care about humans. this is why you should care only. it's another day for egyptians to say yes or no to a new military backed constitution after attempts by islamist opponents to sabotage the voting and in bloodshed. the u.k.'s criticised for refusing to let in syria the war refugees who are struggling to survive the world's worst humanitarian crisis in decades. and say hello to a new version of cyberspace where internet providers get to decide which websites you see based on their commercial interests we explain shortly. you're watching our to international live from our moscow studios where it's just

after ten in the morning i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me. in just an hour polling stations will open across egypt for a second day of voting in a new constitution and has the backing of the transitional government and egypt's powerful military which brought down islamist president mohamed morsi six months ago in a coup supported by nationwide protests since then the country's new rulers have worked vigorously to cripple the entire power structure of the muslim brotherhood movement jailing at senior members and even declaring it a terrorist organization day one of the constitution voting was overshadowed by fighting across the country which claimed the lives of up to eleven people artie's del true now with a closer look at the landmark referendum. pro-military blaring out of speakers egypt's polling stations that my party's voters handing red roses to the soldiers as they guard the stations of this holding post is egypt's affronting leader and them forces chief general sisi it's all happened on day one it's been

a good turnout so far despite the deadly violence sporadic clashes and intense a curiosity but amid the festivities there's been a notable absence of any discussion about unknown variants the usual lively debates in the police station queues on egypt's media have been missing as had posters calling on a tip since to reject the constitution this comes after six members of egypt's strong party which actually with the support of the military were jailed for putting up billboards calling in egypt to reject the constitution it seems in egypt only yes vote is allowed now the government are pinning their hopes on this affirmation and also on the high turnout for a second day this will be the standard for proof for their political roadmap so the people i spoke to said that they wanted to vote yes and that they were pinning their hopes on general sisi running for president however the morsy supporters are supporters and muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi they are not backing down as they run their course of the ballots they say if this constitution passes they

will step up their protests. dr mohamed sudan a spokesperson for the muslim brotherhood which boycotted the referendum says the new constitution will cement egypt's reputation as an reemerging police state or some few people still in the country from there are citizens and then they said the group of the. people which the elected by the majority of the egyptians and he said that these groups. terrorists are from our view no one could believe them to make egypt is a military state these concession make it a police state otherwise. the state of egypt has an army you can say that. has the state this is. of course with crucial.

coming away just ahead national heritage or vanity spending the u.k. house of commons is revealed to have commissioned portraits of m.p.'s at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds we ask our members of the public feel about it. and in spain there is no shortage of rage over government spending we report soon on why crowds of demonstrators have descended on the city of burgos over a costly reconstruction scheme. the united nations is urging e.u. members to take in syrian refugees who fled the war zone but are now struggling to survive in neighboring countries several european nations have answered the call and are granting asylum to syrians but one of the largest member states has been criticized for shutting its doors as tests are still in the reports. increasingly extreme humanitarian suffering there is a humanitarian crisis britain is leading the way with humanitarian support but some

might wonder whether it actually is the u.k. has committed five hundred million pounds of aid that's to assist syria's neighbors like lebanon jordan turkey and iraq cope with the sheer number of refugees but that as far as it's willing to go the u.k. has been criticized for saying no to the refugee agency repeal to work for syrians fleeing the conflict despite calls to open its doors for now why answer is no the latest count more than two million syrian refugees are at the borders of neighboring countries this is. not just. on the war. concerned shared by seventeen other nations who've said yes it's hard to understand why they're taking this position given that this is something that we have done in the past problems the conflict in the balkans with thousands of kosovo. i fear that there may be may be domestic

immigration considerations that is influencing this come slap in the middle of a political climate and a national mood that's increasingly wary of anyone coming through the door we already have accepted a number of we have except i think about one thousand five hundred asylum seekers that is a fact we've already shaky said it is a fact that we have accepted hundreds and hundreds of individual asylum seekers from syria but factually speaking the un's most recent request is that countries all for resettlement places for people who were still stuck in the region which does not include the fifteen hundred nick clegg says of apply for asylum in britain what the un has asked for is over and above. of commitment in international law david cameron has called syria's friend quote this refugee refugee crisis of our time in recognition of. the u.k. would respond does or sylvia r.t.

london. some analysts say the refugee crisis is being used by foreign powers as an excuse to push their own agendas over syria if everyone gave them to the refugees or there would be no more no burra emergency gives the whole syrian issue more often memphis's when you have refugees suffering un has been ignored when it's convenient and it's been quoted where no when it's when they're playing along with the game also france the u.k. and the united states are playing good cop bad cop where the united states claim that they are for peace and the contradict you know that john kerry's own spokespersons have contradicted him on several occasions no. u.s. appeals court has struck down measures in forcing net neutrality or equal access to all online content as a result broadband providers will soon be able to steer users traffic toward or

away from certain websites the ruling followed a lawsuit brought by one of the country's largest mobile phone operators are rising against the federal communications commission the company challenge the f.c.c. is ban on providing extra bandwidth to certain web sites giving them an edge in reaching consumers civil advocacy campaigner todd o'boyle says this sort of preferential treatment for major commercial sites jeopardizes the future of the web . i think the biggest implication potentially is for content providers and for innovation we know that the innovations flourished online because while players have equal access to consumers as of this ruling a big company like rising could strike a deal with a video service make a partner deal with them so that their content would always be delivered more quickly that makes it difficult for the next startup to get started if the decision is left unchallenged then there's nothing really stopping from that service

provider from blocking access to specific content and if you block access to the most important online social organizing tools it may have what they're able even to say and how they can connect to communicate so absolutely there are startling free speech concerns here. the veil of secrecy a slightly lifted on the life of the future to the fugitive n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden he now has a new job the former cia employee joins the journalists glenn greenwald and his fellow whistleblowers on the board of the freedom of the press foundation read the full story on our website. and a fishing net company is tasked with developing a remedy for space junk war on the revolutionary plans for a clean up in orbit at r.t. dot com. right from the scene. of the. first street to you and i think that you're.

on our reporters' twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. a time of economic unease and deep welfare cuts british politicians have been holding back when it comes to immortalize and their colleagues on canvas and sculpture leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab artist polly boyko has the details. they say a picture is worth a thousand words but in the case of the u.k. parliament it's more like a quarter of a million pounds it's been revealed that since ninety ninety five m.p.'s have splurged two hundred and fifty thousand pounds on commissioning portraits of fellow parliamentarians to adorn the walls of the houses of parliament behind me take for

example work and pensions secretary ian duncan smith his portrait cost ten thousand pounds a painting of foreign secretary william hague that cost four thousand pounds and a relatively small portrays have left wing m.p. diane abbott well that set back the taxpayer eleven thousand and seven hundred and fifty pounds the same amount that it cost to commission a life size bronze statue of byron s. that chair it turns out i think people will expect the parliament jewels or to have portrayed of prime ministers or former speaker of the house of commons but looking at the list of people who have been immortalized on canvas or in broad so over the last decade or two they're costing them a very wide and i think question as to exactly who is getting this privilege and whether it's worth taxpayers' money being spent on much while the thought is you going around obviously painted politicians however talk of austerity possibly don't

the best idea there are some things that cultural an artistic things that are worth paying the money for of the public purse because they. can be seen by everyone. but i have no interest in seeing in seeing paintings of all politicians and surely that i could have found the money some other way whether it be via charities you know donation private donations but it does seem. to come from you know you come from us as an art lover i think it's quite good because we saw the documentation of part of history and they can talk about it in the future. you know they commission do these things and it was really risky at the time because they were in a lot of debt in response to criticism over the paintings a common spokesman said that the annual all budget has been reduced in light of the economic downturn but despite this just one politician who initially agreed to have her portrait painted later pulled out off to press inquiries regarding the cost she

said she considered the big picture and no longer felt it was appropriate to splash all that public cash in times of austerity party boy artsy london. and elsewhere in the e.u. soaring unemployment means fierce competition for work and it's the prettiest faces who are winning out job seekers and friends say they're being discriminated against on the basis of their looks and here for one of them after the break. previously peacekeepers were primarily concerned with monitoring peace deals in a post conflict environment nowadays there are increasingly asked to operate in a high risk obama while believe bible says to leave all week to stay. motionless with these people who has caused over almost twenty years four million

people. millions of displaced and with injuries tens of thousands of women raped tens of thousands of children recruited those soldiers who were slaves no. wealthy british sign it's time to. go. to. market. what's really happening to the global economy. headline news. well i think one of the real turning points was the. we've heard about nine hundred fifty three. had been given orders to much destruction if he could.

act there were seventy women and children killed they condemn the person who perpetrated this should be punished and so forth that your own established this policy smashing. the palestinians and the arabs and hitting them ten times harder than. it looks like you know they're at a dead end here called peace process which of course sharon was against from the very very beginning he wanted to create small pockets of palestinian presence in the west bank that would be surrounded with israeli settlements and so that is his legacy today and you know israel stuck with that reality today and is dealing with this question.

well in. the face. protesters in northern spain are marching against a major reconstruction plan in the city of bergolla us. the authorities want to revamp it boulevard at the cost of up to thirteen million euro's locals say it's a waste of resources that will affect the city's poorest during

a time of severe recession riots have broken out over the past few days with protesters torching trash cans and clashing with police we talked to one political analyst who says these events reflect the situation in the country as a whole. demonstrators say that they will continue. protesting against this project because they they still don't believe that it's going to be the reason why people are so angry specifically because it doesn't feet with the current situation of austerity of cutbacks in services this is an area which has suffered from those cuts boxing public services recently so people they say they say it's enough for those in hospitals for other candidates the she said very conservative c.t.'s this is the other small city in space but it happens something like that in a city like hudler so this is probably. one of the symptoms of of how problematic is speed to situation on the whole the whole of space. tribal leaders

and the iraqi city of fallujah are in negotiations with al qaeda the al qaeda linked militants that is armed groups have controlled the city for over a week now and today is breaking the set abby martin looks at who is responsible for the alarming turn of events. last week al qaeda militants took control of the iraqi cities of ramadi and fallujah after days of nonstop violence according to independent iraqi news agency os one of the rock three hundred seventy people have died in just the last ten days all about numbers hard to verify considering how bodies are not being taken to the morgue and instead excluded from official death count now you may remember fallujah as one of the primary deadly battleground during the height of the u.s. occupation so what is the fall of the city signify for nolen the progress of iraq to the region as a whole joining me now to discuss is eugene career ordinator for the answer coalition thank you so much for coming on metal thank you so much for having me so

you jeanne what the main factors that are contribute to the near failed state of iraq today well i think the key factor that we have to mention is that the occupation of iraq by the united states fundamentally destabilize the country the united states just completely disassembled the iraqi state. as it existed and not only didn't really put anything in place but actually set up a structure which made it sort of a bit official for forces to become more the serial to divide along sectarian and other sorts of lines of what we're seeing now is the real fruits of all of these time bombs lay a mines that were set by the us occupation. of the. other news around the world this hour two children have been seriously injured in a shooting at a middle school in the u.s. state of new mexico suspect who is now in custody reportedly opened fire with a shotgun just after morning classes began a teacher told the boy to put the gun down and he complied it's the second u.s.

school shooting in the space of three months. thousands of demonstration demonstration demonstrators rather march through the thai capital of bangkok keeping up calls for the government to resign protesters have occupied key road junctions and blocked state ministry buildings gunshots were fired on a crowd in the capital bangkok overnight wounding at least two people the crowds have pledged to stay on the streets until their rulers who they accuse of large scale corruption are forced from power. the israeli defense minister has apologized for his remarks on the u.s. secretary of state's middle east peace efforts and israeli newspaper quoted allen as saying that john kerry's attempts at israeli palestinian peace were messianic and obsessive the white house called the comments inappropriate and also kerry has been on a diplomatic push recently to outline a deal between the sides but progress has so far been halted. with the french

media swamp with coverage of the president. sua along has vowed to ease the tax burden on businesses and cut public spending by fifteen billion euro all along also says he wants to streamline state bureaucracy while to build france's social welfare model intact previous controversial tax hikes and the so-called millionaire tax have seen some of france's wealthiest citizens head abroad and even change citizenship. well another challenge facing europe's second biggest economy in two thousand and fourteen is soaring unemployment while many of the country's young people are heading abroad to seek work those who remain say they're feeling increasingly discriminated against our. looks into what's behind those claims. human beauties glorified by poirot's syngas and artists like it or not we are drawn to beautiful people but we can't all be old paintings trousers known as the world's

fashion and beauty trendsetter but the gleaming smiles and slim waist line said gray's billboards and shop windows are also setting a trend with some deeply undesirable consequences and sophists planned eight years at university she has two diplomas is a to collate and thoughtful but can't find a job she says because of her size usual atsic ignore the people think because i'm carrying some extra weight i don't have the brains or intelligence to take up a post they were like issue really can't be of doing her job and they didn't even hide it and modal appearance is like having an extra diploma which is completely wrong depressing and pure discrimination answer fee describes more than society as being like a carnival mirror if you don't conform to standards it sends you and others a negative image of yourself sid you are a wizard hard of course to the society is far from

a gift with this problems and becomes even more painful it leads to extra stress and depression it's just not fair. what ansa feast as she has been facing for years appears to be backed up by statistics. yes. we have a blonde here she got much more responses compared to an overweight person. sociologist. carried out an experiment in which he sent the same c.v. with different photos after a change in the color of this keen hair weight age and sex the results were surprising. bridge to defend. there is more difference between a pretty blonde and an overweight or aging woman than between someone of french origin and someone with african roots which means that discrimination by beauty and age is even more pronounced than race or origin based discrimination but no one pays any real attention to it. france and belgium and the only european

countries where these type of discrimination is against a more physical appearance is i'm a nineteen criteria that employers are not allowed to base their decision on. this is a very dangerous tendency people are pushed away from the market not because of a lack of qualifications but because of their hate weight or color of their eyes the person responsible for this communications based on physical appearance could face up to three years in prison or pay a forty five thousand here a fine but people don't even consider it discrimination it's considered normal and it's called white wasn't. a number of associations in france as well as world wide aim to protect the rights of those not considered to be conventionally attractive but there are plenty who have already suffered thanks to the unofficial and unspoken beauty contest of the job market reflash nati from france.

i'll be back with more news in about half an hour but before that though here on our table takers of the world surveillance capital. the fifth leaves the. economic ups and downs in the find out all month day for the london deal sang i and the rest because life is going to be a few will be everything we copy. the flame. the olympic spirit travels with the flame from its birthplace in greece. joining james

brown for an elemental and a big journey around russia and beyond. where of art to go. all life. will go to london the world's capital surveyed. even though the year isn't one

hundred eighty full you may be forgiven for imagining big brother really is watching you i can see why. six fourteen fifteen eighteen hours on the clock every bit of public ground all the time of everything are free but also just because all the different companies different landowners have their own c.c.t.v. cameras everything is what everybody. in the most monitored city in the world there is one camera for every fourteen people but does this intense surveillance keep london safe i mean in a way the streets like a kind of dangerous because that coveted c.c.t.v. but no one's watching that's what's interesting about these two t.v. culture it takes away like the joy of having a mysterious like not just of a bill to. photographer henrietta williams or for george going to have to ring of steel around london's financial district. from automated

security gates and surveillance cameras anyone who enters is registered electronically and anything out of the ordinary triggers security protocols. even seemingly innocuous things like video cameras. on the flight nothing to do with your car your car move along with your fear your car we can film whichever way we want. you to do what. you want to do we want the police can rely on the private security company before that. moment so you know let's pull it out of the city of love and in fact in most cases the streets along this well were given to the developers so that they could see the policy all of the press tries in the street but also installing the defense and surveillance against terrorist attack i get sort of. as you like bring him home pretty.

clear there's surveillance systems here aren't just simple cameras. anyone who behaves unexpectedly triggers an alarm in perceptively humans can observe and evaluate behavior through the smart cameras without anyone noticing. if the camera detects an unusual event the subject is marked. one of the world's leading scientists behind the developments of smart chemists is professor james or one of kingston university. systems his team of developing can detect suspicious activity even before a crime occurs. the way is to present large volumes of data.