these are the images gold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operations around the day. with a month to go before presidential elections tens of thousands are on the streets of moscow to protest for free elections and political change. the protest. to. the un is expected to vote in a draft resolution on syria but russia warns of a scoundrel if the text is put on the table in its current form. to any loopholes intervention. class of violent protests against the police and the military

government escalates across egypt several people killed and hundreds injured. and the very latest developments this is r.t. when exactly a month from now the russians will head to the polls to vote for their next president this saturday in moscow tens of thousands are gearing up to demonstrate for fair elections while others are running in support of the current leadership the latest now from artie's jacob and peter all of peter first we've already seen a few protests off the. how is this one shaping up and what makes it different. well this is the third time we've seen major protests since the parliamentary

elections in december different about this one is it's also a march you can see behind me people to the streets of the. major streets in central moscow. to gather there and march towards a square now being the. center of the protests it's be was the place of the the previous two major ones so this is the third time that held protests there now it's quite difficult to gauge just how many people are here the certainly many many thousands just it would be easy to gauge that once they do get simple square just but usually stretched out along this big highway behind me now this is a sanction protest. that protesters must remain within the letter of the law and isabel nine thousand police lining the route to try to make sure that the peace is kept. does say this is so this a lot of people from all over the russian political life out on the streets right

now marching through the center of the capital press cross to take agrees now to take over what's happening the way you are there are tens of thousands there as well we understand how do their agendas and slogans differ. we actually see point of the turnout here if they estimate as many every three fifteen thirty five thousand people depending on who you was not pushing this because of the anti all reach movement that's a reference to the revolution it took place in ukraine in two thousand and five and ousted that government from power of the big message case and they did these people don't want is the fear is he in fact here are the civility even birthday she had to be tied to any more leader in particular anyone monetization there is a big showing for that prime minister of sodomy things to thank you for you know down about sixty with the opposition movements that are going on in the capital at

the same time today based of course has been suffering has been waning in recent months tests with that expression still has gone to some way with the russian people and they still can't follow. numbers show best of forty five prices even though he has suffered drop in the polls not pushing down at fifty two percent of the board still far outstripping and the other candidate that just about eight percent of the board. peter back to you who are the opposition then and what exactly do they want. well they're here they say they will change in russia's political system and they want the elections that are held in the fourth of march they will them to be there know who exactly they are he's quite difficult to pin down so far today we've seen since the ball left groups is in support of nationalist groups but is in support of groups that want to bring back the zon fact

i even saw. to the popular social network facebook emblazoned on it i'm not quite sure what they want. but yeah they were is that one of the things there isn't as a particular leader one solitary uniting figure. they have what we have seen is mikhail prokhorov the independent candidate in the presidential race he's being trumpeted by many here he said he doesn't tend to attend. this meeting this at this gathering but he said he didn't plan to give any speeches as of now but yeah this they really are a group composing of of just about every political belief i say from from far right groups to too far left groups and everything in between painted at the kremlin about to make changes after december so what it actually has been done since then. we've seen a lot of money invested i think it's close to half a billion dollars invested in putting a web comes into all polling stations know what they see does essentially is create

anybody with a computer an internet connection that makes them into an arm chair observer so if you want to log on to a particular polling station you'll be able to see what's happening in. we supposed to be people watching it's difficult to do anything. also you see. of an independent. independent body that will be looking out the elections that will take place next month and what we've heard from prime minister vladimir putin is this one of the allegations leveled against him sometimes he gets too much time on t.v. radio and in the media now he said he'll quite happily step back from some of his coverage that he received. the other. two to get their message out there.

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the u.n. security council. the vote expected draft resolution on syria. if the text is brought to the table in its current form the draft has been softened russia's request dropping demands for regime change and fresh sanctions but it still contains elements that the kremlin considers loopholes unacceptable foreign intervention comes amid reports from syria a new crackdown in the city of homs with hundreds allegedly dead damascus claims the killings were carried out by terrorists seeking to influence the u.n. vote. has more now from new york. russia china many other countries have vocalize the fact that the security council should not be used as a tool to impose regime change in any country around the world in this case in particular to syria it should be the security council should be new moving towards

coming to our peaceful solution where both parties see in part in 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 a serious house also good sport and clearly this violent conflict is garnering attention from all parts of the world as the on international community continues to find a way to to reach some type of consensus on how to garner and lead to a peaceful solution in syria. but he's a very important ally there reporting from new york and you can keep up with the

latest upon the u.n. vote on syria i thought twitter feed altie underscore calm. right meanwhile in egypt the police used tear gas and fired shots at protesters who've been trying to storm the interior ministry building for two days now seven people have been confirmed dead as violence grips cairo and several other cities their arrests were sparked when more than seventeen football fans died during all the march clash three days ago this is it was the police and very tragically thousands of demonstrators in cairo also calling on the roof to council to relinquish power at least on this to one of the viruses and suggestions of serious that many of us to president mubarak's generals are student 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 spouse who will be transferred quickly either to a government or two 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 gyptian 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 and are going to carry out a 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 to revolt 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 actually to their representatives and they fear that egypt is moving towards another at that regime. well we'd like to know what you think about

the latest events in egypt today were asking why the country is still in turmoil probably lost his revolution log on to our website r.t. dot com to take part in our latest poll so far most of you believe it's because they are lies of ousted leader hosni mubarak still in power must want to say it's just the radicals to maintain rest seventeen percent are saying that the main reason the finest what it seems to me an important and i want to stress that the revolution takes itself down for those who want to dot com to comes to over. there without the so they have to decide how the debate over who right there is a. prostitute. to protect intellectual property as you beings involved to point out why they say it violates their basic rights. laws usually attraction no dogs with human like qualities like in the hearts of love.

as humanitarian groups accuse the libya's new government of abuse in the country detention centers he's been revealed that of former senior official may have been the latest victim of torture libya's ex ambassador to france died in custody twenty four hours after being detained by a militia group reports claim that photos of sixty two year old. evidence of bruising and other women's rights groups say that torture and executions have become commonplace in makeshift prisons run by former rebels middle east experts and journalists who can't stand vicious death is in the spotlight because the same militia that allegedly killed in keeping colonel gadhafi son in custody. i don't think the militia responsible for the likely torturing to death of mr bush 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 one 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 this one tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif 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 being tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. protests have been raging across europe against last week's signing of a new copyright treaty between forces intellectual property law. on the internet opponents say the international actor documenting forces censorship is a violation of human rights bottom 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 well perhaps no one will write any books or produce music or fields etc. it would disappear but 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 lit 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. 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 campaign 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 are accepting old faith the new way new branches. change the face of the nation some say good thing has consequences. finding true love is never easy for those who've given up on ever meeting their perfect partner and we settle for a robot fans of synthetic sweethearts say romances with robots could become commonplace sooner than 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 slippers perhaps 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 or where it. will know. the real. issue.

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 dealing with it you could have the sex robot that would be your companion and not only listen to you talk to you interact with you public opinion about sex robots now is well most. that's what it's for robotic sex when i wait a minute isn't that marriage i mean by would not be the saddest christmas if i thought you could use this i. 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 done 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 the there you go for a robot definitely in the future. yeah

. while most of us feel that the possibility of having an affair with a robot is something in the very distant future first it's already a reality i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . you have it well some world news in brief for you now this hour. here on the supreme leader has issued a warning about retaliating against the west and the sanctions that include an all involved in an increasing threat the speech came as a response to the statement u.s. defense secretary panetta who said israel was likely to bomb iran without months the u.s. and e.u. have imposed a number of financial and all sanctions against iran. which they suspect could be used to make. at least thirty seven people have been killed in south sudan during a shooter on the peace meeting gunmen in trucks arrived and began shooting

indiscriminately on the fight broke out at the gathering the meeting was designed to end to end violence over student 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 freeze off the coast of mania villages in remote areas have been caught off with trucks are able to transport supplies the snow for snow to the closure of schools and their ports across europe. there is a clash of cultures in kurdistan moderate forms of islam that have traditionally held sway coming on the threat for more radical turn its fears over the now. everyday life in the central asian republic a land prone to instability after two revolutions in the last few years and.

reports. of more 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 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 but they you need to pray or chant mosque can almost be a logical and lifestyle differences that exist among various branches of this one here in kurdistan over the past they told us country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds have a lust in common with each other than they do with christians or jews who just people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed us about it mixed with germany's and the magic customs the good news version of

islam has long been more of the moral code then the religious doctrine is how cheap a society where women are just as that of an 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 and some of it is domestically driven poverty poor education corruption mistrust of authorities all of that is putting people towards religion but much of it is also driven from abroad countries like pakistan saudi arabia kuwait a very generous when it comes to building mosques. islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the rich is adopted and open door policy already. here. these are followers of the to believe jamal

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 hard to build your 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 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 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. some fear. 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 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 country is a. i'm not oblivious to the ongoing islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness said here could be stones top officials are praying alongside the crowds

they claim full religious freedom is the best strategy against radicalization. results of the arab spring have shown that secular governments a crushing under the pressure of political islam muslims are enormous human resource the one who knows how to manage this force the streets. for kyrgyzstan two revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing then finding an antidote against all hell breaking lose again. art see. and back to our top story now tens of thousands are rallying for their elections ahead of russia's presidential vote next month while others are gathering to show their support for the current leadership watching live pictures now from the heart of the russian capital where people have gathered with banners and flags to express their political views according to the police one hundred thousand people have turned out in moscow it's exactly

a month now actions ahead to the polls to vote for the next president continuing live pictures of the rallies as they unfold you can head to r.t. dot com. but moving on and the kaiser report is just ahead before that our mind of the headlines.

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