still get a diploma in arabic studies and sharia law there's a lot of interest in this areas and if they decide to work it shouldn't be difficult finding a job for him missionaries are not only spreading the word but greasing their palms to. this man who claims to be a healer raft from yemen he sees three to four patients every day and for most reimbursement claims to clear their ailments with the help of prayer. and. these changes encourage a society has many opponents some of them claim that saudi or pakistani versions of

islam corrupt the country's traditional values built islam wouldn't call when first islamic missionaries arrived here three centuries ago they were respectful of our customs that's why islam in kyrgyzstan has been very much in degrade. with our indigenous culture the version that's being pushed on nowadays with his jobs and restrictions is not only foreign to us it's a grass of the country's authorities are not oblivious to the ongoing islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness said here could be stones top officials are praying alongside the crowds they claim full religious freedom is the best strategy against radicalization. the results of the arab spring have shown that circular governments a crushing under the pressure of political islam muslims are enormous human resource the one who knows how to manage this force of the streets. and for kyrgyzstan which has seen two revolutions in five years there's hardly anything

more pressing than finding an antidote against all how breaking lose again somebody artsy. well we have the moscow out and a sports for you coming up still ahead but first a recap of our stories coming up in just a few minutes to stay with us this is art. means

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