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weak sob stories and of the latest news egypt's opposition rejects the referendum on the news in new islamist base constitution as they call for yet more protests. rebels in syria come together under one military command to meanwhile more global calls to prevent the government from using chemical weapons are increasingly seen as a pretext for intervention. and hamas evolves to see the palestinians liberated as the militant group marks twenty five years in action while israel is losing allies through its plans to build more settlements. and recapping the week's top stories this is our team with the weekly report glad
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to have you with us the egyptian opposition has announced it will boycott the referendum on the new constitution saying the document fails to represent the whole nation president morsi has ordered the military to maintain security until after saturday's vote on the disputed draft it is viewed by many as discriminatory journalist a bell true has more from cairo. national salvation front which is the coalition of opposition forces how the press conferences they express their complete rejection of the referendum of the constitution which they say in force is dictatorial tendencies and the key economic and social rights they've called for more protests on choose to against this document and said that basically they will not stand down how this will be responded to by the president is yet to be seen in all of the speeches by the president and over the statements he's made he's firmly back the referendum on the streets speaking to the protesters behind me as you can see gathered in front of the presidential palace they believe that his initial confusion that gratian which awarded him sweeping power as they said to me this
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evening was really to ensure that the constitution was drafted and put through referendum so the president's main aim really is they say how this constitution puts in place how he reacts to the to the boycott by the opposition forces i guess in there or not is a huge boycotts nationwide or whether it is not large enough to make an impact behind me the republican guards have had tanks stationed outside the presidential palace they've also built a twelve foot concrete barricades however the protesters on friday in quite extraordinary scenes century overwhelm the republican guards and pushed through in front of the presidential gates where they are now people on the streets of the republican guard essentially stepped aside and so many leading many to believe the military perhaps not backing morsi to the same extent that he is saying they are he has called for them to secure the streets there are fears the violence will escalate this bloody scenes on wednesday when rival groups clashed here just at the
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presidential palace between pro brotherhood pro presidential supporters and protest is leaving at least seven dead at the national salvation front themselves in this press conference said this referendum will really just simply increase division in the country and possibly to further violence as these protest groups maintain that positions so definitely the military may well we may see more time on the streets here in the. egypt has this is the crisis the pain is the u.s. has made a no comment on egypt draft constitution that's despite the document coming in for criticism for undermining basic freedoms to political analyst f. william engdahl says washington is secretly supporting the muslim brotherhood to turn egypt into an islamic dictatorship the whole decree was a saint to begin with so allow the president through. the proposed new castle to chanelle on the referendum for the fifteenth of december not given the opposition and the liberal groups and second persons or time to really debate it openly in the country so that voters have an informed choice for coptic christian groups are
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threatened if the book brotherhood gets its constitution and imposing sharia law for. other groups of the muslims for example sufi their places of worship are under attack in egypt and likely will be increasing it so this is probably one of the most major earth here in intelligence projects above the last fifty years and since the us government support of the muslim brotherhood to create islamic fascist regime you want to use that term across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt. syria's rebels have joined forces under one military command which they hope will unite diverse groups in the western backed struggle against president assad this past week the international community again voiced fears that the syrian government could deploy chemical weapons to defeat opposition fighters something damascus
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tonight going to touch you can look at whether the chemical arsenal is a real threat or a pretext for intervention. u.s. officials 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 a unmistakable message that this would cross a red line 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 fear there's
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a conspiracy to provide a pretext for any subsequent interventions in syria by these countries they're doing creasing pressure 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 the meskins 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 us almost twenty years ago the bush administration confidently presented false evidence to invade iraq we have an descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails 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
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congress thought it was worth it 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 had 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 u.s. 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 or already near the syrian coast with some. one thousand u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american
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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 again the patriot missiles are designed to really protect primarily against incoming theater ballistic missiles or aircraft the syrians are not going to attack the turks the turks have the most powerful military establishment in the region the largest army in nato and 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
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invasion that could be followed by years of bloody civil war in washington i'm going to check on. syria in a political activist dr he is on the dollar if the international community is worried about a chemical attack in syria they should look to the rebels not the government. recently there have been some troubling videos that we have seen on you tube and some other reports of of the jihadist groups in northern syria assessing some chemical materials with the name of a turkish company on them and the background there was a music playing with this chance it's very worrying they were conducting some experiments on the rabbit said difficult to verify but if it is not a bluff then this is this is very very worrying because judging by the effect of this gas it is a convulsing so it's it's a it's a nerve agent and and this is a dangerous development perhaps if you look also at the fact that the united states
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has recently started listing parts of the syrian armed opposition all of the armed opposition in syria as terrorist organizations that say something that probably aware that their part of the of the armed opposition in syria and probably the the most powerful part of the armed opposition who are the nasr front probably aren't possession of said such materials and probably are planning to use them as a threat and so i think the danger is that the the west is aware of such materials in syria but at the same time it's going to be used against the syrian government as a pretext for intervention. britain is now facing five more years of austerity. the treasury chief insists that cutbacks will help the country's a struggling economy find out the details later this hour. also after the break hamas about to liberate palestinian lands inch by inch as israel refuses to abandon
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its settlement construction. looters that takes your breath away few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged comfort but the joys the while these guaranteed is gagne's a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world we're going off the list below sea line if i go wrong the wrong and surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small river. where the bears are fishing but they have
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a very concise well to be able to see that we have to keep an eye a wind direction and the distance between them and also told that could be dangerous so we're going to go yes to shell but the record. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away another local resident to haiti's peace being disturbed here is the howlers sea eagle it has a wingspan of two and a half meters it nesa only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and seagulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here the island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region. the climb back up was tough but the prize was worth it.
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wealthy british style. markets. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports on. whether watching from chile or even here in moscow this is r t with the weekly roundup glad to have you back with us the u.k. has announced to an extension to its a program of cuts meaning the country will endure austerity until two thousand and eighteen pensions will be rated even more with those on welfare are likely to suffer as well marty sara first reports from london well everyone how madly picking their way. the facts and figures and while was there a lot of thing is one thing that was very very clear and that's that the u.k.
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is set to face even more austerity now 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 important in fact what we're seeing is that borrowing has gone up we've seen 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 this game so it's right away three to twenty eightieth's a pretty gloomy outlook and this is what we expect this course that's going to really not be more millions of families all across the again to one thing here and of course this is really going to bring in real terms to speak to us more about this or some statement of a chance that today i'm joined by a labor m.p. and the public i said
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a 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 deal with the deficit as 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 i was resolved to do so and there's no end to this will start now when it's 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 number of support for just been. so it will be cut from the benefits bill and we're talking about farmers is a really on the bread line anyway even losing ten twenty pounds a week is
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a good i mean it's a very cold outside and it's a very cold prospects for britain's poor because they are going to bear the brunt of the austerity course by britons by those that are also for doesn't know what he's doing thank you very much for telling us that also say there's a cause for concern has he said and i'm picking through the thing is that one thing cutting through all the way statistics and that's the case is going to be said to have to place as they even talk because even all austerity. the greek prime minister is on a mission to secure more support and more financing from germany is visiting the wealthy and conservative region of bavaria to convince leaders there that athens is worth the cash his visit comes a week after creditors agreed to prop greece up with another forty four billion euro attorney george cultural gallo's believes that real solutions are still a long way off so most cause me to stone. this is
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a nuisance. but unfortunately it generally used. to be viewed as an easy to. construct just that you go to example even to the. national military front. to the state without a huge here but of course it's really easy for this is mature to so such a policy. that appears so. simple to serious. stuff and for people with. and we always have more for you on our website or t. dot com. trouble ahead as u.k. charities become the latest victims of the economic crisis there find out what they fear in two thousand and thirteen. and check out the new mercedes benedict the sixteenth for the pope's taken delivery of his new high tech eco friendly wheels
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putting a throne for comfortable cruising among the crowds. the hamas leadership has a valid will not give up an inch of palestinian territories the political leader of hamas khaled mashal who runs the militant group from qatar is in the last day of his a store trip to gaza in a speech labeled as extremist by israel he slammed it for occupation of the palestinian lands refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the jewish state that's after israel has announced earlier this week of it it will keep on building a new settlement which has been denounced by the international community middle east expert good term luck says israel has even soured relations with one of its allies germany. we really made it very clear that we are totally against the continuing new settlements in the west bank and in jerusalem because this will definitely make the two state solution impossible because if this building so going on the west bank will be split into the access to jerusalem will not be possible
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for the palestinians any more reaction by mr netanyahu and others were very strong and unusually undiplomatic you could say just before his visit to berlin condemning the stand of germany and the fact that the foreign minister lieberman with some lame excuses did not come to berlin to meet his counterpart our foreign minister rest of ela also shows that at the moment there are lots of tensions among the politicians in germany and in east. israel exports tons of fruit and veg. cosmetics and other goods to the e.u. every year but despite being labeled as made in israel some products do not originate from there many are produced in settlements on occupied territories prompting calls to ban such exports or at least enforce more accurate labeling artie's peter all over investigates. produce of israel except this isn't
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israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned out of the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possibility to. to decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced in the legal segment your c farmers this land is much concerned by the thoughts of european n.g.o.s he says he's here because his government told him it was ok to be here. because i was told here you can. circle where i was told they could if tomorrow the state of israel tells me
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time to go i'll go i'm told i'm an occupier when i got here there was nothing if you show goods and we made it. in denmark and the united kingdom goods coming from settlements in the west bank already has to be marked differently to denote that it's not from israel the collective n.g.o.s want to see this implemented europe wide here in europe there are many people with ties to the middle east region and they want to make sure they know exactly where their produce is coming from. are you sure this comes from spain. is a palestinian living in germany she has family in the west bank and says the israeli checkpoints mean palestinian farmers are losing out to the settlers even even though you think they get jordan. israel checkpoints to keep them at the checkpoints for days and. the son. and then you can't even have
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a stepbrother anymore those behind the report into trade between the settlements in europe say they own trying to organize any kind of witch hunt we're not talking about boycotting jews over here we're not talking about even boycotting israel itself we're talking about making a difference differentiating between. legal israeli products which should be watched by european citizens as much as they want course the short and second products which are totally illegal and should be banned and people should not be to all of a pearl in. time to take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour. hundreds of people have marched through the norwegian capital in protest against of the e.u. getting the nobel peace prize demonstrators accuse brussels of being undemocratic they also criticize member states for maintaining expensive military forces while their population suffer austerity cuts the rally took place ahead of the prize giving ceremony in oslo. at least seven people including four
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children have died in a midair collision between two small planes over germany the aircraft crashed into nearby fields about four hundred metres apart authorities have not released of the names of the victims and have launched an investigation. exit polls in romania suggested the ruling coalition has won the parliamentary elections prime minister will remain in power with what looks like an outright majority rival center right group allied allied to the president took about eighteen percent the first official results are expected to be announced on monday. thousands and thousands of americans say they want to break away from washington residents across the land have signed internet petitions saying that they don't want to be part of the united states anymore when a port that has the story. tonight. or tomorrow or here is that for a former colony won the right to determine its own best of the. test
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a perfect thing to argue you have moved forward. for 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 debt this country has with the growing disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's through the lesson of history big empires always collapse in their own weight
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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 goes beyond reform you can't reform that federal government whether it's the republicans in charge or obama basically of 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 u.s. is too big and thus destined to fail and the south. are different country already and the united states 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 the two thousand and eight presidential election obama became the first
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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 us 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. 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 society as a goal 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
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porton i r r t. the us is about to get a taste of its own medicine from moscow. is preparing a list of banned american officials in response to a travel ban on russian use of breaching human rights tales just ahead. also explain why china and india's dispute over oil and gas out at sea could backfire for both countries. an artist was arrested for putting up posters critical of drone usage all over new york city the poster show a menacing drone shooting a missile at innocent children with the words drones protection when you least expect it written at the bottom these posters definitely reflect
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a lot of americans fears that a big brother skynet will completely eliminate the very concept of privacy and free speech so to prove that americans live in a free country without any government spying the n.y.p.d. hunted down the anonymous artist and arrested him for expressing himself having arrested him at his residence they charged him with fifty six counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession for having a deadly terrorist weapon and unloaded twenty two caliber pistol although being in jail won't be pleasant perhaps arzt as some actually in the end got what he wanted he proved to the world that big brother surveilled him and arrested him all for throwing up a few posters looks like he proved his point but that's just my opinion. emission free speech printing.
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