the latest news in the week's top stories rights groups in egypt claimed violations in the vote in a new draft constitution with unofficial results showing a narrow backing for the document as sporadic violence erupts on the streets. syrian rebels 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 lobel condemnation saying it placed a weather satellite in orbit.

it's six am in moscow i matras are giving you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t 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 an islamist camp show the 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 journalist bell trues been following the vote in cairo has been tense nights here in the conflict and in cairo as people have been waiting for these key results on the referendum of the constitution 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 most a 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 in both two to ten very tense i see voted as a nose at the constitution this particular state of the referendum was largely seen to be the biggest chance for a no vote to the constitution as the governments 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 to talk to you to see that campaign i think there will be heightened tensions of course i mean people have criticized the idea that the referendum expectance two days or 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 one party headquarters the old. physician. i were attacked by suppose it supports is of heads and i was man who is knowledgeable of the docs sour faced kmita one time presidential candidate one party did i reports that ultra conservative islamist torch that headquarters talking with firearms on take out 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 spokesperson for the national salvation front claims there been a number of violations while the opposition's also demanding a repeat of the first round 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 these violations are not going to be repeated particularly in terms of the outcome 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 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 them so we're still holding a lot of hope the president morsi will listen to the voice of 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 just. syrian rebels have captured an infantry

brace in the city of aleppo as 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 received another financial and political boost with us recognizing the coalition washington says it's meant to isolate extremist groups while allowing the rebels to up their struggle against the syrian government artie's gynae 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 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 serious bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground it is law misquotes that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels. dr tao we 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 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 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 entire south coalition has ties to the muslim brotherhood and salafist and their idea of freedom for syria

well. 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 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 almost right 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 deny. 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 for that 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 resorted to have been widely criticized but there's 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 north korea defied the world wednesday when it launched a long range rocket that it says successfully put a weather satellite in orbit but the claims were met with skepticism by the u.s. south korea and japan who suspect was in fact testing a long range ballistic missile technology north korea's banned from such tests by u.n. resolutions the security council condemned the log saying it will consider an appropriate response while the e.u. is threatening more sanctions antiwar campaign or erik's or rock and says only talks are the 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 if it 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. 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 other 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 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 as 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. and still to come here on our t.v. opposition in bahrain meets the latest attempt by the king to mute their voices with anger promising more protests despite the monarchy's ban on public gatherings plus. is the u.k. turning into an island of tax avoidance and giant corporations get out of paying their fair share while many citizens can barely make ends meet that's still to come up.

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more news today. again flared up. these are the images for the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. thanks for staying with us here on our t.v. thousands of medical workers in madrid have marched against plans to privatized hospitals the government says is part of the austerity measures needed to pick the country out from its deep recession investment advisor patrick young though says the government's years of failed policy left it with no choice other 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 there have to be stoppage 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 stop 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 in 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. remember artie's web team is working twenty four seven to provide you with the best stories in video online here's a quick glimpse of what's a click away right now what's in a name well just more than sixty five forty five thousand dollars it seems because that's what one u.s. man's earned after selling someone the right to give him a new surname find out his motivation at r.t. dot com plus babysitting no easy job bawling twins drive their father to

distraction as he calls police for help to silence the little tykes find the full story on r t dot com. britain losing out on billions of pounds in taxes or some corporate giants are wiggling their way out of paying their fair share it's angered the u.k. public which is left to pick up the slack while also being saddled with tough austerity measures but as already sarah furthur reports the government seems fine with the status quo. well people from all of people tend not to put this conference with this company 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 very 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 low tax rate but hang on a minute we're 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 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 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 ek government would be eager to plug the holes. billions of much needed tax pounds you can count on spending but in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the penniless on welfare 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 now that people know him or see or doing their thing 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 voiding tax to legitimately. and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when we were. paying where interested me again today 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'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 london. bahrain claimed there have been over and iranians resulting in the arrest of several young men after reports of police using tear gas on hundreds of anti-government. years as rallies flared following the king's annual national day address the opposition is threatening more protests as the shia majority seems to improve its political standing in the sunni ruled nation tens of thousands also march in the capital my nama on friday continuing to defy a ban on public gatherings bahraini authorities have been violently enforcing their rally ban jailing several of the human rights activists in the process hussain abdullah from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain says a situation in the gulf state won't change as long as the government which itself

abuses human rights feels it's got western backing. only in bahrain when you protest peacefully you are honest and you were tortured and you write stuff taken away from you the king came up with a law that basically banned any kind of peaceful protest that's in itself is a violation of international law the violence is coming from one side and that is the side of the government. the government is the one has the and the government the one has. the prison the torture the city the extrajudicial killings that is a clear clear double standard when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the region especially rain and sitting with us while issues are committed and daily basis we. can do nation from the united states . turning now to some other stories making international news this hour starting with libya which is shut its borders with four of its neighbors and set up

a closed military zone in the country's south i'm a growing unrest the move is aimed at curbing the flow of illegal immigrants and preventing arms trafficking the nation's southern regions have been highly volatile since last year's war deposed moammar gadhafi is regime. a powerful psycho and has reached the northern coast of fiji several bridges have been roads have been washed out with few regions also losing power. our authorities say that about thirty five hundred people have already been moved to safety recycling earlier tore through the nation of samoa claiming at least four lives and forcing thousands from their homes . at least thirteen people have been killed and fifty seven injured after several explosions shook the northern iraq and city of kirkuk no one has claimed responsibility yet for the attack blast came 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

that region has been escalating of late with kurds increasing their demands for sovereignty anti-government activists in moscow marked the first anniversary of their movement saturday when a rally that drew around seven hundred people official said up to forty demonstrators were detained during the unauthorized event including opposition leaders. and alexina volley. was there. some one hundred people gathered in central moscow on saturday to mark one year since the start of a government protest did not sanction any around these in this part of town saying that usually there's heavy traffic here and the larger crowds could cause some additional problems they did who would normally go see sions with the opposition proposing other routes but feel to reach an agreement some deep tensions are going on the including several leaders of the opposition or also detained. and sitting

you would i don't think colleen that the would be unlawfully since they say that all these people who gathered here are not taking part in any really they just went outside to take a walk but all in all the what's happening here is of no comparison really to what we saw a year ago last december when tens of thousands of people gathered for protests rallies were here i said we're just talking about a few hundred people. leaders of the e.u. have accepted the nobel peace prize on behalf of the block despite widespread opposition the union was recognized for its efforts in promoting peace on the continent but people in oslo protested in the streets while several laureates demanded the e.u. be stripped of the prize artie's peter all over explains just what the people are unhappy with. the remark for little children. will one day live in a nation where they will not be deterred by the call about him but by the content of back character our appetite the one it can be probably would have become the

laureate if the home be assassinated however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person but this is when a test such trying terror especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gong sparked a heated debate the award was being discredited particularly after the outrage of who is picked it up. recently see what the e.u. done over the last twelve months to come vince the nobel committee it's with the 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 and nuff it devalues the whole concept of the nobel peace prize what's really happening is that the european union is having its worst year ever but its mates in the international community

are 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 and 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 with 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 in the history of this union has there been more discord rancor that we currently got among more moderate voices 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 food the 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 and these prizes are always political but such blatant and obvious political favoritism and maneuvering i think it actually takes something away and i think it's actually damaging that leaves. the whole institution of the prize facing the question whether the nobility is being drained from the new found peter all of a r t barreling up next we take a look at the mysterious death of former soviet union leader joseph stalin after a short break stay with us.

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