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

well news the very latest developments here on our table straight to our top story now and 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 gearing up to demonstrate a fair elections as well as rally in support and against the current leadership let's get the latest from artie's appeal to all of. 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 this time isn't just a rally it's going to be a march towards the rally the police have closed off the road just behind me and about one hundred meters up the road opposition supporters are gathering ahead of what will be a march through central moscow towards square where a rally will be held to be in the center of the previous. demonstrations that we've

seen they'll be heading off there i say walking marching along they said this road just behind me that's set to march is set to get underway in a little over an hour little under an hour's time. tens of thousands are expected however we'll have to wait and see how much of a factor the weather will play bitterly cold here in moscow the temperature not really much better than minus twenty degrees celsius so very very cold perhaps that might keep people indoors today but certainly thousands will be on the streets in the about nine thousand police have been enrolled to try and keep the peace this is a a sanctioned demonstration the. government the authorities have said though that protesters must remain within the letter of the law and that they shouldn't do anything untoward. but yet lots of people expected to see a lot of balloons among the among the protestors lot of placards and slogans but

this isn't the only protests taking place in moscow today there's also a series of protests from pro-government supporters from those who are against seeing any form of revolution they don't want to see russia go down the same route to say what happened in ukraine with the orange revolution and the chaos that followed they say well russia does not need to go back to essentially the dark days of the one nine hundred ninety s. and they won't stay below so protests all stratas of the political life taking place today in the russian capital. who are the opposition then and what exactly do they want to achieve is that clear. well the group that will be marching behind me taking place in the demonstration of the law already a group made up of. basically every single level of political life they're made up of nationalists they're made up of green party members. of the likud party who failed to get enough votes to take seats in the parliamentary elections in.

december of last year they are out in force here. there's also. who is the only independent candidate to be appearing on the ballot for president in a month's time he said he will be attending however he said it was unlikely that he would give a speech so really there is this group of opposition come from everybody all over the every political belief they have their leaders but there is no uniting figure that i mention profit off there's also. others who are it's our leaders in a group that the group doesn't really have one uniting leader on the overall belief and now that the kremlin bowed to make changes after december what's actually been done since then. well since the elections last since the parliamentary elections last year last december we've seen it put into place this will webcams webcams will

be put into all polling stations ahead of the presidential election next month what this means is essentially it turns everybody with a computer into an arm chair electoral monitor you'll be able to click on the webcam you want to see and you can watch the voting process what else have seen is the establishment of an independent league of electoral monitors that's an independent body that will be going around and checking this nothing untoward is happening in the presidential election on the on the fourth of march now what else we've seen from current prime minister vladimir putin who is running. for president in that election in march is him saying that he will slash the amount of time he gets on t.v. radio had been leveled against him that it was unfair because he had too much exposure he said well i'll give the rest of you. for being on t.v. and radio for a while. there for now live from moscow to all of the thank you. were

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the u.n. security council is to meet later today with a vote expected in a draft resolution on syria from moscow ones it will use its veto power if the text is brought to the table in its current form the draft has been softened at russia's request demands for regime change and. but it still contains elements that the kremlin considers loopholes unacceptable foreign intervention comes amid reports from syria of a new crackdown in the city of homs hundreds of edge of the dead. claims the killings were carried out by terrorists seeking to influence the u.n. vote. from new york. or russia. chai not 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 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 it is not going 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 for syria house also 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 but these were reported by their reporting from new york and you can keep up with the latest on the u.n. vote on syria i thought twitter feed o.t. on the school com. meanwhile in egypt police scenes tear gas and fired shots at

protesters who were trying to storm into ministry building for two days now seven people have been confirmed dead as violence grips cairo and several other cities don't rest to a spark when more than seventy football fans died after a match clash two days of their protest is accuse the police cell phone to prevent the tragedy. that was holes in cairo also for the ruling military council to push the middle east analyst while flores says addictions are furious that many of the ousted president generals are still in place. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it is really have powers and they are demanding the door will be transferred quickly either to a government or to and elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i think it is still 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 force if 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 in atlanta gary and leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if you are again regime is going to rock what is happening right now is that large segments of civil society specifically the youth of egypt who began their overall and that revolt was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood itself as those youth are angry at the government because they want the military council to transfer power to them or their representatives and they fear that egypt is moving towards another of their again regime. you know without the head few the sa the debate over copyright flares

up again. anti r.c.t. to hard to protect intellectual property as they were in revolt find out why they say violates their basic rights. thus i don't usually attraction road blocks with qualities on the concert for. humanitarian groups accused libya's new government of abuse in the countries detention centers it's been revealed that a former senior official may have been the latest victim of torture it is x. ambassador to france died in custody twenty four hours after being detained by militia groups reports claim that photos of sixty two year old. show evidence of bruising and other women's rights groups say that torture and executions have become common place in makeshift prisons run by rebels the stakes but journalists. says rubbishes death is in the spotlight for political reasons because the same militia that eventually killed him. and gadhafi in custody. i

don't think the militia responsible for that the likely tortured to death of mr bush will be held account but there's a lot of you know interesting political games going on in libya it seems to me very clearly is that why this focus now on this on the militia is because there's an tiny militia there's entirely people are holding saif al islam and the west especially the i.c.c. are very fearful about what this one tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif islam doesn't have access to a sinister far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for the centanni 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. well protests have been raging across europe against last week's signing of

a new copyright treaty which forces intellectual property on the internet opponents say the international act documenting force is censorship and is a violation of human rights as artesia 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 actor 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 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. it would disappear but with much less 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 that are for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need to ask anybody's permission to present new ideas. 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 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 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 a new way new branches of. the changing face of the nation some are saying the transition could have been two sentences. finding true love is never easy but for those who've given up or never meeting their perfect partner we settle for a robot runs of synthetic sweethearts

a romance is rupert's could become commonplace soon then we might think. 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 sliders pass 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 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 it talks and senses touch what or where it. will know people are going. to him. who want. 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 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 that 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 most. 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 think dark hines seems to be very serious about his creation the japanese are even more serious about robots and. 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 if it was allowed. yeah. 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. . the us presidential election hots up the contenders are competing hard to make it to the white house all next on line journalist laura hoffa just 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 they're both. jerks 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 republicans so there's no difference ron boswell looking thing here there's a difference with him not really the same for the much. 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 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 and if you candidates yes but we got a big one we got it here is one area i really don't know i honestly dying good luck to us raise good luck do you think the rest of the world should care about what who becomes the next president thinks oh yeah why just by some of the remarks of global superpower figure one should feel as what's going on have you seen any coverage at all in scotland or are yes but so in the news a lot 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.

some world news in brief for you now the south iran's supreme leader has issued a warning about retaliating against the western sanctions i think about his increasing threats speech came as a response to the statement from the u.s. defense secretary panetta said israel was likely to bomb iran and months the u.s. and even post a number of financial and oil sanctions against iran over its disputed program which they suspect could be used to make weapons. at least thirty seven people have been killed in south sudan during the shoot out of the peace meeting gunmen and trucks arrived and began shooting indiscriminately after a fight broke out at the gathering meeting was designed to bring an end to recent violence of the stolen livestock hundreds have been killed in recent weeks as a result of the 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 many from frostbite and hypothermia extreme temperatures even cause the black sea to result becomes to remain religious in remote areas have been cut off with trucks on able to transport supplies. to the closure of schools and ports across europe. now there's a clash of cultures in kurdistan moderate forms of islam that have traditionally held sway coming under threat for more radical turn it is said to fears over the effect of everyday life in the central asian republic and prone to instability after to evolution in the last few years alone maltese oksana boyko reports. all of. kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of cougars men 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

a slum does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims you need to pray or help my skin or must be a logical and lifestyle differences that exist among various branches of this one here in kurdistan because they told us country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds so who have a lust in common with each other than they do with christians or jews could 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 the good news version of islam has long been more than 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 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 by the way that. the these are followers of the to believe tomorrow 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. 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're 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 and sharia law there's a lot of interest in this area 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 wooden court 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 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 countries authorities are not oblivious to the ongoing islamisation and sasa just 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 secular governments are cracking 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 hell breaking lose again come by car to see. what moscow out program and sports to the head to this out. of the top stories disappearance. of.

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