students in spain again expected to unite in anger at education cuts in defiance of heavy handed police tactics being of earlier rally. waging war and on the scene of enemy america declares its fight against cyber crime but experts say it's simply helping some to download big profits from feel. that seven pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story seventy countries led by the u.s. uniting their efforts against the syrian government by agreeing to step up sanctions the so-called friends of syria group also showed supporters of president assad who weren't invited to the meeting in tunisia it'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 foreign pressure fighting between rebel forces and government troops is apparently rising

ahead of sunday's poll in the country artie's marie if you know she 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 new 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 forty seven amended and one of the main changes in the article none. 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 promoted the article number eighty eight is also very important is that the president of the country could only be elected for two seven here turns but in another article it's emphasized that they will only come into force after the next elections for they 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 into moscow's where we've been hearing several warnings not to go to polling stations because they could be explosions and bombings and terror

attacks that 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. among reaction artie's been hearing is that western powers don't want a diplomatic solution to syria besides because assad crossed them and they were determined to see him out policy of the worst now is not about a negotiated settlement it's not reaching progress the reforms that were being talked about it's about regime change because from the point of view of the west. crowing has been nothing to do with human rights and nothing to do with reform between to do with pursuing a line that is independent of the line that is to be imposed only on time. at least

if it was about human rights and reforms then people would be interested in engagement because it's quite clear from everybody that there's been violence violent situation indeed a potential civil war if you're sincere about wanting to avoid a potential civil war then you wouldn't go into all you do have to stop one potential side in that civil war as an alternative government in exile underneath ect incite a push towards for regime change even by violence you respond to the diplomatic signals that are coming out and you try to pursue a peaceful solution it's quite obvious that washington and london are at present not interested in the 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 of america's position on the crisis and of the same over iran and missile defense details coming up. but first thousands of students in spain

expected to turn out in valencia against planned occasion cuts earlier this week police were accused of being heavy handed when similar demonstrations ended in clashes r.t. sarah firth is covering the story she joins us live. so what exactly are you students angry about. what you didn't expect to be rolling in spare cash if you're do you at least expect to have the bare essentials in your close friends but students in valencia have been telling us the spending cuts that have affected education have that's some of the classrooms take without even basic heating and now there's a lot of anger is still amongst the student protests that happened earlier in the week and then we still clashes break out with the demonstrators and the riot police in scenes that the police chasing down and hitting some of the protest this is that's been funded nation at the police battle says he said a lot of the anger as well now the protests are expected to start at about six

o'clock local time is not really sure about the figures at the moment some of the organizers say around one hundred and fifty thousand people expected to turn out and we'll have more not obviously when they do but a lot of concerns that the anger that we sort of the beginning of the weekend the scenes of violence that then erupted because we've had a lot of pressure to toughening in spain but less a feeling of relatively peaceful sets in comparison to the sort of situations that you seen happening in greece but that anger is is starting to mount now and of course these that extra cuts coming at a time when the country is facing cripplingly high unemployment figures especially amongst these around the nine. percent as things he's now unemployed say incredibly tough these people as he said just saying a lot of the anger sort of boiling aver these protests. spain's staring at another crippling round of recession coupled with the use worst unemployment rate how is the government planning to sort this all out. well remember it's

a relatively new government they've only actually been in power a couple of months so these protests the first that this new government has faced from the unions the main sticking points really is the government's new labor of fullness now in the short term that's actually it's still going to push unemployment even higher i mean as i said with forty nine percent of the ethan employed about twenty percent of the entire population you can understand that for them to be told that i probably in the short term unemployment is going to get even worse it's really going to cause a lot of concern now the message from the government has been that these measures going to be both in place and it's going to seem to get worse before it gets better but as he said that's causing a lot of anxiety amongst the population we really want to see some real changes happening in a month economist t. they want to see some measures that are going to peace place now the reforms that the government now at bringing it all necessarily bad reforms in fact

a lot of people have said that you know you do need good reforms to go along with the start be for it to be successful but as he said these cuts coming at a time again when the population in the country really struggling under these will start he mentions this spain another country court that tightly in the grip of the euro crisis and of course several states he had to go wasting time and again breaking out on the streets of spain writer to sorry for reporting live for us from valencia in eastern spain thanks for that update. on the other side of the mediterranean greece racing against room later we asked people how much they're willing to help. now and no doubt in my book. though as long as that other european. country there again with that. i mean there was any talk of time in cities about having another country. new york for the ages opinion on weather and yet more bail out of billions can ever stop the rot. but first

russia's presidential front runner vladimir putin's reaffirmed russia's position on syria insisting moscow won't bow to western pressure the premier said the kremlin will plough on the seeing a balanced solution involving all sides in syria and it's not the only issue over which russia is prepared to lock horns with the u.s. as artie's peter over reports. he was really addressing his standpoint on 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 on the ongoing crisis in syria but it wasn't the only issue that 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 to me a 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 well 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 i say just over a week before the election is now going to be approved an outlying his stance on foreign policy issues. questions of the remain over iran's nuclear program after u.n. atomic 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 its allies have been imposing tough economic sanctions while israel's even threatened military action against iran's nuclear sites but it's being reported

that america's intelligence community has doubts about the nuclear allegations economics professor. studied the effect of the sanctions and says it's not the first time washington ignored such reports to pursue its goals. change. nationally to just as he made these needy or so the first few thousand and seven. basically a savior that i'm actually reading from the dead judge we compete in it's dead as a closed two thousand and three eden. with its program never lists. using it which administration. the only people obviously the obama the assertion is not legally. the us usually goes along with these three. who are already used play easily continuously he noted there to bring more and more

sanctions i don't really see sanctions did split into issues seems to be. and still to come here on our team making a fast buck by ramping up the fear factor on our 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 therefore the quote unquote beltway bandits are in a position to create the problem to state the problem. but first two u.s. military officers have been shot dead in the afghan capital amid the fifth day of anti-american protests across the country dozens of people have been killed or wounded in clashes during the week that were sparked when burned copies of the qur'an were found at a u.s. air base let's get more reaction from ahmed caray she director of a think tank based in neighboring pakistan so mr cressy this isn't the first incident where american military staff have angered muslim sentiments now the u.s.

insists it was a mistake but wired mistakes like this still happening ten years into the war. first of all mad something very important in this that and something different about this incident is that this is the first time in the decade that the u.s. military has been in the but has done for the first time ordinary afghans are laying siege to background which is the largest american base in the funds and other smaller u.s. bases across the country simultaneously for the first time we're seeing this very very unique development where even in smaller places in provinces in towns wherever there is a u.s. presence ordinary afghans are laying siege to these places so this is a tremendously from a strategic point of view a very important development a second thing that you need to keep in mind is that until now the americans will be seeing the various a surgeon's resistance groups the of gun taliban but now after this incident we're seeing ordinary of balance of the poorest pitched against

the u.s. military presence but also u.s. trained policemen and u.s. trained soldiers now an ordinary american working in afghanistan today doesn't know whether he should expect a bullet from afghan taliban and al gun policeman or not gun soldier whom he might have treated earlier so this is a very unique situation now two things we need to keep in mind number one even after ten years it seems the americans don't know who they're dealing with they don't know the get on very well and number two another very important thing is that it just seems that. this incident indicates how u.s. soldiers and how u.s. military are increasingly trained into what i would call anti islamists and they're constantly sort of indoctrinated into into into treating islam disrespectfully and we've seen of course stories this year about how new york

policemen were trained into you know watching movies that were anti muslim and so forth so so. so these two observations are very important the prevalent disrespect toward islam in the in the us official culture including the u.s. military which results in these kind of mistakes and two that they don't know even after ten years or is this a leave of the alliance now do you think it can continue to function effectively after this. i sailed to see how the u.s. military personnel and the of gone police and of gun army personnel would be able to restore the level of trust that existed listen five days or six days ago i mean we've had now several incidents where we are we are soldiers or policemen opened fire on american soldiers now there's another problem also i forgot to mention is that there's also sort of an ease within the other coalition partners other nato

countries i mean we have this incident where six u.s. soldiers on dead bodies and friendship soldiers get killed for it and there are other similar incidents so why should other coalition partners pay the price for the for mistakes committed by u.s. military and very stupid mistakes at that so so you have here a crisis of trust developing between the u.s. military and gone is done and this other coalition partners other members of nato on one hand and on the other hand with others get on with u.s. trained policemen and afghan soldiers it's a very difficult situation now after ten years of fighting the taliban nato any afghan government are trying to negotiate with the insurgents do you think this is an admission of defeat or just the knowledge of the political reality in the country. well i just i think we are beyond that point where the point of defeat frankly i mean strategically the united states military which

isn't which is in control and worse or america occupation force in the gun is done does not control many parts of the country and did even the government which is propped up by the u.s. move. does not have the capability to control the country once again if the americans are out to do so so i think the put the question of defeat is has been debated but good with this incident shows that whatever literally the americans are still meeting with the other guns in terms of going on military police those also look pretty shaky several incidents of gun soldiers and policemen killing soldiers right ahmed pressure from pak nationalist form think tank thanks for your time. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe 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 sworn in to office

after being the only candidate running how he was vice president under ali abdullah saleh who stepped down after thirty three years and in months of violent protests sali is the fourth arab leader to be pushed from office by the arab spring. a corruption case against former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has been thrown out because too much time had passed before action was brought what was going to was accused of bribing his u.k. lawyer to lie in court to protect his business interests in the ninety's he denied wrongdoing claiming it's a smear campaign berlusconi is being tried separately over tax fraud and sex with an underage prostitute. and attack at a police headquarters in the nigerian town of gun bays left twelve dead five wounded a prisoner was also targeted no one has admitted to the attack but are 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. after a wave of hack attacks took out several u.s.

federal websites officials were quick to point out there's a new terror battlefront it's the internet the worry from data experts is that the threat is being blown out of proportion though by those looking to make a fast buck on playing on people's digital distress lucy caffein of reports 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 a 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 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 yourselves here with more frightening 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 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 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. at battle does rage here invisible to the naked eye

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the world's biggest ever debt swap is underway as 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 gets a view now from the street where we ask how deeply people should dig into their pockets to save a nation in debt. 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 do you think a lot of people know what's going on in greece no greece. got more g.o.p. g.d.p. and then greece they both sound so what's greece is going to do to us i mean whether they bail or are there save that money matter for anya's is the third largest. g.d.b. in the world i mean got to worry about greece they only got good olives greek all

of i'm from germany and we have those. who'll and the greens have a we can you on for we should help to give your ok with that you don't feel like there should be responsible for themselves they should be let go but we should 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 e ok with that but simply stay out i mean they will tell you to have enough time as it is without having to bail out another country say i think we have to start to think globally and we all have to believe 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 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 too so sometimes not

to quote hillary clinton but i guess it does take a village to 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 am quick to really say actually that's a good exam. ambo there 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 again 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 maybe that we're all globally tied to it and we see these kinds of situations arise as this global economy and good progression. it was a natural progression it's not as if and we could stop that when you have free trade the way 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. russian national security the topic for al gore and all of and gas shortly but first stick with us for the headlines.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are today.

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