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

are you watching r t welcome to the program the u.n. security council is to meet later on saturday with a vote do you want to draft resolution on syria the text has been softened that russia's request dropping demands for regime change and fresh sanctions it comes amid unconfirmed reports from syria of a new crackdown in the city of homs with hundreds allegedly killed and ask us denies any involvement. 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 on 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. that is very important they're reporting from new york and they can keep up with the latest from the u.n. vote on syria and our twitter feed r.t. underscore com. meanwhile in egypt police seems to gas and fired shots at protesters who've been trying to storm the interior ministry building for two days seven people have been confirmed dead as violence grips cairo and several other cities the rest to a spark when more than seventy football fans died after a match clash to. test his use the cell phone to prevent the tragedy thousands of demonstrators in cairo are also calling on the ruling military council to relinquish power at least one of the fires his objections are fear is that many of us to the president about generals austin impacts 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 doors of ours 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 ordered security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both 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 hasn't been in transferring power to democracy forces they want to deal with a force which most likely will be the muslim brotherhood there is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down in a very caring leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if you are again if you missed in iraq 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 don't want the military

council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear that egypt is moving towards and. good to be here and regime. but we'd like to know what you think about the latest events in egypt today we're asking why the country still in turmoil on last year's revolution log on to our web site r.t. dot com to take part in our latest poll so far almost half the votes because the annoyance of the ousted leader hosni mubarak. most of water say it's an interest radicals to maintain rest seventeen percent believe the main reason behind instability is continuing unemployment and the minority suggests remember lucian rate is down. to cost to put. it out he will still ahead this hour the debate over copyright again. piracy designed to protect intellectual property kids in revolt find out why they say it violates their basic rights.

plus an unusual attraction by robots with the right qualities are blocking the hearts of men looking for love. exactly a month from now russians will head to the polls to vote for their next president this saturday moscow tens of thousands are expected to demonstrate a fair elections as well as rallying in support of and against the current leadership let's get the latest now marty's pete on the peter since the controversial parliamentary election in december we've seen several mass rallies so what's going to be different this time do you think. well what we're going to see today is a march towards a rally the protesters will be coming down the road just behind me on their way to the center of moscow on their way to bill last night square which has been the scene of the protests the demonstrations to take place now tens of thousands are expected however we'll have to see if the weather plays a. crazy factor in how many people turn out it's

a round minus twenty degrees celsius here in moscow very very cold. how many people do. now this is a sanctioned rally the. setting up all around me as you can see around nine thousand police will be deployed to try and keep the peace to make sure everybody safe stay safe but authorities warn the protesters that they must remain within the letter of the law now in terms of what we're going to be seeing today and who we're going to be seeing. the independent presidential candidates he will be he says he will be the demonstration however he said he didn't plan to give a speech now this isn't this protest here this march of protest isn't the only demonstrations going on across moscow there's also pro-government protests taking place as well as. protesters saying that they they don't want a revolution they don't want to go down the same route to say what happened in ukraine with the orange revolution that they don't want the chaos that followed

they don't return to the the dark days of the early ninety's they want stability so several protests taking place across most of the largest probably where i am right now all quiet here at the moment but. tens of thousands of people expected to march from behind me on their way to belong. to the kremlin bowed to make changes after december's what's actually been done since then. well since the the parliamentary elections on the fourth of december what we've seen is the first play of let me uproot and following through on promises made to to him to put webcams into the polling stations into the city where comes that people will be able to sit at home and really be it become an armchair observateur they'll be all polling stations where people can log on at home and see what's going on there now they also established an independent league of electoral monitors now that's an

independent body that will be looking out at the elections and making sure that there's nothing inappropriate going on in the polling booth so in terms of the election race itself of the for the presidential election on the fourth of march one of the things that we've heard. we've heard it levelled at is that he gets too much exposure on t.v. on radio now he said that he's willing to cut back on the amount of air time he gets if that's what gives the the other the other candidates a fair crack of the whip ok live from moscow that was artie's peter out of a thank you for. of course we're closely following the pre-election developments in russia online go to r.t. dot com to get all the latest information along with background on the presidential candidates an analysis of the protests here's what else you can find on our website right now the notorious activist to prove anonymous has found out what the f.b.i. really thinks about the leaks the audio recording online listening to what was said

at all site. also on live america's first lady gives everyone an impromptu lesson and keep it on a top chat show and watch the video at 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 maybe as a bastard to france died in custody twenty four hours after being detained by a militia group reports claim that voters of sixty to no more rubbish evidence of bruising and other wounds rights groups saying that torturing executions have become commonplace in makeshift prisons run by former rebels middle east experts

and journalists who can't stand on. his death is in the spotlight for political reasons because the same militia that allegedly killed him is also keeping colonel gadhafi son 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 seems to me very clearly is that 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 a tiny militia are going to do with stifle islam saif al islam doesn't have 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 have been 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 though on the internet opponents say the international act of document enforces censorship is a violation of human rights as artie's top bottom reports 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 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 or produce music or fields etc. because it's not often 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 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 it's made 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 the new way new branches of religion that attempt to change the place of the nation something they should have examples of. finding true love is never easy for

those who've given up on ever meeting a perfect partner they can always settle for robot rounds of synthetic sweet hearts a romance is with robots become commonplace sooner we might think committee to kind of force. 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 she's my wife thirty seven year old they've kept from detroit says he has 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. and we'll know. if you. want. 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 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 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 when i wait a minute isn't that marriage i mean i would not be the saddest christmas if 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 did. you go for a robot definitely in the future it was 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 i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . now as the present us a presidential election what's up the contenders are competing hard to make it to the white house next to online journalist laura hoffa nist to find out what people in new york think about the race for the oval office.

in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are duking it out with the gloves are 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. no i think to both. church who are sort of exclusionary and don't think a lot about the people they're supposed to serve and they're big difference between mitt romney and newt gingrich of which is there's no difference ron boswell again think there's a difference with him though i really doubt the same for the watch with the better business room. he's done a lot into a 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 you 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 zero merit i really doubt in our heart 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 despite some of your marks of global superpower figure one should feel as was going on have you seen any coverage at all in scotland or are yes but so news. and one when you see it what do you think. will. good luck to you. yeah right of to talking heads that. 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. so world news in brief for you now this hour iran's supreme leader has issued a warning about retaliating against the west with sanctions that include an oil embargo and creasing threats the speech came as a response to the statement of us defense secretary panetta said israel was likely to bomb iran within months u.s. and you have imposed a number of 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 during a shoot out of a peace meeting gunmen in trucks arrived and began shooting indiscriminately after a fight broke out at a 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. 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 and from frostbite and hypothermia extreme temperatures even cause the black sea to resort the coast but it is in remote areas have been cut off with trucks are unable to transport supplies and heavy snowfall has led to the closure of schools and airports across europe. as a clash of cultures in kurdistan as moderate forms of islam that have traditionally held sway are coming under threat from more radical turn it says is that fears over the affect on everyday life in the central asian republics a land prone to instability after two evolutions in the last few years alone what is oxana boy to report. all of coolmore kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of group is 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. this list of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims who each player can almost feel logical a lifestyle differences that exist among various branches of this one here in kurdistan because they country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all trying to help the last in common with each other than they do a chance for jews british people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed us about it mixed with germany's and the magic customs the good news version of islam has long been more of a moral code then a religious doctrine in how cheap a society where women are just as zak tive an ambitious as man and when religiosity went 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 already. the these are followers of the to believe them are a group of islamic missionaries they 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 hard to

build your life in accordance with his wishes and by teaching all this within ourselves. while gender is that becoming increasingly separated in public women and not left out in fact they are at the forefront of these lawmakers turgeon is in kurdistan. all the 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 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 a modest reimbursement claims to clear their ailments with the help of prayer.

and. some here. 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 you call when first islamic missionaries arrived here three centuries ago we were respectful of our customs that's why islam in kyrgyzstan has been very much in degraded with our indigenous culture but the version of islam that's being pushed on nowadays with his jobs and restrictions is not only foreign to us it's aggressive the country's authorities are not oblivious to the ongoing islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness it here to the stance top officials are praying alongside. crowds they claim full religious freedom is the best strategy against radicalization. the results of the arab spring have shown that secular 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 but for kyrgyzstan interesting to revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing than finding an antidote against all how breaking lose again. are to see. the headlines in just a couple minutes stated. means

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