russia's foreign minister warns of chaos in international relations saying moscow will block the new resolution on syria at today's u.n. vote while barack obama calls on president assad to leave right now. more than two hundred thousand people braved russia's interests subzero temperatures to ensure their views on national politics are heard. we've seen 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 and protest against an anti-piracy act

being signed cross the continent. eight pm in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on our team our top story russia's foreign minister warns that meddling in internal conflicts marks the road to chaos in international relations the u.s. president has called on syria's leader to step down immediately while the security council members are meeting at the u.n. moscow says it still has strong objections to the redrafted resolution on syria and may use its veto if the text is put to a vote in its current form or tease marina portnoy has the latest from new york. this draft text resolution while it has been revised since 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 full of. supports the arab league plan which calls for syrian president bashar assad to delegate power to his 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 text saying that in the event that syria does not comply with the 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 meddling 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 too few demands of armed groups in syria through its. contemplation of the government is accompanied by much grief for the mission of the groups for the institution of the for the attacks against the state institutions. and then the government receives a list of demands what it is to do no demand so that is through the lobby groups except the blue shield spoke of one of us about the demons the government the much more specific russia's foreign minister is scheduled to visit damascus on tuesday where he will be meeting with syrian president assad on mr lavrov said moscow has no special concerns about president assad but has concerns about security in the world the security council meeting comes amid reports from syria of

a new crackdown in the city of homs with hundreds reported dead damascus claims the killings were carried out by terrorists seeking to influence the un vote r.t. sarah ferguson has just returned from reporting in the region shares her insights. 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 a really high priority to try and get some kind of accurate information coming out from that 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 that 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 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 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 you know 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 is retired correspondent pepe escobar tells r t v a large crackdown in homes coincides suspiciously with the u.n. vote and he thinks neither when the arab league are seeking to overthrow the assad regime. the timing of this alleged massacre in the holds more than two hundred people killed just as the way in is cadre to vote 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's an ally as between nato basically led by washington and london and paris and this six person go from the gulf cooperation council dare genda from the beginning for months now is reaching change in syria no matter wat they knew they couldn't never get that you win that security council resolution authorizing a no fly zone over syria for number of reasons first of all because that did assad regime is not a bold bardi its own population would mix so this has nothing to do with the syrian peace process and old and not only. developing countries are pointed this out but from russia and china but 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 where they go sit down when they go and discuss a roadmap for peace but between ourselves between syria it's not happening

i was asia times correspondent pepe escobar with an assessment of the events in syria while our own two hundred thousand people came out to the streets of moscow saturday for a day of protests the largest in the capital so far one group was demanding fair elections others rallied in support of the current leadership our correspondent peter all of our reports on both gatherings. 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 them meeting in the center of the city and marching here to block me 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 there this time than last but of course the the weather a big deciding factor in not 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 more 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. i came here because i'm tired of the government which doesn't do what promises lies and wants this to carry on for years. change their elections and normal life you. might go through and wanted to come here and hear from six 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 off the square to demonstrate we didn't hear from. the

presidential candidate the independent presidential candidate because 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 been campaigning saying that they don't want a revolution in russia using the example of the the orange revolution in ukraine and the chaos which pushes that country found itself in after last saying that they don't need that in russia they were 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 well relatively without

a hitch however at 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 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 as such a day becomes the day of demonstrations. joining me more to discuss this i'm joined by evans as a risky professor of journalism at moscow state university thanks very much for being here on r t so we've seen protests protesters amassing in russia both in support of the of the government and those calling for reforms and venting their frustrations what do you read into all this well i'm i'm quite happy and this is all taking place actually i'm happy that we're seeing is the return of interest in politics in russia i think wood has been missing for that was the case is that

educated opinionated people have grew colder and colder to politics and started to view would old with dismay they were too may be disillusioned or too disappointed for whatever reason but they they went away from the public arena from the public sphere and they are trying to get back and to you know to do something about it and i think this is a very happy sign that some of the a lot of heads you kate say that being a few people coming back to politics and i think russian politics will be much smarter and much more interesting now the opposition that's been a rally has been calling for mainly two things spare elections and what they say is russia without putin now in terms of that second part in terms of an alternative to a putin candidacy what other candidates are there who you think could be

legitimately seen as taking that you know listening that role we have the usual suspects and there's also a dark horse candidate in terms of what do you think well i think that i think the course was too late in coming so we are seeing more or less usual suspects and even even if we take seriously brought her up i mean he's a he's a smart man and he's a rich man but. he's. told. you need in a category that is not involved in russia reach and successful man we are not in america we are in russia and this basically a social democratic country with putin has in store these social policy that would give support to so many people that's why so many people who together today to support him i think that what is happening today is that there are so many people calling for fair elections my hope is that they will get the fair elections but i

think that they will maybe disappointed again because in cairo actions there is a fair chance that we can move when we are going to be it's not in the first round but still he's a i mean i don't see anybody who could. as a candidate not as a political force not as a you know who could throw would challenge to him and wins in these elections i think what is happening now is more important in the meter and in the world terms that so many people maybe entry politics now and regina did you believe we can those are open ways to build parties and to start with these equal communication in the political field to create. different movements and interest groups and i hope that we will see much more serious activism i think i hope that we will see people fighting for different issues and i hope that we will see a new kind of coalition emerge officially that will be strong enough to give

a good position to the party of power now you mentioned the med better political reforms and also prime minister putin recently called for webcams to be installed in all the polling places to ensure a transparent vote there what else do you think could be done what else can be done for what i mean the problem with the problem with the educated illuminated russians who who are walking the streets of moscow today is that there are. not satisfied with russia but they think that power is the way to reform it where is anybody who's been to power knows that power is not really a way to reform but you need this great social movement you need a great force of conviction you need so many people who believe in something then you can have power and do something so i think russian in this sense russian educated classes are still trying to make a shortcut instead of working with russia with the whole of country to instill some

values interesting new concepts college in the mother nature concepts you know education for all all this sort of humanistic values are missing they are trying to make a shortcut to get the power straight without first convincing russia that this this this needs to be done the only issue that all the opposition forces can now agree on is that there must be fair elections some votes may be recounted whatever but the but in terms of contents they still don't have a shared position they don't have a value system that's ready to use this is why strategically they're still weaker than putin because putin at least is a man and we know him for so many years so we know what to expect and still they have time they have for the next five years to grow into something and then present a real challenge and i think there will be. all right thanks so much for your

insight avanza risky from moscow state university it was a. still to come on the program religion as a testing ground we take a look at new forms of islam and how they can change the face of a nation and potentially lead to serious consequences. but first protests raging across egypt have left at least twelve people dead as police fire volleys of tear gas and birdshot into the crowds who threw rocks in reply more than two thousand people have been injured in the clashes they continue to rally 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 in court which killed seventy four people demonstrators are demanding the military council step down accusing the rulers of hijacking the revolution middle east analyst walid far as says egyptians are furious that many of ousted president mubarak's generals are still running the country. the main

recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it is really have only powers and they are demanding that those bounds we will be transferred quickly either to a government or two and elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i lindis to something that happened a couple 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 in transferring power to democracy forces they want to cut the deal with a force which most likely will be in the muslim brotherhood that is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down and put them together in a leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if they're 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 the revolt and that revolt was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood in the south 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 out there with that regime. remember r.t. dot com is the place to find other opinions and updates on developments in egypt and elsewhere in the world here's what's online right now april may or june that's when israel could launch an attack on iranian nuclear sites at least that's what some bushels in washington seem to think. and russia over the moon is it unveils its space ambitions these and other stories or click away at r t does. 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 anti-counterfeiting trade agreement or act it won't come into force unless it's ratified by the european parliament that's what activists are trying to prevent saying the new law

would endanger free speech and net privacy protests and stockholm under way right now artie's tom barton is there. this is the frontline in the most modern of political battles over internet freedom these crowds have gathered in central stockholm in sweden the original home of the pirate parties that have sprung up all over europe and beyond here to protest against acts are being anti counterfeiting trade agreements it all revolves around mt piracy laws that are trying to be pushed through in many countries this agreement tries to standardize the enforcement of those laws in the e.u. and in america and further around the world these people say it's not an innocent agreement it's not simple it's assault on the internet freedom and it's a way for governments to monitor them and to stop them from having a free exchange of information on the internet and we heard earlier from people on both sides of the argument about how different views are here on this issue if you

say well everything should be free well perhaps no one will write any books or produce music or films etc anyway it would disappear but much less because you took off. the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet today d.s. 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 success of the growth of pirate parties both here in sweden and elsewhere around the world is evidence of how hard the status of internet freedom of complainers has risen and on the signing

of the actual agreement a few days ago huge protests broke out in poland they were so rick. of it and so angry that the government there has suspended its reactor 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 complainers urging people to get their view across before that vote this debate is going to go on it's not finished yet and it seems it's going to be anything but. a clash of cultures in kyrgyzstan where the moderate indigenous practice islam is being threatened by more radical turn it is there are fears for the effect on everyday life in the central asian republic a land prone to instability after two revolutions in the last five years alone. has more from bishkek. on all. kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of 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 downs nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims . pray of my skin almost feel logical and lifestyle differences that exist among the various branches of this life here in kurdistan over the past day to this country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds some of whom have lost 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 this abounded mixed with germany's and the magic customs they could give the version of islam has long been mirrored in miral code then the religious doctrine is how cheap a society will remain just as the active and ambitious as man and when religiosity

went hand in hand with good education but that is starting to change. collapse of the soviet union kurdistan has seen a very fast growth of islam some of it is the message really 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 ok. islam is on the rise across all of central asia but only in kurdistan have there the rich is adopted an open door policy but. these are followers of the to believe tomorrow 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 in. 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 they're at the forefront of these lawmakers sturgeon's in kurdistan. all the more than half of students in this islamic academy and females and their number has tripled in the past few years. when they graduate still get a diploma in arabic studies and sharia law there's a lot of interest in this area and if they decide to work it shouldn't be difficult finding a job for him missionaries are not only spreading the word but greasing their palms to. this man who claims to be a healer raft from yemen he sees three to four patients every day and for most reimbursement claims to clear their ailments with the help of prayer. and.

these changes encourage a society has many opponents some of them claim that saudi or pakistani versions of islam corrupt the country's traditional values built islam wooden called 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 and 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 it here to the 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 the sick to the

governments of crushing under the pressure of political islam muslims are enormous human resource the one who knows how to manage this force of the streets. and for kyrgyzstan we seem to revolutions in five years there's hardly anything more pressing than finding an antidote against all how breaking lose again. are see big. turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe police in washington d.c. of clamp down on the occupy protesters kept in the city center arresting at least four people several tents and personal belongings were cleared away in the raid which the activists said was basically an eviction but washington characters one of the last remaining offshoots of the movement that started in new york last september against corporate greed. more than three thousand afghans were killed in two thousand and eleven making last year the deadliest on record for the country's civilians according to

a un report most of the casualties were caused by militants fourteen per cent 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 insurgency. europe's a week long cold snap has now claimed two hundred twenty lives as countries struggle with record low temperatures ukraine being hit the hardest as more than one hundred died when temperatures plummeted to minus thirty celsius most of the victims homeless people heavy snowfalls also cause widespread transport chaos and power outages. moscow out and sports update still ahead this hour first though a recap of our top stories stay with us.

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