the majors news in the week's top stories rights groups in egypt claim violations of the vote on a new draft constitution with unofficial results showing a narrow backing for it sporadic violence erupts on the streets. rebels in syria claim they are making gains in their push towards damascus while the us is giving the opposition of granting it official approval. despite global condemnation saying it placed a weather satellite into. new

h.d. studio center here in moscow this is the weekly look back in the past seven days top stories and the latest developments rights groups in egypt are calling for saturday's first stage of a constitutional referendum to be held again after claiming widespread violations unofficial tallies released by the islamist camp show a narrow majority backing the charter the opposition which has been urging a no vote to what it calls a discriminatory draft also accepted the opponents were leading with a slim advantage truth has been following the voting in current. it's been a tense night here in the capital in cairo as people have been waiting for these key results on the referendum of the constitution to limit the results of course the official ones will come out of the second round which indicates that it was a yes vote the muslim brotherhood together with the media outlets numbers are

mounting up they're saying approximately fifty six point five percent voted yes 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 very tense 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 a campaign i think there will be heightened tensions of course i mean people have criticized the idea that the referendum respects and two days of the 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 turnout there were violent scenes in the streets of cairo and. the what party headquarters the opposition position. were attacked by suppose it supports is of his an arborist man who is knowledgeable of the docks. 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 in 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. syrian rebels say they're making gains across the country in their push towards the capital damascus your position 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. looks

at who is fighting in the assad camp. oh. they call themselves martyrs and. all those you see around you of the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country the syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat assad. 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 meet was a member of a jihadi still can ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam that you had this have no problem to behead

people alive you didn't was 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 many morocco to throw their weight behind the newly formed syrian opposition coalition two thirds of the islamic dominated entire south coalition has the highest of the muslim brotherhood and salafist and their idea of freedom for syria what. 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 who are. in what's seen as a symbolic attempts 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 u.s.

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 people heard chanting we are students of osama. people 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 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 rabbits in its own words the government is fighting terrorists that has claimed thousands of innocent lives the measures the syrian government was ordered to have been widely criticized but does that 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. reports a palestinian refugee camp in damascus has come under attack by syrian warplanes activists claim at least eight people have been killed the district where the camp is in the south of the capital has become the scene of heavy fighting between

troops and opposition forces this week made to accuse the syrian government of use . mistake missiles against the rebels something damascus denies western warnings of and also is circling over syria's chemical weapons with worries that president assad could use is also u.s. sources have also said that washington is training rebels to secure chemical stockpiles if the syrian government funds. even its about. north korea launches a rocket despite international warnings but as we hear off the break some say quote palace shouldn't further isolate the country but instead engage it in. download the official application so choose your language stream quality and

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live from r.t. this is the weekly review twenty four hours a day britain is losing out on billions of pounds in taxes some corporate giants are wriggling out of paying their fair share and that is aimed at the u.k. public which is left to pick up the slack while also being loaded with tougher sturdy resulted sarah first reports the government seems fine with keeping the status quo. well before all of the tend not to pay taxes the scandals with these 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 and

legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like. the head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg so well known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a lower tax rate but hang on a minute we're here one of amundsen's massive this since science is based in the end but the reality is that many of our customers most of their employees and many will distribution centers like this was our base here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing fact as they say at the heart of their operation and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise it as ordinary british taxpayers who are

losing out that's entirely on the face of it to run because you can register your transaction in different country and the place of registration is the place of taxation whereas you can have your activities actually taking place here is that legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy ek government would be eager to plug the holes it's letting billions of much needed tax pounds you can count on spending it in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the pelisse on welfare he went 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. now that people know that.

or doing their thing and now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it are not paying well there's a difference between people who are who are voiding tax through legitimate reasons and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when we were. paying where interested me again happened today let me actually answer the question once before you actually believe tax avoid is ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's that 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 sarah firth r.t. london. well just to remind your web team is working twenty four seven to provide you with the best stories and pictures online and here's a quick glimpse of what they have for you at the moment now. just over fifty five thousand dollars it seems because that's what one american man and after selling someone the right to give him a new surname can find out about his motivation. plus. watching you watching its security firms discovered a way to hack into so-called smart t.v. it's giving you access to the devices built in camera and microphones allowing them to spy on everything you do. activists in bahrain say police have used tear gas on hundreds of government demonstrators as rallies flared up following the king's annual national day address the opposition

is defying a ban on public gatherings with the country's shia majority seeking to improve their political standing in the sunni ruled nation to talk to human rights activist and former opposition party m.p. sayed. about this situation in the gulf state now the authorities have recently indicated their willingness to talk is that a sign that this nearly two year long period of unrest may finally be approaching a peaceful resolution. yes thank you for inviting me here actually. remaining. struggling to. achieve our goals but the problem. trying to. call it. like they are talking about common sense dialogue which is and.

it was failed as they started on july two thousand and eleven. action calling always to me look food for look something very. clear messages. open table from. the can i just interrupt you say. sorry we have a we have a bit of a delay here but i just want to ask you you say you're struggling to achieve your goals but we understand now bill rashad the leading activist he's just had his sentence reduced by year more than two hundred forty prisoners have received a royal pardon recently surely this is something that the opposition should be welcoming and this is a move that will appease the protesters. actually to keep the problem. on going.

on let's say this for demonstrations. remaining up to the end this is one of the. most important thing to do because the author of you're always trying to say that nothing in brain and everything is wonderful and we are in a while as you know maybe right now spending two years in jail just because. you participate in. but all those demonstrations there are some accounts so again sorry we do have this problem the delay but surely every government does have a right to respond to protests if they do become violent and we have seen reports footage of violent protests taking place in bahrain so what is actually the human rights issue here you are human rights activists.

let me put it in this way and make it to clear we always. assured of our practice which is with a huge amounts of people participate it is hundreds perhaps and. there are some. areas this say intelligence is somebody coming out because the awful it is using violation against the peaceful demonstrators in the end i think this is action. that was posted well of what we are going for which is peaceful demonstration and everybody can see our demonstration with the huge number of people who participate they stop when they leave with no problem like that. several times he couldn't them. from

far from i mean sorry we always try to quote the our thirty three let's say. it because they are trying to prevent our rights to be on the wrong side of the law to the people they don't want to to react positively to the people i was cited thank you very much indeed for that sorry about the difficulty in the communication that would have a chat with you on this but we did our best and very interesting what you had to say thank you very much for joining us live there from bahrain site of the. north korea defied the world on wednesday when it launched a long range rocket which it says successfully placed a weather satellite into orbit over the claims were met with skepticism by the u.s. south korea japan who suspect the pyongyang was in fact testing long range ballistic missile technology is banned from such tests by u.n. resolutions security council condemned the old saying it will. an appropriate

response when the e.u. is threatened more sanctions than he will campaign erik's are all can says talks of the only solution to the ongoing impasse. these are causes 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 when these things happen 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 while he's there for the problem but i'm afraid that the united states is going to step back talk less isolate more of the 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 east and i think that it's really incumbent that we put pressures towards peace and not toward amping up the conflict anymore. well that's it for me and the news team for the moment we'll be back with more news for you into thirty five minutes from now in the meantime the death of one of the most prominent soviet leaders remains shrouded in mystery or examine the circumstances surrounding the end of joseph stalin ends life now that is coming your way in just a few minutes from now after this break stay.

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lived. under. sixty years ago there was only one person who could ride down to the kremlin spence goto a gate in an ominous. this one one five soviet limousine he had power that any emperor would envy. this car belongs to joseph stalin driving home from work was no simple affair for the leader stalin used to sit on a special converted seat protected by guards on each side he trusted no one.

the soviet leader strictly instructed the driver which way to go in the car would often turn abruptly from the white when he was on to moscow's side streets weaving along and confusing. he was ready to kill people and he did kill them and if he could do it he thought they could also act this way and that idea scared him to death. stalin's limousine eventually reached a narrow and strictly guarded highway. many years ago nobody was allowed here local residents had no clue that it had a facility known only to top officials. this is the comfort of a country house stalin's personal residence even though sixty years have passed since the death of the soviet leader his remains top secret filming has only been allowed here on rare occasions stalin spent his last twenty years and consider

right up to his death. historians still puzzled over his mysterious demise did he die a natural death always someone else involved. he's upstairs with our family whole or it's not appropriate to talk about one's pride like that and i knew i was bright so yes i raised so on and so forth look at events at least to the first base which i will theater director alexander has frequently been offered the role of stalin and he's flatly refused every time. he prefers to work with the classics looking for parallels with the time of stalinism most people . are full of it i can't understand how he can love any of.