it starts on t.v. dot com. a huge blast rocks of beirut killing at least eight including the country's top security official some lebanese and suggesting this could be the syrian conflict spilling over the border. in the pipeline russia. is poised to become the world's largest listed all producer as a massive industrial deal to go she asians. also the government protests gathered pace in bahrain with fresh rallies taking place this friday despite a police and judicial crackdown that's now seen arrested for writing on twitter.

this is from the russian capital with the twenty four hours a day a massive car blast has rocked the center of the lebanese capital beirut killing at least eight people and injuring dozens a top lebanese security official is reportedly among the dead the explosion took place during rush hour and it's feared the number of casualties could rise a correspondent in the region and he has the details. it occurred to dick around two forty five pm local time when everybody was on their way. to picking up kids from kindergarten schools it was a short day it's friday holy day for muslims of course a lot of people have reported those who live as far as one that are going to away from the scene of the blast they have reported their open doors being shot at slammed shut windows shattering and shaking people just generally very unnerved by the situation again we're getting also getting reports of people that we know in

the area there is widespread panic all over the place such explosions have a have haven't happened into your group since two thousand and eight so a lot of people are naturally very nervous there are reports of body parts on the senses in the surrounding area the buildings of course have been destroyed the ones that are actually in the area of the blast so obviously all the rubble with the furniture with the wires with the electricity everything is on the street it's a total mess people can't get in or get out of the area firefighters working on the scene hospitals reporting shortage of blood encouraging people to come in and don't need the blood of course so really very desperate of time is very desperate time in beirut right now nothing definite is known but there are already voices saying that this is a spillover from the conflict that's happening just across the border in syria and the sunni shia standoff in beirut is already starting to rise up again it was kind of a back burner but now it may be gripping the country once again. some lebanese m.p.'s are already accusing the syrian regime of being behind the blast but

a beirut based expert on the middle east says these allegations are dictated by politics the un envoy to syria he was here in beirut just two days ago he said that he was very afraid that the conflict or the unrest in syria could not stay within syria's borders for the forever and that eventually if it continues it will go beyond its borders this was a statement made by like little brahimi just two days ago from this very city now two days after he made these statements we see this massive massive blast i was at the same today for a couple of hours and it was a massive massive explosion. already we have the now the political element coming into play some elements of the march fourteenth movement which is known to be anti bashar assad even before it was known who was killed in this explosion they quickly pointed the finger at the syrian government now with us on the head of intelligence security who apparently has been killed more targeted that he is known to be

actually a robot fourteen is known not to be one of the supporters not to be very very likable personally all those who are in government so i think now this would only lead to more and more pingers problem are fourteen from their west and how is it being pointed at syria the question which must be raised in all of these cases is a who benefits from such an act i think you know if the syrian government does go ahead although we don't have any information but if it does go ahead with these acts i think it's only endangering itself and committing suicide so. is the syrian government as such is that a civil side of a government i myself don't see so. lebanon is not the only country in the region affected by the syrian conflict turkey is military once again fall into syria in response to two shells landing on turkish territory this is the latest border incident between the two countries but tension between ankara and damascus remain. at eight dangerous level turkey has been carrying out strikes against syria since

a stray shell from across the border killed five civilians in the turkish town earlier this month damascus claims its fighting rebels using a safe haven on the border accusing turkey of openly supporting them and supplying arms war and how relations between the two are teetering on the brink of war in peter lavelle's crosstalk that's in two hours from now. and. the title of world's biggest listed oil producer could soon be held by a new company russia's state owned rosneft is looking to seal a multi-billion dollar mega deal with british russian joint venture to b.p. . has the details in london. if forward this to you would become the second biggest agreement in the history of oil business is at this point to get britain based the

peace fifty percent stake in tank a b.p. russia's biggest oil producer he said is equal also is also being made to the four russian billionaires who own the other half of that t.i.n.k. b.p. asset the whole deal will come in at a whopping sixty billion dollars and it will make ross neff the world's biggest oil producer making it an incredibly dominant player on the russian located it would be set then to be able to see some of its plans in the future. exploration and the like now in the last days say there's been a standard bring one in ten k. b.p. senior officials with detained by russian police is a key it's selling off positions within the state agency i know it's not thought likely by the people we've been speaking to that that will in any way hamper this deal to go ahead certainly he still is on the table right now nothing yet sign and say oh they're looking pretty likely that that is going to go ahead. with more on

what the deal would mean for the world of business is one of some facts and figures on the potential agreement in our business bulletin with peter. but just how a rose no is going to be able to afford this multibillion dollar deal join me in a few moments time probably having a look at one of the ways in which they're looking to raise a bit extra compassing. bani walid in libya the former stronghold of late colonel gadhafi is in flames again a year after the dictator's death and the nato led military operation it is all me in the loyal militia trying to clear out supporters of the old regime and have laid siege to the town for the last two weeks. former m r five agent believes it was clear during the nato campaign in two thousand and eleven that the country was set to descend into chaos. i don't know how brutal an eighty's a dictator colonel gadhafi could be towards distance he did provide a certain degree of stability and general quality of life to the vast majority of what he's power he was very much of the idea of spreading the oil wealth around so

that people have a difficult life and he yes he could be one but that very strange allowed him to get a disparate tribes and competing religion and secular groups within that you know and by taking away that that controlled nature and sort of roughly removed any centralized power in libya and the people are suffering for it now of all places you know this nation that is always going to mention the mess you have competing sects you have the two groups and since you have a country which is full of such groups and many of them angry young men with guns and weapons you're going to have a problem. unrest continues in bahrain where another mass rally in the capital went unnoticed by most of the international media this one passed off peacefully unlike on thursday when a policeman died of his injuries following a terrorist attack during anti-government protest demonstrations have been going on for more than twenty months often spinning into violence and the alleged heavy handedness of the security forces is continuing online before activists arrested on

wednesday for posting twitter messages defaming the king. from bahrain's largest opposition party says the kingdom escapes condemnation because of its strategic importance. we're not seeing the measures that been taken against. broader international community is soft language with religion won't tell anyone we'll be calling for the international community to be said we don't want them to help us in overthrowing go to jeanne but we want anybody talking about. bison do not see this town with us in implementing at the other genes in us all the enemy and so he is what we call an inclusive democracy there does not undermine anyone we see it. see it's very important for us on that front and in international but unfortunately when it comes to g.c.'s countries

this is the saw if there is not. because all this started you can be clear simple in and. policies the use of these. into other countries can be. a loves and that's why we've been victims of destructive. son. very moskos to the head feed this out of the two main u.s. president candidates a bum and romney braces for their last two pushing of the challenges to the margins so that's coming your way after a short break. homeland

security now has robot tunas seriously robot fish the drones in the sky spying on you just weren't good enough effect they've revealed that they're going to be using robotic hummingbirds soon who how cute these things can only see you though above the water now during the one percent or less of your life that you spend swimming homeland security will be keeping you safe since nine eleven we've heard ad nauseum that we need to be kept safe so americans have given up their rights but if things got that much safer honestly has any of the stuff ushered in some sort of peaceful utopia no it hasn't the best terrorism prevention would be to not bomb secular regimes in other countries like libya so that some fanatical wackos come the power that would help way more than robotic spy fish i hear a lot of people talk about personal responsibility a lot of speeches and yes personal responsibility is a key component of the american way slip people provide for their own defense what is going to protect you more

a shotgun under the bed or terminator two so homeland security can of tuna right but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style holds. the. markets finance scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tuning in to cause a report on. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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. the news continues here on r.t. welcome back there was a change of pace in the battle of words between u.s. presidential candidates barack obama and mitt romney they down their arms and traded jokes at a charity fundraiser but the debate is still causing a bars and huge t.v. ratings there's criticism that challenges from outside the two major parties which almost never appear in televised confrontations between parties jule styne appears on eighty five percent of the ballots across the country so when she and her running mate were arrested for trying to gain entrance to the latest debate it was little or no media reaction sandman ski the green party's campaign manager believes the two party domination is due to outdated laws and corporate control. the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the us but we do have laws on the books

all across the country and we also have the actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to kill voters that choice those laws date from the cold war they date from the mccarthy era in which there was a fear of communism and socialism and they tried to make it very difficult for progressive party some particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of those challenges joel stein is on eighty five percent of the ballots yet they're still preventing her from taking part in the debate if you look at the success of the green party despite all the obstacles we face it says that there is a great demand for the greens people vote for the greens here in the u.s. . when all naughty dot com you can follow the latest events in the u.s. election on monday we start our special coverage of the ongoing battle between the candidates bringing you more analysis. what will change when america picks its

president amid muslim rage walking the tightrope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads to parties still dictate will their future u.s. election close every day for our team beginning of october twenty second australia has revealed it's been sharing intelligence on one of its most talked about citizens julian assange with washington for around two years the exchange apparently started straight after wiki leaks published secret u.s. military reports on the war in afghanistan as an earlier accused his home nation of betrayal and pandering to america which he claims wants him behind bars or even dead to be illegal has been holed up in it was not the embassy for exactly four months now despite being granted political asylum by a south american nation is unable to leave the building because of britain's threat of immediate arrest and extradition of more and julian assange his legal battles as well as all the episodes of his own interview show broadcast here on r.t.

get all websites r.t. dot com. other international news in brief now for you know well that the car is central to his square is occupied by several thousand protesters angry at president morsi and his supporters for trying to dominate the drawing up of a new constitution it follows violence last week when morsi back as clashed with anti-government activists leaving dozens injured one hundred member assembly writing the new charter is packed with business from the muslim brotherhood to support the president. at least nineteen people were killed in northern afghanistan when a roadside bomb detonated under a passing bus fifteen more were injured the passengers were travelling to a wedding they want to claim responsibility and is not yet clear if the wedding guests were the intended victims. the u.s. military chief in japan has imposed a night curfew on personnel it follows the arrest of two american offices suspected

of raping a japanese woman on the southern. u.s. military in japan has a history of alleged criminal behavior which has caused tension between the states for decades. the cia wants to significantly expand its fleet of drones that is pressing the white house to give the go ahead it would in the agency to sustain or even increase lethal strikes abroad including those in pakistan the news comes just a day after the pakistani interior minister quoted statistics suggesting eighty percent of people killed in u.s. drone attacks have been civilians rehman malik said that when three hundred strikes more than two thousand people have died on the collation from pakistan's first political lobbying group says washington is responsible for both the deadly drone strikes and the militants they're targeting. this is a major blow to us diplomacy and position in parks done and this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement that the majority are civilians were killed by drones there is no

evidence that the drones have actually helped buckstone control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful lives in the military in flushing out terrorist from the northern region of so wide back in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that entire area and if now we see a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorists it is because of these safe havens on the what i would call the american side of the border which is the afghan side of the border under the watch of the u.s. army where these terrorists who are flushed out by poxon army are maintaining now arresting and training camps over there so i think the parks than any government appears now to be putting the blame in a way on the on the americans and i think that would be the gist of the report published by the box that immediate to date about the meeting which was a closed door meeting of the box. military commanders accusing it or mentioning for the first time by the way a figure ninety six incursions from the of gun territory into parks done resulting

in killing of parks and soldiers and bugs and civilians. more stories available on our website at the moment including playing too much exports could lead to house arrest or a job in intelligence. and law and we've got the story of how the u.k. government plans to use computer game addicted teenagers of the future about one of the country's cyber security services. protect those who protect you and me there's very few protests spain's government has dropped even more forbidding anything for photographing police offices. and a piece of common ground online we've got the story of the russian subtle marking its two hundredth anniversary in north america. time now to join katie for the latest business update on the possibility of becoming the biggest oil producer in the world for this isn't about that story hi bill yeah with us and it's a big if at the moment the russian giant finds out be the russian place is found to

be amazing as are taking place in london lite now and it's all of a he's got all the details for us. that deal is expected to cost somewhere in the region of between twenty five and twenty eight billion dollars then i'm going to make that kind of money for selling bonds however they could make this made around six hundred fifty million from the sale of bonds everything which would help towards trying to convince b.p. that they should sell less fifty percent share in t.n. k b p two rows next you know they say there's no reward without risk and the risk that rolls never could be taking comes in the form of debt now if they take over all of ten k. p.p. they would be index of well up words of sixty billion dollars so that would be hoping relying on a high oil price in order for them to get some kind of good return from their investment in terms of what b.p. wants out of this deal what they would be looking to get is they don't want to pull

out of russia or entirely they just want out of their partnership a spot of tea and paid the fee will they go to be looking for though as a share of the raw sniffed all important potentially lucrative exploration rights in the arctic the rights to go and look for oil there the economy minister believes that if the deal does go through a could revulsed the capital outflow from us and that's because ross that would have to borrow heavily from abroad which would make capital flight in to the country now another comment came from the first deputy prime minister eagle tshabalala who has confirmed that the heavyweight energy john russell hantz will go public saying. the government has been thinking about selling rose here or in two thousand and fourteen we do believe that when the market conditions are correct. it will definitely be. a wall street time let's see how the u.s. stocks of performing right now and they seem to be having

a sell off at the moment only on the first with a twenty five year anniversary for monday when the dow jones plunged twenty three percent in a day how the left has been. pretty dismal figures coming out. with microsoft in the lead as far as losses are concerned and also mcdonald's as well as james played. your lens as agreed on the banking regulation time table as well but also felt. as well so that's why we have so many negative figures look close to the european market if you were there is still softening against us as a result of the seasons change right also the finish for the ruble. the russian exit markets closed the way in the red today with copycats with the other global markets to see. any gains anywhere in the world today old woman was

on the we saw the russian markets look i'll be back in time. thank you very much indeed yes see you later coming up we head over to our washington studios for. me after this short break. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is there of in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able

to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life piecing together patients and in many cases their shattered lives with the main goal when professor of design his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people quite eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies lives both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the ways out of center nowadays seeking series three focus medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg length in the request to meet his fifteen centimeters to be still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs

in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out there press. expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average users wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big door if your guy is like expecting to be taller just before the operation

most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took to told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. busier headlines for october eighteenth two thousand and twelve tomorrow marks the anniversary of black monday and nine hundred eighty seven when the new york stock exchange suffered its largest single day percentage drop in its entire history now

one explanation with selling by program traders exacerbated by human fear and panic so with the rise of algorithmic and high frequency trading what you can see right there behind me how does the increase the robots change the equation. crash goals speak to next founder what you came up with in just a moment air con sader plus a high frequency trading firm started by former citi group exact closed its doors this week reportedly because lower volumes due to a drop in trading by retail and other investors have led to smaller profits for this speed demon this is according to the wall street journal did unchecked high frequency trading advantages dr other investors out of the market and what exactly this have on the algo bots themselves will talk about what it might take to get these investors you and i the average folks and fairness back in the market plus newsweek shuttering its print edition is this part of

a larger trend we're seeing first hand in the media biz the move of mainstream media online to compete with the growing blogosphere and alternative media is growing like wildfire we'll talk about it let's get to today's capital account. so today the c.e.o. of p. and c. financial services reportedly told c m d c that computer hackers pose an increasingly grave challenge to the u.s. banking system this comes of course after last week secretary of defense leon panetta said this about threats facing us in cyberspace and potential attacks. the collective results.