beseeched stronghold of gadhafi supporters in libya facing an assault by army linked militias we'll look at why the country still gripped by chaos a year after the western backed revolt. scuffles break out with police and protesters in london where tens of thousands marched in the latest show of anger against austerity that sweeping europe. and a wave of violent protests in lebanon after a powerful car blast killed at least eight including a top security official the opposition calling for an indefinite strike while the army reportedly fire on demonstrators.

three and in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story 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 under siege 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 there just to warn you some of the images in the upcoming report are graphic more than a dozen people including children may have been killed and many more injured in attacks during the blockade residents say though short on medicine food and water turmoil in the city is seen as just one sign of continuing disarray that's reigned in the would be a since the western backed evolved as artie's ganesh young reports. a year after the killing of warmer canal feet not only has the new government of leave immediately illegal to criticize the february revolution of last year but a group of malicious a few. with the country's defense ministry it's 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 body while the 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 to 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 scheme it's such as that wonderful humanitarian and freedom lobbying. 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 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 maybe all the food and lawlessness people in those places no anything can happen to them last year coalition forces armed lead to the t.c. in order to oust moammar gadhafi today the country is flooded with weapons of all kinds and estimated 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 all sorts of stripes it's chaotic forces in libya well those leave the weapons at the most they have the agencies not to be just as eager to have tribal without all the. 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 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 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. willy's political analyst dan glazebrook thinks even if the libyan army succeeds in the siege and gadhafi supporters are overpowered the country may still spiral into more chaos

bani walid has managed to keep the militias the armed gangs roaming around with impunity around the rest of libya they've managed to keep them out so far and as a result have been free from a lot of the the massacres and the terror around the rest of libya the involvement of these are militias if they do manage to storm into finding walid and take control there as well will actually represent the end of this relative period of stability and calm in bani walid and i was going to make that worse is that a matter of this this chaos has been used as cover to implement a massive program privatization even health education and public transport are all going to be sold off to the precisely to the foreign interests who are responsible for the devastation of the country alongside the fact that we've still got these rival militias fighting it out and troll and that the central government clearly seems devoid of all of thirty. there have been scuffles between police and protesters in central london after

a huge march against austerity measures tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the british capital in anger against the painful cuts being forced on them prime minister david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions ahead for the struggling economy archon sara for more. thousands of people have taken to the streets of london today and announce he'll start the much older lies by the trade unions public. money that turns out that message is against the cuts they say have flatlined the economy now there are people from all walks of life there are no us is worried about the n.h.s. there are police officers all fiji room worried about cuts the frontline services in amongst the people you see marching hits day many many families all across the age range but 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 grant even fees

i work in the legal aid is being home so we won't be three hundred people and i won't be able to get the same house for my next year and they just protect the ranch they protect the interests of the rich and they build out fear in the people who are it really marching against the cuts and she's marching for the future situations where it is. launching say my future is banks now close it's not just person that's been affected the start because if you're employed and thanks to your crisis we seem to start taking great the specially in the last month in spain increase across the year you say that people simply saying that they've had enough here in london that possibly into the hundreds and thousands maybe even more they've come out here today to march against the austerity. one of the organizers of saturday's massive protests is britain's decision makers are out of touch with the plight of ordinary people. i just don't think you understand the pain that the cooks and their economic program have been in communities and down the. public

services that you use will buy you 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 were headed in the cool to work and they're not even in the government's own tents they're not wiccan that deficit is go with it because more people are up with the benefits that bill is go with 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 buffett with investments in jobs investment in communities and the government piece it swallow its pride and go for plan because plan a just isn't working and i think we're going to see lots of different forms of protest people come paying into local communities open down the can change some cases that will mean people take in. will stay with us here on our t.v. still to come mission unaccomplished latest attempt to challenge israel's sea blockade of gaza failed as a vessel for palestinian activists as it is intercepted by israeli forces.

now listen now. i'm warning you if you keep screwing up like this we'll show you some different treatment of choice warning first top flight footballers sinister threats and all rounds fired at a russian premier league team by masked man this and more after the break. a texas mom was arrested and thrown in jail orange jumpsuit and all for neglecting her kids who are playing in front of her house for just a little while a concerned neighbor and sort of say walking across the street you know to talk to an attendant children to find out what's going on went to the total sheep mode and immediately called nine. and one because children playing it is truly an emergency worth the police's time but i guess it was worth their time because they showed up

and slap the cuffs on the mother who claimed that she was there the whole time and of course to punish you for ignoring your children briefly while they play you'll get thrown behind bars because that makes sense where does this culture of fear come from if you leave your kids alone on your own property why does that mean that they are certainly going to die there are dangers out there believe me but living in constant fear abuses your children far worse that's just my opinion. and. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images of the world from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day to get.

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only. do the. science technology innovation all the developments around russia. thanks for staying with us here on r t thirteen minutes past the hour now gunshots echoed in beirut where protests triggered by the death of a top security official in friday's car bombing in the capital rage on some rallies have turned violent with two reportedly injured after the army opened fire on one

of the road blocks with burning tires the opposition's called for an indefinite strike and for the government to be dissolved parties are really delusion go. and we have protests all over the country essentially last night and they continue with this afternoon there was a huge gathering at the capital beirut but that's of course not the only place where people are protesting the pros are thinking that other towns as well they're blocking roads they're burning tires now back to the reason for this and rest of them all the people were killed on friday atop a police official who was known for his severe and syrian stance thousands of workers are now out on the streets saying that it was syria that was behind the blast in beirut something which the city hasn't seen in a 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 beirut 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 that the prime minister has filed a petition for his nation to the president but the president refused so we have these acts of protest we have the people who are supporters off the killed official who are saying that syria is to blame they're also calling for the un peacekeeping force 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 that it's unclear at the moment is being spilled into the neighboring country into lebanon. some lebanese politicians blame syria for the deadly blast saying the security official killed was a hardline opponent of the assad regime political analysts sharmeen are want to be root that was skeptical of the allegations. it's not very feasible and it wasn't very feasible that. the 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 situations people would wait for an investigation to get at least a little bit of evidence on the way before making at 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 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 that is not a positive sign for lebanon for more expert opinion on the possible link between the lebanon blast and the conflict around you can syria head to r.t. dot com where there is more video coverage there can also voice share your voice on who you think is to blame in our online discussion. gaza blockade activists have been taken to a detention center while their vessel is being held in the israeli port of ashdod

during israel's more than five year blockade of gaza a series of attempts to reach enclave have been prevented by the military in two thousand and ten an open confrontation happened when nine turkish activists were killed by israeli naval forces victory a stretch the spokes person for the vessels says they'll continue their missions to bring international attention to the injustice of israel's occupation. we didn't have an equal tactic on not to make any telephone call or contact relatives we only got information. from i.d.f. that today are now for. transportation because they were taking way back out to the international troops and it has been said to us that if they do need to pay probably a paper route illegally entering. israeli waters or something like that then they will be taken to prison what we can achieve is that we can make the

international community to focus on the fact that the blockade still is going all that it is a siege a go on and to get it is getting worse year by year and what we are doing is actually walked a w.h.o. nearly seth save the children and fifty other n.g.o.s are saying that just see the blockade has to end it is now its sixth year and they also say that there are. two walter situation fuel situation the health situation is deteriorating dettori eighteen all the time. russian oil giant rosneft is a step closer toward becoming the world's biggest listed producer firms understood to be on the verge of getting the british share of the t.n. key b.p. joint venture in one of the most expensive industrial deals ever peter all for us.

but it's a deal it's been a long time in the coming and it would seem according to the front page of russian newspaper comments on saturday that it caused being done now that deal will see role sniffed the buyouts b.p.'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 on the scent of roast next stop this old politics plan to try and take over all of t.n. k b d though the indication with b.p.'s russian partners a all to buy out the other half of the company if they can do that then roll staff will become the largest publicly traded oil company in the world but this no reward without risk in the risk what roles nifty is taking in buying out to be paid is that they willing could debts of upwards of sixty billion dollars to put that in a little context not says as much as some european nations have and that's

nationally. so it's an awful lot of money their money in debt that they'll be taking on 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 for them here in 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 nest and to get a slice of roads they have to be tension 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 rosneft and b.p. bobs in the future but when we get compensation it is certainly going through a bring it all here. still a tough call as to hole when the us presidential election so a lot hinges on monday's final t.v. debate artie's been in new york to ask whether the republican candidate written mitt romney has a chance to pull a key swing state from under president obama's nose.

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 but yeah what do you do about it want to make sure you go vote for brock. and tweet about her right now so much of people on the street they talk about this i mean if mitt romney wins i'm moving in canada. is that then by 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 green libertarian conservative whatever just to break the halls of the two party system and if he's a she that wouldn't be a bad either right to say what i want to magically said he this is no use to that does it concern you that there's things like best in our country in general for 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. party special coverage of the fight for the white house starts monday bringing you more analysis and there's r.t.

dot coms up close section for the latest on the events in the run up to the vote. will there be who are going to run. for the business of the offensive. against us election. to the pretty secular. turning now to some other stories making global headlines at least twenty three people killed in the outbreak of violence by radical islam a second boko haram in nigeria the sect is accused of being responsible for the deaths of nearly seven hundred people this year the religious faction is carrying out a bloody guerrilla fight against nigeria's government demanding the implementation of sharia law the. prince of luxembourg europe's last bachelor in line to ascend the throne has finally tied the knot prince and his new wife belgian countess stefani to annoy exchanged vows on saturday in the country's main cathedral the wedding brought international attention to the one with one of the world's smallest states with both european work royalty and tourists sharing in the celebration.

kaiser report up next after the break stay with us. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the lawn ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes up many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious tele cation. salem's to become and herds cattle as part of this preparation. however these beasts get a musical company. base you're a menace sound sequences you know they react to the sound signals the fruits the

herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just a fun thing but these meadows didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. they grow their own crops find their own fish and repair their own churches. but the central purpose of alarm has always been religious the main ministry is surrounded by smaller priories spread through the many archipelago the monks here know their existence is a little different from that of other ministries here we are out of the way and we do have. bill creams and song times tourists as well but only. tranquility

is just hardly. the. distant combination of high religion and down to earth hard work that motivates these men. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. download the official application to choose your language stream quality and

enjoy your favorites. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time. i am asked guys are going to cause a report let me tell you about the very rich they are different from you in may they live in an economy that isn't plunging a place where the bridges and banks not collapsed yes the elite reside in a world with a health system and where one can actually retire it 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 states your

number. 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. and so the us is currently eighteenth globally in terms of economic freedom and this is the lowest position it's ever been usually it's up a number two or three and what has caused the drop well according to the report on the economic freedom the number one reason ramifications from the wars on terrorism and drugs well you know 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 postum all. the permanent present state. is going to present

business it's very lucrative business states you know all my money invested in american prisons because as he's flipped in any it's continue to allow themselves to be incarcerated for profit ok 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 mortgages from one group of investors i.e. the pension funds and transfer it to some hedge funds and private equity guys who didn't come in and they had a.