egypt faces more opposition protests and a boycott of the draft constitution it despite the president giving up his recently extended powers. the e.u. is set to receive the nobel peace prize amid mass protests and speculation over the award having lost all credibility. and the opposition in bahrain pledge talks without preconditions amid the ceaseless crackdown on any display of dissent. and broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you with us the opposition in egypt are gearing up for more

protests and say they'll boycott a referendum on the draft constitution president morsi has already given up his sweeping powers but failed to appease his opponents as he maintains the poll on the new charter will proceed next weekend journalist bill true is in cairo with more. the national salvation front which is the coalition of opposition forces the press conference and they express their complete rejection of the referendum of the constitution which they say enforces dictatorial tendencies and neglect key economic and social rights that called for more protests on tuesday against this documents and said that basically they will not stand down how this will be responded to by the president he 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 these you can see that 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 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 it is rather not is a huge boycott nationwide or whether it is not large enough to make an impact behind me the republican guards have had a tank stationed outside the presidential palace they've also built a twelve foot concrete barricades however the protesters on friday in quite extraordinary scenes essentially overwhelm the republican guards and push 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 they're all fears the violence will escalate this bloody seems 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 possibly to further violence these protest groups maintaining that positions so definitely that military may well we may see more tanks in the streets here in. egypt as this is the crisis depends. analyst to f. william engdahl says moore sees that now abolished powers have served their purpose and thinks the us wants an islamic dictatorship in egypt and the whole decree was a saint to begin with so loudly pressing through by the god of the proposed new constitution and then the referendum for the fifteenth of december not given the opposition and the liberal groups and the second verse and so forth time to really debate it openly in the country so that voters have an informed choice for the coptic christian groups are threatened if the book brotherhood gets its constitution and imposing sharia law for. other groups of the muslims for example sophie their places of worship are under attack in egypt and likely will be

increasingly so and this is probably one of the most major. here in intelligence projects of the last fifty years and since the us government support of the muslim brotherhood to create islamic fascist regimes if 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 and sticking with the story one of morsi is former formal rivals up for the presidency a more sound is a now a prominent opposition leader and says the nation needs to move forward here's a preview of the full interview which you can catch on air at six thirty pm g.m.t. right here on r.t. . the situation in egypt generally stands because of the fact that nothing has really changed the change that we want to give people hope for dealing with. the services the education the health care and the rest

of the fides of dating to the life of victims not to be produced anything new when you have to move on that is the essence of the message. as it is today. move on respect respect the rule of law let us move together. three presidents of the european union's main bodies are due to accept the nobel peace prize at a grander ceremony and but before the prize has even been handed out hundreds have marched through the center of the norwegian capitol in protest came on the heels of several previous winners issuing an open letter to the nobel foundation claiming that the e.u. does not deserve the award but as artie's peter oliver found out these are not the only issues undermining the credibility of the esteemed pries. who are poor little children. one day eleven they may well not be deterred by

about them but by the content of back character. the one it can be probably become a glorious. however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person but this is when it tests. especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gongs sparked heated debate borders being discredited particularly the outrage it was picked it up recently to be frank inside the united states i don't think very many people pay attention to the nobel peace prize anymore large numbers of americans were stunned when yasser arafat received the nobel peace prize many years ago president obama was given a prize for reasons that no one understood. the done over the last twelve months to

convince the nobel committee it's with the if such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrate his outrage. by the failure of the government's. skeptics can't get enough for you devalues the whole concept of the peace prize when you find out that the chap in charge of the committee is actually fully paid up your paid a big salary and promised a big should by the council of europe you begin to think what's going on there among more moderate forces there are concerns the peace prize is being used as a political football i think this award basically does a lot to kind of discredit past people who've won this prize i mean it demonstrates a sort of heavy politicization of the use of this award now it's been suggested that this year's winner of the peace prize picked it up more for not having done

something as opposed to having food the peace around the globe it seems like they got the prize more because there hasn't been any war in europe for many decades rather than having done anything specific i think as long as civic institutions like the nobel prize continue to lose their legitimacy and their spirit through political favoritism and these prizes are always political but obvious political favoritism and maneuvering i think it actually takes something away and i think it's actually damaging leaves the whole institution of the price facing the question of whether the nobility is being drained from the new down. there or the. greek prime minister and some are as has visited varia in an attempt to restore some faith in athens his trip to the wealthy german region came after greece set in motion a complex financial operation to buy back some of the country's debt pile at reduced prices the goal is to cut the national debt by around twenty billion euros to

qualify for more financial aid from the european union and the international monetary fund visit comes less than two weeks after greece's creditors agreed to extend billions in additional financing to assets george country governor. yes an attorney and professor of constitutional law believes the way the e.u. chose to deal with the crisis is unsustainable for that so must go to me the cornerstone of usefulness is this a new student. but unfortunately the gentleman who used to know when didn't it be like that of you in truth isn't easy to go over. there is that you go to example you go to the be only a few there now for the money that you found because suppose you did it that would be really good as a statement without a huge spirit but of course it's a little easier for these immature to so such a policy to visit a month back spears so we wouldn't be going to the simple to see a certain use rather more of more stuff in for people with glee i will go to look

at isis. and the euro crisis is also a hot topic at our tea dot com as we report on thousands of spanish medical workers marching through madrid in protest against cuts to health care and plans to sell off public hospitals find out more money. he. says.

and a live from moscow this is our team glad to have you back with us bahraini opposition groups who say they are ready for an open dialogue with the government without any preconditions but want any results put to a referendum this comes after a recent appeal for face to face negotiations by the monarchy which said they were essential to quell the daily unrest but as election year shasta reports it's still in doubt if the turbulent gulf state is any closer to getting on the road to peace and not the subject says his life was shot to his sits on

a municipal council in bahrain and several months ago he was shot by police during a peaceful protest looking at his injuries he's lucky to be alive but out of an online want and i was with many other protesters when we were faced. by riot police they did not hesitate to shoot us directly to the head with the bullets the police are using are for hunting birds and animals i've been shot at over one hundred ninety two hell yes that's got it all over my body in the head face arms and legs the most dangerous ones are those inside my lungs. is just one of hundreds who have suffered in the anti-government protests that started around twenty months ago when revolution fever was sweeping the middle east and north africa the descent in bahrain differs little from that a nation swept by the arab spring but the story never stopped it is a belief in different areas against the regime against that dictatorship i didn't stack the situation. in one thousand five hundred happens another we have.

every day we have a lot of. security forces amounting to it is attacking the people at that house and given the outcome of the arab spring and he will spur rains ruling elite is doing its best to stamp out revolt the government recently slapped a ban on public gatherings bahrain's chief of police says it's not permanent but it is necessary we have introduced a temporary restriction on gatherings on protests and that is. one reason because lately we have seen that these gatherings and protests have been taking more violent. methods and one year we had over four hundred protests in bahrain that's more than one protest but big and we have tried to solve the problem however they didn't seem to be able to control protests and the gatherings despite the ban

and the risk of arrest people are still gathering the hard core of the protest comes from poor neighborhoods as soon as we reached one remediate he encountered a small and peaceful anti-government surrounding. the summer simplicity to estimate how many people are actually taking part there just a moment in bahrain like to say that these protesters are being supported by the radical shia community which make up to seventy percent of this country's population. the ruling elite are sunni muslims and this may look like a sectarian war but the authorities firmly reject their actions are religiously motivated there is a radical movement in the opposition party they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government they seek a secretary in theocracy and that is unacceptable so all because i feel out of desperation they know that they don't have the support of the rest of the

population of bahrain they have turned to these violent means the protests are gathering momentum and allegations of torture in prisons are leading to serious international pressure being put on. so bahrain's rulers find themselves in a tough position they want dialogue with dissenters but the question is whether they will be satisfied with what the king has to offer a legacy or shifty r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. the militant group hamas has vowed not to give up an inch of palestinian territories that's what the organization's a political leader khaled mashal said on his. last day of his historic trip to gaza he also slammed israel for the occupation of palestinian lands and refused to recognize the country's legitimacy israel responded it would never unilaterally withdraw from the west bank saying that that would create yet another area from which palestinians could launch rockets over its border the country criticised the recent un vote that upgraded the diplomatic status of palestinians and vowed to

keep on building new settlements which are considered illegal internationally journalist gideon levy says the situation won't change as long as the u.s. continues to back israel. please really probably. it doesn't seem to be. very troubled at the by the un resolution and by the fact that these were all saw isolated there and also about the government is known as the united states school to support the two big. lists and be. the. vote in the u.n. but. peace that you're a piece supporting basically supporting israel. and of staying in the middle east to moscow says the biggest threat to syria is if chemical weapons fall into the hands of militants this comes as a video appeared last week of an alleged rebel fighter threatening assad loyalists

with chemical weapons meanwhile activists say forty five people were killed in the country on sunday with battles raging in the capital damascus and in aleppo groups are also uniting under one military command in the latest western backed efforts to topple the assad regime political activist thinks the west is preparing for military intervention. united states has recently started listing the syrian on the opposition all of the armed opposition in syria as terrorist organizations say something that is. probably aware that. the the armed opposition in syria and probably the scene most powerful of the position of the new sort of front probably aren't possession of so such materials and probably are planning to use that 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 this is a scenario where the. north korea is likely to launch a rocket it claims is carrying a scientific satellite in december as planned that's according to a report in a south korean newspaper concerns of a possible delay appeared because of problems with a third stage rocket and a new component is being moved to the test site to replace the faulty part of the launch has been condemned by the south as well as japan and the united states they believe it is a disguised a test of a long range missile being developed to carry nuclear weapons. dozens of u.s. national security professionals have published a report suggesting that america should ease sanctions on iran as they do not provide a concrete solution to the standoff apart from independent experts the paper was also signed by a number of former us foreign policy makers and military generals the latest round of economic sanctions against iran was implemented less than two weeks ago

washington and its allies imposed of the restrictions in an attempt to curb iran's nuclear program which tehran maintains is peaceful. if five point six magnitude earthquake has hit the southern philippines there were no immediate reports of casualties following the tremors this comes just days after the country was devastated by a deadly typhoon that storm claimed the lives of more than six hundred people and left a nearly four hundred thousand homeless while almost a thousand are still missing. the united nations says south sudan's army has killed ten protesters during demonstrations against of the relocation of. local council headquarters the u.n. spokesperson said it was not clear if any people in the crowd were armed or if the army had been provoked south sudan declared independence from its northern neighbor last year ending decades of civil war between the countries. is the e.u. pursuing at the goal of a united europe at the expense of individual nations the issue take center stage in

the latest round of peter lavelle's cross talk that's coming up in about ten minutes time. of course the european union has to be based on subsidy or its principle which means that the decisions are made close as possible to the citizens on the other hand the only is that in that case is that the case song sure thing is that the case let me finish all right go ahead yeah yeah of course about dontcha think that. in a case that a federal union existed with a federal strong budget that the sovereignty of the european citizens overall would be better than we have now in that crisis we are all victims at the moment because we do not have a fully fledged clearly question is did people join to create something like the united states yeah i mean they are going to join it to create a united states of europe. that it has to be discussed i'm sorry i was saying yes there is no alternative to that and if they don't want to be. bound to a federal union or european union or state of the united states of europe they can

of course leave or negotiate the treaties. beijing has warned india against pursuing oil exploration in the disputed resource rich south china sea it comes in reaction to this week's statement by india's navy chief announced his country could go as far as sending warships to the area to protect its economic interests you've got a piece going off investigated the clips. that's journeymen the arroyos economically their military muscles are growing as world need energy to keep that kind of growth going and that may be putting the to 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. obviously. 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 tutorial for itself but india has also managed to get access by buying a stake in a vietnamese gas field shortly after hanoi accused chinese boat of sandwich dodging exploration india warned it's really to use force to defend its interests. the. longer term conflict but it's inevitable because 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 form vessels surely the vast oil reserves in the south china sea are just too big of a cash for neither china or india to pass up what is 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 vast resources the u.s. has long been increasing its economic and military presence in the region this ng is the west's strength. this extension by built into china in terms of the glass. slipper bowls down the glass saying that the wall is a military clash so if the two eastern powerhouses can share nicely the catch me they will go to some other players already prowling on the sidelines you've got this going on with our team. americans in their hundreds of thousands across the states have gone online to say they want their region to be independent from washington parties more important i tried to find out why some u.s. nationals are eager to rip the stars and stripes apart. tonight.

or tomorrow or here is after the former colony won the right to determine its own destiny. the task of perfecting our hero you have moved 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 as 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 rolling

disunion among in the us among the people they can't last forever and that's the lesson of history big empires always collapse under their own weight secession supporters like bernard for some say washington's weight of growing debt and loose wars government intrusion and a broken immigration system has become a bipartisan destructive force is 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. 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 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 the way used to be on the interstate driving along at thirty five miles an hour by or cells with the session as a goal now are being passed on both sides and lamed 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 r.t. . well as promised cross talk with peter lavelle is coming up your way in just a couple minutes away you're watching r.t. . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought. i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. wealthy british scientists are. trying to explain.

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