this is our team come to life for moscow with me marina joshie it tipped as voting in the second round of the referendum on a draft constitution which is polarizing the country and which has triggered bloody street battles in key cities saturday's vote on the islamist infused document which already won the approval in the first leg was preceded by another flash of anger worn down from journalist bell true in cairo. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates have headed to the polling stations today to vote in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was a factor for violence as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who are for the constitution very few against the constitution this happened on islam is staged a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution and implementation of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they are cars and buses some saying these buses belong to the muslim brotherhood police intervened with take out leaving seventy seven injured so

at a steady out of the russian capital you're watching r t was marina joshie egypt's president has scrapped the decree that gave him sweeping new powers and effectively put them above the law of the land but the opposition says that's not enough as a referendum on the controversial draft constitution is still scheduled for next week mohamed morsi has extended powers and the charter he has as long as lawmakers drop sparked a nationwide protest and clashes seven people have been killed and hundreds injured forcing the powerful military to weigh and with intervention threats the generals say the government and opposition must reach an agreement or face tough measures to restore order has more from cairo. demonstration deja vu it's all this week some fringe protests against mohamed morsi had to flee but there was an appreciable sense of restraint to be one of them i don't think you should. it was you take the good fighters in the cage if your kids don't like fights but like many muhammad was wrong and now things are starting to look a little like they did two years ago it's been a week of prote

coming to live from moscow eleven am and the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now idjit president has scrapped the decree that gave him sweeping new powers and effectively put him above the law of the land but a referendum on the controversial draft constitution is still scheduled for next week for the latest on these developments we're going now talk to bill troops based in cairo so bell does mohamed morsi is move come as a surprise to gyptian and how is the opposition reacting to this. it does come as a bit of a surprise at the moment as people really think you know the president wouldn't move on his stance against the opposition forces demands yesterday and today they had a meeting which was dubbed the national dialogue meeting between political party leaders the president and his cabinet notably some of the key open. the national salvation front that are behind the protests and sit in the last few weeks and not present the results of the controversial constitution that duration would be revoked which of course is president morsi sweeping powers which is par

with me marina joshie welcome to the program our early results from the final round of voting age it's troubled referendum suggest the new constitution is likely to pass it follows nearly a month of pro das was the latest violent outbreak be the country's second largest city of alexandria girl isabel true has more from the capital cairo. the preliminary results are in for egypt's contentious constitutional referendum egypt appears to voted for the constitution sixty four percent say yes. thirty six percent have said no this comes after mass to send in the streets across the country the past three weeks against this constitution opposition forces say they mean for the presidential dictatorship and was drafted by the islamist dominated assembly of the twenty seven governors that went to vote in the last week only three voted against the constitution. and minutes say this in the last round is largely due to the fact that in the last seventeen governments there were two votes a large amount of them are rural governorates with large muslim brotherhood supports places their opposition forces

it is not an in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program egypt is bracing for the second round of the referendum on the draft constitution which is polarizing the country and triggered bloody street battles and key saturday's vote on the islamist infused document which has already won the approval in the first leg was preceded by another a flash of anger live to cairo now a journalist felt flu well bell what are the sentiments you're hearing among people was it goes on through this referendum vote. well in the next hour we're going to see polling stations across seventeen government open on the second and final stage of the county to referendum yesterday this once again was in the back of the violence as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who are for the constitution those who are against the constitution this has been docked islam is staged a hundreds of thousands strong rally in support of the constitution and the implementation of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they cars and buses so