in spain are again uniting in anger at education cuts in defiance of heavy handed police tactics in earlier rallies. plus more u.s. officers are killed in afghanistan during a fifth day of violence in protest of the burning of the qur'an in an american military base. good morning from kevin owen here in moscow you're watching r.t. in our top story the violence in syria rages on seventy countries led by the u.s. are united in their efforts against a mask a spy agreed to step up sanctions the so-called friends of syria group also shown supporters of the assad regime who were invited to the meeting in tunisia and that's one of the reasons russia refused to return saying it cannot support a one sided approach to the crisis moscow wants a peace deal that involves both damascus and the opposition with no foreign

pressure applied fighting between rebel forces and government troops is escalating with dozens reported killed on saturday ahead of a breakthrough poll in the country party's rif an ocean or is their. 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 where 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 new 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 changes actually in this do document it includes the fourteen new. and forty seven amended articles and one of

the main changes is in the article number eight it actually ends there 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 which emphasize that it will only come into force after the next elections before they had of the country's a 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 their vote and 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 massacres but we've been hearing several

warnings not to go to polling stations because they think it should 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 are have the right to come and vote but it's very hard right now to predict how many will actually come what's the story we're of course following closely over the next twenty four hours and more those. are bringing us the latest of this more on solving syria in a few minutes to as moscow stands firm over how to tackle the conflict russia's prime minister it's america's position on the crisis and also does the same to override a missile defense details about that coming up. questions remain over iran's nuclear program after the u.n. atomic official said to ram has failed to cooperate with the many countries suspect around is building an atomic bomb but iran insists it's only seeking. peaceful

energy supply 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 been reported as well that america's intelligence community now has doubts about the nuclear allegation some of them anyway what discuss that further call and helen and joins us now he's a columnist that foreign policy and focus magazine very good morning she called it israel's recently ramps up the rhetoric against iran building up tension threatening the nation with a possible military strike how realistic is such an attack at this point do you think are we any closer or any further away from it i think we're closer unfortunately they're there has really really been a kind of a drumbeat over the past month or so not simply on the on iran on creating a nuclear weapon but the senate now has a bill before it which would urge the obama administration to consider military action against iran if iran created the capacity to build

a nuclear weapon you know a lot of countries have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon argentina brazil south africa taiwan a under a lot of countries that have that capacity and that would move the goal posts a lot closer to military intervention you also have the u.s. election coming up and it's unclear exactly what the israelis will do to try and pressure the obama administration or whether they're keeping better election in mind all of the are we likely to say a larger line because of the the elections. i think you will the republican candidates are saying that the obama administration is weak on iran that it should take military action against iran that it should draw red lines in the sand and should follow up on them except i think there's a very hawkish kind of a viewpoint out there and most americans are very very deeply uninformed the polls show people don't want another war but that seven out of ten americans think iran

already has a nuclear weapon no one claims that and yet that's the sentiment out there that's that's a dangerous brew and one that could lead to a possibility of a war interesting article i read from you recently one of the lines in it was saying israel does have an interest in keeping the middle east a frag vented place why so. well you got it from the colonial masters you know divide and conquer and that's the way the british always did it british always ran the empire by getting everybody else to fight with everybody else and yet when india was seeks against muslims against induce and in africa it was one tribe against another that's the way the british empire ran then and the israelis lifted a page from that and other doing the same thing in the middle east as long as you keep the middle east essentially divided up and and and and split then

the israelis are in a dominant position i think it's also important to remember is that the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution in iran essentially removed the second largest oil resources and the third largest natural gas resources from direct control by western oil and gas companies and centrally made it independent now the west would love to get those resources back and they would love to also not have that kind of independent force in the middle east that's also in the israelis interest as well cohen just briefly we're told just now about the forthcoming presidential election in the u.s. is going to affect the way it deals with iran also recently israel's been taking a harder line as well could that be because of the arab spring and its may tell of even more it's up was more defensive. well i think that the israelis are not happy

about the arab spring i mean the israelis would rather deal essential leave with dictatorships and monarchies because you know you only have to wonder one there and in a sense all of the sources i mean both the israelis and the old dictatorships in the monarchies neither one of them want really popular forces in control of things like foreign policy and domestic policy etc so. even though they may disagree on things like the palestinian question all old people like the gulf cooperation council the saudi arabia very careful not to ruffle feathers that are with the israelis or with washington. they do agree are essentially keeping a lid on things which is exactly what so you already has done in bahrain and in its eastern provinces. nikon helen and columnists at foreign policy in focus magazine thanks for being on the line there from berkeley california where to be a. developing story tonight thousands of students in spain turning i once again in

valencia against planned education cuts no earlier this week the police were accused of heavy handedness when similar demonstrations had it in clashes covering the story for us tonight sarah firth reporting from east coast city. i think down the line in spring and you can see thousands upon thousands of people. in the parade. and all. of this is the job of. the young.

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have the one. red flag. and all the other side of the mediterranean greece is also racing against ruin let's. just how much people. willing to help from outside the country. now i know that in my book it is taoism is that other european countries you know gave it a. nice day out i mean they were fighting it out now time in cities and having to bail out another country say. well the go artie's resident you your kid gauges opinion on whether you get more bailout billions can ever stop the rot what antipodean not fitting charitable at all. presidential front runner vladimir putin's reaffirmed russia's position on syria insisting moscow will not bow to western pressure the premier said the kremlin will plow on to seek a balance solution involving all sides in syria and it's not the only issue either

over which russia is prepared to lock horns with the u.s. is paid roll over explains now. he was really addressing his stand point 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 this lot of me if he was addressing for a little while now the major fly in the oddments between relations between moscow and washington has been the united states proposed missile defense shield in eastern europe now to me of putin's very strong words for him from the prime minister here saying that the united states needs to realize that russia had enough strength that they are 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 elections now let me approve an outlying his stance on those key foreign policy issues peter all of a u.s. military officers have been shot dead at the afghanistan interior ministry in kabul amid a fifth day of nationwide anti american protests nato is ordering all is personnel now to leave afghan ministries to avoid further attacks dozens of people have been killed and wounded in clashes during the week which was sparked when burnt copies of the qur'an were discovered at a u.s. base washington admitted a mistake had been made was both the white house said nato officials apologizing to kabul but after my career a shia think tank director of neighboring pakistan told us he thinks the u.s. led alliance will be hard pressed to restore its reputation up to this in the

decade that the us military has been in the but has done for the first time even if you have smaller places and provinces in towns wherever there is a u.s. presence ordinary afghans are laying siege to these places until now the americans for the seeing the resurgence of resistance groups the afghan taliban but now after this incident we're seeing the ordinary of balance of forces pitched against the u.s. will be presence but also u.s. trained police men and u.s. trained soldiers now an ordinary american working you know when it's done 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 trained earlier 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 the u.s. military are increasingly treated to what i would call anti islamists and 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 and of gun army are. you know i would be able to restore the level of trust that existed less if i did for six days ago more world news in brief clashes in jerusalem between crowds of use and police eyewitnesses said right please use tear gas and rubber bullets the protesters replied with rocks and fire bombs it followed a funeral of a palestinian man has been shot dead as police stormed the grounds of the city's al aqsa mosque it's a site that the holy to both muslims and jews and it seems several clashes following rumors that authorities have allowed hardline jewish activists access to the compound. and attack on a police headquarters in the nigerian town of goma has left twelve people dead and five others wounded a prison was also targeted now as admitted the attacks but they are thought to be

the work of the radical islamist group boko haram it's believed blamed in fact for killing over three hundred people this year alone as it fights to impose sharia law throughout the country. protest as inside the goal marched in the streets of the capital ahead of sunday's crucial presidential elections hundreds of people wearing white as a symbol of peace took to the streets as the car that is held their final rallies the west african nation seen unprecedented turmoil over the eighty five year old president's refusal to set aside his controversial bid for a third term. after a wave of hack attacks took out several u.s. federal websites officials have been quick to point out there's a new terror battlefront now the internet the worry though from data experts is that the threats big blow that of all proportion by those making big bucks by playing on people's digital distress for want of a better way of putting it lucy comes from off has got the story for you. 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 our 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 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 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 warn 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 and 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 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 who 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 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 our t. washington. take a quick look at lot of the online that are to go home this weekend few stories might be interested in a segment we got there well welcome to moscow's my commute goes relics that as a die. so put up his twentieth collection of computers gadgets and rarities are

going to show you dust to them all first interesting watch called we've got the pictures and winding up when two with a pancake pageant russians welcoming the upcoming spring with the annual. pancake fest well the more. about about t. dot com. this is r.t. from moscow 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 indeed some residents feel the region's changing religious climate is threatening the traditional values of sort of 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 close to the teachers

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 close now i can be what i want to be well 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 here for our school doesn't require students to wear uniforms were in fact their 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 or mainly cellier arabia or qatar and they provide more than money exploit their ideology here we already have politicians calling for the creation of caliphate about it. 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 kristen's most prestigious university oh.

she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year. and then they say when i 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 and i saw three young women all covered in black because i wanted to come up to them and say look around you can t. sity 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 it 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 go vigil of what were 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 being filled by the wrong lessons elsewhere it's not going to artsy kurdistan. the world's biggest have a debt swaps on the way as greece scrambles to get its desperate finances back on track buying some bondholders will lose at the chain of least a hundred billion euros because of it well the extra tickets the view from the streets to ask how deeply we should all dig in to help save this 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 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 geo big g.d.p. and 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 of 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. strong will and the greens have a real you on for 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 let go but we should help them if it was coming directly out of your pocket would you still be in support of the bailout no no doubt in my book. so as long as that other european countries are ok with it but it's really 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 either 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 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 exam. bill 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 in and we see these kinds of situations arise as the global economy a good progression it was a natural progression it's not as if then we could stop it 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 a difference. out of out of the headlines just a few minutes after the kaiser report. wealthy

british style. is not on the tires. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. should live direct from moscow this is our seats for good to have you company i'm kevin owen with our top.