the deceased stronghold of gadhafi supporters in libya faces an assault by army linked militias we take a look at why the country still gripped by chaos and fear after western backed rebels. scuffles between police and protesters in london where tens of thousands marched in the latest show of anger against austerity that's sweeping europe. and a day of rage in lebanon with gunshots reported amid the violent protests in the capital beirut demanding the prime minister step down after a deadly car bombing friday.

six am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story libya's army and loyalist militias are readying for a final assault on the city of bani walid where supporters of the old regime have been under siege for more than two weeks the youngest son of colonel khadafi commies has been killed in a battle that came a year after the longtime libyan leader i've been toppled just to warn you some of the images in our report are disturbing more than a dozen people including children killed and many more injured attacks during this blockade residents say they are short on medicine water and food turmoil in bani walid seen as one side of continuing disarray that's reigned in the country since the western backed revolt as artie's guy named reports. a year after the killing of number cannot feed 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 been.

shelling parts of the country which were considered khadafi strongholds that bombing it from the air and rockets because they knew when he 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 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 is that 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 we did national shoot 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 know anything can happen to them last year coalition forces armed leave 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 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 is 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 leading leaders. 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 he's 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 they're anonymous reports that the cia is asking for more drone 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 the political analyst and glazebrook thinks even if the libyan army is successful in the see gadhafi supporters are routed the country may still spiral into 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 armed 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 the central government clearly seems devoid of all of thirty. there been scuffles between police and protesters in central london after a big march against austerity measures tens of thousands took to the streets of the

british capital in anger against painful cuts being forced on the prime minister david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions to come for the struggling economy sarah ferguson was among a crowd of thousands of people have taken to the streets of london today and announce the all star it's a much older lies by the trade union. message is against the concept they say a lot like the economy now there are people from all walks of life there are no us is worried about. there are police officers all feed room worried about the frontline services and among the people you see 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 me and. my son to stevie's paying the uncrowned even fees i work in the legal aid is being caught so we won't be three

hundred people and i won't be able to get the same help from my. daughters or terrible situation for everyone so we marching against the cuts and she's marching situations where you. know marching say my future is now because it's not just britain it's been a thanks to the all star. europe lloyd effect zero crisis. taking great the specially in the last month in spain in greece all across the year i say to people simply saying that they've had enough here in london. possibly into the hundreds and thousands maybe even more they've come out here today to march against the austerity. when the organizers of saturday's massive protest says britain's decision makers are out of touch with the plight of ordinary people on. the pain there. cults in their economic program have been in communities up and down the claim to have its public services that usual 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 heads in and the work and that's even in the government's own tend to they're not wiccan that deficit is go we don't because more people are up with the benefits that bill is go with the only way to be reduced to deficits 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 investments in communities and the government needs to swallow its pride and go for plan b. because plan a just isn't working and i think we're going to see lots of different forms of protest people come pain into local communities up and down the can change some cases that will mean people taking action to. stay with us here on our team lost more headed your way including this fail at sale the latest attempt to reach the blockaded gaza ends with a multiple detention as israeli forces seize a vessel brain pro palestinian activist blocking their ship in port plus. now

listen now. i'm warning you if you keep screwing up like this we'll show you some different treatment a chilling warning for some top flight soccer players sinister threats and paint ball rounds fired at a russian premier league team by masked man this and more still to come. what's the strangest attempt of a military take on. the u.s. president trying to overthrow a foreign country's government but his strategic game. and america recognized its defeat. questioning steve cuban manage to cope with the expectorant all don't talk at all for anything from god. i leave you think you are you go by. the rock. the cuban missile crisis.

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her staying with us here on r t twelve minutes past the hour now gunshots echoed in beirut where protests triggered by the death of a top security official in a friday car bombing in the capital rage on some rallies turning violent with two people reportedly injured after the army opened fire in one of the roads blocked with burning tires the opposition's called for an indefinite strike and for the prime minister to step down in the wake of the incident our teams are really delusional has been. we have heard. 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 their browser thing and that other towns as well they're blocking roads they're burning tires back to the reason the for the some rest of them all the people were killed on. a talk by 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 the 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 that the prime minister has there filed a petition for his admission 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 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 some lebanese politicians blaming syria for the deadly blast saying the security official killed was a hardline opponent of the assad regime political analysts sharmeen are wanted though in be reduced 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 for 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 it is not a positive sign for lebanon for expert analysis and opinion on the possible connection between the lebanon blast and the syrian conflict click on our t.v. dot com where there's lots more coverage you can also give us your voice on who you think is to blame in our online discussion and also long lines an attack on the french president's intelligence francois label that any idiot by a paris socialite after a recent move to cut the deficit plus. the. passion for fashion the latest trend to pick at walk of sadie's benz fashion week here in moscow all the details on our website.

the latest attempt to reach blockaded gaza by sea is failed as israeli forces detain thirty pro palestinian activists and seize their boat the vessels now docked in israeli port after the military plane you know commanded tarion aid was bound aboard none of the more than ten foreign boats trying to reach palestinians in israeli blockade on leave has succeeded over the last five years the most violent confrontation in two thousand and ten when nine turkish activists were killed by naval forces in toria strand a spokesperson for the seas chip says their main goal is to bring international attention to the injustice of israel's occupation. we didn't have any quality tech to you are not allowed to make and telephone calls or contact to relatives we only got to information the from israel leave from idea that they are now ashore

after a long transportation because they were taking way back out on the international troops and it has been said to us that if they don't just scientists there are probably a paper of illegally entering israeli war 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 book a still is going on that it is a siege going on and it to get it is getting worse year by year and do what we are doing is actually walk to w.h.o. unis seth save the children and fifty other n.g.o.s are saying death to see each blockade has to end it is now it sixty years and he also say that there are. water situation fuel situation the health situation is deteriorating

dettori ate all the time. russian oil giant ross nafta step closer to becoming the world's biggest listed producer the firm is understood to be on the verge of getting the british share of the. joint venture one of most expensive industrial deals ever or he's peter all for has more votes 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 to eighteen percent of gross nest stuff now this is all politics rosettes fun to try and take over all of t.n. k b p they're currently in the case with b.p.'s russian partners

a ought 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 well the reward without risk in the risk what role sniffed is taking. by how 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 in debt 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 didn't want to be out of russia they just wanted an end to their partnership in t a k b p well they really want is to do business with rose nest and to get a slice of roast 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 at this is certainly going through a bring it all. they are now to. the u.s. presidential race still neck and neck as to who will win and a lot could hinge on monday's final t.v. debate artie's resident in new york laurie harshness is asking whether republican candidate mitt romney has a chance to pull a key swing state out from under president barack obama. 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 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 brock and. tweet about her right now so much of people on the street they talk about the i mean if mitt romney wins a movie in canada. it's that simple that simple one of my fittest 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 the two party system and if he's a she that wouldn't be bad either right so i want to magically say he says 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'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. our two special coverage of the fight for the white house starts now. on day bring you more analysis and coverage and those are a special section on our web site up close to find the latest events on the run up to the vote. will there be. or is the offensive. actually going to be pretty secular. churning out of some other stories making headlines worldwide at least eleven people have been killed forty eight injured after two bomb blasts in iraq in the deadly attack twin explosions went off near

a shia shrine in baghdad al qaeda believed responsible in another attempt to stoke sectarian tensions. luxembourg's prince europe's last bachelor in line to ascend the throne is finally tied the knot prince and his new wife belgians countess stefanutto annoyed they exchanged vows saturday in the country's main cathedral the wedding brought international attention to one of the world's smallest countries with both european royalty and tourists sharing the festivities. a not so warm welcome players from the russian premier league football club denominate have been hit with paint ball bullets during a training session no one was hurt but it's deeply angered fans and players that russian soccer archy's endure farmer explains what more. dinara is a club have issued a statement that says that these were the actions of idiots and 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 issue violent threats 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 garani and a boa sported 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 this image would come out today and state that some of the plays are feeling frightened what's more the union for russian players and coaches says it believes the nama massacre was actually encouraged fans were given the signal that fans that it is ok to shoot threats to the players in addition to the paper will instantly to pay some friday leaflets

were also left at the ground showing the faces of board in our midst foreign plays and alongside their faces were the words we do not want charity in the villages anymore it would be noble warnings to get rid of them so you can say sounds very intimidating stuff on the general point you could argue that perhaps the foreign plays were shown were highlighted because they are among the highest in this club the number of fans the whole after strikes just a 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 primarily in the d.c. third from bottom in the table to risk concern amongst the players for what happened as we say over the last twenty four hours but also coming on the back of that series instead into were extraordinary incident perhaps we should call it that took place but their training ground last month. because a report on the way after a short break stay with us.

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