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a line from our studio. with. the egyptian opposition has announced it will boycott the referendum on the new constitution saying the document fails to represent the whole nation that says president morsi has granted the powers to arrest civilians in order to maintain security journalist bill true has more from cairo. the 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 enforces dictatorial tendencies and the key economic and social rights that 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 street 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 stooping power as they said to me this evening was really to ensure

that the constitution was drafted and put to 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 secure the streets there are fears the violence will escalate this bloody scenes on wednesday when rival groups clashed here just at the 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 tanks in the streets here in the. as this is a crisis depends the u.s. has made no comment on egypt draft a constitution that is despite the document coming in for criticism for undermining basic freedoms of political analyst william and dulles says washington is secretly supporting the muslim brotherhood to turn egypt into an islamic dictatorship and the whole decree was a saint to begin with so loudly pressing through but by the proposed new constitution and then the referendum for the fifteenth of december not given the opposition and the liberal groups and the second persons or time to really debated openly in the country so that voters have an informed choice who coptic christian

groups are threatened if the book brotherhood gets its constitution and imposing sharia law. other groups above the muslims for example sufi their places of worship are under attack in egypt and likely will be increasingly so and this is probably one of the most major earth here in intelligence projects of the last fifty years and since the us government support of the muslim brotherhood to create islamic fascist regimes of we want to use the term across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt. syria that rebels have joined forces under one a military command which they hope will that united diverse and 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 denies going to can looks 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 with 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 an unmistakable message that this would cross a red line 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 fear 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 u.s. might be preparing grounds to jump the gun on this one the jumping the gun scenario is not new for the u.s. almost ten years ago the bush administration confidently presented false evidence to invade iraq we have and 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 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 had any proof ever present ever of weapons of mass destruction all came from tony blair. bush 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. 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 two american warships are 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

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 syria's 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 fire ballistic missiles or aircraft the syrians are not going to attack the turks the turks of 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 and the invasion that could be followed by years of bloody civil war in washington i'm

going to check out. and syria in a political activist dr abdullah says if the international community is worried about a chemical attack in syria it should look to the rebels not the government. recently there have been some troubling with us that we have seen on you tube and some other reports of of the hardest 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 have this chance it's very worrying they were conducting some experiments on the rabbits it's difficult to verify but if it is not a bluff then this is a this is very very worrying because judging by the effect of this gas there's a convulsing so it's it's a it's so nerve agent and this is a dangerous development perhaps if you look also at the fact that the united states

has recently started listing parts of the syrian armed opposition all of the armed opposition in syria as there are organizations that say something that is probably aware that there are two of the of the armed opposition in syria and probably the seen most powerful part of the armed opposition who are the you know sort front probably aren't possession of such materials and probably are planning to use them as they threatened 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 cut backs will help the country struggling economy find out the details later this hour. also later in the program hamas valves to liberate palestinian lands inch by hand as israel refuses to abandon its settlement

construction. you care has announced an extension to its 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 reports from london. well everyone now madly picking their way through the facts and figures and while was there a lot of. one thing was very very clear and so 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 important in fact what we see is that borrowing has gone up we think that the debt has risen and fallen 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 as again so it's

right away three to twenty eighteenth's a pretty gloomy outlook and this is what we were expecting but of course that's going to really not be what millions of families all across the again to one thing here and of course this is really going to see in real terms now to speak to us more about this autumn statement by the chance that today i'm joined by a labor m.p. and the public i said 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 well i thought that was a very silly statement the truth is every prophecy every target of. he has he has not met his targets he is 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 i was resolved to go for it and there's no end to the force don't know what 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 new. it's about forty seven billion pounds from the benefits we're talking about this is a movie on the bread line anyway even losing ten twenty pounds a week is a big hit i mean it's a very cold day outside and it's a very cold prospect for britain's pool because they are going to the ground to be starved to see cool spot christmas by the old school doesn't know what he's doing thank you very much for joining us also say there's a cause for concern he said i'm going picking through the thing is one thing cutting through all the waste and that's the case is going to be set to have to place it so even tough because even all austerity the greek prime minister is on

a mission to secure more support and more financing from germany he is a visiting the wealthy and conservative region of bavaria to convince leaders that their athens is worth the cash his visit comes a week after creditors agreed to prop greece up with another forty four billion euros attorney george cut to gollum's believes that real solutions are still a long way off. so modest cost me two stone. says listen you soon. but unfortunately. no it didn't get a beaut didn't it isn't easy to go. through just that you go to example even to the . limited fund. but of course it's really easy for the smith you do so so it's a. german experience so. this simple you serious are usually.

more cell phone for people with. access and of course we always have more free on our website r.t. dot com. trouble ahead as u.k. charities become the latest victims of the economic crisis and find out what they fear in two thousand and thirteen. and check out the new mercedes benedict the sixteenth the pope has taken delivery of his new high tech atco friendly wheels including a throne for comfortable cruising among the grounds. the hamas leadership has a valid it 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 a 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 announced earlier this week it that it will keep on building new settlements which has been denounced by the international community middle east expert says israel has been soured 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 it because if this building so going on the west bank will be split into the access to jerusalem will not be possible 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. israel exports tons of fruits and vegetables cosmetics and other goods to the e.u. every year but despite being labeled as made in israel some products do not have originated 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 put all of our investigations. produce of israel except this isn't 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 see 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 he. saw it circled where i was told i could it's more the state of israel told me time to go i'll go i'm told i'm an occupier when i got here there was nothing. 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 this is 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 they israeli checkpoints keep them points for days and. the sun. and then you can't even say 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 bought. by european citizens as much as they course the short and segment products

which are totally illegal and should be banned and people should not buy into. berlin under some other world news making headlines for you this hour. hundreds of people have marched through the norwegian capital in protest against of the e.u. getting the nobel peace prize demonstrators accusing brussels of being undemocratic and 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. the southern philippines have been hit by a five point six magnitude earthquake there were no immediate reports of casualties following the tremors this comes less than a week after a deadly typhoon hit the country that storm claimed the lives of more than six hundred people and left nearly four hundred thousand homeless while almost a thousand are still missing. at least seven people including four

children have died in a midair collision between two small planes over germany the aircraft crashed into nearby fields about four hundred meters apart authorities have not released the names of the victims and have launched an investigation. but thousands of americans say they want to break away from washington and residents across the land have signed internet petition saying they don't want to be part of the united states anymore when a porn i has the story. tonight. for the other and there is that for a former colony won the right to determine its own best of the. test a perfect thing or you 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 the so-called perfecting union

a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggle. 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 with the growing disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's the lesson of history big empires always collapse on their own white 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 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 general. were 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 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 no i can't think of anything more

evil 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 secession 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 ny and artsy. china has warned india against pursuing oil exploration in the disputed south china sea this afternoon delhi threatened to send warships to the resource rich area to protect its interests but as you got a piece going off explains a conflict between the two nations that could see both news out. as china and india rise economically their military muscles are growing as

a world both need energy to keep that kind of growth going and that may be putting the two asian giants on a collision course because of the mess that nationalism the indian government cannot afford to be seem to be weak in dealing with china obviously a higher power with government. over two hundred billion barrels of oil and large amounts of natural gas that's more than the vast majority of the world's energy rich nations have all hidden under the south china sea china claims most of the territory for itself but india has also managed to get access by buying a stake in a vietnamese gas field shortly after hanoi accused chinese boss of sandwich dodging exploration india warned it's ready to use force to defend its interests hopefully as i said the should not be leading to a longer term conflict but it's inevitable because both these

countries now large ambitions of becoming global actors and players both china and india have been pumping billions of u.s. dollars into their armies and navies holding drools on a regular basis and beijing has also announced its police will soon start to board and inspect foreign vessels surely the vast oil reserves in the south china sea are just too big of a cash for now they're trying out we're here to pass out was it really worth a conflict between the two economic power houses so is it really a game that neither can win the two asian giants can't afford any weaknesses and that would make it easier for other countries to take a bite of the valley. resources the u.s. has long been increasing its economic and military presence in the region but this is their west's trying to depict this expansion by both indeed china in terms of the clash. for poles down the last thing that they want is a military clash so if the two eastern powerhouses can share nicely they catch me

they will go to some other players already prowling on the sidelines you got this going all of our team. well after a short break we continue our look at colombia's a four decade long civil war in the months of fact stay with us to watch our two. worlds the. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered.

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