egyptians vote on a new constitution that's triggered fears the country is turning into an islamic dictatorship opposition is already making accusations of vote rigging. the u.s. mourns those shot dead in an elementary school massacre as a gunman targeting children reignites the debate over lax gun laws. hundreds gathered in the center of moscow to mark a year since some of the biggest protests in recent russian history several people have been arrested over the unauthorized rally. for the first time in european court described cia treatment of terror suspects as torture siding with the german who mistakenly fell victim to the agency's interrogation techniques.

on screen international news and comment live from moscow egyptians voting on the new draft constitution that split the country inspired weeks of violence and the president protests the referendum is seen as a decisive moment that will show which way the majority of egyptians are leaning towards the ruling islamists or the liberal opposition turnout has been so high in polling stations will not remain open until sunday morning reported true is in cairo for us. after three weeks of political turmoil that seen mass rallies against the president time to also bloody scenes in the streets of egypt's major come cities overnight the military apparently beat up security at the polling stations for people to come and vote they have course have been called in by the president to secure the nation during this time of political unrest and the referendum we

expect are hundreds of thousands of police officers and soldiers in the streets today ensuring that the scenes are calm this comes after violent scenes yesterday on friday and on xandra egypt's second city which saw clashes between rival protest groups to support the constitution and those against it including groups wielding machetes. also. and with around about nineteen injured and possible dead we haven't had that confirmed yet this of course follows several weeks worth of bile and seats in the streets of cairo the referendum is actually being held across two days is there not a sufficient number of judges to supervise the process this opposition forces say is a major problem and could open up the referendum to vote rigging in addition civil society groups here questioning how it's possible for them to observe the elections to for electoral fraud since the head of the constituent somebody who drafted the constitution is also the head of the national human rights council you'll be

overseeing the observation all the polling stations the constitution itself is a major point of contention also for opposition forces they have said that it is written by islamist dominated constituent assembly somebody when this mass will cross by liberal leftist and church and therefore it will only enforce a religious state it also they said would impose a presidential dictatorship and neglect key rights and freedoms of expression so this constitution they say should be rewritten the constituent assembly should be reforged so we'll have to see with the results of the referendum the future of egypt. and incidents of violence are accompanying the voting in egypt as bell reports on twitter she's saying at the moment that at least four people are injured in four different cities across the country since the beginning of the constitutional referendum and you can check the latest updates underscore called.

by the egyptian opposition is already accusing the muslim brotherhood of mass vote rigging during the referendum this coupled with a lack of unity among the opposition itself is likely to result in the referendum not reflecting people's real will so says journalist and middle east analyst. morsi is not showing any signs of flexibility he's not showing any signs of building consensus he is shown to be a very stubborn person regardless of the outcome of the referendum the scene in egypt right now it's an indicative that there is going to be a mass. playing with the results there is already reports about money and sustenance is being given to poor people to encourage them to go out and vote favorably with yes for the constitution and on the other side the egyptians are still divided into different groups and the nation of the

voters are not going as it should have been going so it's not really representative of the nations when or of the consensus that should have been existing. and turbulence continues elsewhere in the arab world later this hour we'll have insight from an activist in bahrain where anti-government protests have been defiant and undefeated for almost two years now. the u.s. is coming to terms with the gunning down of twenty six people twenty of them children in the primary school in central connecticut the massacre ended when the killer turned the gun on himself he kind of can has the story. there's still lots of questions as to what happened at that elementary school in connecticut the shooter has been identified at this point it was adam lanza twenty year old who went into his mother's kindergarten class she was a teacher at that school and wiped out the entire class twenty children were killed

in the carnage eighteen children died at the scene two at the hospital those were five year olds six year old small children the shooter also targeted and killed six adults and unless his mother the teacher was also found dead in her home near the school the suspect it's three is the suspected shooter had three guns on him as he went into the school two handguns and one semiautomatic weapon all reportedly registered to adam lanza's mother a witness said there must have been one hundred rounds fired after killing all these people adam lanza reportedly shot himself there has been a number of horrifying shootings at schools in the us in the past but never has there been a rampage that killed this many small children in two thousand and seven a student killed thirty two people at virginia tech we of course remember the columbine massacre in colorado where two students shot and killed thirteen people

and injured twenty four but the children killed in connecticut were very very young we heard president obama delivered tearful speech this friday but nevertheless the white house has pretty much dodged questions on its gun policy and those are questions on many people's minds right now but the president does say it's time to take meaningful action to prevent mess occurs like this from happening again but what action he did not specify is the fact of the matter is that getting a gun is fairly easy in the u.s. adam lanza's mother apparently had no problem purchasing and registering story guns one of them a semi automatic weapon and it's a powerful deadly weapon one of the policy goals of president obama was a ban on assault weapons but is thought to be a losing proposition for any politician in the u.s. to. really seriously consider seriously take on the issue attempts to regulate guns inevitably hit a wall and that wall is the second amendment the right of the people to bear arms some states here do have controls over gun possession but again very limited

controls the state of illinois for example used to have a ban on concealed weapons but this week a federal court ruling struck down the country's last such poor vision as unconstitutional and ordered the state to craft a law allowing it so much for gun control in the us the state of wisconsin passed out its ban on concealed weapons last year and it seems there is no way of arguing against the amendment even despite these absolutely horrifying and recurring incidents. this latest tragedies reopen the debate on what many see as weak gun control laws in the us all these laws will went to the white house to see an anti guns rally the. many people are taking their concerns to the front of the white house as you can see about one hundred people are gathered here holding signs holding candles trying to make their voices heard saying that now is the time to talk about gun control in the u.s.

we spoke to some of the protesters here's what they had to say today we saw a roomful of kindergartners slaughtered by a guy who never should have gotten a gun. if our president can't talk about it the issue now as a father of two daughters young daughters i think it's time for him for a gut check in it's there's no more and no more excuses anymore this should not have happened we should have measures in place before this to prevent people from accessing guns who are not fit to hold them also in my opinion i don't think something that is military grade as an assault rifle i don't think that should be in the hands of anybody it's not a toy and we can't keep our teachers and our children and our school administrators safe and it very day we can't keep people who are walking down the streets safe then that should be changed and to resign ourselves to the to saying that this is a problem that has a solution is defeatist and we should we should take this on and change what we did hear from press secretary jay carney earlier this morning he said today is not the

day to be talking about gun control we also heard a very emotional speech from president obama sending his condolences to the victims to the family is in newtown connecticut he did not talk about the issue of guns or gun control but protesters here say if today is not the day in the wake of this very tragic mass shooting they don't know when that time. and washington liz wall are to. when they're going to a web site come from live updates on this story that you can also find the full timeline of the tragic events. meet. several hundred people to be marking

a year since some of the biggest anti-government protests in russia's recent history around forty activists were arrested for taking part in a rally that was an authorized list of them have since been released reports the authorities did not sanction any rallies to be held in this place saying that there is usually heavy traffic in this area and any mass gatherings could cause some additional problems they did not hold long ago zeeshan is with the opposition before proposing other routes fields to reach an agreement as a result today several hundred people gathered in central moscow to mark one year since the start of anti-government protests in the country we have seen some arrests including those of opposition leaders of a gaillard so fanatics in the wyly they say that they were detained unlawfully since they claim that all the people who gathered here this saturday are not taking part in any rally they're just outside for a walk all in all what's happening here today is really of no comparison to what we've seen a year ago last december when truly tens of thousands of people took to the streets

while here we're talking just over about a few hundred. tough economic times in the u.k. taking a toll on british diets like the taliban and al soaring food prices and you can forcing many to say no to a healthy meal that's a movie after a short break. 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 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 s m a t 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.

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choose the stories that in high school might choose me access to often. you know sometimes you see a story so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought. i'm tom parker was a big picture. continues now here tens of thousands of people have marched in bahrain's capital as the government protests continue in the gulf the uprising has been going on for almost two years now and is often met with a brutal response by the country's security forces saeed you see if they're i spoke

to a little earlier he's from the bahrain center for human rights and he told me that the authorities affirming their actions because they are backed by the west. government of bahrain they have huge support. so that's why when they don't care i want to human rights violations more than one hundred. thousand will. be arrested. and what are you going to have. your government because you have. to human people we believe we are victims because we live in. the. country which. so that's why they don't care about democracy and human rights they are killing people and their people. and they don't. do you still think it's you watching the t.v. and not the other way around well and i t company is now

a field of technologies to make the t.v. spy on its owners using a built in camera and microphone at all if you don't call. a lot of the moment in your expense for chinese parents of the country to go introduce a fee if they want to start to hug their children. thousands of people take to the streets of the portuguese capital to protest against next year's budget and includes the biggest tax hikes in the country's modern history portugal's government is committed to a sturdy measures as it struggles to meet the terms of its international creditors that is the painful cuts continue to cause misery the bank is

a far away from those problems busying themselves with dodgy deals at least that's what all of these max keiser and stacy herbert suggest a little later here on r.t. . has america got it in for british banks here it is britain who is played poodle too like the al capone of the global financial and military industrial complex system and now al capone's turning on them when they're all sought but al capone in this case the u.s. regulators they want you know the u.k. to basically hire their cousin vinny h.s.b.c. for example has hired two former senior u.s. treasury officials to run it's legal in compliance department these u.k. backers are going to find a wake up with all their skull hanging from friers bridge like roberta calvin from the eighty's hello british banker hanging from friars branch from the back you deserved.

because a report coming away in atlanta hit on cia agents illegally adopted a german citizen sort of minds to beat him up these are the findings of the european court of human rights and its first ever ruling that the cia is guilty of torture the court found in favor of a man who had failed for years to get legal print in the u.s. and europe of what happened to him how little musri says he was kidnapped in two thousand and three an abused after being mistaken for a terrorist the u.s. is now being pursued for an apology and compensation but also an historian doug valentine believes that's unlikely to happen as the cia operates above the law. no cia officer ever. will ever. prison a prison term even in united states of convicted of a crime these people are simply above the law the only thing that the cia does is to conduct illegal activities which is why it's above the law it's business doing

things that are illegal so the fact that in. europe or asia or south america or any place to do illegal things there's simply a call for gratian of what it does this you know it's not appropriate all of. those things without prior authorization from congress the president. officers everything that. is policy. in other world headlines at least nine people are dead and dozens injured after three rockets were fired a pressure for in northern pakistan explosions were followed by heavy gunfire roads going to the airport have been closed nobody has claimed responsibility but peshawar has been repeatedly hit by similar attacks carried out by al qaeda and taliban militants. hundreds of people are gathered in central athens for an anti-racism march immigrants representatives of european racism groups as well as members of the greek socialists and the democratic left join the rally attacks against foreigners in the capital of being on the rise as the country dives deeper

into financial crisis. where many britons are preparing for a scan christmas dinner with soaring food prices forcing people to ditch holiday delicacies the cost of food is up by a third in just five years leaving many families with slim pickings are these reports. do you look at what you're putting in your shopping basket health conscious customers might want to stock up on their fruit and vege but what if that's getting too expensive for families in the u.k. the cost of their weekly shop has gone up by over a third over the past five years and it's set to get more expensive still among the healthier fresh meat so you can find chicken breast for five ninety nine per kilogram and if you've got your for is in process dinner as retailing at one twenty nine in some cases now if you're a struggling household with lots of mouths to feed it's a no brainer britain is now in the midst of a nutritional recession to go hand in hand with the financial one over

a million children in the u.k. growing without a daily healthy meal now the coalition government provides free fruits and veggies to schools and they supplement those on the lower income but it looks like the cheaper meal deals are often more appealing than the government health warnings health campaign to say it's time for the government to several new plan to get britain struggling households to acquire not just the taste but also the means for a healthier diet. when i'll be back with a news team with more news for in thirty five minutes from now the mean to be more and she'll be here with breaking the set that's in just a few minutes after the break.

i never thought i could earn a living this way. the issue of oil is a lot more should just small arms so this will build employment a lot of the source towns of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years . i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no. oh wait i'm so tired of shooting. the plants history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans south here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it's thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the truck factory russia's number one truck made for girls

a look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was sold production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe hayabusa brand new be the way to be delivered to acquire seventy trucks like this one roll up the bronx conveyor belt every day look at about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get up that. i can go far to drive. whoa that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to travel to walk every morning when the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving my.

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to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food because you know how fabulous. ten pounds i know he has i'm sitting here looking really messed up. and we're all very so totally appalled it's a little worse you're going to. my house of a. radio guy and columbo minister of a cricket hospital. close for about fifteen years you've never seen anything like this on cold. hello i'm out here martin welcome to break in the set today is a very special anniversary one year ago today and u.s. government announced an official and the mission in iraq here's a clip to jog your memory. so as your commander in chief and on

behalf of a grateful nation i'm proud to finally say these two words and i know your families agree welcome oh hi. ok so what is the u.s. military doing today to commemorate this stark event. two patriot batteries. here to turkey. along with the troops that are necessary to man those batteries. so that we can help turkey. have the kind of missile defense it may very well be. in dealing with threats that come out of syria. really saying four hundred u.s. troops to the turkey syria border this move looks all too familiar to me but i guess that's why i'm breaking the set. up.

where you are shooting or anything like that. you might have missed this in the days following the thanksgiving holiday but president obama signed a piece of whistleblower legislation that affords greater protection to federal poi's who expose fraud waste and abuse and government operations but the bill is a far cry from the reality on the ground because to date obama has charged more whistleblowers under the espionage act than any prior administration combined issue that's close to home for one former f.b.i. translator who blew the whistle on the government back in two thousand and two after learning about serious security breaches cover ups and the intentional blocking of intelligence and ever since she's been on a crusade for justice not just for what's of blowers but also for the many civil liberties that are currently under siege in this country so here to share her story and her insight on u.s. policies in a post nine eleven world i'm joined now by the bell adman's editor of the boiling

frogs and host and founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition as well as the author of classified warman the subelements story thank you so much for coming on. thank you for having me so civil for a lot of people who don't know your story can you tell us briefly what happened in the difficulties you encountered getting your story out. well it's hard to believe that this story started more than ten years ago almost eleven years ago and it started when trying to do the right thing for a criminal activities government fraud and abuse. allegations going bad and it didn't stop when that became the most gag moment in the history of the united states. this is the government during the bush administration they invoked the state secrets privilege in my case they actually officially gag the congress.