a million voices for independence scotland seeks to go it alone with a campaign that could see a referendum over breaking free from the u.k. . canadian students take it could back authorities to court the bathroom you imagine suno was 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 are silencing the voices of discontent. on air and online a twenty four seven this is r.t. 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 in the u.k. the scottish national party believes if a million people put pen to paper to secure victory in the referendum they want held in twenty fourteen counties or smith explains what's involved as the campaign begins. the aim 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 people whether they want independence from the u.k. whether they want scotland to be an independent sovereign nation in its own right so to have full control over its own fiscal economic and political affairs and if it succeeds then 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 we 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 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 doesn'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 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 break up of this three hundred year old union the fear is if scotland go who would be next would wales go would it result in the entire breakup 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 its m.e.p. alan 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 interests within the european union and the wider world there is no question absolutely no question under any anybody's interpretation of the figure scotland more than that's where we

have a considerably rich base in terms of natural resources human resources but 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 so-called 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 main stream 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. that canadian the students and trade unionists have fallen legal motion against new emergency laws restricting protests the legislation was important to force after months of demonstrations in quebec over a planned rice and student tuition fees and an enormous amount of fuel public anger thousands on strike since february. the protests have already ended in clashes with

police want to have thousand people arrested or a pool newsletter cornelia pasties i think newspaper thinks the movement is taking on the ever growing significance. but i think the government is trying to make it a lot. in trying to keep it as a student issue that it's a student issue led by simply students and that. it can be it be quelled with maybe some simple negotiation but i don't really think that that is exactly the case and i feel that in. ideological issue it's a movement that has grown beyond the simple fact of which was an increase and now encompasses many many problems. that are being brought up in the 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 r.t.

and so to come on the surveillance california muslims claim there's no freedom of worship in the u.s. state because the country is overzealous intelligence service. disharmony. nationalistic pride that countries entry to musicians song contest because they say the performer 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. early 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 between the muslim brotherhood's mohamed were seen and former prime minister week will take place next month but kora based activists. says 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 knows that if viewer 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 belongs to that evolution so there is a general sense of disappointment of course among the young people in which it resembles a majority of the population but now everyone is asking them to vote for much of the all involved in beating people into higher score during that evolution and he was a prime minister is that mubarak used to beautify is image in his last days before he leaves the fact that people are choosing him now probably they want to give him a new chance or probably easy for is a selected him as a negative vote to morsi you want to present is 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 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 georgian riot police broke up five days of opposition demonstrations demanding the resignation of president saakashvili two people were killed after clashes and dozens injured the kind of the bullets used to disperse rallies over 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 he's a national. interest to story to one of georgia's main television channels its slogan proclaims the news is made here 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

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 are those who started to lose and in many had 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 ziad 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're quite black and white circus really is goot opposition is bad but they really touch george and paul dix at all when i watch it i have the feeling that there are no problems in georgia and their main mission is to entertain people not to inform. 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 laurie which is less than one us dollar but these are turning to the media sources can hardly get an audience outside the capital tbilisi where there is a local authorities prevent us from broadcasting in the provinces where we do have a license people running the biggest company the 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 regime. 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 use paper reporter says he has been

beaten up twice in the last month by their 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 to be blacklisted i would never find decent i think as elections approach such pressure will only get tougher while most of the population here in georgia get this news from the state own state controlled 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 to believe see daughter. also to come this hour what's in store for social media we ask the residents of the big apple what they think the future holds for papa networks that's coming your way in

a few minutes time. 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 a practicing islam as a criminal offense while the government says it's just trying to prevent terrorist attacks there isn't community isn't convinced it's artes in their 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 spy i you know felt that there was a sense of mistrust but i wasn't sure about the people that were coming up the mosque if there was somebody new at the mosque that i had never seen and i would always feel in the back of my mind that you know who is this person what are they here for a fight is one of many american muslims who came under the surveillance of the aphelion 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 will seem to cross country or getting visited on a regular basis by the i 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 with the muslims or with the after americans were the fifty's sixty's seventy's i think it's a war a religious war that if you target. the sims based on their religion. i think this is a war on islam. and islam craig monte was an aft be an informant sent to infiltrate the 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 muslims being. vilified by hollywood as jihadists islamic extremists and terrorists. but people here believe the problem is far greater and concerns many my education was 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 met by you know question archie reporting from los angeles california. where there are more stories for you at all to dot com here's a quick taste as if we are awaits a government approval to get access to snoop on websites and e-mails some believe the agency's already policing cyberspace. and the first commercial space mission the historic dragon vessel successfully docks with the international space station you can watch it happen when i need to turn.

the heat to get. you to leave. the official altie application your pod touch from the top story. on the good. video on demand. my old girls an r.s.s. feed now in the palm of your. on the dot com. and estimated one hundred million people worldwide will be tuning in for the univision song contest this saturday night but one country has been divided by

the competition or rather it's an entry meaning ukraine are unhappy that the singer representing the nation is only a half ukrainian exposing what others fear the spread of racism what is actually are said reports. the song be my guest sounds like an invitation singular great honor 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 part of the jury which decided to turn or 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 brought up with gina 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 i hate to a season i hate when people. have so much negative like this. i hate it when people 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 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 whether you are twenty twelve football championship coming to ukraine some pundits in the west believe this is about to change reporter brian flynn from britain sun used 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 hay 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 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 was made clear that any 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 watch what 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 is losing ground and september's vote may bring some of those radicals into parliament. now days no one would be surprised to see the nazi salute at folk festivals in western ukraine or nationalist some regional power plants 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 aligned themselves and glorifying everything ukrainian at the same time they are strongly supportive of their country's european integration but with increasingly vocal vina for big and 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 crane. was more international headlines for you now this hour one person has been killed

eight others wounded after a gunman opened fire on crowds in southern finland police are currently searching for the attacker fled the scene. fifty kilometers north of the capital. syrian activists claim fifty people have been killed in the restive homs province they say scores were wounded in the violence as government forces shelled a town in the bloodshed comes out ahead of the u.n. said kofi annan peace plan in syria is this the only hope that as a recent u.n. report accused both sides of the deadly attacks document says fighting is becoming increasingly militarized despite a shaky six week cease fire. in pakistan huge rallies have been held against the possible reopening of nato supply routes into afghanistan are just as good as condemning u.s.

interference in the country the border was closed to nato and. american drone attacks killed twenty four pakistani soldiers. continues to demand that russia has pulled the instant drone strikes. spain's fourth largest bank bank here has asked for nineteen billion euros of government rush to save it from collapse if granted it would be the biggest of its kind in the country's history the help was requested off the ratings don standard and poor's declared the banking giants credit score with junk spanish banks are giving the eurozone a severe headache due to the huge number of toxic property assets they currently hold. the last decade has seen the meteoric rise of social media networks and the spike being an internal part of modern day communication for those who believe their time has already passed rest into new york very hard for this to ask 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 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 the like putting too much of my personal information on the. photo you assume i love you one provision was like clinton but the public ones like to be very specific to. 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 and every meal they you know but it's a good way to keep in touch with people too 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 online 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 that 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 were 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 they 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 them yes we 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 x. that word has twitter that's i need a 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 be if anyone cares. i'll bring you the headlines in just a few moments stay with us. we'll

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