egyptians vote on a new constitution that's triggered fears the country is turning into an islamic dictatorship the opposition is already making accusations of vote rigging. the u.s. mourns those shot dead in an elementary school massacre as a government targeting children reignites the debate over lax gun laws. and hundreds gather 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 authorized matter. online on screen international news and comment live from moscow egyptians are

voting on the new draft constitution this divided the country inspire weeks of violence and the president protests the referendum is seen as a decisive moment that will show which way the majority of the country citizens are leaning towards the ruling or the liberal opposition and the muslim brotherhood have released some early results claiming the new constitution has passed reporter bell truly is in cairo for us. after three weeks of political turmoil that seen mass rallies against the president timed also bloody scenes in the streets of egypt's major cities overnight the military apparently beat up security at the polling stations for people to come and vote they of course have been called in by the president secure the nation during this time of political unrest and the referendum this comes after violence on friday and on xandra egypt's second city which saw clashes between rival protest groups to support the constitution those

against it including groups wielding machetes. also. and around about nineteen injured and possible dead so that we haven't had that confirmed yet because of course follows several weeks worth of bile and seats in the streets of cairo the referendum is actually being held across two days as there are not so 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 that is possible for them to observe the elections to for electoral fraud since the head of the constituent assembly who drafted the constitution is also the head of the national human rights council he will be overseeing the observation all the polling stations the constitution itself is a major point of contention also the opposition forces they have said that it is written by islamist dominated constituent assembly these 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 the 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's. and incidents of violence are accompanying the voting in egypt is reports on twitter she says that at least four people have been injured in four different cities across the country since the beginning of the constitutional referendum we can check the latest updates and our team on the street. 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 the people's real will so says journalist a 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 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 democratization 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 all swear in the arab world later this hour of insight from an activist in bahrain where anti-government protests have been defiant and undefeated for almost two years now. the first the u.s. is coming to terms with the gunning down of twenty six people twenty of them children at a primary school in central connecticut the massacre ended when the killer turned the gun on himself and he's going to come as 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 to 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 she lived 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 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 deliver 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 did 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 tossed

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 tragedy is reopen the debate on what many see as weak gun control laws in the us not to the white house to see an anti guns running of 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 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 are to. when you can log on to a website and if you don't come from live updates on this story there you'll also find the full timeline of the tragic events. and several hundred people in moscow have been 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 unauthorized most of them have since been released reports. the authorities did not sanction any rallies to be held in this place saying that there's usually heavy traffic in this area and any mass gatherings could cause some

additional problems they did hold long negotiations with the opposition before proposing other routes but 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 that again. they say that they were detained unlawfully since they claim that all the people who are gathered here this saturday are not taking part in any rally they are just outside for a walk but 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 about a few hundred. tough economic times in the u.k. taking their toll on british later this hour for how showing food prices forcing many to say no to a healthy meal. and the first time

a european court describes the cia treatment of terror suspects as torture citing the german who mistakenly fell victim to the agency's interrogation techniques. this week break. the san bernardino california police force 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 the police chief really only have one solution off. for a given situation go home lock your doors and load and you know what actually

that's not that bad of a proposition america has 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 a nineteenth century attitude towards crime will be able to work in a twenty first century world where rapists consume 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. to speak the language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. that troy

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it continues here in r.t. tens of thousands of people have marched in bahrain's capital as anti-government protests continue in the gulf monarchy the uprising has been going on for almost two years now and is often that with a brutal response by the country's security forces saeed yousif from the bahrain center for human rights told me the lead that the authorities affirm in their

actions because they are backed by the west government of bahrain they have a huge support growing with a country so that's why they don't care i want to human rights violations more than one hundred what they said would kill thousand we're told be to illustrate it in the last war and what are you going to have. their government behind it because they have a big support from saudi arabia and so we started going to school they don't care and want to humanize him behind the people we believe that we are victims because we live in. kind of the we've got to meet them because they're going to i'm an american to flee the country which i'm going to consistently and so that's why they don't care about democracy and human rights they are killing people and they're totally people in a daily basis and they don't know. do you still think it's you watching the t.v. and not the other way round robin the company has now revealed the technologies to make t.v.

on its own and using a built in camera and microphone at all. but also online a new expense for chinese parents since the country's going to go out and introduce a fee if they won't stop to hug their children. for. thousands of people have taken to the streets of the portuguese capital to protest against next year's budget that includes the biggest tax hikes in the country's modern history which means government is committed to sturdy measures as it struggles to meet the terms of its international creditors and as the painful cuts continue to cause misery the bank is far away from those problems busying themselves with dodgy deals well at least that's what makes kaiser and stacy

herbert suggest a little later on here on the tree. has america got it in for british banks here that is britain who is played poodle to 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 of their skull hanging from friers bridge like roberta calvin from the eighty's holo british banker hanging from friars branch on the back you deserve. because a report coming your way a little later here on r t c a agents illegally abducted

a german citizen sort of manage him and 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 knowledge in the us and europe of what happened to him khalid al masri says he was kidnapped in two thousand and three and abused after being mistaken for a terrorist the u.s. is now being pursued for an apology and compensation but author and historian valentine believes that's unlikely to happen as the cia operates above the law. well being. well every. prison or prison term even you know 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. illegal so the fact that in. europe or asia or south america or any

place of do it legal things are simply a call for regime what it does this you know it's not appropriate all of. those things without prior authorization from. the president. officers everything that. is policy now to some other news this hour at least nine people have been killed and dozens injured off the suicide bombers rockets attacked the peshawar airport in northwestern pakistan five militants are reportedly among the dead no group has claimed responsibility and pressure has been repeatedly hit by similar attacks carried out by al qaeda and the taliban. hundreds of people are taking to the streets of athens for an anti racism march immigrants representatives of european anti racism groups as well as members of the greek socialist and the democratic left join the ranee attacks against foreigners in the capital have been on the rise during the country's financial crisis. now many britons are preparing for

a scant christmas meal with soaring food prices forcing people to ditch holiday delicacy is the cost of food is up by a third in just five years leaving many families with slim pickings on t.v. 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 breasts for five ninety nine per kilogram and you've got your frozen process dinners 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.

are going without a daily healthy meal now the coalition government provides free free to move 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 campaigners say it's time for the government to sever up a new plan to get britain struggling households to acquire not just the taste but also the means for a healthier diet. well the news continues in thirty five minutes from now with the news team in the meantime cup of the colts with lauren lister will be coming your way that'll be after this brief break you know. it's perched atop a jog under view from the kremlin stretches as far as the i can see. it for

a city that siberia for centuries. it's lost its economic importance even before it was but a child so bare in railway but a spiritual. scenes like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of worship implicity water to commemorate the baptism of jesus. in the fifteen eighty s. the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies the balls to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the location head of the says for the

russians the russian crowd a revolt against azhar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists will stand there and drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also served up some bitter irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled hare they led a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves whilst leaving this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had thoughts of a scape but within the year the czar and his family would be dead.

more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada after. operation. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines for friday december fourteenth two thousand and twelve whether

it is going over the fiscal cliff or spanish house prices suffering a severe fall there seems to be a universal fear a financial fear of gravity we're scared of falling but ironically we don't seem to have much fear of altitude push should we jim grant founder and publisher of grant's interest rate observer is here to offer his my monthly outlook plus voters in japan head to the polls sunday to cast their ballots and parliamentary elections and if recent polls are any indication they look set to elect shinzo abe a leader of japan's main opposition party he said to be the next prime minister in the face of technical recession and weak exports in that country he is demanding the make of japan begin unlimited q.e. yes i know japan has been deflating for the past twenty five years so why should we pay attention to this call from a politician today we'll ask our guests plus we had a tremendous response from you this week we will share in viewer feedback let's get to today's capital account.

we have openly wondered on this show if the extraordinarily low interest rates charged to the u.s. treasury for its borrowing needs have been the result of the fed's gracious appetite for fixed income securities in the past four years that yields have been if this rated by fed policy there is no question the only question for us is if this is the result of fed policy past or present in other words is it the seemingly obvious presence of the fed in the bond market today as the major buyer of uncle sam's ious which is keeping rates low or was it the fed's accommodative monetary policy during the boom years and the subsequent urged by the private sector to relieve itself of overpriced assets in the bust that has kept yields from rising in

either case we find fault with the fed for if yields were kids we would be a little worried about this. well and the thompson kids too they're about to speak there in the backyard threw them out with the trash. at the door. i guess we would call it honey i shrunk the yield curve only in this scenario policy wonks in control of the shrink ray as the particle eviscerate are used by rick moran of his character was actually called seem hardly concerned about our new microscopic interest rates if anything the lower they go the more the fed may print forcing a new class of indentured investor out to scavenge for more yield in the front lawn fortunately for us our next guest is now used to viewing fed policy with a microscopic microscope bimonthly in his latest issue of grants the letters editor jim graham uses over some of the similarities and differences he sees between the investors of today and those of you old past here to talk more about it jim grant

is here he is founder and editor of grant's interest rate observer and author of the book you see there mr speaker and a good one at that so thank you so much jim graham for being here today what a pleasure lord nice to be here oh great thank you so much so let's start with your recent letter which i should say is out today we are so lucky to have you on a day that you published the title of a piece in your article the first piece is market of the absurd and you actually draw some interesting parallels between the bond bearers of one thousand nine hundred eighty one and the bond bulls today now interest rates were fifteen percent back then today we know they are microscopic so what exactly are the similarities because of course the world looks very different then and now. well i think one similarity is. called muscle memory which is that the conditioned behavior of people operating in markets that have been trending hot for once the school quarters book for doing for years with for decades in one nine hundred eighty one.