polls close in the first round of egypt's referendum but as the votes are being tallied both the muslim brotherhood and the opposition are claiming victory in. the u.s. war and so those shot dead in an elementary school not as a gunman targeting children reignites the debate over lax gun laws. dozens of demonstrators detained in moscow during a rally marking one year since some of the biggest and some of russia's biggest protests in recent history. threw them in moscow. good to have you with us here on r t our top story the first

round of egypt's vote on its new draft constitution that's divided the country and sparked weeks of violent anti president protests is over the muslim brotherhood has released some of the early numbers claiming the new constitution is passed while the opposition has unveiled results to show the contrary reporter bill true has more from tire. 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 to 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 of 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 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 that is possible for them to observe the elections 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 of 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 of to be 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 incidents of violence have accompanied the vote in egypt as belcher was reporting on her twitter account to be. we blog on ours as well saying at least four people have been injured in four different cities across the country since the start of the referendum the latest updates read tweet on our account that's at our team under sport on twitter. he gyptian oppositions already accusing the muslim brotherhood of massive vote rigging during the referendum this together with a lack of unity among the opposition is likely to result in the referendum not reflecting the real will of the people according to journalist and middle east expert. 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 scale. 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 turbulence continues elsewhere in the arab world later this hour was say from an activist in bahrain where anti-government protests have been defiant and undefeated

in nearly two years. before we get to that police have identified all twenty six people killed in the connecticut elementary school massacre most of them being children according to medical experts the victims were shot multiple times with a rifle artie's got it more from washington. 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 near the school the suspected 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 at unless they were reportedly shot himself there has been a number of horrifying shootings at schools in the u.s. 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 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 of 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 the absolute horrifying and recurring incidence . latest tragedies reopen the debate on what many see as we gun control laws in the us parties lose wall went to the white house to see an anti guns rally. 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 and 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 in our children and our school administrators safe and 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. marking new years since some of the biggest anti-government protest in russia's recent history gathered several hundred people in central moscow dozens of activists were detained for taking part in the rally that was authorized most of them have since been released. from. did not sanction any rallies to be held in this place saying that there's usually heavy traffic in this area and gatherings could cause some additional problems they did not hold long ago zeeshan is 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 to go there so from the scene that finally they say that they were detained lawfully 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 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. report on how soaring prices in the u.k. are forcing many to say no to a healthy meal. and for the first time a european court described cia treatment of terror suspects as torture siding with a german man who mistakenly fell victim to the agency's interrogation techniques that much more after a 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 them the police chief really only had one solution offered given the. 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 chiefs 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 are going to go to jail for life you can 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.

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thanks for being with us here on r t fifteen minutes past the hour tens of thousands have marched in bahrain's capital manama government protests continue in the gulf monarchy the uprising has been going on for almost three years now and it's often met with a brutal response by the country's security forces. from the center for human rights thinks the authorities are firm in their actions because they're backed by west. you know what it meant to have. to be so that's when you know. more than one hundred. thousand with. the minutes to do it and then. what are you going to have. you're going to do because you have to. do. all you can and

we got to. do with. so that's why the democracy and human rights people and people who. don't know. thousands of people have taken to the streets of portugal's capital to protest against next year's budget this includes the biggest tax hikes in the country's modern history portugal's government is committed to austerity measures as it struggles to meet the terms of international creditors and as the painful cuts continue to repeat misery the bankers are far away from those problems boozing themselves with allegedly dodgy deals as at least what our terms max keiser and stacy herbert suggest in the kaiser report coming up later this hour. has america got it in for british banks here that 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 is legal in compliance department these u.k. bankers are going to find wake up with a bowl of their skull hanging from friers bridge like roberta calvin from the eighty's hello british banker hanging from friars branch from a back oh you deserved. cia agents illegally abducted a german citizen sodomized him and beat him up these are the findings of the european court of human rights and its first ever ruling that the cia's guilty of torture the court found in favor of a man who failed for years to get legal acknowledgement in the u.s. and europe of what he said happened to him how it all 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 doug valentine thinks that's unlikely to happen because of the agency's claimed culture and status. no c. zero up is there ever will be will ever be. a prison a prison term even in the 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 is doing things that are illegal so the fact that it's found guilty in europe or asia or south america or any place to do it legal things that simply call for gratian of what it does this is not a pro bill of. those things without prior authorization from congress the president's national security officers everything that it does is a policy. many britons are reading for

a scant christmas meal this season with soaring food prices forcing people to ditch the traditional holiday delicacies the cost of food is up by a third in just five years leaving many families with slim pickings artie's polly boycott reports. do you know what you're putting in your shopping basket health conscious customers might want to stock up on their fruit and vege but what if not getting too expensive for families in the u.k. the cost of that weekly shop has gone up by over a thud 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 kilogram and you've got your frozen process in this 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 every million

children in the u.k. are going without a daily healthy meal now the coalition government provides free free to schools and they supplement those on the lower income but it looks like the cheap meal deals are often more appealing than the government health warnings health campaign to say it's time for the government to seventh a new plan to get britain struggling households took why not just the taste but all say the means for a healthier diet turning out of some other stories making headlines across the globe at least nine people have been killed and dozens injured after a taliban fighters armed with rockets attacked the peshawar airport in northwest pakistan five militants reportedly among the dead the taliban claim the airfields military complex was their target defensibility is frequently attacked by the terror group as they seek to undermine confidence in the country's army. at least eighteen people are dead and nine missing after a boat full of immigrants sank off the greek coast near the island of lesbos the vessel reportedly set sail from turkey but moved into choppy waters tens of

thousands of illegal immigrants mainly from africa to asian countries cross into greece each year before many make their way on to other european nations a little more than a week to go until christmas and for many that means the excitement of what's waiting under the tree while the shopping industry is ready to satisfy every wish artie's resident in new york locals of the festive spirit may be turning into a shopaholic fantasy. why have the holidays become such hellish days this week let's talk about that it's a commercial thing now everyone son to spend money it's not about what it really should be about how did that happen is it the media telling us to buy buy buy absolutely it's everyone with their sales and absolutely i live on what people buy you know and i'm an independent sales rep so i depend on it so you're happy with this christmas i'm happy this christmas i sell luxury goods as long as people keep

buying into a happy holiday that's it a way to stop that would be to go back to church to read the bible and to find faith and to remember what the holiday is supposed to be for what about people of other religions and it is there any saving for them i said i said to find religion . is there saving for them i believe in christianity but i think it's important that whether it's christiane to be or not that you have morals and values based on religious faith do you think there's a war in christmas oh i don't think there's a war on christmas i just think people shouldn't think that every year has to be the best christmas ever is that what we do we set our expectations too high think we do i think that we should just enjoy it that each year should be a nice christmas with a couple of presents maybe full of press that's right along with the feeling of safety in community with holidays holidays also remind people believe or not that's just my opinion holidays remind people of their own mortality that we're not going

to be around here very much longer and our lives are very short. because we tend to remember the people who have gone on the holidays as well and that's why we p.c. the holidays we just want to feel safe we want to feel like i'm extending my time here a little bit more and i want you to believe what i believe and maybe someone other than someone else's believes makes us feel better and that's exactly taking intro doses of approaching the cliff is not as much about. shopping this year as all the rest of the nine years this is going to be a little bit different how you can do it differently. are the same but it was going to be on facebook. just wishing people merry christmas and calling it a day like whether or not the world has lost its holiday spirit the bottom line is it wouldn't hurt any of us to take a look inside to find our own private reason to celebrate the. cars a report coming up stay with us here on r.t.

after a short break. the . trimmings a mystery even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it warms to the unions the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also surrounded objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls but imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature.

to get to a one of the five main stars of fruits and it imitates the gentle breezes of summer chara whose name means great hunter as the first piece adopt. the divorced. actual instruments that accompany the singing if danny says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument book at that was it of so pitiful is because the spirit of the horse came to his dream and said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the

instrument again which means come back and this melody only instrument is called cryo you can. choose your language. with. some of. the concerns you. choose to opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact the. truth access to.

skies are welcome to the kaiser report let me ask you something do you ever get the feeling that the central bankers and just plain out banks stirrers ruling our world are like methods ripping up copper wiring roofing and plumbing the very fabric of our society and economy around this just to get one more ahead and the low level broker dealer thieves are the drone strike going up the family supply mouth washing hands of dollars or. he do. so you see.

yes max i thought a perfect analogy for what is happening a metaphor for what is happening in the global financial system banking system and economic systems around the world is a story that i've been tracking for the last year or two this problem of people drinking hand sanitizers move over boone's farm has set of ties there is the new buzz in america has set of ties there's are like sixty percent alcohol in here in the u.k. they're up to seventy eight percent and people are getting drunk on these because they're up to one hundred forty proof one hundred forty proof. that the people around the world i guess in america they're found this is capitalism working this is the austrian economics school which is just the values in the mind of the beholder you think they are like morally wrong would approve of drinking hand sanitizer this is a little paradise let's say. well

. that's great stuff but i do use just this glue i don't know what those are all those fancy hints about if you get a tube with toasters glue you can they will medical experts warn against ingesting hand sanitizer as they can result in similar symptoms as excessive drinking loss of consciousness vomiting a lack of impulse control for they're going to extraordinary trouble to experiment with ingesting a non consumable cleansing agent in order to catch a buzz may be a sign of substance abuse issues similar to drinking it is drinking beer drinking basically would out all you know no one's going to tell next after those kinds of plus you know they're storing bass salt in injecting about twelve people just dripping paint off the walls and you know like heroin and generally going to the eyeballs maybe a lot of us are going to me and one of these stories along this line of oh.