form 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 the robot. no never done wrong and stupid. human woman you know can you imagine a relationship without kitchen five. zero no one talking back to you. yeah but there's never that. 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. now is 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 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 the both. who are sort of exclusionary and don't think a lot about the people they're supposed to serve and their big difference between mitt romney and newt gingrich of which is there's no difference ron paul's republican think there's a difference with him not really the out the same for the watch with the better business room. he's done a lot into a somewhat copies of the 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 one we got to choose one area 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 just by some of your march of global superpower to figure out what should feel as what's going on have you seen any coverage at all in scotland or yes but so news. and 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 and speech came as a response to the statement of mr principle netter said israel was likely to bomb around 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 maybe snowfall has led to the closure of schools and airports across europe. now 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 of the effect 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 who reports. all. kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of cougars man praying at the

country's central square just underneath the lenin monument even in this basket 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 help my skin almost be a logical lifestyle differences that exist among the various branches of this one here in kurdistan. the country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds have the last in common with each other and they do a great chance for jews good as 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 is how cheap a society where women are just as active and ambitious as men 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 really driven poverty poor education corruption mistrust of authorities all of that is putting people to wars 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 if there were a lot of. the these are followers of the to believe them are a group of islamic missionaries originated from pakistan. it's 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 hard of foreign happened it's 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 there at the forefront of these lawmakers turgeon is in kurdistan. all the more than half of students in this islamic academy a females and their number has tripled in the past few years. when they graduate still get a diploma in arabic studies in 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 a raft from yemen he sees three to four patients every day and for most reimbursement he 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 wooden called 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 degraded with our indigenous culture 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 countries authorities are not oblivious to the ongoing islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness it here to the stones top officials are praying alongside. crowds they claim full religious freedom is the best strategy against radicalization start ups 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. and for kyrgyzstan thing two revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing then finding an antidote against all hell breaking lose again come by car see. the headlines in just a couple minutes that stated. all .

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world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. china operations are rooted a clue. it's a half past the hour in the russian capital a recap of today's top stories now with the u.n. expected to take action on the syrian crisis activists in the country crying massacre as hundreds are allegedly killed by government troops in the city of homs the u.n. security council meets on saturday new york to consider voting on a controversial draft resolution aimed at ending the conflict. part of protests against the police and the military government escalate in corinth across egypt for several people killed and hundreds injured demonstrators are accusing the police of

negligence the ruling military council to step down. with just a month left until russia's presidential vote tens of thousands are expected to rally on the streets of account later on saturday the kremlin is trying to ensure that we have come election is fair and transparent calling for more observers and storing live webcams of polling stations. next week with the russian prime minister's economic ideas under the microscope in artie's interview show spotlight that's next. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck has a big picture. hello

again and welcome to the spotlight play into the show on our t.v. i'm older now and today we're talking about economic challenge despite the recent global turbulence and crisis russia has managed to keep of savannah me in line but even the most efficient models become obsolete one day and new ways are to be found to meet new challenges prime minister and presidential candidate played a potent has published his version over how the russian economy has to be changed in the new rest future the article was warmly welcomed in general but some critics claim it's contradictory and say putin didn't propose any real solution so

is the program a real remedy or rather intellectual speculation we're asking journalist shawn ramsey and of latter summat. russia's prime minister vladimir putin has recently been sharing his vision for russia's development in the series of pre-election manifestos published weekly major russian news papers the first antico outline his vision funded relies on russian society and was particularly it dressed to the country's middle class. the second touched upon issues of migration and zena for. this week's article the third is considered by many of the most important so far is a deals with the country's economic revival who didn't present a case for ending russia's dependence on raw materials and sets two thousand and twenty as a deadline for reform. by then russia's hyper exports should double the same is

expected to happen to the country's average salary couldn't almost offers ways to attract capital into russia's economy among other things he insists on the so-called luxury tax for the wealthy. our general working to show thank you very much for being with us well first of all you both read the article have you find something in this article that indicates that if gordon is elected or russia is facing major economic changes be my guest please. well i think probably russia is on the move my feeling is that. good good things happening in russia the basically people are working hard there's a lot of interest in making russia a global economic power and it's a good thing so you know it's not only mr putin here we're talking about

the russian people you know hundred forty million people who want to do something you want to book but let's talk about the article that it did you get in the question that putin is ready if he's reelected to start real change in the kind of the main point of this article is that we have no exactly how and when it is not a program is just a dream and he said in general i want to see a rusher in this picture but it just so you know yes and that is the point which criticized from many i guess absolutely they are absolutely right and i have to tell you. russia it russian economy has a very long history like any other country and definitely we have some negative questions in the in our previous history and he didn't see us didn't tell us how to reorganize the koval how to do or to do to make the main direction of economy how

to change the country of gods and oil production company to some yards for example maybe to the company which will lead to the country which will produce gasoline or something else and he we have no this articles show. i understand putin's intention to to be objective to to be like a what will lie all we journal we write articles so we try to be objective but when i read he's not a journalist he's the prime minister and i would be president so i get an impression that trying to. be objective he's writing this article as somebody who's observing the economic situation in russia from the outside looking forward bearing no responsibility for the twelve hour so who is he addressing himself that well that's interesting yeah i guess i get that feeling also because he deals very lightly with certain major very important and fundamental issues in russia's economy which was that the soviet union was

a very powerful industrial country that did have a lot of what is what is used the term of its kind of its own new technology it had created its own area of expertise and a lot of independent from the rest of the world because of that because of the the wall the russian word for technology today is no how no how. is the russian for technology that that's right and even kids now i mean i talk to kids about movies because i also make films for me yeah i talk to kids and they don't know even new russian classics much less so the world is changing and russia is changing too and you really get that feeling i first came here in ninety one and then i was again spent some years here in the beginning of the nineties saw the coups saw the political the political movements but many way back to back to that subject i

think. it's it's kind of you usual thing is well we what we want to do but he says you know of course there are a lot of specifics that can't be covered in four page letter but to me i guess you have the mistake a huge mistake it is the position of the person who declared before we had a very poor in economical way country yeltsin and all this period will try to improve the situation and now dear friends and how it's a electorate i have to receive the possibility to start to look to looking forward and to do something that's not the position from the people of the foreigner or robber or point of view it's position of a person who says yes we did something but it's not enough but we did something and we have to do something well here's a quote from the russian prime minister on why russia should develop modern

technologies. russia must play a bigger part in the international division of labor not only as a supplier of commodities and managers but as a number of regularly operated karting and technology at least some sectors otherwise we are doomed to deplete our resources by constantly exchanging down for expensive for in technology to produce consumer goods materials and pharmaceuticals that we cannot develop ourselves. well this quote basically means that russia has not over a current dependence on commodities which has been the goal of putin's government but even if down to put his presidency under medvedev presidency but. the article it doesn't contain any explanation why wasn't it overcome yeah yeah the point is excuse me the point is that he wrote what you want to listen to here. it is

very good for you yes. this were a little it's a it's a i'm sorry it's a it's a good thing here he was if he was a presidential candidate from the outside it would be good to try to give people what they want to hear but when you're the presidential candidate from the inside he has been president has been for he owes explanations to people dizzy and if you remember the very old movie if we're talking about movies but if i enter any of asked if small be a little be a little baby what do you want that i will cut your hair or you will go to the summer house. and the girl said yes to somehow this here shown to you want you prefer you said yeah it's a good idea but i have no time just in this small article to give the explanation about how it is a program of the government it's not mine but in general i want to show you the way you want to build by this we just use that said it was a problem now it does a presidential candidate from the outside not the reelected one zero zero zero

explanation. people will do. so he well his critique he critique he made he talked about how certain government but he is so confident it has it has our i mean he doesn't want to give them up they can't be answered inside the country. this is a well. i don't know i have to say there's a there's a cultural gap here like for americans we do criticize ourselves and it's more every three years you know but russians i mean there's a certain thing that from living in russia i don't know if that's changing but kind of classically you don't criticize yourself too much well colorfully you are going to say russians are more self-critical than americans but we don't we don't get so critical when talking to foreigners we so frugal with each other you know we are thought to get you yes you are not alone together yeah well i think russians are very self-critical in terms of criticizing the russians and if you're hard on each

other you know you know that. high standards of living standards lie but when it comes to themselves to say ok i made a mistake i did something wrong which was it is our position that hearing all around is it but you didn't think that he had a make you made a hint about mr mineta he said we lost for years i dreamed that dmitri will come and they will stall these roses and it was my huge mistake and now i have to restart it once more time and that's why i declare to you what we will have to do that is the answer i guess well did you did you get at least a hint from this article on the warrant is put in about due to my country less dependent on world forces who i did it's a very kind of nice sounding plan i think it's seductive but again the question is since quite simply just like in the case of obama obama's

finishing four years he promised a lot of promises and now his goal is going for reelection he's not criticizing him self and saying i should have fought harder and i didn't have i didn't have clear when creating a medical system we don't really know about that the recovery really gets me every child into the right so in the sense is it sounds good to me but how is he going to do it right there it's the question and i have to attract your attention of the one thing everybody said it's a very bad thing that the economy of russia belongs to the gas and oil and we somebody declared we have to build new factories which will be reproduced oil and to produce the gasoline and to bring it to the market but nobody have to ask himself who care about our gives them who we are in a common market with our blood again because in a world where there are

a lot of store maybe we have to do something else. say journalist shawn ramsey and lattimer somalia spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay with us don't go. the close up team has been to the hub bar of screeching where the country's middle well starts its way across the ocean. now our team goes to the area. was named after plenty of good looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. for the four by fours are made and can be tested to the limit. welcome to the screech of. russia close up on our.

very welcome back to spotlight time algor norman just a reminder that my guests on the show today are journalist shawn ramsey

a journalist and filmmaker and blood human or some magneto business minutes and journalist and writer and a filmmaker not sound to go together like thank you thank you very much both. for being here just a reminder that we are discussing the latest article published in the a and one of the russian papers by a part of about lattimer put in the presidential candidate and then. let's listen to another quote let's hear what the prime minister says about what awaits the russian manufacturer is in the w t l mark. i can see all the challenges that our exemption to the w.t. always putting before a number of industries as a whole and i would like to assure them that i will do my best to cool transition based problems however the manufacturers of industrial and technological goods must be clearly aware that the days of competing in the single national market have gone now one there will be no palpable knishes for high tech products and there will be

only one market the global one. so here seductive again you promises to question but are you proud or anti w.r. in terms intel i mean for russia what was your storage. every my timeline i was again is this. because we are talking about how to develop in a different kind of directions our economy for will try to produce sure's or dresses or food or something else we have a lot of samples as which come to us abroad from abroad like import and like. for example you have very such a. russian family right there are the jackets yeah so how you will have to organize the competition between us so if we will open the gates you have to know what you will do next time if your.