he wait divided the opposition pledges a boycott of the parliamentary vote mass protests from a decree limiting voters' rights. over one hundred thousand protesters rally in egypt angry at a hastily pushed through draft constitution which many sees discriminatory. and israel's rush to approve thousands of new settler homes is seen as a step back for the peace talks a day after the palestinians given nonmember observer status at the u.n. . watching r.t. live from moscow the opposition in kuwait founded to boycott today's vote on

a new parliament already the second this year comes at a time of ongoing political unrest in the oil rich gulf state with anti-government protests denouncing a rule decree limiting voters' powers the opposition says the new rule discriminates against them and see it as corruption by the ruling monarchy lucy caffein of reports now from. uncertainty is one way to describe the mood here in way today as to really controversial parliamentary elections kick off now the opposition has refused to back down from a boycott of the voting in protest of what it sees as towards authoritarianism opposition activists say that this is an attempt to produce a more compliant parliament that will allow the government to pass laws without appropriate oversight from the legislature thousands a few leaders have taken to the streets in a largely peaceful protest march to express their frustration with what they see. some version of the cold war there's also concerns about

a potential clampdown on dissent as many activists who have spoken out both against the emir and the political situation here have been jailed now we got a chance to speak to some of the protesters and here's a look at what they have to say i have a problem is that the government doesn't need neither the constitution nor democracy and they always do want to talk about dialogue whenever they need a temporary alternative but in practice they are defying democracy the main problem is that since one thousand nine hundred seventy six the development of kuwait has stopped because the government started thinking of how to change the constitution and get rid of it the growth of the country has stopped and the government is unable to change the constitution or to continue with the development process as a result the situation has got to where it is now let's walk down this issue of hope that maybe we should result in a lower voter turnout which could in theory theoretically undermine the actual outcome of the elections and potentially nice and the dissolution of the most

recent parliament we also spoke to opposition activists to say that they are going to be stationing their own observers at each of the polling stations in order to do an independent count of the voter turnout the overage country has seen by a street battles between opposition groups and security forces which have used steer a gas stun grenades as well as rubber bullets in order to. first the previous gatherings now western countries are of course the lowest. as well as the under arrest here in kuwait of course as an opec member any sort of unrest on the streets is bound to have some sort of impact on oil prices as well as the pentagon's plans to use the oil rich nation as a hub for its get ground forces in order to build up a countering force to the perceived threat by prime force the way it is home to three u.s. military bases watching the stats increase in the number of. the all of them in withdrawal from afghanistan was struck. by you see captain of our team today.

meanwhile protesters are rallying in egypt against what they call an oppressive regime than to stop a new constitution seen as undermining democratic freedoms the draft was hastily approved by an islamist dominated assembly on friday which added fuel to the political crisis spot last week when president morsi assumed sweeping new powers jr spelled truly explains why protesters are opposing the draft so strongly basically is that a first of all it's drafted by islamist dominated assembly it doesn't represent egypt's on top of that it's of course is the sharia law and i've been to it although the initial wording is actually similar to the seventy one constitution the problem is that other articles defining sharia law even open to ultra conservative interpretation in addition to that it's a human rights watch actually. and i had a report today that highlighted the problems of women's rights within the constitution in addition there are articles saying things like you cannot insult to

the vigil which could be widely interpreted and misused and of course one of the main issues is a miniature trials of civilians this is the practice is illegal under international law i mean the subject of many campaigns by revolutionary forces and he's allowed in the constitution we expect a referendum in the next two weeks but with this continuing disturbance on the streets and more protests. so i expected really not sure how is your back referendum to go ahead certainly on to create the chance that i heard were against the constitution they were also against the president morsi is a power grab last week when he made this contentious constitution that duration which basically would have to supremes powers but really people are saying they don't want this constitution they want morsi actually to leave at this point islam is backing the president are planning to hold a massive rally of their own on saturday it comes as the opposition promises to step up protests and may also march on the presidential palace to stop him from calling a referendum on the draft. from the egyptian current party says if the new constitution

passes a referendum it would further cement islamic script on power if it gets a popular vote that means it's more or less the constitution that would have filled there's another critical mass that would allow for amendment however there's no mechanism to propose an amendment to the constitution after it passes through the referendum which means there has to be enough change within parliament and the hands of the non islamic parties so that they can propose such a change which seems to be a questionable with how the parliament of the previous parliament was consequent construed forty three percent of the muslim brotherhood and twenty seven percent of the salafist so even if there is a significant changes and you have a fifty fifty percent parliament of. an islamic that still seems to be

questionable that you would you'd have such a change. the u.s. has criticized israel for approving settlement expansion directly on to the u.n. recognize palestine as a nonmember observer state washington says it is a step back for peace talks three thousand homes have been given the go ahead in the west bank and east jerusalem less than twenty four hours after the u.n. vote israel has accused the palestinians of seeking out for recognition and not a solution through talks the palestinians in turn demand that all certain is stopped before negotiations review one hundred thirty eight states voted to upgrade palestine status with nine leading the us voting against and forty one abstaining a little political analyst phyllis bennis says the palestinians could now take action against israel through global institutions. this gives one more indication that for israel the settlement construction process is thoroughly political it's

this in this case it was designed explicitly to punish the palestinians for having the audacity to go to the united nations something that ironically the israelis call a unilateral act when of course going to the un is the ultimate act of multilateralism but i think that what we're looking at is really a continuation of what we've seen all along the settlement construction that has gone on for many many years in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem there are now over six hundred thousand illegal israeli settlers living on occupied territory which means they are they are breaking the law every morning simply by waking up that hasn't changed this is going to make it worse what this does i think is two things one we heard earlier it will give the palestinians the possibility of going to join either the international criminal court which could allow some level of accountability for israeli war crimes additionally it means they could have the

possibility to join the international court of justice as a member. as a state in which case they could do what countries do in the international court of justice all the time bring a lawsuit against another country in this case the state of palestine could sue the state of israel for its illegal occupation. fellow nobel peace prize laureates. to stand side by side with past witness several previous recipients of rock is stripped of the award as the values as its values don't fit with what alfred nobel had in mind that is ahead for you plus the u.s. closed door to high innovators from abroad despite previously spearheading the country's digital revolution this coming up after a short break. it's

perched atop a jar and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see. for a city that chilled all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance siberian railway but the poles cremains a spiritual center. scenes like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers themselves implicity water to commemorate the baptismal jesus. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies to ball supposed to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian

fire was the oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the ball's committed location head of the says but the russians are the russian heiress across a revolt against the tsar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists worse than heroin drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also served up some bitter irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office where the saw a nickel as the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here and they were the fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves whilst leaving the ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had. but within the year the saw of his family would be dead.

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welcome back now to you doesn't deserve its nobel peace prize that is according to several former winners who are demanding the block is stripped of the award they have written to the foundation saying the e.u. doesn't fit with the prizes values and the committee has lost its found. r.t. sarah first explain. in that letter they said that the twenty seven nation blocks getting this award contradicts the valley's safety ated with the pricing was a once already happening is one point seeing million dollar prize money not be awarded this year and they also said that the clearly not one of the champions of peace

a consensus here amongst the signatures and indeed among many many people when this award was announced this year was that really the awarding of the prize the european union not in the keeping of the spirit of the nobel peace prize the prize was awarded at a time when the e.u. is they think the biggest crisis it's face since its creation we're seeing huge social unrest and you know what a lot of people are saying is that the european union at the moment really for a lot of people. come to represent divisions within society we see those divisions between the rich and the plough poor between those who employ it those who run employed you know the people that we've spoken to in these countries really feel very very let down because the vision of the european union was about peace and democracy and that's certainly not what people feel that they're getting now as the committee praised the for voting after the second world war and spreading stability to former communist countries promoting peace and stability within the e.u.

you know it's not all bad the does provide a huge amount of aid a nation but i think what we've seen happening in the e.u. in the last year really has been very far from the idea of you know a peaceful new year two thousand and nine we saw are awarded to see president obama many people feeling that was being awarded the peace activities he might do it some point in the future again very much not in keeping with the will we are to have actually got some reactions of their own to this latest piece of information about it being contested we had an m.e.p. jury back in say it's highly devious was the even fulfill the rules under which the award should be given i mean really very strong reactions to this prize being awarded as we said movement a project that many people feel represents the total opposite to peace. well you can find all of these stories on our website where there is a lot more to you including supermarket sweep along the way and one shop could get you full time employment more details online plus. the mayans predicted doomsday is

approaching but some russian entrepreneurs aren't losing any time cashing in on the end of the world learn more about how to survive at r.t. dot com. silicon valley has long been the symbol of all things high tech in the united states and the rest of the world and while the majority of those who helped create the digital haven are foreign on america has become increasingly reluctant to welcome new talent from abroad but do you know what you never reports with the silicon valley. lots of sharing helping each other or even competitors will help each other some of the biggest brands on the planet n l n scenting is so she has where the america and surprisingly the majority were created by foreigners. jerry yang who was born in taipei surrogate britain whose parents came from russia when he was six or pierre omidyar and the rainy and born in paris

silicon valley has thrived thanks largely to immigrants people who came here with their dreams and had the drive to make them a reality they transformed this place into an unreliable hub for high tech development the birthplace of global pioneers one person who helps those outsiders to get a foot in the door is german born and how it could blend struck she says the valley moves so fast that it seems skilled foreigners springing up left frightened center that she average day and there is a simple reason such success is coming their way so many of the of the indians and chinese that come in the others they make these great companies and then they hire people so they are really giving work and i think they're hungry for the words they want to succeed they're driven the valley's biggest rice came with the boom of immigrants in the ninety's that brought innovations in software and internet services the numbers speak for themselves just over half of the companies found it

in silicon valley from the ninety's to the mid two thousand had founders born abroad the latest research says the reason to one forming born inventor behind three quarters off after a new patient and like for many others getting impatient for a start up is what brought julia to palo alto her project is called smart wall and works is a messaging tool for those who want to avoid social networks most of the people that are that i see are foreigners and also there are a lot of americans that are not from here so they're also coming it's it's not a matter of nationality here is a matter of the real skills that you have but there are some clouds on the california sky currently over half of foreign born inventiveness face visa hurdles the end. knowing economic recession has broad deep fears at home and about much needed jobs going into hands that have come from abroad making it hard for many to

understand that foreigners can actually bring benefits to times when america so desperately needs them but i think that's something that white america doesn't get they don't understand why. because they don't because i think that a lot of their fears are still oh they're taking our jobs away america prides itself on being a melting pot of a country where thousands flocked for a better life but u.s. immigration policy me put an end to all that i do not question the artsy. now let's take a look at some news making headlines this hour some other news but i do warn you we are about to show images that contain very graphic content syrian rebels have ordered lee uploaded a video showing them executing ten unarmed men in a prison is a scene pleading for their lives before being shot one of the gunmen referencing an al qaeda linked group responsible about several suicide attacks in the country pro-government forces have meanwhile been fighting you can ask this airport which

disrupted flights while a large scale internet and telecommunications blackout in the country is now into its third day the tension is mounting as levine year ahead of sunday's runoff presidential election as protesters clashed with authorities after trying to storm the country's parliament demonstrators threw rocks and firecrackers at police who responded with tear gas and water cannon thousands also gathered earlier accusing the prime minister and his cabinet of fraud and corruption and demanding their resignations the country is facing one of the worst recessions of the seventeen nations in the. thirty people have been killed after a cargo plane crash landed in a residential area in the capital of congo the aircraft was attempting to land at a nearby airport in skidded off the runway into houses in a bar before ending up in a ravine the accident appears to have been caused by a violent storm reports claim all crew members on board were killed along with up

to thirty people on the ground. a pretrial hearing has been showing a noose made from bedsheets with which u.s. soldier bradley manning intended to hang himself the alleged whistleblower is charged with passing thousands of classified u.s. documents to wiki leaks speaking publicly for the first time since his arrest two years ago he told the court that his detention conditions had made him feel like a caged animal unprovoked suicidal thoughts his lawyers claim the charges should be dropped because of his jail or deal. well manning's notoriety was caused by cable gate two years ago when we could leaks released a number of american diplomatic documents and on the on the anniversary of the project artie's laurie half an east has taken to the streets of new york to see this public support for the disclosure of top government secrets.

it's been two years since wiki leaks released what's now known as cable gates the world's largest leak of classified u.s. material so has it changed the world much this week let's talk about that i'm kind of a thought what i don't know doesn't hurt me so if your government is killing innocent people you're ok with that i'm not saying i'm ok with that but. i know i'm contradicting myself but i obviously don't want my government to kill innocent people but in the same boat. how do i know they're innocent if you are in the government and you live or you run a business this is a a business and you led everyone from your employees to the person who's a janitor to know everything about your business something's going to come back and haunt you and so maybe you shouldn't do anything that would hurt you. if. you have a good point knowledge is power right so we found out some information so that's a positive thing but i don't know if it's changed anything you don't think it's

changed the way the governments might act i think if they broke through some sort of firewall to get this information they probably built a new firewall that they can't break through quite as easily i don't think i it's changed anything i think the government is going to make it more of a secret you know as long as there is money power involved i don't think anything's going to change the information has since the printing of good will burke in the fortune century. the public is allowed to have information what about the government are they allowed to have information about us certainly yes so what about the people who protested that the government is using the internet to spy on us. well if you want to spy on each other just look at today just to minutes ago syria just closing the into that so is that a government the i think the government especially the what america is the world is ultimately is going to about it whether or not we feel like wiki leaks has changed the world the bottom line is that. romans might now feel like they have their own big brother watching and hopefully that's

a good thing. but we're going to take a short break now remember back max and stacey will be here with the kaiser report that go way. it was not the military as army signed a new contract with a unit of the huge contracting power it was not the operation to secure and rebuild

the country caliber company touch for years for its contract work in iraq. it was the campaign for making billions of dollars album or other reasonable. order bills exceed one billion dollars iraq first sale. or profiteers. soon which brightened. the bounce from funds to question. who threw stones on t.v. don't. you know how 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 realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

the. keyser welcome to the kaiser report some say the devil's greatest trick was convincing the world he didn't exist i say his greatest trick was convincing us that central banks should exist and then the central banks go back convincing us that only debt is money and to this toxic debt we must sacrifice our sovereign

souls to eternal inflation deflation did. say see max keiser well speaking of central banks and convincing us that debt is money of course part of that was convincing us that gold and silver are not money and they've tried to vanish it from our collective consciousness so austrian press agency cites a gaffe in report on possible audit of austria's gold the washington national bank was forced to admit last week in parliament that eighty percent of austria's national gold is in london and explain that the bank has earned three hundred million euros in the past decade with gold leasing operations after an expert commented that this adjusted to the large part of the gold was leased out the bank a leak that currently only sixteen percent of the reserves are affected the bank gave no explanation for the relatively high income from gold lending well well

well get scores again bill murphy and chris low are there you get of course simple math will tell you that if you're leasing that quantity at that rate for that period of time you end up with a certain number which is unimpeachable and it points the finger at the austrian central bank as being inveterate liars again is going to have really basic rightly should know. gold leasing is what they do to in order to suppress the price this is part of the conspiracy theory that central banks manipulate our perception of the value of gold and therefore the value of their fee up ponzi schemes and so here they're trying to convince the population who is now dubious and questioning whether or not they should have sold their soul to this central bank and devil and they're saying look we've made three hundred million euros for you and so.