out allegations that iran is building nuclear weapons a conclusion on which sixteen separate agencies agree. and no war against iran and resisting foreign pressure over syria prime minister and presidential candidate vladimir putin nouns like headlines keep policy issues ahead of next week's election for russia's top job. two pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story war torn syria gearing up for an unprecedented referendum on a new draft constitution that would put an end to five decades of single party rule the opposition those calling on the population to boycott the vote set for sunday meanwhile a group of countries led by the u.s. calling themselves the friends of syria have called for tougher sanctions on damascus artie's murray if in ocean it explains what washington and its allies are urging. but when seventeen 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 still bothers happening 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. a 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 pay the high price for violations against its people and america has called for more economic sanctions against bashar assad particularly to boycott all from the country and to freeze the syrian ass as the u.s.

has also sat following this meeting that it will give a 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. been speculations and fear growing in that it may be about a military action because just recently the u.s. 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 said that only the dialogue between these two sides will be able to bring any peace and prosperity in the country and. not inviting them is not is not possible is not acceptable actually. the friends of syria conferences recognize the credibility of the syrian national council but stop short of naming it the only legitimate power in the country german government consultant crystal horst koehler

thinks 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 or 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 they are doing that nato is doing that right now under the table with the help of some corrupt arab states who are 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 the whole of the arab world of the northern africa and libya for example where the cia started it from scratch from zero here there was no such uprising against gaddafi in the you know for the international allies and western media

propaganda and now they're trying the same agenda in syria but as we know it is everybody in the world who is watching closely notices with this kind of agenda simply doesn't work here opposition in syria is so badly disunited there's 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. the united states intelligence community has ruled out allegations that iran is building a nuclear bomb los angeles times reports sixteen separate agencies have all reached that same conclusion iran is now under heavy international pressure over its nuclear program which it insists is for peaceful energy related purposes only the u.s. and allies have been piling up sanctions on tehran as they suspect it's trying to make nuclear weapons while israel has repeatedly threatened to strike iran's nuclear sites so sohn fire has meant ash from california state university says similar intelligence reports

a few years ago were ignored by washington because they didn't sit with its ultimate goal in iraq. regime change. into nationally just as the atheists are so the first two thousand and seven. basically a savior that i'm actually reading from the. judge we beat ins as a closed two thousand and three unfold at the it's nuclear weapons program nevertheless when eat their skin mugs using if. the people on the the only people are obviously the obama the assertion is not legally he did actually to close the research into the taking place one has to do with that evil little less than five percent of that one has to do with twenty percent you reach twenty percent each minute is intended to be used in a nuclear reactor which makes. it a purpose for

a long time navy so-called experience in the us and he's right there clearly that you don't cannot actually need nuclear rods for that particular reactor you don't has actually started to put the nuclear into the reactor already so they are going to use those for the nuclear a few other you reach less than five percent of the number of centrifuges as they. get this and mean that they're going to be close it really doesn't mean much. well stay with us here on r.t. still to come this hour lashing out without law enforcement expanded students set for more protests against education cuts accusing the police of brutality at previous rallies. and a hack attack or panic attack u.s. policy makers raise the alarm after government websites are attacked by hacktivist but some believe that the cyber scare is a phony threat which billions of dollars could be wasted. but first russia

won't bend to foreign pressure over its stance on syria according to vladimir putin who is defending moscow's recent veto of a u.n. security council resolution this another robust points made by the russian prime minister in the run up to next week's presidential vote which opinion polls tip him to win or peter all over has more. well he was really addressing his standpoint on key foreign policy issues of course that election for the 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 but it wasn't the only issue that vladimir putin was addressing 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 to be 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 iran was also on the lips of the prime minister vladimir putin saying this 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 and so this is really just over a week before the elections now let me approve an outlying his stance on foreign policy issues cash strapped spanish students angry at their government education cuts and alleged police violence are set to return to the streets they accuse officers are using heavy handed tactics at previous rallies after protesters were charged and beaten with several hurt arky sorry for has more from madrid. a lot of

what happened at the beginning of the week then we saw the students that were protesting against the spending cuts to education clashing with the riot police at the demonstrations and scenes of the riot police and hitting some of the protest the locals that the local government representative there in palencia to resign and a lot of anger as well now the protests today are expected to again happen may need in the city of valencia this is an area that's really been mired in debt since the country's construction being bubble burst and they've really been the area that's faced some of the harshest spending cuts some of the students say that the classrooms they even have basic heating now that is a claim that some of the government officials have this night we're going to be heading to later in the states and find out what's happened and bring you the latest from the new protests but of course these are just part of the wider demonstrations we seen happening in recent days where once again hundreds of thousands of people have been marching on the streets of day this is really the

first wave of protests that the new conservative government has faced when the unions in the country i remember the government saying you've been in power a couple of months but the protests were mainly focused on the new labor reforms that will force it now in the short term is still that's going to push unemployment even higher but of course spain at the moment you've already got. the forty nine percent unemployed twenty two percent unemployment amongst the whole population a really cripplingly high figure and the message from the government being that ok in the shoot turn things are going to have to get worse before they get better but you've already got an incredibly tough situation for the people here it's not that these are bad reforms but a lot of the economists a lot of the people we've spoken to say very key measures to what do you need to have some good reforms in place of the timing of course at such a tough economic time for the country just the very few measures. the thing see the

ng to be thing play out there if you haven't had a time when the population who are. very very risky and we will be angry just what can happen when you put that increased pressure on an already struggling population. r.t. sorry for if they're reporting from spain which is seen huge protests against the government's economic policies with another expected today. in a few minutes we asked people in new york whether they were ready to fork out to help the sinking economies. it was coming directly out of your pocket would you still be in support of the bailout now not in my book more opinions coming away shortly as greece agrees to another rescue package to save its economy from meltdown. and the new face of religion in a secular country we look at how the new forms of islam sponsored from abroad could change the culture in traditional values of one central asian republics. but first the u.s.

government is about to declare a new war but this time the enemy of virtual war virtual one string of attacks on government websites by hackers has driven american policy makers into a state of high alert over a so-called terrorist threat but some doubt it but some don't the danger even exists artie's lucy catherine off 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. well equal or surpass the threat from counter terrorism in

the forseeable future a future that's got the world's military superpower preparing for the fight ahead that the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples our our power systems our grid cyber war 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 no chance whatsoever that nuclear power plants will be hacked that electric infrastructure will be hacked and taken down for any six 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 cyber 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 were to prepare yourselves here with more frightened once america's top spy chief mike mcconnell now oversees cyber operations for a defense contracting giant where the most volatile 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. 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 it's going to be even more tempting for folks in the you know the defense contracting community for example to hype cyber threats because that's one of the used time that money you know sort of still exists forbes magazine contributor shawn 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 most 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 to a battle does rage here invisible to the naked eye

a war for money contracts and power. are washington. you can read about the prying eyes of corporations on our website r t dot com you can find out there how your personal files may be soon and google's disposal to use at the web giant's discretion was little a little more than turbulence this helicopter in brazil has something of a shaky landing find out more at r.t. dot com and watch the incredible video on our you tube channel. is.

the official. video. islam is on the rise in many central asian republics in kyrgyzstan which is always a brand of itself as a secular state religion is starting to play a greater role in everyday life politics and even the economy but there are fears that religious freedom and influences from abroad may in fact corrupt the country's traditional values are on a boycott as well. it's a mix of religious compliance and teenage defiance ever since fourteen year old to have left the school half a year ago she never misses

a chance to walk past it in full muslim dress was let's put our teachers wouldn't let me enter the school with my head covered or wear in a boy or so for the past three months that i was studying here i had to find a place to change before classes into secular clothes now i can be what i want to be but that came with a cost in order to adhere to the muslim dress code i had had to transfer to an adult learning center with 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 schools 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 kyrgyzstan a former soviet your public and 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 cellier arabia or qatar and they provide more than money the exploit their ideology here we already have politicians calling for the creation of caliphate. is this rapid change of cultural and religious norms that war is in many of the countries liberals were not a bribe or teachers social scientists at kristen's most prestigious university.

she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year and. then they lived there we didn't have 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 them anything 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. we're not a fears that if muslims in kurdistan 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 risk students

had being filled by the wrong lessons elsewhere it's not going to artsy kurdistan. turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a fresh attack on a police station in the northeast nigerian town of goma has left at least twelve dead and five injured this a day after multiple blasts and gunfire rocked the city killing for islam is sect boko haram which once shari'a law in nigeria has been blamed the group has carried out waves of bombings and assassinations across the country in recent months. and anti-american protests continue into their fifth day in afghanistan inferior over the burning of the qur'an at a nato air base at least twenty five people including two u.s. troops have died in the demonstrations and scores injured earlier this week afghan workers at a u.s. military base discovered several of the muslim holy books in an incinerator president obama has since apologized for the incident. former south african

president nelson mandela has been taken to a hospital with a stomach alman this after doctors advice specialist medical care for the longstanding complaint the ninety three year old statesman has been suffering declining health in recent years having spent twenty seven years in prison under the apartheid regime mandela one people's love and affection the world over for his fight against racism and is a nobel peace prize winner. italy's former prime minister silvio berlusconi awaiting a verdict on corruption charges expected saturday prosecutors allege he paid a six hundred thousand dollars bribe to protect his business interests if found guilty he could get five years in prison bosko he's also on trial for sex with an underage prostitute abuse of power tax fraud and violating official secrets. greece has just agreed to another belo to keep it from going broke but the deal is hugely unpopular in the country due to big cuts being demanded by the e.u. and i.m.f. in return our resident new york asked 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 in iowa got more g.o.p. g.d.p. then then 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.b. in the world i mean you got to worry about greece they only got good all of the greek all of i'm from germany and we have a strong. strong will and the greens have a we can do or and so we should help to give people you're ok with that you don't feel like there should be responsible for themselves they should be let's fund 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 they're ok with that but it's really nice day out i think we have to start to think globally and we all have to be able to either out and try to get the same back on track 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 supposed to do i've done how my parents raised me and work hard pay my taxes and 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. finally in this news block russian pilots have safely and a passenger plane minus one set of wheels your aircraft was on route from berlin to

st petersburg the damage to. in flu fifteen hundred kilometers having lost part of its landing gear at the berlin airport the crew made a decision to make an emergency landing after circling the airport for an hour to dump fuel emergency crews were at the scene but despite the danger there was no panic aboard and all emerged unscathed from the incident. in a few moments latest gadgets and high tech developments in our technology update but first a recap of our headlines today what was. the real.

real world of war horse was given notes we have a lot of groups of the causes of the sluices also argues in the writing of good just by matter it was like many other marriage it wasn't forced marriage it's just my view when i was fifteen yes so you can liberate other women and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe i'm going to stand and not to have a cross party without the participation of its chemical position and that of

construction but stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. will do the trick which is a few through the looking glass at what will be the horrors of the. in the residence every day trash protects you from the elements outside and the whole system works to save you. the spotlight on the ladies. all around. technology.

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