she. starts on t.v. dot com. the latest news of the week's top stories egypt's new constitution inscribing islamic law looks set to pass as most voters seemingly back the draft in a referendum preceded by weeks of fierce protests we bring you the latest. stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun the gun lobby logic which is incensed millions of americans calling for tougher controls as the country pays its final tribute to the infants and teaches killed in last week's shooting massacre. i for i am moscow moved a step closer to planning americans from adopting russian children in response to

washington slapping sanctions on russian officials. and wiki leaks proposed revelations promising more that a million secret files will leave the government around the world. live from the new center in h.d. widescreen a welcome to you it's a round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me. and the chimp shouldn't have had their say in the storage vote on the new constitution that revealed deep divisions within the country and sparked violent protests the majority appeared of saying yes to the islamist after document but the opposition claims the referendum was riddled with fraud and is demanding an inquiry now first his cairo based journalist tell true. the preliminary results are in for egypt's

contentious constitutional referendum egypt appears to voted for the constitution sixty four percent say yes. thirty six percent have said no this comes after mass dissent in the streets across the country with a cast three weeks against this constitution opposition forces say force a presidential dictatorship and was drafted by an islamist dominated assembly of the twenty seven governors that went to vote in the last week only three voted against the constitution. this in the last round is largely due to the fact that in the last seventeen governance there were two votes a large amount of them are rural governorates large muslim brotherhood supports places their opposition forces for their part to say that the reason it is a yes is because of electoral violations they say they've seen a number of instances of power possible but rigging including missing judges and so on supervised polling stations missing ballot paper this stuff the ballot boxes and

also campaigning by the muslim brotherhood groups also ultra conservative salafist groups in the polling stations telling people to vote yes the biggest news of the day however is. president mohamed making this is largely seen to be perhaps because in the draft constitution as it currently stands there is no coast for the vice president this comes in the background of deepening violence across the country on friday we saw clashes between rival protest groups limits rallies in egypt second city exams in support of the constitution there was rock throwing and also burning of cars the police had to intervene with tear gas that comes just one week after similar clashes and xandra and of course three weeks after very bloody scenes here in the capital cairo we saw ten people die when rival protest groups.

fought outside the presidential palace with a deepening political crisis and neither side backing down now the constitution is likely to be put in place we can only expect dissent on the streets and possible violence across the country. got some reaction to the preliminary referendum results from egypt opposition othman how do from old to stewart party headed by mohamed el baradei told me the allegations of vote rigging must be investigated. this constitution and the ship around is is a disgrace to a nation that far hard for its freedom and for its right it's a document that grips ripped out all the all the rights that we have learned and try to constitute a dictatorship and it has been taught by a referendum that was a massive massive rigging for the ballot boxes massive rigging for the voice of the people physically seen tens and hundreds of schools tens and hundreds of schools where the ballot boxes and the referendum process was taking place at

a convenient time when when the voices were very all the floor saw that the people were voting no the power was cut off the other night and through the. judges and employees and that's called shut down the school over. in the front of the voters and the same with the ballot boxes not overseas for hours and hours we are not recognize any any results unless we see a proper investigation and are properly digging through these evidence that we've put and we receive a proper answer from the high committee of the election. egypt of course is one of the countries that goes by the arab spring where many of the left and happy about how their revolution panned out later tonight we're reporting on the men and women across the arab world who fired up entire nations during those uprisings and now say they've been left behind. and syrian rebels are accusing the government of killing dozens of people in an airstrike that hit a queue at a bakery in the provinces earlier as with many previous accusations of atrocities

by the government the rebels claims come during a major international step to try to resolve the conflict again this time the visit of the un envoy to damascus meantime russia's foreign ministers denied claims moscow's plans to give shelter to president assad. of also said that toppling the authorities won't stop bloodshed in the country party spoke exclusively to mr lavrov told this there are enough forces in syria that use international tactics. the armed groups of the opposition which are several which are not united on the single command be also resort to an acceptable methods salute to the contrary to international humanitarian law. taken hostages. the staging terrorist attacks and it is very disheartening that western called digs in the security council started to refuse. condemning terrorist attacks

in syria saying that yes there is must. but you must take into account the overall context of what is going on in syria and why people resort to terrorist attacks it's absolutely unacceptable and this logic might lead us if we follow this logic might lead us to a very dangerous situation not only in the middle east but in other parts of the world. partners in the west would start would begin to. qualify terrorists as. the wrist and acceptable terrorists. style and into the gulf maybe britons plotting a military boost to the oil rich region later this we take a look at what's at stake for the u.k.

in the gulf and where this bill that might lead. budget buried in the spaniards stage a farewell to the country's finances angry at their jobs and benefits being cut cut again. it was a heartbreaking week of course of farewells in newtown connecticut world twenty children six adults have been laid to rest after one of the worst mass shootings in american history the massacre reignited fierce debate on gun laws whose critics say make it all too easy for the public to access military grade weapons is out is going to occur now whether america is ready to change its treasured second amendment. a week after the tragedy at the elementary school in newtown president obama made the same pledge when he became president four years ago to try and get assault weapons off the streets of the you what's it's a pleasure yes be able to deliver on this is not the first issue the first incident going by of your four years. were you but the administration indicates this time

it's different this time they're serious commitment and compromise. the most volatile take coach shooting is full and it's a clear and it's an important part of our hearing the debate taking place at the moment suggests a national consensus on the issue is far down the line and the dialogue between those who support and those who oppose such a ban comes down to this with guns come safety if the guns are in the hands of the good guys if you not believe the stupid man on the powerful special interest group in washington the national rifle association has successfully fought any form of gun control legislation for years and the solution they offer to the epidemic of gun violence that has plagued the us is more guns. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. constitutional lawyer roger pilon things along the same lines and suggest.

that massacres like the one in newtown connecticut you're always going to have people who are going to be doing these kinds of evil deeds what you need to do is protect yourself against the weapons in schools and you go to a movie theater you have to carry a gun because there there will be there maybe someone with a semiautomatic you know wiping out the entire theater. as we have seen is that what you're suggesting. where do you put it provocatively like that what i'm suggesting people movie theater you have sickos the police cannot be everywhere there are almost three hundred million privately owned farms in the u.s. around ten thousand americans die in gun violence every year the gun murder rate in the u.s. is almost twenty times higher than in the next twenty two richest and most populous

nations combined. we have three hundred million guns in america but also the population of three hundred million people so it's one gun per person and if more guns were actually the solution to deterring shootings it many times it would have this problem in the first place the gun adam lanza used to kill twenty young children and six adults of the sandy hook elementary school was an a r fifteen semiautomatic rifle it's a military style rifle that can shoot hundreds of rounds at a rapid speed in belongs to adams mother who he also murdered nancy lanza a teacher at the same elementary school owned six guns numerous types of assault weapons are readily available for purchase in the u.s. at gun stores at gun shows and online after the newtown tragedy many americans are calling for change again. make it inherently make it worth something you could mean something good you can't create change previous meaningful attempts to change

a wall and that wall is the second amendment of the constitution the right of the people to bear arms skeptics say the most devious regime can do is require background checks at gun shows but again adam lanza's mother a teacher at an elementary school would have probably passed any of those checks and her military style rifle would have ended up in the hands of her son anyway that constitutional lawyer i spoke to seemed very certain that nothing major is going to change when it comes to gun laws in america does that mean more massacres like the tragedy in newtown in washington i'm going to. well known expectedly you think a lot about this you've been telling us that in the week you've been letting us know what you think what do you think now we're asking can be done to reduce the number of gun deaths in the u.s. this is what you've been telling us is to get them up to thirty five percent of the scruffy say that the media should be forgiven for overhyping massacres you say it makes it worse. if you say nothing could be done with the second amendment some

place as you say about a fifth of respondents calling for harsh new gun laws and restrictions eleven percent only proposing increasing security in public places twenty times of your say you can make that change. it's said to be a nervous new year for governments around the world as wiki leaks promises to publish more than a million secret files over the next twelve months releasing information it claims will affect every single country in the world the pledge came from the whistle blowing web site's founder julian assange he delivered a christmas address to supporters gathered outside the ecuadorian embassy in london a speech marked six months since the sons went into sink political asylum and avoid

extradition he's been ever since facing a rest if he steps outside question how for some what he leagues told me that despite the sanctions predicament in won't stop the cyclist drive and truth for transparency. when we know about the ongoing. investigation the secret grand jury you know sundry in virginia there is. an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for we believe as a very serious matter of course very shameful for the obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is. the opposite which hunt against whistleblowers. that has no first place in history will continue at work as we have done despite the difficult situation that you has been in the ecuador embassy you

know for six months but probably it was the house arrest that hasn't stopped us we have continued to work. the economic blockade has not stopped us either even though we are getting into a dire situation financially but that's a battle that we have decided. all out war and i'm sure we'll have a victory there as well in the new year. many more stories coming up that help shape the week after this break. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist scum finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for

almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection said that the t.s.a. agents couldn't put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist when you call security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion. today. again fleda. these are the images the world.

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saw the white house in washington and public pressure to consider sanctions on russian lawmakers the ban passed here in moscow which is also split russian public opinion incidentally as part of why did legislation meant to target those abused the rights of russians abroad now it was sparked by washington imposing travel and financial restrictions on russian officials suspected of involvement in the death of lawyers of gay magnitsky died in custody during a massive tax fraud investigation three years ago president putin though says the u.s. should look at its own record before criticizing others for human rights violations . our usa partners and their lawmakers say they are concerned about human rights in our prisons and that's fine of course but there are plenty of issues they have themselves abu ghraib and guantanamo where for years people have been detained without charge it's inconceivable to the prisoners walk around in chains like in the middle ages legalized torture inside their own country if something like that

happened here it would cause an international outcry and all remains quiet in the us we've heard plenty of promises to close guantanamo but it's still there it's still operating maybe there is still torture going on there secret cia prisons has anyone been brought to account and they're pointing out our problems well thank you we're aware of that making this the ground for passing anti russian laws it's something absurd and we have in no way provoked such action when you. present putin's comments came during his first major news conference since returning to the kremlin we value to watch the highlights of that q. and a session come about twenty five but it's again tonight in fact here on r.t. . in spain on thursday thousands attended a mock funeral march for the country's finances after a series of mass protests failed to stop

a new batch of cuts what's been labeled the budget of hunger and misery includes some thirty nine billion euros worth of extra steroids a investment advisor patrick young spoke to us in the week he says madrid's burden's a result of years of government mistakes. 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 sold off there have to be savage cuts 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 unfortunately while we can obviously say it's a tragedy for the poor independent healthcare professionals there's just no way to manage to find the money to aid them in modern spain here is a government that has effectively and an overall majority they can do absolutely anything they want and they seem to be absolutely determined to do more or less nothing and it's really a tragedy because they're not helping the spanish economy and they're not helping

the people either greece got a rare bit a good news earlier in the week with an unexpected credit rating boost the celebration was short lived though as yet another general strike paralyzed the country then four of greece's biggest banks to clear that they'd need a twenty seven billion euro bailout boost and stay afloat crisis try this comes out the mirror told us that despite all the efforts european nations still haven't sold their basic problems. right now. you know national community be i.m.f. the e.c.b. and used to have stewart wars austerity which makes investors happy but of course makes the people and the best a community is relatively happy because there is more greater safeguards that their money is going to be returned form a fuss so i think that you're going to continue to see the see that where yields go up and the people are happier but the investor community is left and then we're going to have a work to the right where you have more austerity making people more angry and more right at the more protests and more strikes and that investors feeling the more

secure in in the bonds that they buy in greece you have to keep in mind this crisis is far from over here he ends up yet to solve the basic problem that the european. countries are insolvent they simply do not have the money to pay back all the money that they have borrowed and because of that which is uncomfortable we are going to come to a day of reckoning some point you should become when is that day going to happen and how far will your pm your craft be will be kick the can down the road. rather naughty revelations on our web site tonight will some retired libyans choose a coaching career it seems others take a very different path well one any of this three time champion admitted now to having a very saucy second job in las vegas in front of his self if you want to know what team dot com and what show it seems the date of armageddon has apparently only been

delayed that's the plan he was at r.t. dot com details of how and when the world could now they say turn to dust think it's crossed the pond. thanks for being with us here moscow this morning now britain's eyeing up deploying more troops to the gulf as it withdraws its forces from afghanistan promised david cameron said that it would be part of a multi-billion pound weapons deal with the united arab emirates the u.k. is also considering prolonging its military presence at existing bases in bahrain in cata as for the geo political analyst patrick henningsen who believes the purpose of this extension lies beyond the gulf states the justification for this massive buildup in the middle east especially in the gulf states syria blaming iran saying that because iran's pursuing nuclear ambitions or there's no proof of any to

the weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so you can circumvent overread it's certainly geopolitical scale number one priority and i think they've achieved that militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military standoff or we're looking at a cold war situation where we're just posturing militarily geopolitically looking for some bigger conflicts down the road perhaps in a few years. two years ago this week the arab spring emerged into his ear but few could have predicted where it would lead including those who headed the uprising that is ridiculous to reports now on those left behind by the revolution. 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 mohali 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 situation as war strife comparison to. comparison to the years before. the revolution personally i don't feel safe. when we see. all the violence of the police sore or of us are. if unpoliced attacked by some nationalist people.

there are less freedoms right now when it comes to under their own freedoms there are attacks on individual freedoms every day i received so many messages from girls saying they were. straight 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 showed the so-called arab spring just two years ago hopes of transition from authoritarian regimes to new democratic forms of government seem to have halted rising islamism economies in shambles and increasing just content the pattern is the same in tunisia and egypt where people are pouring out on the streets again with a renewed. yes 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 and having morsi and morsi we know

he's obviously you know very different political figure out your. knowledge 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 they can be using now. guys again it's just a feeling people children and now really sick reaming we would not humanity of the one of the two please help us save our family. i got this time to make libya now the quirk of the place where no one can stop them and they have unlimited money

and we're going 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 what 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. . coming up your report on how not everyone will be able to travel home for a warm family christmas to share in a few minutes we're going to come with him you'll come we're focusing on the hidden homeless there while everyone else splashes out on ten some of the trees. but spending christmas day. through.