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

two am in moscow treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our t.v. now in high definition. rights groups in egypt are calling for saturday's first round of a constitutional referendum to be held again after claiming widespread violations meanwhile 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 their opponents who are leading with a slim advantage journalist bel true has more from cairo it's been a tense night here in the conflict 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 media outlets numbers and mounting up there 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 governorates in both to the ten you voted i see voted as a no to the constitution this particular stage of the referendum was largely seem to be the biggest chance for a no vote to the constitution as the governor is involved i've seen 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 campaign i think there will be heightened tensions of course i mean people have criticized the idea that the referendum expectance 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. where tact by suppose it supports is of has a novel is mal. salafist leader one time presidential candidates 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 the seventeen other governorates going to vote on this constitution. day would a spokesperson for the national salvation front claims there's been a number of violations while the opposition is also demanding a repeat of the first round of the referendum but 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 these violations 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 or 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 dealing with their propaganda inside the polling stations until the last minute trying to influence which is in trying 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 hope the president morsi will listen to the voice of wisdom and considering that this is just an institution 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 dogs. syrian rebels have captured an infantry base in the city of aleppo is the opposition is making gains across the country in their push toward damascus meanwhile a palestinian refugee camp in the syrian capital has come under attack by warplanes leaving at least eighty dead this week the opposition got another financial and political boost with us recognizing the coalition washington says it's meant to isolate extremist groups who are allowing the rebels to set up their struggle against the syrian government. takes a look at who's fighting in the anti assad 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 not. 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 serious bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels. dr towie come meet was a member of a jihad is still can 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 he's in to use 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 friends met in 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 cellophane and their idea of freedom for syria what. it's 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'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 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 did. as 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 or their logo on the sleeve 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 wall should keep their eyes shocked at who's actually fighting for power in syria now in washington i'm going to check out. scrubs against austerity is medical workers in spain stage a protest rally over the government's move to privatized the health care sector all the details after this break stay with us. to be soo much brighter if you move. from place to mention these.

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for staying with us here on our team twelve minutes past the hour now. thousands of medical workers in madrid have marched against plans to privatized hospitals the government insists as part of the austerity measures necessary to pick the country up from its deep recession investment advisor patrick young though says the government's years of failed policies left it with no choice now than biting austerity. 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 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 under not helping the people either. north korea defied the world wednesday when it launched a long range rocket which it says successfully placed a weather satellite into orbit but the claims were met with skepticism by the u.s. south korea and japan who suspect was a fact testing a long range ballistic missile technology north korea's bad from such test by u.n. resolutions the security council condemned the logs saying it will consider an appropriate response while the e.u. is threatening more sanctions anti-war campaigner erik's iraq in though says talks are 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 nations that have been involved in the

six party talks and doubtless read articles which is 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 what is the look of 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 brought merrily south korea is building on july went in an effort to create a ring around china perhaps to deal with north korea are all setbacks to peace what's necessary i think at this point in time. to step back from the process and the outside countries the other countries around the world must say wait a minute

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britain's losing out on millions of pounds in taxes some corporate giants are wriggling out of paying their fair share it's anger at the u.k. public which is left to pick up the slack also being loaded with tough austerity but as our tea sour furthur imports the government seems fine with keeping status quo. well people from all of 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. 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 tax haven where companies can enjoy a lower tax rate but hang on a minute here one of amundsen's must've distribution centers based in the u.k. in fact the reality is that many of our customers most of their employees and many will distribution centers like this was 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 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 great distraction 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 government would be eager to plug the holes billions of much needed tax pounds count. 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 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 well there's a difference between people. who voiding tax through legitimate reasons and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when we were. still avoiding paying where interested me again. let me actually answer the question once before you actually interrupted a legally tax avoid is ok to legally 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 for. london turning out of some

other stories making headlines across the globe an attack on a police station in the eastern libyan city of benghazi has claimed the lives of four policemen and injured three. others is salem's killed one law enforcement official firing a rocket propelled grenade at the compound then shot dead and wounded the others in the ensuing battle there it is believed to be a link to the recent attention of two men suspected of carrying out several assassinations of security officials in the city. fiji is preparing for a fast approaching psycho now authorities say more than four hundred people have already been evacuated the cyclon earlier tore through the nation of samoa claiming at least four lives there and forcing thousands from their homes. at least eight people have been killed fifty five injured after several explosions rocked the northern iraqi city of kirkuk no one's claimed responsibility yet for the attack the blast come only a few hours after

a car bomb hit an office of the patriotic union of kurdistan party north of the iraqi capital killing two security workers and wounding thirteen there tension in the region has been rising of late with kurds increasing their demands for sovereignty. coming up we take a look at the mysterious death of former soviet leader joseph stalin after a short break stay with us here on r.t. . the mission of free accreditation free transport judges free. range means free risk free. to types free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media and on

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sixty years ago there was only one person who could ride out of the kremlin spassky tower gate in an armored sice 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. you is 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 war it's not appropriate to talk about one's pride like that and i knew i was bright years and i raised so on and so forth look at him but it's at least to the first base. theater director xander put on skin 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

you know people. are full of it i can't understand how he can love any of. his life he's avoided mentioning stalin in relation to himself few people know that alexander is not just a theater director he's also an josef stalin grandson. standing boom get the ball yes that was stolen from me just for like any ordinary man he was up there i had nothing to do with in the good then when i saw him during the main november parades and i looked at him from the stands he built i mean when i only saw him close at the pillar hole of the house of the union where he was lying in state. in march nine hundred fifty three of the soviet people been farewell to stalin for three days an endless stream of mourners came to see him lying in state. the first to shout claims that stalin had been murdered was his son

by silly. stalin circle would not forget the outburst and would soon try to get rid of him. but before doing so a magnificent funeral was organized for the former leader. many died in the crash as crowd lined up to see his coffin. there's a possible to express their grief. party and the people of our country are suffering. around me. for many years the soviet people were led to believe that stalin had died in his kremlin apartment while his country house remained a secret only stalin in a circle was aware of the circumstances around his death. the leaders descendants of only been able to come here after sixty years. alexander bodansky and step on mickey and have nots.