the latest news in the week's top stories rights groups in egypt claim violations in the vote on a new draft constitution with unofficial results showing a narrow backing for it as sporadic violence erupts on the streets. rebels in syria claim they're making gains in their push towards damascus while the u.s. is giving the opposition a boost by granting it official approval. and the launch of defiance north korea blasts off its latest rocket despite global condemnation saying it placed a weather satellite into orbit.

live from our new studio center here in moscow this is the weekly on r.t. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments rights groups in egypt are calling for saturday's first stage of a constitutional referendum to be held again after claiming widespread violations meanwhile an official tally is released by the isn't this can show a narrow majority backing the charter position which has been urging a no vote what it calls a discriminatory draft also accepted their opponents were leading with a slim advantage journalist bill true has been following the events in current spirit tense nights here in the capital in cairo as people have been waiting for these key results on the referendum of the constitution got to live in the results so of course the official ones will come out of the second round which indicates it was a yes vote the move. brotherhoods together with media outlets numbers and mounting

up there saying approximately fifty six point five percent voted yes with forty three point five percent voting no this will seem to be of course a major blow to the opposition forces particularly because in this round only two of the governor it's involved to the ten very tense actually voted as a notice of the constitution this particular stage of the referendum was largely seem to be the biggest chance for a no vote to the constitution as the governor it's involved actually voted against the president during the presidential elections so really right now the opposition forces are going to have to either drum up support in the next six days for the second round or final time it's a tactic to to to i campaign i think there will be heightened tensions of course i mean people have put aside the idea that the referendum perspectives two days a week in the middle with these results coming out because of course people are going to react to them as we entered the late stages of the voting process which had been extended by several hours by the electoral commission because of high

turnout there were violent scenes in the streets of cairo and. the what party headquarters the opposition position three were tapped by suppose it supports is of has an obvious man who has knowledge or orthodox salafist leader one time presidential candidate one party did i reports that ultra conservative islamists torched their headquarters talking with firearms until the security forces did report injuries so really we'll have to see in the next week what happens in the build up to the second round this crucial rounds as the seventeen other governorates going to vote on this constitution. and how the da would spokes person for the national salvation front claims that have been a number of nations in the opposition is also demanding a repeat of the first round of the referendum. right now we want the authorities the election commission to look into the violations and to decide by itself whether

this is big enough in order to repeat the first round and in case we are going to go to the second round we want to make sure that file asians are not going to be repeated particularly in terms of the lack of judicial supervision there were not enough judges yesterday to look into the or to supervise the vote we also complained about preventing our observers the preservers of human rights groups from attending the counting process according to a decision by the judges we want to attend and be present during the counting and we also complaining about the fact that the muslim brotherhood members were dealing with their propaganda inside the polling stations until the last minute trying to influence voters and tried to convince them to vote yes for the constitution claiming that voting no would that mean that you are an infidel or that you're against islam so we're still holding a lot of hope the president morsi will listen to the voice of wisdom and considering that this is a draft constitution that's dividing the country even if we take the results that are being circulated right now it's not enough definitely in a country after the revolution to have a constitution that's approved by

a very small minority fifty something just. the syrian rebels have captured an infantry base in the city of aleppo was the opposition is making gains across the country in the push towards damascus meanwhile a palestinian refugee camp in the syrian capital has come under attack by warplanes leaving at least eight dead this week the opposition received another financial and political boost for the u.s. recognizing the coalition washington says it's meant to isolate extremist groups while among the rebels to up the struggle against the syrian government going to each car looks at who is fighting in the camp. they call themselves martyrs. all those you see around you the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat us out. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having a child behead

a man who was presumably and i thought supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground islamic groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr towie come meet was a member of a jihadi spoken ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam the jihadists have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin ladin and they're all because of al qaida who have no his shin to use any form of whip around two to really. control any place. religious believes and ideology the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. and friends met in morocco to throw their weight behind the newly formed syrian opposition coalition two thirds of the islamic dominated entire south coalition has

ties to the muslim brotherhood and cellophane and their idea of fried. emphasis area what go ahead i could ask you the positive sign for us that our military struggle is characterized by being mostly islamic because martyrdom for the sake of anna has always been the main motive of people. in what's seen as a symbolic attempts to distance themselves from terrorists in syria washington has designated one of the rebel groups a terrorist organization but the same syrian opposition that the us supports welcomes the efforts of groups like al nusra the decision of considering one of the factions fighting the regime is a terrorist organization should be reconsidered. this is a demonstration of support for almost right in syria with people heard chanting we are students of osama. people here in washington don't seem to understand that if you don't like the government in cairo or if you do like the

government in cairo i guess i should say then you will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamised government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria preferring to focus on the wrongs committed by the assad regime alone the u.s. is also ramping up the rhetoric about the possibility of the assad government using chemical weapons against civilians something that damascus says would be suicidal on the other hand many rebels are not averse to the idea of suicide in the name of what they call holy war militants have recently taken control of a toxic chemical plant in the country's second city of aleppo a video was uploaded to youtube showing them testing chemical weapons on rabbits we could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage. you will die like these two rabbits in its own words the assad government is fighting terrorists that

battle has claimed. thousands of innocent lives the measures the syrian government was ordered to have been widely criticized but does that mean the world should keep their eyes shocked at who's actually fighting for power in syria now in washington i'm going to check on. you watching the weekly still to come this hour the united kingdom seems to be turning into an island of tax avoidance where judge corporations get out of paying their fair share of people barely making ends meet a getting hit holiday. and also still to come this hour we report on the russian president's promise that no politician or official found guilty of corruption will escape punishment stories. after the break. if you. couldn't take three days for free.

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welcome if you just joined us this is the weekly here on t.v. from our brand new h.d. studios in the sky britain is losing our home billions of pounds in taxes some corporate giants are wriggling out of paying their fair share of the u.k. public which is left to pick up the slack while also being loaded with tough a sturdy result reports the government seems fine with keeping the status quo. well people from all of people tend not to protect this country companies like starbucks and apple and google at the moment it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance illegal but morally suspect way companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share

most people are due to discuss these companies do not the very taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities and legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like. they head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg so well known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a low tax rate but hang on a minute we're here one of amundsen's must've distribution centers based in the u.k. but the reality is that many of our customers most of their employees and many will distribution centers like this why are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing fact is they say at the heart of their operation and yet the u.k.

tax system doesn't seem to recognise as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out that's entirely on the face of it to run because you can register your transaction in different country and the place of great destruction is the place of taxation whereas you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy t.k. government would be eager to plug the holes it's listing billions of much needed tax pounds you can count on spending but in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the penniless on welfare he went in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on benefits for clamping down on multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping

down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him but there are now that people know that. or doing. it now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it after not paying and there's a difference between people. who are of voiding tax to legitimately and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when we were. paying where interested me again today let me actually answer the question once before you actually interrupted may legally tax avoid is ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's that you're saying there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need

to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less than the tax payers they're profiting from surface r.t. london. north korea defied the world on wednesday when it launched a long range rocket which it says successfully placed a weather satellite into orbit over the claims are met with skepticism by the u.s. south korea and japan that the pill was in fact testing long range ballistic missile technology still courage banned from such tests by u.n. resolutions the security council condemned the launch saying it will consider an appropriate response while the e.u. has threatened more sanctions but antiwar campaign erik's or not can says talks are the only solution to the ongoing impasse. these are causing us to have more talks not less talks and the north koreans have been willing to attend talks other nations have certainly russia has another nations that if it involved in the six

party talks and doubtless read are such as japan south korea the united states are less. willing to engage in talks when these things happen but what the u.n. said was not only don't use ballistic missile technology it said we must have a commitment to a peaceful diplomatic and political solution to the situation there and that's what is really crying out and i think russia and other countries must finally say now wait of what is the look at a problem but i'm afraid that the united states is going to step back talk less isolate more of the military base that the united states brought merrily south korea's building on july went in an effort to create a ring around china perhaps to deal with north korea are all setbacks to peace what's necessary i think at this point in time is to step back from the process and

the outside countries the other countries around the world must say wait a minute a peaceful china south korea north korea japan has a region will have a huge impact on world east or i think that it's really incumbent that we put pressure is toward peace and not tore down. amping up the war. president vladimir putin is announce a crackdown on corruption in russia saying no official politician will be able to rest easily and focus on problems at home as he spoke to lawmakers for the first time since returning to the top job lot is a listen to what the president had to say. several years ago when former president medvedev addressed russia's lawmakers this signaled major constitutional changes for the country with the presidential term being extended to six years this time when president putin delivered his first annual address after returning to the kremlin for the third time it rang no major sensations nor political changes but

at the same time this speech was even more significant as some have already said than many others before this time put in barely spoke about any foreign policy issues the main focus was on domestic problems in russia and there have been plenty according to russia's president in fact he started his speech by saying it is now or never as the world is going through a crisis russia must stand up to all these challenges and the first and the most correct way to do that is to invest in two youths not richard is the vets the as of today the percentage of healthy active able bodied people in russia aged between twenty to forty is one of the highest in the world in twenty years time this economically active population could shrink by fifty percent unless we do something this trend could continue either we provide interesting jobs give opportunities to create business build families raise children be happy or just

a few decades russia will become a poor country populated by an elderly generation incapable of preserving its own territory. but the biggest issue dragging russia backwards for the past several decades has been the corruption among the higher echelons of power and that is why the largest chunk of putin speech was dedicated to this problem and the president came up with some very tough rhetoric and heard in all twelve years putin has been in politics in russia no wonder it seemed at times that putin was not addressing the whole russia and not for the whole world to see but he directed a stern warning to those. sitting in front of him in order that we could you know how can people trust an official or a politician who talks a lot about the good of russia but at the same time tries to take his money out of the country i ask you to support the bill to limit the amount of foreign accounts and stocks that officials and politicians can have. the people.

don't applaud yet maybe you won't like everything i have to say i didn't put in we'll be holding an annual press conference for the world media and the eyes of the entire planet will again be on the russian president let's see russia r.t. reporting from inside the kremlin turning to some other news making international headlines this hour activists in bahrain say police have used tear gas on hundreds of anti-government demonstrators as rallies flared up following the king's annual national day address the opposition is threatening more protesters bahrain's shia majority seek to improve their political standing in the ruled nation tens of thousands also marched in the capital this past friday continuing to defy a ban on public gatherings already authorities have been violently enforcing their rallies jailing several key human rights activists in the process. at least eight people have been killed and fifty five injured after several explosions rocked the northern iraqi city of kirkuk no one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet

the blast came only a few hours after a car bomb hit an office of the patriotic union of kurdistan party north of the iraqi capital killing two security workers and wounding thirteen tension in the region has been escalating of late with kurds increasing their demands for sovereignty. but to bring it up to date for the moment the news continues in thirty five minutes and i would much rather and the news team in the meantime would take it all palace known as the russian of a site which attracts millions of tourists to some petersburg every year that will be after this short break here on earth to.

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this is peterhof home to russia's most beautiful palaces and gardens every autumn a glorious celebration marks the end of the fountain season today's event is dedicated to the war of eighteen twelve over this magnificent museums and fountains is more than just a remnant of peter the great century russia is also the scars of world war two. well there are three welcome to peter hall it is the most visited museum in russia around four point two million tourists come to peterhof every year why do people come here because peterhof boasts one hundred fifty fountains seven palaces and twenty three museums and of course the most important highlight of peterhof is its fountain system.

first fountains go. each day to live in a salesman's of tourist together in the lower gardens of peterhof to see for themselves the fountain stone. takes twelve people to open all the bells and recently it's been accompanied by small petersburg's accounts of. the idea to build this residence struck peter the great during his diplomatic visit to verse. however all of the fountains of course i were running with the help of pumps so they could only operate without human assistance for

a very short period of time and then they had to be pumped on the journey. that is why peter the great use the italian gravity system. this means all the gram cascade fountains floats on there are. these fountains spread thousand liters of water per second and in a day the use of most thirteen beaches that's enough to fill twelve olympic sized swimming pool and to date the fountains have never dr. peter laughed what are very much this. future was his brain child and she wanted to put it into life and see what it would look like and she did. was. she could not wait until the official opening of the entire system and she did a test run well before construction was complete the formal.