spain are again uniting in anger at education costs and in defiance of heavy handed police tactics in their rallies. plus more u.s. officers that killed in afghanistan during a fifth day of violence and protest at the burning of the koran in american military base. international news live from moscow this is actually with me viewership our thanks for joining us as the violence in syria rages on seventy countries led by the us are uniting their efforts against damascus by agreeing to step up sanctions the so-called friends of syria group also shunned supporters of the assad regime who weren't invited to the meeting in tunisia and that's one of the reasons russia refused to attend saying it can't support a one sided approach to the crisis most who wants a peace deal that involves both damascus and the opposition with no foreign

pressure applied and fighting between rebel forces and the government troops is escalating with dozens reported killed on saturday ahead of a breakthrough pulled in the country or he's murphy notion is that. preparations for national referendum are in full swing here in damascus on sunday people are expected to vote on the country's new constitution posters and banners calling on them to come and cast ballots are really where here in the capital and as far as the information minister has said for the first time it only involves 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 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. do document it includes a fourteen forty. amend articles and one of the main changes is in the article

number eight it actually ends at almost almost fifty alone single party rule here in syria proclaiming that now political system here in the country is based on pluralism and multi-party system is permitted the article number eighty eight is also very important that the president of the country could only be elected four to seven here turns but in another article it's emphasized that it will only come into force after the next elections for the had of the countries set to do it 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 and to go on strike violence is continued in the country in clashes between the opposition and the authorities still taking place in several parts across the country here in damascus with we've been hearing several warnings not to go to

polling stations because they think they 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. and among the reaction as he's been hearing is that western powers don't want a diplomatic solution to syria because assad crossed them on that determined to see him out of office. the policy of the worst no is not about a negotiated settlement it's not about reaching progress or the reforms that were being talked about it's about regime change because from the point of view of the worst assad's motile klein has been nothing to do with human rights and nothing to do with reform 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 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 violent situation indeed a full 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 and in effect incite a push towards for regime change even by virus 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 and tomorrow in solving syrian a few minutes as moscow stands firm about how to tackle the conflict russia's prime minister had sounded america's position on the crisis and does the same over iran on missile defense we've got the details just ahead. thousands of students in

spain turning out once again in violence against planned education cuts earlier this week the police were accused of having handedness when similar demonstrations and today in clashes our correspondents are firth reports now from the east city. it's been dubbed the land in spring and you can see thousands upon thousands of people but it turned out. to. take place in a. problem . because of the job of. the young. man employed. by now living selling

a car. like basic. the great. get. some of the greats have. a lot. of. regional. cuts a little love of the public. that. the government. even this is a. bad. thing to get. out of. the population.

of the one where you. live in the country of the. red cross. and on the other side of the mediterranean greece is also racing against a very late we also just how much the people are willing to help. now you know that in my book it isn't so as long as that other european countries are ok with that basically they are i mean they will tell you that now time as it is about having to bail out another country say sir and his residence in new york or gauges opinion on where they get nor bailout billions can ever stop there are. questions remain over iran's nuclear program after un atomic officials said to iran has failed to cooperate with them many countries suspect around is building an atomic bomb but iran insists it's only sitting at peaceful an interest supply the u.s. and its allies have been imposing tough economic sanctions while israel has 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 and a con man and then a columnist at foreign policy in focus magazine says the west's concern over iran's nuclear program is merely a pretext to take control of its vast energy resources. i think the nuclear bomb is really in many ways a smokescreen this is not about nuclear weapons it's a long word to use a nuclear weapon safe or against israel it would be an act of national suicide i think this has a lot more to do with the politics of the middle east and the politics of the control of energy resources of the nineteen seventy nine revolution in iran essentially removed the second largest oil resources in the search largest natural gas resources from direct control by western oil and gas companies and essentially made it independent now the west would love to get those resources barack and they

would love to also knock out that kind of independent force in the middle east. presidential frontrunner as you may appreciate has refound russia's position on syria insisting moscow will not bow to western pressure on the premise that the kremlin well plough along to seek a balanced solution involving all sides with the ram that it's not the only share over which russia is prepared to lock horns with the u.s. says peter own of explains 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 the lot of me if he 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 to be a prudent 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 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 i say just over a week before the elections now let me approve an outlying his stance on those key foreign policy issues. two u.s. military officers have been short of the afghanistan interior ministry in kabul and they'd a fifth day of nationwide anti-american protests nato is ordering its all personnel to leave afghan ministers to avoid further tykes dozens of people have been killed

and wounded in clashes during the week which was part one burned copies of the koran were discovered at a us air base washington admitted a mistake had been made with both the white house and nato officials apologizing to kabul but. i think time director in neighboring pakistan says the u.s. led alliance will be hard pressed to restore its reputation. in the decade that the u.s. military has been in the but is done by the first time even in smaller places and provinces in towns wherever there is u.s. presence ordinary afghans are laying siege to these places until now the americans were facing the the resurgence of resistance groups the of god telling them but now after this incident we're see the ordinary of guns of course pitched against the u.s. will be presence but also u.s. tree least known and u.s. trained soldiers know an ordinary american working in afghanistan today doesn't

know whether he should expect a bullet from afghan taliban or from an afghan policeman or not gun soldier whom he might have trained earlier even after two years it seems the americans don't know who they're dealing with they don't know the good honest very well the u.s. military are increasingly treated to what i would call anti islamism they are constantly sort of indoctrinated into into into treating islam disrespectfully i fail to see how the u.s. military personnel and the of the east end of gun or army personnel would be able to restore the level of trust that existed listen five days or six days ago. and signal well needs and briefing at this hour i'm not going to police headquarters in the nigerian town of gone they have left twelve people dead and five others wounded a prison was also targeted and no one has admitted to that time but that's thought to be there what i call the radical islamist group. explains the killing of

a three hundred people they say hello as it fights to impose sharia law throughout the country. clashes in jerusalem between crowds and get sent police eyewitnesses that riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets the protesters replied with rocks and fireball that followed a funeral of a palestinian man has been shot that has police stones the ground. these cities allow this to mask and it's a site that's holy to both muslims and jews and it's seen several clashes following rumors that authorities had allowed hardline true shops of its access to the compound. two people are missing after an explosion set fire to brazil's antarctic research station forceful people have been evacuated by helicopter to the nearby chilean research braise it stores the incident began in a machine room that housed electrical generators the complex had reportedly has reportedly been completely destroyed as efforts to fire the fire were suspended

because of bad weather. protesters and cynical 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 candidates hold their final rallies the west african nation has been seen unprecedented turmoil over the eighty five year old president's refusal to set aside his controversial bid. to garrion the king of spain son in law always to appear in court on corruption charges has been questioned over claims that he misused public funds given to a foundation he controlled the denies all the allegations of fraud that involving millions of euros and there were anti monarchy protests in this punish capital during the court hearing. after a wave of how i got time out several u.s. federal websites officials have been quick to point tires there's

a new terror battlefront and there's the internet the war it from the data experts though is that these threats being blown out of proportion by those making big bucks bugs by playing on people's digital distress lucic out and it has the story. it least seem like a quiet day in america for just the scene of a raging battle invisible to the naked eye where 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 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 gets 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 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 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 strains that mahdi you know sort of still exists forbes magazine contributor shawn lawson is an expert in cybersecurity is a classic case of an attempt to sort of motivate a response by rally the troops by appealing to fear uncertainty and inside the beltway fear and uncertainty can lead to big business and big bucks most people don't understand the problems with computer and data security 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 rage here invisible to the naked eye a war for money contracts and power. r t washington.

looking at a line that's what we've got ready for you at home this weekend so welcome to moscow is a much museum as a diehard apple addict opens out this twenty year collection of computers gadgets earned a rarity. and also winding out the winter with a pine cake perch and russians are welcoming the upcoming spring would be an. muscling it's a festival so i learned more about it as. islam is on the rise in many central asian republics but in kurdistan the increasing number of mosques has unless to a growing tolerance of muslims some residents feel they read the region's changing really just climate it's threatening better to show values and avoid car 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. teachers wouldn't let me enter the school with my head covered or wear in a boy or so for the past three months that i was studying here i had to find a place to change before classes into a 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 your heart says none of your classmates

was ever reprimanded for wearing short skirts or low cut tops the school officials are doing their best to draw a veil over this controversy they refused to comment saying only that they have to abide by the school dress code which bans students from covering their had so wearing any other religious symbols while in class this case is quite common for kyrgyzstan a former soviet republic in central asia that over the past decade has witnessed a dramatic rise in 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. for up to eighty percent of new mosque. we're built through some sort of partnership with arab countries mainly sell uribe or qatar and they provide more than money for the exploit their ideology here we already have politicians calling for the creation of caliphate. is this rapid change of cultural and religious norms that war is

many of the countries 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. 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 them anything 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 no vigil of it were not a fear is 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 been filled by the wrong lessons elsewhere it's not going to artsy kurdistan. the world's biggest ever deaths four percent away as greece scrambles to get is desperate for answers back on track banks and the bond holders will lose out to the tune of at least one hundred billion euros or to get the view from the street not to ask how deeply we should dig to save a nation in 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 in iowa got more g.o.p.

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 and he got to worry about greece and they only got good all of the greek all of i'm from germany and we have a strong. will and the greens have a weak you or 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 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 belittle their out and try to

get the same back on track so that means shouldering other people's responsibilities are you ok with that. yes or 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 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 am quick to really say actually that's a good exam. 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 into 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 in 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 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. technology of day to this is the home that does the house work for you that santa headlines recap interest to humans.

we have a local war lords will give him a note so we have a lot of groups of the cultures and sluices also abusing the rights in africa my marriage was like many of that marriage it wasn't forced marriage it's just maddy when i was fourteen yes you can liberate other women and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves ask again men and women we believe are going to stand up to the cross. the widow of

the patient it's coming up on the shelf and at a construction stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. will do the. piece of pizza the looking glass what will be the homes of the future where the walls might just be smarter than the residents every day trash for chicks . elements outside and the whole system works to save you. shine the spotlight on the ladies in building projects all around russia technology.

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