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isn't community rules out allegations that iran is building nuclear weapons. sixteen separate agencies agree on. also no war against iran and resisting foreign pressure over syria prime minister and presidential candidate but you know putin outlines key policy issues at next week's election for russia's top job. international news and comments twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. war torn syria is gearing up for an unprecedented referendum on a new draft constitution that would put an end to five decades of single party rule but the opposition is calling on the population to boycott the vote which is set for sunday meanwhile the group of countries that by the u.s. calling themselves friends of syria have called for tougher sanctions on them ask
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us. for national explains now what washington and its allies. more than seventy nations. and western countries that took part in the meeting of so-called friends of syria have urged more sanctions against the regime of bashar al assad have condemned the violations of human rise here in syria and have called for an immediate and vala does happen in here on the ground the members over this mission have also come out saying that the supports the idea of sending a joint you and arab league peacekeeping troops to syria to move into the situation and to implement the cease fire we've been here in the friday number of strong statements from the member of this group the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has said that bashar al assad will be high price for violations against its people and america has called for more economic sanctions against bashar assad particularly to avoid could fall from the country
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and to freeze the syrian asses the u.s. has also sat following this meeting that it will give ten million dollars to scale up humanitarian efforts in syria it's actually really remains unclear exactly what they've been talking about what kind of after it's. they've been speculations and here throw in that it may be about a military action because just recently if you asked didn't rule out the possibility of arming the rebels russia and china didn't take part in this mess in tunisia because they've opposed the idea to invite part of the syrian opposition and not to invite the representatives of the syrian government they've said that only the dialogue between these two sides will be able to bring any peace and prosperity in the country and. not inviting that is not is not possible is not acceptable actually. for the friends of syria conferences recognize the credibility
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of the syrian national council but stop short of naming it the only legitimate power. country german government consultant christophe hostile believes nato allies are taking their regime change strategy from libya to syria with this kind of friendship syria needs no enemies it is very very clear that what happens in syria is breaking any law any international carter the current of the united nations this grass interference if they talk about whether they should you know militarily act in syria well they are doing that nato is doing that right now under the table with the help of some corrupt arab states who what we face here is some kind of you know prefabricated agenda that agenda is helpful you know if we see if the west is starting an uprising in iran it is helpful if they start uprisings all of the arab world of the northern africa and libya for example where the cia
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started it from scratch from zero here there was no such uprising against gadhafi and then the you know further with international lies and western media propaganda and now they are trying the same agenda and syria but as we notice everybody in the world who is watching closely notices that this kind of agenda simply doesn't work here opposition in syria is so badly disunited there is so much you know in trouble with each other inside this opposition that there is no real thing we can do nato can do politically right now. well america's intelligence community has ruled out allegations that iran is creating a nuclear bomb los angeles times reports that sixteen separate agencies have all reached the same conclusion iran is on the heavy international pressure of its nuclear program which it insists is for peaceful energy related purposes only u.s. and its allies piling up sanctions on tehran as they suspect it's trying to make nuclear weapons but israel has repeatedly threatened to strike iran's nuclear sites
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such as mannish from tough on a state run city says a similar intelligence reports a few years ago by washington because it didn't sit well that's ultimately blown about. these three issues of regime change story there to everything nationally. is nearly or so it's first two thousand and seven. basically a savior that i'm actually reading probably that the judge read high confidence that fall two thousand and three you know unquote its nuclear weapons program nevertheless when it came out using it would have ministration the people on the the only people obviously the obama assertion is like we. are actually two closer in recent to the taking place in iraq one has to do we have very little less than five percent of that one has to do with twenty percent you
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reach twenty percent enrichment is intended to be used in a movie a reactor which makes for medical purposes for a long time we need the so-called experience in us and these are a very clear means that you don't cannot actually need nuclear rods for that particular reactor you know has actually started to put. into the reactor already so they are going to use those for the nuclear fuel the other. less than five percent of the number of centrifuges in the record. that doesn't mean that they're going to be foxed it really doesn't mean much. well thai police say they found no link between a spate of bombings in bangkok attempts on the lives of israeli diplomats in georgia and india it complicates matters for television which found that media frenzy back using iran of being behind all those attacks skeptics accuse israel of
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using the allegations to bolster support for military strike on iran's nuclear sites or reports from tel aviv. the statement means that they have. a looks into possibility or whether or not the iranian nationals which they have in custody right now whether or not they weren't is connected to what seemed to be for a while this extensive terror plot which sought of course to attack israeli diplomats abroad and according to police indeed the two iranian nationals who were arrested in bangkok just earlier this month are actually not connected to the terror plots in india and in georgia now the two men were arrested following a small explosion in a residential part of the city of bangkok they were apprehended and the in fact the iranian government has condemned the terror attacks but there are some with his which are saying that this was in fact in large part and the attempts by the israeli government to draw as much media attention as possible to the events in fact there was
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a media frenzy because the israeli government was going out of their way in order to make it look like all of their nationals world over are going to be under attack from iran and in fact being tried their utmost to paint iran as this ultimate evil power which is on the brink of just literally steps away from creating a nuclear bomb of course the until now we still have no evidence of that being the case iran insists that its nuclear program is purely for peaceful purposes and indeed there is no evidence to contradict that statement so of course this statement from the tide police only shows only goes to show that in fact israel may have been pushing the whole iran is going to attack every israeli citizen in the world and it is steps away from creating the nuclear bomb in fact those statements may not have that much basis in reality. what us to the head phew this new face of religion in a secular country with no new forms of islam sponsored from abroad can change the
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culture in traditional values one central asian republics also. i think we have to start to think globally and we all have to bail her out and try to get the sink back on track so that means shouldering other people's responsibilities are you ok with that. yes or no we asked people on the streets of new york whether it's a good idea to give greece's battered economy another chance. russia won't bend to foreign pressure over its stance on syria according to the putin who was defending moscow's recent veto of a u.n. security council resolution. robust points were made by the russian prime minister in the run up to next week's presidential election which opinion polls tip into when we get more on this now from peter all of that peter what exactly did say. well he was really addressing his standpoint on key foreign policy issues of
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course that election for president is coming up in just over a week's time and he was saying basically where he stands now with regards to syria he said that russia would not play along with anybody that they wouldn't just follow along with the herd when it came to opinion on the ongoing crisis in syria of course moscow along with china have vetoed two un resolutions now basically saying those resolutions just pointed the finger of blame at the assad government and well that goes against what has been russia's standpoint since the crisis in syria began which is that both the government and the opposition have to take responsibility for the violence that's continuing in that country and to just blame one side that goes against what russia has said from the beginning and the reason that the. so you're saying that russia would continue to work independently as well to try and find a peaceful solution to what's going on in syria at the moment but that they certainly would not just be caught up with the crowd and go along with the. syria
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is on everyone's lips you say but whether any other international issues the prime minister touched upon. well for a little while now the major fly in the argument between relations between moscow and washington has been the united states proposed missile defense shield in eastern europe now to me a puritan very strong words for him from the prime minister here saying that the united states needs to realize that russia had the strength that they had the united states should be looking for a more constructive approach to finding a solution to the current impasse now the prime minister seeming to be quite obsessive what he said was a slight towards russia's military capability saying that in the past in the recent past a russia has developed a brand new intercontinental ballistic missiles and put to sea two nuclear submarines and that really the united states should try to come around to at least talking through what can be done about their plans to to build up missile defense
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shield in eastern europe iran was also. on the lips of the prime minister. for a few years now we've seen criticism of russia's decision to build a nuclear power plant in iran not to be a putin saying this. well the allegations that iran was developing nuclear weapons was being used as an excuse to try and initiate regime change in the country and that russia's relationship with iran was different from other countries in fact saying that russia had a very different relationship with iran than its international partners so this is really as they just over a week before the elections now want to be approved outlying his stance on those key foreign policy issues. ok peter all of our live from moscow thank you. now the u.s. government is about to declare a new wall but this time the enemy is a virtual one the string of attacks on government websites by hakas has driven the
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american policymakers into a state of high alert over so-called terrorist threats but some doubt the danger even exists. reports. it may seem like a quiet day in america but to some it's the scene of a raging battle invisible to the naked eye well there is war underway right now on the internet this is cyber war is the u.s. ready for a full scale cyber war a question asked at the highest levels of the u.s. government by fears of a new type of w m d a weapon of mass disruption in a world where acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few keystrokes on the computer the f.b.i. warns that those keystrokes could soon be more dangerous to america than terrorism itself the cyber threat or equal or surpass the threat from counterterrorism in the forseeable future a future that's got the world's military superpower preparing for the fight ahead the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be
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a cyber attack that cripples our our power system certainly our grid cyberwar cyber pearl harbor frightening language for a hypothetical scenario one that could happen but hasn't yet and some security experts like jim harper warned that it never will because no chance whatsoever that nuclear power plants will be hacked that electric infrastructure will be hacked and taken down for any significant period of time so the worst we can expect is disruption that's not war it doesn't really terrorize so the threats are serious but they're not to the level of war or terror yet some of the key leaders in the war on terror are now in the business of cyber war michael chaired off once ran the department of homeland security he now runs a sigh. security consulting firm you could have a cyber attack that would be as consequential in terms of the economy and maybe even in terms of loss of life as things we typically associate with more frightened
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once america's top spy chief mike mcconnell now oversees cyber operations for defense contracting giant where the most vulnerable nation on earth to a cyber attack and anti-terrorism czar richard clarke went from advising presidents on cyber security to publishing books about the coming cyber war for once it would be nice for the united states to be able to get out in front of a catastrophe to be able to prevent that catastrophe we know how to do it we just need to spend the money and the money is flowing the u.s. government will spend more than ten billion a year on cyber security by two thousand and fifteen you know worldwide market that's estimated at eighty to one hundred forty billion dollars a year the budget there we're releasing today it's one of the few areas where the white house plans to increase spending despite other defense cuts and that some say is the problem is going to be even more tempting for folks and you know the defense
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contracting community for example to hype cyber threats because that's one of the few string that mahdi you know sort of still exists forbes magazine contributor sean lawson is an expert in cybersecurity it's a classic case of an attempt to sort of motivate a response by rally the troops by appealing to fear uncertainty and inside the beltway fear and uncertainty can lead to big business and big bucks most people don't understand the problems with computer and data security people in washington don't understand it specifically most people in congress don't understand therefore the quote unquote beltway bandits are in a position to to create the problem to state the problem and offer their own services as a solution. a battle does rage here invisible to the naked eye a war for money contracts and power to seek out our t. washington. but if you read more about the prying eyes of american corporations on
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our website r.t. dot com the house will personally files will soon get google's disposal to use the web giant's discretion. and more than a little turbulence helicopter in brazil has some shaky landing. on t. dot com. islam is on the rise in many central asian republics in kyrgyzstan which has always branded itself as a secular state religion is starting to play a greater role in everyday life politics and the economy but there are fears that religious freedom and influences from abroad main factor corrupt the country's traditional values as the story it's a mix of religious compliance and teenage defiance ever since fourteen year old one had left the school half a year ago she never misses a chance to walk past it in full muslim dress who was first put out teachers who wouldn't let me enter the school with my head covered or where i'm going to buy it so for the past three months that i was studying here i had to find
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a place to change before classes into secular clothes now i can be what i want to be a god that came at a cost in order to arrive here to the muslim dress code i had had to transfer to an adult learning center a good follower educational standards she still wants to get a university degree but if she succeeds she'll be an exception. i personally know many girls who are muslims like myself and who faced with the ban on head cover just had to quit school altogether and now stay at home. your former school doesn't require students to wear uniforms in fact rahat says none of your classmates was ever reprimanded for wearing short skirts or low cut tops the school officials are doing their best to draw a veil over this controversy they refused to comment saying only that they have to abide by the school dress code which bans students from covering their had so wearing any other religious symbols while in class this case is quite common for
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kyrgyzstan a former soviet republic in central asia that over the past decade has witnessed a dramatic rise of a more conservative islam the country of five and a half million people already has around two thousand mosques and the state has little control or even understanding of what is being preached in them. up to eighty percent of new mosques were built through some sort of partnership with arab countries mainly saudi arabia or qatar and they provide more than money they exploit their ideology here we already have politicians calling for the creation of caliphate. is this rapid change of cultural and religious norms that worries many of the country's liberals were not a bribe or teachers social scientists of kyrgyzstan the most prestigious university . she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year. then they lived there we didn't have
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a mosque now there are three all built by foreign jonas as i was walking past one of the mosques i saw three young women all covered in black i wanted to come up to them and say look around you can d. so much with your life but i held myself back because who might tell the many think a minute later they came up to me and started saying sister don't turn away from allah and that moment i understood that my country has changed it's now a country where i can't tell anyone how to live their life but muslims feel they can be delivered. we're not of fears that if muslims in kyrgyzstan are given full really just freedom it would be just a matter of time before other basic rights are done away with still she says she would rather have all sorts of had to wear in her classroom than the wreaths students had been filled by the wrong lessons elsewhere it's a great art see. now violent and to us protests are spreading from
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afghanistan into pakistan as people vent their anger of the burning of the qur'an earlier this week afghan workers at a u.s. military base discovered several of them was in the holy books in an incinerator. contributor questions american policies which by contrast protect poppy fields from being bent the way to of the qur'an disintegration by the u.s. personnel in afghanistan just reminded me of my first encounter with the qur'an in my geed reach happened to me thirty years ago in afghanistan during one of the successful raids by our team we uncovered a car shake off weapons and this particular copy of the holy koran the decision was made to retrieve and to secure from the potential kinetic encounter between our two opposing forces this some of its forces were burning the pm in afghanistan while doing their best to save the copies of her on him
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a jihad on the other side within the rules of engagement promulgated by the us policy in afghanistan and pakistan it is still acceptable to desecrate yet again the holy book while at the same time it is strictly forbidden to threat or to burn the poppy fields that's in essence the main difference if you compare this side of it and american policy and regulations. between the two campaigns in afghanistan. well there's some world news in brief for you now this hour multiple blasts and gunfire have rocked the northeast nigerian town of gombrich killing at least four people reports said a police station a prison were among the targets islamist sect boko haram which want sharia law in nigeria has been blamed the group has carried out waves of bombings and assassinations across the country in recent months. the palestinian protester has
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died after being injured in clashes with israeli army in the west bank which we claim that demonstrators threw rocks and firebombs at soldiers prompting them to open the protests took place in several cities and came on the anniversary of a massacre at a mosque in hebron eighteen years ago an immigrant american jewish doctor and twenty million palestinians. italy's former prime minister silvio berlusconi is awaiting a verdict action charges expected on saturday cicutto allegedly paid a six hundred thousand dollars bribe to protect his business interests he found guilty could receive a five year prison sentence but a scary is also on trial for sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power tax fraud violating official secrets. thousands of people are expected to demonstrate in spain on saturday against education cuts and police violence students accuse officers of using heavy handed tactics in previous pregnancies to protest as well
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china should be sent to spain has drastically reduced public spirit into debt crisis. and it's not just spain which has been hit by austerity measures and waves of angry protests greece has just agreed another bailout to stop it going broke but the deal is hugely unpopular in the country due to the big cuts being demanded by the e.u. and i.m.f. in return but iran resident in new york has been out and about in the big apple asking people there what they think about the latest rescue package for an economy in deep trouble. greece is getting another bailout one hundred and thirty billion euros is that a good idea this week let's talk about that do you know what's going on in greece right now. you know idea you got the wrong person greece. got more g.o.p. g.d.p.
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greece their butts out so what's greece is going to do to us whether they bail or are there save that money matter of foreign is the third largest. g.d.p. in the world i mean got to worry about greece they only got good greek all of i'm from germany and we have a strong. will and the greens have a recall you or until we should help to get it you're ok with that you don't feel like there should be responsible for themselves they should be let go but we should help them if it was coming directly out of your pocket would you still be in support of the bailout no no doubt in my book. so as long as that other european countries here ok with that but really nice day out i think we have to start to think globally and we all have to belittle their out and try to get the same back on track so that means shouldering other people's responsibilities are you ok with that. yes or no you know part of me says you know i work hard i do what i'm
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supposed to do i've done how my parents raised me and work hard pay my taxes all those things but if that goes then that affects me and affects my children to whether or not people even know what's going on with the greece bailout the bottom line is it's happening let's see if this one will make a difference. the russian pilots have safely landed a passenger plane buying us one set of wheels. into some pieces but the dutch plane flew fifteen hundred kilometers. for the most part of its landing gear burn an airport crew made a decision to make an emergency landing after searching the air over an hour to dump fuel and emergency crews were at the scene and the spot the danger there was no panic on board and all emerged unscathed from. a recap of today's news in
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