the latest news on the week's top stories on the muslim brotherhood says egypt's. new draft constitution which is seen by critics as discriminating against certain parts of society all of it continued violence on the street. rebels in syria claim they are making gains in their push towards damascus the u.s. giving the opposition of. official approval. of defiance north korea blasts off its latest rocket despite global condemnation saying it placed a weather satellite into. broadcasting

live in. new shiny studios right here in moscow this is our with me rule recent shang welcome to the program egypt has really backed a contentious draft constitution in the first stage of a referendum which was held on saturday and that is according to an official tallies released by the muslim brotherhood which strongly supports the islamist leaning charter and the opposition which has been urging a no vote to what it calls a discriminatory draft also accepted their opponents were leading with a slim advantage journalist true has more from cairo. referendum of the constitution. you've got to live in the results of course the

official ones will come out on the second round which indicates that it was a yes vote the muslim brotherhood together with media outlets numbers and mounting up there saying approximately fifty six point five percent voted yes with forty three point five percent voting no this will seem to be of course a major blow to the opposition forces particularly because in this round only two of the governor it's involved to the ten you voted actually voted no to the constitution this particular stage of the referendum was largely seen to be the biggest chance for a no vote to the constitution as the governor it's involved actually voted against the president during the presidential elections so really right now the opposition forces are going to have to either drum up support in the next six days for the second round or final time it's a tactic to to to that campaign i think there will be heightened tensions of course i mean people have criticized the idea that the referendum respects in two days a week in the middle with these results coming out because of course people are

going to react to them as we entered the late stages of the voting process which had been extended by several hours by the electoral commission because of high turnouts they were violent scenes in the streets of cairo and. the one party headquarters the opposition position. where attacked by suppose it supports is of has an arbor is a man who is an altar orthodox salafist leader one time presidential candidate one party did i reports that ultra conservative islamists torched that headquarters talking with firearms until the security forces did report injuries so really we'll have to see if the next week what happens in the build up to the second round this crucial rounds as the seventeen other governorates going to vote on this constitution. and egypt's human rights activists claim the vote should be held again due to quote violations the referendum seen as a crucial milestone to decide on. egypt's future identity and that's whether the

country moved towards a religious state or retains its secular traditions but journalist and middle east analyst argument fatty fears the voting is under representative ultimately at the end of the day dividing the nation. morsi is not showing any signs of flexibility he's not showing any signs of building consensus in years shown to be a very stubborn a person regardless of the outcome of the referendum the scene in egypt right now it's indicative there there is going to be a mass. playing with the results there is already the reports about money and sustenance is being given to poor people to encourage them to go out and vote favorably yes constitution and on the other side the egyptians are still divided into different groups and the more palais zeeshan 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 existed in. china sooner attentions out of syria where the rebels say they are making gains across the country and their push towards the capital damascus the opposition received another financial and political boost this week with the u.s. recognizing the coalition washington says it's meant to isolate extremist groups while allowing the rebels to up their struggle against the syrian government has guy nature can now look at exactly who are the people fighting against our side. oh. they call themselves martyrs. all those you see around you and the fighters you see are living larders and the living martyr has already

sacrificed a soul for this country the syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat us out. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having a child behead a man who was presumably an assault supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground it's islamist groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr towie come eat was a member of a jihadi spoken ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam that you have this have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin ladin and there are because of al qaida who have no his shin to use any form of whip around to to really. control any place. religious believes an ideology the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k.

and friends met in morocco to throw their weight behind the newly formed syrian opposition coalition two thirds of the islamist dominated anti assad coalition has the highest of the muslim brotherhood in cellophane and their idea of freedom for syria what go ahead i could ask a positive sign for us that our military struggle is characterized by being mostly islamic because martyrdom for the sake of anna has always been the main motive of people. in what's seen as a symbolic attempt to distance themselves from terrorists in syria washington has designated one of the rebel groups all nusra a terrorist organization but the same syrian opposition that the us supports welcomes the efforts of groups like al nusra the decision of considering one of the . factions fighting the regime is a terrorist organization should be reconsidered. this is a demonstration of support for almost in syria with people heard chanting we are

students of osama. because here in washington don't seem to understand that if you don't like the government in cairo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamised government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria preferring to focus on the wrongs committed by the assad regime alone the u.s. is also ramping up the rhetoric about the possibility of the assad government using chemical weapons against civilians something that damascus says would be suicidal on the other hand many rebels are not averse to the idea of suicide in the name of what they call a holy war militants have recently taken control of a toxic chemical plant in the country's second city of aleppo a video was uploaded to youtube showing them testing chemical weapons on rabbits we

could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage. you will die like these two rabbits in its own words the assad government is fighting terrorists that battle has claimed thousands of innocent lives the measures the syrian government was ordered to have been widely criticized but does that crisis mean the world should keep their eyes shocked at who's actually fighting for power in syria now in washington i'm going to check on. nato has claimed the syrian government has begun using ballistic missiles against the rebels that is something to mask is denies this came as the alliance confirmed its plans to station surface to air missiles and troops in neighboring turkey in several weeks' time while nato says it's only for defensive purposes historian jeremy salt believes there are other reasons for the people. 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 to be directed against planes or ballistic missiles not against the azzurri shells almost as that of informing the the border accidentally so the obvious question is why those patriots and speculation is based on the fact that perhaps they are there as the first step to declaring and us laws own 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 americans who holds and i think it's appalling in syria they are not supporting groups who committed to democracy you know supporting groups that committed to political transition did not comply supporting groups that are committed to in any way this whole mission of an open transparent state. are you watching live from moscow is now at ten minutes past the hour corporate giants like starbucks and amazon are finding legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes on their huge profits and the u.k.'s losing billions of pounds that the public demands rich start paying

their deen is a bit more on back a little bit later in the program. also north korea launches a rocket despite international warnings but as we hear after the break some say world powers shouldn't isolate the country but rather to continue to try and engage in the six. zero. zero zero. good speech.

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that's angered the u.k. public which is left to pick up the slack while also being loaded with continued tough austerity as r.t. sara first now reports the government seems fine with her ultimately keeping up with the status quo. well people from all of the tend not to this conference with companies like starbucks and apple and google at the moment it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance illegal but morally suspect way companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people are due to discuss these companies do not the v.a. taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities. in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like amazon the head office is based in luxemburg which they

claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg the well known tax haven where companies can enjoy a low tax rate but hang on a minute we're here one of amundsen's much of this to be sensitive in the way in fact the reality is that many of our customers most of their employees and many will distribution centers like this what are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is not in fact is they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out. on the face of it to run because you can register your transaction in different country and the place of destruction is the place of

taxation whereas you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy the u.k. government would be eager to plug the holes it's letting billions of much needed tax pounds really count. but in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the panelists on welfare he were in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on benefit for clamping down on multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him and there are now that people know that. or doing that now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it after not paying and there's

a difference between people. who voiding tax to legitimately. and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when we all know they still avoiding paying where interested me again. let me actually answer the question once before you actually legally tax avoid is ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok so you're saying there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less than the tax payers they're profiting from surface r.t. london and of course our team working twenty four seven to provide you with the

best stories and pictures online let's have a quick glimpse of what they have right now. the forty five thousand dollars it seems because that's what one american man has earned after selling the rights to give himself when you surname find out his motivation and are to dot com . plus we're watching you watching it's a security firm discovered a way to hack into so-called smart t.v.'s giving access to the devices built in camera and microphone is allowing them to spy on everything you do. now north korea defied the world on wednesday when it launched a long range rocket which it says successfully placed a weather satellite into orbit however the claims were met with skepticism by the u.s. south korea and japan suspect that pyongyang was in fact testing a long range ballistic missile technology in north korea is banned from such tests

by u.n. resolutions the security council condemned the launch saying it will consider an appropriate response while the e.u. has threatened more sanctions but antiwar campaigner erik says talks are the only solution to the ongoing. these are causing us to have more talks not less talks and the north koreans have been willing to attend talks other nations have certainly russia has another nations that have been involved in the six party talks and doubtless read are just japan south korea the united states are less. willing to engage in talks or in these things happening but what the un said was not only don't use ballistic missile technology it said we must have a commitment to a peaceful diplomatic and political solution to the situation there and that's what is really crying out and i think russia and other countries must finally say now

wait a why does the look at the problem but i'm afraid that the united states is going to step back talk less isolate more of a military base that the united states will bring merrily south korea's building on july the and in an effort to create a ring around china perhaps and to deal with north korea are all setbacks to peace what's necessary i think at this point in time is not is to step back from the process and the outside countries the other countries around the world must say wait a minute a peaceful china south korea north korea japan has a region will have a huge impact on world exists and i think that it's really incumbent that we put pressures towards peace and not toward amping up the conflict anymore. it's twenty minutes past the hour moscow time this is artsy former russian intelligence officer alexander litvinenko who died in london from polian poisoning six years ago was a paid agent for britain's and i six that's what

a lawyer representing his widow told an official hearing just a bit earlier this week that the probe alleged that at the time of his death litvinenko had been tasked by m i six to help spanish intelligence investigate the russian mafia and one of the lawyers involved in the case claimed the u.k. had obtained proof that moscow was behind his poisoning the announcements were made today prepare a treat hearing before the inquest which shows you all for next may however a six year investigation failed to provide any evidence sole enough to identify any killer. now some u.s. officials accused of human rights violations are on the verge of being blacklisted in russia also having their financial assets frozen in the country and the move is designed to counter washington so-called magnitsky law which levels similar sanctions on a number of russians this will initial now towards the correspondent tom bot. barack obama has signed into law the u.s.

magnitsky bill which concerns russian officials which the u.s. accuses of involvement in the death of sergei magnitsky a lawyer who died in prison in two thousand and nine having been imprisoned on tax evasion charges which his supporters say were trumped up russia though has for a long time now railed against this legislation saying it is rank hypocrisy and that if the magnitsky bill was a part was passed it was attached to a piece of trade legislation then retaliation would come so now it seems the russian retaliation that was long promised is now shaping up russia's own bill doing roughly the same thing as the magnitsky bill has passed its first reading in the russian duma it's not known exactly who it's targeting but some possible examples are what russia a says those are u.s. citizens accused by russia of breaching the human rights of russians for example

in the last ten years and number of russian children adopted by u.s. citizens have died or suffered to human rights abuses among those a boy who was left in a car in extremely hot temperatures and he died his name may indeed be attached to the bill as part of this search for tat squabble over human rights between russia and the u.s. this all affects the much the much hyped up reset between russia and the u.s. which was started in barack obama's first term in our russian lawmakers are eager to point out that the start of his second term he's passed what they consider very anti russian legislation one of the air. of komsomolskaya pravda the russian newspaper was hours after the passing of this bill pranked he received

a letter which looked to all intents and purposes to come from the u.s. consulate saying that his visa had been revoked in connection with the magnitsky bill which would just get i got a fax signed by the vice consul which also had the number of the revoked visa and the technical data showing that the facts are being sent from the u.s. embassy in moscow i was surprised because it said the reason was the magnets and i'm not related to that case although i thought this might have been triggered by the articles published in our newspaper that the us state department did not like but it turned out to be a prank as the embassy said they did not send it but it was whether the consequences are merely pranks involving certain russian figures or more seriously those involving human rights or relations between the us and russia already this magnitsky bill is having deep ramifications. for watching r

t the leaders of the e.u. have accepted the nobel peace prize on behalf of the blog despite widespread opposition and the union it was recognized for its efforts in promoting peace on the continent of people and also protested in the streets while several laureates demanded the e.u. be stripped of the prize is pretty well over explain just what the people are unhappy. who are poor little children. will one day live in a nation where they will not be deterred by a call about him but by the content of back character. the one it can be probably would have become a glorious turkey ham be assassinated however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person this is when it tests trying to react especially when it comes. the finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gongs

sparked heated debate the award was being discredited particularly after the outrage at whose picked it up recently so see what has the e.u. done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's worthy of such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrators outraged by the failure of the government's. skeptics come in but it devalues the whole concept of the nobel peace prize and what's really happening is that the european union is having its worst year ever at its mates and the international community coming to it's a brit to have been awarded of the announcement to be made in the very week that i went to athens i was greeted not just by tens of thousands of protesters but people dressed up in swastikas and giving it the salutes frankly i grew up in

a europe that was divided from east to west but i'm now living in a europe that is divided from north to south and never at any point of the history of this union has there been more discord of rancor that we currently got among more moderate forces there are concerns the peace prize is being used as a political football i think this award basically does a lot to kind of discredit past people who've won this prize i mean it demonstrates a sort of heavy politicization of the use of this war and now it's been suggested that this year's winner of the peace prize picked it up more for not having done something as opposed to having furthered peace around the globe it seems like they got the prize more because there hasn't been any war in europe for many decades rather than having done anything specific i think as long as civic institutions like the nobel prize continue to lose their legitimacy in their spirit. through political favoritism these prizes are always political but the weight and obvious

political favoritism and maneuvering i think it actually takes something away and i think it's actually damaging that leaves the whole institutional of the primaries facey the question whether the new bill a seat is being drained from the new battle. our teeth there that. putin is kicking out against corruption as a reporter be loaded or what are you how the russian president promised no official or politician would be left on punished and so you addresses lawmakers. and also you talk to people in tehran including a widow of one slain nuclear scientists to watch what they think is behind the heavy international pressure on iran over its nuclear program all the more after the break.

i never thought i could earn a living this way. natalee issue of i as a lawyer should test small arms of the sort i was to machine building ploy and not tell your source to count 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 way i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from your class submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans so it's here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the massive roots 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 of trucks.