a wave of violent protests in lebanon after the powerful blast that killed at least eight including a top security official position calls for an indefinite strike while the army reportedly falls on demonstrators. the under siege stronghold of gadhafi supporters in libya faces an assault by militias and why the country still gripped by chaos so yeah to the western backed rebels. tens of thousands marched through london in the latest show of anger against a sturdy that's sweeping europe. from

a new center here in central moscow international news and comment line on. lebanon is engulfed in protests triggered by the death of a top security official in friday's car bombing in the capital some release of turned violent with two people reportedly injured after the army opened far in one of the roads blocked with burning times the opposition has called for an indefinite strike and for the government to be dissolved correspondent i mean the going to show is in the region following the developments but we have protests all over the country essentially last night and they continued this afternoon there was a huge gathering at the capital beirut but that's of course not the only place where people are protesting there grows a thing in that other towns as well they're blocking roads they're burning tires back to the reason for the summer of all the people were killed on friday but police officials who was known for can sit here and syrian stance thousands of

workers are now out on the streets saying that it was syria that was behind them. for years now people are saying basically that they want the government to step down the entire government there is a sit in being organized in front of the parliament people are saying they're going to stay there until the government resigns however this is where it should be mentioned is that the prime minister has filed a petition for his attention to the president but the president refused so we have these massive protests we have thousands. who are supporters off the shelf who are saying that syria is to blame they're also calling for the u.n. peacekeeping forces to come in and line up on the border between syria and lebanon and a lot of people at this point already starting to express their worry that the conflict in syria inadvertently or purposefully of course there is some clear at the moment is being spilled into the neighboring country into lebanon on. some companies

politicians blame syria for the deadly blast saying these security official killed was a hall of blind opponents of president assad but political analysts show meanwhile in the in beirut told me earlier that such quick allegations have no grounds but it's not very feasible and it wasn't very feasible that. president assad was responsible for the assassination of rafik hariri in two thousand and five either but in lebanon that's not how it plays out you know normal situation people would wait for an investigation to get at least a little bit of evidence on the way before making these allegations in lebanon political parties jump on the bandwagon and start to use these things to their advantage even if it's one of their own figures who's gone down there doesn't seem to be any interest in seeking truth it's all about political advantage and it's unfortunate because it's whipping out exactly these kind of reactions armed reactions on the streets it is not a positive sign for lebanon. the war expert opinion on the possible connection

between the lebanon blast and the conflict raging in syria ahead. dot com where there is more video coverage and 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 where supporters of the old regime have been besieged for more than two weeks the deadly battle comes a year after the capture and death of longtime leader moammar gadhafi and the nato military campaign just to warn you some of the images we're about to show are graphic over a dozen people including children have been killed and many more injured in attacks during the blockade residents say they're short of medicine food and water the turmoil in bali were leaders seen as just one side of the continuing disarray that has reigned in libya since the western backed river. a year after the killing of warmer khadafi not only has the new government of libya made it illegal to criticize the february revolution of last year but

a group of militias affiliated with the country's defense ministry has be 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 are black libyans which the misrata brigades which are also laying siege to bani walid call themselves the brigades for the purging or black screen it's such as that 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 point out the main ones tripoli is in town misrata each of them has their own army of their 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 you 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 it made all the food and lawlessness people in those places know anything can happen to them last year coalition forces armed libyans to the t.c. in order to. oust moammar gadhafi today the country is flooded 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 are the weapons of the most they have the chance is not to be just is either to the tribal or the background or indeed politics despite the ongoing atrocities and chaos up until this september washington had the revolution in libya checked as a 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 allegedly be training counterterrorism forces in libya also there are anonymous reports that the cia is asking for more drones specifically for libya not of this sounds new drone strikes training forces in foreign nations but past experience has shown when the u.s. goes about cleaning up a mess. it often gets even messier in washington i'm going to check on. it with a lot of here moscow still to come on the program israeli troops intercepted goes

a bell with international activists and humanitarian aid on board stopping the latest attempt to reach the blockaded enclave by sea plus. now. i'm warning you if you keep screwing up like this we'll show you some different treatment chilling warning for some top flight football is sinister threats and bold rounds far out of the russian premier league team by last minute. stories still to come first tens of thousands of people be marching through central london anger against the painful austerity measures being forced on them promise to david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions for the struggling economy refers was among the crowds thousands of people have taken to the streets of london to announce he'll start see much older lies by the trade unions. many people have turned out that message is against the cuts they say flatlines the economy now

there are people from all walks of life there are nurses worried about the n.h.s. there are police officers all fiji all worried about cuts the front like this is in amongst the people the marching here today many many families all across the age range feel that they've been affected in some way by the continued cuts my parents rely on the n.h.s. you can see cancer getting worse my son to stephen he's paying the ground here in fees i work in the tree sector and legal aid is being cut so we work with three hundred people and they won't be able to get the same help from the next year they just protect their rights they protect the interests of the rich i'm a bit of fear in the people who are it we marching against the cuts and she's marching for the future right she's well yes. marching to my future is now because it's not just britain that's been affected the. starting concept had a europe wide f.x. zero crisis rumbles on we see what's there to get taking great the specially in the

last month in spain in greece all across the usa the people that's in me saying that they've had enough here in london i think that was a reason for the hundreds of thousands maybe even more that come out here today to march against the austerity crowd one of the organizers of today's massive protest says britain's decision makers are completely out of touch with the plight of ordinary people i just don't think the government understands the pain that they're cooked in their economic program have been in communities and down the country whether it's public services that you use or value whether it's your job that you worried about the future living standards even those people who work a full on over the last two years people who are head in and the courts where they're not to even in the government's own tend to not work in the deficit is going up because more people are up with the benefits that bill is going up the only way to really reduce the deficit is to get economic growth going again and the cookies austerity plan is failing to deliver economic growth we need to see people back to where investment in jobs investment in communities and their government

lease it swallow with pride and go for plan because they just isn't working right even to see lots of different forms of protest people campaign in the local communities bookman down the contingent case that will mean people take in. more world news marty in moscow after the 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 hummingbird 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 to power that would help way more than robotic spy fish i hear a lot of people talk about personal responsibility in a lot of speeches and yes personal responsibility is a key component of the american way slit people provide for their own defense what is going to protect you more a shock going under the bed or terminator tune so homeland security can of tuna right but i should by being. well into the future. it's technology innovation all the it's developments from

around russia we've dumped the future coverage. wealthy british style sign. on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds a report. will there be more on the rise china friend or foe is missile defense offensive. stuff u.s. election close to the twenty second one arts.

thank you. i thank. you's continues here on r.t. the israeli military has seized a boat on route to gaza caring international activists and humanitarian aid and is now is courting it to an israeli port 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 for ten or in two thousand and ten left nine activists dead and spot

international condemnation victoria strength from the firm behind the latest aid shipments says they'll continue their missions despite forceful is writing action by also in the top two thousand and ten slutty i wasn't a swedish week ship and this was a horrible attack on civilians that were in on our and. all the people on board are aware of the risks that day or taking and they are doing that i mean how they are doing that because they want to show their solidarity to other people to people or to the palestinian singles that because i think palestinians also have you the right so if they are human beings they must have the same human rights as other people and so we have to challenge this siege as long as the international community doesn't do so you know to 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 signal

action against. a new guide to expert etiquette and some petersburg is raising eyebrows some of his own campaign to promote tolerance is supposed to help those coming to make a living in russia but it's under fire for its migrant stereotypes. also a lot of the moment out of the picture a report on spain's plans to ban filming or photographing the police at work. russian oil join to last me if there's 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 b.p. joint venture in one of the most expensive industrial deals ever more now from artie's peter out of. 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 rosneft to buy out the fees fifty percent share of the cup the 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 rosneft stock now this is all part of ross their plan to try and take over all of t a k b p they're currently in the go shape she would be peas russian partners a all to buy out the other half of the company if they can do that then ross therefore become the largest publicly traded oil company in the world but this well the reward without risk in the risk rolls left is taking in buying out 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 this nationally . so it's the norm. a lot of money there a lot of money in debt that they'll be taking on they'll 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 so that he really russia it's certainly not the end for them they just they didn't want to be out of russia they just wanted an end to their partnership in t a k b p what they really want is to do business with rose left and to get a slice of roles 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 bob's in the future but it when we get confirmation that this is certainly going through a bring it all here i'll take. it still a tough call as to who will win the u.s. presidential election so a lot hinges on monday's final t.v. debate has been in new york to ask whether the contender mitt romney has the chance to pull a key swing state from under president obama's news. 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. i mean if mitt romney wins a movie in canada. it's that them that simple one of my ficus tops is 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 greed 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 state he says no use

to that does it concern you that there's things like best in our country in general 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 is 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. from russian premier league football club the nama have been shelled with bullets during a training session now with. what is under former explains what might be behind the attack. dinara as a club have issued

a statement that says that these were the actions of idiots that unama fans have nothing in common with those that were involved but it is important also to stress that this has happened just a month through 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 she violent race 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 up you guys 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 enjoy yourselves the way garani and a boa spotted doing doing all of you hang out all the time will be out of you right there on the sports i mean it so i mean once you've heard that you perhaps can understand why they denominate feel disadvantaged in the simulator would come out today and say that some of the players are feeling frightened what's more the union

for russian plays and he just says he believes the nama plastic cup is actually encourage fans of giving the signal to fans that it is like a jewish rights to the play is in addition to that the incident that took place on friday leaflets were also left at the ground showing the faces of poor in our midst for inflation alongside their faces were the words we do not want to charity in the villages anymore it would be noble warnings if you read get rid of so you can say sad very intimidating stuff on the general point you could argue that perhaps the forum plays a show like today because they are amongst the highest at the club to our fans that howl after strike to the moment because it is it same with great history in russia but it has lost but it has only won three of the last nine games the russian find we do see the type of the risk is so much that is what's happened as we say over the last twenty four hours but also i think that coming on the back of that series

instead into were extraordinary instant data as you call it it took place but their training ground last month. they're still ahead mexico looks at the parallel universe of the rich where the world is doing just fine. the sun rises over what seems like analyst forest to hear in the new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of light of all storm as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. of. bloggers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forest of the more skewed region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop

the logging but it's not easy logger set up trucks making them hard to reach an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve were only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy the forest is enormous and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander some morning call has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers it's easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's

impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they have twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which if i. it means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he's overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now as i started city for more whole forest legislation so assumes the pals and so on river grabs a new forest court and according to close up a new low for every for us that's sort of the guys in waltham in the in the forest to the still these forests courts still doesn't work just do what should do it is

no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do like it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. i am ask eyes are on the kaiser a part. let me tell you about the very rich they are different from you and may they live in an economy that isn't plunging a place where the bridges and banks have not collapsed yes the elite reside in a world with a health system and where one can actually retire and with

a separate but not equal legal system in which mugging rape and pillage are not crimes yes the extremely elite are extremely different from you and me stacey a member. yes max you and i and the rest of us out there live in the world of this first headline visualizing america's economic freedom. so the us is currently eighteenth globally in terms of economic freedom in this is the lowest position it's ever been usually is that the number two or three and what is cause the drop well according to the report on the economic freedom the number one reason ramifications from the wars on terrorism and drugs well yeah freedom drop it's a free for all of us radio and america's plunging because they're wasting all this money and resources on wars and the folks are experiencing ever closer

post them all. the permanent present state. is going to present its very lucrative business data never all my money invested in american prisons because as he's written any it's continue to allow themselves to be incarcerated for profit going to get rich oh ah. well we have covered the fact that the number one counties in terms of wealth in america are surrounding washington d.c. and it's mostly to do with military contracting or prison industrial contracting this is sure and number two reason for the plunge in economic freedom in america the increased use of eminent domain to transfer property to powerful political interests classic banana republic sort of action we've covered this in california with this proposed new eminent domain used to actually see these contracts i.e. the morgue.