the latest news in the week's top stories rights groups in egypt claimed violations in the vote on a new draft constitution with unofficial results showing a narrow backing for it is sporadic violence erupts on the streets. rebels in syria claim they're making gains in their push towards damascus while the us is giving the opposition a boost by granting it official approval. of defiance north korea blasts off its all latest rocket despite global condemnation saying it placed a weather satellite into orbit. from

our new studio center here in moscow this is the weekly on r.t. with a look back at 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 van nations meanwhile unofficial tallies released by the is mr 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 their opponents were leading with a slim advantage on this bill true has been following the voting in current. tense nights here in the capital cairo is people have been waiting for these key results on the referendum of the constitution. so the ones will come out of the second round which indicates it was a yes vote the most a brotherhood together we. media outlets numbers are mounting up they're saying

approximately fifty six point five percent voted yes forty three point five percent voting this would 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 as a notice of 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 say to that campaign i think there will be heightened tensions of course i mean people have criticized the idea that the referendum respect in 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 turnouts there were violent scenes in the streets of cairo and. what party headquarters is the opposition position greek word tact by suppose it supports is of has an obvious man who is knowledgeable orthodox 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 will 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 contador would spokesperson for the national salvation front claims there have been a number of violations and the opposition is also demanding a repeat of the first stage of the referendum. right now we want the authorities the election commission to look into the violations and to decide by itself whether

this is big enough in order to repeat the first round and in case we are going to go to the second round we want to make sure that the trial asians are not going to be repeated particularly in terms of the lack of judicial supervision there were not enough judges yesterday to look into the power to supervise the vote we also complained about preventing our observers the preservers of human rights groups from attending the counting process according to a decision by the judges we want to attend and be present during the counting and we also complaining about the fact that the muslim brotherhood members were continuing their propaganda inside the polling stations until the last minute trying to influence voters and tried to convince them to vote yes for the constitution claiming that voting no would that mean that you are an infidel or that you are against islam so we're still holding a lot of hold the. wisdom and considering that this is a draft constitution that's dividing the country even if we take the results that are being circulated right now it's not enough definitely in a country after the revolution to have a constitution that's approved by a very small minority fifty something does. syrian rebels say they're making gains

across the country in the 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 cannot accept who is fighting in the camp. they call themselves martyrs. all those you see around you the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country. 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 and i thought supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground

it's islamic groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr towie come meet 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 feels any form of whip around to really. control any place. religious believes and ideology the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. and france many morocco to throw their weight behind the newly formed syrian opposition coalition two thirds of the islamist dominated entire south coalition has ties to the muslim brotherhood and salafist and their idea of freedom for syria what about islam it's a positive sign for us that our military struggle is characterized by being mostly

islamic because martin. them for the sake of and has always been the main motive for people's freedom. in what's seen as a symbolic attempts to distance themselves from terrorists in syria washington has designated one of the rebel groups 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 as a terrorist organization should be reconsidered. this is a demonstration of support for in syria with 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 for them 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 resorted 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. reports 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 now to accuse the syrian government of using political missiles against the rebels something damascus denies this came as the alliance confirmed its plans to station surface to air missiles and troops in neighboring turkey on nato says it's only for defensive purposes historian jeremy salt billie's there are other factors for this buildup. to 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 in any case those missiles are to be directed against planes or ballistic missiles not against the artillery shells or mortars that are informing the the turkish border accidentally so the obvious question is why those

patriots there and the speculation is based on the fact that perhaps they're there as the first step to declaring a no fly zone and direct measurement of intervention sometime next year and one has to ask the question who did the germans who did the british who did the americans who although i think it's a point in syria they are not supporting groups who are committed to democracy not supporting groups that committed to a political transition not supporting groups that are committed to in any way the formation of an open transparent state. john such as. finding legal loopholes to avoid paying tax on a huge profits he case losing billions of pounds of the public demands rich firms start paying more on that story and later this hour a nazi and also. north korea launches a rocket despite international warnings but as we hear after the break some say world powers shouldn't further isolate the country but instead engage it in talks

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welcome to the weekly will come to you live from moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day activists in bahrain say police have used tear gas on hundreds of anti 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 sheer majority seeking to improve their political standing in the sunny ruled nation let's not talk to same of dollar from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain about the 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 arm rest may finally be approaching a peaceful resolution. i'm not taking their last call seriously because whenever they come under pressure from western allies like united states or u.k. they are with the good talk but they never. do the walk and other wards. they came under tremendous pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to start to see that it is the locked up for the political situation the political system in bahrain so as a result of the international pressure from the worst the behavior gene now was talking about political dialogue or a serious dialogue with the regime i mean starting with the opposition however no such serious steps has been taken for example we still see attack on peaceful

protest we still see political prisoners now the release torture still taking place human rights violations are taking place on daily basis so there is no serious steps taken by this government toward probably one of our dialogue about not being . the leading activity had his sentence reduced by a year we're also learning that more than two hundred forty prisoners have received a royal pardon so there is being a gesture made by the authorities and shouldn't that be welcomed by the opposition you seem to be saying that you're not seeing any sign of reconciliation well i mean . reducing the sentence from three years to two. i'm sorry looks that we've lost our connection with hussein dollar joining me there in bahrain apologies for that we were hoping to have a bit more of a chat with hussein and we'll try to get back to him if we can a little later this hour apologies for that now britain is losing out on billions of pounds in taxes some corporate giants are wriggling out of paying their fair

share now that as i get the u.k. public which is left to pick up the slack while also being loaded with tough austerity resulting sarah furthur ports the government seems fine with keeping the status quo. well people from all of that tend not to protect this country 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 amazon the head office is based in

luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as looks and 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 must've distribution centers based in the u.k. but 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 nothing fact as they say at the heart of their operation and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise 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 great distraction is the place of taxation where as you can have fewer activities actually taking place here is legal

. surely then in the midst of a flatlining economy the u.k. government would be eager to plug the holes as letting billions of much needed tax pounds leak out. but in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the pelisse 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 but there are now that people know that. or doing that they're doing it 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. voiding tax to legitimately and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when we all know they still are paying where interest. let me actually answer the question once before you actually interact tax avoid is ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok 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. london. thousands of medical workers in madrid have marched against plans to privatized hospitals the

government insists it's part of the a sturdy measures needed to pick the country up from its deep recession sturges biting of a harder in spain where half of all young people are unemployed let's talk to investment advisor patrick young patrick protesters of once again demonstrating in madrid this is an almost daily occurrence not just how long can the government carry on not listening to its people. well that's a really interesting question altogether bill because they've done it incredibly successfully for the course of the last six months or so since they've been in for want of a better term power because i mean here is a government that has effectively and an overall majority they can do absolutely anything they want and they seem to be absolutely determined to do more or less nothing and it's really a tragedy because they're not helping the spanish economy and they're not helping the people either but the government says the cuts in this is how to maintain hospitals provide people with medical care won't privatizing the health service help patrick isn't that the right answer. look the problem is that the spanish

government doesn't have any money and that's ultimately the problem the difficulty with the spanish government is that it hasn't actually wanted to bite the bullet or the multiple areas in which it's been deficient for many many years and medically one can say that was the previous government run rather than the current government however the truth is there is no money to pay all of these nurses and doctors there is no money for this loutish government infrastructure it has to be privatized sold off there have to be savage cuts because truly spain has spent the last decade living on the never never it was built on the back of a huge property bubble the bubble was unsustainable nobody managed to manage that and unfortunately while we can obviously say it's a tragedy for the poor independent health care professionals there's just no way to manage to find the money to aid them in modern spain looking beyond spain a deeper union has just been agreed on by brussels patrick now this determination

see those predicting the euro collapsing being proved wrong people like you the union seems to be determined to carry on and it seems to be succeeding well. absolutely the biggest shock of the whole year has on di diddley been the fact that the euro is held together now let me tell you something that my rumanian i t experts have been telling me about recently apparently the buzz vogue free is that the moment in the world of computers is to refer to something doing alonso armstrong what it means is you're looking at the computer the program seems to be functioning properly but at the same point in time you know there's something underneath the surface that's going to cause you a huge problem in the near future and that's what's happening with the european union the european union is putting on a brave face it's throwing money around the place it's trying all manner of things to hold together a cracking and creaking facade and ultimately you know they might just manage to carry it off but ultimately i think the smart money is waiting in the wings and

it's looking at the whole idea that we are going to see a euro break down even if it's not going to be as instantaneous as some of us might have predicted so all this put on a brave face is superficial you think the french president francois hollande he said there's no doubt about the integrity of the euro zone surely that sort of talk that president will keep the union together by convincing investors and bringing confidence back and that's what is needed. oh bill i'm terribly sorry this is the french president mr hollande you're talking about integrity and encouraging investors only two weeks ago this is mr holt who was about to wage economic war in the entirety of india because lakshmi metal the most successful man in the history of steel making had the temerity to suggest that he wanted to close some production and friends because the french workers weren't productive this is a man who oversees an economy where fifty seventy fifty seven percent of the french economy is run by the government that's not an economy that's not capitalism that's

more like something that would have had you parading around red square in one thousand nine hundred five come on realistically and seriously of course the european union's political classes are all running around at the moment telling us that everything's fine they all signed like the end of a mozart offer a scene there the rather groovy morality tale that finishes off the grid off or attic works put ultimately is the european union cohesive and i think that terrible tragic problem is as a triggs own a brilliant idea as an instrument of total control social policy by making arrangements and everything being fiscally organized it's a catastrophe the ural is built on sound ultimately buildings built on sound collapse so says that very young always good to talk to you about this patrick dorismond thank you very thanks very much indeed for joining us live here on r.t. . well just about your web team is working twenty four seven to provide you with the best stories and pictures online here's a quick glimpse of what they have for you there at the moment it's in

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the only solution to the ongoing impasse. 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 relations are that if it involved in the six party talks. are just japan south korea the united states are less. willing to engage in talks when these things happen but what the u.n. 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 is there. but i'm afraid that the. knighted states is going to step back talk less isolate more of the military base that the united states primarily south korea is building on july went 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 toward peace and not toward amping up the conflict anymore. kicking out against corruption will report later on how the russian president promised no official position will be left unpunished as he addresses nor make his the full story ahead of this short break. flemish in a free credit patient free store charge a free arrangement free risk free studio time free.

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