free. free. old free broadcast live video for your media project free video dog r.t. dot com. tens of thousands of people braved subzero temperatures to ensure their views on russia's politics are heard. protesters here came out in demand are fair elections ahead of next month's presidential elections i love the part of both good people gathered to voice their support for the current leadership. russia's foreign minister warns of chaos in international relations as he criticizes the resolution on syria promising a security council detail of the vote on saturday. and europeans demanded free internet people to flood the streets in protest against an anti being signed

across the continent. costing lives twenty four hours a day your watching r.t. tens of thousands have gathered in moscow on saturday for a day of protests seen in the capital so far one group demanding fair elections marched through the central streets to square the scene of the sender's rally against the parliamentary election results others are ready to support the current leadership correspondent. jake agree saw the gatherings firsthand. despite the better of bone chilling cold temperatures here on bolotnaya square a lot of people have gathered and it's pretty perilous her to say that it's quite calm you can sleep a lot of people here and also marching protests where protesters took out onto the

city center streets and marched all the way to bolotnaya square where i am currently standing now the government does approve of these protests they do want the people to voice their opinions however they have deployed some nine thousand police officers here on jubilant last square and throughout the city center to just make sure that it isn't back to peaceful protests and it actually has been it's been very quiet. for the reward for them we can leave because i'm tired of the government which doesn't do what promises and wants this to carry on for years. to do them. changes their intentions and more whole life freeze there there was the killer might go for it he wanted to come here. we've seen a number of flags you have the nationalists you have the leftists there are calls for a sort of sar a style leader however there isn't really one leader leading this protest movement

towards fair and free elections you do have me called procrit of who was here today a ball of less square although he did not speak he was not going to speak in terms of what's been done since the december fourth parliamentary elections actually a lot you know prime minister vladimir putin has promised to put webcams in polling stations and he's followed through on that the website has been launched it is ready and you can check it out where are you will be seeing bills a live feeds not to mention the fact the independent legal of electors who will be heading out to the polling stations when the presidential elections happen in march you have that league a sad list not to mention the prime minister putin who has. been criticised for showing his face a little too much in the media he has promised to slash his air time and not participate in any of those public presidential debates however he will continue to keep on writing his articles the third one which is set to be out sometime next

week now aside from that you do have president made today day of what his state of the union address and data put together a sort of long list of reforms that if presented to the by february some point during february and approved they will be in place for the presidential elections in march and in another part of the city you have protesters coming out in support of the current russian government who i think lawyers have sussed freud a lot of meat. now the principle that he had a lot of revolution they don't want him livesey i found the way there is such a thing called the seed all ridged there but that's a reference to the hard favor that took place in ukraine in two thousand and five which said to a presidential rerun something they don't want to see him go use it and say many have experience in russia of the hardships of revolution of the soviet going sees

as a result but it's not something they want to hear of me saying but if him here to support russia to support on installation and i wanted to have a bright future and i want to is to choose the future we are sorry. we got his act with us i don't know who exactly gather to vote in a square but i think it's perfectly fine that they did it it's democracy and they are the opposition. now because for those who have come here it's not a well visually wasn't really in the lead to a good hard line never right should both of us and others in the tennis team say showing some more i mean. whining about just now being. gay should.

just look. like. the result. of a. recording. or somebody. take a grievance there moscow is warning it or veto the latest un resolution on syria if the text is submitted in its current form russia says the document still needs to be revised for the security council expected to meet in the next few hours comes reports from syria of a new crackdown on the city of homs with hundreds literally killed let's get more enough marty sara furth news here in the studio forest today sara thanks for joining us now is hoping that this new resolution well be put to the vote today what's moscow's main concerns about it well the main concerns are really the language of the resolution that's being right from the beginning real focal point

they don't like this obscure language that seems. this door i. know intervention and i know we know the resolution has been softened and that's been saying by the u.n. to the people working on that is quite a major concession to russia some of the main issues such as the arms embargo and economic sanctions have been dropped from the draft. that the foreign minister from russia said the demands being made of the in the country and the sense that the trial still has prejudices towards the outcome of national dialogue and i think we really there's a sense that they want to get this right now we're seeing a place now for some kind of a today but at the same time you know russia says things. we worry about this language no one wants to make the same mistakes were made in libya and you know we saw the outcome of that obscure language that was signed off on and where that led say you know i think the sense is really that they want to get this right the first time not rush into something when both sides are still not quite happy with the

final the final draft now on the ground we've been hearing reports that hundreds of people were killed last night by the regime damascus is saying it's really you know terrorist groups that are causing trouble stirring up trouble you've just come back from syria what's your take on what's really happening there those reports devastating i mean for anyone he's following the. it's very hard to get a gauge on the accuracy of the think is you know we've seen them all over the pace really certainly with regards to the situation in homs at the moment one of the people who is reporting from that area had described it as sort of a sick of numbers you know these people who are supposedly being killed and the thing is it just everyone says certainly a really high priority to try and get some kind of accurate information coming out so not because you know that does play a big part in how the international community are now going to respond to the situation certainly in the country the situation is absolutely does to these people

i mean you've got an increasingly polarized country you've got a situation that just seems to be escalating all the time and these armed conflicts breaking out in areas with civilian populations i can't stress that enough when we went there you know you see the armed groups and see the security forces and you've got the political battle going on as well on the ground in these places that are under attack and you've got families and children. who are absolutely terrified about the situation that's unfolding in the country right now i'm speaking to people here just saying i can't believe that we're watching this play out on the international stage right now they're watching that u.n. security council resolution. going to be being discussed and there are people on the ground now having to live this so i mean is it so that i think some sort of decision is made of fairly soon of course they want to get this draft resolution right that time isn't on the side for these people in the country you know they're in a desperate situation and right now you know they don't have any real outlet towards

resolution of any kind on the ground so you know whilst this resolution is being discussed in the security council you know action is needed there in the country just back from syria r.t. correspondent surfer thank you for joining us with those views. well still to come in the program religion as a testing ground investigate new forms of. change the face of the whole nation need to see those consequences. plus plastic pardners dolls of the robots complete with real women and not the hearts of men such a large. protests raging across egypt have left at least eleven people dead as police fired volleys of tear gas and birdshot into crowds and threw rocks in the plight of the thousands people have been injured clashes continue around the interior ministry with several government buildings reportedly set on fire people are venting their anger at police for failing to prevent

wednesday's football violence and portside which killed seventy four people on the street is not among council steps down the route as a hijacking lucian the middle east analyst on the tires so his objections are furious that many of the generals are still running the country. 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 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 because if they want to cut the deal with a force which most likely will be the muslim brotherhood there is something very

odd about the fact that egypt broke down in the going to carry a 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. egypt who began the revolt and their hold was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood and it's not as though you are angry at the government because they want the military council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear their egypt is moving towards another a very good regime. but r.t. dot com is the place to find other opinions and updates on developments in egypt and elsewhere in the world online right now people may or do that israel could launch an attack on iran's nuclear facilities at least that's what they seem to think in washington. and russia is over the moon

unveils its space some bishops and other stories are available online at all to dot com. campaigners for online freedom are set to hit the streets of europe to protest against a new copyright treaty signed by governments across the continent but the anti counterfeiting trade agreement or act won't come into force until it's been ratified by the european parliament and that's what activists want to prevent saying you would or would in danger free speech and that privacy protests will be staged in several european capitals stock is one of the parties. 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 us against laws perceived to infringe on the public's access to the internet 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 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 if you say world everything should be free world perhaps no one will write any books produce music or fields etc. because it's not profitable clearly just the secrecy and how well how radical it was in the beginning or it seemed to be in the beginning. still lives on in people's view of it so people will. it will i'm sure the fight will go on. 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 but whether it's done in parliaments and in political boardrooms or on the street few expect this to be a calm debate. tom barton there now clash of cultures in kurdistan now with the moderate indigenous practice of islam is being threatened by more radical turtles there are fears for the effect on everyday life in the central asian republic and prone to instability after two revolutions in the last few years of the i don't want to avoid as the story. 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 bastard years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as islam does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims you need to pray or help my skin or must be a logical and lifestyle differences that exist among the various branches of this one here in kurdistan because they too and she has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds have a lust in common with each other than they do a chance for jews who just people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed 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 and how cheap

a society where women are just as active and ambitious as men and when religiosity whent hand in hand with good education but that is starting to change. after the collapse of the soviet union kurdistan has seen a very fast growth of islam some of it is the message driven poverty poor education corruption mistrust of authorities all of that is putting people towards religion but much of it is also driven from abroad countries like pakistan saudi arabia kuwait a very generous when it comes to building mosques here. islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the regions adopted an open door policy but it used to. be these are followers of the to believe. 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. people heart of fun happiness and hard to believe life in accordance with his wishes and by teaching of us with. well genders are becoming increasingly separated in public women and not left out in fact they are at the forefront of these lawmakers surgeons 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 educated woman 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

a modest reimbursement claims to clear their ailments with the help of prayer. and. something. 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. wouldn't you called it when first islamic mission there as 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 islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness said here could be stones top officials are praying along. side 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 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 loose again come by car to see. there are some other news making headlines around the world this hour more than three thousand afghans were killed in twenty eleven making last year the deadliest on record for the country's civilians according to a u.n. report most of the casualties were caused by militants with fourteen percent by international and local troops meanwhile nato is preparing to pull out by twenty faulty afghan security forces to take charge of fighting insurgency.

europe's a week long cold snap has now claimed two hundred twenty dives as countries struggle with record low temperatures ukraine is taking the heaviest told one hundred died in temperatures plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius most of the victims were homeless people heavy snowfalls also cause widespread transport chaos and power outages. an army intelligence analyst accused of siphoning off u.s. military secrets is the place a court martial private bradley manning is alleged to have passed over thousands of american government documents and combat with used to wiki leaks the whistle blowing web site material included footage showing u.s. soldiers killing civilians in iraq duty he says live in prison. as the u.s. presidential election heats up the contenders fight hard to make it to the white house our own york resident laurie halfassed hit the big apple to find out what people think about over the office race.

in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are duking it out with the gloves are off what does the world's make of these candidates this week let's talk about that do you think there's any difference between mitt and newt no i think they're both. jerks who are sort of exclusionary and don't think a lot about the people they're supposed to serve in there big difference between mitt romney and newt gingrich republicans so there's no difference rob also republican thing here there's a difference with him really how the same for the much. better business room. he's done a lot into a somewhat copies of the pierced 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 on the wrong person i ask i really like any of the candidates yeah but we got a big one we got to choose one area i really don't know i honestly dying good luck to us raise a kid like you think the rest of the world should care about what the who becomes the next president thinks oh yeah why just by some of your marches 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 news. and when you see it what do you think. will. good luck to you. yeah right of to talking heads. so it seems like here in times square today people have mixed emotions about who should be the next us president let's see what us citizens have to say about it come november.

well perfect partner who's always happy and never complains is apparently now reality but there's a catch he or she is likely to be made of plastic from simple dolls to sophisticated robots they seem to be winning the hearts and minds of people who've given up on finding true love that each account has more in the world of the sympathetic spouse. when toys for boys become more than toys originally when i first got her i call her my synthetic girlfriend but it's actually progress to the point where it's like you know she's my wife thirty seven year old 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 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 roxy america's first sex robot it talks and senses touch what are you wearing. were you know people. who 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 wait a minute isn't that marriage i mean i would not be the saddest christmas gift ever i thought you could use this i got kinds 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 it never does stress 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 is nevertheless there you go for a robot definitely in the future if it was allowed. while most of us feel that the possibility of having an affair with a robot is something in the barry distant future for some it's already reality i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t.

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