in spain expected to unite in anger at education cuts in defiance of heavy handed police tactics in earlier rallies. waging war on an unseen enemy the u.s. declares its fight against cybercrime but experts access to six experts suspect that it's just helping someone download big profits from fear. four pm in moscow i met a good to have you with us here on our team our top story seventy nations led by the us uniting in their efforts against the syrian government by agreeing to step up sanctions the so-called friends of syria group also shown supporters of president assad who weren't invited to the meeting in tunisia that's one of the reasons russia refused to attend saying it can't support a one sided approach to the crisis moscow wants a peace deal that will involve both damascus and the opposition with no applied

foreign pressure fighting between rebel forces and government troops is apparently escalating ahead of sunday's breakthrough poll in the country artie's myriad of kenosha has the latest from damascus. preparations for national referendum are in full swing here in damascus on sunday people are expected to vote on the country's new constitution posters and banners calling on them to come and cast ballots out river where here in the capital and as far as information minister has said for the first time it only invites people to come and vote without urging them to vote in a particular way the draft of the e.u. to propose prostitution has been made public days before the referendum itself they have been many public debates on that open for everybody but they've been debates on t.v. and internet as well and hundreds of core piece of the new constitution have been distributed among people to let them know what are the changes actually. meant it includes the fourteen new and forty seven amended articles and one of the main

changes is in the article number eight actually and almost almost fifty alone single party rule here in syria proclaiming that now political system here in the country is based on pluralism and multi-party system is permitted the article number eighty eight is also very important is that the president of the country could only be elected for two seven here terms but in another article it's emphasize that it will only come into force after the next elections for the had of the countries set for two thousand and fourteen it's managed to meet the majority of democratic demands of the people of syria because the opposition has already called the vote could they vote and to go on strike violence has continued in the country in clashes between the opposition and the authorities still taking place in several parts across the country here into moscow's with we've been hearing several

warnings not to go to polling stations because there could be explosions and bombings and terror attacks there the interior minister has said that fourteen thousand. and stations have been set up for this referendum and about fifteen million people have the rights to come and votes but it's very hard right now to predict how many will actually come some countries out the friends of syria meeting want the world community to arm the rebels in their fight against the assad regime but directives and direct military involvement so far ruled out though some observers think that's likely to change german government consultant christopher hoare still thinks that allies are already reading from the libya playbook. it is very very clear that what happens in syria is breaking any law this gross interference if they talk about whether they should you know militarily act in syria they are doing that made to 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 started it from scratch from zero here there was no such uprising against gaddafi and then the you know further with international allies and with the media propaganda and now they are trying the same agenda in 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. more on the syria crisis in a few minutes as moscow stands firm over how to tackle the conflict russia's prime

minister discounts america's position on the crisis and does the same over iran and missile defense all the details just ahead. but first thousands of students in spain expected to turn out in full length against planned education cuts earlier this week police were accused of being heavy handed when similar demonstrations ended in clashes are. 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 hitting some of the process is not cool but 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 the lengthier 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 here 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 seeing happening in recent days but once again hundreds of thousands of people have been marching on the streets of this is really the first wave of protests that the new conservative government has to face from 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 even 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

again the shoots and 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. on the way making a fast buck by ramping up the fear factor on our i t ignorance. 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 and therefore the quote unquote beltway bandits are in a position to to create the problem to state the problem. but first presidential front runner vladimir putin has reaffirmed russia's position on syria insisting moscow will bow to western pressure the premier said the kremlin will plough on seeking a balanced solution involving all sizes in syria and it's not the only issue over which russia is prepared to stand up to the u.s. as artie's peter all over explains. his key foreign policy issues of

course that election 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 the ongoing crisis in syria but it wasn't the only issue a lot of me it was addressing for a little while now the major fly in the between relations between moscow and washington has been the united states proposed missile defense shield in eastern europe. very strong words for him from the prime minister here saying that the united states needs to realize that russia had the strength that the united states should be looking for a more constructive approach to finding a solution to the current impasse will 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 election is now going to be approved outlying his stance on foreign policy issues questions remain over iran's nuclear program after you want to tomic officials said tehran failed to cooperate with them the international community suspects tehran is building a nuclear bomb but iran insists it's only seeking peaceful atomic energy the u.s. and allies have been imposing tough economic sanctions while israel even threatened military action against iranian nuclear sites its people reported that america's intelligence community has doubts though about the nuclear allegations economics professor. studied the effect of the sanctions and says it's not the first time washington ignored reports to pursue its own goals. for regime change. nationally to just assume eight. or so its first dozen and seven.

basically a savior that i'm actually reading from the. judge we compete in debt close to two thousand and three the close at these nuclear weapons program never lists. administration people and the only people obviously the obama administration is not. the us usually goes along with these three i think did did streets of war already used play easily continuously he noted it's agree more and more sanctions and i don't really see sanctions that split that a shoe seems to be. going to check us out online at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away this weekend but tween a rock and a holy place tear gas and stun grenades used against own probing palestinians at jerusalem's flashpoint mosque compound as religious tension reaches or peek. at a welcome to moscow's math museum as a diehard apple addicts open up

a twenty year old collection of computer gadgets and a rarity. and winding up winter with a pancake pageant russians welcoming the upcoming spring with the annual mausoleum to festival read more about it at our team dot com. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe anti-american protests continue with a fifth day in afghanistan over the burning of copies of the koran by u.s. troops thousands surrounded u.n. buildings in couldn't do so in the north hurling stones and trying to break in more than twenty people died since tuesday after afghan workers and u.s. military base discovered several of the muslim holy books in an incinerator. and

attack on a police headquarters in the nigerian town of goma bay has killed twelve and left five wounded a prisoner was also targeted no one's admitted to the attacks but it's thought to be the work of radical muslim group boko haram which is blamed for killing more than three hundred people this year alone as it fights to impose sharia law throughout the country. a car bomb attack on the presidential palace in southern yemen has killed at least twenty six people the country's new leader president hadi was earlier sworn into office after being the only candidate running how do you as a vice president under ali abdul salam who stepped out after thirty three years and being months of violent protest saleh is the fourth arab leader pushed from office by arab spring. stay with us here at r.t. still ahead this hour extending a helping hand by digging deep in your pockets. i'm from germany and if we ever. lose you'll be in the goodies have

a recall you or until we should hope to give people you're ok with that you don't feel like they should be responsible for themselves they should be looked upon to but we should hope that our cheers resident in new york sees how far people are willing to go to bail greece out of debt. and the cost of faith but shifting kyrgyzstan's religious communities leaves many fearing their rights and values could be under threat stay with us. we have a cold war lords will be notes we have a lot of illegal groups the colors of the sluices all our views in the right enough to my mouth it was like many at that mileage but wasn't forced the smadi when i was fifteen yes you can liberate other women and you certainly can't

do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe are going to stun them not to across part. of the patient it's coming up on the shelf and at a construction 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. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck comes a big. mission

. critical three. three. three. three. three. three brought video for your media project free media. tom. thanks for staying with us here on r t fifteen minutes past the hour in moscow after a wave of hack attacks took out several u.s. federal websites officials were quick to point out a new terror battlefront it's on the internet but the war from data experts is that the threats being blown out of proportion by those who stand to make big bucks by playing on people's digital distress artie's lucy kavanagh has more from washington . 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 us 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 of the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be 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 cyber security consulting firm you could have a cyber attack that would be as consequential in terms of the economy maybe even in terms of loss of life as things were to prepare your source a bit more frightened once america's top spy chief mike mcconnell now oversees cyber operations for a 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 that 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 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 forbes magazine contributor shawn lawson is an expert in cybersecurity is

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. at battle does rage here invisible to the naked eye a war for money contracts and power to seek out our t. washington. the world's biggest ever debt swap underway is greece scrambles to get its desperate finances back on track banks and bondholders will lose out to the tune of at least one hundred billion euros r t get the view from the street we ask how deeply should people dig in to dig to save

a nation in debt 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've no idea you've got the wrong person do you think a lot of people know what's going on in greece no greece in iowa got more g.o.p. . greece their butts out so what's greece is going to do to us whether they are there save that money matter of foreign is the third largest. g.d.p. in the world you've got to worry about greece. they only got good greek all of i'm from germany. and the greens have a you and so we should help. you ok with that you don't feel like there should be

responsible for themselves they should be let's. hope that 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 simply does not stay out i mean they will tell you to have enough time as it is without having to bail out another country so i think we have to start to think globally and we all have to believe other out and try to get the same back on track for that means shouldering other people's responsibilities are you ok with that. yes and no you know part of me says no 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 too so sometimes not to quote hillary clinton but i guess it does take a village the bailout with the u.s. car industry sort of had an ok ending and i was skeptical about that so i don't know i don't think i'm quick to really say actually that's

a good example though because you hear bailout and it sounds like you're getting something for nothing but it's an example of one that worked so maybe this will work whether it's a stepping in a european union or whether it's going to be someplace in asia steps in public china china will invest in them so is that a good thing i mean now that we're all globally tied and we see these kinds of situations arise is the global economy a good progression. it was a natural progression it's not as if we could stop it when you have free trade we would i mean it's going to happen this way you have more interdependent countries at this point 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 it different. finally in this news block islam is on the rise in many central asian republics but in kyrgyzstan the rising number of mosques hasn't led to a growing tolerance of muslims some residents feel the region's changing religious

climate is threatening their traditional values are on a boy who reports from bishkek. it's a mix of religious compliance and teenage defiance ever since fourteen year old left the school half a year ago she never misses a chance to walk past it in full muslim dress. clothes put on teacher is 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 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 have here 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 here for our school

doesn't require students to wear uniforms in fact your heart 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 republic in central asia that over the past decade has witnessed a dramatic rise of the 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 sell your 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 worries many of the country's liberals were not a bribe or teachers social scientists kurdistan's most prestigious university. she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year or at lest there be a hole at them they say when i lived there we didn't have a mosque now there are three all built by foreign donors 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 do 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 our 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 do all of that we're not a fear is that if muslims and 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 headwear in her classroom than the risk students has been filled by the wrong lessons elsewhere it's not going to artsy kurdistan. saturday afternoon here in moscow will have a recap of our top stories in just a moment stay with us.

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