kuwait's boycott collective widespread anger at a poll that is a misled opposition says is rigged in support of the u.s. backed monarchy. in egypt the president's supporters weigh in with rival protests amid liberal fury against muhammad mercy self-imposed our constitution is our allies have drafted. and the u.s. hits back at his role for authorizing thousands of new settlements in the west bank in east jerusalem just a day after the u.n. upgraded palestine's diplomatic status. this is r.t. broadcasting live from moscow kerry johnston be islamist opposition in kuwait is

boycotting saturday's parliamentary ballot in a bitter standoff for the country's unelected leaders the u.s. backed monarchy is accused of amending the voting rules to influence the outcome of the poll. is in the gulf state with the latest for us now. doesn't often featuring the headlines what's the significance of events happening in the country right now . hikari all of course kuwait may be a tiny country but it holds enormous geopolitical strategic significance for the region especially as arab gulf monarchies are struggling to fend off the effects of the arab spring as well as the west as an opec member claiming just ten percent of the world's crude oil reserves. pardon me in kuwait any sort of unrest could have major implications for world oil markets moreover it could have major implications for the united states had on has used the country. as

a strategic hub for its ground forces kuwait is home to three american military bases and there is talk in washington increasing the ground troop presence here to serve as a counterweight to the perceived threat against iran now we've talked about while kuwait is important for the world but what's really behind this behind and why are people so angry here it's largely deemed to be one of the more liberal more democratic countries among the gulf monarchies but a lot of the critics the ones that are who are boycotting this election say that this democratic be near is then you have to keep in mind that the political parties in this country are not allowed and the unelected emir whose family has ruled the country for two hundred fifty years now. and the parliamentary decisions and dissolve the parliament at will that is part i think is the one that happened leading up to the kuwaitis went to the polls islam ists had one of two thirds of the seats in parliament. and they had gotten into a row with the family which had caused the for the body to get just

a lot more over of the ruling family has changed the election laws in such a way that people there feel that the opposition can a lot or get a majority and this is why they boycotted last night of unrest a lot of opposition here and people critics say that it has really caused a stalemate and a deterioration of conditions in the country now we spoke to one of the top opposition leaders and here's a little taste of what he had to say about this political mess. the. problem is that the government doesn't need neither the constitution nor democracy when they always start to talk about dialogue whenever they need a temporary alternative but in practice they are defying democracy and the main problem is that since one thousand nine hundred seventy six the development of course has stopped because the government started thinking of how to change the constitution and get rid of it the growth of the country and the government is unable to change the constitution or to continue. with the development process as

a result the situation has got to where it is now. what he means by this is again this is a gulf oil rich nation but people here feel like that money isn't really being put towards here so what the people i mean compared to saudi arabia for example the buildings a lot of them are falling apart and you can see that the development isn't quite what it could be more are there's accusations of corruption at the top and feeling by many opposition members that there are some. and not the rule of law and this is why people are so frustrated. ok we'll leave it there are. some communication difficulties there not always an easy place to broadcast from but thanks very much for that. well meanwhile in egypt thousands of business are rallying in support of the president but the opposition continues to demonstrate against him but i would see initially sparked public fury after granting himself supreme powers and now the charter constitution his political allies approved has also come under

fire as artie's tom barton reports from cairo. protesters have been camped out into a square since last week since gyptian president mohamed morsi if you decree granting himself sweeping new powers that kicks off a wave of protests by the more liberal sections of egyptian society not just here in cairo but in cities across the country some of those spilling over into violent protests we're seeing take ass thrown and stone exchanges between the protesters and police a number of protesters have died hundreds more have been wounded across the country in those protests the clearness of it the roots of it a constitutional crisis here people in this age when they have their revolution nearly two years ago to overthrow hosni mubarak last week after this declaration of how much more see the current president backed by the muslim brotherhood said that

the reason for that was to try and get a new constitution last in a process that dragged out for a long time for egypt however the constituent assembly that drafted that is dominated by the muslim brotherhood many other representatives of more liberal representatives coptic christians and other groups that have withdrawn from that assembly in protest so there is the fear that that new constitution which has just recently been drafted is too islamist and is too will lead to slay conservative doesn't make enough provisions to protect minorities in a gyptian society mohamed morsi for his part ses he went to compromise he wants to protect the revolution and today it is the chance of his supporters he is supported by large sections of the egyptian population and he did win the presidential election these protests will continue here in tahrir square as well and we have this shows that the constitutional crisis and the battle to try and get egypt's

revolution on the right track on a track that egyptians can agree on is far from over. well cora based political sociologist aside sadek says egyptians know better than to trust leaders who assume so-called temporary sweeping powers. you nor any of the big people in the world helped love you will tell you it is a temporary thing it is full emergency they told us the same same thing six years ago under president obama and we stayed under emergency law for seventy years and it was all serious simpering it is a short period egyptian people in two thousand and twelve are not the egyptian people in two thousand and ten the have changed it was political culture that has changed it a watching different satellite social networks and saw you could not like it was them and you do not trust this group also the fact that the muslim brotherhood is looks to be

a part of their grand study by the united states and if it succeeds in egypt it would succeed all the arabs and americans would be able to establish an islamic. america we seems in the area loosing the all of the horses who had feel america in many ways was new horses that would oppose the people inside but serve american strategic those in the area from outside. washington has hit out at israel for authorizing three thousand new settler homes in the west bank and east jerusalem israel's move came a day after the un general assembly upgraded palestine to being a nonmember observer the us a call the construction decision counterproductive to peace to get on a two state solution palestinians say the lands in the west bank and east jerusalem which are occupied by israel in one nine hundred sixty s. must be returned to them but since then the number of israelis living there has risen to half a million the complete list any and all settlement building restarted before any

peace talks begin with human rights activists to high and low side part two state solution ever. if we're serious about a two state solution and if we're serious about moving towards that. there's no way that. philip assessment expansion can be seen as in any way a move towards getting back on the table and moving towards the peace talks that paysite so desperately need in the latest upsurge in violence that we've seen documented proof that israel. indiscriminate attacks they fail to distinguish between combatant and civilian in the same way that hamas rocket attacks very clearly are aimed at civilians which is a violation of international humanitarian law in the sense that target civilian. indiscriminate nature of. every way for a two state solution perhaps you've ever been before but only by building on the

international consensus that we've got that israel and even the united states are forever away from can we hope to move towards a long lasting peace. coming out the future of america's high tech is in jeopardy in three minutes why silicon valley is shutting out that anybody to help create it this is. also a vital piece of nobel winners say you can come to christ is not what the founding had in mind the stories and more just ahead. it's perched atop a jaw dropping under view from the scrubland stretches this fall as the eye can see . for a city to siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance a barren railway but the balls cremains

a spiritual. things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of also talks worshippers of themselves implicitly will to commemorate the baptismal jesus. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic siberian oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the ball scribbled location of the shoes for the russians the russian heiress a crowd a revolt against the czar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decemberists will stand there in droves there they created

a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also serves up some bit of irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution this is the office where the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here they were fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves. ordinary normal countryside life style they even had those of us but within the year of his family would be dead. for international news for you now the e.u. doesn't deserve its nobel peace prize that's according to several former way has

issued an open letter to the foundation demanding the twenty seven nation bloc be stripped of the award. letter they said that the twenty seven nation blocks getting this award contradicts the valley's safety ated with the pricing what they want to see happening is the one pointing million dollar prize money not be awarded this year and they also said that the clearly not one of the champions of peace a consensus here amongst the signatures and indeed among many many people when this award was announced this year was that really the awarding of the prize the european union not in the keeping of the spirit of the nobel peace prize the prize was awarded at a time when the e.u. is they think the biggest crisis it's faced since its creation we're seeing huge social unrest and you know what a lot of people are saying is that the european union at the moment really for a lot of people. come to represent divisions within society we've seen those

divisions between the rich and the plot poor between those who employ it those who run employed you know the people that we've spoken to in these countries really feel very very let down the vision of the european union was about peace and democracy and that's certainly not what people feel that they're getting now the committee praised the for voting after the second world war and spreading stability to former communist countries of promoting peace and stability within the e.u. you know it's not all bad the e.u. does provide a huge amount of aid a nation but i think what we see in happening in the e.u. in the last year really has seen very far from the idea of you know a peaceful union two thousand and nine we saw are awarded to see president obama many people feeling that was being awarded the peace activities he might do at some point in the future again very much not in keeping with the will we are to have actually got some reactions of their own to this latest piece of information about

it being contested we had an m.e.p. jared bass and say it's highly devious with the even so filled the rules under which the award should be given only really very strong reaction. see that being awarded as if that makes it a project that many people feel represents the total opposite. on r.t. dot com right now the u.s. senate approves a bill on national security which could damage the capability of afghanistan's security forces but not why the party don't come. also online survival manual as the mayans predicted doomsday is approaching and some russian entrepreneurs aren't wasting any time cashing in on the end of world. class u.k. officials get hot under the collar as one hundred seventy boxes containing top secret files about britain's former colonial rule gone missing. in the. nigerian two days of pretrial hearings lawyers for the american the private key

used of leaking classified data to wiki leaks have talked of his mistreatment and suicidal thoughts bradley manning has already spent the best part of two years in detention for revealing killings u.s. military didn't want exposed on the anniversary of the cable gate that landed him behind bars or half an ist asks whether people really want to know what their governments are up to. it's been two years since wiki leaks released what's now known as cable gates the world's largest leak of classified u.s. material so has it changed the world much this week let's talk about that i'm kind of a thought what i don't know doesn't hurt me so if your government is killing innocent people you're ok with that i'm not saying i'm ok with that but. i know i'm contradicting myself but i obviously don't want my government to kill innocent people but in the same boat. how do i know they're innocent if you run

a government and you live or you run a business associate business and you lead everyone from your employees to the person who's the janitor to know everything about your business something's going to come back and haunt you and so maybe you shouldn't do anything that would haunt you. that. you have a good point knowledge is power right so we found out some information so that's a positive thing but i don't know if it's changed anything you don't think it's changed the way the governments might act. i think if they broke through some sort of firewall to get this information they probably built a new firewall that they can't break through quite as easily i don't think it's changed anything i think the government is going to make it more of a secret you know as long as there's money power involved i don't think anything's going to change the information has since the printing of good will burke in the fourteenth century. the public is allowed to have information what about the government are they allowed to have information about us certainly yes so what

about the people who protest that the government is using the internet to spy on us . well if you want to spy on each other just look at today just to minutes ago syria just closing they entered it so is that a government the i think of the government specially the what america is the world is ultimately about it whether or not we feel like wiki leaks has changed the world the bottom line is governments might now feel like they have their own big brother watching and hopefully that's a good thing. silicon valley has long been the world's leading hub for high tech business reputation down to the influx of foreign entrepreneurs this global symbol of enterprise could be in danger of us growing ever more reluctant to welcome new talent from abroad what is meant in the question of has the story so it can rally fun. lots of sharing helping each other even competitors will help each other some of the

biggest brands on the planet and so she chats with america and suprising me the majority were created by foreigners. jerry yang who was born in taipei surrogate britain whose parents came from russia when he was six or pierre omidyar an iranian born in paris silicon valley has thrived thanks largely to immigrants people who came here with their dreams and had the drive to make them a reality they transformed this plays into an unreliable for high tech development the birthplace of global pioneers one person who helps those outsiders to get a foot in the door is german born and how it could blend struck she says the valley moves so fast that it seems skilled foreigners bring up left frightened center that she average day and there is a simple reason such success is coming their way so many of the of the indians and

chinese that come in the others they make these great companies and then they hire people so they are really giving work i think they are hungry for the words they want to succeed they're driven the valley's biggest rice came with the boom of immigrants in the ninety's that brought innovations in software and internet services the numbers speak for themselves just over half of the companies found it in silicon valley from thin ninety's to the mid two thousand had founders born abroad believe us research says there is a case to one for him born inventor behind three quarters off after a new patient and like her many others getting impatient for a start up is what brought julia to palo alto her project is called smart wall and works is a messaging tool for those who want to avoid social networks most of the people that are that i see are foreigners and also there are a lot of americans that are not from here so they're also coming it's it's not

a matter of nationality here is a matter of the real skills that you have but there are some clouds on the california sky currently over half of foreign born inventiveness face visa hurdles the end. knowing economic recession has broad deep fears at home and about much needed jobs going into hands that have come from abroad making it hard for many to understand that foreigners can actually bring benefits to times when america so desperately needs them but i think that's something that white america doesn't get they don't understand why. because they don't because i think that a lot of the fears are still oh they're taking our jobs away america prides itself on being a melting pot of a country where thousands flocked for a better life but u.s. immigration policy may put an end to all that i do not question the artsy. well some other international stories for you now first to syria with some disturbing images it's pretty cool to show rebels allegedly executing

a normal normal person is a scene pleading for their lives before being shot when the gunman heard a reference to an al qaeda linked group behind several terrorist attacks in syria becomes the armed rebels claim new advances on a drive towards the capital damascus. a cargo plane has crashed into a residential area in the republic of the congo it's feared more than thirty people have died the aircraft skidded off the runway in the capital of brazzaville in bad weather while trying to learn heating houses before ending up in a ravine crewmembers on board are also thought to have been killed. north korea says it will try to the launch of a long range rocket later this month is set to salvations of south korea the state . failed launch of april resulted in washington suspending food aid to be strict attention on the peninsula is also rising over south korea's recent due to the u.s. which will dramatically increase someone's range. on

a suicide car bomb attack is there at least three people dead and six more wounded in southern afghanistan according to officials the intended target was the local police headquarters but the vehicle detonated before reaching the gate no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. well just a couple minutes we'll be breaking the set with our tease to. do we speak your language any time of the war not against. the music programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles couldn't stories. for you here. in choi altie spanish find out more visit actuality all tito's comb.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are all today . the great russian warriors. prevailing over houses and asperity. to reenact an epic parade through paris. can they complete their triumph. with people's admiration for two

hundred years. old good lobos. good luck. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. parents versus social workers docu nabby pm last stop any means that kidnapping children have become a prize used to fight full why does the law or threaten families of the social voted to see me in the form of they have

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you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month so food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean ten pounds i believe that i'm sitting in the really really messed up. in the old story so personally i believe the. worst are going to go right outside of a. radio guy and for a minute from the public what we're about to have you never seen anything like this until it. was up guys on how do you martin well after nine hundred days of being held with no charges whistleblower i mean private bradley manning finally took to the stand yesterday to speak for the first time in his case and today he did the same thing

provided more details on his harsh treatment on confinement manning spoke of his experience in leg irons which are handcuffs that essentially chain your legs together and his treatment solitary was locked up for twenty three hours a day so it was so traumatizing that when he was finally transferred to a medium security prison in two thousand and eleven he felt uneasy moving freely around his cell block manning was subjected to additional restraints story a nine month period where he was confined to scratching suicide prevention bedding and every night he was forced to strip down naked even being made to remove his eyeglasses and reading material from his cell but yet the military contends the treatment was proper. that's interesting that one government's proper treatment is another man's torture so let's break that set. a little hard. to do the job or she or anything like i'm drunk.

so guys i know that troll is going to troll and is going to hate but instead of calling out the trolls today i want to highlight some of the awesome coverage breaking the set has been getting check out this article feature from common dreams and titled r t's abby martin accuse israel of war crimes for targeting journalists by juan cole which says quote abby was the was the victim of a smear attempt by the israel lobby which accused her of support for terrorism because she dared called illegal israeli actions illegal if more journalists stood up to such smear campaigns with her feistiness the world would be a better place watch her let her detractors have it thank you for that one that's awesome and yes if more journalists did call spade a spade and didn't let fear reign supreme over the truth the world might be a better place moving on the next articles of future from firedoglake and titled abby the spar a slayer by edward teller just.