a vote of uncertainty the second phase of egyptian beleaguered constitutional referendum begins and violent showdowns between its backers and opponents. russia moves a step closer to banning child adoptions by u.s. citizens to look at a tragic case of abuse where foster parents got away with surprisingly lenient punishments. and dry aid of choosing to often israeli voters say they have had enough of the parliament chopping and changing and when they are asked to turn out yet again.

this is our team come to life for moscow with me marina joshie it tipped as voting in the second round of the referendum on a draft constitution which is polarizing the country and which has triggered bloody street battles in key cities saturday's vote on the islamist infused document which already won the approval in the first leg was preceded by another flash of anger worn down from journalist bell true in cairo. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates have headed to the polling stations today to vote in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was a factor for violence as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who are for the constitution very few against the constitution this happened on islam is staged a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution and implementation

of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they are cars and buses some saying these buses belong to the muslim brotherhood police intervened with take out leaving seventy seven injured so this obviously comes on the after several instances of violence is in alexandria and entire a few weeks ago in cairo and from the presidential palace rival groups clashed leaving ten dead in terms what people are saying here on the streets the country is divided those who are against the constitution say we're only in for the presidential a dictatorship and it lacks a key social economic right there was drafted by islamist dominated assembly so it's for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy after the concert has drawn so they say we'll have parliamentary elections in the first round of course the votes people voted in fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution analysts believe that this will be another yes vote this is largely because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of them a rule of cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite

a strong as the face of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the presidential for in the presidential elections even many to believe that this will in fact be a yes vote for the opposition forces for that part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was due to vote rigging right. document several cases of electoral violations including supervised polling stations leading both rights groups on the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying is actually not invoiced the issue digital supervision remains a point of contention here as thousands of judges continue to boycott the referendum really will 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 that both sides refuse to back down. whether this is a revolution second wind or a side effect of political transition with penny in an analysis on the latest on rest in our tea dot com. five hundred dollar

a panel t.v. or disaggregating corpses. coming up no jail time just a demotion and a pay cut that's all the punishment a u.s. marine gets for you running on dead 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 as part of a larger document aimed at preventing human rights abuses of russians abroad than education looks at the cases which raise the alarm with lawmakers. but. the adoption agreement that russia and the u.s. cited in an event where it was designed to provide mechanisms for oversight for russian children adopted by american families but moscow claims it is still being

met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children still there are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized once the adoption is finalized the child is considered the same as if you were born into that family one thousand russian children have died in the hands of their adoptive parents in the u.s. in recent years there is untold numbers of children that are. enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their deaths that are just surviving the case of. alan who was adopted from russia. and she was placed in the home of a pedophile she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting and she told. reporters and

such that she waited every day and 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 judges have shown towards a number of abusers the adoptive father of two year olds in my jacket who was acquitted after she forgot the boy has a car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born aceh 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 of also shown leniency in

cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child jessica beagley received probation after she went on a popular t.v. show and bragged of how she'd this supported her adopted russian child by systematically cramming ha sauce into his mouth and putting him on the cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another washroom boy maxime by of who was allegedly abused by his foster parents according to florida acquitted them the cases of abuse of prompted reaction from russia's top political brass. the judges will 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 adoption seems even more dire the u.s. accounts for around this third of all foreign adoptions in russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year but the latest developments cast doubt over whether that good work can continue the argument that if there's a flight is chance for an orphan to find a happy home they should be given that chance is on doubted but just as

indisputable seem to be or given that there has to be more oversight over the well being 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 check on. going bankrupt are now lining up for a bailout of their own athens down by a back scheme brings the country's biggest banks to their knees and left with no choice but that for another round. rock obama makes his pay for the next secretary of state with hopes that john kerry could be the one to tell him down america's military mind of foreign policy. a reduction in rank at a five hundred dollars pay cut that's what it will cost a u.s. marine sergeant for desecrating the bodies of dead taliban soldiers he was found guilty of here running on damage posing with their corpses retired u.s.

colonel and diplomat and wright 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 u.s. military people have been doing to them the brutal slaughter of people i mean over and above that where you have sergeant bales' it has. killed sixteen afghans you have this incident the u.s. military personnel. you're in a ding on the the bodies. taleban you have the issue of 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 and vietnam veteran an anti-war

activist could take over from hillary clinton who promised to stand down next year ivan eland a fan sallust and senior fellow at the new pattern is you believe kerry can temper down washington's foreign policy. i think he's actually a better choice than susan rice i think he'll be more restrained in advocating a u.s. military intervention since he was a vietnam war veteran now he's been for some wars but he he's been overall i think he's been a restraining influence on the on the u.s. as chairman of the foreign relations committee and of course he has a lot of experience he has combat experience in vietnam and many of the people who were in vietnam with john mccain as these 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 that local over dad in spending is seeing the united

states hurdle 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 where we are finished been out to find anyone who thinks they deserve the 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 in 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 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 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 reality that would be helped the bottom line is no that 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. well more worldly is on the way for you from our team in moscow in just

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the. welcome back you're watching are you coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie israelis are expected to trudge back to the polling stations again next month and a parliamentary election that's happening earlier than planned well government has survived a full term in office for decades and us policy reports voting fatigue is rife. call us money as you know in 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 is so messed up 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 whether. they're kirillov's eventually.

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. 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 to the sick to all parties ultra orthodox ultra reuters 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 minor roots when crissy the minority rule with a majority. another problem is that because government ministers change so often

they can't plan i also. mentioned amish 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 the 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 the mixture israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but they told him and 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 runs resurgent skepticism is now even getting the us a little worried washington's afraid of losing its and wendell ally in the european union and is even warning of consequences if the u.k. leaves the bloc but what it all analysts 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 stall the president of the european commission for that matter really put president obama needs to understand is that the european union is actually damaging for you it's actually undermining the economy of 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 time 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 a bailout after posting huge losses this year the reason though could be their own

government of four landers to kids during a state dept buyback scheme great job as dimitri see our paul says it all leaves a country in even worse shape. it's not the banks that failed it's. the economic situation that was created that has decimated the greek banking sector which was much more when i'm in the most resilient. in europe it was not never exposed to toxic instruments. 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 into you on the other hand bank inability to. provide liquidity for the market. 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 there in what's been more than a year and a half of protests leaders of a movement saying or a fed up with low standards of private universities the students won a major victory two days ago when chile's justice minister who has ties to one of the colleges was forced to resign over a corruption scandal they are. in central china firefighters struggled for seven hours to contain a massive blaze which raged through a sixteen story office building it's thought of one man a security guard is still trapped inside around fifty people staying in a hotel on the upper floors were evacuated to safety and more than a dozen people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. a space capsule caring three astronauts and successfully docked with the international

space station it took two days for the craft to make it into position for an untanned kilometers above the earth the russian canadian and american crew had joined up with three others already at the station where they will stay until march the rocket blast that off on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome kazakstan. well after the break the gloves are off as boxing legend in their hollow field joins al going off in spotlight. the legacy no one should be proud of sheets of scrap metal each year in pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial. bergan archipelago don't

make a pretty picture of the guiding principle here is the worst the better locals like to tell the story about back in soviet times when no regions were visiting barons were they also an express lane when it would be and how prosperous this settlement was well times have obviously a change when they saw it lags they still attracting the region tourists or barons work and would then cons much needed cash that's why when business bad they're ruining our gol is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint a venue and put it at variance work central square that can do nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community there the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs to a degree locate it. half way between north america and western europe the bergen archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the

middle of the cold war it served as the useless hours westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union's last preserved relics. 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 i think it could be even more appealing for russians travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still until a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local shops. is a big hit the defunct aren't curtain still helps keep the money flowing. it's a rush through your. body. 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 tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be honest 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 their repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar.

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