a million voices for independence scotland seeks to go it alone with a campaign that could see a referendum on breaking free from the u.k. in just two years time. and even students take quebec authorities to court to battle new emergency doors adopted after months of protest against the hiking tuition fees. and the year after riot police brutally broke up opposition demonstrations in the capital critics accuse the country's state media silencing the voices of discontent. and this is r.t. live from moscow i'm kerry johnston it's a million strong task the supporters of scottish independence launched their bid

for a declaration that could see the nation break free from a union with england the scottish national party believes if a million people put pen to paper it will secure a victory in a referendum they want held in twenty fourteen parties morrison if explains what's involved as the campaign begins. is to collect a million signatures from scottish people by two thousand and fourteen in support of a yes vote and then following on from that a referendum will be held which will be asking people whether they want independence from the u.k. whether they want scotland to be an independent sovereign nation in its own right so as to have full control of its own fiscal economic and political affairs and if it succeeds scotland with break away from the union by two thousand and sixteen we here and this is a union that's been in place for the last three hundred years it's been indorsed by a range of scottish celebrities including the actor sean connery who sent a message to the campaign and the first minister alex salmond this is this is his

baby really he's staked his entire political career on it the leader of the scottish national party he says we want to scotland that's greener fairer and more prosperous and for that we need an independent scotland even the most optimistic poll shows that only forty percent of people would vote for scottish independence now so that means that sixty percent of them that are the vote know or they're undecided of course that's what the yes campaign wants to address because there's a compelling emotional argument really for scottish independence they've always had this distinct national identity from england and the yes campaign wants a yes vote so that it will get control of its own revenues from north sea oil and gas of course that it could represent itself on the international stage all by itself it's always felt that it isn't westminster isn't really representing it there are scots who don't want independence as i've said they don't see a reason to separate really and they've got lots of questions about it for example currency at the moment of course they have the pound would they be able to keep the pound or would they have to join the euro which of course is not a particularly attractive prospect particularly at the moment they will soon lose

thousands of jobs military jobs a lot of them opposed would they move south of the border with they have to pay the billions of pounds of taxpayers' money that's been used to bail out scottish banks to keep them afloat that's been u.k. taxpayer money with a. to get that back and scott scottish and u.k. affairs are very intertwined it's not particularly easy to separate them and these people who will say they're going to vote no say that scotland benefits from being part of this case of power and of course south of the border there's a major adversary and david cameron who doesn't want to be the man who presides over the breakup of this three hundred year old union the fear is if scotland goes who would be next would wales go but it was dealt in the entire break up of the united kingdom as we know it but in the european parliament the scottish national party is calling for the nation to be recognised as a sovereign state within europe and that's n.e.p. and smith says that scotland is quite capable of surviving and prospering on its own there's a lot of also there but sure great deal of support and

a great deal of democratic legitimacy for the s.n.p. government in edinburgh serving the people of scotland well with competent government doing lots of good stuff representing scotland's interest with the european union and the wider world there is no question absolutely no question under any anybody's interpretation of the third year scotland more than that's where we have a considerably rich us a boost in terms of natural resources human resources now we've got water we've got the ability to feed ourselves we've got all sorts of good things going on it's up to the people of scotland to decide what sort of country we want to be and you talk about separating and that's that's just not how we see things we see this as joining the mainstream of the world joining the european union joining the united nations joining all sorts of other organizations look at all the global challenges that cross borders and we need to work together but we need to be represented by a government that actually does represent you presently at the london government simply just does not do that and it's very very clear to the people of scotland we

can do better. students and trade unionists have filed a legal motion against you imagine seeing the laws restricting protests but this nation was brought into force after months of demonstrations in canada planned rise in student tuition fees but the laws have only fueled public anger for thousands on strike since february since then the street protests have regularly and clashes with police two hundred thousand people arrested corey pool news editor of universities the newspaper which the movement is taking on the ever growing significance. but i think the government is trying to make it a lot it they try to keep it as a student issue that it's a student issue led by simply students and that. it can be it can be quelled with maybe some simple negotiation but i don't really think that that is exactly the case and i feel that it's an ideological issue it's a movement that has grown beyond the simple fact of what you wish an increase in

now encompasses many many problems. that are being brought up in the current government. mismanagement of funds corruption within the government itself this magic mismanagement of the university system and generally people are really upset and i don't think this issue will simply go away. this is artier still to come under surveillance coming all muslims and there's no freedom of worship in the u.s. state because the country's intelligence service also. put up the bone what about you know going over to your neighbor's house exactly getting away from it's too easy to just do it on my. way to easy but it seems like the social media praise is finally coming to an end to new york residents agree but after a few minutes. the results of egypt's

presidential election suggest that the country's next leader will be either an islamist or a top official from the mubarak era the runoff vote between the muslim brotherhood mohamed morsi and former prime minister ahmed shafik will take place next month the final results are due next week but based activist. says many egyptians already disappointed by the bout it. there is a general sense of disappointment in the whole country people did not expect that especially in those that we've reviewed unities did not expect that egyptians will vote for nor evolution the two candidates that have been chosen for the runoff means that all of them belongs to that if evolution so there is a general sense of disappointment of course among young people in which at present the majority of the population but now everyone is asking for much if it was involved in beating people into high risk or duty is that evolution and he was the

prime minister is that mubarak used to beautify is image in his last days before he leaves the fed that people are choosing him now probably they want to give him a new chance or probably zif what is a selected as a negative vote to morsi you want to present is a muslim brotherhood we're the most them brother would have been doing the can three since the parliamentary elections last november and since then we will have seen a muslim brotherhood are completely flawed from was they expected them to be they became more you know speaking about things that don't really relate to the people so i think they voted against them by selecting and i think this what will happen is that i'm off as well. it's been a year since the georgian riot police broke up five days of demonstrations demanding the resignation of president saakashvili two people were killed in the clashes with water cannon and rubber bullets used to disperse rallies and clear the

way for the former soviet republics independence day celebrations twelve months on the critics say the voices of those who took to the streets of the p.c. being hood river national reports. to study two one of georgia's main television channels its slogan for claims news is made here that you see yourself told this doesn't sell out the city are up for the day for the ads from the country's journalists charter complains that sometimes it's literally so and works equally for all georgian major broadcasters i mean they're uncovering news they make it there in their offices behind closed doors. in georgia where there are only three national channels road casting news channels while a state trans resolve the owners of the two others are starting to use and in mediæval have close ties with georgian president mikheil saakashvili and his administration they are the main sources of information for the country's almost four point five

million population z.r. says the news reports these three air often repeat each other which raises concerns over the it it oriel independence especially as the country enters election season five months before parliament voting. their quote black and white circus really is good opposition is bad but they're really coached georgian politics at all when i watch it i have the feeling that there are no problems georgia and their main mission is to entertain people to inform the. other channels content is more diversified from the corruption in the country's elite and political prisoners to a controversial purchase by the president's mother of a historic bilton in central but to me for just one larry which is less than one us dollar. but these are turning to the media sources can hardly get an audience outside the capital tbilisi. there is opposition of the fact they create

many problems with already to prevent us from broadcasting even promises on the we have a license also we get almost no money for commercials as the market is monopolised the people running the biggest company of a former minister of defense. and the head of government communications committee are also co owners of the three biggest channels all of them are friends with the president so ninety two percent of the revenue from commercials goes to these channels people are afraid to go to us for their advertising because they say that they did have problems with the authorities. apart from financial memo chris says the authorities practice other kinds of pressure to include in what he says is a feature of any offer a tarion regime as best i know it is we were journalists have been beaten up been stolen and there has been no investigation do we really have freedom of the press if our correspondents every time they go to an opposition rally have to wonder if they're going to be beaten or not from threats and civilians are also common someone threw a grenade near the offices of our debate program camera five while it was being broadcast live there was no proper investigation irakli and used paper reporter

says he has been beaten up twice in the last month by the presidents and interior ministers security for attempting to cover the events with the two top officials where only government approved media were invited. me here very hard and also yelled how did i come here at all that i would be blacklisted and would never find decent work and i think as elections approach such pressure will only get tougher while most of the population here in georgia get this news from spain own the faith and media the press is among the most tightly money talks and there are not to these presidential and parliamentary elections a lot of independent information means voters will make it a season that is likely far from being informed and according to many far from being free. race nationality tbilisi georgia. coming up in

a few minutes boucle disharmony ukraine's nationalistic pride that his entry to the euro vision song contest as a performer isn't crane enough. muslims

in the u.s. state of california say they're living in fear of prosecution by the government they claim the f.b.i. regards practicing islam as a criminal offense one of the government says it's just trying to prevent terrorist attacks and muslim community isn't convinced when the culture never discover it. yes a fog prepares for his daily prayers fear creeps into the back of his mind as to whether the person next to him is a spa you are you you know felt that there was a sense of mistrust that i wasn't sure about the people that were coming up the mosque if there was somebody you knew at the mosque that i had never seen i would always feel in the back of my mind that you know was this person what are they here

for a fight is one of many american muslims who came under the surveillance of the aft behind south in california what he thought was a fellow worshipper at a mosque turned out to be an informant the subject of monitoring muslims doesn't exactly come as a surprise to many in the u.s. this is been happening all across the country simply because so many muslim to cross country are getting visited on a regular basis by cia agents for jury joint terrorism task force officers so many are having problems now the consul of american islamic relations in california is suing the agency for what it says is an attempt to incriminate people based simply on their religion that the muslims are what the after americans were the fifty's sixty's seventy's i think it's a war a religious war i think it's part of. the sims based on the religion.

of believe this is a war on islam. and islam craig monte was an aft be an informant sent to infiltrate a muslim community in south in california and he says that while the f.b.i. insist it's acting to defend the u.s. from potential terrorist attacks and slapping suspicion on an entire religious group people here say americans have their mind sent to mistrust arabs and muslims and it's not simply because of the identification of the nine eleven hijackers but more from a decade of missed and is being. fine by hollywood as jihadists islamic extremists and terrorists. but people here believe the problem is far greater and concerns many minority communities targeted because of their faith and their if nicety. was not just about the muslim community

because what happens is that our constitutional freedoms start getting weak and for everybody and we're starting to see that more and more because we have allowed this so hot that it means for a fod and many others in minority communities nationwide they will be forced to live life looking over their shoulders even in their own country i have to constantly watch myself it's almost like this you know mental chatter that i have to constantly put myself through whenever i visit or go to the mosque or go to events with the community because you never know somebody that might be listening might be enough be i'm mad my you know question archie reporting from los angeles california. or a new stories for us coma is a quick takes to the eye of weights of government approval to get access to snoop or web sites and e-mails from somebody the agency is already policing cyberspace. and the first commercial space mission started the dragon vessel successfully dogs

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dot com. some one hundred million people worldwide are expected to tune in for this saturday's eurovision song contest but one country has been divided by the competition or rather their own entry many in ukraine are unhappy that the singer representing the country's annie hall of ukraine exposing what others fear the spread of racism in the country what is of. the song be my guest sounds like an invitation singular guy who is representing ukraine at the eurovision song contest says its message is positive that her country opens its arms to any gast but the reaction of ukraine's nationalists that is being performed by a woman with african roots suggests quite the opposite took over the book the jury which decided gautama should go it was very biased they didn't let real ukrainian singers go to europe like how she singles but now people might get an impression

that ukraine is a country somewhere in africa broadswords up with the daughter of a ukrainian mother and the congolese father may have been heard by this attitude but still try to play down with a smile i don't like it i hate to a season i hate when people. have so much negative like this. i hate it when people they try to choose you like a friend because you why do you black. this is no isolated racism among ukraine's nationalists over the the years. we've been making the ideology known in other ways deemed offensive by many from attacking the war veterans on victory day last year or cooking eggs and bacon on kiev's eternal flame which commemorates fallen red army soldiers all the previous actions of ukraine's right wing radicals have been mostly acts of hooliganism they have rarely made headlines especially in the global media but with the euro twenty twelve football

championship coming to ukraine some pundits in the west believe this is about to change reporter brian flynn from britain sun use paper disguised himself as a right wing sympathizer to go undercover into a nationalist field cam in western ukraine. to shows them firing weapons and using explosives this military wing of nationalists has what it takes to wrexham real hey vocally flynn believes their destructive skills could be employed quite soon with football hooligans being among those trained at the camp with the very clear about the number of of things that their ideology sort of points in the direction of a football one of them is is a belief that there should be no black players playing for european clubs as one of the generals told me it wouldn't it's not fair it should be england against ukraine not ukraine against england and africa but it was made clear that any black fans going to ukraine should should be very careful because clear to me that these are

people very serious about what they do they train physically to back it up with violence and. they followed live weapons. the danger of major violence at the football event may still be averted if authorities take action but another great risk pools for ukraine the ruling party's losing ground and september's vote may bring some of those radicals into parliament. now days no one will be surprised to see the nazi salute at full constables in western ukraine or nationalist some regional power plants peace can still take action against me on. see that's the magic of the very same people will have parliamentary immunity and an unlimited posthuman parliament to spread their ideas to young people ukraine's right wing nationalist align themselves in glory for everything ukrainian at the same time there are strongly supportive of their countries european integration but with increasingly vocal zina for becomes racist statements it's hard to imagine brussels listening to their opinions on ukraine becoming an e.u.

member state should they make it to power. reporting from kiev ukraine. or some other international for you now this hour syrian activists claim fifty people have been killed in the rest of holmes province they say scores were wounded in the violence as government forces shelled the town. but the action comes after me and said man that syria's only hope despite a recent u.n. report accusing both sides of deadly attacks document says the fighting is becoming increasingly militarized sponsorship six cease fire. because the star that huge rallies have been held against the possible reopening of nato supply routes into afghanistan. protest is challenged slogans condemning it u.s. interference in the country the border was closed today telling that that. drone attacks killed twenty four pakistani soldiers it's all about continues to demand

that washington apologizes for the incident and drone strikes. spain's fourth largest bank bank here has asked for a nine billion years of government cash to save it from collapse says ratings johnston unpause declared its credit score was junk spanish banks were heavily exposed to the country's system of state level and held massive accounts of toxic assets and this month an agenda felt to be nationalized bank yet by giving it four billion euros in eight. the last decade has seen the meteoric rise of social media networks and spine to being an integral part of modern day communication those who believe time has already passed the rest into new york glory hole funniest people on the streets what they think about the future of social media.

social media websites have been making headlines for years is the craze coming to an end anytime soon this week let's talk about that do you use social media i used to actually just. why is this getting tired of it tired of trying to keep up with everyone do you think the world is getting a little bit over social media yeah a little bit yes. start using social media time to go my grandmas actually do use know why not because i don't like being. putting too much of. a photo you i love you one provision. but the public ones like to be very specific. some people put a little too much information on there i think yeah why do we care about what people eat and what they're doing every second every meal they ate you know but it's a good way to keep in touch with people so what about the phone what about you know

going over to your neighbor's house and saying hi exactly i think people are getting away from that and it's too easy to just do it all. by i think there's a lot of good uses for the uses we found in the school system not so good but. i think there's too many young people are kind of think what's the big deal if i give somebody a threat over there where i've seen police officers get involved with kids or do those kinds of things because it's it's a threat whether it's on facebook or in person so do you think that social media is going to change to be a little bit safer or is it just going to get where i think it needs to change and i think it takes everybody to get more with a tender standard i actually do social media strategy for a job yes your life depends on social media a little bit i do other things as well but it's one of. that every day in your personal life i do one reason i think that i'm decent at social media strategy is because. a little bit sick of it so it has to be really good right like i mean it's

just seems to be so omnipresent now that i think there's something bigger and greater and better is going to come about. yet the second coming of jesus is going to come through social media next words his twitter that's i need to be part of jesus' twitter i'm sure he has right right right exactly. you think the social media craze is coming to an end why don't you tweet about it and b. if anyone cares. but i bring you the headlines in just a few moments stating. that

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