live. vote in the final stage of the referendum on the drafted constitution. and fierce clashes with many doubt the results will quell the monthlong. goes one step closer to banning all adoptions of russian children by americans triggered by an increasing number of abuse cases me even some deaths caused a storm of reaction here in russia. and all you don't want for christmas shopping things together we look at what. going in the. very next day.

very good morning from here in moscow this morning decisive day for egypt as people vote on the draft constitution that split the nation and triggered monthlong protests the second and final leg of the referendum was preceded by a fresh outbreak of violence in egypt second largest city of alexandria. true explains what's expected from the vote whether the outcomes likely to end the. 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 about to provide as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who are for the constitution very few against the constitution has happened 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 asked leaving seventy seven injured so this obviously comes under the office 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 of people are saying here on the streets the country is divided so if you're against the constitution say would only enforce a presidential dictatorship but 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 of 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 base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the

president in the process of entry in the presidential elections even many to believe that this will in fact be yes but the opposition forces for that part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was do you see a vote rigging rights groups did document several cases of electoral violations including on 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 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. true meantime egypt's vice presidents resigned amid the voting reportedly citing disagreements over president morsi is policy despite the fact that the new constitution eliminates the post of vice president altogether would make his departure though is

seen as premature it dependent political analyst on glazebrook told r.t. the entire situation in the country is a result of hasty actions and rushed decisions breo main problem with this referendum that is being rushed through before egyptians are really had a chance to take on board the momentous are people of the last year what it signifies and also before they've had a chance to really understand what the policies of the muslim brotherhood actually are so this is all being rushed through has been rushed through deliberately before people had a chance to take stock and before the opposition had a chance to organize themselves as well not to get this was this is a pretty unprecedented the biggest mass movement in egypt in fifty years what we saw the streets last year in egypt and so the opposition have not really had a chance to you to fully organize themselves to to present a clear program to the electorate and so on the muslim brotherhood of course on the other hand are organized and have been allowed actually it organize in certain

spheres of egyptian right for several decades. more expert analysis of the situation in egypt we promise you as well as the timeline of recent protests the most dramatic videos on our website r.t. dot com. five hundred dollars that's the cost the u.s. marine sergeant will pay for your and eating on the bodies of dead taliban insurgents he was demoted and there was pay docked after admitting to desecration political activist david swanson though told me earlier that the sentencing thinks is too lenient 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 nation's been occupied and been subjected to drone strikes that well the case has once again highlighted

concerns of america's continued presence in afghanistan but president obama says he's hoping now to turn a page on a decade of war after naming senator john kerry as the next secretary of state the friends of an island believed kerry's appointment could lead to a less aggressive u.s. foreign policy. we're in a 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 united states is into the. perception of running the world and i just don't think we can do it 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. this is our taste still to come with me you know in the smalling the problems continue to mount

for greece for the country's main banks in the way to stay afloat after posting massive losses to take a closer look at why also. tonight. with minister of original sin to reach its youth culture minister the. general in the. ministry of justice even how does. israel propose for elections amid increasing concerns over the country's political process. but expose the clocks countdown to christmas many people were making that last minute dashed the shelves we included but to think twice before purchasing that novelty present is the warning is the recipient might not be that grateful it is probably boyd who explains the muslim bustle of london. most of us know the problem for someone celebrating after the twentieth christmas buying a present can be perplexing there's nothing they need or don't own already to the

invention of your humorous christmas present for example the christmas jumper what happens to the presents the day off the christmas tree ever been given you a christmas present every christmas and you turn them away on boxing day. for me give it away because i just about myself feel better and then there are the kids to give me an example of a useless christmas present you may have saved. i was given a call from work. because you probably can't put it on so you can hear the other. a mug we overlay woman in a bikini when you pour the hot water and she becomes like it so the candy peels off what was that an it's a coat hanger and this is kind of hanging together been given like chunks of christmas stuff that you just throw away on boxing day yes what was that going to be just as fresh heavily yeah we just bought some junk to christmas i think i might have just bought some junk for christmas. present play on boxing day it's not

actually a story christmas presents away along with we just came from the strike and so we had a christians before we came and so i always travel with scripts that we got given. straight into the bin junk for christmas no useless presents sometimes yes sure in the last absolutely not much to do with them. usually i just give them to my sister i have actually i've received coloring crayons a few years ago so they didn't last long and. i don't like other animals and i don't think about the age any more. so worried about the state of the planet say that the problem nowadays is that a lot of the items on sale don't have any purpose whatsoever the design to squeeze a lost out to the recipient 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 at it. again end up in the water with your friends and family too don't blame us for international news

here not in just a couple of minutes time. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the suckling island is the island of minute on named after a french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders own and was completely restricted too busy to know the speech rest place is open to tourists plants and animals are its top attraction. really has been exploring the deaths of the world seas for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for

. the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the sakhalin region to enjoy the sights others convert the island's nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost unnecessary attribute of anything in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than a hundred million dollars net profit. and to a large extent this is old to do what cycling offers environmentally the tonight show operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood. for a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers

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allegheny bill rabbiting u.s. citizens with the russian children is being passed by the lower house of parliament here in moscow almost unanimous the vote comes after a series of child abuse cases abroad got a chance to count looks at the stories which led to the latest measures. the adoption agreement that russian the u.s. signed 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 here 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 final so there is untold numbers of children that are enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their get better just surviving the case of alan who was adopted from russia and she was placed in the home of a tete a file she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting but 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 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 of 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 a 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 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 washing for a buyer who was allegedly abused by his boss the parents according florida credit 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 of 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. go along through. formally belonging to a president that so. busy i'm sure there's no such as expensive cars and millions of dollars worth of jewelry going out of a hummer when readers were about to go home for the forty two but a local one that it was initiated an investigation into lady gaga showed some fear

and she promoted quote homosexual propaganda and quote what exactly sparked the official discontent you can find us online. thank you. all for greece's largest bank securing up for a bailout boost now after reporting huge losses this year together they'll need around twenty seven billion euros worth of loans to stay afloat greece has been relying on international bailout fund since twenty tenors economists dimitrius you're not police says it's orderly greeks who are bearing the brunt of the bank's losses the loans on which. this recapitalization

of the bank sector is going to decrease are coming from the 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 and it national debt which is going to be paid by the greek taxpayer and we had forty thousand small businesses closing in closing this year alone three hundred additional thousand 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 the bank inability to provide liquidity for the market. gracefully preparing for another year of painful cuts and tax hikes them but for a wider outlook where the global economy stands at the end of twenty twelve we ask each of the cards report to get a moment thirty pm g.m.t. . it's been five years since the beginning of the global financial collapse

governments are eating their own vomit central banks are smoking their own belly button land and analyst still don't know whether we have deflation inflation hyperinflation. more of that shortly now the world news in brief a suicide blast during a political rally in northwest pakistan nine more than twenty wounded among those killed in the instant were a provincial government official as well as the secretary of pakistani military group linked to the taliban's claimed responsibility for the attack. in protest of these powerful leaving several people injured demonstrators are calling for the death penalty to be handed down to six men accused of gang rape and the brutal beating of a twenty three year olds to the indian government seeking life in prison for you saying. i i for israel the new year will be

marked by an election for the new parliament happening earlier than planned now for many frequent voting is of course the import of democracy but the rapid turnaround of ministers and governments is leading to calls for an overhaul of the entire political system. reports. call us money as you know him but in my political career i was minister of regional cooperation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigrant absorption and minister of justice i've even held this post simul tenuously 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 be able. to relax eventually as it was. but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online campaign by local celebrities shows whenever someone tries to talk about it they're interrupted blah blah blah blah blah three 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. 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 we system here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra-orthodox to 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. the minority rule over the majority. 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 fan with latest figures

suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with his government's performance police here are to tell of of. their lives breaking the set after this break. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is there a from the nine hundred fifty s. these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for

life be sent to the other patients and in their shattered lives the. professor of desire his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people what eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies lives both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to be was out of center now days seeking series three focus medical reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride. the first patient to turn to us with a leg length to me a quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want a surgery because his partner was tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an

orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out they're pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the otter's in america average height is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average if i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal like your guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most is mad at russian girl who found he's

a regional hype quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had luck i got so many i mean i have my hands at the town i believe that i'm sitting seems really messed up. in the old story so personally apologize it's. worse for the link to the white house or to the radio guy in fort lauderdale

minutes from a click. away what we're about to give you've never seen anything like this i'm still. playing days i'm at the martin unfortunately 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. up. a little bit to do if you've never seen anything like the trouble.

so last week i had the great pleasure of having academy award winning director oliver stone and historian peter because next on the show they were 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 which 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 this 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 all over. well i think that under the disguise of sheep's clothing he's been a wolf. because the night.