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 quebec authorities 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 capital critics accuse the country's state media of silencing the voices of discontent. you're watching r.t. live from moscow on kerry johnston it's

a million strong task supporters of scottish independence launched their bed 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. 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 so as to have full control of its own fiscal economic and political affairs and if it succeeds scotland with break away from the union by two thousand and sixteen we here and this is a union that's been in place for the last three hundred years it's been indorsed by

a range of scottish celebrities including the actor sean connery who sent a message to the campaign and the first minister alex salmond this is this is his baby really he's staked his entire political career on it the leader of the scottish national party he says we want to scotland that's greener fairer and more prosperous and for that we need an independent scotland even the most optimistic poll shows that only forty percent of people would vote for scottish independence now so that means that sixty percent of them 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 goes 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 it's any opinion 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 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 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. canadian students and trade unionists have filed and legal motion against new budget see laws restricting protests legislation was brought into force after months of demonstrations in quebec over a planned rise in student tuition fees for the new home field probably go with

thousands on strike since february since then street protests have regularly ended in clashes with police two and a half thousand people arrested corey poole news editor of concordia university's think in this paper thinks the movement is taking on every growing significance. but i think the government is trying to make it a lot it they try to keep it as a student issue student issue with lead 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 out in the correct 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 for me and muslims claim there is no freedom of worship in the u.s. state because of the country's overzealous intelligence service and vocal disharmony. crane's nationalists decry the country's entry to the new vision song contest because they say the performance isn't ukrainian enough.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry 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 morsi and former prime minister ahmed shafik will take place next month but cairo based activist on the other says many egyptians are already disillusioned with the bout it. there is

a general sense of disappointment in the whole country people did not expedite 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 on which to present the majority of the population but now everyone is asking them to vote for much as he was 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 him as a negative vote to morsi who 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 it

was the brother without a 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 a riot police broke up five days of opposition demonstrations demanding the resignation of president saakashvili two people were killed in clashes with want to count rubber bullets used to disperse rallies dozens were severely injured and hundreds of arrested police try to clear the way for the state's independence day celebrations however twelve months on the critics say those who took to the streets of tbilisi will be silenced the country's state controlled media has been for motion of reports. to stop me 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 in their offices behind closed doors in georgia where there are only three national channels rode past the nearest. wiley state trannies the result of the owners of the two are those who started to lose and is many of whom 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 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 is there quite black and white circus really is moot opposition is bad but they really touch george and paul ticks

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 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 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 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 money talks 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 but still to come this hour what's in store for social media he also rest in some the big apple what they think the future holds for the networks that's coming your way in a few minutes time. now muslims in the u.s. state of california say they're living in fear of prosecution by the government they claim the f.b.i. regards practicing islam as a criminal offense while the government says it's just trying to prevent terrorist attacks the muslim community isn't convinced that he's been in the courtroom ever discovered. 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 i knew 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 in here for a fight is one of many american muslims who came under the surveillance of the aft behind south in california what he thought was a fellow worshipper at a mosque turned out to be an informant the subject of monitoring muslims doesn't exactly come as a surprise to many in the u.s. this is been happening all across the country simply because so many muslim to cross country are getting visited on a regular basis by 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 outcome mehrtens were the fifty's sixty's seventy's i think it's a war a religious war that if you get beyond 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. fine by hollywood as jihadists islamic extremists and terrorists. but people here believe the problem is far greater and concerns many my you know egypt he targeted because of their faith and their its message. 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 from my you know question archie reporting from los angeles california. well stories for you r.t. dot com has a quick taste of the f.b.i. awaits government approval to get access to snoop on websites and e-mails some believe the agency's already policing cyberspace. in the first commercial space

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dot com an estimated one hundred million people worldwide will be 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 the ukraine are unhappy that the singer representing a nation is only half ukrainian exposing what others fear is a spread of racism that. he has more. 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. the jury which decided by turner should go was very biased they didn't let real ukrainian singers go to

europe vision like how she sings but now people might get an impression that ukraine is a country somewhere in africa. the daughter of a ukrainian mother and the congolese father may have been heard by this attitude but still try to play down with a smile i don't like it to a season i hate when people. have so much negatively in 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 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 call of an ism 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 food a 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 as well as make 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 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 looms for ukraine the ruling party is losing ground and september's vote may bring some of those radicals into parliament. nowadays no one would 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 in glorifying everything ukrainian at the same time they are strongly supportive of their country's european integration but with increasingly vocal zina 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 kiev in ukraine. to other international news. un monitors have arrived in the syrian town where activists claim at least fifty people have been killed they say scores were wounded in the violence as government forces shelled a town that the bloodshed comes off the head of the un so. kofi annan peace plan is syria's only hope as recent u.n. report accused both sides of deadly attacks document says writing is becoming increasingly militarized despite a shaky six week cease fire. a man suspected of killing two people and injuring seven others in a random shooting in finland has been arrested they say and opened fire at crowds from the rooftop in the south of the country before fleeing the scene the attack

occurred some fifty kilometers north of the capital helsinki. in pakistan that huge rallies have been held against the possible reopening of nato supply routes into afghanistan are protesters chanted slogans condemning us interference in the country the border was closed to nato after american drone attacks killed twenty four pakistani soldiers as i'm about continues to demand that washington apologizes for the instant down its 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 john standard and poor's declared the banking giants credit scoring junk in spanish with me in a severe headache due to the huge number of toxic probably assets they currently hold. the

last decade has seen the meteoric rise of social media networks and despite being an integral part of modern day communication there are those who believe their time has already passed by running a restaurant in new york only half of this 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. why is this getting tired of it tired of trying to keep up with everyone do you think the world is getting a little bit over social media yeah a little bit 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.

putting too much information on this. photo you i love you one provision. but. to be very specific. some people put a little too much information on there i think yeah why do we care about what people eat and what they're doing every second every and every meal they you know but it's a good way to keep in touch with people 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 but some of the. 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 to do those kinds of things because it's a threat whether it's on facebook or in person so do you think that social media is going to change to be a little bit safer or is it just going to get where i think it needs to change and

i think it takes everybody to get more with a tender standard i actually do social media strategy. 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. a little bit sick of it so it has to be really good right like i mean it's just seems to be so i'm. and now that i think there's something bigger and greater and better is going to come about and yet the second coming jesus is going to come through social media and that's at worst his twitter that's i needed to be part of jesus's twitter 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. prime minister dmitry medvedev has been elected as the head of the country's ruling

united russia party and the bed of who supported innovation during his time as president has already proposed to hold primaries on the levels to build democratic competition. is that the united russia party convention in moscow for us know by their you know what are the changes can we expect them to get if the parties travel . well as you have said he did propose a lot of changes at first and foremost he did say that the party is in need of some . overhaul in order to be more modernized he did the call on the party members to be more active only internet he said that attracting more young voters and younger members of the party is crucial to the party's development and therefore they should the party members should branch out into areas where today you see few cities spending most of their time and that is the internet twitter facebook you name it there in their eyes he also wanted to this he also proposed to get rid of the primaries in water to create

a greater competition within the party ranks he did say that the ruling posted in the party should be hard to acquire and also mentioned that nobody should hold their position forever proposing a five year span for the elected positions and basically he did outline some of the major areas where the party should be working in order to progress not stand still she did say that there is a competition that the united russia is facing at the moment and they should be able to get into the competition to not be pretty afraid of criticisms because after all it is in the in the disputes and in conversations where the sort of truth is being born basically he did outline and not particularly in any detail of his plan for the party but it does look like he is set on moving it forward he's also the first prime minister to actually belong to a party by which he wasn't a member of united russia. thanks for that.

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