three. three. two to three. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects free medio dot r t talk to. a vote of uncertainty the second phase of egypt's beleaguered constitution referendum begins of end violence showdowns between its backers and opponents. russia moves a step closer to banning child adoptions by u.s. citizens will get tragic cases of abuse were foster parents got away with surprisingly lenient punishments. tired of choosing too often israeli voters say they have had enough of our own and chopping and changing on a whim as they are asked to turn out again again.

it is time i am in the russian capital he watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program now is voting in the second round of the referendum on a draft constitution which is for rising the country and which has triggered bloody street battles in cities saturday's vote on the islamist infused documents which already won the approval in the first leg was preceded by another a flash of anger more on that from journals bill true who is in cairo. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates heads headed to the polling stations today to votes in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was in the backdrop of violence as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who are

for the constitution those who are against the constitution this happened after islamists staged a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution and the implementation of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they cars and buses some saying these buses belong to the muslim brotherhood police intervened with tear gas leaving seventy seven injured so this obviously comes on the after several instances of violence is in alexandria in cairo few weeks ago in cairo and from the presidential palace rival groups clashed leaving ten dead in terms of people are saying here on the streets the country is divided those who are against the constitution say it would only enforce a presidential dictatorship but it lacks a key social economic rights that was drafted by islamist dominated assembly for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy after the concert was drafted they say we will have parliamentary elections in the first round of course the votes of people voted to fifty seven percent in favor of the

constitution and this believe that this will be another yes votes this is largely because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of them a rule cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong support base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the presidential or in the presidential elections leading many to believe that this will in fact be a yes vote the opposition forces for their part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was vote rigging rights groups did did document several cases of electoral violations including unsupervised polling stations leading both rights groups and the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying it is actually now in voids the issue judicial supervision remains a point of contention here of judges continue to boycott the referendum really will just have to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on today in the early hours of tomorrow morning but definitely people expect by their own rest in the streets either way both sides refuse to back down. whether this is

a revolution second wind or a side effect of political transition with opinion and analysis on the latest on reston idjit and at r.t. dot com. five hundred dollar panel before disagreeing choruses coming up. no jail time just a demotion and a pay cut and that's all the punishment a u.s. marine gets or you were aiding on down taliban soldiers. also ahead britain's increasingly cold feet over being in the e.u. and why it's rattling nerves across the atlantic. russia's lower house of parliament has passed a bill banning all adoptions of russian children by americans it's part of a larger document aimed at preventing human rights abuses of russians abroad and the cases which raise the alarm with lawmakers in. the adoption agreement the russian army was cited in one of them or was designed to provide mechanisms for

over five russian children adopted by american families with multiple claims it is still being met people going into the homes it was for an adopted children. are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. appearance we have no idea what's really going on do you nineteen. does not do follow ups an adoption is final on. adoption is finalized the child is considered the same as if he were born into that family one thousand russian children have died in the hands of their adoptive parents in the us the recent years where there is untold numbers of children that are. enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their letter to surviving the case of matia allen who was adopted from russia. and she was placed in a home of a tete a file she was discovered because of a

a child pornography sting and she told. reporters and such that she waited every day kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency that placed her there would come back and check on her would even telephone and ask her how things were doing and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came to check on her much of the fury in moscow over the brutal treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american judge's approach towards a number of the boozers the adoptive father of the jackal was acquitted of the boy car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born to faneuil craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the quavers have dodged a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises

and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges have also shown leniency in cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child hope just to be. disciplined her adopted russian child by systematically cramming hot saucing and putting him under a cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another war from what i've seen the bias that was allegedly influenced by the pair of courting florida put it that the cases of abuse of property reaction from russia awful lot of progress. because the judges have not even let us attend the us trials as observers at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation around us that he was even more dire he wasn't around the circle of. russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year with the latest developments over whether

they were. the argument that if there's a flight of or friend to find a happy home they should be given that chance is on doubt it but just as indisputable seems your given that there has to be more oversight over the wellbeing of these children because with the way things are now dozens of adoptive children could be subject to abuse right at this moment and we may never find out in washington i'm going to. agree banks are now lining up for a bailout of their own athens dam. brings the country's biggest banks to their knees and left with no choice but for another rescue. ambrosch makes his pick for the next secretary of state with hopes of john kerry to be the one to turn down america's military mind of foreign policy. and reduction and ranking. and five hundred dollar pay cut that's what it will cost a u.s. marine sergeant for desecrated the bodies of dead taliban soldiers he was found

guilty of you were aiding on them and posing with their corpses retired u.s. colonel and diplomat am right says the people of afghanistan feel a lot of anger over american troops behavior oh i was in afghanistan last week and i talked to a lot of people in afghanistan and they are very. they are outraged about these things that are you have smaller terry people have been doing to them the brutal slaughter of people i mean over and above that where you have sergeant bales of has. killed sixteen afghans you have this incident the u.s. military personnel all marines urinating on the the bodies. taleban you have. you have the koran being burned on a military base so afghans are very upset about what the u.s. military is doing there. president obama has nominated senator john kerry as

a candidate for the job of the usa stop diplomat yet now veteran an anti-war activist could take over from hillary clinton who promised to stand down next year ivan eland advance analyst and senior fellow at the independent institute believes kerry can temper down washington's foreign policy sacrifices that they make along with their families. i mean i think he's actually a better choice than susan rice i think he'll be more restrained in advocating u.s. military intervention since he was a vietnam war veteran now he's been for some wars but he has been overall i think he's been a restraining influence on the on the u.s.'s chairman of the foreign relations committee and of course he has a lot of experience is combat experience in vietnam and many of the people who were in vietnam who john mccain is the big exception are more restrained in their foreign policy they're not as excited to see to send u.s.

service men and women into harm's way and i think that that's probably a good thing at this stage deadlock over dad and spending is seeing the united states hurtle towards a fiscal cliff that will trigger a widespread tax rises and government cuts on new year's day to tackle the fast approaching deadline congress members have gone on holiday or in our business the now to find anyone who thinks they deserve a break. as many hard working americans look forward to taking a break from the grind so does congress did they deserve a holiday this week let's talk about that we're talking today about congress because there's that take their break right now you're already rolling your eyes i've only just said the word awful it's awful what you can do they don't do

anything and they're taking a break well yeah because that's what they do they don't do anything and they're going to do you think that they have been working hard enough to deserve a holiday never and i won't say anymore because it'll be a bad word of those going to go out and kick the can down the road a little bit for the next year yeah and nothing's going to change something may change with who's going to want to know about the deal with the next year so you work more than one hundred forty days a year so everyone deserves some time off the extent of it that's another story so yeah i do think they should get a break but with the fiscal cliff being what it is they should probably work through the holidays which do you think that they know what the answer is and they're just kind of posturing because you know republicans have to say that they're not going to raise taxes democrats have to say they're not going to make cuts but at the end of the day they're going to compromise absolutely they have to so what with this posturing bad enough of that why don't they just get real. i think part of politics is being reelected and so the politicians need to seem to

their constituents. loyal and sometimes beyond reasonable bounds are we that stupid . some people are what the answer. i think the answer is is is more more public scrutiny of their performance more for public involvement than in the in the process and does that involve more intelligence public to get involved to a better informed public and a public that is is paying closer attention to what these people are doing so maybe a media that's less bought by corporate interests that keep feeding into the political scene that would be helped the bottom line is no the congress did not deserve a holiday but they probably are going to enjoy more vacation then we commoners could ever imagine so just remember that as you take your measly vacation this year every holiday.

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welcome back you're watching are the live from moscow israelis are expected to trudge back to the polling stations again next month in a parliamentary election that's happening earlier than planned no government has survived a full term in office for decades and fall asleep reports voting for t.v. is rife. call us money as you know him back in my political career i was minister of regional cooperation minister of agriculture minister of housing and

construction minister of immigrant and as option and minister of justice i have even held this post signal tenuously but it doesn't mean i'm talented it just shows that the system was so messed up they'd be toyed. it's a system that's been in place since the founding of the state sixty four years ago it's seen thirty four governments in sixty four years that's a new israeli government almost every two years and a new minister just as often in the last twenty years there have been twenty interior ministers fourteen foreign ministers and fifteen justice ministers and now more and more israelis are saying enough and joining a movement to change the political system as. a young citizen ghost elections so many times you starts to lose the sense that this is a democracy not for nothing of the past ten years voter turnout has decreased from eighty to sixty four percent. kirillov's eventually as it was.

but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online campaign by local celebrities shows that whenever someone tries to talk about it they're interrupted. him a prime minister says he must call for elections because he can't pass the budget he's scared that his coalition members may bring down his government and we will act as if that's we really say there's no problem with our system. critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. we're going to show more that the system here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra orthodox ultra rightists right wing extremists and so on and in fact the soon to be becomes a hostage to these marginal groups there is no democracy there's crissy the minority rule with a majority what. another problem is that because government ministers change so

often they can't plan. today a minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision and a long term planning he's no longer there. what many of these people want is a complete overhaul of the system with parliamentary elections slated for early next year israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but they told us is running thin with latest figures suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with his government's performance points here r.t. tel aviv. braggarts resurgence here or skepticism is now even getting the us so a little worried washington's afraid of losing it so when your ally in the european union and is even warning are consequences if the u.k.

leaves the bloc but political analyst robert oulds says it's britain's business alone. i think the people in britain really will make their own minds up about a future we don't need what to don't need to be told what to do by someone from another country be that the united states or or still the president of the european commission for that matter really president obama needs to understand is that the european union is actually damaging for you it's actually undermining the economy different member states many member states are suffering a very harshly as a result of these economic policies policies which he has thought believe objective and he wouldn't like to be told how to manage his economy by an unaccountable bureaucracy like other countries in europe countries in the eurozone are being told how to manage their own affairs having to think over to forced upon them so really he needs to perhaps learn a little bit more about the undemocratic nature of the european union before commenting all four of greece's largest banks are queuing up for bailouts after

posting huge losses this year the reason now could be their own government all for a land there are still kids during a state dad buyback scheme greater than has to be a tree was says it all leaves the country in even worse shape. it's not the banks that failed it's. the economic situation that was created that has decimated it. banking sector which was much. when i'm in the most resilient. in europe it was not a number exposed to toxic and. strengthening fine but. we had forty thousand small businesses closing closing these student loans and. unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really on the one hand or straight to your. bank in ability to.

provide life we did you for them are. in chile a long running street battles over education reform have seen more trouble in the capital hundreds of students have again clashed with police in what's been more than a year and a half of protest leaders of the movement say there is fed up with low standards of private universities students want a major a victory two days ago when chile's justice minister this ties to one of the colleges was forced to resign over a corruption scandal there. a space capsule carrying three astronaut has successfully docked with the international space station it took two days for the craft to make it into position for hundreds han kilometers above the earth the russian canadian and american crew have joined up with three others already of the station where it will stay until march the rocket blasted off on wednesday from the by going to or cosmodrome in cabo stan. well abby martin is breaking

a sad show is coming up in just a few minutes and no way. is the legacy no one should be proud. subscribed nationally touring pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spilling black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when no regions were visiting barons were they also want to express amazement. at how prosperous this was well times have obviously a challenge when they saw it lags they still attracting

a region tourists are bearing the word i would then khan's much needed cash that's why one big bad they're ruining our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the bin you and put it at barron's work central square that in the nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community there the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs particularly located halfway between north america and western europe the space bergen archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of stars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades he's

a curious sight for western tourists and other things. it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russian film until coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so he married bill it is a big hit the defunct are incurred still helps keep the money flowing. it's all rushing through your words you can't play robles for almost. your. local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic traditional. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on those this time to change even for the better is not

always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how. i mean. i don't. really know. if that. worst. white house of.

minutes. what what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. by gays i mean martin and fortunately today could mark the very last episode of breaking the set because you see today may be the very last day here on planet earth that is according to crackpot interpretations of the mayan calendar so and owner of this i've packed my final show for your doomsday pleasure including a brand new interview with director oliver stone and historian peter president a look at what creepy surveillance we won't have to deal with anymore since the fan of the world and all and then i'll be explaining what the mayans actually meant and why we will all be here come tomorrow so it's great to set. the alarm where you never seen anything like that.

so last week i had the great pleasure of having academy award winning director oliver stone and historian peter because next on the show we're here to talk about their new showtime series and book called the untold history of the united states but the part you didn't see is the discussion we had after that interview when i got their opinion on obama's policies the current state of play and united states take a look. so it took both of you four years to produce the series and almost almost five. and you have a chapter called obama management of a wounded and prior where you give a harsh critique of the obama administration what in your eyes has been the most troubling aspects of his presidency over. well i think the under the disguise of clothing he's been a wolf. because of the nightmare of the.