free. video for your media projects free media. tens of thousands of people brave subzero temperatures to ensure their views on russia's politics are heard. we've seen people out on the streets demanding free elections in support of the current russian government join me for more than a few moments. russia's foreign minister warns of chaos in international relations as he criticizes the new resolution on syria promising a security council vote late on saturday. demanding free internet speak to the streets in protest against. across the continent.

international news and comments twenty four hours a day watching out for tens of thousands have gathered in moscow on saturday for a day of protests the largest seen in the capital so far one group is demanding fair elections while others around it to support the current leadership correspondent peter all of us saw the gatherings firsthand. well saturday was a day of demonstrations here in the russian capital we saw a march and a rally by opposition supporters a large group of their meeting in the center of the city and marching here to block main square which blood night has really become the central focus point for opposition protesters here in moscow this is the second time that opposition protesters have taken to pull last night a square far fewer the this time than last but of course the the weather

a big deciding factor in math cripplingly low temperatures here in the russian capital in fact the organizers of the protest here shortened the events that were going to be happening just to make it all comfortable for people who would come out in the cold minus twenty times on saturday here in moscow. so they came out to to voice their opinions you know better than if you were forced to make him leave because i'm tired of the government which doesn't do well promises lines and wants this to carry on for years. if they. change their elections and normal life here it was because my girlfriend wanted to come here i don't care about politics now talk about some of those groups that we've seen come here they really come from all across the russian political straw answer we've seen far right groups far left groups and everybody in between. all coming out coming here to pull up their square

to demonstrate we didn't hear from. the presidential candidate the independent presidential candidates he's drawn a lot of support from some of the groups that have come here to protest he said he would attend but he wouldn't give a speech this wasn't the only demonstration there was taking place on saturday there's also being gatherings of people who are in favor of the government pro-government supporters and. those two who've been campaigning saying that they don't want a revolution in russia using the example of the orange revolution in ukraine in the chaos which is that country found itself in after that saying that they don't need that in russia they would first ability and not for revolution saying that russia had had its times of instability and they didn't want to return to the dark days of the ninety's now the good news for everybody concerned is just how peacefully

everything is being carried off on saturday both the opposition and the pro-government protests going off relatively without a hitch however one of the pro putin rallies we did see the leader of that rally taken into custody by police now this is because it was a sanctioned rally and it was sanctioned to have a certain amount of people there the amount of people that turned up far exceeded that we saw a lot of police and she's they did say say protesters must remain within the law they did do that and everything going off very peacefully is such a day becomes the day of demonstrations. parties up into all of our reporting there on a day of political rallies in moscow. moscow is warning it all veto the latest u.n. resolution on syria if the text is submitted in its current form russia says the document still needs to be revised the security council expected to meet in the next few hours it comes amid reports from syria a new crackdown on the city of homs with hundreds initially killed well arty's sara

firth who's just returned from the country has the latest. well the main concerns are really the language of the resolution that's been right from the beginning real focal point they don't like this obscure language to. this during international intervention. resolution has been softened and that's been seeing by the u.n. diplomats 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. the foreign minister from russia said that he demands being made of the increase in the country and there's a sense that the draft has prejudices towards the outcome of national dialogue through. completion of the government. company.

state institutions. the government receives you. know did. you manage to cover a much more specific i think we really there's a sense that they want to get this right you know we're seeing a push now for some kind of vote today but at the same time you know russia very wary 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 final draft with regards to the situation in homes at the moment it's very hard to get a gauge on the accuracy of the figure is certainly 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 now going to respond to the situation

certainly in the country the situation is that people 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 speaking to people and 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 having to live this so i mean it's absolutely pivotal that i think some sort of decision is made of fairly soon of course they want to get this draft resolution right but time isn't on the side for these people in the country and they're in a desperate situation right now you know they don't have any real towards preservation 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. sara for there are still to come of the program religion as a testing ground investigate how the new forms of islam could change the face of

a whole nation to serious consequences. plus a plastic partner's dolls and robots compete with real women to unlock the hearts of lonely men apparently in search of love. now protests raging across egypt have left at least eleven people dead as police fired volleys of tear gas and birdshot into crowds who threw rocks in the plight of the thousand people have been injured clashes continue around the tear in the street several government buildings reportedly settled for people are venting their anger at police for thirty to prevent wednesday's imports which killed seventy four people demonstrators are demanding the military council steps down accusing it was a pipe jacking it up and middle east analyst says of gyptian is off furious that they have ousted president that 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 door found 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 of ordered security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s u.s. based n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the military council is very hasn't been in transferring power to democracy forces they want to deal with a force which most likely will be in the muslim brotherhood there is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down in a precarious leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if you are again regime is going to iraq what is happening right now is that large segments society of civil. specifically the youth of egypt who began to rule for all and their hold was taken away by other political bodies including the muslim brotherhood itself

has told 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 authoritarian regime but libya's new government accused of abuse in the country's detention centers it's been revealed that one former senior official could have fallen victim to torture libya's x. some buses affronts has died in custody just twenty four hours after being detained by armed militia groups so you can't chandan a middle east expert and journalist says the same people who allegedly killed a former diplomat are also holding current gadhafi son in custody i don't think the militia responsible for that the likely torturing to death or miss the 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 in funny militia is because there's

a tiny militia there's entirely people are holding saif al islam and the west especially the i.c.c. are very fearful about what there's an tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif al islam doesn't have access to a solicitor as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely is that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to being tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. welty dot com is the place to go to find other opinions and updates on the balance in the here and elsewhere in the world online that right now april may or june that's when israel could norton attack on iran's nuclear facilities least that's what they seem to think in washington. and russia is over the moon on the bells that space ambitions these and other stories are

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on the 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 actor won't come into force until it's been ratified by the european parliament and that's what activists want to prevent saying the new law would in danger free speech and net privacy but protests will be staged in several european capitals stock is one of them tom barton is there. 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 point out that it's important to try and protect the copyright of the people who make music to make video and distribute it around the world if you say well everything should be free well perhaps no one will write any books produced music or fields etc. it would disappear but much less because it's not profitable for those against it say it's a wolf in sheep's clothing a way for governments to control their access to the internet and that it was held in secret but it was designed to be very punitive to those found breaching copyright rules the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet today ideas battle it out for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need to ask anybody's permission

to present new ideas and. all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and millions of young people are rising up in anger at the formation of pirate parties not just here in sweden but elsewhere in europe is evidence of how high the status of those internet freedom 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 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 are a clash of cultures in kurdistan where the moderate indigenous practice of islam is being threatened by more radical alternatives there are fears for the effect on

everyday life in the central asian republic and around the present instability after two evolutions in the last few years alone forty six on board has 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 basket years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as islam does nowadays. the feast of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims but they you each player must can almost feel logical and lifestyle differences that exist among the various branches of this one here in kurdistan has this country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds to have the last 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 this 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 rich is adopted an open door policy.

these are followers of the to believe jamaah 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 of us within ourselves while gender is that becoming increasingly separated in public women and not left out in fact they are at the forefront of these lama christer gins in kyrgyzstan. 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 areas and if they decide to work it shouldn't be difficult finding a job for him missionaries are not only spreading the word but greasing their palms to this man who claims to be a healer raft from yemen he sees three to four patients every day and for most reimbursement he 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. would call when first islamic missionaries arrived here three centuries ago we were respectful of our customs that's why islam in kyrgyzstan has been very much in degrade. with our indigenous culture but the version that's being pushed on nowadays with his jobs and restrictions is not only foreign to us it's aggressive the country's authorities

are not oblivious to the ongoing islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness said here could be stones 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 secure governments a crushing 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 to revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing then finding an antidote against all how breaking lose again trying 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 civilians according to un report most of the casualties

were caused by militants with fourteen percent by international troops while nato is preparing to pull out by twenty fourteen leaving afghan security forces to take charge of fighting insurgency. europe's week long cold snap has now claimed two hundred twenty lives as countries struggle with record low temperatures ukraine is taking the heaviest one hundred died in temperatures plummeted to minus thirty degrees celsius the victims people were heavy snowfalls also cause widespread transport chaos the chance. and the fate of bradley manning it will be decided by a general court martial in the last six weeks on the door is argued about whether or not the u.s. army tensions on mr should stand trial private manning is accused of siphoning off thousands of government documents combat would use to wiki leaks material included footage showing u.s.

soldiers killing civilians in iraq if i am guilty he faces life in prison. well as the u.s. presidential election heats up the contenders are fighting hard to make it to the white house our own new york resident laurie halfassed hit the big apple to find out what people this think about the oval 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 ron boswell looking thing here there's a difference with him 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 any of your candidates yeah but we got a big one we got a two zero mary i really don't know i honestly die good luck to us race could like to think that the rest of the world should care about what the who becomes the next president thinks oh yeah 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 are yes but so in the news. and when you see it what do you think.

will. yet read a bunch of 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. now a perfect partner who's always happy and never complains is apparently now a 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 heritage account has more from the world of the synthetic 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 dave cat from detroit says he's been in a relationship with his sex doll for more than ten years and it's in it or in her that he found his better half slackers it has not even worth getting out of bed at this point these days they've cats bond with a dog seems like a joke to many but according to british artificial intelligence researcher dr david levy in a few decades romance between humans and robots will be a common thing i'm completely convinced that within about forty years people will be falling in love with robots and even marrying them and this could be the great grandmother of the future perfect robot mate meet roxie america's first sex robot it talks and senses touch what or where it. will know.

him. a little more. artificial intelligence engineer doug hines believes that he created the perfect alternative for those who for different reasons can't or are too busy or too lazy to connect with human beings we created like a bridge that gap between you know going in maybe going out with someone else you know just meeting someone in a bar or what have you and just randomly maybe picking up a social disease instead of doing when you could have the sex robot that would be your companion not only listen to you talk to you interact with you public opinion about sex robots now is well mostly. giggles. that's what it's for robotic sex when i wait a minute isn't that marriage i mean. would that be the saddest christmas gift ever . we thought you could use this i.

seems to be very serious about his creation the japanese are even more serious about robots. every new model there looks more lifelike. with the surge of interest in robots lawyers are starting to look into legal implications of the possibility that these sex robots can break up marriages psychologists in the meantime warn robots could transform human notions of love and sexuality forever and we're going to ask people on the street what they think about the prospect of having a relationship with a robot no it never does stress wrong and stupid i will own a mirror. human woman you know can you imagine a relationship without kitchen fides. oh it out no one talking back to you. yeah yeah but there's never been there 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 barry distant future for some it's already reality i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . well the one thing on the kaiser report is just ahead before that reminder of our headlines.