united tiger education in defiance of heavy handed police tactics in earlier rallies. we do war on an unseen enemy america declares its fight against cyber crime but experts say it's simply helping some download big profits from fear. six pm in moscow i metro so it's good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story seventy countries led by the u.s. are united 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 why russia refused to attend saying it can't support a one sided approach to the crisis moscow as a peace deal that will involve both damascus and the opposition with no foreign pressure fighting between rebel forces and government troops is apparently as

a way to go ahead of sunday's a breakthrough poll of the country or he's worried if an ocean has the latest. preparations for a 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 of every way haim the capital and as far as the 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 proposed constitution has been made public days before the referendum itself they have been many public debates on that open for everybody now they've been debates on t.v. and internet as well and hundreds of copies of the new constitution have been distributed among people to let them know what are the changes actually. document it includes the fourteen new and forty seven amended articles and one of the maintained in the article. number eight actually and almost almost

fifty along 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 that the president of the country could only be elected four to seven here turns that in another article it's emphasized that it will only come into force after the next elections for the had of the countries set schedule for two thousand and fourteen it's managed to meet the majority of democratic demands of the people of syria the opposition has already called to vote could they vote to go on strike violence has continued in the country in clashes between the opposition and the authorities are still taking place in several parts across the country here in damascus where 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 polling stations have been set up for this referendum and about fifteen million people have the right to come and vote but it's very hard right now to predict how many will actually come. are among the reaction artie's been hearing is that western powers don't want a diplomatic solution to syria because assad across them and they're determined to see him out. the policy of the worst now is not about a negotiated settlement it's not reaching progress on the reforms that were being talked about it's about regime change because from the point of view of the west. has been nothing to do with human rights and nothing to do with reforms between to do with his pursuing a line that is too independent of the line that is to be imposed on the entire middle east if it was

a boat human rights and reforms then people would be interested in engagement because it's quite clear from everybody that there's been violence of a violent situation indeed a potential civil war if you're sincere about wanting to avoid a potential civil war then you wouldn't. you do have to stop one potential side in that civil war as an alternative government in exile and in effect incite a push towards for regime change even by violence you respond to the diplomatic signals that are coming out and you're trying to pursue a peaceful solution it's quite obvious that washington and london are at present not interested in that negotiated solution more on solving syria in a few minutes as moscow stands firm over how to tackle the conflict russia's prime minister hits out at america's position on the crisis in those the same over iran and there's a lot of the details ahead. but first thousands of students in spain

expected to turn out in valencia against plan education cuts earlier this week police were accused of being heavy handed when similar demonstrations ended in clashes aarti sara for hours more from a dread the last of what happened at the beginning of the week then we saw this do you do this that we're protesting against the spending cuts the education clashing with the riot police that the demonstrations the things that the riot police it seems some of the protests got close to the local government representative there and let's see it through. and a lot of anger as well now the protests today are expected to again happen mania in the city of bell and fia this is an area that is really being my isn't that the country's construction being bubbled but they've really been the area that face 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 tonight we're going to be heading to. the states to find out what's happened and bring you the latest from

the new protests but of course these are just possible why demonstrations we seeing happening in recent days but once again hundreds of thousands of people have been much seeing on the streets of space 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 of full names that were both said now in the short time is still that's going to push unemployment even high a bit of course spain at the moment you've already got a 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 i came the shoot time 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 meanwhile across the mediterranean greece also racing against

a ruined leader we ask how much are people willing to help. you know that. as long as the other european countries you know ok with that. stadium i mean they will tell you tough time in cities about having to bail out another country say parties resident new yorker gave his opinion on whether yet more bellow billions can stop the rot. but first russian presidential front runner vladimir putin has reaffirmed the country's position on syria insisting moscow won't bow to western pressure but we are said the kremlin will plow ahead seeking a balanced solution involving all sides in the crisis and it's not only that issue with which russia is prepared to lock horns with the u.s. over explain. he was really addressing his key foreign policy issues of course that election 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 the ongoing crisis in syria but it wasn't the only issue out 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 now. 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 those

key foreign policy issues. questions remain over iran's nuclear program after you and atomic official said tehran failed to cooperate with them he international community suspects tehran is building a nuclear bomb but iran insists is only seeking peaceful nuclear energy the u.s. and allies have been imposing tough economic sanctions while israel even threatened military strikes against iran's nuclear sites it's being reported america's intelligence community has doubts about the nuclear allegations economics professor says fail to study the effects of the sanctions and says that it's not the first time washington ignored reports to pursue its own goals. for regime change. because just as he made these many years so the first few thousand and seven. he basically a savior that i'm actually probably a good judge we compete in that closed two thousand and three.

but this program never lists. came out you think it was administration the people on t.v. the only people obviously the obama administration is not. a us usually goes along with these three i think did treat so war already used really continues the he noted there to bring more and more sanctions i don't really see sanctions that split into issues seems to be. there with us here on our team still on the way making a fast buck by wrapping up your fact there are there are things. 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 political beltway bandits are in a position to create the problem to state the problem. plus the cost of faith a shift in kyrgyzstan to religious communities leaders many fearing their rights

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thanks for staying with us here on r t thirteen minutes past the hour in moscow steak a look now at some of the stories making headlines across the globe a deadly altercation in the afghan interior ministry at cowboy has left two american advisers dead official say the u.s. service members were. killed in a room only used by foreign advisors but it's unclear who the gunman was nato also said two of its service members were killed in kabul but gave no details. also and afghanistan anti-american protests continued into a fifth day over burning of the copies of the koran at a u.s. air base thousands surrounded u.n. buildings in the north hurling stones and trying to break in more than twenty people have died since tuesday after afghan workers discovered several muslim holy books in an incinerator. an attack on

a police headquarters in the nigerian town of goma has left twelve dead and five wounded a prison was also targeted no one has admitted to the attacks but they are thought to be the work of radical muslim sect boko who are it's blamed for killing more than three hundred people this year alone as it fights to impose sharia law across the country. and 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 in the running how do you was a vice president under our the rosalin who stepped down after thirty three years and being months of violent protests sali is the fourth arab leader to be pushed from office by the arab spring. after a wave of hack attacks take out several u.s. federal web sites officials were quick to point out there's a new terror battlefront the internet the worry from data experts though is a threats being blown out of proportion by those who stand to make

a buck by playing on people's digital distress or he's losing caffein off as more. 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 stoked by fears of a new type of wm d. a weapon of. 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 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 maybe even in terms of loss of life as things reach 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 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. 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 it's going to be even more tempting for folks and you know the

defense contracting community for example to hype cyber threats because that's one of the few strings that mahdi 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 create the problem to state the problem and offer their own services as a solution. at battle does raids here invisible to the naked eye a war for money contracts and power to seek out. washington. is plenty more for you a click away at r t dot com this weekend here is what's online and right now you

know rock and a holy place tear gas and stun grenades used against stone hurling palestinians in jerusalem's flashpoint compound as religious tension reaches a peak. and welcome to moscow's macca museum as a diehard apple addict opens up his twenty year collection of computers and gadgets and a rarity. and winding down winter with a pancake pageant russians are blocking the upcoming spring with the i knew all moscow needs a festival all the. and plenty more at r t dot com. islami on the rise in many central asian republics but in kyrgyzstan the increasing number of mosques hasn't led to a growing tolerance of muslims some residents rather feel the region's changing

religious climate is threatening their traditional values artie's oksana boyko reports. it's a mix of religious compliance and teenage defiance ever since fourteen year old daughter 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 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 at 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 your former school doesn't require students to wear uniforms in fact her heart says none of her 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. religious norms that worries

many of the country's liberals were not a bribe it teaches social sciences of kyrgyzstan the most prestigious university. she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year. there for her that 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 do 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 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 of 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 been filled by the wrong lessons elsewhere it's not going to artsy kurdistan the world's biggest ever debt swap underway as greece scrambles to get its desperate firehoses back on track banks and bondholders will lose out to the tune of at least one hundred billion euros are to get the view from the street we ask how deeply we should dig into our pockets 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 are a no no i don't do you no idea you got the wrong person do you think

a lot of people know what's going on in greece no grace you know iowa got more geo g.d.p. than then greece they butts out so what's greece is going to do to us i mean whether they bail or are there save that money matter of foreign is the third largest in our g.d.p. in the world i mean you got to worry about greece. they only got good greek all of i'm from germany. and the greeks 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 not out of my book. so as long as that other european countries they're ok with that but simply doesn't stay out i mean they will tell you to have enough time as it is without having to bail out another country 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 so 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 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 as the global economy and good progression. it was a natural progression it's not as if anyone 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 bell out the bottom line is it's happening let's see if this one will make it different. our teams technology update looks around the house and does all of the work itself shortly that's coming away after the headlines stay with us.

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both before. with him and oates we have a lot of the call. groups of the. balls are. right in the. left many of them out h. that wasn't. the smadi when i was fourteen years old 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 i'm going to stun them not to across. the patient it's a position 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.

the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images killed world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations rule today. six thirty pm in moscow. syria readies a democratic referendum on.