the cash transfusions in spain have united in and get a game as education cuts and in defiance of heavy handed police tactics and their riley. rossmo you are so if this is a killed in afghanistan during a day of violence and protest the burning of the koran in an american military base . and a very warm welcome from all of us here in moscow this is all she was me you know thanks for joining as fast as the violence in syria rages on seventy countries led by the u.s. so uniting their efforts against damascus by agreeing to step outside actions the so-called friends of syria group also shunned supporters of the assad regime who want invited to the meeting in tunisia and that's one of the reasons russia are a few steps and 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 paul in the country she's very few notion is that her. 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 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 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 the fourteen new and 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 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 the eight will only come into force after the next elections for they had of the countries set schedule for two thousand and fourteen it's managed to meet the majority of democratic demands of the people of syria the opposition has already called to vote could they vote 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 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 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 has been hearing is that western powers don't want to diplomatic solution to syria because assad crossed them they're determined to see him out of office. policy of the west 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 major client has been nothing to do with human rights and nothing to do with reforms between to do with his pursuing

a line that is too 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 a violent situation indeed a potential civil war if you're sincere about wanting to avoid a potential civil war then you wouldn't gauge until you do have to stop one potential side in that civil war as an alternative government in exile underneath ect incite a push towards for regime change even by violence you respond to the diplomatic signals that are coming out and you're trying to pursue a peaceful solution it's quite obvious that washington and london are at present not interested in that negotiated solution. and we also value your opinion and you're invited to cast your vote on our web site r.t. dot com where we're asking what you're saying the constitutional referendum will

mean for syria so the majority of you are saying that it will hardly change a thing as the west intends to interfere in any way eighteen percent of you believe nothing will come of it syrians have lost faith in their government and another nine percent say it will just provoke more violence and the rest assured it will mean the start of real political reform so those are the results for now but you can change that by sharing your thoughts on our web site r.t. dot com. and also on our web site is the overshadowed inauguration as a car bomb attack on the presidential palace in southern yemen leaves dozens dead just hours of the country's new leader was sworn in. questions remain over iran's nuclear program after a year on atomic official said to iran has failed to cooperate with them many

countries suspected iran is building an atomic bomb but iran insists it's only seeking a peaceful energy 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 as that america's intelligence community has doubts about the new allegations and can harden a columnist said 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 and into resources. i think is really in many ways a smokescreen this is not about nuclear weapons it's a long word use of nuclear weapons against israel it would be an act of national suicide i think it's a lot more to do with the politics of the middle east politics of their control. energy resources of the nine hundred seventy nine revolution in iran essentially remove the second largest oil resources in the search largest natural gas resources

from direct controlled by western oil and gas companies and essentially 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. thousands of students in spain have again a state of protests and violence against blonde education cuts at it this way the police were accused of having herndon as one of similar demonstrations and today clash as our correspondent sara firth reports now from the east coast city. it's being dumped in the landfill in spring and you can see thousands upon thousands of people. cutting education a. basic

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to get. the population. of the world. on the other side of the mid hearing in greece is also racing against her and they say well it's just how much the people away. to help. now i know that in my book it is you know as long as that other european countries the ok with that basically nice day out i mean they will find out now time is it is it having to bail out another country day. passes residents new york or gauges opinion on whether they get more bailout billions can ever stop the rot. and cyber threat a wave of how times and u.s. websites generates additional distress for some and

a big profit far this thing that's for the details coming late in the program. presidential frontrunner allegedly putin has reaffirmed russia's position on syria assisting moscow were no barrier to western pressure the premier said the kremlin world clown to seek a balanced solution valving all sides in syria and it's not the only show there which russia is prepared to lock horns with the u.s.'s peace on every explains. but he was really addressing his stand point 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 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 no vladimir putin 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 will iran was also on the lips of the prime minister vladimir putin saying that the allegations that iran was development nuclear weapons was being used as an excuse to try and initiate regime change. in the country and russia's relationship with iran was different from other countries and so this is really i say just over a week before the election is now got to be approved outlying his stance on those key foreign policy issues to us and the chill he says have been shoved at the afghanistan interior ministry kabul and made a fair day of nationwide anti-american protests nato is ordering all its personnel to leave not getting ministries to vote for that time dozens of people have been

killed and wounded in clashes during the week parked when copies of the koran were discovered at a u.s. at base washington admitted a mistake had been made with but they white house and nato officials apologizing to kabul but that curry think tank directing 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 has done for the first time even if you have smaller places and provinces and towns where ever there is a u.s. presence ordinary afghans are laying siege to these places until now the americans for the seeing the various insurgent resistance groups the of gun taliban but now after this incident here see the ordinary of balance of forces pitched against the u.s. will be presence but also u.s. trained lisa and u.s. trained soldiers no one ordinary american working in afghanistan today doesn't know whether he should expect a bullet from afghan taliban or wrong and afghan 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 of 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 use of going or personal would be able to restore the level of trust that existed it was if i do some research do good and more world news and briefly this hour clashes in jerusalem between clouds of good sand police eyewitnesses had riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets the protesters replied with rocks and fire bombs it followed a funeral of a pakistani man but the man who's been shot dead as police stormed the grounds of

this city is a lax a mosque it's a site that's holy to both muslims and jews and it seen several clashes falling rumors that authorities had allowed hardline jewish activists access to the compound. two 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 it's not the incident began in a machine room that housed electrical generators the complex has reportedly been completely destroyed because efforts to fight the fire were suspended because of bad weather. protests isn't sinegal 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 the candidates held their final rallies the west african nation has seen unprecedented turmoil over the eighty five year old presidents refusal to set aside his controversial bit for us.

to do in our gallery indicating that spain's sons in law is being investigated for corruption is being questioned over claims that he misused public funds given to a foundation he controlled denies all the allegations of fraud that involving millions of viewers there and he wanted to protest in the spanish capital during the court hearing. so the former soviet republics are seeing a dramatic rise in conservative islam and some fear it's causing divisions in society and she's a ton of work reports and crucial. cultural religious differences in kurdistan. 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 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 well but 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 our heart says none of your 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. for up to eighty percent of new mosques were built through some sort of partnership with arab countries or mainly sell uribe or cards and they provide more than money but over the exploit their ideology here we already have politicians calling for the creation of caliphate devoted herself to. 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 kyrgyzstan's most prestigious university. she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year. and 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 and i saw three young women all covered in black because 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 him 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 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 just as 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 deaths for his underwear is greece scrambles to get as desperate finances back on track by send

a bond holders will lose us 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 take to save a nation of 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 then all 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 i mean got to worry about greece they only got good olives greek all of i'm from germany and we have those.

who'll and the greens have a weak you or and so we should help to give your ok with that you don't feel like there should be responsible for themselves they should be let go but we should hope that if it was coming directly out of your pocket would you still be in support of the bailout no no doubt in my book. so as long as that other european countries 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 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 to bailout with the u.s.

car industry sort of had an ok ending and i was skeptical about that so i don't know i don't think i am quick to really say actually that's a good exam. 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 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 to it 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.

after wave of hack attacks took out several u.s. federal websites officials have been quick to point out that as a new terror bustle front of us the internet they were it from day to expose that is that the threats being blown out of proportion by those making big bucks by playing on people's digital distress lucic often have half 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 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 well equal or surpass the threat from counterterrorism and

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 there's 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. we could have

a cyber attack that would be as consequential in terms of the economy maybe even in terms of problem loss of life as things we typically your source it was more frightening 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 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 strings 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 rage here invisible to the naked eye

a war for money contracts and power to seek out our t. washington. next hour she's martin entries this is the most popular fast food venues in moscow to find out if low prices really mean poor quality but before that i'll be back with a headline. but

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