a wave of violent protests in lebanon in the wake of the powerful car blast that killed at least eight including a top security official the opposition calls for more rallies while the army reportedly fires on demonstrators. the under siege stronghold of gadhafi supporters in libya faces an assault by an army linked to militias we'll look at why the country is still gripped by chaos and a year after the western backed revolt. tens of thousands marched through london in the latest show of anger against austerity that sweeping the arab. and israeli troops intercepted gaza bound boat with an international act of ascension mandatory

and aid on board stopping the latest attempt to reach the blockaded don't play by see. below welcome to r t where we bring you the latest news from around the globe twenty four hours a day seven days a week i'm karen tara well lebanon has becoming golfed in the protests triggered by the death of a top security official in friday's car bombing in the capital some rallies have turned violent with two people reportedly injured after the army opened fire in one of the roads blocked with burning tires the explosion that sparked the protests killed eight and injured around one hundred when it ripped through beirut's christian neighborhood now once admitted the terrorism but the lebanese prime minister is linking the bombing to the syrian conflict our correspondent in the region irina go is following developments lebanon was. actually in the midst of

a conflict which was just on the back burner there has been a very long standing confrontation between the sunni and the shia muslims one particular there began one volatile it really was the car blast which took away the lives of eight people in a long time happened to be the top security official the head of intelligence or police so people are generally drawn out on the street to approach have been something like this something that's happened but now it's also politically and religiously motivated there's literally thousands of people are a lot of them are actually young people there is a particular movement among these groups which is called march fourteenth movement so really it's the outrage over the killings of course but also it's this which has been kind of boiling at the very bottom of the lebanese society which is now starting to spill through prime minister of the country has already offered to really offered his resignation which was not accepted by the president here that prime is just to stay in power but there are calls already for the government to

step down in this entirety in fact there are also reports of people coming out on the street and calling for a lebanese spring of course that hearken back to the arab spring so a very on easy situation in the middle east where it does look like lebanon at this point is if taking on the torch on rests in the area some lebanese politicians rushed to blame syria for the deadly blast saying the security official killed was a hardline opponent of president sought but i beirut based expert on the middle east says such claims are being dictated by politics. already we have the now the political element coming into play some elements of the march fourteenth movement which is known to be anti bush. even before it was known to the who was killed in this explosion they quickly pointed the finger at the syrian government right now we saw a house on the head of bin laden security who apparently has a marine killed more targeted that is known to be actually

a robot for team is known not to be one of the supporters want to be very very likable person or those who are in government so i think now this would only lead to more and more figures from march fourteenth i mean from their west and how is it being pointed at syria the question which must be raised in all of these cases is the 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 acts i think it's only in the during itself in committing suicide is that is the syrian government such as it is the world's oil government all i myself don't see so. now for more expert opinion on the possible connection between the lebanese blast and the conflict raging in syria you can head to archie dot com where there is more video coverage and also add your voice on who you think is to blame in our online discussion. the libyan army and loyalist militias are preparing for the final assault on the city of bani walid are supporters of the old regime have been

besieged for more than two weeks the deadly battle comes a year after the capture and longtime leader moammar gadhafi and the nato military campaign now just torn in some of the images or about to show our graphic over a dozen people including children have been killed and many more injured in attacks during the blockade residents say they are short of medicine food and water the turmoil in bani walid is seen as just one sign of the continuing disarray that has reigned in libya since the western backed to a halt as can reports. a year after the killing of one worker. not only has the new government of leave immediately illegal to criticize the february revolution of last year but a group of malicious affiliated with the country's defense ministry has the shelling parts of the country which were considered khadafi strongholds that bombing it from the air and rockets because then you would need was one of the towns which stood against the intervention of the outside world in bani walid local

media report that the strikes have killed around a dozen people including children but apparently the people of bani walid are not the only ones persecuted by various militia groups in libya we saw the total wiping out of the thirty thousand strong town of tal want to go many black libyans which the misrata brigades which are also laying siege to bani walid call themselves the brigades for the poaching or black scheme it's such as a wonderful humanitarian and freedom loving. and discourse that they wiped out the town they've been chasing the people toward the civil war has left libya shredded in pieces with radical islamists taking advantage of the chaos basically what's happening is that in different cities here we pointed out the main ones tripoli is in town misrata each of them has their own army of militias there loosely united as the so-called libyan national shield at the same time they're not really under the control of the new defense ministry they're basically on their own according to various reports most of them are even suspicious of the new government in tripoli

on top of that division we also have one hundred forty tribes in the country one hundred forty tribes many of them have long running grievances against each other and they're located very close to each other for example the town of bani walid that we mentioned in the report is not even two hours away from misrata so maybe all the food and lawlessness people in those places no anything can happen to them last year coalition forces armed libyans to the t.c. in order to oust moammar gadhafi today the country's flu. with weapons of all kinds and this they made twenty million weapons are still freely circulating in libya that's in a country of six million people it's roughly three guns per person today there are multiple assassinations around benghazi different parts of libya where people are settling scores of all sorts of stripes it's chaotic forces in libya well those

leave the weapons at the moment they have the chance is not to be just as eager to do that tribal that well that indeed politics despite the ongoing atrocities and chaos up until this september washington had the revolution in libya check because the foreign policy victory for president obama after all the u.s. provided most of the foreign power which led to the capture and the killing of the libyan leader. yes we came we saw that he died. but only after the tragic attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi and the murder of the american ambassador did leave you come back into the spotlight it raises the question for the administration why didn't you see this coming if there was intelligence about the growing presence of al qaeda in eastern libya we have an election coming up and no one wants to take blame for messing up the arab spring president obama's most recent remarks suggested that his administration is not finished in libya we are going to find out who did this and we're going to hunt them down because one of the things that i've said

throughout my presidency is when folks mess with americans we go after them the obama administration has received congressional approval to allocate money for a special unit reportedly of some five hundred people who will allegedly be training counterterrorism forces in libya also there are anonymous reports that the cia is asking for more drones specifically for libya none of this sounds new drone strikes training forces in foreign nations but past experience has shown when the u.s. goes about cleaning up the mess it often gets even messier in. washington i'm going to check on. political analyst dr ibrahim a louche says that it was the implosion of central government a year ago that led to chaos and a heavy influx of extremists the involvement of western countries was the source of trouble for libya as a whole we have seen the state has become this mantle as happened in iraq and

somalia whatever the nato has walked or you are strips of walk then in fact there is not all of law and libya who brought. into libya and now into syria again it's the same western involvement with the support of both throw dollars from qatar and saudi arabia that is handing the country over to a group of fun not criminals who are hell bent on on blood torture slitting throats and what have you bringing the country a buck into medieval darkness so. we have seen very clearly what these people are aiming to do they want to punish when there were leads for its stance against the invasion of libya by nato this is a form of collective punishment against the whole population for standing up for the end of pendants and the sovereignty of their country a chilling warning for some top flight football or so as we reported

a few minutes. i'm warning you if you keep screwing up like this we'll show you some different treatment sinister threats and paintball rounds fired at a russian premier league team by a masked man also ahead. i mean if mitt romney were in the movie macand. you get that then by that same artes in new york asking which presidential candidate is taking voters' boxes in a close race or whether the choice is out of their hands. tens of thousand. people are marching through central london in anger against the painful austerity measures being forced on the prime minister david cameron recently warned of more painful decisions for the struggling economy sarah ferguson among the crowds thousands of people have taken to the streets of london to announce the austerity much organized by the trade unions. many have turned out that message is against

the cuts they say have flatlined the economy my parents rely on the n.h.s. you can see cars getting worse my son to stephen is paying on ground zero in fees i work in the tree sector and legal aid is being out so we were very vulnerable people and i won't be able to get the same help for my next year now there are people from all walks of life there are nurses worried about the n.h.s. there are police officers all fiji room worried about cuts the frontline services in amongst the people is the marching it's there in many many families all across the age range feel that they've been affected in some way by the continued cuts now because it's not just britain that's been affected the start because of europe wide effects of the euro crisis rumbles on we see disparity i guess taking great especially in the last month in spain in greece all across the usa the people simply saying that they've had enough here in london i think that possibly into the

hundreds of thousands maybe even more that come out here today to march against the austerity. one of the organizers of today's massive protests britain's decision makers are completely out of touch with the plight of ordinary people and i just don't think you could use the pain in their economic program of having the communities around the country which public service is the usual value whether it's your job if you worried about the future living standards even those people will feel nobody wants to use people were. not even in the. deficit is good look. because more people are out of work the benefit to build is going up the only way to really reduce the deficit is to get economic growth going again and the goodness austerity plan is failing to deliver economic growth we need to see people but. investment in jobs investment in communities and the government be sued swelling with pride and go to plan b. because plan they just isn't working but i did we're going to see lots of different forms of protest people campaign in their local communities but we can do some

cases that will mean people taking action from the leader of the opposition labor party ad miliband is now speaking at the london protest an artist's hour for of his personal highlights on twitter. the israeli military has seized a boat on route to gaza carrying international activists and humanitarian aid it was the latest attempt to breach the blockade of the palestinian coastal territory imposed by israel five years ago an israeli raid of a turkish led flotilla in two thousand and ten left nine activists dead and sparked international condemnation victorious trant from the firm behind the latest shipment says they'll continue their missions despite forceful israeli action. also ordered two thousand and ten wasn't a swedish new ship and this was a horrible attack on civilians don't worry our and. all people on board are aware of the risk or taking and they are doing it anyhow they are doing it

because they want to show their solidarity to other people to people or to the palestinian cigars of because of the palestinians also have you know if they are human beings they must have a civil union rights as other people and so we have to challenge this siege as long as the international community doesn't do so you know w.h.o. to save the children united nation european union everyone says that the siege is counterproductive but no one is doing anything about it so we have to take civil action against. to stay with us more world news from r.t.m. moscow after the break.

trimmings in this is true even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds it wants to do 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 surrounded objects like reverse forests and even stones souls by imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. to get to one of the five main stars of scrotes and it imitates the gentle breezes of summer chara whose name means great hunter says he suspects adopt.

there are special instruments that accompany the singing if 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 book it was it of stop the fall is because of the spirit of the horse going to his dream he said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings on my tail and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument a gear which means come back and this melody on the instrument is called cry.

welcome back to our team with me karen terrill rational time trial snuffed is a step closer to becoming the world's biggest listed producer the firm's understood to be on the verge of getting the british share of the t.n. k b p joint venture and one of the most expensive industrial deals ever more for marty's peter oliver. well it's a deal it's been a long time in the coming it would seem according to the front page of russian newspaper commerce on saturday that it has been done now that deal will see role sniffed the buyout fifi's fifty percent share of the company t n k b p just how much that's going to cost though well initially b.p. had said they wanted twenty eight billion dollars for their fifty percent share it seems that they've come to an agreement somewhere around the market seventeen billion dollars in cash and thirty percent of gross next stock now this is all part

of gross a plan to try and take over all of t.n. k b p they're currently indication with b.p.'s russian partners a all to buy out the other half of the company if they can do the aussie then ross therefore become the largest publicly traded oil company in the world but this well the reward without risk in the risk what rolls next is taking in buying out ten k. b.p. is that they will incur debts of upwards of sixty billion dollars to put that in a little context that says as much as some european nations have in debt nationally . so it's an awful lot of money there a lot of money and debt that will be taking on dell be hoping that the oil price remains high so that they can get a good solid return on their investment in terms of b.p. and what that means to them here in russia it's. certainly not the end for them they just didn't want to be out of russia they just wanted a end to their partnership in t a k b p what they really want is to do business with roads they have to get a slice of roads they have to potentially lucrative oil exploration rights for the

arctic so this is all going to continue on for a little bit longer deals will be done between roles they have to be perhaps in the future but it when we get confirmation of this is certainly going through bring it all here at r.t. and you guide to expert in st petersburg is raising eyebrows this somewhat bizarre campaign to promote tolerance is supposed to help those coming to russia to make a living but it's under fire for its migrant stereotypes. plus out of the picture a report on spain's plans to ban filming or photographing the corley's at work. and not so warm welcome players from russian premier league football club denominator have been shelter with paintball bullets during a training session now one was hurt but it's deeply anger at fans and players throughout russian soccer arches under farmer explains what might be behind the attack dinar is a club have issued a statement that says that these were the actions of idiocy that anonymous fans

have nothing in common with those that were involved but it is important also to stress that this has happened just a month after an extraordinary episode that happened at the training ground just as i say four weeks ago and then the club did allow some supporters to address the place and issue violent trace in the hope it would improve performances and results the whole thing was recorded and put on you tube which we translated for you. now listen now i'm warning you if you keep screwing up like this we'll show you some different treatment if we catch any of you in a nightclub enjoying yourselves the way garonne your number was spotted doing doing all of you hang out all the time will be out of you right there on this. i mean it so i mean once you've heard that you perhaps can understand why they denominate feel it is a vision this image would come out today and say that some of the players are feeling frightened what's more the union for russian players he hopes he says he

believes the nama classic of his actually encourage fans of giving the signal the fans that it is my k.j. she traced to the players in addition to the fight the incident that took place on friday leaflets were also left at the ground by showing the faces of poor in our midst foreign plays in alongside their faces were the words we do not want to chair a team of leaders any more will be noble rulings get rid get rid of you you can say sounds very intimidating stuff on the general point you could argue that perhaps the power plays were shown were high like today because they are amongst the highest in is a big club you know i'm a fan so how will offer shrike to the moment because it is it same with great history in russia but it has lost what it has only won three of the last nine games in the russian crimea league in the d.c. third from fourteen in the table to the risk concern amongst the guys for what's happened as we say over the last twenty four hours but also i think coming on the back of the series since it into were extraordinary incident that you call it it

took place but the training ground last month. it's so tough call us show who'll win the u.s. presidential election so a lot hinges on monday's file t.v. debate artist ben in new york to ask whether the contender mitt romney has the chance to pull a key swing state from under president obama's nels. electronic voting machines owned by a company with strong republican ties are set to count the vote in ohio which very well could determine the outcome of the two thousand and twelve us presidential election so is there a chance that mitt romney could steal this election this week let's talk about that do you think it's possible that mitt romney could steal the election i think it's very possible i think it's close and it's going to come down to the last minute so it's going to be something a little like that that could sway it which is unfortunate yeah and a lot of people don't even know about it they just think oh well he won so that that yeah what do you do about it want to make sure you go vote for barrage.

of people on the street and they talk about what i mean if mitt romney wins i'm moving to canada. it's that simple that simple one of my fist houses one day they'd be a third party would win the election no it didn't matter it doesn't matter where the you know greedy libertarian conservative whatever just to break the halls of go to parties and if he's a she that wouldn't be bad either right so i want to magically said he says no use to that does it concern you that there's things like best in our country in general or sure that kind of thing shouldn't shouldn't really happen. but i guess it does it happens a lot of places you would never find out about you know why don't we find out about this stuff why isn't there more transparency about what's really going on because like you say there's lots of money and whether or not you think romney's going to steal the election the bottom line is those evil voting machines in ohio are owned and operated by a company whose employees have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the romney

campaign so they very well could be determining who wins ohio a state that often determines who wins the election. artist's special coverage of the battle for the white house starts on monday bringing you even more analysis and there's archie dot com up close section to help the follow the latest events in the run up to the full. will there be more on the rise. in the world is missing the sense of where the instant us election. too much for the second one are. also still ahead fifty years ago the world came close to the brink of nuclear war we take an in-depth look at the cuban missile crisis up to the break.

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a sense of where the instead of us election. too much for the second. it was the strangest attempt of a military takeover of. the us president trying to overthrow a foreign country's government but his strategic game was lost. and america recognized its defeat. questioning if cuba managed to cope with its victory all don't talk all politics for god sake i leave you think you are you go but the rajab either live near the cuban missile crisis games and reality t.v. . the gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. much problems but also among brotherly involved in the monsoon and since i started working at the moment i stated i look at it.

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this club is hosting a tournament in which teenagers are taking part they are playing a computer game a touch of the caribbean crisis or as its better known the cuban missile crisis the game has a historical setting in in the united states in the former u.s.s.r. of fighting battles at sea in the air and on the ground we got there but everybody's dead this video game is based on the actual events of october one thousand nine hundred sixty two a period of confrontation between then u.s. president john kennedy and soviet leader nikita khrushchev in response to the american deployment of ballistic missiles in turkey targeted at mages soviet cities the soviet union retaliated the stationing their own missiles in cuba about time the world found itself one step away from the start of global nuclear war.