the latest news in the week's top stories for marty age of snoo constitution inscribing islamic law looks set to pass now as most voters seemingly back the draft in a referendum preceded by weeks of fierce protest we've got the latest. leave it stop. i with a gun is a good guy with a gun also 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. and eye for an eye moscow moves

a step closer to banning americans from adopting russian children in response to washington slapping sanctions on russian officials. with the purpose of new year revelations julian assange is promising more than a million secret files will leave no government around the world and. live from the hour to new center in h.d. widescreen welcome to our roundup of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin now in this hour and a gyptian the several others say in the a storage vote on the new constitution that reveal deep divisions within the country and sparked violent protests the majority appeared of said yes to the islamist draft document but the opposition claims the referendum was riddled with fraud and they're demanding an inquiry tonight his cairo based journalist bel true

first. 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 the cost 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 governors they went to vote a large amount of them are rural governorates large muslim brotherhood supports paces their opposition forces for their part say that the reason it is a yes is because of electoral violations they say they've seen a number of instances of poor possible vote rigging including missing judges

unsupervised polling stations missing ballot papers stuffed ballot boxes and also campaigning by the muslim brotherhood groups also ultra conservative salafist groups with in the polling stations telling people to vote yes the biggest news of the day however is the resignation of the vice president mohamed mickey this is largely seen to be perhaps because in the draft constitution as it currently stands there is no post 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 xandra 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 a similar clashes and xandra and of course three weeks after very bloody scenes here in the capital cairo we saw ten people die when rivals. says greeks and fought

outside the presidential palace with a deepening political crisis in one decides backing down now the constitution is likely to be put in place we can only expect dissent on the street and possible violence across the country well true there were earlier gut reaction to the plenary referendum results from egypt's opposition ahmed howry from the eldest to a party headed by mohamed el baradei told me that allegations of vote rigging must spin best to get into this constitution and this around is a disgrace to a nation that far hard for its freedom and for its rights it's a document that rips rips out all the for all the rights that we have learned to 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 see 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 full saw that the people were voting no the power was cut off the most the brother had to be asked judges and employees and that's called shuts down the school over. in the front of the voters and the state with the ballot boxes not overseas for hours and hours we do not recognize any results unless we see a proper investigation and a proper digging through the evidence that we've put and we receive a proper answer from from the high committee of the election. egypt's of course just one of the countries engulfed by the arab spring where many of the left unhappy about how the revolutions panned out later we report on the men and women across the arab world who fired up entire nations during those uprisings and now say they were left behind. and syrian rebels are accusing the government of killing dozens of people and their strike that hit

a queue at a bakery in the hama province as with many previous accusations of atrocities by the government the rebels claims come during a major international step to resolve the conflict this time the visit of a u.n. envoy to damascus meantime russia's foreign minister has denied claims that moscow has plans to give shelter to president assad so the lever of also said that toppling the authorities won't stop bloodshed in the country he spoke exclusively to mr lavrov who told us there are enough forces in syria that use internationally banned tactics. groups of their position which are several which are not united on the single command the also reserve the next step the ball methods saluted the contrary to international humanitarian law. taken hostages. staging terrorist attacks and it is very disheartening that western call bigs in the security council started to refuse. service to

syria saying that yes there is music. but you must they can click on 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 if partners in the west would start would begin to. qualify terrorist as. bad terrorist and acceptable terrorists. so the lover of out from afghanistan into the gulf britain is planning a military boost in the oil rich region later this hour we'll look at what's at stake for the u.k. in the gulf and where this new buildup might lead to next also budget buried

thousands of spine is stage of farewell to the country's finances angry at the jobs and benefits being cut cut yet again. another big story in the week it was a heartbreaking week of farewells in newtown connecticut where all twenty children six adults were 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 too easy for the public to access military grade weapons is going to teach you can know whether america's ready to change though 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 pledge yes be able to deliver on this is not the first issue the first incident. of your for you. but the administration indicates this time it's different this

time there are serious. and compromise. the most volatile take coach shooting is a bullet it's a sure 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 suggests

arming teachers to prevent 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 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 yes because the police cannot be everywhere they're 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 russert. we have three hundred million guns in america but also

a population of three hundred million people so that's one gun per person and more guns were actually the solution to deterring shootings of any time 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 it 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. because you can create change previous meaningful attempts to change hit

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 on 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 check on. loosening some strong thoughts about it you can tell us what you think still of r.t. dot com where we're asking what you think could be done to reduce the number of gun deaths in the u.s. this is what i've been telling you this telegraph now thirty five percent of you think the media should be forbidden from overhyping massacres you think it makes it worse because those make the headlines every time study if you are saying nothing can be done while the second amendment is in place by the fifty year they're calling for harsh new gun laws and restrictions eleven percent still the minority

proposing increasing security in public places because of because they said you can't have the police everywhere all the time you have your say don't come. to be nervous two 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 whistleblower web site's founder julian assange she delivered a christmas address to supporters who gathered outside the ecuadorian embassy in london a speech marked six months since the sergeant went in to seek political asylum and avoid extradition and he's been there ever since facing arrest a few steps outside christian after some from wiki leaks and says sanchez predicament though won't stop the site from the strive for truth and for transparency. well we know about the ongoing. investigation and the secret grand jury in alessandro 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 but for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is totally the opposite which hunt against whistleblowers. that has no first place in history it will continue to work as we have done despite the difficult situation that has been in the ecuadorian embassy now for six months but probably it was their house arrest that hasn't stopped us we have continued to work. the economic blockade has not stopped us either even though we are we are getting into a dire situation financially but that's a battle that we have decided to turn into an all out war and i'm sure we have a victory there as well in the new year. for the stories that help shape the week

coming up from here on out after a quick 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 skull 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 kill security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion. on the edge of human capability. struggling with a dream. to become less.

force. i told him. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. do we speak your language anything about the will or not

a day of. school music programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you breaking news a little turn to tip angles kiddies stories. you hear. detroit all teach spanish find out more visit eye eye to. well again the but as soon as a tit for tat moves between moscow and washington this week the restrictions to stop americans adopting russian children were approved by russia's lower house of parliament which then saw the white house in washington and public pressure to consider sanctions on russian lawmakers now this past here in moscow which incidentally also split russian public opinion is that part of why did legislation meant to target those who abuse the rights of russians abroad by washington imposing travel and financial restrictions on russian officials suspected of

involvement in the death of lawyer sergei magnitsky he died in custody during a massive tax fraud investigation three years ago president putin though says the u.s. should look at his own record before criticizing others for human rights violations . our u.s. 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 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. 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 at 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. and we're going with president putin's comments came during his first major news conference since returning to the kremlin we've got you to watch the highlights of that q. and a session coming up again if you're not caught it tonight in three hours time 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 or spent labelled the budget of hunger and misery include some thirty nine billion euros worth of extra stare at a now investment advisor patrick young told us madrid's burdens the 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 see and have

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 health care 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. but an exposé online from a starting dot com also retired a limpy and choose a coaching career things others will want to particular is taking a very different path this three time champion admits to now having a very saucy second job and last vegas only guess a look if. you don't want to find out what our job is plus world watch out yes this

is we thought the danger was over and now it seems the date of armageddon is apparently just being delayed the company tells a power plant the world then could turn to dust but hopefully. britain's eyeing up deploying more troops to the gulf as its withdraws its forces from afghanistan prime minister david cameron said 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 in existing places in power and capital so i spoke to geo political analyst patrick henson who believes london is looking to apply the military pressure on this country on the other side as a persian gulf in fact. justification for this massive buildup in the middle east especially in the gulf states syria the west is 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 of iran it's certainly religio political skill number one priority and i think that 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 conflict down the road perhaps in a few years. international news a brief now first to india. rallies have seen hundreds clashed with police in the capital protesters defy the government's ban on demonstrate which followed violence in the wake of the gang rape of a twenty three year old student on a bus gas and water cannons with crowds tried to breach barricades in the center of new delhi the top of the north of the country security forces shot dead a journalist covering a protest over a sex attack on an actress crenshaw range of christmas for many people united

kingdom what was supposed to be the big getaway weekends left many people stranded instead as floods ravaged parts of the south west of england cutting off communities canceling trains home for the holidays it's not over yet even forecasters predict yet more heavy rain well more than five hundred flood alerts and warnings have been issued nationwide. thanks for being with our team of trends all be in the hot seat an hour for now is time but before that some of russia's most outstanding athlete share their stories of success against all the odds programs after the break now. i never thought i could earn a living messmate. sure of is the law should just small arms or does not always tomasz and building client a lot of us lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i

got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of suiting. the plant's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans so if you were also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the massive needs of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the fuel truck factory russia's number one truck maker or brother look at how well the workplace is organized everything's gone to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe hey are

based in brand new be waiting to be delivered to acquire seventy trucks like this one roll up the bronx conveyor belt every day look about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get that. well i can go far to try. to get one of these to travel to whatever it was with a cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving. the least be told language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about seventy odd people

interviews intriguing story for you. then try. to find out more visit our big. secret laboratory was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything terms mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. since childhood america's always stood out from his peers he hates losing and has never missed a single training session he came first in everything swimming ballroom dancing or chess at the age of sixteen started to lift weights four years later he took on the

bronze medal in weightlifting from the london paralympics. coming in third place at the olympic games was his first serious defeat. in the bronze medal for me was poor consolation because when you know that you really could do better but you could show a much better result of course that upsets you but i'm only twenty. those were my first paralympic games so the result was a good start and i must keep up this level and move forward to. avoid the i was born with a spinal injury when his mother was leaving the hospital they told her she had to do some special massages and he would be able to walk to help her son the dish to

become a coach and adopted physical education every day they did special exercises hoping for a miracle however the boy could never stand on this feet to walk. it was very difficult i had stupid thoughts in my head when you were at the hospital with him i even thought of jumping out the window with my son ivan wished he was mentally handicapped so he would not understand that he could not walk but my husband told me i think about what you're saying do you think you'll feel any better you think you'll feel better. this is so we accepted the sad truth and began to fight. we are putting my grandfather saw it on t.v. . a vehicle powered by the arts and by it's a really special vehicle for people with leg disabilities. they used to ride it very often and he drove it literally everywhere but. plenty many years his homemade hand bike to go to a regular school in russia children with disabilities.