another day for egyptians to say yes or no to a new military backed constitution after attempts by islamist opponents to sabotage the voting results and bloodshed. the u.k. is criticised for refusing to let in syrian war refugees who are struggling to survive one of the world's worst humanitarian crises 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 r t international live from our headquarters in moscow where it's just after one pm and 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 pave the way for presidential elections in a matter of months our correspondent bill true reports from cairo. dictions it once again in the polling stations for a second day on this referendum on the constitution people behind it there are this interim government and also a minute and then the people he stands in again the most if this is a yes vote and if there's a high turnout it's in particular the military as is key articles within this constitution which would cement military power over the civilian states' military trials for civilians will be allowed the minute she budget will be kept secrets and crucially the appointment of the defense minister will have to be approved by egypt's a supreme counts of the armed forces which basically means the minutes to be able

to veto the decisions by the president's now this is worry quite as if you rights groups and also activists who said that this was centrally cause and military state within a state but really the biggest opponents the constitution are the muslim brotherhood and supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi who say the whole process is intimate and has been a very tentative no vote 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 to with jailed after they tried 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 a stamp of approval from the states on that minute she altered political 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 and he had a similar situation under the former president mohamed morsy when he pressed his constitutional two thousand and twelve constitution which basically any all his decrees from traditional gave themselves you can get thirty and keep it actually immunize the body that was drafting his constitution from being dissolved. any judicial body i mean this is a 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 at the mr brotherhood and so i asked them what their position is this make egypt a military state these concession make it the police state otherwise you can consider the. state of egypt as an army you can say that gives you an army has the 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 turned out 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 hour national heritage or vanity spending. 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. the u.k. house of commons as commission portraits of its most illustrious members at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds we ask taxpayers how they feel about it. and in spain there is no shortage of rage over government spending we reported soon online crowds of demonstrators have descended on the city of paragraphs over a pricey reconstruction scheme. the united nations is

urging e.u. members to take in syrian refugees who fled the war torn 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 has our silly reports. 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 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 appeal to what syrians fleeing the conflict despite calls to open its doors are now wants or will know the

latest count more than two million syrian refugees are at the borders of neighboring countries this is. not 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 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 some of 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 are 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 syria's 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 them to the refugees or there would be no more emergency it gives the whole syrian issue of moral from memphis is what you have refugees suffering us we need nor do any 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 claimed 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 torrent or away from certain websites the ruling followed a lawsuit brought by one of the country's largest mobile phone operators for a rise against the federal communications commission the company challenge the f.c.c. is ban on providing extra bandwidth to certain websites giving them an edge in reaching consumers several advocacy campaign or total boil 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 rolling 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 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 now has a new job a former cia employee joins the journalist 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. 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 leaving taxpayers

of course to pick up the tab party's polling 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 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 in broad so over the last decade or two that cost them a very wide and i think questions need to be asked as to exactly who is getting this privilege and whether it's worth taxpayers' money being spent on well the facts as you go knowledge obviously painters of 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 politicians and surely that i could have found the money some other way whether it be a charity 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 sort of

document all part of history and they can talk about it in the future being. they you know they commission do these things and it was really risky at the time because they were in a lot of. in response to criticism over the paintings of common spokesman said that the annual art 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 after press inquiries regarding the cost she said she'd considered the big picture and no longer felt it was appropriate to splash all that public cash in times of austerity party boy artie lunde. and elsewhere in the e.u. soaring unemployment means fierce competition for work places and it's a pretty us faces apparently winning out job seekers in france say they're being discriminated against based on the looks we hear from one of them after the break.

when you were followed around when you were being investigated because of the whim of someone this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. to stay in and save me keenly intercept american citizens. text message use you know. the calls text messages so you just. see everything about my knowledge safely basically and there's no legal absolutely yes when you bareback with the internet you're back with big brother. no c n n the m.s.m. b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be. true. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think.

it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media works side by side with joe actually on here. and our teen years we have a different pretty. good though because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not like damnit i'm not how. do you get a sense of the jokes while handling the stuff that i'm. we should start the new mosque and we should. stay on humans you stay almost. just to kind and do. i never say that it's not if

it's one. and we have some time if we go to mosque then years later. what's the difference it made no difference for me because i shouldn't see but you can look make a difference for human. trivia sleep peacekeepers for at present our concerns with monitoring peace deals in a post conflict environment nowadays there are increasingly asked to operate in a high risk while being violent still being told to stay. motionless with these people who have closed over almost twenty years four million people few millions of displaced and refugees tens of thousands of women raped tens of thousands of children recruited as soldiers will slaves no.

protesters in northern spain are marching against a major reconstruction plan in the city of burka. yeah the authorities want to read bad revamp it boulevard 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 are they still going to believe that he's going to be the reason why people are so angry specifically because just in feet with the

current situation of austerity of cutbacks even in services this is an area which has suffered from those cutbacks a public service just recently so people they say they prefer it's their office fills in hospitals for other candidates this is a very conservative seat seizes the stepfather's small city in space never happens something like that in a city like little or so this is probably. one of the symptoms of of how problematic it's been to situation on the whole the whole of space. tribal leaders in the iraqi city of fallujah are in negotiations with al qaeda linked militants 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 also one of the rock three hundred seventy people

have died in just the last ten days all about numbers are 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 was one of the primary deadly battleground during the height. the u.s. occupation so what if the fall of the city signify for not only the province 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 do stabilize 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 laya mines that were set by the u.s.

occupation of. the. russia's counter-terrorism committee says security forces have shot dead four militants in the country's southern republic of dagestan such special response unit officers surrounded a private house where militants were hiding out the gunman refused to surrender and opened fire with automatic weapons also harling grenades three law enforcers died and five others were wounded it's believed that one of the militants killed in the shootout was behind a recent car blast in the southern russian city of p.f.c. gorski three people lost their lives in that attack last month another news around the world this hour. just and it's we've got news that fifty two people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in the iraqi capital baghdad and also in the northeastern city. in the worst of the incidents a suicide bomber blew himself up at

a funeral killing eighteen people the u.n. says over seven hundred people were killed last month alone in iraq making the total death toll for two thousand and thirteen the highest in five years. 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 blockaded state ministry buildings gunshots were fired at a crowd overnight injuring at least two people the government has called snap elections to calm the situation the people though are vowing 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 the 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 from swat all along has vowed to ease the tax burden on businesses and to couple public spending by fifty billion euro alone 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 france's wealthiest citizens had abroad and change citizenship. another challenge facing europe's second biggest economy in two thousand and fourteen is soaring unemployment while many of the country young people are seeking work as elsewhere those who remain say they're feeling increasingly discriminated against artist worry if a national looks into what's behind those claims. human beauties

glorified by single and artists like it or not we are drawn to beautiful people but we can't all be old paintings france is known as the world's fashion and beauty trendsetter but the gleaming smartphone slim waist line said gray's billboards and shop windows i also sets the trend with some deeply undesirable consequences and surveys and a tears at university she has to diplomas to collate and still to full but confines a job she says because of her size. ignore the people think because i'm carrying some extra weight i don't have the bring some 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 which is completely wrong depressing and pure 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 always a target of course to these societies 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 feast says 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 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 heat 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 here a fine but people don't even consider it discrimination it's considered normal and it's world wide wasn't. a number of associations in france as well as world wide aim to protect the rights of their he's 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. more international news for you in about half an hour but before that can archie we take should the world's surveillance capital. know the playing. field in big spirit travels with the flame from its birthplace in greece. join james brown for an elemental and epic journey around russia and beyond.

where i was to go thou. trivia sleep peacekeepers for a profile of concerned with monitoring peace deals in a post conflict environment nowadays there are increasingly asked to operate in a high risk of bias while believe violence is still illegal are we to stay. motionless what these people have caused over almost twenty years four million people killed millions of displaced and refugees tens of thousands of women raped dozens of thousands of children and recruited those soldiers who were slaves no.

welcome to london the world's capital surveillance even though the year isn't one hundred eighty four you may be forgiven for imagining big brother really is watching it i can see why. six fourteen fifteen hours on the. every bit the public. of everything are free but also just because all the different companies and different owners have their own season t.v. cameras every thought is what everybody. in the most monitored city in the world there is one camera for every fourteen people but does this intend 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 natural survey that filtered. photographer henrietta williams and cartographer george going to have mapped a ring of steel around london's financial district. forged 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 not. in your picture but 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 with the police rely on the private security company before that. moment so you know it's. a government.