old freeboard just plug in video for your media project free video r g dot com. the latest news and the week's top stories the gyptian president gives up his controversial new powers but stands firm on a draft constitution referendum as the opposition refuses to back down. as fears mount among western nations that syria may only its chemical weapons to quash the rebels that you wonder if that's all just a pretext for an iraq is style invasion. israel's been criticized by the international community this week with major powers and the plan lambasted the country's illegal decision to continue building settlements on palestinian lands.

at a steady out of the russian capital you're watching r t was marina joshie egypt's president has scrapped the decree that gave him sweeping new powers and effectively put them above the law of the land but the opposition says that's not enough as a referendum on the controversial draft constitution is still scheduled for next week mohamed morsi has extended powers and the charter he has as long as lawmakers drop sparked a nationwide protest and clashes seven people have been killed and hundreds injured forcing the powerful military to weigh and with intervention threats the generals say the government and opposition must reach an agreement or face tough measures to restore order has more from cairo. demonstration deja vu it's all this week some fringe protests against mohamed morsi had to flee but there was an appreciable sense of restraint to be one of them i don't think you should.

it was you take the good fighters in the cage if your kids don't like fights but like many muhammad was wrong and now things are starting to look a little like they did two years ago it's been a week of protests in cairo especially here near the presidential palace but a few days ago this very spot was at the center of egypt's political confrontation and then it looked very different petrol bombs fireworks. the deadly hail of stone it took the army to break it up but as events unfolded pictures of soldiers embracing protesters have called i'm melissa tension it looks like egypt may be about to kick another leader from power in the revolution back to square one i think it's dangerous and terms of the military my fears are that the military may. clear clear the decks for themselves over the barricades after two times the arguments became simpler and more forceful less that morsi is the

president thought so i stand by this bit about the list so and we will support them with all we have no make has rushed through what the opposition say is a pro islam is constitution with no substantial debate perhaps fittingly for the man the opposition is now branding the new pharaoh thousands of protesters are screaming their own message across more seas palace walls god. god they're seeing another they are in the making they're seeing another and mubarak and morsi is really making the same mistakes that. during the january twenty fifth of the new since the underlying debate is still whether egypt's new draft constitution is to is amidst some politicians convinced to bring an end to the trouble or desperate for the scheduled referendum on it to go ahead we won't i met this future a missile brazil. or him to give the award should go for it including these

limits the army angry citizens and the president they denounce as a dictatorship it looks like the same plays on stage just same actors only this time they have swapped roles and the question for the audience is whether this same bloody climax will be repeated. what concerns rising in the west now the syrian regime may use its huge arsenal of chemical weapons another troubling video appeared earlier this week on the web and shows what appears to be a rebel group testing chemical weapons on two lab rabbits placed in containers after an unknown gas is released and the death of both animals and mass person threatens to use it against syrian civilians that's comes as rebel groups from across syria are uniting under one command in the latest western backed effort to topple president bush at a loss of parties going and she can looks into whether all the cannibal fears of

the west are really a prelude to foreign intervention. u.s. official said intelligence agencies have detected that assad's government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use the obama administration's message to syria the u.s. is ready to act if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable there will be consequences. there will be consequences we have sent. an unmistakable message that this would cross a red line next how does america the media quickly picked up on the alarming news of the syrian government's alleged plans citing secret intelligence for fox news confirms that syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized and at the ready the syrian government flatly denied the possibility saying it would not use such weapons against its people. we would not commit suicide we feel

there's a conspiracy to provide a pretext for any subsequent interventions in syria by these countries during creasing pressure on syria the syrian government sure knows that if they use chemical weapons it would give nato and some of their arab neighbors who are itching to intervene in syria the green light to go ahead with their plans damascus itself says it would be suicidal for them to do so but with the fear and the hype building up over the use of chemical weapons against civilians in syria it seems the us might be preparing grounds to jump the gun on this one the jumping the gun scenario is not new for the u.s. almost twenty years ago the bush administration confidently presented false evidence to invade iraq america's cited bogus intelligence on saddam hussein's chemical weapons that never existed the invasion triggered a civil war that killed more than one hundred thousand innocent iraqis and years later all washington had to say about this was the president thought it was correct

congress thought it was of course i regret that it turned out a lot of it was wrong in the run up to the iraq invasion the us media was instrumental in selling the case to the public the congress never any proof ever present ever of weapons of mass destruction all came from tony blair to the bush and congress who writes now that the us has drawn a red line on syria it has made it clear it's ready to take action but how i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of. a credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people but suffice it to say we are certainly planning to. take action if that eventuality were to occur to american warships are already near the syrian coast with some ten thousand. u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american

german and dutch batteries of patriot anti-aircraft missiles to turkey's border with syria meaning hundreds more u.s. and european troops will be deployed to the frontier nato says deploying patriot missiles along syrian borders is a defensive step to prevent syria from attacking turkey i don't think there's any requirement whatsoever for patriot batteries on the ground in turkey to get in the patriot missiles are designed to really protect primarily against incoming fire ballistic missiles to recruit the syrians are not turks the church of the most powerful military establishment in the region the largest army in nato intervention in syria will be as bad if not worse than what we experienced in iraq the pentagon said they would need seventy five thousand troops to secure syria's weapons of mass destruction the question on everyone's mind is are they seriously considering that kind of a mess of intervention because that could mean another you rock coming soon an

invasion that could be followed by years of bloody civil war in washington i'm going to check on. belgium is a high terrorist alert as we report online that's ahead of the release of a highly provocative film exploring islam for war and we made in cooperation with the tory is ron burning u.s. pastor terry jones. and dance of thousands in kuwait demand the dissolution of the newly elected parliament we have the pictures at our key dot com. now israel sattar earlier in the week it will continue its settlement expansion in palestinian territories the move provoked a quick response from the united nations which said this would be a fatal blow to any future peace efforts. the secular general has made clear that. as we've repeatedly said settlements are illegal under international law and he has repeated his call on all

concerned to resume negotiations and intensify efforts towards a comprehensive just and lasting peace and also in the interests of peace he said that any plans specifically for the. envelope must be rescinded. the decision to authorize more settler homes came after last week's vote upgrading the diplomatic status of the palestinians bringing them a step closer to achieving full statehood israel responded saying the west bank government was trying to avoid their work be stopped by seeking when the recognition of british m.p. jeremy corbyn israel's risking losing international support. netanyahu seems simply to have not cottoned onto the fact that the vast majority of the rest of the world support the right of palestine we just support the right of palestinian working and therefore not of occupation of the west bank two state

solution is something that everyone is wonderful signed up to but the reality on the ground of still not having complete free movement in and out and the huge number of settlements across the west bank on the settler roads and of course the problems of easter suggest that it's quite difficult to achieve it unless there's a real will to withdraw the settlements and allow palestine to develop and i don't see that will at all with netanyahu if he can't even rely on governments that are basically quite sympathetic to israel and israel's claims then he's losing out big time all around the world and he just needs to wake up i think the washington support will weigh in very quickly obama has been reelected and the reelected president into a second term is at his most powerful and i think the lesson here who might do well to remember that he also very much involved himself in the internal politics the usa during the election campaign in that can't even did himself very much the

administration the movement around the world for palestine for palestinian people is unprecedented netanyahu should wake up and recognize that. now just to have for you this united states we report on the growing separatism sentiment in american society that's already made up ten million people go online to vote for secession from washington. and recession a weary brits face here is of a staring as a government announces an extension of its cuts program details of the story and much more after this short break. wedge issues do just what their name implies they get between people and drive them apart like a wage and these issues seem to always take the forefront in the media it's things

like abortion gun rights marijuana legalization and the weather well the weather isn't really a wedge issue but people sure talk about it way too much there's only so much room in the national discourse and the switch issues just eat up all of the time and attention but the thing is that there's a little something called the tenth amendment you know the one that says that any powers that are specifically delegated the federal government are reserved for the states and last time i checked the constitution doesn't have a special weed clause saying that marijuana has to be an all or nothing a national proposal and that goes for abortion and most of the wedge issues also there's a simple answer all these wedge issues just left the states make up their own minds but then again without wages shoes what would the mainstream media have to distract us with but that's just my opinion. well into the future of science technology innovation all the least of elements

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welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow now britain is heading towards a future hand in hand was a staring at the government's extended its massive cuts program for five more years the finance minister insisted the tax hikes were a the country's struggling economy r.t. sarah first reports. well everyone now madly picking their way through the facts and figures and while we're there a lot of thing is one thing that was very very clear and that's that the u.k. is set to face even more austerity no what those figures showed us was that the u.k. economy is going to shrink by not point one percent in five years twenty twelve now it sounds like a small amount but of course no sign of that all importing in fact what we're seeing is that borrowing has gone are we seeing that the debt has risen and fallen and most crucially i think is probably the fact that the government have missed the reduction target so we're now facing an extended austerity program is going to take

its right away three to twenty eighteenth's a pretty gloomy outlook and this is what we were expecting a bit of course that's going to really not be what millions of families all across the again to one thing here are going to cause this is really going to affect being in real terms to speak to us more about this or to statement by the chancellor today i'm joined by a labor m.p. and the public i say public health minister thank you for joining us so the british economy is slowly healing according to chancellor george osborne what was your reaction to that well i thought that was a very silly statement the truth is every prophecy every target of. he has failed he has not met his targets he's not going to do with the deficit he said the road growth will grow and also there's going to be a huge car made in benefits pavement to some of the poorest people because we are

going to suffer the most. and there's no end to this will start now when it's talked about that because we saw that just one percent for the benefit of the welfare bill and that's less than inflation you know that's really going to hit a huge no. book forty seven billion pounds so it will be cut from the benefits bill and we're talking about farmers are really on the bread line anyway even losing twenty pounds is a big hit i mean it's a very cold side and it's very cold prospects for britain's poor because they are going to bear the brunt of the austerity caused by christmas by because of all school doesn't know what he's doing thank you very much for joining us also say there's a lot of course the concern as you said there on picking saying the thing is one thing cutting through all those statistics and that's. going to be said to have to replace it so that even tougher in the future and even more starting. eurozone

finance ministers have boosted spain's beleaguered banks by approving a forty billion euros rescue package for them back in june at the same minister said they were ready to provide a vote to one hundred billion euros despite the recession madrid a strike at all costs to avoid asking for a sovereign bailout dutch politicians to one man there says the spanish government has brought the crisis on itself. there is a fundamental flaw in the banking system which. the government has basically taken over big bangs the greed of the banking cartel the group is simple but they allow banks to print money that is not covered by. the government intervening too much in the market. and the way to solve the problem is by government withdrawing by printing the role of government by getting government to spend less and less and regulate less that is what will get commie back in order

that's what will. cause the job where you grow again at the bottom of this pier. so . saving companies being supported by government is only a very short term solution in the long term it is a disaster. italian prime minister mario monti who has a non-elected cabinet of technocrats stated that he plans to resign the news came hours after the country's former pm still barrel scotty announced he's to run for office in next year's parliamentary elections on thursday berlusconi's people of freedom party was druid support from the government he says montes astaire policies had harmed italy and he hopes to lead the country out of the financial crisis the seventy six year old has already served as italy's prime minister for three separate terms he's currently caught up in a number of scandals including tax fraud convictions which he's appealing and accusations of paying for sex with an underage prostitute something he denies.

venezuelan president hugo chavez has announced he's suffering from cancer once again the leader says tests are show their return of sound the malignant cells in the same area were tumors have been previously removed he will return to cuba are worth he's already received cancer treatment to undergo surgery in the coming days the news comes two months after this was reelected as president in a tight vote. americans in their hundreds of thousands in all fifty states have gone online to say they want their state in the pan and from washington parties wary of organized try to find out why more and more u.s. nationals are eager to rip the stars and stripes apart. for that. or to moderate their is a former colony won the right to kill its oldest of the.

perfected order to move forward. four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from this so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one is the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the the debt this country has the rolling disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's through the lesson of history big empires always collapse on their own weight

secession supporters like bernard first some say washington's weight of growing debt and loose wars government intrusion and a broken immigration system has become a bipartisan destructive force it's beyond reform you can't reform that federal government whether it's the republicans in charge or obama basically the republicans are just as bad as far as we're concerned they're corrupt and are out of touch in southern former confederate states like north carolina culture and social issues play a big role for those like harold cruz who believes the us is too big and thus destined to fail north carolina and the south general. were different country already than the united states and we simply need our own government we have different values different belief systems critics have dismissed secessionists as disgruntled voters angry over president obama's second term however in this year thousand a presidential election obama became the first democrat in more than thirty years

to win north carolina a red state turned blue with the promise of change four years later tens of thousands of voters in the very same state believe they'd be better off on their own. the average american the things they believe in they're tired of the endless wars and here we are talking about invading iran now i can't think of anything more the white house meanwhile promises to review and issue an official response to all petitions with twenty five thousand or more. or signatories at least seven states fit that category that we used to be on the interstate driving along at fifty five miles an hour by ourselves with suspension as a goal and now we're being passed on both sides and lanes by people going faster than we are and it's amazing because here we were thought to be radical fifteen or ten years ago and now we're mainstream. a mainstream movement to move apart marina port nile artsy. they realize paramilitaries drug lords and now

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