decision day for the syrian people as they take to the polls over a new constitution that would herald an end to single party rule. but the opposition is bogus in the vote in the country's violence with security forces on high alert fearing terror attacks at the polling stations so in the reef an ocean out in the syrian capital damascus shortly. thousands of people join hands and a massive flash mob will face elections in circling moskos city center a week before the country goes to the polls in the presidential elections join me in a few moments for more on this. and the valises again margin protest against education cuts in spain is the euro crisis greater hold around the mediterranean breeze

resists sigh of relief with a final approval of the bell. five pm in moscow i mad good to have you with us here on r t our top story the syrian people voting on a new constitution put forward by the government amid a backdrop of violence that's plagued the country for nearly a year artie's worry if an ocean has the latest from damascus. but we've been hearing lots of the lawman reports on possible terror attacks and provocations and strikes here in the capital damascus and everywhere in syria for that reason clearly security has been taught it's not huns police officers are literally everywhere we've seen many of them to die patrolling the streets trying to watch the situation was issued and has indeed been boycotting the vote but not only that

they've been called in the old people to go strive not to go to cast ballots and to take to the streets to protest against president bashar assad and to ask for him to step down the ballance is key. tina in the country with reports on people dying a literally every day as for the vote actually it is progress see we've been able to visit to polling stations here in the capital damascus and people there are people there they're all voters we've been able to speak to them they don't feel afraid some of them have said that yes we know that there are armed groups in the countries who are trying to make provocations who are trying to prevent us from voting but we hope that this referendum in this constitution as part of the package of democratic reforms promised by bashar al assad and his government will be able to bring peace and stability to our country so we are voting for peace and stability no matter what they say but of course the pressure from the opposition as

well as from the exertional community is very high because they call this vote laughable. ballots instead of bullets mesta mr asians and violent protests have been rolling across syria for almost a year. the syrian government desire calling for the people to shape their future together by taking part in a referendum on the country's new constitution fulfilling its pledge to reform. a boost who's very excited that he'll be able to decide his own tomorrow. it's a completely new era is good for everybody even opposition can take part it's for all the amendments to the country's number one law have been the key demands of the opposition since the uprising began it starts with eliminating baath party supremacy which have ruled the country for the last fifty years introduces a multi-party system and sets

a two term limit on any future president however even these reforms a cause in controversy to harden his friend odin flower shop in damascus he says this new document draws a. line between him and his muslim business partner just shout there is a big contradiction article thirty three says all equal number three says i can be a president what about the other ten percent that were not here temporarily we've been living together for ages just want to be counted. now maybe ten percent of the people they speak about this ok but maybe it was removing this article from the new constitution the ninety percent who said well why you take this article out of public debate on the draft constitution have been organized to bring the people and the authors of the new documents together they don't trust. their own sources and the sailors the stupid ones you work for

hire you for your c.d.'s he says become a god but some say the reste a long way to go to that new syria and they don't believe the government will follow through with their reforms i'm afraid if i were a goes the constitution somebody will in the world will shoot me clashes and protests almost every day but some hope that the referendum rule not only breed and you constitution it might even be able to stop the bloodshed. there are people who want to improve and develop but also others who want to divide syria we shouldn't help them but we should go and vote for a future in. the draft of syria's new constitution has been made public ten days before the national referendum fourteen new and forty seven amended articles are all here with comments and details the baser also on t.v.

and the internet never in the country's modern history for its residents so close to policy making which many here on the ground fear but the ongoing violence could marry any hope of reform. damascus syria in a few minutes putting the smart money on nuclear intelligence un's atomic agency struggles to reach a conclusion on iran's nuclear weapons america's intelligence agencies have their own evidence that may not sit well with israel. but first a ring of solidarity that was protesters calling for free and fair elections in iraq thousands of people took part in today's attempt to surround the center of moscow holding hands they wanted to complete the city's garden ring the road that encircled the historic center peter all over reports the goal of sunday's demonstration was to form a human chain around the guns and bring in moscow and i will bodies as a ring road that goes around the downtown area of the russian capital now the

activists to organizing this event today had called on supporters to come out wear white and support of their cause which is to see free and fair elections in russia no they were able to complete that journey around the garden ring that human chain around sixteen kilometers from one end to the other so clearly masses of people coming out and taking part there well there were also some supporters of the to me of putin for president who turned out it is a week before the presidential vote and there were some heated exchanges at times between supporters of the various political factions here in russia all of them peaceful but a few raised voices at times all of this coming as i say a week before russians go to the polls to elect the next president and we've seen a a space of political rallies in the last week we've seen supporters of the to me of putin for president also spins horses of the leaders of the liberal democratic party and the communists as well as other groups coming out and showing their

support for the particular candidates that they want to see take the top job. next sunday's presidential elections. as we are there next sunday russians will choose their next president from a number of candidates who would be. hitting the campaign trail but a contender keeping a relatively low profile is stirring some buzz abroad as artie's laura smith reports from london. russians a used to seeing putin in all manner of surroundings not only in top level meetings also out in the wilderness and even singing to a hollywood's a list crowd. but there always need height to scale and currently find him looming large on a london icon the double decker bus. is coming it proclaims so may find the wording of the slightly sinister but it's all to do with a new book which analyzes putin the man not the politician the books the results of

a six year collaboration between a british author and russian journalist alexander caught up put in is probably the most interesting political in the world at the moment and yes the right people who feel i'm belong towards the rebels who love him or those who do but the most important thing is that sort of. can see that they don't. although as it turned out that wasn't quite true you know it's about it might be desperate or russia. cozy probably a person who supposedly russia. i don't know. the. prime minister of russia but you've got a good deal to say friday's book release isn't connected to next month's election in russia but it does come hot on the heels of two separate british documentaries

involving putin one to look at the controversial political youth group nationally and the other a critically acclaimed parts counter through relations with the west during his twelve years at the top. it will be the world's attention on him again and people want to know is this the man we've seen before is he changing will he change can he face the new challenges and how does the recent protest movement affect his politics and his outlook having his faith. help you say the pats you go to the polls but love him a little bit since reputation is russ's strong man has captured the imagination of document to make his and in the u.k. and elsewhere whether it's fame or infamy it's an open question numerous mentality . still ahead this hour accused of aiding the enemy america's most famous whistleblower gets his first court hearing after nineteen months in custody just

two weeks after being dominated for a nobel peace prize more any few minutes. but first spain students refusing to sit quietly with thousands of again turning out mainly over planted you cation cuts but also after police came down hard at their last rally officers were accused of brutality at a protest earlier this week that left several hurt and more than forty arrested. for a reports from the coast. it's being done in the spring and you can see thousands upon thousands of people. afraid. of.

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across the mediterranean greece managed to snatch a saw from the jaws of default this week it took months of waiting but the e.u. leaders eventually cleared the latest hundred thirty billion euro bailout at the cost of imposing further cuts economist rodney shakespeare though says it's not more austerity that greece needs it's a complete overhaul. the plain fact of the matter is these are manipulations to justify the banking occupation of greece the greece people revolts because they are being smashed into the ground the suffering t. is being destroyed their property. assets being sold off they're being put into poverty and debt to nature not just for the rest of their lives but for their

children and their grand children's lives the whole thing is a fraud all that they need in fact is a new policy that policy must start by controlling the banks which create money out of nothing put it at compound interest and do not put it into the real economy and in particular to the spreading of the real economy. then you open up an interest free supply from your own national bank but to do that greece must get out of the euro and take its own destiny forward in the same way as iceland is now doing and doing very successfully. to the afghan capital now where one u.s. soldier has reportedly been killed several wounded in a grenade attack this image the sixth day of anti-american riots across the country sparked by news that copies of the koran had been burned at a u.s. air base washington apologized for what it called a mistake of the afghan president is urging calm at home and car as i said the

sentiment in the country was a legitimate reaction and call for those who are in the qur'an to be punished dozens of people have been killed since the unrest tuesday including two senior u.s. officers made correctly a think tank director in neighboring pakistan says americans neither understand nor respect the afghan culture. in the decade that the u.s. military has been in abundance done by the first time even to smaller places and provinces in towns wherever there is a u.s. presence ordinary afghans are laying siege to these places 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 and they're constantly sort of indoctrinated into into into treating in 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. turn out some other stories turn a spy or stories from the world news a car full of explosives has ran into a church in nigeria killing at least three people wounding several others the church was packed with sunday morning worshippers when the suicide attacker struck the city of jos radical islamist group boko haram is being blamed although no one yet has admitted carrying out the attack the sects killed more than three hundred people this year in its quest to impose sharia law across the country. gyptian court has adjourned a trial for dozens of pro-democracy activists including several americans to april defendants are accused of illegally using foreign funds to organize anti-government protests the obama administration is in talks with the dia gyptian parliament to resolve the case it's damaged ties between egypt and the states which has threatened to cut off its aid. in yemen army shelling has killed five al

qaeda linked militants officials say the strike started in the southern town of zanzibar saturday night and continued till early morning a yemeni soldier was also killed when he stepped on a my and in the same area government forces a failed to oust militants from the south of the country who have managed to seize control of several parts of the region this past year. pakistan more than halfway through demolishing osama bin laden the last hideout the leader shot dead by u.s. forces that you bought about compound last may after hiding there for several years no official reason being given for the demolition but it's thought of thirties didn't want the building to become a shrine. the standoff over iran's nuclear program showing little signs of show reaching a resolution with the u.n. atomic officials saying to iran has failed to cooperate they visited the islamic state twice this year and say iran has stepped up its uranium enrichment western allies suspect iran is building a nuclear bomb but iran says it has the right to a civil nuclear program the country is currently struggling under harsh sanctions

from the u.s. and e.u. while israel is threatening military action but u.s. intelligence has reportedly said there is no evidence to support accusations iran is pursuing nuclear weapons reza marashi from the national iranian american council and a former u.s. state department officer says a new approach is needed. the american intelligence agencies and for that matter the israeli intelligence agencies and many other foreign governments intelligence agencies are saying that iran is not made the political decision to pursue weaponized stations and that leaves time for diplomacy to be pursued to find a peaceful solution that's beneficial to all parties involved the primary sticking point the primary tropp problem that we see is that nobody trusts one another people in the p five plus one don't trust each other iran doesn't trust anybody in the p five plus one so in an effort 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 you also bringing in some outside actors from the p five plus one and iran to have trust in turkey and brazil being key samples of the parties that could play that 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 to go she will fail because iran will not like israel has been repeating its threat of military action on iran's nuclear sites saying that slapping sanctions on the country is not working but the u.s. and britain warned against the move saying it would be disastrous for the region as artie's a really good reports the anti iranian offensive may already be underway. israel's leaders are actively drumming up the military rhetoric. iran is the biggest terror

exporter in the world the israeli government and its security forces will continue to act forcefully systematically and calmly against international terrorism eating from iran. a potential israeli rocket clash looks more likely than never there is speculation a preemptive strike against iran's nuclear sites could happen as early as spring or summer although that's not causing undue concern in israel i think possibly people you know they make their plans for a vacation you know pass or a vacation summer vacation possibly people are beginning to wonder well is there going to be a war is something going to mess it up or i think they're probably going ahead with it with sort of a thought we're back tomorrow it would be nice if we could get a flight that we could cancel you know you know it's that sort of thing israel has previous experience when it comes to putting an end to you him visions which pose a potential threat in one thousand nine hundred one is just wiped out reactors in

iraq they struck again in two thousand and seven hitting sites in syria but with iran's nuclear program things may not be so simple that if israel attacks iran it will not stop iran forever from getting nuclear weapons the only postpone it for a relatively brief amount of time the. installations are too diverse and far flung to destroy factor fully israel does not have u.s. poured white house secretary advisor was in israel warning against a move on iran saying it was better to wait for tougher sanctions to take effect in the coming months but mines may already be made up i think one of the things to create this aura of inevitability is to shut them up to shut up opposition at home and of course to convince the united states and europe that this is an inevitability it's going to happen don't oppose it in fact why don't you help us out there is a question mark however over whether israel has what it takes to carry out the

mission i doubt with the we have the capability. creating the image is to the extent of the mediating the program and even if israel's military prowess will allow it to carry out a strike on underground facilities in iran chances are it won't end there as it was saddam hussein and bashar assad by the time they knew what was happening was over and could just you know grumble without having to fight back do you imagine iran sitting still you know all day day after day day after the israel is triggered back i think any any sane person realizes that there will almost guaranteed be missiles falling on israel and consider your own fault one of the twentieth century's longest noise against a rock in the one nine hundred eighty s. it consequences could be five reaching and destructive. has or has been suffering some better weather as of late but it's likely that even the strongest winds will blow the country's foreign policy off its course and when it comes to israel's

forecast for iran this storm clouds seem to be growing ever darker in tel aviv r.t. and an hour's time a former u.s. presidential adviser tells r t how it was country should give up trying to end world tyranny and focus on its interests rather than meddling in others here's a preview. the idea that we're going to end tyranny in the world is utterly utopian we never are we've had tyrants from time immemorial and what the united states should do in my judgment in its foreign policies is build a defense establishment strong enough to protect our vital interests and our vital allies and when problems arise whether it's in zimbabwe or somewhere else the people there have got to deal with their own problems there no doubt about it that throughout history tyrants have a reason and see power in one place or another and as long as they don't threaten our vital interests or threaten and kill our people the fact that they rule and or

misrule certain countries is none of our. business. the u.s. soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret military files to wiki leaks chose not to enter a plea during his first court appearance thursday bradley manning faces twenty two charges also passed on deciding whether he wanted to be tried by a military jury or a single judge if convicted of aiding the enemy he could be handed a life sentence with a no chance of parole but he's considered a hero to many americans and has been nominated for the nobel peace prize by an icelandic group there are doubts over whether the whistleblower can get a fair trial though after president obama publicly stated that he broke the law u.s. attorney kevin zeese says manning is standing trial just for telling the truth. well this is a case of very low level classified documents in fact there's questions as to whether they should be classified at all we have to also realize that when. we

release the pentagon papers those are very high level secrets and even those we're not releasing any national security information that should have been kept secret all we're finding out from even the highest level secret of the pentagon papers in the lowest level secrets that meetings accused of is crimes unethical behavior misbehavior by the u.s. foreign by u.s. foreign policy we're showing our corporations and the government work closely together the support of corporate profit rather than public interest we're showing all sorts of inappropriate behavior by people who like surgery say clinton who ordered us to matts to spy on u.n. officials when they came to meetings in the united nations that's illegal yet she's not being prosecuted manning who is accused of essentially telling the truth is being prosecuted facing life in prison while people who commit war crimes and other crimes are not being prosecuted. in a few minutes archie's technology update visits the home that does the work for you

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