a million voices for independence scotland seeks to go too low in with a campaign that could see a referendum on breaking free from the u.k. in just two years' time. canadian students take it could be called for it is to court to battle new emergency laws adopted after months of protests against the hiking tuition fees. and the year after riot police brutally broke up opposition demonstrations in the georgian capital critics accuse the country's state media of silencing the voices of discontent. there this is our table costing live from moscow a very warm welcome to today well it's

a million strong task supporters of scottish independence launched their bid for a declaration that could see the nation break free from a union with the u.k. a scottish national party believes if a million people put pen to paper he will secure victory in the referendum they want held in twenty fourteen. explains what's involved as the campaign begins. a 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 to have full control over its own fiscal economic and political affairs and if it succeeds. breakaway from the union by two thousand and sixteen we hear 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 what are the vote no or the undecideds of course that's what the 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 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 a place to move south of the border with they have to pay 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 where they. to get that back and scot 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 in david cameron who doesn't want to be the man who presides over the break up of this three hundred year old union the theory 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 when the european parliament the scottish national party is calling for the nation to be recognised as a sovereign state within europe and it's any piano and smith says that scotland is

quite capable of surviving and prospering on its own there's a lot of also 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 food your story movement has its way 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 the side for sort of country we want to be and you talk about separating and 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. now canadian students and trade unionists have filed a legal motion against new emergency laws restricting protests legislation was brought into force after months of demonstrations in quebec and a planned rise in student tuition fees but new laws very few have public and thousands on strike since february sixteenth street protests have regularly clashes with police with more than two and a half thousand people arrested for corey pool news editor of concordia university is the link newspaper thinks the movement is taking on the ever growing significance. well i think that the government is trying to make it a lot. in trying to keep it as a student issue student issue was led by simply students and. 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 out in the government. mismanagement of funds corruption within the government itself mismanagement mismanagement of the university system and generally people are really upset and i don't think this issue will simply go away. this is still to come under surveillance californian muslims claim there is no freedom of worship in the u.s. state because the countries that us intelligence service. local disharmony. ukraine's nationalistic pride of countries entry to the humiliation song contest because they say the performance isn't crazy enough. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. market why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred. the global financial headlines kaiser report on our. early results of egypt's presidential election suggest that the country's next

leader will be even an islamist or a top official from the mubarak era the runoff vote between the muslim brotherhood's one hundred misty and former prime minister ahmed shafik will take place next month the car of based activists. many egyptians are already disappointed by the bout it. there is a general sense of disappointment in the whole country people did not exploit that especially you know that if they didn't usually is 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 belong to that evolution so there is a general sense of disappointment of course among young people in which it resembles a majority of the population but now everyone is asking for much as he was involved in beating people in tahrir square the audience that evolution and he was a 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 him as a negative vote to morsi you want to present as a muslim brotherhood we the muslim brotherhood have been doing the can three since the parliamentary elections last november and since then we will have seen a muslim brotherhood are completely far 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 georgian roman police broke up five days of opposition demonstrations demanding the resignation of president saakashvili two people were killed in the clashes and dozens injured what a kind and rubber bullets used to disperse rallies twelve months on the critics say the voices of those who took to the streets of tbilisi are being silenced by the

country's state controlled media international ports. to stop one of georgia's main television channels its slogan proclaims news is made here. that you see yourself put just doesn't that what the rules that you 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 do not cover news they make it 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 see and 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 of these three air often repeat each other which raises concerns over the it is tauriel independence especially as the country enters election season five months before parliament voting. they are quite black and white sarkozy's good opposition is bad but they rarely touch georgian politics at all but when i watch it i have the feeling that there are no problems in georgia but the main mission is to entertain people not 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. local authorities prevent us from broadcasting in the provinces where we do have a license people running the biggest company are former minister of defense and the

head of the government communications committee who are also co owners of the three biggest channels all of them are friends with the president apart from financial markets says the authorities practice other kinds of pressure to include in what he says is a feature of any offer it terry and. our journalists have been beaten up their equipment stolen and there's been no investigation do we really have freedom of press if our correspondents every time they go to an opposition rally after wonder if they're going to be beaten or not irakli and used paper reporter says he has been 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 gets the news from the state own the safe and media the press is among the most tightly mourning and there are not to these presidential and parliamentary elections a lot of independent information means voters will make a decision that is likely far from being informed and according to many far from being free. race nationality tbilisi georgia. has the world had enough it seems that the social media craze could finally be coming to an end to new york restaurants agree that in a few minutes. now muslims in the u.s. state of california say they're living in fear of prosecution by the government when the f.b.i. regards practicing islam as a criminal offense while the government says it's just trying to prevent terrorist attacks the muslim community isn't convinced it's not is when the question of are

discovered. as a fad prepares for his daily prayers creeps into the back of his mind as to whether the person next to him is a spy i you know felt that there was a sense of mistrust i wasn't sure about the people that were coming up the mosque if there was some. if you were at the mosque that i had never seen i would always feel in the back of my mind 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 south in california what he thought was a fellow warship or at a mosque turned out to be an informant the subject of monitoring muslims doesn't exactly come a surprise to many in the u.s. this is meant hopping all across the country simply because so many will soon to cross the country are getting visited on a regular basis. for 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. were the fifty's sixty's and seventy's i think it's a war a religious war. a war on islam. was 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 minds mistrust arabs and muslims and it's not simply because of the identification of the nine eleven hijackers but more from a decade of muslims being vilified by hollywood as jihadists islamic extremists and

terrorists. but people here believe the problem is far greater and concerns many my b.g. communities targeted because of their faith and. arithmetic to. this 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 father and many others in minority communities nash and white 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 met by you know question archie reporting from los angeles california. more stories for you at alton dot com there's a quick taste as if the only awaits government approval to get access to snoop on web sites in the e-mails some believe the agency is already policing cyberspace. in the first commercial space mission and the story could dragon vessel successfully docks from the international space station to watch a carpenter you tube channel. he used to do. you believe.

down the official ulti obligation to your i phone or i pod touch from the shops to . launch our life on the go. video on demand parties mind. it costs an r.s.s. feeds now with the palm of your. question on the dot com some one hundred million people worldwide are expected to tune in for this saturday's song contest one country has been divided by the competition rather its own entry in ukraine i'm happy that a singer representing the country. ukrainian exposing what others fear is a spread of racism what is. the song be my guest sounds like an invitation single guy who is representing

ukraine at the eurovision song contest says its message is positive that her country opens its arms to any guest 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 by turner should go it was very biased they didn't let real ukrainian singers go to europe like how she sings but now people might get an impression that ukraine is a country somewhere in africa brought up with the daughter of a ukrainian mother and the congolese father may have been hurt 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 really try to choose you like a friend because you why do you black. this is no isolated racism among ukraine's nationalists over the years they'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 the turn or flame which commemorates fallen red army soldiers all the previous actions of ukraine's right wing radicals have been mostly acts of hooligan. they are rarely made headlines especially in the global media but with the euro twenty eight well for both 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 his footage shows them firing weapons and using explosives this military wing of nationalists has what it takes to wreck some real haven flynn believes their destructive skills could be employed quite soon with football hooligans being among those trained at the camp with a very clear about a 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 does make 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 i watched what they fired 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 is losing ground and september's vote may bring some of those radicals into parliament west nude you know days no one will be surprised to see the nazi salute at folk festivals in western ukraine or nationalist some regional power parts peace can still take action against neo nazis

and much of the very same people will have parliamentary immunity and an unlimited platform in parliament to spread their ideas to young people ukraine's right wing nationalist align themselves and glorifying everything ukrainian at the same time they're strongly supportive of their country's european integration butt. increasingly vocal zina for because racist statements it's hard to imagine brussels listening to their opinions on ukraine becoming it stage should they make it to power. reporting from kiev. some of its national news for you now this hour syrian activists claim fifty people have been killed in the rest of homs province i say scores were wounded in the violence as government forces shelled the town of the bunch and it comes off the head of the un said the peace plateau serials only hope despite a recent when a court accusing both sides of the turks document says price is becoming increasingly militarized despite a six week cease fire. to stand up

massive rallies have been held at the end of the past reopening of nato so why don't i stop protest is chanted slogans condemning us interference in a country where there was close to nato intervention after american drone attacks killed twenty four pakistani soldiers that continues to demand that washington apologizes for the drone strikes. spain's fourth largest bank bank here has asked for nineteen billion euros of government cash to save it from collapse if granted it would be the biggest of its kind in the country's history the help was requested after ratings johnston and poised to clear the banking giants credit score with junk french banks getting the eurozone severe headache. amounts of toxic assets they currently hold. the last decade has seen the meteoric rise of social media networks and spike to

being an integral part of modern day communication there are those who believe their time has already passed resident to new york laurie office asked people on the streets there 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 any time soon this week let's talk about that do you use social media i used to actually just lead to my facebook why is 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 yeah you know when mom start using social media time to go my grandma is actually using it do you use no why not because i don't like being don't like putting too much of my personal information on. a photo you i love you one

provisionals like clinton but the public ones like to be very specific to. some people put a little too much information on their thing yeah why do we care about what people eat and what they're doing every second every and 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. i think there's a lot of good uses for there are some uses we found in the school system not so good like what some of the bullying there goes on and i think any 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 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 the yes he use it every day in your personal life i do one reason i think that i'm decent at social media strategy is because i am. i am a little bit sick of it so it has to be really good right like i mean i it's it just seems to be so omnipresent now that i think there's something bigger and greater and better is going to come about. that the second coming jesus is going to come through social media and that's it worth his twitter about so i needed to be part of jesus that's what i'm sure he has what right right right exactly so do you think the social media craze is coming to an end why don't you tweet about it and see if anyone cares. to get headlines just a few minutes stating. wealthy

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