tight security surrounds the second day of egypt's constitution referendum after the first round was marred but deadly violence and claims that the vote paid in silence also. the euro could become a burning building with no exits reform or decline britain's treasury chief warns the european union and the u.k. will quit if nothing's done to fix the blogs flagging competitiveness. warping the web in the u.s. communication giants empowered to govern internet traffic get the go ahead now online services jump the queue at the expense of others.

from the hour to new center of moscow at nine pm moscow time is kevin everything very good even for me our top story the second and final day of voting is underway in egypt on whether to accept another new constitution critics say yes result will serve to secure the military's grip on future governments the ousted muslim brotherhood refuses to take part they're calling it a sham referendum that puts the army before the nation violent steering day one of the ballot killed eleven troops in carro. well addictions are 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 the military and then the people who stand to gain the most if this is a yes votes and if there's a high turnouts in particular the military this 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 secret and crucially the appointment of a defense minister will have to be approved by egypt's

a supreme council of the armed forces which basically means the minutes to be able to veto a decisions by the president now this is worry quite as if you rights groups and also activists you've said that this was centrally calls a military state within a state but really the biggest opponents of the constitution are the recent brotherhood and supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi who say the whole process is intimate i know has been a very tentative no vote campaign which hasn't really been allowed to express itself over the course of the last week 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 vote allowed in egypt high turnout in a yes vote with the stamp of approval from the states on that minute you authored political rights map which they put in place into light and we'll see parliamentary and presidential elections of course this could also pave the way for egypt's the factory leader and forces chief general sisi to run for president he's already expressed interest in doing that we have

a similar situation under the former president mohamed morsi when he pressed through his constitutional two thousand and twelve constitution which basically any all his decrees from traditional people gave themselves you can get thirty and keep actually immunize the body that was drafting his constitution from being dissolved by any judicial body of a 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 boycott. singh at the moment we spoke to. mr brotherhood and to ask them what their position is in this position make egypt a military state this concession make it a bully's estate otherwise you can consider. any state of that egypt has an army you can say that they give can army has the state this is the reality of the scale of 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 it's been nearly three years of protests

and rest in egypt since the twenty eleven revolution political will begin in cairo told me that this referendum even if it's successful will not bring stability to the country whole environment under which the constitution was drafted and now the whole process. with a heavy handed security presence and dealing with any political dissidents the rest of anyone who is trying to promote voting no rest of activists this whole environment discredits the process even though it in terms of procedures up to now it's been quite transparent to a great extent it's inevitable that we'll have this constitution passed but however the support. to disconcert will not bring any sort of stability because the problem is it's a political problem the problem is not the constitution you have protesters on the

streets who will continue to be on the streets now given that. general sisi will announce that he will run for presidency this will more or less exasperate the problem and perhaps we might see egypt falling into more violence and pass even a civil war. coming out the residents rising up to stop their town from turfing out the poorest citizens. reporting from northern spain were rattled the roads escalated into riots about displacing low income families. next though the man in charge of britain's finances has given the e.u. a dressing down telling brussels but he more that it's declining needs an urgent overhaul george osborne was addressing a think tank on europe when he also warned that the u.k. will pull out if the e.u. fails to reform itself or a smith as the details. said europe's like a burning building with no exits basically he sees the political block as falling

behind india and china overspending on welfare becoming less and less competitive essential in the economic and political bloc in decline domestically of course here in the u.k. the e.u. is losing popularity people say it's very expensive increasingly power hungry and also the originator of an awful lot of red tape but also one central message today was that the u.k. is not pushing for reform for its own sake oh no it's pushing for reform for everybody else's sake for europe's sake as a whole so he was talking about the tabling of legal challenges a year pin course of justice he said it's not anti european but in fact it's a way of preserving values that traditionally seem to be european such as known discrimination he talked about the calling for rejection of the financial services reform which of course includes a cap on bankers' bonuses which is quite controversial here in the u.k. because london competes with new york and hong kong it's not competing inside

europe and anything that damages the city of london also damages london also damages europe as a whole haiti is george osborne summing up for his central message was some on the continent like to assume this is just the u.k. pursuing its own self interest of the expense of the collective good. but it's the opposite if we cannot protect the collective interests of norm you're is a member states then they will have to choose between joining the euro which the u.k. will not do or leaving the european union and these rifts and these calls for reform between london and brussels keep on opening up the latest is a very introduced in more human rights since the u.k. in fact brussels has talked about imposing the charter of human rights on all its member countries which would possibly mean legal challenges to businesses and government the u.k. already opted out of that in one nine hundred ninety eight so the government is sort of like going back into the past and doing something again and that's the

latest in a in a long line of proposals as brussels tries to ramp up the political union inside the political integration george osborne's message on the message of the conservative party here in the u.k. as a whole is reform or die the un's biggest ever appeal for humanitarian help seeing donors pledged two and a half billion dollars so far to help syrian refugees one of the country's deep into its pockets is britain the chinese want to know why it's a case of open wallet but closed doors are 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 refugee agency appealed to syrians fleeing the conflict despite calls to open its doors for now why answer is still the latest count more than two million syrian refugees are on the borders of neighboring countries this is. not just. on the. concert 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 emigration 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 given shaky said it is a fact that we have accepted hundreds and hundreds of individuals 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. the refugee refugee crisis of our time in recognition of. the u.k. would respond does or sylvia r.t. london. russia's foreign ministry says the syrian opposition the reluctance to take part in peace talks is the main obstacle the way of ending the bloodshed right now and in other developments from syria to massacres claims the western intelligence agencies have been to the city to discuss the radical groups fighting president

assad syria's deputy foreign minister suspects as a rift between politicians and intelligence communities and some western countries that have been calling for assad to go let's bring in charles shu bridge in fact as i'm about to say let's talk to show charles she bridge i'm being told that we don't have charles to bridge there so we're trying to get to him to get some comment on him very shortly we are all right let's move on here wave of bombings in iraq has killed at least sixty two people in baghdad the northern city of books the worst attacks or eighteen people die when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral procession the u.n. says over five hundred people have been killed this month alone last year proved to be iraq's deadliest since two thousand and eight is a continuing stand off between the iraqi army and al-qaeda linked militants have been in control of the city of fallujah for more than a week now i mean martin looks at who's to blame for how the situations are unfolding in the latest edition of break in the set which you can watch in full on our website. last week al qaeda and militants took control of the iraqi cities of

ramadi and fallujah after days of nonstop violence according to independent iraqi news agency house while the brock 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 counts now you may remember fallujah as one of the primary deadly battlegrounds 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 at 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 land mines that were set by the u.s. occupation. was a good show ok let's try to bridge now you may recall a couple of minutes ago a series deputy foreign minister suspect it was a rift between politicians and intelligence communities and some western countries have been calling for assad to go as we'll talk to you about that he's a former british counted terrorism intelligence officer on the line now from london tonight nice to see the end couldn't you just now what might the reason be then for this sort of intelligence like operation that we're hearing about covertly to see. i think what we've been seeing really over the last nine months what's of. incremental shift if you like of u.s. and hence european policy towards syria and i think that's in recognition of

a number of factors one of those is the inability of the syrian opposition and the rebels to get our act together politically but also i think since the rebels were expelled from last spring by the syrian army in his blog that there's a recognition that militarily the rebels are unable to deliver on their promises in any case i think thirdly there is a newfound willingness among see obama administration for example to decouple if you like american foreign policy from the interest so for example israel saudi arabia and qatar who have been pushing much of the agenda in syria and fourthly and perhaps of more immediate concern to the west and this is a particular case in the european capitals it's clear that elements in fact quite substantial elements of the syrian opposition. particulars comprising fighters jihadist fighters that have gone from countries such as britain germany spain etc to syria to fight with al-qaeda linked forces that actually pose

a threat to european countries themselves so this recognition has meant that security services have of course been forced if you like to address this in the best way to their own national interest and of course inevitably that means particularly since it's likely more i think recognize now that assad will be around for some time to actually make those links even if discreetly with back with the regime's intelligence services i guess that front of house if you like for the politicians yet to hit not saying at all that they pushed into this fait accompli yet are they are they going to change their. they may do of course gradually but what i'm saying what we said is we've seen this very incremental process because of course in effect it amounts to a complete one hundred eighty degrees reversal of u.s. and u.k. for example policy in respect of syria because of course there's a recognition that their policies have led to more than just syria being

destabilized which many would argue was an aim of the intervention in the first place so from the perspective of for example countries such as saudi arabia but of course it's also start now starting to have an impact beyond syria so when countries such as israel possibly but certainly turkey syria. turkey and jordan for example allies of the united states and the west start to be destabilized by this war as well it may be that u.s. policy of course begins to shift in order in recognition of that but but after geneva two which of course is very shortly it may well be that that gives the west slightly more face saving ability to actually come out more open it because it's clear that there have been not just intelligence links being revived between the west and assad but also diplomatic levels or diplomatic links to a certain degree these have been reported confirmed today even by the b.b.c. sources close to the b.b.c. have said that that's happening and also even for example november december it was

revealed by for example a p i think that other diplomats are confirming that those links are slowly and i should say secretly for the sake of saving the west face place and indeed accelerating all right charles thanks for the program thanks for your thoughts bridges acuity analyst and former british counterterrorism intelligence officer on the line from london thanks. american internet service providers can legally pick and choose who gets to have mega speedy downloads but where does that leave smaller online services we've got on this program in just a few minutes on r.t. international stay with me. chris lee peacekeepers for a program concerned with monitoring peace deals post conflict environment nowadays they're increasingly asked to operate in a high risk. by law still being told to stay.

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the potentially very big story we're tracking tonight one of the internet's founding principles was of course that there was equal access to all online but now it seems that is not good enough for a u.s. federal court scrapping net neutrality it's granted internet providers the power to rule web traffic and to decide for themselves who gets to jump the queue me right it means that the biggest companies to get their hands on the bulk of web surfers and it could mean to that new online services of those not willing to pay to broadband network providers like the rise in the comcast could find speeds held back or even be blocked altogether this ruling was pushed by the rising which is one of america's largest mobile phone. telecom's providers this talk about implications this down gilmore he said of the night sent a full digital media entrepreneurship but ira's own a state university hi thanks for being with us tonight on the federal court still a real blow it is now are you surprised by what's been going on expert in the us were not surprised because the federal communications commission the regulator in

charge of these kinds of issues it's had passed rules in a way that were widely understood to be flawed and what the court did was point out the flaws there are regulatory ways that the f.c.c. could. make network neutrality more official but it chose not to and we'll see where they go well appointed all the bad bits of it to this but as i was saying it could be it's it's not now in the the carriers are. loudly saying they have no intention of doing all the bad things that some people are predicting. my guess is that they will do what's in their financial interest yeah what's the rush story why is it really big do you think. well i think that i think that the industry the telecom industry combined with its allies in hollywood

and big media would very much like to. make the internet essentially an enhanced form of cable television and that would be where they pick winners they pick losers they decide what's on and we what we get to see to some large degree and that would be in their interest to do and i hope that they don't get away with us going to say there's going to be huge fuss over this federal ruling going to be challenged. it will certainly i would expect that it will be appealed but the federal communications commission could do something right away which would be to declare and make a rule that these telecoms are in fact what we call public utilities where they have duties of what's known as common carriage where they cannot discriminate on the basis of what the content is not just one approach and many people are hoping

that that will happen while there is so just to give them a. decision they say will not change consumers ability to access will use the internet as they do. what we choose or they talk about. well you know i personally don't trust what the telecom say on this because again i expect corporations to act in their best interest financially and if this ruling is not changed and if if if the regulatory regime is not changed in some serious way where there is a requirement for network neutrality of some kind i think it will be in their interest to be discriminating on the basis of content free fall of what's going to mean for the small assaults up through innovation generally if this doesn't go challenged if if this is not if this is the way forward.

innovation is threatened at some serious level because what we don't want to see is innovation requiring the permission of the big operators at the center of the networks innovation on the internet has taken place in large part not all but in significant part at the edges of the networks so i don't want to see the name the next facebook needing permission from verizon and comcast in order to get big that would be problematic at the very least don thank spinouts international don gilmore the head of scent of a digital media entrepreneurship i was on a state university pleasure to see i'm glad to be here now on our website just when you thought america's spying capabilities couldn't get any wider if you want to check it out please click on it seems like you don't even need to be on line for the n.s.a. to save through private data we reveal that story out tito called we'll tell you

why most of the to meet the android go able to find and fetch objects as well as lead you skills with that being present where is it there is a say in this cute little thing so this robotic friend could provide a useful assistance because people disability is. well. president saw of a town in northern spain have been venting their anger over government plans for a road which locals say is going to force the poorest out of their homes. i was in the protest as you say the been rallying over this project to revamp a boulevard in berg or so the cost to taxpayers of up to thirteen million euros at these times there were dozens of arrests indeed as furious residents clashed with police and disrupted construction work there one political analyst told us that what we're seeing actually in burgos is indicative of the nationwide fury right now being left behind by government. the demonstrators say that they will continue.

protesting against this project because they they still don't believe that it's going to be withdrawn the reason why people are so angry specifically because justin feet with the current situation of austerity of cutbacks seen in services this is an area which has suffered from those cutbacks in public services recently so people they say they prefer it to other schools and hospitals rather than parking lots this is the very conservative c.t.s. is is that other small city in space never happens something like that in a city like poor so this is probably. one of the symptoms of of how problematic it's been the situation on the whole in the whole of space. nine twenty five now here in moscow we will do stories in brief further eruptions from indonesia's most severe birth of pledge swathes of the country the darkness left at least sixteen people dead volcano has been spewing lava no since september forcing

twenty six thousand people to flee to safety farmlands and homes be blanketed by thick layers of grey ash there are many families of fallen ill because of it so the berg had been quiet for for centuries until becoming active in twenty ten. masses of protests is in thailand using the back down continuing to disrupt bangkok to try to force the government to quit gunshots were fired at a crowd overnight injuring at least two people prime minister shinawatra her part retreated she's going to play on play on with those snap elections in february in an effort to try to calm the situation but the demonstrators having none of it they say it's not enough they're demanding the ousting of the country's leaders. israel's defense has apologized for his remarks on the u.s. secretary of state's middle east peace efforts moshe ya'alon was quoted by a newspaper saying that john kerry's attempts to the israeli palestinian peace we're now see him missing the iraq and obsessive well the white house called the comments inappropriate as a response to that kerry has been on

a diplomatic push recently to outline a deal between the sides but progress is so fast all. i went to the service twenty four seven r.t. dot com break coming up after that with almost two million cameras watching over people's every move in london questionnaires on any safer for them to make it citizens our next program here now to international.

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to london. the world's capital surveyed. even though the year isn't one thousand nine hundred you may be forgiven for imagining big brother really is what you need . clean one to six seven fourteen fifteen eighteen how the world on the ball every bit of public ground. of everything the three but also just because all the different companies and different owners have their own season t.v. cameras so 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 is it takes away like the joy that.