egypt's engulfed in protests on the eve of a referendum on a new constitution islam is pro president demonstrators who support the draft of class with liberal opponents who are against. more than a dozen children are among those killed at an elementary school in connecticut and the latest murderous rampage in the u.s. our correspondent brings you the latest in just a few minutes. and seismic decision britain lifts a suspension on controversial fracking gas extraction despite the practice being blamed for causing earthquakes. on line on screen international news and comment live from moscow rival rallies and

violence marking the final day before it gyptian vote on a new draft constitution up to nineteen people were injured in fierce clashes between supporters and opponents of president morsi in alexandria and in the capital thousands from both camps have gathered to let their feelings be known. reported bell true has more from tahrir square. and the moment i mean there are hundreds gathered in tahrir square and cards of people to vote no in tomorrow's referendum against the constitution meanwhile i just come out from the presidential palace where thousands are gathered there as they have been for the last few weeks chanting against the president and of course against this constitution which they say is in just a minute we have of course had quite bloody scenes in alexandria egypt second city on the coast where a man in a mosque basically made it his friday so many made a statement saying people should vote because yes for the constitution as it was important stability clashes broke out within the mosque between pro and see

president's supporters and in the end the opposition forces reported that they were attacked by groups wielding machetes and dying broad's ninety people have been injured so far there have been no deaths but we expect that these clashes to be president perhaps it's more than rival groups meet as the polling stations open your position forces say this constitution only enforce a presidential dictatorship and then it's only collect key social and economic rights which has been i created by various different write scripts like human rights watch and amnesty in addition they said that it is largely a sharia based constitution. there are articles they say in the constitution which will only encourage a very old troll to doc's interpretation of islamic law however on the pro constitution side they also saying as i heard today in the constitution this is the only way for a peaceful transition to democracy here in egypt we need a constitution then we can go to parliamentary elections in the process can be moved on to things to visions of egypt here not when they were not having any idea

about what the actual outcome of the referendum will be is the million dollar question here and the subject of conversation across the country and you know what who will win will this be a yes to the constitution or will this be a no. there's been no word about the fate of ukrainian journalists being held hostage in syria after a deadline for an execution set by rebels post on thursday. who's assisted altie along with other media outlets during the syrian conflict was abducted by insurgents two months ago they threaten to kill her if a fifty million dollars ransom wasn't paid it takes the story. well the deadline has passed with no word as to whether or not she is dead or alive she was reportedly kidnapped by the free syrian army and held for ransom of fifty million u.s. dollars she was taken hostage nearly two months ago and since then has appeared in two separate videos in the first she appeals to the ukrainian government to pay the ransom money and set her free in a second which many believe was made under way as she admits to being

a spy but the point needs to be made that just about everyone believes that this video was made under extreme pressure and darts the object of us of what she was saying now reporters of our borders amnesty international and a number of other nongovernmental organizations have called on the free syrian army as well as the syrian national coalition they've demanded that they immediately secure her release saying that this is the first taste of the nearly widely recognized government at the same time the same rebels who are allegedly holding her have posted a video in which they have said that no russian no ukrainian and no rain in will leave syria alive so there is deep concern as to her fate. the german parliament has approved the deployment of patriot missiles to turkey and is now also ready to send up to four hundred soldiers to operate the batteries following similar decisions by the u.s. and the netherlands all this to protect from potential syrian attacks but historian

jeremy salt says there are other reasons for this build up. the reason for staging the missiles on syria's border is not because of an attack by syria because there's actually no likelihood that syria is going to attack turkey and in any case those missiles are to be directed against planes or ballistic missiles not against the artillery shells all mortars that inform the the turkish border accidentally so the obvious question is why those patriots there speculation is based on the fact that perhaps they are there as the first step to declaring a no fly zone and direct measurement intervention sometime next year and one has to ask the question who did the germans who did the british who did the american good old you think it's a point in syria they are not supporting groups who are committed to democracy they're not supporting groups that committed to political transition in not supporting groups that are committed to in any way the formation of

a transparent state online we've got further insight into the various opposition groups in syria as well as how the deployment of nato weapons in turkey may change the balance of power in the region. it's reported at least twenty seven people have been killed in an elementary school shooting in connecticut in the usa from washington i'm joined by. details got to bring us up to date with what you know. well bill at least twenty seven people killed most of them children it was an elementary school in a small town in connecticut the attacker was identified as ryan lanza twenty four year old man we're getting reports that the land so shot his mother dead who was a teacher at that school and it was her kindergarten class that he targeted we're also getting reports that lunsford's father it was found dead in their house again those reports those are unconfirmed reports they say. that still needs to be

clarified two guns were found on the site of the shooting at that school ryan is dead we don't know whether he took his own life well whether he was killed by the police the witness said there must have been one hundred rounds fired there's another man taken into custody they're not calling him a suspect yet but he's being questioned these kinds of shootings are a recurring thing in the u.s. so there has been a number of horrifying incidents at schools in the past this incident is the second deadliest school shooting in u.s. history after a gunman killed thirty two people. in two thousand and seven we of course remember columbine massacre in colorado where two students shot and killed thirteen people at their school and injured twenty four but that was a high school and then this last tragedy happened another at an elementary school those are five year olds six year olds. the problem is that getting

a gun. is no problem in the states here in most states here any attempts to regulate that hit the wall and that wall is the second amendment the right of the people to bear arms some states here do have controls over a gun possession but again very limited controls the state of illinois for example used to have used to have a ban on concealed weapons and just this week gun rights advocates there celebrated a court ruling that. struck down the nation's last such as unconstitutional and ordered the state to. craft a law allowing it so much for gun control in the west and the state of wisconsin tossed out its ban on concealed weapons last year it seems there is no way of arguing against the amendment even if those arguments are these horrific massacres that truck the west on a regular basis the white house today dodged questions on its gone policy in the wake of the tragedy that is

a recurring thing one of the policy goals of president obama was a ban on assault weapons but it is thought to be a losing proposition for any politician in the u.s. to really seriously take on the issue again even despite these absolutely horrifying and recurring incidents. going to thanks very much indeed that's a report a lot of their emotions and going on. well more stories to catch up with on line including the european court of human rights rules for the first time that the cia has used torture for members of the u.s. intelligence agency german citizen who was wrongly detained on suspicion of. the former c.e.o. of the world's largest. russia with an unprecedented. on leaving his job.

as leaders try to wrap up a year of crisis with a little optimism one morning a spoiled the mood at the summit european parliament president criticized the union for taking part in endless debates and told them to actually come up with plans to help people james. from the new economic foundation in london says there's little chance these words will lead to any action. i think in this case it's an issue of fine words buttering no person it's the truth is that what the you and the european central bank and backed up by the i.m.f. the international monetary fund have imposed on greece and spain and portugal and ireland over the last few years the demand for austerity is precisely the reason that youth unemployment in greece is now around fifty percent and approaching similar levels in much of the rest of southern europe it's the e.u.

this being the problem here it's not being part of the solution in any way part of the issue here is the european union has as never been a democratic project in the past i think it was accepted by people because it delivered the goods it looked like that you had to have more press prosperous societies economic success maybe even paste you have a group of countries that will agree on some things but won't agree on everything and when you start to push them together when they start to end up in a deep economic crisis that's also a crisis of institutions of course they start to squabble and that's what we've seen over the last few years no real agreement on what to do next because everyone has their own somewhat divergent interests and that's germany doesn't want to carry the can for failing greek banks greece doesn't understandably necessarily want to enter the implementor stereotypical all these things clash and so of course he starts the disagreements emerging right to the very top. the u.k. government has given the green light to the resumption of the controversial gas drilling technique known as fracking but the methods heavily criticised for its destructive environmental impact has been linked to water pollution and even

causing quakes probably has more. driller is the only company with a license to conduct fracking in the u.k. but that's all set to change now that the government has given its blessing for the controversial method of extracting shale gas from underground already operates several wells here in lancashire but the divisive technology was temporarily banned last year and with good reason to the fracking taking place here. minor earthquake says. it was terrifying i'll be honest with you our local and pay is doing very little he said i don't know a lot about it well he should know a lot about it you're going to turn this into a book on trying to line shareholders pockets this is not going to benefit us and it will be a legacy of toxic legacy for our children hundreds of miles away in london the capital's outspoken mayor calls shale gas the answer to the nation's prayers and

the reserves in lancashire america but for residents here in this trying call corner of england it's a blight on their otherwise peaceful community and the prospect of more fracking sweeping the countryside is frightening and they keep talking about it being in line. where those reserves are all the way down i think at the moment about. how much better off will be but. the technology may raise fares but the promise of riches from the rush for shale gas has set politicians pulses racing despite mounting opposition which has spread beyond lancashire. struction using hydraulic fracturing techniques is a high risk activity which as many benefits for foreign investors or very little for the people of britain. is a dirty energy. it

is a short and not very intelligent solution to energy problems they're going to get money out of the drug program to. bring corrupt governments were do anything for money i think it's just sort of resource money they can just get the money so this is not really for the country's best interest i don't believe to do that way brussels isn't convinced either the european parliament is reportedly considering regulating the budding shale gas industry concerned that britain doesn't know what it's doing by throwing itself wholeheartedly into the controversial practice at the minute we are not self-sufficient in gas and haven't been for a very long time we were but in actual fact we import about half of gas now we see that in the us gas prices are a quarter of what they were and i'm sure fact this suit to output this issue to put print is much less so there are many reasons why i feel gas if it can be made to

work in the u.k. would be attractive in terms of security of life and also probably in terms of price stability and that's what's drowning out the warnings bringing down people's energy bills means politicians and big business can press ahead even though those living in the shadow of fracking facilities know that the government is playing with fire. see lancashire. lotty live in moscow still ahead for you this hour new talks with iran could soon be back on track tehran and the u.n. atomic agency both praise a recent visit by inspectors to spot a team once again being barred from accessing suspicious military songs. plus president barack obama signed into law a bill targeting russian officials accused of human rights violations as lawmakers in moscow prove a similar measure response details unless coming up after this short break.

the san bernardino california police force was to shrink by eighty officers this year to cover their budget deficit during a local meeting the chief of police laid out the city's problems the sea is facing waves of gang violence theft and drug trafficking but with all the prisons completely overcrowded many of these criminals go right back on to the street and there's just nobody to put more police out there to fight them the police chief really only have one solution to offer a given situation go home lock your doors and load your gun and you know what actually that's not that bad of a proposition america's always been a country where people been expected to look out for themselves and i appreciate the police chief's honesty but i know the world we live in and i have a feeling that the second some homeowner shoots a guy who jumps over his fence at night that homeowners going to go to jail for life you can't expect that

a nineteenth century attitude towards crime will be able to work in a twenty first century world where rapists can sue you because they slipped on your slippery kitchen floor if you want people to be able to defend themselves that's great but you have to allow them the legal liberty to do so or else the criminals will just take over but that's just my opinion. well look. it's a technology innovation called the list of melons from around russia we've got the future covered.

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he continues here in r.t. finally there are signs of progress in talks between iran and the un atomic agency after months at a standstill a recent mission to tehran has given rise to expectations that inspectors could be allowed access to iran's nuclear program next year the u.n. team of experts said they were happy with their visit the spy the failure to get access to the parchin military base which is suspected of previously housing nuclear activities the us however is stiffening sanctions against tehran and america's ally israel has warned it could strike iran if diplomacy and sanctions fail but a former top iranian diplomat in an interview with r.t. said israel is exploiting the issue to justify its own weapons program. even today

israel is the are always using the wrong issue. justifying the nuclear bomb saying iran is existential threat for israel but the fact is israel is that israel produced nuclear bomb before islamic revolution. where the shah of iran was that easily. israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with iraq because it was. produced before of revolution now they are using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not be so human. and that interview in full for a little later today president barack obama has signed into law a bill targeting russian officials accused of human rights violations that's as the

moscow parliament begins the process of introducing its own bill in response has more on who the new russian law is targeting. this bill would target those accused of committing human rights crimes against russians some possible examples of that there have been a number of very emotive and controversial cases in the past few years of russian children adopted by u.s. citizens and in some cases those adoptions have resulted in the deaths or mistreatment of those russian children in one case starts of dmitri yakovlev a young boy he was left inside a car and died in extreme heat some russian lawmakers have considered attaching his name to the bill the bill also targets u.s. citizens accused of kidnapping or illegal imprisonment of russian citizens russia has for a long time said that is opposed to the twenty five year prison sentence given to

victor boot a businessman considered by russia considered by america a dangerous arms dealer this russian bill comes as a direct response to the surrogate magnitsky bill passed by u.s. lawmakers recently as a way to target russian officials accused by the us of involvement in the death of the lawyer surrogate magnitsky in prison in russia in two thousand and nine the magnets keep bill has now been signed into law by a us president barack obama germany's getting tough on heavy petting parliament passed a new anti bestie ality law banning interspecies relationships that upset thousands of germans who say the loves of their lives will be taken away peter one of them has more on a beastly story. well i know mom's best friend and sometimes more than that. i

need an animal to be happy if i did not have it there would be something missing there are some levels of relationship with an animal you can fall in love with your animal and the sexual relationship is not out of the question. these people make up some of the estimated one hundred thousand zuhur files in germany. will have started slowly more like child's play some kids playing doctor with each other it's not necessarily sexual but somewhat small experimentation that leads you further down that path. technically it has been illegal since the country's animal welfare laws were relaxed in one nine hundred sixty nine that's when sex with animals was dropped from the start should books. it has led to a boom in the practice and the proliferation of websites and even brothels devoted to it after new laws approved this week come into force the practice will again be considered illegal this group claim there will be

a witch hunt when it comes into force. the way this law is written means that all you need is a rumor or accusation for the agency to get involved in take your pet away it also affects not just those who practice best theory where for example an animal has certain issues and all you need is a suggestion that this could have happened through sex and you got into an accusation spiral that reminds you of very dark turned in german history. of the zoo affiliate campaigners say that here in the german parliament there legislating against morality however the law makers themselves say that it's only the welfare of the animals that they care about. we're not polishing morality we're improving animal protection law we would like to specify that it's forbidden to cause suffering through sexual relationship but the line is when you cause suffering to an animal for your personal sexual gratification. denmark sweden and

belgium currently the only e.u. states with filial law that leaves the prospect that these countries could become a destination for a zoo a fairly tourism animal rights activists hope the move by the bundestag will become a europe wide band. yes we would support a european wide band and be fairly t. where stand behind other nations and we need to catch up. just outside of berlin as one of the largest animal shelters in europe consent is a major issue while those involved in animal welfare say must be addressed as dogs are loyal even when they're abused they're still going to look as if they're. especially when it gets enough to eat ducks will be happy whatever you dictate but there is not a sign that the dog is enjoying it wouldn't those in relationships with our littles though a confident that their love is legitimate in fear for the future. they

fantasize about castrating we are taking my animals away our friend has found a razor blade in this post with a note do it yourself so we don't have to letters don't arrive too often but they arrive every now and then in the subway someone was yelling at me calling me names i'm concerned that attacks could become physical. peter all of a charity. twenty six minutes past the hour in the russian capital time for business with katie's circuity britain's being stretton with a downgrade of its aaa rating in days and we're going to be focusing on the malkuth reaction and really the question is is there any market reaction because does it really matter did it make much of a difference for them to the u.s. now that's the thing it didn't make an ounce of difference to what it didn't make any difference to frothy that was both for and cost actually went down which you place i'm going to be analyzing not in the business but as an old coming up off of the right bill thanks for coming here shortly.

in this remote siberian village people still seeing the signs which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced by the will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign bierria are a conservative community they're known as the simi steer a word which refers to families. not believe me here yet again i feel. i know i'm the first athlete that. i. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and teach them how to dance in the local star. use of prayer and

the girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a modest. yet. seventeen year old nanda is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she come. to visit her grandmother. ok ok. i didn't ask on time for advances because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to camp my very ground home my ancestors layered and this is my treasure their attachment to the church brought. to this remote land by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in persecuted for not agreeing to the orthodox reforms introduced in russia in the

sixteen hundreds they wanted to maintain their time honored rituals they'll believe is still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying but this fall the city says it's not so much the rituals they cherish as the moral principles he does not approve of what doing. but old belief must never show her naked legs and. things started to spoil during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving for the big city this year is the old believers culture could be imperiled nowadays young people prefer urban life to devoting their lives to agriculture but it's not necessary to leave it inside to remember that and try to think that you know your plans to continue her studies abroad to.