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brushes foreign minister warns of chaos in international relations as he criticizes the new resolution on syria threatening a security council veto in saturday's vote. tens of thousands of brave moscow's bitter subzero cold to ensure their views on russia's politics are heard. we seem people out on the streets demanding free elections in support of the code russian government join me for more than a few moments. europeans demand a free internet as people flood the streets in protest against an anti-piracy ad being signed across the continent.
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seven pm in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story russia's foreign minister has warned that meddling in international cut in international conflicts marks the road to chaos in international relations moscow says it's still strong objections to the redrafted u.n. resolution on syria and may use its veto if the text is submitted to the vote in its current form it's got all the latest on this from artie's marina porter joining us live from new york hello marina so moscow has made its position clear but the security council is still set to go ahead with a vote tell us more that's right the security council members are now gathering together at the united nations for this saturday morning meeting a meeting which means lead to a vote on the draft resolution. on syria which is sponsored by the arab league and the europeans. now this draft text resolution while it has been revised since
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first being presented on tuesday russia says the text has been softened at its request but while dropping demands for explicit demands for regime change in arms embargo moscow believes that the text still needs to be revised now here's an example as to why the last draft resolution i saw says that the security council. supports the arab league plan which calls for syrian president bashar assad to delegate power to deputy that is something russia is very much opposed to it is not going to support any resolution that calls for regime change even if it could be interpreted in different type of language now the current tax contains other elements that moscow says could open the door for possible intervention it does include the attack saying that in the event that syria does not comply with the
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resolution the security council has twenty one days to review the circumstance and consider further measures what those further measures are is not clear russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says that met only in internal affairs of sovereign states can lead to chaos in international relations while attending a security conference in munich mr lavrov raised his concerns about the current draft resolution saying it is unbalanced because it makes you too demands of armed groups in syria. through sed. go to the issue of the government is completely much briefer groom the movement of the armed groups or for the intimidation of the for the ethics against the state institutions. and then the government receives a whole list of demands what it is to do no demur and so there is through the lobby groups except the blue shield still clueless about the demands the government the much more specific. russia's foreign minister is scheduled to visit damascus on
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tuesday when he where he will be meeting with president assad minister lavrov said moscow has no special concerns about the syrian president but has concerns about security in the world and that issue of security of course is being taken up in new york today and the security council needs we will be covering developments on this story if a vote takes place it for a shield as ito and of course we will update our viewers as more information becomes available all right our teams were in a port and i live for us with from new york thanks for that update sure. the security council meeting comes amid reports from syria of a new crackdown in the city of homes with hundreds reportedly killed damascus claims the killings were carried out by terrorists seeking to influence the u.n. vote or to sorry for it who's just returned from reporting their shares her insights. with regards to the situation in holmes at the moment it's very hard to get a gauge on the accuracy of the fake is certainly really high priority to try and get
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some kind of accurate information coming out from that because you know that does play a big part in how the international community now going to respond to the situation a certainly in the country the situation is that some of these people 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 and 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 then there are people on the ground not having to live. 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 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 it is your
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times correspondent pepe escobar tells our t.v. alleged crackdown in homes coincide it's especially with the suspiciously with the u.n. vote he thinks nato in the arab league could be seeking to overthrow the assad regime . the timing of this alleged massacre in the holds with more than two hundred people killed just as the when is gathering to revolt a result lucian more or less establishing what the arab league says is a roadmap for peace and syria is very suspect well coming back to what this resolution is all about it so now alliance between nato basically led by washington and london and paris and this six persian gulf monarchies gulf cooperation council dare genda from the beginning for months now is reaching change in syria no matter what they knew that they couldn't never get that you win that security council resolution authorizing and most lies over syria for number of reasons first of all
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because that did a sudden regime is not so bold bardi its own but with vision with makes so this is not seen to do with the syrian peace process and all end up not only. developing countries are going to dissolve up but from russia and china good syrians themselves began being very explicit look we don't trust this big zeile council would like to organize ourselves and will like to discuss with the go sit down with the go and discuss the roadmap for peace but between ourselves between syria it's not happening and at times correspondent pepe escobar with his thoughts on the events in syria. around two hundred thousand people came out to the moscow streets on saturday for a day of protests the largest in the capital so far one group was demanding fair elections others rallying to support the current leadership our correspondent pierre all over reports on both. well saturday was
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a day of demonstrations here in the russian capital we saw a march and a rally by opposition supporters a large group of them meeting in the center of the city and marching here to block my a square which block my 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 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 had come out in the cold minus twenty times on saturday here in moscow. so they came out to to voice their opinions you know didn't reveal what i can hear because i'm tired of the government which doesn't do what promises lies and wants this to carry on for you if you.
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change their elections and normalize their you know it was because you might go on to come here and. 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 by a square to demonstrate we didn't hear from. the presidential candidate the independent presidential candidate he's drawing 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 forces and. who come paining saying that they want
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a revolution in russia using the example of the the orange revolution in ukraine in the chaos which is not country founded so they adopted us saying that they don't need not be in russia they would have stability and not the revolution saying that russia had its times of instability and they didn't want to return to the dog days of the ninety's now the good news for everybody concerned is just how peacefully everything is being carried off today but the opposition and the pro-government protests going on relatively without a hitch one of the putin rallies we did see the leader of that rally take it into custody by police now this is because it was a sanctioned dryly and it was sanctioned to have a certain amount of people the amount of people who turned up for exceeded the lot of police and sees they did say it's a protest is must remain within the law and they did do that today everything going on very peacefully is something day becomes the day of demonstrations are these
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people all over reporting on a day of political rallies in moscow well stay with us here on r.t. still to come in the program religion as a testing ground to take a look at how forms of islam could change the face of a nation and lead to serious consequences plus plastic partners dolls and even a robots compete with real women to unlock the hearts of some lonely men in search of love. before we get about protests raging across egypt have lestat left at least eleven dead as police fired volleys of tear gas and birdshot into crowds who tossed stones and reply more than a thousand people reportedly injured clashes continue around the interior ministry with several government buildings reportedly set on fire people vent their anger at police for failing to prevent wednesday's football violence in port setting which kills an estimate which killed seventy four people demonstrators are demanding the military council step down. using the rules of hijacking the revolution to middle
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east analyst wildfires says egyptians are furious that many of ousted president mubarak's generals are still in charge in the country. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it it really has own powers and they are demanding that those bounds we will be transferred quickly either to a government or two and it could be president and the military council is still very hesitant and i lean to distil something that happened a couple of weeks ago when the military council ordered 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 hasn't been and transferring power to democracy of course if they want to cut a deal with a force which most likely will be the muslim brotherhood that is something very odd about the fact that egypt broke down and we're going to carry on a meter and yet some of its agencies are acting as if you are again if you missed
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in iraq what is happening right now is that large segments of civil society specifically the youth of egypt who began to revolt and their hold was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood in the summer because 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 what they would get in regime r.t. dot com is a place to go to find other opinions updates and developments in egypt and elsewhere in the world here's what's online right now a school may or june that's when israel could launch an attack on iranian nuclear sites at least that's what officials in washington seem to think plus. russia over the moon as it unveils its space ambitions these and other stories a click away. campaigners for online freedom are taking to the streets of europe protesting against a new copyright. treaty signed by governments across the continent but the
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anti-counterfeiting trade agreement or act there won't come into force until it's been ratified by the european parliament that's what activists are looking to prevent saying the new law would in danger free speech free speech and net privacy the protest in stockholm now underway artie's tom barton reports. this is the front line in the most modern of political battles over internet freedom these crowds have gathered in central stopover in sweden religion or home of the pirate parties that have sprung up all over europe and beyond here it's a protest against the anti counterfeiting trade agreements it all revolves around until piracy laws but of trying to be pushed through in many countries this agreement tries to standardize the enforcement of those laws in the e.u. and did america and further around the world these people say it's not an innocent agreement it's not simple it's assault all my internet freedom and it's
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a way for governments to monitor them and to stop them from having a free exchange of information on the internet so we heard earlier from people on both sides of the argument about how different views are here on this issue if you say world everything should be free. perhaps no one will write any books produced music or films etc anyway it would disappear but the rights mess because it's not often. the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet to that idea 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 and. all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and millions of young people are rising up in. and this success of the growth of
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pirate parties both here in sweden and elsewhere around the world is evidence of how high the status of internet freedom comes highness has risen from the signing of the actual agreement a few days ago huge protests broke out in poland they were so out of it and so angry that the government there has suspended the actor agreement that they want the same to happen here although the debates are going to go on until june when the indian parliament votes on this internet freedom complaint as a urging people to get their view across before that votes this debate is going to go on it's not finished yet and it seems it's going to be anything but calm. it's a clash of cultures in kyrgyzstan where moderate indigenous practice of islam is being threatened by more radical alternatives there are fears that the effect on everyday life in the central asian republics a land prone to instability after two revolutions in the last few years alone artie's acts on avoid reports from bishkek. all of
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coolmore 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 its basket years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as islam does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims you need to pray or help mosque in almost theological lifestyle differences that exist among various branches of this one here in kurdistan. as they call first country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds some of whom have a less than 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
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they could use a version of islam has long been more of the moral code then the religious doctrine is how cheap a society will women and just exacted an ambitious as man and when religiosity it 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 islamic 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 and open door policy by the way. the these are followers of the to believe tomorrow a group of islamic missionaries originated from pakistan. its members have come up
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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 happening 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 are 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 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
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to. this man who claims to be a healer a raft from yemen he sees three to four patients every day and for most reimbursement claims to clear their ailments with the help of prayer. and. something of. these changes encourages 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 you called it one first islamic missionary 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 the version of islam that's being pushed on nowadays with his jobs and restrictions and is not only foreign to us it's aggressive the countries authorities are not oblivious to the ongoing islamization and some suggest are even trying to harness it here to
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distance top officials are praying along. the crowds are big clean fuel religious freedom is the best strategy against radicalization. the results of the arab spring have shown the sick of the governments a crushing on digital pressure political islam muslims on a new wish he would resort of the one who knows how to manage his forces would leave the street. but i feel kyrgyzstan two revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing than finding him and against all how breaking lose again. aren't see. the turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe more than three thousand cans were killed in two thousand and eleven making it last year the deadliest on record for the country civilians according to a un report most of the casualties were caused by militants fourteen percent by international and local troops meanwhile nato is preparing to pull out by two thousand and fourteen leaving afghan security forces to take charge of fighting the
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insurgency. the fate of bradley manning will be decided by a general court martial over the last six weeks army lawyers argued about whether or not the u.s. army intelligence analyst should stand trial private manning is accused of siphoning off thousands of government documents and combat videos to wiki leaks the material included footage showing u.s. soldiers killing civilians in iraq if found guilty he faces life in prison. europe's week long cold snap has now claimed two hundred twenty lives as a nation struggled with record low temperatures ukraine hardest hit more than one hundred people have died as temperatures plummeted to minus thirty celsius most of the victims homeless people heavy snowfalls also caused widespread transport chaos and power outages. a perfect partner who is always happy and never complains could be a reality but there's a catch he or she is likely made of plastic from simple dolls to sophisticated
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robots they seem to be winning the hearts and minds of some who have given up on finding true love or he's got a cheeky on as more from the world of the synthetic spouts. 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 dave cat 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 slackers 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 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
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grandmother of the future perfect robot mate meet roxie america's first sex robot it talks and senses touch we're very aware. we'll know how people will. continue. to 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 that you could have the sex robot that would be
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your companion and 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 i 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. 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
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think about the prospect of having a relationship with the 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's never do. you go for a robot definitely in the future it was allowed. while most of us feel that the possibility of having an affair with a robot is something in the very distant future for some it's already reality i'm going to check out reporting from washington our team. our interview show spotlight just ahead but still to come stay with us.
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old means of protection can be used. when global supremacy. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine us has spent fifteen billion dollars in the price to pay for the entire program that we are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another hundred fifty billion dollars
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from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos that to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to do your house and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical i've got a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for big i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall of patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room.
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