the seed stronghold of gadhafi supporters in libya facing an assault by army legal issues we look at why the country still gripped by chaos a year after the western backed revolt. scuffles between police and protesters in london where tens of thousands marched in the latest show of anger against austerity that's been sweeping europe. a day of rage in lebanon with gunshots reportedly made by a one protest in the capital demanding the prime minister step down after a deadly car explosion friday.

it's seven am in moscow i'm at très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the libyan army and loyalist militias are readying for their 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 qadhafi commies has also been killed in a battle that comes a year after the longtime libyan leader was toppled from power just to warn you some of the images in our reporting are graphic more than a dozen people including children have been killed many more injured during attacks during this blockade residents say they are short on food medicine and water turmoil and seen as just one sign of continuing disarray that's reigned in libya since the western backed profile was artie's gannett she reports. a year after the killing of warmer khadafi not only has the new government of libya immediately illegal to criticize the favorite revolution of last year but

a group of militias affiliated with the country's defense ministry is the 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 we're told 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 a 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're pointed out the main ones

tripoli being ghazi is in town and misrata each of them has their own army of musha 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 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 amid 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. . to oust moammar gadhafi today the country was 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 all sorts of stripes it's chaotic forces in libya well those are the weapons that the most they have the chance is not to be just as eager to get out tribal without all that but 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 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 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. middle east analyst dan glazebrook things even if the libyan army succeeds in the siege and

gadhafi supporters are routed there 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 are militias if they do manage to storm into finding really and take control there as well will actually represent the end of this relative period of of stability and calm in bani walid and i was going to make that worse is the massive 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 trolls and 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 tens of thousands took to the streets of the british capital angry against the painful cuts being forced on them prime minister david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions ahead for the struggling economy arkansas referred reports. thousands of people have taken to the streets of london today and announce he'll start the much older lies by the trade unions. many people have turned 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 feed the world worried about cut the frontline services and among the people you see marching here today many many families are full 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 cars getting worse my son to stephen he's paying nine grand 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 house for my next year no one died you always want to travel to georgia for every one of the three marching against the cuts and she's marching straight she's waiting. and marching say my future is banks now because it's not just person that's been affected the start because if you're employed at the euro crisis rumbles on we see. taking great the specially in the last month in spain in greece all across the usa the people simply saying that they've had enough here in london. possibly into the hundreds and thousands maybe even more than the come out here today to march against the austerity. when the organizers of saturday's massive protest says britain's decision makers are completely out of touch with the plight of ordinary people and i just don't think. the pain that that

culture. their economic program has been in communities up and down the claim to have its 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 will head in and the courts work and they're not even in the ten to they're not within 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 investments in communities and the government lease it 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 paying into local communities up and down the can change some cases that will mean people taking action. fail ad sales still to come by latest attempt to reach the blockade of gaza ends with multiple detention rarely forces seize a vessel bringing pro palestinian activists locking their ship at port and. now

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there was a huge gathering at the capital beirut but that's of course not the only place where people are protesting the crowds are thinking that other towns as well they're blocking roads they're burning tires now back to the reason for the some rest of them all the people were killed on friday atop a police official who was known for his severe ankle syrian stance thousands of workers are now on the streets saying that it's syria that will behind the blast in beirut something. he 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 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 admission to the president by the president refused it so we have these acts of protest we have the people who are supporters off of me killed

official who are saying that syria is to blame they are also calling for the un peacekeeping force and to come in and lined 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 are blaming syria for the deadly blast saying the security official killed was a hard line opponent of the assad regime political analysts sharmeen are want to go in beirut is skeptical so far though one of the allegations. but 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 situation 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 that is not a positive sign for lebanon for more expert opinion analysis on any possible connection between the lebanon blast and the syria conflict click over to our t dot com where those plenty more coverage can also add your voice to the scotian on who you think is to blame in our online debate also on line of attack on the french president's intelligence francoise along labeled a media via paris socialite after a recent move to cut the country's deficit plus. passion for fashion the latest trends hit the catwalk overseas bens fashion week here in moscow ahead on line for all the details are t.v. dot com.

the latest attempt to attempt to reach a blockaded gaza by sea is failed as israeli forces detain thirty pro palestine activists and seize their vessel the boats now docked in an israeli port after a military plane go humanitarian aid supplies were found aboard none of the more than ten four and ships trying to reach palestinians in the road like he did enclave has succeeded over the last five years the most violent kind of. taishan in two thousand and ten when nine turkish activists were killed by israeli naval forces victorious drowned though a spokesperson for this sea vessel says their main goal is to bring international attention to the injustice of israel's occupation. and we didn't have an equal tactic are not allowed to make and telephone calls or contact to relatives we only

got to information from israeli from i.d.f. that today are now. off to a long transportation because they were taking way back out on the international waters and it has been said to us that if they don't to scientists they are probably a paper of illegally entering israeli war tourists 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 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 just teach the blockade has to end it is now its sixth year and to you also say that there are.

water situation she will situation the health situation is deteriorating dettori eighteen all the time. russian oil giant eros now after a step closer to becoming the world's biggest listed producer the firm's thought to be on the verge of getting the british share of the t.i.n.k. b.p. joint venture one of the most expensive industrial deals ever archy's peter all over as 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 and hundred percent of gross nest stock now this is all

parts of fun to try and take over all of t.n. k b p they're currently in the. b.p. russian partners a all to buy out the other call for 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. buying out b.p. 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 been 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 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 an end to their partnership in t a k b p what they really want is to do business with rose sniffed and to get

a slice of roast them to tension new groups of 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 have to be bob's in the future but when we get compensation it is certainly going through a bring it all day on. turning now to some other stories making global headlines at least eleven people killed forty eight injured after dual bomb blasts in iraq the deadly attack twin bomb explosions went off near a shia shrine in baghdad al qaeda thought to be responsible in another attempt to stoke sectarian violence. hundred marched in guatemala city in protest over the deaths of six rural workers killed by police demonstrators carried crosses and place them near the presidential palace commemorating the dead and workers were shot by police during protests over alleged tricity prices in education reform earlier this month. twenty three people killed in a recent outbreak of violence by the radical islam

a sect boko haram in nigeria the sect accused of being responsible for the deaths of nearly seven hundred people this year the religious faction is carrying on a bloody guerrilla war against nigeria's government demanding the implementation of sharia law in the country. luxembourg's prince europe's last bachelor in line to ascend the throne is finally tied the knot prince gilman his new wife belgium's countess stephanie illinois have exchanged vows saturday in the country's main cathedral the wedding brought international attention to the one of the world's smallest states with both european royalty entering sharing in the festivities. still a neck and neck race for the u.s. presidential vote and a lot hinges on monday's final t.v. debate artie's resident in new york is asking now whether republican candidate mitt romney has a chance to pull a key swing state from under president 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 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 you know 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 i mean if mitt romney wins a movie in canada. is that then that simple one of my fist houses one day they'd be a third party would win the election no it didn't matter does it matter where the you know greedy libertarian conservative whatever just to break the halls of two

party system and if he's a she that wouldn't be bad either right so i'm going to magically said 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 involved 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. arjen special coverage of the fight for the white house starts monday bring you more analysis and coverage you can also find more on our web site we've got

a special up close section giving you the latest events on the road up to the vote . will there be who are going to run. for these missile defense in the sense of. us election. to the secular. finally in this news block i'm not so warm welcome players from russian premier football club did now my will have been hit with paint ball bullets during a training session no one was hurt but it's a deeply angered fans and players throughout russian soccer artes and to a farmer has more. to naras the club have issued a statement that says that these were the actions of idiots in it 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 traits 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 cash any of you in in a club 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 for the minute so i mean once you've heard that you perhaps can then understand why they denominate feel it is a vision this image would come out today and state some of the players are feeling frightened what's more the union for russian players and coaches says it believes the nama i stick up is actually encourage fans of getting the signal to fans that it is ok to shoot threats to the players in addition to the pay the instant it to pay some friday leaflets were also left at the ground showing the faces of poor in our midst foreign plays and alongside their faces were the words we do not want to charity move loses any more it would be noble warnings get rid of so you can say so

very intimidating stuff on the general point you could argue that perhaps the form plays were shown were highlighted there because they are among the highest in this club the number of fans the whole offer straight at the moment because it is that same with great history in russia but it has lost what it has only won three of the last nine games in the russian primarily in the d.c. third from bottom in the table to risk concern amongst the players for what's happened as we say over the last twenty four hours but also coming on the back of that series instead into which jordan against the batteries you call it that took place for their training ground last month. now we had to sochi for a look at mt life in the host city of the two thousand and fourteen winter games that's still to come stay with us.

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