scotland's partition mission the campaign launched toward a storage vote that could see the country break free from britain. time to discipline quebec's leaders students take on the government with legal action against a law designed to keep them down in their last fight against college fees. prime minister dmitry medvedev takes charge of the united russia party and wants to clear out those who discredited also remolding it for the on line era. and destroying to set with elections to come in the georgia regime has still got no appetite for opposition a year after violently dispersing independence day rallies. four

pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story supporters of independence for scotland have launched a campaign that they hope will let them break free of the three hundred five year old union with england the scottish national party is now gathering a million signatures needed to call a referendum in two thousand and fourteen but it won't be easy as artie's laura smith explains. 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 asking 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. 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 we sent a message to the campaign and the first minister alex salmond this is this is his baby really he's staked his entire political career and the leader of the scottish national party he says we want to scotland that green a 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 all the undecideds of course that's what the 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 are 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. scottish national party member and euro and p. alan smith says scotland is capable of prospering out its own within europe there's a lot of polls 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 what's the 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 your scotland more than pays its way we

have a considerably rich symptoms 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 it's go into the psi corps sort of country we want to be and you talk about separating and the dustbuster snow and 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 the london government simply just does not do that and it's very very clear to the people of scotland we can do better. student groups in cabinet are making legal moves to overturn a law designed to suppress their three months of protests over a hike intuition feets era choir's them to give eight hours notice ahead of a rally students say it's unconstitutional the quebec authorities movies have only fueled the protesters anger with one hundred thousand taking part of

a demonstration earlier this week rallies led to violent clashes with police and more than twenty five hundred arrests since february student newspaper editor corey poole thinks the movement is taking on a growing significance. pointing to the government is trying to make it a lot and if they try 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 it's a movement that has grown beyond the simple fact of increasing now encompasses many many problems. that are being brought up in the current government. mismanagement of funds corruption within the government itself mismanaging mismanagement of the university system and generally people are extremely upset and i don't think that this issue will simply go away it's not just in quebec that we're seeing anger

growing as we report online protests spill into ontario students approach to stand shoulder to shoulder with those rallying in other cities. and also argue dot com and medals of dishonor disillusioned us soldiers who throw away military decorations are awarded for what they were guard as an unjust war. as well as now being prime minister dmitry medvedev has been appointed to head the country's united ruling a ruling united russia party has modernisation montrose already in evidence he's proposed holding primaries to increase democratic competition reports first and foremost he did say that the party is in need of some of some overhaul in order to be more modernized he did

a call on the party members to be war active only internet she said that taxing more young voters and younger members of the party is crucial to the party's development skills a proposed primaries in order 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 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 handle the competition to not be free of freight of criticism because after all it is in the in the disputes and in conversations where the truth is being born a 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 him and was and wasn't a member of the united russia. coming up surely a sour note strikes one euro vision song contest entry ukraine's new poll is angry

about their singer's mixed ethnicity and it's not the only major event their racism is affecting as we board. but first gyptian voters now are faced with a choice of two candidates one from the muslim brotherhood and a top official from the mubarak era the runoff vote in egypt's first free presidential polls will start june sixteenth the first round was close islamize candidate mohammed merci less than a half percent behind hosni mubarak's last prime minister ahmed shafik neither got enough to win outright. pre-revolution egypt while mercy is vowing to implement strict sharia law carol based activists dalia ziada says neither candidate really represents the ideals that people fought for more than a year. there is a general sense of disappointment in the whole country people did not expect that especially you know that eve if you unities did not expect that egyptians will vote for no to evolution the two candidates that have been chosen for the runoff neither

of them belongs to is that if you do should so there is a general sense of disappointment of course among the young people which imprisons a majority of the population but now everyone is asking to vote for much if it was involved in beating people in tahrir square the unity is 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. this elected him as a negative vote to morsi you want to present is a muslim brotherhood we the muslim brotherhood have been doing that can treat as a parliamentary elections last november and since then we will have seen that the muslim brotherhood got a completely flawed from what they expected them to be they became more you know

speaking about things that don't reveal the way 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 government forces a program the batting president saakashvili and opposition forces still feeling before force of suppression the clashes last may saw two people killed as water when you see as water cannons and rubber bullets to break up the crowds dozens were injured hundreds arrested when officers tried to clear the way for the country's independence day celebrations george will hold parliamentary and presidential elections later in the year as are his where if an ocean a found out there's little cheer for anyone hoping for a change. of ourselves to stop it to one of georgia's main television channels that slogan proclaims 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 yes 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 strand 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 the editorial independence especially as the country enters election season five months before parliament voting is very 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

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. 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 and 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 have to 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 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 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 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 mourning and there are not to these presidential and parliamentary elections a lot of independent information means voters will make it a season that is likely far from being informed and according to many often be very . brief nationality to really see georgia. much of today's global free speech lies in our revenue take up of social media later we ask if you're tired of

the tweaks pokes and lights. one reason i think that i did and it doesn't need a strategy because that. a little bit think of it so they have to be really good later we asked residents of new york what they think the future holds for popular networks. as there is a concert later that will have one hundred twenty million fans glued to their t.v. screens the euro vision song contest it's time of year again but there's division in one country over its entry in the final like sarah shahi reports on how ukraine's song for europe is stirring an undercurrent of racism. the song be my guest sounds like an invitation singular 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 gotama should go it was very biased they didn't let real ukrainian singers go to you're a vision i 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 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 t.v. eternal flame which commemorates fall in 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 two well for the 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 has put a shows them firing weapons and using explosives this military wing of nationalists has what it takes to wreck some real haversack flynn believes their destructive skills could be employed. quite soon with football hooligans being among those trained at the camp with the very clear about a number of of things that their ideology sort of points in the direction of one of them is it 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 wanted to make clear that any fans going to ukraine should should be very careful it is 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 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. reporting from kiev in ukraine. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe u.n. monitors have been sent to western syrian town of houla where activists say more than ninety people have been killed by government forces it's also claimed troops used tanks and heavy machine guns to power in the area this week a u.n. report accused both the regime and rebels of gross human rights violations and that the fighting is becoming increasingly militarized during the shaky six week cease fire. iran's envoy to the un's nuclear agency says evidence of enrich uranium found it in underground bunker were due to a technical glitch official discovered traces that were enrich to twenty seven

percent higher than previously thought the west suspects iran of building nuclear weapons that require uranium enriched up to ninety percent tehran denies the allegations. about chief is getting tough on hard pressed greeks demanding they sort of their own problems by paying their taxes christine legarde says she has no intentions of softening the country's bailout terms and has more sympathy for poor african children than a richly nation like greece the country has a bad record in collecting taxes but has vowed to clamp down on dodger's which is required to secure its rescue money. a u.s. drone strike has killed at least four people in pakistan missiles hit a house in the country's was zero stand tribal area security officials say those killed were taliban militants relations between the us and islamic jihad have been tense so the twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed in the nato air strike last november. many muslims in the u.s. are getting accustomed to the growing suspicion that they get from law enforcement the government's justification is that it helps prevent terrorist attacks but the

muslim community thinks is being unfairly victimized artie's medina coaching over reports testified 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 you know was 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 money turning muslims doesn't exactly come as a surprise to many in the u.s. this isn't happening all across the country simply because so many muslims across the 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 that the muslims are what the outcome americans were the fifty's sixty's seventy's i think it's a war a religious war and i think it's targeting. the sims based on their religion but really 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 minds sent to mistrust arabs and muslims and it's not simply because of the identification of the nine eleven

hijackers but more from a decade of muslims being vilified by hollywood as jihadists islamic extremists and terrorists. but people here believe the problem is far greater and concerns many 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 to happen 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 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 be i in for a man in the question archie reporting from los angeles california more than a billion people use the likes of facebook and twitter but next we ask if we're all getting a bit weary of being wired. 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 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 tried to like

the like of putting too much of my personal information on this kind of social network a photo you assume i love you one provision was like clinton but the public ones like of in the to be very specific to you 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 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 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

trend i think it takes everybody to get more with the tender stand it may 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 strategies because i. i am a little bit sick of it so it has to be really good right as 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 the gap the second coming sees this is going to come through social media and so words his twitter about some guy needs 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 see if anyone cares. just ahead here lavelle's on the money talks about which of course russia's new president putin will take stay with us after the headlines.

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