egyptians vote in the final stage of the referendum on the islamist drafted constitution that's part of violent protests and fierce clashes many doubt the ballot result of month long turmoil. moscow bans all adoptions of russian children by americans triggered by an increasing number of abuse cases and even some. illness because a strong reaction in russia. and all you don't want for christmas as festive shopping fever gathers pace look at what gifts risk of ending up in the bin very next day.

and online twenty four hours a day this is r.t. i'm carrie johnston it's a decisive day for egypt as people vote on the draft constitution that split the nation and triggered a month long protests the second and final leg of the referendum was preceded by a fresh outbreak of violence in egypt second largest city of alexandria where cairo based journalist bell true explains what's expected from the vote and whether the outcome is likely to end the turmoil. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates our 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 about to 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 has happened is the most 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 burned 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 in front of 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 would only enforce a presidential dictatorship that lacks a key social economic rights it was drafted by islamist dominated assembly for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy after the concert. parliamentary elections in the first round of course the vote people voted in fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution and this believe that this will

be another yes vote this is largely because of the seventeen governorate to voting today many of them a rule places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong support base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in private venture or in the presidential elections leaving 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 due to vote rigging rights groups did did document several cases of electoral violations including unsupervised polling stations leaving both rights groups and the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying is actually not in boy if you didn't supervision remains a point of contention here to just 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 that both sides refused to back down. is of course following developments in egypt so you can see her latest updates via twitter feed that's r t

underscore com. five hundred dollars that's the cost to a u.s. marine sergeant and pay for a year in dayton on the bodies of dead afghan soldiers he was demoted to see his pay docked after admitting to desecration of political activist david swanson says the sentence is light and highlights how the u.s. military has lost touch with reality in afghanistan. it's absurdly low it's insultingly low but so is the charge and i mean this is someone guilty of creating corpses of killing human beings who is then prosecuted for having desecrated them after the fact this is this is the problem with our culture of violence that we that we think we're going to civilized war that if we didn't cut off the fingers and you're an aid on the bodies then it would be ok so we have a long ways to go to get into to a better legal as well as moral understanding because americans like to think that

their government must have some justification for what it does it builds the idea that it is folk to occupy the nations of other people that we had an incident this week in the united states of other former soldier attacking a mosque or to seek revenge for u.s. soldiers who had lost their lives of broad without stopping to understand that they were occupying someone else's country so we have this rule in hatred for muslims for afghans for pakistanis in the united states it is it is the doing of the u.s. government and its occupations and its drone wars but the longer they go on the more the ill will builds both at home and of course in the nations the not hide and being subjected to drone strikes by the case has once again highlighted concerns over america's continuing presence in afghanistan where president obama says he's

hoping to turn a page on a decade of war senator and former presidential candidate john kerry has been nominated as the next secretary of state i haven't either and different sounds to these kerry's appointments could lead to a less aggressive u.s. foreign policy. we're in fiscal crisis here and i think we're going to have to retract the claws of the empire as we speak and i think no nothing was ever done about that maybe john kerry will change he probably won't change dramatically because i think you're. into the. perception of running the world and i just don't think we can go financially and i don't even think it's desirable but i think you know we went into libya we went into we put more troops in afghanistan those were bad moves in my opinion so i think you may have a more dovish line coming from kerry than you did from hillary clinton also had more problems for greece as now or the countries may looking for ways to stay

afloat of the posting massive losses will take a closer look why. israel prepares for elections and increasing concerns over the country's political process is the short break. as the clocks the countdown to christmas many people will be making a last minute dash to the shops but think twice before purchasing that novelty present as a recipient might not be done grateful. explains from the hustle and bustle of london. most of us know the problem for someone celebrating off the best twentieth christmas buying a present can be perplexing there's nothing they need or don't own already accused the invention of your humorous christmas present for example the christmas jumper what happens to these presents the day also christmas i've been given christmas presents every christmas and carry them away on boxing day. for me give it away

because i just about myself feel better and then get rid of them to give me an example of a nice christmas present you may have saved. i was given from work. for a couple they don't take any other. dog we overlay woman in a bikini when you pull the hot water and she becomes like it so they can eat tails off. happy ever going to be that's mine. yes i want to go to very tempted to get a korean girl at work a chocolate heinous. what was that. to hang on to been given like junk for christmas stuff that you just throw away on boxing day yes what was going to you just. have only just bought some junk for christmas i think i might have just bought some junk for christmas and

a very present day on boxing day it's nice to have three christmas presents away oh look we just came from australia and so we had a christmas before we came and so over stuff that we got given. straight into the bin junk for christmas no this present sometimes yes. yes that's absolutely not what you do. usually. give them to my sister i've actually i've received coloring crayons two years ago so they didn't last long. and i don't think i did any more there is so worried about the status of the planet save the problem nowadays is that a lot of the items on sale turn up any office whatsoever i designed to squeeze a lot of the recipients and then the binge on boxing day so this year feel free to forget to buy a present or two you'll be saving the environment while you're on to. that we'll be back with more international days in

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. welcome back here with me. now a bill that prohibiting u.s. citizens from adopting russian children has been passed by the lower house of parliament in moscow almost unanimous vote comes after a series of child abuse cases abroad going to chicken looks at the stories which led to the latest measures. the adoption agreement that russia and the us cited in november was designed to provide mechanisms of 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 cool 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 there is untold numbers of children that are enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in there that are just surviving the case of alan 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 in kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency that placed her there would come back and check on her and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came 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 who may get a couple was acquitted after he forgot the boy his car for nine hours the toddler

died of heat stroke. the parents of russian born s annual 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 jessica bigley received probation after she went on a popular t.v. show and bragged of how she disciplined her adopted russian child by systematically cramming hot sauce into his mouth and putting him under a cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another washroom for maxine abiud who was allegedly abused by his foster parents according florida quote at that at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation of u.s. adoptions seems even more dire the u.s.

accounts for around a third of all foreign adoptions in russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year with the latest developments over whether that good work can continue the argument that if there is a flight as chance for an orphan to find a happy home they should be given that chance is on doubt it just is indisputable seems the 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. what had to r.t. don't come for more news including how one russian has made it onto a diss to the world's most dangerous people we have a story of how the cyber world was named along with a mexican drug lord and soon as a present. danger to the u.s. . also online today we reported on that one devoted to how to use the power of the media to pay tribute to his beloved good friend.

all four of a greece's largest banks are queuing up for a bailout boost after reporting huge losses this year together they'll need around twenty seven billion euros worth of loans to stay afloat but greece has been relying on international bailout funds since twenty ten into tough austerity measures being forced upon the population economist at the meter in a policy says it's ordinary greeks who are bearing the brunt of the bank's losses the loans on which. this recapitalization bank sector

priests are coming from the troika the e.u. the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. and they are going to be aid they're going to be part of the. national debt which is going to be paid by the greek taxpayers we had forty thousand small businesses closing closing this year alone three hundred additional thousands of job losses as a total unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really. on the one hand austerity on the other hand banks inability to provide liquidity for the market or greeks are preparing for another year of painful cuts and tax hikes but for a while the outlook on where the global economy stands at the end of twenty twelve you can tune in to the kaiser report in about ten minutes from that. it's been five

years since the beginning of the global financial collapse governments are eating their own debt vomit central banks are smoking their own belly button land and analyst still don't know whether we deflation inflation hyper inflation since you haven't met three we have crazy felicia and we're going to try to determine this will get a little bit closer to whether we have inflation deflation hyperinflation in this i guess my dad surfie out money fairy queen is. good. for is row the new year will be marked by an election for the new parliament happening earlier than planned for many frequent voting is the embodiment of democracy rapid turnaround of ministers and governments is the need to calls for an overhaul of the entire political system that want to put

a slip reports. 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 option and minister of justice i have even held the supposed signal tenuously but it doesn't mean i'm talented it's just shows that the system was so messed up they'd be toy. 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 where the be able. to hear well as 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 blah blah blah blah. the motions are 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 normal we really say there's no problem with our system nasty critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. one a sham of 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 minor retaught

crissy the minority rules over the majority. another problem is that because government ministers change so often they can't plan i don't. bench an amish not buying today a minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision in the long term planning he's no longer there. but many of these people want is a complete overhaul of the system but 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 the tone of months is running fan with latest figures suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with its government's performance points here r.t. tel aviv. now to other international news in brief this hour hundreds of students

have again cracked place in chile what's been here a half a protest leaders of the student saying that up with no standards at private universities the students won a major victory two days ago when chile's justice minister has ties to one of the colleges was forced to resign over a corruption scandal. listen protesters have clashed in india's capital leaving several people injured demonstrators are calling for a strong sentence to be handed down to five minute comes a gang rape beating of a twenty three year old student in government and seeking life in prison for the assailants protesters want to see the guilty and sentenced to death well police are still searching for a sixth man in connection with a crime. a mob of two hundred angry people have stormed a police station in southern pakistan killing a man accused of burning a copy of the koran the man was arrested on friday after no calls reported him to police claiming he burned the holy book in

a mosque local police arrested thirty people for suspected involvement in the attack and suspended seven officers for failing to provide security. now deadlock over debt and spending is seeing the us towards a fiscal cliff that would trigger widespread tax rises and government cuts on new year's day well to tackle a fast approaching deadline congress members have gone on holiday. has been out in the baths 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 they're take their break right now you're already rolling your eyes i've

only just said the word 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 but there's going to. do 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 that stupid. some people are what the answer i think the answer is is is more more public scrutiny of their performance or public involvement and in the process and does that involve more intelligent public think it involves 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 entity that would be helping the bottom line is no congress does not deserve a holiday but they probably are going to enjoy more vacation then we commoners could ever imagine so just remember that if you take your means leave a case in this year.

stacy will be here in a few minutes with the concert. you can tell an ordinary russian siberia and the blink of an. anthropologist and those day siberians were different clothes different food. different animals. but what about. my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny all funded school as great as i'm shopping malls much like any of the prosperous russian. so i decided to. a small town just

outside. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia. with cabbage and jam making sure you can have as a starter main dish. was although it may draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you decide to participate. look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by. a.

it's inhabited by siberian. minority that migrated head before the russians. this. is real siberia maybe not the stuff of tourism brochures but this thing through the show that through all these yeahs cyber is still not quite like the euro. max keiser welcome to the kaiser report it's been five years since the beginning of the global financial collapse governments are eating their own debt vomit central

banks are smoking their own belly button lint and analyst still don't know whether we have deflation inflation hyper inflation. max three we have crazy felicia and we're going to try to determine this will get a little bit closer to whether we have inflation deflation hyperinflation in this was my dad the fear of money first. but it was a fun little lives there the central banking revolution well. this is what money week says and there are of course talking to the complete abandonment of any inflation target remember for a few years there we've been pretending that central banks are independent that they are monitoring inflation trying to maintain the value of our currencies but ben bernanke has said he's going to keep rates at zero until unemployment.