education cuts and in defiance of heavy handed police tactics and. lots more u.s. officers are killed in afghanistan a jury of peers violence and protest at the burning of the qur'an and american military base. you saw russia under around the world this is with me judicial power thanks for joining us start the violence in syria rages on seventy countries led by the you are so uniting their efforts against damascus by agreeing to step up sanctions the so-called friends of syria group also shunned supporters of their sound regime who weren't invited to the meeting in tunisia and that's one of the reasons russia refused to attend saying it cannot support a one sided approach to the crisis pascua wants a peace deal that involves both damascus and the opposition was no foreign pressure applied fighting between rebel forces and government troops is escalating with

dozens reported killed on saturday had of a breakthrough poured in the country. 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 out river where he 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 a fourteen forty seven amended articles and one of the main changes is in the article. number eight actually and an 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 promoted the article number eighty eight is also very important is that the president of the country could only be elected for two seven hear terms that in another article emphasize that it will only come into force after the next elections for the had of the countries set schedule for two thousand and fourteen it's managed to meet the majority of democratic demands of the people of syria the opposition has already called to vote could they vote and to go on strike violence is continued in the country in clashes between the opposition and the authorities are 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 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 out he's been hearing is that western powers don't want a diplomatic solution to syria because assad crossed them and that 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 west. has been nothing to do with human rights and nothing to do with between to do with pursuing a line that is truly independent of the law in that is to be in. posed 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 go into action you do have 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 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 are at present not interested in that negotiated solution and we do value your opinion so you're invited to cast your vote on our web site r.t. dot com where we are asking what you think the constitutional referendum will mean for syria and the majority of you think that it'll hardly change a thing as the west intends to interfere anyway twenty percent of you believe

nothing will come out of it as syrians have lost faith in their government another six percent say it will just provoke more violence and the rest assured it will mean this start of real political reform so those are the results for now but you can change them by sharing your thoughts on our website at r.t. dot com. and also if you go on our website the overshadowed inauguration as a card on the tide on the presidential palace in southern yemen leaves dozens dead just hours after the country's new leader was sworn in. questions remain over iran's nuclear program after un atomic officials said tehran has failed to cooperate with them many countries suspect to iran is building an atomic bomb but iran insists it's only seeking

a peaceful and interest supply the u.s. and its allies have been imposing tough economic sanctions while a trial has even threatened military action against iran's nuclear sites but it's being reported that america's intelligence community has doubts about the need for allegations and. from the national iranian american council and still with us state department officer told us iran has made the decision to build nuclear weapons but the west should offer a positive dispensable to make changes to. the american intelligence agencies and for that matter the israeli intelligence agencies and many other foreign governments intelligence agencies are saying that iran has not made the political decision to pursue weaponization and that's a very important distinction it doesn't mean that the iranian government's nuclear program isn't a cause for concern but it also means that they have made the most troubling decision and that leaves time for diplomacy to be pursued to find a peaceful solution that's beneficial to all parties and not the primary sticking point the primary truck problem that we see is that nobody trusts one another

people and the people plus one don't trust each other iran doesn't trust anybody in the people of plus one so enough to try and move things forward and shift that paradigm from the negative to the positive you know we need to get creative and international leaders need to find ways to take risks for peace anything from broadening the agenda to discussion issues not just focus on iran's nuclear program but things that iran is also interested in regional security energy security things of that nature jostle bringing in some outside actors who the p five plus one and iran do have trust within turkey and brazil being to keep samples of the parties that are played a kind of mediating role if positive inducements are not offered to iran and if the west doesn't seriously consider whether or not offering those positive inducements to iran are in america's interest europe's interests i'm negotiating will fail because iran will not like. thousands of students in spain have again staged a protest in valencia against planned education cuts earlier this week the police

were accused of heavy handedness when similar demonstrations ended in clashes our correspondents our first reports now from the east coast city. it's being dumped into the landfill in spring and you can see thousands upon thousands of people. afraid. to. come to this event. a. basic saying the phrase i. believe.

the phrase has. a lot. of. regional. doesn't make it a lot of the public. that. even . believe. that. the population. of the one.

of the. red cross legged. on the other side of the mediterranean greece is also racing against river and until asia was just how much people. willing to hurt . you know my book here so as long as that other european countries they're ok with it basically daily and i mean they will tell you to have enough time as it is about having another country. so as resident new yorker gauges opinion of where they get more bailout billions can efforts stop the rock. and cyber threat away we'll have a tax on us website is trying to raise digital distress for some and big profits for others stay with us for the details coming later in the program. presidential frontrunner has reaffirmed russia's position on syria insisting moscow will not bow to west of pressure the premier said the kremlin that will plough on to seek

a balanced solution involving all sides in syria and it's not the only issue over which russia is prepared to lock horns with the u.s. as 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 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 know vladimir putin 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 will iran was also on the lips of the prime

minister vladimir putin saying this the allegations that iran was development 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 election is now got to be approved outlying his stance on those key foreign policy issues. two u.s. military officers have been shot at the afghanistan interior ministry in kabul and the defeat today of nationwide anti-american protests nature's altering all its personnel to neve afghan ministries to avoid fat tax dozens of people have been carried and wounded in clashes during the week which first part one burned copies of the koran were discovered at a u.s. air base washington the method a mistake had been made with buzz the white house and nato officials apologizing to kabul but met quraysh a think tank direct in neighboring pakistan says the u.s.

led alliance will be hard pressed to restore its reputation in the decade of the us military has been enough but it's done by the first. even if you do 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 of god told him but now after this incident here see the ordinary guns of the worst pitched against the u.s. will be present but also u.s. trained least known and u.s. trained soldiers know an ordinary american working you know what he's done today he 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 of get on very well the us military are increasingly treated to what i would call anti islamism they are constantly

sort of indoctrinated into into into treating islam disrespectfully i sailed to see how the u.s. military personnel and the of the east end of gun army personnel would be able to restore the level of trust that existed let's see if i do so for six days ago and quick check of some other news in briefly this hour two people have been killed i'll turn 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 still as the incident began at a machine room that housed electrical generators the complex has reportedly been completely destroyed after efforts to find the fire where it suspended because of bad weather. clashes a injuriously between crowds and police said eyewitnesses said riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets they protesters replied with rocks and fire bombs that

followed a funeral of a palestinian man has been shot dead as police storms the grounds of the city's alex and. that's a sign that's. only to both muslims and jews and it's in several pushes falling rumors that authorities have allowed hardline jewish activists access to the. gallery and the king of spain son in law always being investigated for corruption has been questioned over claims that he misused public funds given to a foundation he controlled the judge denies all delegations of fraud that are involving millions of euros and there were anti monarchy protests in the spanish capital during the court hearing. some former soviet republics are seeing a dramatic rise in conservative islam and some fear it's causing divisions in society. reports now on cultural and religious differences in caracas start. it's a mix of religious compliance and teenage defiance ever since fourteen year old one

had left the school half a year ago she never misses a chance to walk past it in full muslim dress numbers let's put our teachers who wouldn't love me or 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 but that came with a cost in order to arrive 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 school altogether and now stay at home. here finish school doesn't require students to wear uniforms in fact your heart says none of your classmates was ever reprimanded for wearing short skirts 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 cellier arabia or qatar and they provide more than money over the exploit their ideology here we already have politicians calling for the creation of caliphate of authorship. is this rapid change of cultural and religious norms that worries many of the country's liberals were not

a bribe or teachers social scientists of kyrgyzstan the most prestigious university . she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year. and then they lived there we didn't have a mosque now there are three all built by foreign janus as i was walking past one of the mosques and i saw three young women all covered in black i wanted to come up to them and say look around you can do you see 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 allah 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 a we're 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 through. but the wrong lessons elsewhere. are to see. the world's biggest ever deaths war was underway as greece scrambles to get its desperate finances back on track bikes and bondholders will lose out to the tune of at least one hundred billion euros or she gets the view from the street to ask how deeply we should dig to save a nation in depth 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 grace you know iowa got more geo big g.d.p.

than than greece they both sound 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 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 all 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's. 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 are 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 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 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. although because you hear bailout 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 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. on her way will hack attacks took out several u.s. federal websites officials have been quick to point out that as a new terror a battle front on best thing to it they were it from day to expose the owings that the threats being blown out of proportion by those making big bucks by playing on people's digital distress this account and have her 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 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 cyberwar 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 for. 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 we typically your service 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 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 strains that mahdi 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 to create the problem to state the problem and offer their own services as a solution. at battle does rage here invisible to. naked eye award for money contracts and power. washington. next time she's technology have day to visit the home that does the housework for you that's a headline recap in just a few months. it's

.

been years and tragedy. dear motion. and the train. family. and does a leak. on the bottom of a coffee swamp. this is an aussie welcome to the program a quick check of the headlines.