margetts weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on. iraq bites back the republican opponent mitt romney trade blows in the penultimate presidential t.v. debate but the rest of the green party candidate outside fails to make the mainstream headlines. human rights watch claim sixty seven gadhafi fighters and possibly the late libyan dictator himself were executed by rebel militias who are still clinging to power today. and russia is ready to welcome pop diva dollars back this time she's wanted in the courtroom rather than on the stage.

from the new center here in central moscow international news and comment live on r.t. barack obama narrowly edged his republican challenger mitt romney in the second installment of what's been dubbed america's most popular reality show the latest televised presidential debates all the men clash ahead of next month's crucial poll but one item was missing from the mainstream coverage of the event the rest of a presidential candidate outside the venue what he's got to reports now from washington. by all accounts this debate was thought to be crucial for the president and and his chances of getting reelected especially after the first debate two weeks ago when the president looked less and less competitive then governor romney this time around he was on the offensive which got the media and his supporters very excited according to television audience polls the president came out as the winner in this debate they kept arguing the tax plan is going to add more to the country's gigantic dad true will be better at competing with china and the rest of the world in terms of economic growth and it was very it was very little on foreign

policy there was one more debate coming up before the election that one specifically on foreign policy when there was one question about levy and the murder of the american ambassador there and the president did come up with. punchline to that he said this was up we were going to find out who did this and we're going to hunt them down because one of the things that i've throughout my presidency is when folks mess with americans we go after them as far as leave yeah the administration would want to present the mission of toppling qaddafi as a huge success as they had before the tragic attack this of pember in benghazi but now it's hard to cover up the fact that libya is very far from that success story that it's a mess with radical forces on the rise but again these debates are not about discussions they're more about who's going to deliver a better punchline who will provide for a better show essentially and it says the news cycle here. is entirely around the debates has been like one big reality t.v.

show with all these never ending discussions on the body language of the candidates all the channels do that experts to analyze the candidates smile with their world body potion as they stand up where they sit down during the debate they are of course have this cardio ground with the viewers reaction to what they are saying so there is a very skilled pool of build up of excitement here which makes great reality t.v. but it's a big question whether americans really have a choice something that has gotten cool. please unnoticed uncovered by the mainstream media here by this nonstop reality t.v. was the arrest the arrest of a presidential candidate in this election jule styne nominee from the green party she was arrested shortly before the debate right outside the town hall where this debate was being held that she and her running mate were protesting their exclusion from these presidential debates they were asked to leave they refused to do so and they were arrested for blocking the traffic the fact that there are other

candidates in this presidential election outside these two parties very few americans know anything about that is because as jule styne told me when we set down for an interview a few months ago they're being pushed out of the debates by those who are interested in keeping a two horse race she was referring to special interests take a listen what they really have is the support of the one percent and then they have a propaganda campaign going on and intensive public relations and psychological warfare that's intended to convince people that they don't have any options the american system is designed to eliminate political opposition like some of the. you know dictatorships that we criticize the rigged political systems in many ways the american system is also rigged but in ways that are not as straightforward jill stein will be on ballots although not in all states she was also telling me how hard it is for an independent candidate to get on those ballots in the u.s. that every state has its own intricate rules centrally designed to keep it

a two party race as far as the big televised presidential debates there are organized by the democratic and republican parties through the commission on presidential debates so there's not much enthusiasm on part of that commission to add a third party but you would think the media that's somewhere between discussing the body language of the candidates the chemistry on stage the dresses of the wives that somewhere between all those things they would mention the arrest of a presidential candidate but no it's being completely ignored. well ghana spoke to the green party's presidential candidate jill stein and you can watch that interview in full in just over an hour from now here on r.t. . what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the around tightrope pushing china russia as occupy anger spreads to parties still

dictate their future to a selection of clothes if they are beginning october twenty second. libyan rebels executed sixty seven gadhafi fighters and possibly the dictator himself a year ago that's according to a new report by human rights watch the findings also imply the very same militias that toppled the colonel still play a major role in libyan politics. the president of the arab lawyers association says that the revelation was already common knowledge. i think churchill said that the first victim of four is the truth looks at the what the government in libya saying what the rebels have so well they don't indeed even the major powers that the us and britain are all telling a lie to say the least this is this revelation is not. you know all that is now documented but it is not new everybody expected the number i've attended a number of hearings in the human rights council where people were questioning the

number of civilians who were killed by nato but have any of the day nato and the us and the western powers. govern themselves involved in removing the regime without knowing who with whom they are going and that they have not looked at what is the possibility that after any any attempt to try and say that the revolution what she did is lead with some sort of a policy libya this is just not correct people revolt nato jumped on board and the result of it so of course the human rights abuses were done by of their feet by that evolution and by nato. the iranian state broadcaster is planning a formal complaint over illegal breach of contract after a european satellite provider dropped nineteen iranian t.v. and radio stations citing an order from the european commission the ban followed the new round of sanctions by the e.u. want iran financial sector and trade bill let's discuss this now with danny

schechter he's an independent filmmaker and blogger in new york when iran condemned the ban as illegal and political what do you make of this danny. well i i can't talk to the legalities of it i'm not a lawyer and i'm not familiar with all of the detail there but as a principled journalist i find it very troubling that television channels have been removed from the air suppressing the arends ability to tell its side of the story iran is under attack not only with oil sanctions but financial sanctions there's a whole campaign underway to discredit its proposals in the negotiations that are coming up on the nuclear issue even before iran gets to make those proposals kind of a preemptive strike and now this just a few days after the european union received the nobel peace prize one of its first acts seems to have been to suppress freedom of the press and freedom of speech that

is not very encouraging and it's also a disgrace to european traditions of belief in diversity of ideas they are not allowing their own people not only to hear from iranians but the hear from guests on iranian television who are often from all over the world who are critical of u.s. policy and european policy towards iran so you think it's important the people of europe should be listening to the iranian point of view. well you know if you believe in peace you believe in the possibility of negotiations with different sides point out their own concerns and represent themselves and some sort of a debate if you silence one side of that debate and don't even allow its voice to be heard at all you are ensuring you know it taking us one step closer to war and

this is what the seems to be about a peace prize recipient in a sense creating a scenario for war by silencing voices that they don't approve of and the fact is that press t.v. particularly is an international broadcaster it has many different voices on it not just the voice of the iranian government and yet people can't hear you know their voice in europe now the british did this first through their off common regulator removing press t.v. from the air in in england and now the e.u. is followed through with a similar band which just briefly done press t.v. was taken off in the u.k. and in europe because of human rights. concerns and the programming the content of the iranian program was a violation of human rights in particular in the u.k. there was allegations that one interview had been conducted under torture.

well you know up i think it wasn't human rights that's not what they cited they cited a violation of their agreement that they didn't submit their papers in time technicalities clearly it was political and just as this is very political and you know one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist we know this very well i'm not defending the iranian government or human rights abuses at all but i think and if there were violations of you know of journalistic practice if if if channels that to be removed for that reason you would have a lot of american channels off the air very quickly because of their own manipulative practices and i say this as somebody who's worked in mainstream television and knows how this is done how news is fudged and you know and basically. suppressed in many cases there's more omission than coal mission going

on so this is consistent with the whole pattern of denying iran a chance to be heard and it's part of a campaign of denigrates which claims to be about nuclear issues but which is really about regime change that's what they're really going for here danny danny schechter independent filmmaker joining me live in new york. the material girl is wanted back in russia madonna stage presence could cost him millions of dollars in moral damages for gay propaganda that and other stories just ahead. it's perched atop a jaw drop and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see apt for a city to all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before

it was bypassed but a chance siberian railway but the poles cremains a spiritual center. scenes like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers give themselves implicit will to commemorate the baptism of jesus. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies the balls to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian fire was the oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the ball scribbled location head of the says for the russians are the russian crowd who had a revolt against the czar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists

will stand there and drove. 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 was saw a nickel as the second spent most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here they were the fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves whilst leaving this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had those of us but within the year bizarre as the family would be dead. wealthy british style. time.

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welcome back you're watching live from moscow thousands of students have marched to madrid angry at the government's growing austerity and education cuts public anger is rising with madrid deciding whether to ask for a bailout over its failing finances in the next few weeks and set of a two day e.u. summit looking for a way to kick start the region's. economy well let's not talk to your address and she's also the former chief accountant but the european commission well people in spain a feeling that they're being brutally squeezed by these cuts a coalition of one hundred fifty spanish civil society organizations and unions they've been collecting signatures for a referendum to reject them is the way forward for spain apart from a sturdy measures. well i think austerity measures are not going to be the solution for spain nor for greece nor for any of the countries that are in trouble really because the problem is that the economy it's not growing and austerity majors might

be necessary to a certain extent by the you don't have any other measures to grow the economy this is not going to bring in a restart so how do you mean they don't meet growth and under those circumstances where the economy is not going to grow from one day to the other and the problems in each country are different in spain the problem is related very much to the property bubble that we had for the last ten years and they need to restore this issue they need to deal with the property bubble this has this has not been restored so whatever that thirty three measures are brought this problem is not resolved the prices of property are very high and the banks are full of assets that they cannot sell at the price at which they have been mortgage so i think that this is this and this is the problem that spain has to resolve well i bailing out the buying. of this issue right and this is surely yes i understand that but what about

bailing out the main economy itself because on the eve of the some of the international monetary fund it's actually called on spain along with it it's really to ask for help from the eurozone but do you think that there really isn't enough cash to bail out spain if it is needed. well i maybe there is enough cash to bail out spain but that is not enough cash to bail out all the countries that are in trouble and all the countries that will be in trouble because they will not end with spain greece and portugal you know many more countries are coming up with problems we have now poland we have cyprus we have motor i mean it's not going to end here because it's a general economic crises so we need to analyze what is the problem for the different member states and find a solution for each member state. but each member state has a different problem and yet they're now looking at closer integration for those

euro zone states that's going to be deployed to the site and. this is the year that the the european union is having that they propose one solution one size fits all one solution fits all and this is this will not work because the problems are very different in greece the problem was about having a huge. faith public service. in spain as i said it's about the property bubble in. italy it's about the lack of competitiveness so you know one size doesn't fit all and unless angela merkel understands this then there will be no solution possible. solution possible and yet here we go another meeting another summit to address the problem what do you expect to come out of this round of chats. where there are only issues

that are going to be the test with in this summit not only in spanish situation and the economic crisis i think nothing is going to be restored in relation to spain because spain has not yet agreed to the stereotype measures has not yet agreed to the bailout but a source of the talk that missed. if i'm wrong about eurozone but you again this is a very bad idea where they haven't really given an explanation on how this is going to work is it going to be an extra budget on top of the general budget of the european union or is it going to be within the budget of the european union people fear that this this is going to create. two speed europe and they don't like the idea except for the british prime minister that sees in the euro zone. the possibility to get rid of the problems that the eurozone brings

to the u.k. european martyr and ross and joining me live in brussels thanks for your thoughts good to see you again thank you. the criminal investigations been open against prominent opposition figures of music use of plotting mass riots in russia that comes after a recent documentary clinking received millions of dollars in orders from georgia to cause mass unrest but also hasn't been charged with anything but travel restrictions have been placed upon him to leave russia he admitted meeting with georgian citizens but claimed but was to secure a political donations for his party the left front the charges being investigated could lead up to ten years in prison. germany finds weeds on the path to a greener future find out how turning away from the dangers of atomic energy might be a step too far on its neighbors build nuclear power stations on the doorstep. also online reports suggest the boots of american troops may well overstep the deadline date but they promise to leave afghanistan. all that on the web site of the moment

now the pop diva madonna is wanted back in russia more this time it's to appear before prosecutors phones. explains the material girl herself is unlikely to materialize but that hasn't. stopped a russian court in russia's second city of st petersburg from agreeing to hear a case a lawsuit against her for more than ten million dollars in damages by anti-gay groups who allege they have suffered quote moral damages from a performance that she held recently in that city in august now the reason we're talking about the story today is the plaintiffs have confirmed to the media that they have found madonna's new york city address and have sent a summons in there for her to she will show up to the st petersburg court they've also sent a summons for her to a health fitness club the hard candy club here in moscow and they're basically trying to get her into the court room again in order to hear this case which alleges that madonna essentially promoted so-called homosexual propaganda during

her concert there she asked people to sort of raise their hands and support and handed out t. shirts and banners and whatnot but st petersburg unlike the rest of russia had recently passed a law that bans the so-called promotion of homosexuality bisexual ism transgenderism so these groups allege that what madonna did effectively trampled on that law violated the law and supposedly psychologically damaged the conscious and the feelings of the residents who were exposed to that madonna is no stranger to controversy from burning crosses in the music video in the u.s. to exposing a nipple in istanbul to speaking out picking a fight with the national front in paris by screaming a video of their leader with the swastika on her head and a first turn controversy here in russia also by speaking out in defense of the punk band group pussy riot she's no stranger to controversy the question is whether she'll actually appear in this court room and as of now especially if they don't

get the summons translated it doesn't really seem likely we'll of course keep following the story for you. this is now for the last time today what's been happening hello that it has been a busy day actually because right now the fight over russian oil fronting k.b. page is being discussed in london that she would. could see ross nast becoming the biggest oil company in the wall that saved both shareholders sells we are watching this situation let's check out russia and see how they got on today because the risk appetite was once again in full flow that as investors await the e.u. summit happening this week the euro the currency continues to trade at his highest level of debt see u.s. dollar in a week actually the u.s. markets managed to get a nice as housing starts overshadow disappointing results from tech companies not so we got time for i do believe i will be back tomorrow with more business bill looking forward to as you thanks a lot of a good night well time now to turn to the murray who shrugs an argument some heated

debates pretty live on cross talk that's coming our way just a moment. trimmings in this tree even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds it warms the to the means the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones souls imitating the sounds they

believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. there are special instruments that accompany the singing give gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument. of stop the fall is because of the spirit of the horse coming to his dream he said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody on this human is called.

to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic there. next goal is to tour broad they say for you are peons it's difficult to pick up and sing so i ask them to teach me and see if i can do it. cheer it up and they were. sharing it oh you. did that was sure to say can you know who was you think gang are oh. but now it is a moody part of the song and not the actual scrooge singing which i wouldn't even try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met she looks like it to vini and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most as to

modern minds from two hundred years ago until sappy here she's not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature. if you. want to. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to meet you but what kind of foreign policy could the world expect from a romney administration his supporters claim he would restore america's honor and standing in the world critics retort his rhetoric in world view are remarkably close to that of george w.

bush and there are those who see romney is no different from barack obama. continue. to cross talk the world of mitt i'm joined by and shall pfeffer in london he is a journalist and columnist for her outs in washington we have penny lee she is a political communications and government relations strategist and president of bennett strategies and in las vegas we cross to wayne root he is a political commentator and author of the conscience of a libertarian empowering the citizen revolution with god guns gold in tax cuts right across the rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want when i always go to the first person i got up for the program so i'm going to go to you first is. make romney just a bush retread when it comes to foreign policy well you know i'll give you a disclaimer as i start this segment the disclaimer is i am a fan of mitt romney i'm supporting mitt romney i've indorsed mitt romney but almost one.