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

after twelve noon on lindsey france thanks for joining me polling stations have opened across egypt for a second day of voting on a new constitution a yes vote would cement the authority of the transitional government and egypt's powerful military and also pave the way for presidential elections in just a matter of months our correspondent belle true reports for us from cairo. dictions it once again in the polling stations for a second day on this referendum on the constitution people behind it so are this interim government and also in minutes and then the people who stand to gain the most if this is a yes vote and if there's a right hand outs in particular the military is this key articles within this constitution which would cement military power over the civilian states' military trials of civilians will be allowed to keep the minute she budget will be kept secrets and christian aid the appointment of a defense minister will have to be approved by egypt's as you print counts of the armed forces push basically means the minutes you'll be able to veto a decision to buy the president this is war and quite

a few rights groups and also activists who said that this was century course and military state within a state but leave the biggest opponents of the constitution are the business by the head and supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi who say the whole process is in its midst has been a very tentative no a great campaign which hasn't really been allowed to express itself over the course of the last week six members of the strong egypt part you actually initially backed the military today but jailed after they trying to put up posters calling for the country to vote no in the constitution and this is something that people are saying is causing you know causing a real problem here in the referendum as it's really only a yes votes allowed in egypt and of course it is that yes vote that affirmation that the governments and the military looking for high turnout and a yes vote would be stumped agreeable from the states on that military authored political rights map which they put in place into light and would see parliamentary and presidential elections of course this could also pave the way for egypt step back they need to and forces chief general sisi to run for president he's already

expressed interest in doing that to me had a similar situation under the former president mohamed morsy when he threw his constitution is two thousand and twelve constitution which basically any all his decrees from judicial peel gave themselves you can get thirty and keep it actually immunize the body that was drafting his constitution from being dissolved. any judicial body the missing brotherhood and his supporters do not recognize the current constitution as they still believe the two thousand and twelve constitution should be in place so they are boycotting at the moment and we spoke to a spokesperson of the mr brotherhood and to ask them what their position is this confusion make egypt a military state these concession make it the bullycide state otherwise you can consider the. state of egypt as an army you can see the army has its state this is the reality of the sky and of course that you should however there is a sentiment here in the streets of egypt people want the country to move forward

after six very difficult and bloody months so we'll have to see what the very turnout is and also how the nation decides on this constitution but the current circumstances surrounding it doesn't leave much hope for a stable democratic future for egypt coming your way this our national heritage or vanity spending. 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. the u.k. house of commons has commissioned portraits of its most illustrious members at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds we asked taxpayers how they 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 burghardt over a costly can 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 selling our 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 in aid that to assist syria's neighbors like lebanon jordan turkey and iraq cope with the sheer number of refugees but that's as far as it's willing to go the u.k. has been criticized for saying no to the refugee agency has appealed to syrians fleeing the conflict despite calls to open its doors for now while answer is still

the latest count more than two million syrian refugees over the borders of neighboring countries. just. on the border is. 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 we took in thousands of kosovo. i fear that there may may be domestic emigration considerations that is influencing this come slap in the middle of a political climate at 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 we have it is a fact we've 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 the commitment in international law david cameron has called a serious friend and he's called this a 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 asylum to the refugees or there would be no more no more emergency gives the whole syrian issue moral for memphis is what you have refugees suffering you have been ignored when it's convenient and and it's been quoted where no when it's when you'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 for peace and the contradict you know that john kerry's own spokespersons have contradicted him on several occasions you know. a u.s. a field court has struck down measures and forcing net neutrality or equal access to all online content as a result broadband providers will soon be able to steer users towards or away from certain websites the ruling followed a lawsuit brought by one of the country's largest mobile phone operators for aizen 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 so advocacy campaign our total boils says this 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 the small players have equal access to consumers as of this ruling a big company like rising could strike a deal with a video service and 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 that 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 impact 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 is slightly lifted on the life of the fugitive n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden he now has a new job the former cia employee joins the journalism glenn greenwald and his fellow whistleblowers on the board of the freedom of 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. instagram. to be in the know what. at a time of economic unease and deep welfare cuts british politicians haven't been holding back when it comes to immortalize and their colleagues on canvas and in scripture we mean taxpayers to pick up the tab artie's 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 lifesize bronze statue of baron s. that chair it turns out i think people would expect the parliament jewels ortiz 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 even brought over the last decade or two that cost them a very wide and i think question of each boss is to exactly who is getting this privilege and whether it's worth taxpayers' money being spent on much well the facts as you go knowledge obviously painters a 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. they you know they commission do these things and it was really risky at the time because in a lot of. in response to criticism over the paintings of commons spokesman said that the annual art project 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 after 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 lunde. and elsewhere in the e.u. soaring unemployment means fierce competition for work places and it's a pretty it's faces from winning out job seekers and friends say they're being discriminated against on the basis of their looks we're for one of them after the break.

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greece. joining james brown for an elemental and epic journey around russia and beyond. where are supposed to go around. like. when you're followed around when you are being investigated because of the whim of some. one this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. those two units say routinely intercept american citizens' e-mail text messages you know. where the calls text messages so you test and see everything without my knowledge

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protesters in northern spain are marching against a major reconstruction plan in the city of burgos. i. the authorities want to revamp a bowl of art at a cost of up to thirteen million euros 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. the demonstrators say that they will continue. protesting against this project because they days to going to believe that he's going to be reason why people are so when we specifically because just in feet with the current situation of austerity of cutbacks in services this is an area which has suffered

from those cutbacks in public services recently so people they say they prefer a tour of the schools and hospitals rather than politics this is the very conservative cc's this is the other small city in space never happens something like that in a city like hudler so this is probably. one of the seam to himself of how program atsic is speed the situation on the whole the whole of space. tribal leaders an iraqi city of fallujah are in a negotiation with al qaeda linked militants armed groups have controlled the senate for over a week now in breaking the set in about ten minutes from now abby martin looks at who's 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 also one of the rock three hundred seventy people have died in just the last ten days. is all about numbers

hard to verify considering how bodies are not being taken to the morgue and instead excluded from official death counts 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 not only the progress of iraq but 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 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 bit official for forces to become more the cereal 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 land mines that were set by the u.s. occupation. of the.

russian security forces have shot dead for mel a tent in the country southern republican dagestan special response unit officers were reportedly ambushed leading to a shootout three law enforcers died and five others were wounded it's believed that one of the militants killed in the shoot out what's behind a recent car blast in the southern russian city of course three people lost their lives in that attack last month. in other world now world news this hour a boy injured in a school shooting in the u.s. state of new mexico has undergone a second round of surgery while an injured classmate is in stable condition the two were hit when a twelve year old opened fire with a shotgun just after morning classes began a teacher persuaded him to drop the weapon and the boy was taken into custody it's a second us school shooting in the space of three months.

thousands of protesters have marched through thailand's capital bangkok keeping up calls for the government to resign demonstrators have occupied key road junctions and blocked state ministry buildings gunshots were fired at a crowd overnight wounding at least two people 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 moshe ya'alon as saying that john kerry's attempts at israeli palestinian peace were messianic and obsessive white house called the comments inappropriate kerry has been on a diplomatic push recently to outline a deal between the sides but progress has so far been halting. with the french media swamped with coverage of the president's colorful private life francois along has vowed to ease the tax burden on businesses and cut public

spending by fifteen billion euros along also says he wants to streamline state bureaucracy while keeping france's social welfare model intact previous controversial tax hikes and the so-called millionaire tax have seen some of friends wealthy friends wealthiest citizens head abroad and change citizenship. another challenge facing europe's second biggest economy in twenty 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 artie's more if a national looks at what's behind those claims. human beauties glorified by poets 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 waistline such grace billboards

and shop windows are also sets that trend with some deeply undesirable consequences and sophists planned eight years at university she has two diplomas is a to collate and thoughtful but contact and a job she says because of her size. the all of the people think because i'm carrying some extra weight i don't have the brinks or intelligence to take up a post they were like issue really capital of doing her job and they didn't even hide it and modal appearance is like having an extra diploma we just completely wrong depressing and appeal discrimination sense of he 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 tarnak of course to the society is far from a gift and with this problem soon becomes even more painful it leads to extra stress and depression it's just not fair. what answer fisa as she has been facing

for years appears to be backed up by statistics. as. we have a blog 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 the skin hair weight age and sex the results were surprising bridged the difference. there is more difference between a pretty blonde and an overweight or aging woman 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 the law physical appearance is i'm

a nineteen criteria that employers are not allowed to base their decision on this into this is a very dangerous tendency people are pushed away from the market not because of a lack of qualifications but because of their hit weight or color of their eyes the person responsible for this cremation based on physical appearance could face up to three years in prison or pay a forty five thousand euro fine but people don't even consider it discrimination it's considered normal and it's ward why it wasn't you know 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 reflection r.t. from france up next as promised is over to abby martin and reckoned that.

when you are followed around when you are being investigated because of the whim of someone this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. does do you know save me keenly intercept american citizens' e-mails text messages you know. where the calls text messages so you test and see everything without my knowledge that i fully basically and that's a legal absolutely legal yes when you bareback with the internet your bare back has been rather. basic. economic ups and downs in the final months thanks to your

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wicked pedia is funded by the same people who bankroll fox news just to get you up yesterday i talked about how we could pedia had deleted two separate pages someone had submitted about me because apparently i wasn't noteworthy enough to deserve a text on the site my whole beef is that sacred wiki admins solely rely on corporate media sources to back up information about a subject validity and thus what's considered outside the realm of the stablish media isn't considered notable enough even though according to alexa commercial website tracker r t dot com the sits at number three ninety two in popularity far surpassing the traffic of b.b.c. dot com and the l.a. times book challenging the sources cited on any given page and even removing pages entirely based on these rules i can understand but then today i woke up to the news that the admins on wikipedia and not just deleted my page but have moved to actually banned any future attempts for users to recreate it seriously take a look at this from the vision is in the thread on their site as you can see the

latest move by an admin named john reeves yesterday made an edit to block all non admin users to recreate my page indefinitely wow even if this isn't personal and at the very least this is obviously a decision based on personal bias and if you agree that personal bias shouldn't be allowed to deter the flow of information and access to knowledge then join me and let's break the set. it was a. very hard to take. place that had sacked. would that make their lives. a little.