students in spain have united in anger again education cuts and in defiance of heavy handed police tactics and rallies. plus more u.s. officers are killed in afghanistan during a fifth day of violence in protest at the burning of the qur'an and the american military base. international news live from moscow this is us he was media national power thanks for joining us first as the violence and see where rages on seventy countries led by the u.s. are uniting that is against damascus by agreeing to step up sanctions the so-called friends of syria group also supporters of the assad regime who want invited to the meeting in tunisia and that's one of the reasons a russian refused to attend is saying it can't 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 very few 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 you document it includes a fourteen. forty seven amended 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 promoted 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 for they had of the country's percent so you would hope 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 work with a vote and to go on strike violence has continued in the country in clashes between the opposition and the authorities still taking place in several parts across the country here in damascus where we've been hearing several warnings not to go to

polling stations because they think 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. and among the reaction as he's being hearing is that western powers don't want a diplomatic solution to syria because assad crossed them determined to see him out of office the 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 worst motocross has been nothing to do with human rights and nothing to do with race between to do with. a line that is true. of the law is

to be imposed on the entire middle east if it was a boat human rights on reforms then people would be interested in engaging and because it's quite clear from everybody that there's been violence of violent situation in do you look at social civil war if you're sincere about wanting to avoid a potential civil war then you wouldn't. you do have one potential side in that civil war as an alternative government in exile and in effect incite a push towards for. even by voyage you respond to the diplomatic signals that are coming when you try to pursue a peaceful solution it's quite obvious that washington and london or at present not interested in that negotiated solution. and of course also valley your opinion you're invited to cast your vote on our web site called why we're asking what you think the constitutional referendum will mean for syria while the majority of years

think now that it will hardly change a thing as the west intends to interfere anyway of course if you believe nothing will result as syrians lost faith in their government and another twenty five percent say that it will just provoke more violence and only seventeen percent are sure it will mean the start of a real political reform so those are the results for now but you can change by sharing your thoughts on our website r.t. dot com. and we have more solutions for syria in a few minutes as moscow stands firm our how to tackle the conflict so far just prime minister touches on america's position on the crisis and comments on u.s. plans for a european and to missile shield we've got the details just ahead. questions remains over iran's nuclear program after your own atomic officials said tehran has failed to cooperate with them many countries suspected iran is building an atomic bomb but iran insists it's only peaceful and the choice. why the u.s.

and its allies have been imposing tough economic sanctions while eight zero has even threatened military action against iran's nuclear sites but it's being of reporters that america's intelligence community has doubts about the new cat a geisha it's and a columnist at the foreign policy in focus magazine says the west's concern of 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 if iran were to use a nuclear weapon say for 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 remove the second largest oil resources and the third 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 not have that kind of independent force in the middle east. thousands of students in spain have again staged a protest in valencia getting spawn's education cuts this week the police were accused of have a hand in this one similar demonstrations ended in clashes our correspondent sara fast reports now from the city. of the land in spring and you can see thousands upon thousands of people turned out. to. get. the job done.

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the population. i don't want to break the. bank and i got a little. red cross. and on the other side of the mediterranean greece is also racing against a ring later we ask just how much the people are willing to help. and no doubt in my book here though is no use that other european countries they're ok with that basically daily out i mean the world that you talk now time as it is without having to bail out another country. so if he's president you your opinion whether you get more bailout billions can ever stop the rot. presidential frontrunner has reaffirmed russia's position on syria insisting moscow will not bow to western pressure the premier said the kremlin will plough on to seek

a balanced solution involving all sides in syria and it's not the only show over which russia is prepared to lock horns with the u.s. says peter all 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 it who 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 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 the strength that they had the united states should be looking for a more constructive approach to finding a solution to the current impasse

a rant was also on the lips of the prime minister vladimir putin saying they support 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 got to be approved outlying his stance on those key foreign policy issues. two u.s. military officers have been shot dead at the afghanistan interior ministry in kabul and the defense day of a nationwide anti-american process they say is ordering all its personnel to leave afghan ministries to avoid fat at times dozens of people have been killed and wounded in clashes during the week. when copies of the qur'an were discovered at u.s. abbes washington admitted a mistake that had been made as well with both the white house and nato officials apologizing to kabul but met kori direct in neighboring pakistan says the u.s.

that alliance will be hard pressed to restore its reputation in the decade that the u.s. military has been in the but has done for the first time even in 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 were facing the various insurgent resistance groups the of god telling them but now after this incident here see the ordinary of guns of course pitched against the u.s. will be present but also u.s. trained lisa and u.s. trained soldiers know an ordinary american working you know what is done today doesn't know whether he should expect a bullet from afghan taliban or front and 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 of get on 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 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 some mornings and brief. clashes injuries to. between clouds of get sent police eyewitnesses said riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets the protesters replied with rocks and fire bombs it followed a funeral of a palestinian man who'd been shot dead as police stormed the grounds of the city's the mosque it's a slice that's holy to both to muslim muslims and jews and it's seen several clashes falling dream is that authorities had allowed hard line jewish accident access to the compound. people are missing after an explosion set fire to brazil's

antarctic research station forty four people have been evacuated by helicopter to the nearby chilean research base and if so the incident began in a machine room that housed electrical generators the complex has reportedly been completely destroyed because efforts to fire the fire or suspended because of bad weather. protesters in senegal 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 held their final rallies the west african nation has seen unprecedented turmoil over the eighty five year old president's refusal to set aside his controversial bit for a set. to garrion the cane of spain son in law is being investigated for corruption he's being questioned over claims that him misused public funds given to a foundation controlled the jute denies all the allegations of course that involving millions of viewers. a process in the spanish capital during the court

hearing. after a wave of haka tugs took out several u.s. federal websites officials have been quick to point out that there's a new terror battlefront and there's danger that they're worried from data x. post or is that the threats being blown out of proportion by those making big bucks by playing on people's digital distress this account and it has the story. it may seem like a quiet day in america but just it's the scene of a raging battle invisible to the naked eye where there is war underway right now on the internet this is cyber war is the u.s. ready for a full scale so i wanted 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. 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. 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 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 reach to prepare yourself here with more frightened 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 he 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 is going to be tempting. for folks in the you know the defense contracting community for example to hype cyber threats because it's one of the few streams that muddy 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. a battle does rage here invisible to the naked eye a war for money contracts and power to seek out our t. washington. and looking online at what we've got for you at home this weekend so welcome to moscow's market museum as a diehard apple asics opens up his twenty year collection of computers gadgets and irresolutely. and also winding out winter with a pint take a trend russians are welcoming that coming spring with the annual i'm afraid it's a festival so learn more about it at.

all right islam is on the rise in many central asian republics but encouraged astounding increasing number of mosques hasn't led to much tolerance of muslims some residents feel the region's changing religious climate is threatening their traditional values and she's accountable to cover. 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. poor teachers who wouldn't let me enter the school with my head covered or wear in a boy 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 about that came at a cost in order to have here today muslim dress code i have 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 are hot says none of her classmates was ever reprimanded for wearing short skirts a low cut tops the school officials are doing their best to draw a veil over this controversy they refused to comment saying only that they have to abide by the school dress code which bans students from covering their had so wearing any other religious symbols while in class this case is quite common for kyrgyzstan a former soviet republic in central asia that over the past decade has witnessed a dramatic rise of the more conservative islam the country of five and a half million people already has around two thousand mosques and the state has little control or even understanding of what is being preached in them. up to eighty percent of new mosques were built through some sort of partnership with arab

countries mainly sell your arabia or qatar and they provide more than money 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 worries many of the country's liberals were not a bribe or teachers social scientists or distance most prestigious university oh. she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year a glass slipper whole and then they say when we 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 hoodie i wanted to come up to them and say look around you can do so much with your life at that but i held myself back because who might tell them anything else a minute later they came up to me and started saying sister don't turn away from

the border 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 your vigil of what we're not out of fear is that if muslims and kurdistan are given full really just freedom it would be just a matter of time before other basic rights are done away with the still she says she would rather have all sorts of headwear in her classroom than the risk students had been filled by the wrong lessons elsewhere it's not going to artsy kurdistan. the world's biggest ever dirt swap is underway as agreed scrambles to get its desperate finances back on track buying sand bondholders will lose out to the tune of at least one hundred billion euros or who gets the view from the street not to ask how deeply we should dig to save a nation in debt 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 then all iowa got more g.o.p. g.d.p. then then greece they both sound so what's greece is going to do to us 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 olives greek all of i'm from germany and we have a strong. and the greens have a weak you or and so we should help. you 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 here ok

with that but simply nice day 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 bail is 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 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 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 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 now 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 a difference. and coming your way shortly max kaiser and his co-host a sahabat discuss global economic policies and make some unfavorable comparisons because a report turns it's an unforgiving gaze on the world of finance that's just after the headlines here not.

to. be above board of war lords war criminals we have a lot of little groups of the. also argues in the writing of my marriage was like many other marriage it wasn't forced marriage it's just my view when i was fourteen yes you can liberate other women and you certainly

can't do it through the barrel of a gun but the effect of social changes will be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe are going to stand by him not to the cross per widow but the fish and its chemical pollution and the construction but stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. the east. to. just sit.

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