a million voices for independence scotland the six to go to alone with a campaign that could see a referendum over breaking free from the u.k. . canadian students take quebec authorities to court to battle new emergency doors that go to the after months of protests against the high contusion fields. and the year after the riot police brutally broke out opposition demonstrations in the georgian capital critics accuse the country's state media of silencing the voices of discontent. and much more this is r.t. on kerry johnston it's

a million strong task supporters of scottish independence wants 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 it will secure a victory in a referendum they want held in twenty fourteen altie is laura smith explains what's involved as the campaign begins. it 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 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 endorsed 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 does and 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 the scottish national party is calling for the nation to be recognized as a sovereign state within europe and its any pain and smith says a scotland is quite capable of surviving and prospering what son there's a lot of balls over 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 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 decide what 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 it presently 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 students and trade unionists have filed a legal motion against new emergency laws restricting protests station was brought into force after months of demonstrations in quebec over a planned rise in student tuition fees but. few with public anger thousands on

strike since february since then the street protests have regularly ended in clashes with police moving two and a half thousand people arrested corey pool news editor of concordia university his think newspaper and he is taking on ever growing significance. i think that the government is trying to make it a lot. in trying to keep it as a student issue 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.

still to come under surveillance california muslims claim there is no freedom of worship in the u.s. state because of the country's intelligence service plus vocal disharmony. ukraine's nationalists decried the country's entry only view vision song contest because they say the former isn't cranium 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. 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 vote between the muslim brotherhood's mohamed mursi and former prime minister ahmed shafik will take place next month but current based activist. says many egyptians are already disillusioned with about. 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 so there is a general sense of disappointment of course among the young people which are prisons a majority of the population but now everyone is asking them to vote for much of the oil involved in beating people interest or the unions 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 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 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 a kind of rubber bullets used to disperse rallies dozens were severely injured and hundreds arrested as police try to clear the way for the states in the pendants day celebrations twelve months on critics say boy she's all things he took to the streets of tbilisi being silenced by the country's state controlled media outlets for national polls. close. to one of georgia's main television channels. it's 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 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 is goot opposition is bad but they really touch georgian called x. 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 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 where there is a local authorities prevent us from broadcasting in the provinces where we do have a license people running the biggest company in 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. are german. 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 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 safe and for 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. to come this hour what's in store for social media we ask the western side of the big apple what they think the future holds for popular networks that's coming your way in a few minutes. muslims in the u.s. state of california say they're living in fear of a prosecution by the government they claim the f.b.i. regards practicing islam as a criminal offense by the government says it's just trying to prevent terrorist attacks the muslim community isn't convinced that when a culture ever discovered. 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 but i wasn't sure about the people that were coming up the mosque if there was somebody who knew at the mosque that i had never seen 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 warship or 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 hopping all across the country simply because so many will soon to cross country are getting visited on a regular basis fired cia agents for joining 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 americans were the fifty's sixty's seventy's i think it's a war a religious war if you're targeting. the some space of the religion.

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 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 my reach of communities targeted because of their faith and their if message. 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 be i'm met by you the question the archie reporting from los angeles california. your stories for you as a quick taste of what's known now as the f.b.i. and waits government approval to get access to snoop on web sites and e-mails so i believe the agency is already policing cyberspace. in the first commercial space

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dot com. the estimated one hundred million people worldwide tuning in for the your vision song contest this saturday night but one country has been divided by the competition or rather its own entry many in ukraine are unhappy that the singer representing the nation isn't half ukrainian exposing what others fear is the spread of racism what is the reports. the song be my guest sounds like an invitation singular great donna who is representing ukraine at the eurovision song contest says its message is positive that her country opens its arms to any gas 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

cities go to your. like how she singles but now people might get an impression that ukraine is a country somewhere in africa broadswords 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 national. 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 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 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 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 i watched while 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. 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 imagine of the very same people who will have parliamentary immunity and an unlimited platform in parliament to spread their ideas to young people ukraine's right wing nationalist align themselves in glory for an everything ukrainian at the same time they are strongly supportive of their country's european integration but with increasingly vocal zina for begin 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. r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. for international headlines for you now this hour syrian activists claim at least fifty people have been killed in the rest of homs province they say scores were wounded in the violence as government forces shelled the teller the bloodshed comes as the head of the un said kofi annan is peace plan as syria's only hope as a recent u.n. report accused both sides of deadly attacks that happiness as a fighting is becoming militarized despite a shaky six week ceasefire. the man suspected of killing a woman and injuring eight other people in a random shooting in finland has been arrested and opened fire at crowds from a no rooftop in the south of the country before fleeing the scene. some fifty kilometers north of the capital helsinki. about to start

a huge rallies have been held against the possible reopening of nato supply routes into afghanistan testers chanted slogans condemning the us interference in the country the border was closed to nato in the very often american drone attacks killed twenty four pakistani soldiers. continues to the market washington apologizes for the incident sits strikes. and spain's fourth largest bank bankia has asked for nineteen billion years of government cash to save it from collapse granted it would be the biggest of its kind in the country's history to help. was requested after the ratings. you know said yeah headache is the huge number of toxic assets they currently hold . the last decade has seen the meteoric rise of social media networks despite being an integral part of modern

day communication there are those who believe their time has already passed their own resident in new york laurie how often this 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 am i just 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 to use know why not because i don't like being don't like putting too much of my personal information on the. photo you i love you one

provision. but i don't like 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 everything that gets in every meal the 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 all. but 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 to young people are kind of think what's the big deal for. 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 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 go away and i think it needs to change and i think it takes everybody to get more with that to understand that they actually do social media strategy for

a job yes so your life depends on social media a little bit i do other things as well but it's one of them 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 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 that's that word has twitter that's i needed to be part of jesus's twitter i'm sure he has was 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. i'll be the headlines in just a few about statement. there

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