stalin's partition mission the campaigns launched toward a historic road that would see the country break free from britain. time to discipline quebecs leaders students take on the government with legal action against the law designed to keep them down in the long fight against college fees. prime minister dmitry medvedev takes charge of the ruling united russia party hoping to clear out those who discredit it and to remold it for a digital age. and destroying to set with elections to come george as a result the regime still has no appetite for opposition a year after a violently putting down and independence day rally.

at six pm in moscow as a 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 three of the three hundred five year old union with england the scottish national party is now gathering the million signatures needed to call a referendum for two thousand and fourteen but it won't be easy as artie's laura smith reports from london. 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 to have full control of 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 sent a message to the campaign and the first minister alex salmond this is this is his baby really he's staked his entire political career on the leader of the scottish national party he says we want to scotland 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 or 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 it could represent itself on the international stage all by itself it's always felt that it doesn't 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 pounds 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 would it result in the entire breakup of the united kingdom. the scottish national party member in euro m.p. alan smith says scotland is capable of prospering at 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 that your skull and more than pays its way we have a considerably rich the 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 of scotland to the psi corps 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. student groups and cattle making legal moves to overturn a law designed to suppress their three months of protests over a hike intuition fees here require them to give eight hours notice ahead of any rally students say that's unconstitutional quebecs authorities we have only fueled protesters a girl with one hundred thousand taking part in more demonstrations earlier this

week rallies have led to violent clashes with police of more than twenty five hundred arrests since february newspaper editor a student newspaper editor of korea pool thinks the movement is taking on growing significance. pointing to the government is trying to make it a lot it to 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 incompetence many many problems. that are being brought out in the current government. mismanagement of funds corruption within the government itself mismanagement 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 quebec seeing the anger grow is report online protests are spilling over here by ontario with

students their pledge to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who are rallying in other cities. also on r.t. dot com levels of dishonor the disillusioned u.s. troops who threw away their military decorations awarded for what they were a guard is taking part in an unjust war. along with being prime minister dmitry medvedev has also been appointed to head the country's ruling united russia party has modernization montrose already in evidence he's proposed holding primaries to increase democratic competition or to go explains. first and foremost he did say that the party is in need of some. overhaul in order to be more modernized he did now call on the party members to be

more active only internet she said that taxing more young voters and younger members of the party is crucial to the party's development still supposed 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 wire 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 prayed for a different system because after all it is in the in the disputes and in conversations where the 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 south prime minister to actually belong to a party by him it was and wasn't a member of united russia coming up shortly a sour note strikes one euro vision song contest entry ukraine's nationalists angry

about their singer's mixed ethnicity and it's not the only major event that racism is affecting as we report. but first egyptian voters faced with a choice of two presidential candidates one from the muslim brotherhood and the other 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 closed is a lot closer as long as candidate mohammed mercy less than half a percent ahead of hosni mubarak's last prime minister ahmed shafik neither got enough to without right but shafique represents the pre-revolution egypt mercy value to implement strict sharia law cairo based activist dalia ziada says neither candidate really represents the ideals that people fought for more than a year to achieve. the. a general sense of disappointment in the whole country people did not expedite that especially you know that even 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 that evolution so there is a general sense of disappointment of course among the young people in which it imprisons a majority of the population but now everyone is asking them to vote for much if it was involved in beating people in tahrir square the audience that evolution and he was a prime minister is that mubarak used to beautify is image in his last days before he leaves the fed that people are choosing him now probably they want to give him a new chance or probably. selected him as a negative vote to morsi you want to present is a muslim brotherhood we the muslim brotherhood have been doing that can three since the parliamentary elections last november and since then people have seen. brother without a completely flawed from was they expected them to be they became more you know

speaking about things that don't reveal even 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 pretty years georgian government forces broke up a rally demanding president saakashvili quits and opposition voices are still feeling the full force of that suppression the clashes saw. two people killed as police used water cannons rubber bullets to disperse the crowds dozens were injured hundreds are arrested when officers tried to clear the way for the country's independence day celebrations george will hold parliamentary and presidential votes later this year but his arteries were if an ocean reports there's little cheer for anyone hoping for a change. of ourselves to starve it to one of george's main television channels that slogan proclaims news is made here is the answer from the country's journalists charter complains that sometimes it's literally so and works

equally for all georgian major broadcasters. they do not cover news they make it there in their offices behind closed doors in georgia where there are only three national channels broadcasting news channel one a state ran while the owners of the two others are starting to and in medi had close ties with georgian president mikheil saakashvili and his administration they are the main sources of information for the countries almost four point five million population ziad says the news reports of these three air often repeat each other which raises concerns over there it is tauriel independence especially as the country enters election season five months before parliament voting is there quite black and white circus really as good a position is bad but it really touched georgian politics at all when i watched it i had 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 built in in central but to me for just one larry which is less than one u.s. dollar but these are turning to the media sources can hardly get an audience outside the capital tbilisi. local authorities prevent us from broadcasting in the provinces although we do have a license the people running the biggest company 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. 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 used papery porter says he has been twice in the last month by the president an interior minister's 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 he told to get the news from spain own the safe and media the press is among the most tightly money talks and there are not to these presidential and parliamentary elections like independent information means voters will make it a season that is like me far from being informed and according to many far from being free. race nationality to really see. a bunch of today's global

free speech lies in our rapid uptake of social media later we ask if you're tired of the tweets hoax and the likes. one reason i think that i'm deep in it doesn't mean the strategy is because i am a little bit sick of it so we have to be really good later we ask residents of new york what they think the future holds for the popular there. but first there's a concert later that will have one hundred twenty million people glued to the screen it's the euro vision song contest time but there is division in one country or its entry in the file are. reports from kiev on how ukraine's song for europe is stirring an undercurrent of racism. 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 by turner 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 they don't need 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. turn or 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 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 not ukraine against england and africa as well as 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 past form in parliament to spread their ideas to young people ukraine's right wing nationalist

align themselves and 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. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe u.n. monitors have been said to the 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 pound the area this week a u.n. report accused both the regime and rebels of gross human rights violations in france the friends of syria group that's keen to remove president assad and funds the opposition condemned the violence and called for an urgent meeting with. iran's envoy to the u.n. nuclear agency says evidence of

a rich terrain and found it underground bunker were due to a technical glitch official discovered traces that were of the rich to twenty five percent or twenty seven percent which is higher than previously thought the west suspects iran of building nuclear weapons that require enriching uranium up to ninety percent tehran denies the allegations. chief has no tiers for a troubled greece demanding they sort out their own problems by paying their taxes christine legarde says she has no intentions of softening the country's belo terms even though austerity and unemployment's led to a rise in the suicides there the country has a bad record in collecting taxes though but has vowed to clamp down on dodger's which is required to secure its rescue money. but regularities and internal conflicts at the vatican have been exposed and the pope's butler has been arrested for the leaks police say he was an illegal position of confidential documents including letters alleging corruption of the church's highest levels the vatican is

already swooping on the author of a book containing memos between the pope and his personal secretary. many muslims living in the u.s. are getting accustomed to the growing suspicion they get from law enforcement the government's justification is it helps prevent terror attacks but the muslim community thinks that it's being unfairly victimized as 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 that i wasn't sure about the people that were coming up the mosque if there was somebody new at the mosque that i had never seen and i would always feel in the back of my mind that you know who is this person and what are they in 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 not happening all across the country simply because so many will seem to cross the country for getting visited on a regular basis by a p.r. agency for doing joint terrorism task force officers so many are having problems now the consul of american islamic relations to california is suing the agency for what it says is an attempt to incriminate people based simply on their religion or with the americans were the fifty's sixty's seventy's i think it's a war a religious war i think it's part of. the sims based on their religion but 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 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 weekend 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 behind format mike in the question archie reporting from los angeles california. more than a billion people use the likes of facebook and twitter but coming up we'll see 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 because 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 the like of putting too much of my personal information on this kind of social network photo you assume i like the one provisionals like clinton but the public ones like of in the to be very specific to you 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 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 there's too many young people are kind of think what's the big deal if i give somebody

a threat over there where i've seen police officers get involved with kids or do those kinds of things because it's it's a threat whether it's on facebook 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 strategy is 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 i'm going present now that i think there's a something bigger and greater and better is going to come about. that the second coming resists is going to come through social media and acts and words has twitter that's i'm going to need a to be part of jesus 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

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