it's a ballot boycott collective that widespread anger at a poll the islamist led opposition says is rigged in support of the u.s. backed monarchy. gyptian president mohamed morsi names the date for a public referendum on the country's new constitution amid ongoing mass protests triggered by his self-imposed powers. and the world calls on israel to call off new settlement building in the west bank and east jerusalem just a day after the u.n. upgraded palestine's diplomatic status. in life for moscow this is our team going to have you with us these along must lead

opposition in kuwait has boycotted saturday's parliamentary ballot in a bitter standoff with the country's own elected leaders the u.s. backed monarchy is accused of amending the voting rules to influence the outcome of the poll or he's losing confidence he is in the gulf state with the latest kuwait maybe a tiny nation but it's a regional influence as well as its strategic importance to the west is immense absolutely immense as an opec member anything any sort of unrest that happens on the ground here could have potential impact on the world oil market as well as global oil prices as well as the pentagon's plans to use this tiny nation as a hub for its ground forces as a counterweight to iran now kuwait already holds three american military bases and folks in washington are talking about increasing the troop presence here especially in light of the withdrawal of troops from iraq and the looming withdrawal from afghanistan now tolls have officially close here in kuwait and while we won't know the results the opposition is already claiming a victory here saying that the boycott was success that voter turnout was low and

that the parliament therefore is illegitimate now what this means is this could spark further on rests on the streets on the ground. here in kuwait as people are quite frustrated with the developments in the political system on one hand this country is considered to be one of the most democratic and liberal and sort of open minded compared to the other gulf monarchies but at the same time the unelected ruling emir has the power to veto legislation to dissolve the parliament which is what has taken place now four times since two thousand and six as well as effectively there's been a ban on political parties and gatherings of more than twenty people are banned and so the worry here is that while kuwaitis do generally enjoy more rights than residents of other gulf states there is a trend towards effective oppression here on the ground and a move away towards democratic as ation and this is of course all happening as the gulf countries are struggling to deal with the effects of the arab spring hoping to stave it off from taking place on the ground now what we've heard from the

opposition already actually in fact we have spoken to. who on twitter his leading opposition figure on twitter he had already said the kuwaiti people have succeeded in bringing down the selection by not taking part we sat down with him and i want to play you a little bit of what he had to say about the political problem here. and one problem is that the government doesn't need neither the constitution nor democracy and they always start 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 dropped and the government is unable to change the constitution will to continue with the development process as a result the situation has got to where it is now. and so what he's referring to is effectively what people feel is a corruption at the top a lack of economic development despite the massive oil wealth of this country both

as well as what people feel a subversion of the political system and as i said while there is more media freedom and. and sort of political freedom relative to other countries here we have seen activists arrested for speaking out negatively against the ruling family and the policies here and we've also seen crackdowns on public gatherings and un sanctions protests with the security forces using tear gas stun grenades as well as rubber bullets so the fear here is that the country could be moving away from liberal policies and from theoretical democracy. reporting for us there and we're expecting to get results from kuwait in about an hour's time now eric draitser a geo political analyst from stop imperialism dot com says whoever is elected needs to balance its own interests with the influence of the west the most important element in all of this is whether or not the opposition is able to stand up against this family the ruling class the ruling class in kuwait and most importantly standing against u.s. imperialism kuwait in and of itself is not terribly important but when seen in the

context of the g.c.c. and seen as one of the most reliable u.s. allies particularly juxtaposed against what is happening in bahrain and we understand that the united states in the western powers cannot allow the saw family to fall you have to see that kuwait is a launching point in a possible war against iran so all of these taken together really shows that the united states has both political geo political and then of course social reasons why they want to maintain the status quo. egypt's president mohamed morsi has announced of the referendum on the new constitution and it will be held on december the fifteenth that says the country is gripped by unrelenting protests with thousands coming out both for and against morsi and his artie's dumbarton reports the document approved by his islamist allies has come in for some fierce criticism . we've been hearing for over a week now from the opponents over egyptian president mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood who back him he put a system every decree he gave last week granting himself sweeping new powers the

power to make decrees with no legal challenge a new saying the new constitution washed through opponents say and to islamist well you won't hear any back criticism here for this is a demonstration in support whatsoever how would he see many people here for him was so from other sections of egyptian society. very supportive of him as the president was saying i was practically elected i think if i think his declaration was for a good reason that i do you think is reasonable for. him of issuing but it's not just the same thing that you could see ambushes the people that. anybody whose hands are tied to me to see if they were present i wasn't sure society at large sections of the population of the solution was see me out of this

not just being peaceful protests in around tough red square that i've been running around egypt some protesters that i think they're not being wounded and these really demonstrators in support of mohamed morsi say maybe i was finally finally i think i would be a physician you're my baby she's going to have to resign because you have to try to think a little was if was really going to matter lucian's was to somebody. now middle east expert dr o'meara sure says morsi is not doing enough to pacify his opponents the last thirteen point two million voters who voted for the president and our lord in twelve million that will do it for is against him. so any of these camps can mobilize hundreds of seldon's in egypt it's a power struggle the opposition or some of its leaders at least lost the

presidential elections in the parliamentary elections before that they are quite weighty about islamist supporters of the president and you don't want to see it is an islamist domination of egypt's elected institutions as it was elected by a margin i'm not surprised with the polarization i think the president could have done a better job in containing such of all the lies issued by having a better communication strategy but definitely egypt if the constitution was upheld and if we had. all of introductions i think egypt will be heading towards the truck . a number of western countries plus the un have hit out at israel for authorizing three thousand new settler homes in the west bank and east jerusalem israel's move came a day after the u.n. general assembly upgraded palestine to a nonmember observer state the u.s. called the construction decision counterproductive to peace negotiations to end the arab israeli conflict palestinians say the lands in the west bank and east jerusalem which were occupied by israel in the one nine hundred sixty s.

must be returned to them but since then the number of israelis living there has risen to half a million palestinians say all settlement building that must stop before any peace talks begin human rights activist steve hide things both sides are now further from a two state solution than ever before. if we're serious about a two state solution and if we're serious about moving towards. a way that this bill of assessment expansion can be seen as in any way a move towards getting back on the table and moving towards the peace talks that both sides desperately need in the latest upsurge in violence there in gaza we've seen documented proof that israel launched indiscriminate attacks i.e. they failed to distinguish between combatant and civilian in the same way that hamas rocket attacks very clearly aimed at civilians which is a violation of international humanitarian law in the sense that it's a target civilian. indiscriminate nature of the ass no way for

a two state solution perhaps we've ever been before but only by building on international consensus that we've got the israel and even the united states are further away from can we hope to move towards a long lasting peace. with our team coming up in the future of america's high tech hub is in jeopardy find out why silicon valley is shutting out the innovators who helped create a digital revolution plus. i'm going to 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 don't 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. we ask people in new york whether ignorance is bliss when it comes to their government starts secrets that's all still ahead this hour are to.

a lovely quiet morning a family gently sleeps in district heights maryland when fifty armed f.b.i. agents stormed the house and guns drawn despite the family pleading that they were unarmed the law enforcement agents opened fire on a weaponless teenager my asian huli thankfully sholay suffered minor flesh wounds but the key issue is that it remains unknown as to why the house was stormed so here in america for no reason guys in black uniform storm someone's house alone in some rounds and left with no justification or explanation yes the family still doesn't know why this happened the f.b.i. is remaining silent you know i understand that there are some very bad individuals out there doing some very bad stuff at home but if you don't even really know whose house you're storming or why you're storming it then maybe you should lay off the

siege for a while you know what take a few minutes to think it over have a cup of coffee and maybe even do a little google search about the fourth amendment but i just my opinion. we speak your language i mean some of the will inevitably and. use programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little too nativity angles heaton's stories. that spanish. visit. the great russian barrios. prevailing over. asperity. to reenact an epic parade through paris. can they complete

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zero. to fourteen in the morning here in moscow glad to have you with us. some footage has emerged apparently showing syrian rebels executing loyalists while their victims that pleaded for their lives now quick warning some of the images you're about to see are. quite graphic one of the gunmen is heard referencing an al-qaeda linked group behind several terrorist attacks in the country this comes as the opposition fighters claim new advances in their drive towards the capital damascus in the meantime authorities say they have restored all internet and phone services after a two day nationwide communications blackout news analyst patrick henningsen says the information blockade benefits those backing the rebel militias we have

a massive problem again with syria and we've had this problem from the beginning which is the skewing of information coming out of the country the syrian observatory for human rights who is responsible for a lot of the usual bogus claims or allowed the west to sort of justify the fact of the free syrian army terrorist groups the leaders of our western countries particularly nato countries or encouraging the syrian terrorist rebels guerrillas whatever you want to call them to really accelerate a bloodbath in that country because in the eyes of washington and london they're going to get the blood out because they're going to have reaching just a report just came out this week with a supplying satellite units to rebels rebel groups terrorist groups essentially in syria so they can communicate while the internet is down the country there was an image initially sold in the media in places like the washington post a move by the assad government possibly to shut down rebel communications but

actually a point for their investigation it looks like it's possible that actually the combination of the united states operatives and the syrian rebels could actually be behind the bringing down the internet and the reason is is because if the blood escalates from that country the last thing that the west wants is any reports coming out on the internet of actual rebel terrorist atrocities in that country atrocities that we've seen quite a bit of recently now let's take a look at some other stories from across the globe this hour. at least. people have been injured as clashes broke out at the inauguration of mexico's president police used tear gas to disperse the protesters trying to break through security barriers by throwing molotov cocktails demonstrators claim president yet zero votes to secure his election when. north korea says it will try to launch a long range rocket later this month the move is set to sour relations with south korea and the united states

a failed launch in april resulted in washington suspending food aid to the totalitarian state tension on the peninsula is also rising over south korea's recent deal with the u.s. which will dramatically increase souls' ballistic missile range. at least two people have been killed and three badly injured when a double decker bus hit a bridge at miami international airport police are questioning the driver who is not believed to be familiar with the ports road system the vehicle carrying a thirty two mostly elderly passengers was too tall for the entrance to the arrivals area. silicon valley has long been the world's leading hub for high tech businesses a reputation largely attributed to an influx of foreign entrepreneurs but as artie's medina found out this global symbol of enterprise could soon be in danger with the u.s. growing ever more reluctant to welcome new talent from abroad puts the silicon valley. sun lots of sharing helping each other even competitors will

help each other some of the biggest brands on the plants and they'll end. with 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 an iranian 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 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 right and center literally 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 i think they're hungry they're the words they want to succeed they're driven the valley's biggest price 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 mid ninety's to the mid to thousands had founders born and brought in the latest research says there is a case to one for being born inventor behind three quarters off after a new patient and like her many others getting impatient for a start up is what brought julia to palo alto her project is called smart wall and works as 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 it's 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 to home and not much needed jobs going into hands that have come from abroad i mean need hard for many to understand that foreigners can actually bring benefits to times when america so desperately needs them and 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 this fear is still though they're taking our jobs the way america prides itself on being a mountain paunch the country where thousands flocked for a better life but u.s. immigration policy me put an end to all that and you know question artsy.

of course you can always catch up on our stories on our website or to dot com there for you right now the u.s. senate approves a bill on national security which could damage the capability of afghanistan's security forces find out why on our website are two dot com. possibly may have put in publishes his official welcoming address revealing the agenda for the year ahead as russia assumes that the presidency of the g twenty. also in the u.k. officials get hot under the collar as one hundred seventy boxes containing top secret files about britain's former colonial rule have gone missing find out more about our website. during two days of pretrial hearings a lawyers for the american and private queues of leaking classified data to wiki leaks told the court about his mistreatment and suicidal thoughts bradley manning has already spent the best part of two years in detention for allegedly revealing killings that the u.s. military did not want to exposed on the anniversary of the cable gate or that

landed him behind bars a lawyer harshness asks whether people really want to know what their governments are up to. 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 run a government and you live or you run a business associate business and you lead everyone from your employees to the person who's the 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 haunt you. that. 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's money power involved i don't think anything's going to change the information has since the printing of good will burke in the fourteenth 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 bad 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 internet so is that a government the i think of the government especially the what america is the world

is ultimately is going to be about it whether or not we feel like wiki leaks has changed the world the bottom line is governments might now feel like they have their own big brother watching and hopefully that's a good thing. and coming up a russian cossacks or enact their historic march towards paris during the napoleonic wars or to a special report after this break. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients could you just already spend three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet author p.d. is good for you is there of in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially

used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients. and their shattered lives will go when professor of design his first brain bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies lives both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the it was out of center nowadays seeking series three focus medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to

a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg length i mean request to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries a band in many countries and even the out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia yet his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the others in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average users wanted to be average for women height isn't so

important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or should i call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. in lines of three arms length apart word march. on an ordinary autumn morning in the provincial french town of montrose life is

taking its usual laid back course but today the townsfolk are in for a surprise russian cause like troops from the napoleonic wars have. it's a great day. the likes of these men have not been seen here for the past two hundred years it's almost as though a full parade has travelled through time bringing with it all the splendor of the pure bred horses weapons adama but with typical of the day. and no russian cossacks are here again marching towards. the poles. mostly but it comes from a family of cossacks and he's learned to sing the old version of the most when his whole. became lingering the journey vassily had to trail behind the procession he still believes the question of who won the battle is relevant. but you would say the battle ended in a draw but it was an honorable droll there's no doubt the french emerged victorious they did override the battlefield and whoever sees the battlefield was the victor but even if it was a victory it was

a costly one. blood to ensure that good morning well over. at least. the excitement of the grand tour of paris has still a long way in the future for the course i could just beginning to get ready for the journey. and it all started here exactly one year ago. on. bacilli is making ready to ride his horse is called. good boy come over here we're going for a ride down. a course next course is just like a member of the family they often joke at the horses are even more dead than their wives and children. need to talk to their.