with the un expected to take action on the syrian crisis activists in the country cry massacre as hundreds are allegedly killed by government troops in the flashpoint city of homs. lot of protests against the police and the military government escalating. egypt with several people killed and hundreds injured. the election hits moscow just a month ago before the presidential vote tens of thousands of you could demonstrate on the streets of the russian capital later on saturday.

this is r.t. well these are much more welcome to the program the u.n. security council will meet later on saturday with a vote if you want to draft resolution on syria the text has been softened that russia's request dropping demands for regime change and fresh sanctions comes amid unconfirmed reports from syria of a new crackdown in the city of homs with hundreds and actually killed report not has more now from new york. by 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 dress address all of moscow's 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 does not want to leave any doors open for regime change in syria because basically russia china and many other

countries have vocalized 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 a peaceful solution where both parties see in part in the conflict should come together at the table russia has its main concerns in the aftermath of what took place in libya does not want 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 now fresh asha's in other cities throughout syria how also been reported clearly this violent conflict is garnering attention from all parts of the world as the international community continues to find

a way to reach some type of consensus on how to garner and lead to a peaceful solution in syria. artie's very important ally there reporting from new york and you can keep up with the latest from the u.n. vote on syria twitter feet r t underscore. over in egypt's place seems to gas fired shots of protesters who were tried to storm the interior ministry building for two days seven people have been confirmed dead as violence a group scholar and several other cities their arrest was sparked when more than seventy football fans died in a clash two days ago just as accuse the police so they want to prevent the tragedy thousands of demonstrators in cairo are also calling on the ruling military council to give up her middle east and most wanted fires since the objection people of furious that many of us to the president that's generals are still in place the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it is

really have all the powers and they are demanding the door found we will be transferred quickly either to a government or to an elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i link this to something that happened a couple weeks ago when the military council of ordered security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s based n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the military council is very hasn't 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 brought down in a precarious leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if the other again regime is going to rap what is happening right now is that large segments of civil society specifically the youth of egypt who began their of all and their heart 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 their egypt is moving towards another of their of their and regime. i would like to know what you think about latest events in egypt today we're asking why the country stood in turmoil following last year's revolution log on to our website or to god to take part in our latest poll so. it's been mostly our lives about to be there as mubarak is still in power almost a quarter say it's in the interest of radicals to maintain on the rest seventy percent say the main reason behind instability is continuing unemployment and the minorities suggest a solution creates its own downfall don't come to cost you over. there without he will still ahead for you this hour the debate over copyright could get in the end piracy treaty signed to protect property rights europeans in revolt why

they say violates their basic rights. plus unknown mutual attraction by robots with human qualities on lock in the hearts of men looking for love. in exactly a month from now russians will head to the polls to vote for their next president but this saturday in moscow tens of thousands are expected to demonstrate for their elections as well as rally in support of and against the current leadership his latest. what we're going to see on saturday is a march through the center of moscow two through on the road exactly behind me. square where a rally will take place now this is a rally of people who are protesting against what they see is irregularities taking place during the the parliamentary elections here in russia which took place on the fourth of december tens of thousands are expected however i can tell you it is

bitterly cold here in moscow that is expected to have some kind of effect on the the amount of people coming out of the authorities are on board with it however they have said the protesters must remain within the letter of the law and one thousand police officers will be deployed in order to keep the peace here now in terms of who will be attending we've heard from. the independent candidate for president two said that he will be at the meeting however he said that he doesn't plan to give any speeches as far as the other candidates go there is the other names on the presidential ballot nobody else is expected to do attend the protest this isn't the only demonstration it will be taking place on saturday elsewhere in the city there will be pro-government protests going on these people who go to other squares in the in moscow to say that they don't want a revolution that they don't want to see turmoil in russia again they don't want to

see going back to the days of the early ninety's since the elections in december we have seen that to be approved by the ruling party follow through on some of the promises they made to to make changes to the electoral system we've seen well the very expensive program of putting webcams into polling booths every polling stations every polling station in russia is now being fitted with a webcam allowing them to allowing people to to log on at home and to watch him become if you will your an armchair observer at the at the election so that's been put in place. independent league of all of the service set up to monitor the elections that will take place on the fourth of march and we've also seen right to me and say that one of the criticisms that the protesters had of him was saying that he was on television and on radio and in other media far more than any other candidate now going to be approved and said that he's going to slash the amount of time he's on the air in order to give the other candidates

a fair crack of the whip. it's all over their world where closely following that pre-election developments in russia on life go to r.t. dot com to get all the latest information on the background on presidential candidates and analysis of the protests here's what else you can find on our web site right now the notorious activist group anonymous respond out of the f.b.i. thinks about them leaked all the reporting online listening to what was said at our sides. also online america's first lady gives everyone in keep fit to an appearance on a talk show to watch the video r.t. dot com. 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. to france died in custody twenty four hours after being detained by militia group reports claim that photos of sixty two year old more progress show evidence of bruising in the woman's rights groups say that torture and executions have become commonplace in makeshift prisons run by former rebels the middle east expert and journalist who can't stand on. death in the spotlight for political reasons because the same militia that allegedly killed him is also keeping colonel gadhafi son in custody. i don't think the militia responsible for the the likely torturing to death of mr bridge will be held account but there's a lot of interesting political games going on in libya it seem to me very clearly is about why this focus now on this entire new 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 an tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif al islam hasn't had access to a solicitor as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely is 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. protests have been raging across europe against last week signing of a new copyright treaty which in force is intellectual property law on the internet opponents say the international act document forces censorship and is a violation of human rights as artie's dumbarton reports now with 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 back cess to the internet but i get this time back to the anti counterfeiting trade agreement signed by countries around the world the people behind the law point out that it's important to try and protect the copyright of the people who make music to make video and distribute it around the world if you say well everything should be free world perhaps no one will write any books produced music or fields etc. because it's not profitable 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 today ideas 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 anger at 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 come pain is has risen and there's politics not just in the european parliament but also on the streets internet freedom campaign. urging people to put their views across before the european parliament votes on this in june to try and stop the legislation before it's made but whether it's done

in parliaments and in political boardrooms or on the street few expect this to be a calm debate. coming your way this hour accepting old faith the new way branches of religion and change the face of the nation some saying the transition could have dangerous consequences. now finding true love is never easy but for those who've given up on ever meeting their perfect partner they can always settle for something else fans of synthetic sweethearts say romances with robots could become commonplace sooner than we might think and chicken reports. when toys for boys become more than toys originally when i first got her i call her my synthetic girlfriend but it's actually progress to the point where it's like you know 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 it has not even worth getting out of bed at this point these days they've cats bond with a dog seems like a joke to many but according to 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 it talks and senses touch what are you wearing. will move. him. a little more. by going

to keep touching her. artificial intelligence engineer doug 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 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 doing when you could have the sex robot that would be your companion 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 well wait a minute isn't that marriage i mean i would not be the saddest christmas if. he 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. 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 do. you go for a robot definitely in the future if it was allowed.

but 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 i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . as the us presidential election hot sub the contenders are competing hard to make it to the white house all next on line journalist laura hoffa missed to find out what people new york think about the race for the office. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are duking it out with the gloves are off what does 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. no i think they're both. jerks who are sort of exclusionary and don't think a lot about the people they're supposed to serve in their big difference between

mitt romney and newt gingrich of which is so there's no difference ron paul's republican think there's a difference with him not really about the same very much with the better business . he's done a lot it was somewhat companies in the period yeah but he's also like gotten a lot of people out of jobs with his business he's been a little bit ruthless in his business and so you've got so much more to 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's a little funny or his rhetoric is funny to watch entertaining 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. the wrong person to ask i really like any of the candidates. but we got a big why didn't we get it to one area i really don't know i hire honestly dying good luck to us raise good luck do you think the rest of the world should care

about what they who becomes the next president think so you why just by some of your march of global superpower a figure one should feel as though it's going on have you seen any coverage at all in scotland or yes yet but so news. and when you see it what do you think. will. good luck to you. yeah right of to talking heads. 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. well some world news in brief for you now this hour iran's supreme leader has threatened to retaliate against the west over sanctions that include an oil embargo and increasing threats of speech came as a response to the statement of u.s. defense secretary panetta said israel was likely to bomb iran within months u.s. and e.u. have imposed

a number of financial and oil sanctions against iran over its disputed nuclear program which they suspect could be used to make weapons. at least thirty seven people have been killed in south sudan to the shooter to the 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 of a 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 extreme temperatures even cause the black sea to freeze off the coast ridges in remote areas have been cut off with trucks are able to transport supplies heavy snowfall has led to the closure of schools and airports across europe. there's

a clash of cultures in kurdistan moderate forms of traditionally held sway here coming on the threat for more radical turn it is fears over the affect of everyday life in the central asian republics and learned prone to instability after two revolutions in the last three years of. reports. on all war kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of cougars manned 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 you need to counter my skin or must be a logical lifestyle differences that exist among the various branches of this one here in kurdistan our. country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds have the last in common with

each other than they do a chance for jews who just people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed as abounded mixed with germany's men and the magic customs the good news version of islam has long been more of a moral code then a religious doctrine but how cheap a society where women are just as active and ambitious as men and when religiosity whent hand in 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 some of it is the message 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 mosques here. islam is on the rise across

all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the rich is adopted an open door policy. these are followers of the to believe jamaah 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 happiness and how to build your life in accordance with his wishes and by teaching all this with ourselves while genders are becoming increasingly separated in public women and not left out in fact they're at the forefront of these lama christer gins in kyrgyzstan . more than half of students in this islamic academy a female's and their number has tripled in the past few years. when they graduate

they'll 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 foremost through embarrassment he 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 but the version that's being pushed on nowadays with his jobs

and restrictions is not only foreign to us it's aggressive the countries authorities are not oblivious to the ongoing islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness it here to distance 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 are cracking under the pressure of political islam muslims are enormous human resource the one who knows how to manage this force will rule the streets. and for kyrgyzstan which has seen two revolutions in five years there is hardly anything more pressing then finding an antidote against all hell breaking lose again come by car to see. well next a recap of today's headlines in just a covenant stay with us. on.

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