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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 the hike into rishon fees. and a year after riot police are brutally broke up opposition demonstrations in the georgian capital critics accuse the country's state media of silencing dissenting voices. three pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story it's a million strong task supporters of scottish independence launched their bid for
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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 a victory in a referendum they want held in two thousand and fourteen parties laura laura smith explains what's involved as the campaign starts. if a is to collect a million signatures from scottish people by two thousand and fourteen in support of a yes vote and then following on from that a referendum will be held which will be asking people whether they want independence from the u.k. whether they want scotland to be an independent sovereign nation in its own right so to have full control of its own fiscal konami 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
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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 would 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 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 pounds would they be able to keep the pound or would they have to join the euro which of course is not
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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. in the european parliament the scottish national party is calling for a nation to be recognised as a sovereign state within europe its m.e.p. alan smith says scotland is quite capable of surviving and even prospering on its own. there's a lot of balls over the but sure great deal of support and a great deal of democratic legitimacy for the s.n.p. government in edinburgh serving the people of scotland well with competent government doing lots of good stuff representing scotland's interest with the european union and the wider world there is no question absolutely no question under any anybody's interpretation of the food your scotland movement has its way
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we have a considerably rich the symptoms 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 decide what sort of country we want to be and you talk about separating them and 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 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 in trade union s. have filed a legal action against new emergency laws restricting protests legislation was brought into force after months of demonstrations in quebec over a planned rise and student tuition but the new laws of only fuel public anger with
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thousands on strike since february since then street protests have regularly and little clashes with police and more than twenty five hundred have been arrested corey import editor of concordia university link newspaper thinks the movement is taking on a growing significance. but i think that 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 can be quelled with maybe some simple negotiations but i don't really think that that is exactly the case and i feel that it's an ideological issue that it's a woman that has grown beyond the simple fact. increasing now encompasses many many problems. that are being brought out in the government. mismanagement of funds corruption within the government itself mismanagement mismanagement of the university system and generally people are really upset and i don't think this issue will simply go away it will stay with us here on r t still to come under
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surveillance california muslims claim there are no freedom of worship in the u.s. state because of the country's overzealous intelligence service plus a vocal. ukraine's nationalistic pride the country's entry into the year a vision song contest because they say the performer isn't ukrainian enough.
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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 realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. thanks for staying with us here on r t partial results of egypt's presidential elections suggest the country's next leader will either be an islamist or a top official from the mubarak era the run off though between the muslim brotherhoods mohamed morsi and the former prime minister ahmed shafik will take place next month cairo based activist dalia ziada says that many egyptians are already disillusioned though with the ballot. 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
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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 young people which at present the majority of the population but now everyone is asking who to vote for after such a feat was involved in beating people into risk or 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 zif. selected as a negative vote to morsi want to present is a muslim brotherhood we're the most them brother would have been during the can three since the parliamentary elections last november and since then people have seen that as a muslim brotherhood are completely flawed from was they expected them to be they
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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. 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 water cannons and rubber bullets used to break up the rallies dozens were severely injured and hundreds arrested as police tried to clear the way for the state's independence day celebrations but twelve months later critics say the voices of those who took to the streets of tbilisi are being silenced by the country's state controlled media are his worry if emotional reports. of ourselves to starve it to one of george's main television channels it slogan proclaims the 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
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do not cover news they make it there in their offices behind closed doors in georgia where there are only three national channels broadcast the news channel one a state ran while the owners of the two others who study tooth and imagine have close ties with georgian president mikheil saakashvili and his administration they are the main sources of information for the country's almost four point five million population ziad says the news reports these three air often repeat each other which raises concerns over there it is total independence especially as the country enters election season five months before parliament voting. they're quite black and white circus really is good opposition 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
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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 all 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 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 of 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 have to wonder if they're going to be beaten or not irakli and use papery porter says he
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has been twice in the last month by the presidents and interior ministers security for attempting to cover the events with the two top officials where only government approved media were invited. me here very hot and also yelled how did i come here at all that i would be blacklisted and would never find decent and i think as elections approach such pressure will only get tougher for most of the population here and told to get the 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 this season it is likely far from being informed and according to many far from the free. race nationality really see. so to come this hour what's in store for a social media we ask residents of the big apple what they think the future holds
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for popular networks that's coming your way in a few minutes. but first muslims living in the u.s. state of california say they're living in fear of prosecution by the government they claim their rights are being abused by the f.b.i. that treats them with unnecessary suspicion and while the government says they're just trying to prevent terror attacks the muslim community says they're not convinced as archy's medina coaching over a ports. 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 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 i 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
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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 the country are getting visited on a regular basis by 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 that the muslims are what the outcome americans were the fifty's sixty's and seventy's i think it's a war a religious war and i think it's part of. the sims based on their religion i believe 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
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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. fine by hollywood as jihadists islamic extremists and terrorists. are right but people here believe the problem is far greater and concerns many minority communities targeted because of their free and fair if nicety. but it's not just about the muslim community because what happens is that our constitutional freedoms start getting weakened for everybody and we're starting to see that more and more because we have allowed this so hot that it means for
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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 there's you know mental check 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 and for a man in the bush the archie reporting from los angeles california. more stories available on our website r.t. dot com here's what's a click away as the f.b.i. awaits government approval to get access to snoop on websites in evil's some think the agency is already policing cyberspace. and the first commercial space mission the historic dragon capsule successfully docks with the international space station and watch how it happened on our you tube channel.
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is. the official. called touch from the top story. on the go. video on demand. old girls. and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com prime minister dmitry medvedev has been elected head of the country's ruling united russia party medvedev who supported innovation during his term as
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president already proposed told primaries on all levels to increase democratic competition parties or in evolution go has more. i misread it it has already established himself as a fan of innovations as everest is president so he intends to continue on that route as the chairman of the united russia party cio called on members of the united russia party not to be afraid of controversy and criticism to openly enter a public debate underlying to the importance of civil society and also he called on the some of the changes to be implemented in the parts for example primaries i see it says that those will increase at the competition within the party ranks and make it harder for people to get into the upper positions in the party he also said that a more jungle member is that should be recorded and for that to be done he called on the you know it's russia to be more active on the internet which he sees as one of the primary moving tools that is at today's society he's also the first to prime
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minister to actually be a member of any party not of russia's prime minister's belonged to the party until now so we can expect a lot of innovations and a lot of changes that to be happening within the united russia. that estimated one hundred million people worldwide will tune in for the year vision song contest saturday night but one country's been divided by the competition or rather its own entry many new crain say there are happy that the singer representing the nation is only half ukrainian exposing what others fear is the spread of racism there or he selects airshows the reports from kiev. the song be my guest sounds like an invitation. 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
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gotama 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 a congolese father may have been heard by this attitude but still try to play down with a smile they don't like it 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 war veterans on victory day last year or cooking eggs and bacon on t.v. to turn or flame which commemorates fall in red army soldiers all the previous
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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 eight well football championship coming to ukraine some pundits in the west believe this is about to change reporter brian flynn from britain sun newspaper 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 haversack full in 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 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
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not ukraine against england and africa but it does 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 watch 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 powers in other 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
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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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe u.n. monitors have been said to the syrian town of houla where activists claim at least ninety people were killed they say spores were also wounded in the violence as government forces shelled the town the bloodshed comes after a recent u.n. report accusing both sides of deadly attacks the documents as fighting is becoming increasingly militarized amid a shaky six week cease fire. a second person has died after a shooting rampage in southern finland seven others were wounded after the assailant opened fire at crowds from a low rooftop before fleeing the scene a man suspected of the killings has been arrested the attack happened some fifty kilometers north of the capital helsinki. in pakistan huge rallies have been held
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against the possibility of reopening a nato supply routes to afghanistan protesters chanted slogans condemning u.s. interference in the country the border was closed to nato in november after a u.s. drone strike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers is a lot about continues demanding washington apologize for the incident and halt its drone strikes. spain's fourth largest bank bankia has asked for nineteen billion euros of government cash to save it from collapse if granted it would be the biggest of its kind of the country's history that was requested after ratings giants standard and poor's declared the banking giants credit score in junk spanish banks are so good are giving the eurozone a severe headache due to the huge number of toxic property assets on their books. 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 think their time may have already passed our resident in new york laurie harshness as people in the
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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 face but 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 because 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 tried to like the like of putting too much of my personal information on this kind of social network photo you assume i love you one provision was like clinton but the public ones like to be very specific to you some people put
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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 ate 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 nowadays 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 is 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 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 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 do you think the social media craze is coming to an end
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why don't you tweet about it and see if anyone cares. back with outlines in a few minutes stay with us here on r.t. will.
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