public theory with hundreds of thousands ready to cry out against. the plan. to. claim the nation is going through the worst political crisis in its modern history. egypt's opposition groups nationwide protests to challenge the outcome of the first round of voting early results showed backing for the islamist constitution.

broadcasting live from our studios here in moscow. with me rory sushi it's good to have you with us. now hundreds of thousands of people are set to march in spain to protest against the government's cuts and reforms and the demonstrations have been called by the country's top labor union and social groups on sunday thousands of healthcare workers marched across madrid to make their feelings clear about plans to privatized hospitals and the government insists it's all part of the austerity measures needed to pick the country up from its deep recession and the protests come as e.u. leaders agreed on closer integration in brussels and the french president francois hollande said there's no doubt about the integrity of the eurozone which will no longer be taken by surprise but investment advisor patrick young believes the

euro's continued existence is a façade of spain simply put has run out of cash 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 all the multiple areas in which it's been deficient for many many years and minutely one could 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 there have to be stoppage cults 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. say tragedy for the poor independent healthcare professionals there's just no way to manage to find the money to aid them in modern spain the biggest shock of the whole year has undoubtedly been the fact that the euro was held together the

european union is putting on a brave face is 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 all 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. now security forces in bahrain have used the pepper spray tear gas and stun grenades in a clash with anti-government demonstrators in the capital some activists claiming on social media sites that several human rights advocates have already been arrested the demonstrators have been marking martyrs day in an annual commemoration of two protesters who were killed back in one nine hundred ninety four and there are also reports of demonstrators molotov cocktails in their clashes with government forces and bahraini authorities banned all public gatherings

a few months ago this in an attempt to stem out for almost two years of unrest in which up to eighty people have been killed and thousands of arrested hussain abdullah from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain believe the situation will not change as long as the government remains backed by western powers. they are with the good talk but they never. do the walk and other wards it is simply they came under tremendous pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to see the lock to reform the political situation however no such seed is there has been taken for example we still see attacks on peaceful protests we still see political prisoners released torture still taken place human rights by. list on the only b.s. is the human rights issue as the going to be a law we all just in the first place first the law of the king came up with a law that basically banned any kind of peaceful protests there to sell this is

a violation of international law so when people challenge the law that's not illegal there is a clear double here double standard when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the region especially brain and syria where the rise while issues are committed them behind on daily basis over the week we hear nor can the nation from the united states and we would like to see a larger scale of. diplomatic pressure and international pressure on the brain and gene. now the cradle of the arab spring that of tunisia has now marked two years since the start of the uprisings with an angry attack on the country's president a people threw stones on projectiles that. was visiting a town where a protester set himself on fire triggering the string of uprising has across the region as artie's are going to go now reports many of those who helped usher in the

changes in two thousand and ten say they are still no better off. it began here in tunisia two years ago when a poverty stricken fruit vendor serve himself on fire in an act of desperation so i'm saying he was a hero others say he was a drunkard with a history of psychological problems whatever more hala was this is real motivation was his act of self-immolation set up a string of events which became known as the arab spring decades old regimes were toppled what came to replace them is hardly what most of the people in these countries had in mind when they were doing the revolutions they wanted freedom of speech and free elections bred on their tables and jobs what they got seems to be a very different result situationist war strike comparison. and comparison to the us before. the revolution personally i don't feel

safe. when we see. all the violence of the police sore or of salafist. in from kuala smash attacked by some nationalist people. there are less freedoms right now when it comes to and they were freedoms there are attacks on individual freedoms every day they received so many messages from girls saying but they were. on the street even by police men. who didn't tolerate their or their way off dressing this seems to be a common pattern in the countries that i should say would bring just two years ago hopes of transition from authoritarian regime to new democratic forms of government seem to have you altered rising islamism economies in shambles and increasing

discontent the pattern is the same in tunisia and egypt where people are pouring out on the streets again with a renewed. sest the only months ago they were rallying in support of the muslim brotherhood and the freedom and justice party during the elections i think a lot of people did vote for the muslim brotherhood in egypt because they wanted economic changes not just getting rid of mubarak i mean morsi and morsi no he's obviously you know very different political figure to mubarak in terms of his ideology has carried on much the same policies in terms of economic policy in libya the uprising took a bloody turn moammar gadhafi who ruled the country for over forty years was deposed and killed in two thousand and eleven and he merely being a government has been struggling to control parts of the country going as far as besieging the entire town of bani walid for allegedly providing shelter to diehard khadafi supporters the are using heavy machinery to demolish the demolished houses second be using no. guys again it's just

a feeling people children and now and then got really sick reaming we would not humanity of no want to. save our family. i got this time to make libya now the quantum bit where no one can stop them and they have unlimited money and we've been to the western leaders were quick to praise changes across the middle east they said it was the beginning of a new democratic era for the region but the model of democracy they may have had in mind doesn't seem to be the right fit i think it has to be a different type of a democratic system. the democracy that the u.s. would like to impose upon egypt tunisia and morocco and the other countries throughout the region and even libya where it was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of the region in tunisia in

and out of r.t. . and egypt as. the post rising country still in a state of turmoil as we report just a bit later here on the program or not see other countries opposition groups are calling for more protests against the islamist a back to draft constitution but goes into the final round of referendum voting this saturday and the u.k.'s plans to go green could prove too costly for the people all the moves also splitting views in parliament we report on this and more after the break. he. believes.

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this is our. moscow thanks for joining us today opposition groups in egypt of called on their supporters to stage nationwide protests to challenge the outcome of the first round of the referendum on the new islamist backed constitution and they claim the vote was maad by widespread violations with rights groups calling for a rerun of saturday's poll now early results suggest that fifty six percent of egyptians approve of the job situation which was supported by president morsi and the muslim brotherhood but the opposition says the document is poorly drafted and turns the constitution into an islamist code and the biggest opposition alliance the national salvation front has called on people to take to the streets to defend their freedoms ahead of the referendum second stage that will be on saturday and the group spokesman. is hoping that the opposition's complaints one from maine on. the 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 the violations are not going to be repeated particularly in terms of the outcomes of this is a privilege and 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 again is this then so we are 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 fifty something last. environmentally friendly energy it looks like a reasonable solution when natural resources are running low and exploiting them becomes more dangerous and the u.k. wants fifteen percent of the country's energy needs to be covered by renewable sources by twenty twenty and that could prove to be too costly for the public as artie's laura smith investigates wind turbines turn in the breeze they might not generate much power but they're certainly putting people in a spin it's a route that dividing david cameron's coalition government to get his energy minister says he's against wind farms and enough is enough while his energy secretary says he's going to hope for them to speak for the government the energy secretary or the energy minister or the prime minister but in this case he doesn't seem quite sure there's been no change to alter nubile energy but in the same breath he hinted the number of wind farms could be reviewed after current targets

are fulfilled this would anger the liberals but greatly pleased those who say wind farms are an expensive waste of time such as landowner philip merrick's who lives near little cheney caught wind farm the locals were united again said every single democratically local organization that's the councils were against it but of course the developers very careful they dished out a lot of money to locals and of course that board a bit of support amazingly wind farms have got a p.r. . campaign behind them but people do sing seem to think that they're helpful to the environment which of course they're not this one's been open since two thousand and eight and during that time output has improved but it's coming from a pretty low base that only twenty one and a half percent capacity in its first year to just twenty six percent last year.

there are twenty six wind turbines behind me each one of which costs in the region of two million pounds to erect according to locals we've come on a good day all the wind turbines are currently working usually they say that's not the case and a lot of the time they're just standing there and that's the rub people need electricity twenty four seven not just when the wind is blowing so wind power is still needs supplementing by fossil fueled power stations but despite its shortcomings the taxpayer folks out fifty percent of its running costs are subsidies the right way to encourage an industry to mature or are actually what you're doing i think what we're doing is we're rewarding in adequate technologies now and indeed we're fossilize in the more infantilizing them we're actually preventing growth what we really need to save these people yes well if you can improve and you can show that you've got a place you're welcome for the moment we're covering them with gold when in fact they're quite inadequate locals are quick to point out that less than eight

kilometers away is a nuclear power station supported by the community as a reliable source of power and local employer unlike the wind farm which is controlled from germany but if david cameron refuses to be blown off course the government will stick to its plans and more than double the amount of on shore wind power by two thousand and twenty to meet european targets nor smith r.t. can't. now the u.k. needs action because it could soon fall into a state of fuel poverty according to a new report predicting that thousands of people may. be able to afford to keep themselves warm by two thousand and sixteen and that story in full on our website. plus a rescued russian fisherman who was lost in the siberian wilderness four months ago now confesses he ate one of his friend.

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free broadband video for your media project free media. dot com. twenty minutes past the hour here and just in time for the r.t. world update starting with seventeen people now confirmed that after a car bomb explosion at a town market in northwest pakistan the blast was near the office of a government official the alleged target of the attack this happening in a region close to the border with afghanistan and the area's long been plagued by fierce fighting between the military and taliban with civilians often getting caught in the crossfire. iraq has been hit by a wave of explosions and attacks. checkpoint need to create killing five policemen and wounding five others a roadside bomb in a village north of baghdad has claimed the lives of three soldiers and a car bomb north of another similar blast nearby

a place of worship that resulted in twelve. in japan the right leaning liberal democrats of whatever sounding parliamentary election victory putting former prime minister. back in office he spoke of a huge task ahead promising tokyo. china one of japan's islands and vowed not to give up when the dispute between the. prime minister for a short time between two thousand and six and seven but this time though he won in a landslide with almost three hundred seats. president obama has said he will do everything in his power to prevent shooting. first we're going to root for the victims of the newtown school tragedy have been held twenty children aged six to seven and six adults were shot dead on friday when adam lanza went on a rampage with an assault rifle the twenty year old had killed his mother prior to carrying out the massacre he later turned the gun on himself the tragedy has

sparked calls for tighter gun control laws including a ban on military grade assault weapons. the reports of a merger that huge amounts of gold are being flown out from afghanistan according to airport staff most of it's headed to dubai which is long been considered a haven for laundered money a political analyst and former afghan m.p. the old sultanzoy says this could be the latest incarnation of a trafficking racket carried out with the connivance of the afghan government national you when you're trying to stem one thing from flowing away there will be other ways of doing it and i actually called is that is being used not only in lieu of dollars leaving afghanistan but also it's a very very interesting change for money launderers for drug smugglers and also there's. another angle to this which would be the dumping of gold by the. regional

players and even beyond the region because around afghanistan there are some central asian countries and as far as russia up to russia good producers of gold and drug. money that was coming into afghanistan or other bartering was taking place gold is taking a new shape in it and it's easier to carry and also the central bank of afghanistan is totally oblivious to these things and they're always act after the fact the same way that they acted about after the failure of the one of the african banks they are also always behind the curve. but short of the vice president says neither side can win the conflict ongoing in syria. called for the creation of a national unity government to try and settle the crisis now some opposition fighters have said they are open to seeing him lead an interim cabinet and neighboring turkey strongly supports the rebels also considers him

a credible candidate to replace our side this as damascus is on the defensive al-qaeda linked militants claim to have captured another loyalist base while russia and china are leading the calls against foreign action in syria and wanting a political settlement instead. we believe that the matter of the. should be decided by the syrian people not by the outside force you for the outside forces say do i don't lie you this guy i want him to go. two for the chinese are these he is not acceptable because that you are following us you don't lack that either of these countries why should you decide who should stay or should go so we have a problem when these things that come statement. are you can see the full interview with a member of our china's foreign policy advisor committee at eight hundred forty

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you. tube. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle all of me should watch what we eat but should we be taxed in the name of health when it comes to food this is one of the aims of the so-called fat tax governments all over the world and throughout history have pushed policies to shape behavior in the name of public health so should food be subject to punitive taxation.

to cross out the so-called fat tax i'm joined by my guests in new york meanwhile she is the president of national action against obesity jeff steer he is a senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and donica moore she's a woman's health expert an advocate physician educator and a media commentator on cross talk rules and effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want me i probably should lose a few pounds because of the food i eat so should that food that i eat be taxed to teach me to eat wetter better and to be have a better health. well studies show if we increase costs or put about a twenty percent tax on certain foods that you will see a reduction in consumption i can't imagine someone trying to float a twenty percent tax on anything right now i see it more than a syntax or punitive i see.