a million voices for independence scotland seeks to go to alone with a campaign that could see a referendum over breaking free from the u.k. . canadian students take it is to court to battle new emergency laws adopted after months of protests against a hike in tuition fees. and a year after riot police brutally broke up opposition demonstrations in the georgian territory critics accuse the country's state media of silencing the voices of discontent. this is r.t. world news and much more on kerry johnston well it's a 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. the scottish national party believes if a million people put pen to paper it will secure victory in a referendum they want held in twenty fourteen parties laura smith 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 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 then break away 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 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 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 breakup 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. when the european parliament this august national party is calling for the nation to be recognized as a sovereign state within europe and its any p n n smith says that scotland is quite capable of surviving and prospering on its own there's a lot of polls out 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 that think you're scotland more than pays its way we have a considerably rich asset base 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 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 it 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. well canadian the students and trade unionists have fond of the eagle motion against new emergency laws restricting protests that just lation was brought into force after months of demonstrations in quebec of a planned rise in student tuition fees but the new doors have only feels public anger with thousands on strike since forever since then the protests have regularly

ended in clashes with police more than two hundred thousand people arrested corey poole news editor of quarter universe does not need to use paper thinks the movement is taking on ever growing significance. i think the government is trying to make it a lot it try to keep it as a student issue it's a student issue led by simply students and. it can be it can be quelled with maybe some simple negotiation but i don't really think 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 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.

well still to come on the surveillance californian muslims claim there's no freedom of worship in the us state because of the country's overzealous intelligence service plus a vocal disharmony. crane's nationalistic pride the country's entry for the new regime that 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 hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you. are welcome to the big picture. but the results of egypt's presidential elections suggests that the country's next to the that will be even islamist or a top official from the mubarak era but between the muslim brotherhood's mohamed morsi and former prime minister ahmed shafik will take place next month but caro based activist on the as many egyptians are already disappointed by the bout it. there is a general sense of disappointment in the whole country people did not expedite that especially knows that if reviewer is did not expect that egyptians will vote for

nor evolution the two candidates that have been chosen for the run means that all of them belongs 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 them to vote for much if he was involved in beating people interest or 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 who 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 that the 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 in clashes with what the counting of bullets used to disperse rallies dozens were it's really injured hundreds of arrested as police tried to clear the way for the states in the penn state celebrations twelve months on to say the voices of players took to the streets of tbilisi being silenced by the country's state controlled media taste for national polls. close. to one of georgia's main television channels. it's slogan proclaims news is made here is the answer 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 broadcasting news channel one a state ran while the owners of the two others are starting to and in mehdi 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 as good a position is bad but they really touch georgian politics 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 them 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 u.s. 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 although we do have a license the people running the biggest company in the former minister of defense and the head of the government communications committee 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 of terry and regime. 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 iraq clean and use paper reporter says

he has been twice in the last month by the president and interior minister as security for attempting to cover the events with the two top officials are 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 i 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 the state own. 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. still to come this hour on the program what's in store for social media the last residence 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 became the f.b.i. regards practicing islam as a criminal offense while the government says it's just trying to prevent terrorist attacks muslim community isn't convinced it's artie's within a culture never discover it. as a fraud prepares for his daily prayers fear creeps into the back of his mind as to whether the person next to him is a spy are you 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 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

f.b.i. in 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 soon to cross country are getting visited on a regular basis by f.b.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 what the outcome americans were the fifty's sixty's seventy's i think it's a war a religious war i think it's it's part of. 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 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. vilified 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 phrase and there is. 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 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 yeah i'm for my you know question archie reporting from los angeles california. so more stories few online that are to dot com it's have a quick on the course day to day as the f.b.i. awaits government approval to get access to snoop on websites and e-mails somebody in the agency is already policing cyberspace. burn the first commercial space mission historic a dragon vessel successfully docks with the international space station what chart

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your vision song contest this saturday night but one country has been divided by the competition or rather its own entry many ukraine are unhappy that the singer representing the nation is in ukrainian exposing what others fear is a spread of racism autism it's there are reports. 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 part of the jury which decided by turner should go it was very biased they didn't let real ukrainian singers go to your. 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 a 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 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 key visitor no 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 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 hay vocally 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 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 but it's 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 foiled live weapons. the danger of major violence at the football event may still be averted if authorities take action but another great risk leaves for ukraine the ruling party is losing ground and september's vote may bring some of those radicals into parliament west nude you need now days no one will 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 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 key.

international news now this hour a man suspected of killing a woman and injuring eight other people in a random shooting in finland has been arrested assailant opened fire at crowds from rooftops south of the country before fleeing the scene. some fifty kilometers north of the common. syrian activists claim at least fifty people have been killed in the rest of holmes province they say schools were wounded in the violence as government forces shelled a ton of the bloodshed comes off the head of the un self-appointed analysts peace plan the syria's only hope as a recent u.n. report accused both sides of deadly attacks the document says fighting is becoming increasingly militarized despite a shaky six week cease fire. in pakistan a huge rallies have been held against the possible reopening of nato supply routes

into afghanistan testers charted slogans condemning the us interference in a country the border was closed to nato intervention back after american drone attacks killed twenty four pakistani soldiers because of bad continues to demand that washington apologizes for the incident and also its strikes. 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 off the ratings john standard forth to clear the banking giant what it's called junk spanish banks are giving the eurozone a severe headache due to the huge number of toxic property assets they currently hold. well the last decade has seen the meteoric rise of social media networks despite being an integral part of modern day communication those who believe their time has already passed resident in new york or half of 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 in my facebook why is getting tired of it tired of trying to keep up with everyone do you think of 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 the. photo you know 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 their thing but 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 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 there goes on and i think it'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 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 the turner standard they actually do social media strategy. yes so your life depends on social media a little bit i do other things as well but it's one of the 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 them. 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 a something bigger and greater and better is going to come about. that the second coming jesus is going to come through social media and acts and words 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. whether the headlines just a fever it's. my

parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me for my hands you know just as if anyone would. but they do tell a story they tell us story of. oxen.