you can see in spain are again expected to united anger in education cuts and in defiance of heavy handed police tactics in earlier rallies. plus more u.s. officers are killed in afghanistan amid a fifth day of violent riots in protest of the burning of the qur'an and the american military parade. hello there in a very good evening you're watching r t with me kev you know in this saturday evening in moscow it's no eight pm here in our top story than seventy countries led by the u.s. so uniting your efforts against the syrian government by agreeing to step up sanctions the so-called friends of syria group also showing supporters of president assad who were invited to the meeting in tunisia and that's one of the reasons that russia refused to attend so you cannot 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 applied fighting between rebel forces and government troops that is apparently escalating ahead of sunday's breakthrough poll in a country that is ready for an option is got the latest for you from syria. 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 river way here in 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 there have 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 ten. actually. prevent 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 year long 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 with a vote and to go on strike violence is continued in the country and clashes between the opposition and the authorities are still taking place in several parts across

the country here into massacres where we've been hearing several warnings not to go to polling stations because they they 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 across form of the roof notion of well among the reaction of who's been hearing is that western powers don't want a diplomatic solution to syria because assad crossed them and therefore the determined to see about. policy of the worst now is not about a negotiated settlement it's not about reaching progress on the reforms that were being talked about it's about regime change because from the point of view of the west assad's mode of life has been nothing to do with human rights and nothing to

do with between to do with his pursuing a line that is truly independent of the line that is to be imposed on the entire middle east 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 of 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 when you try to pursue a peaceful solution it's quite obvious that washington and london are at present not interested in that negotiated solution well there's more of solving syria in a few minutes as moscow stands firm over how to tackle the conflict russia's prime

minister's hit out at america's position on the crisis and does the same over iran and missile defense two we've got the details but all that just ahead. next though thousands of students in spain are expected to turn out in valencia against planned education cuts earlier this week the police were accused of being heavy handed when similar demonstrations ended in clashes our correspondent sara firth is in the east coast city. but you don't expect to be rolling in spare cash if you're a student but you do at least expect to have the bare essentials in your closer in spirit students in valencia have been telling us the spending cuts that of the state did education have that some have the clausing say without even basic heating i know there's a lot of anger 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 of the police chasing down and hitting some of the protest this is the response from the nation at the police actions and also as he said

a lot of dying groups as well now the protests are expected to start head at about six o'clock local time is not really sure about the figures at the most of the organizers say around a hundred and fifty thousand people expected to turn out and we'll have more not obviously later when they do we've had a lot of practice happening in spain but mua less a feeling of relatively peaceful certainly in comparison to the sort of situations that you see in happening in greece but that i go is is starting to mount now and of course these extra thoughts coming at a time when the country is facing cripplingly high unemployment figures especially among cities around forty nine percent as things east now unemployed the main sticking points really is the government's new labor a full means 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 two percent of the entire population you can understand that

but then to be told that i probably in the short term unemployment is going to get even worse is really going to cause a lot of concern now the message from the government has been that these measures against the vote in place and it's going to seem to get worse before it gets better because as well the other side of the mediterranean greece also racing against ruin a bit later in the program we all stressed how much people are willing to help. now you know. as long as that other european countries the ok with their basically. i mean they were valued at no time is it is that having a bailout and other countries say well that's one thought on our resident new yorker gauges of more opinion to want more billions can ever stop the wrong. presidential front runner vladimir putin's reaffirmed russia's position on syria insisting moscow will not bow to any western pressure the premier said the kremlin will plough on seeking

a balanced solution involving all sides in syria and it's not the only issue over which russia is prepared along with the u.s. either as artist peter oliver explains now. he was really addressing his standpoint on key foreign policy issues of course that election for president is coming up in just over a week's time and he was saying basically where he stands now with regards to syria he said that russia would not play along with anybody that they wouldn't just follow along with the herd when it came to opinion on the ongoing crisis in syria 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 now to me a puritan very strong words for him from the prime minister here saying that the united states needs to realize that russia had the strength that they are 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 those key foreign policy issues. well questions remain over iran's nuclear program after you an atomic official said to has failed to cooperate with the international community suspects the run 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 leading threat military action against iran's nuclear sites but it's been reported now that america's intelligence community has doubts about the nuclear allegations we spoke to economics professor so sun phase man issue studied the effect of the sanctions it has it's not the first time washington did north such reports to pursue its own

goals. for regime change. to notionally. its first two thousand and seven. basically a secret that i'm actually reading from the. two thousand and three at the it's a nuclear weapons program nevertheless. it's very skin mild using it was. the only. obviously the obama assertion is likely going to support the us usually goes along with these very. traits of war already used continuously in order to bring more and more sanctions sanctions. all the way making a fast buck by ramping up the fear factor on our i

t ignorant. 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 create the problem to state the problem i report coming up also ahead the cost of faith the shift in religious communities many favoring rights and values are under threat. to u.s. military officers have been shot dead in kabul amid a fifth day of anti-american protests across the country dozens of people have been killed and wounded in clashes during the week which was sparked when bird copies of the qur'an were discovered in the u.s. airbase. a think tank director in neighboring pakistan he told us nato will be hard pressed to restore its reputation after this. this is the first time in the decade that the u.s. military has been in the but has done for the first time even in smaller places in

provinces and towns wherever there is u.s. presence ordinary afghans are laying siege to these places until now the americans for the seeing the various insurgents resistance groups of the taliban but now after this incident you're seeing we're going down the first pitched against the u.s. troop presence but also u.s. trained leeson in and he was training soldiers now an ordinary american working you know understand he doesn't know whether he should expect a bullet from afghan taliban and afghan policemen or not get on soldier and then he might have trained earlier even after ten years it seems americans don't know who they're dealing with they don't get on very well the u.s. military are increasingly treated to what i would call anti islam and so they're constantly sort of indoctrinated into into into treating islam disrespectfully i sailed to see how the u.s.

military personnel and the of the east end of gun army personnel would be able to restore the level of trust that existed let's say five days or six days ago where you have today with more world news in brief tonight 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 off to be the only candidate in the running how he was vice president. saleh to step down after thirty three years and months of violent protests 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 of elapsed before the action is brutal but a scone he was accused of bribing is u.k. lawyer to lie in court to protect his business in. trysts in the one nine hundred ninety s. he denied any wrongdoing claiming it's a smear campaign but a scone who's been tried of separately over tax fraud and sex with an underage

prostitute as. an attack on the said quarters in liberian turn of gandhi's left twelve dead and five others wounded a prison was also targeted no one's admitted the attacks but they are thought to be the work of the radical islamist group boko haram it's claimed blamed rather the killing for over three hundred people this year as it fights to impose sharia law throughout the country. after a wave of hack attacks took out several us federal websites officials been quick to point out there's a new terror battlefront now and that's the internet the worry from data experts though is that the threats being blown out of proportion by those trying to make big bucks by playing on people's digital distress you see caffein offer r.t. has got the story. 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 of 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 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 friends once america's top spy chief mike mcconnell now oversees cyber operations for defense contracting giant where the most vulnerable nation. on earth to a cyber attack and anti-terrorism czar richard clarke went from advising presidents on cyber security to publishing books about the coming cyber war for once it would

be nice for the united states to be able to get out in front of a catastrophe to be able to prevent that catastrophe we know how to do it we just need to spend the money and the money is flowing the u.s. government will spend more than ten billion a year on cyber security by two thousand and fifteen you know worldwide market that's estimated at eighty to one hundred forty billion dollars a year the budget 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 few strength 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 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 to seek out our t. washington. take a quick look online what we got for you tonight about dot com this weekend well first off for the rock a holy place to pass in the stun grenades used against stone throwing palestinians . jerusalem's flashpoint al aksa mosque compound of religious tension reeks it reaches a peak there we got latest online about that developing story. and welcome to moscow's mark museum got some relics there as a die hard our paul addict opens up his twenty year collection of computers and

gadgets and rarity. and nice winding up winter with the pound cake pageant brushing the world killing the upcoming spring with the annual muslim it's a festival then all about that if you'd like to know more again it r.t. dot com. islam is on the rise in many central asian republics but in kurdistan the increasing number of mosques hasn't led to a growing tolerance of muslims some residents feel the region's changing religious climates threatening their traditional values are to exam a boy who reports. 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 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 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 her 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 your public and 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 exploit their ideology here we already have politicians calling for the creation of caliphate. is this rapid change of. cultural and religious norms that worries many of the country's liberals were not a bribe or teachers social scientists of kyrgyzstan the most prestigious university

. she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year or at lest there be a whole lot then they say when we 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 the many think a minute later they came up to me and started saying sister don't turn away from 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 vigil of what 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

has being filled by the wrong lessons elsewhere it's not going to artsy kurdistan the world's biggest ever debt swaps on the way it's greece scrambles to get its desperate finances back on track banks and bondholders will lose out of the tune of at least one hundred billion euros because of it well to get the view from the street now to ask how deeply people in new york think they should dig into their pockets to save a nation in trouble. greece is getting another bailout one hundred 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 you know 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 i mean

whether they bail or are there save that money matter to foreign is the third largest. g.d.b. in the world i mean got to worry about greece they only got good all of the greek all of i'm from germany and we have a strong. will and the greeks have a weak you and so we should help to get it you're ok with that you don't feel like there should be responsible for themselves they should be respond we should help them if it was coming directly out of your pocket would you still be in support of the bailout no no doubt in my book. so as long as that other european countries here ok with that but simply this nice day 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 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 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 yeah 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 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 bailout the bottom line is it's happening let's see if this one will make it different. the resident has spoken to the people of the money show on the way just a few minutes on this channel my name's kevin owen for example so much for watching r t this saturday the twenty fifth of february headlines coming up very shortly at eight thirty pm moscow time snow eight twenty seven. thank.

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