machine gun and rifle warning shots are fired in beirut as a supposedly peaceful protest against the syrian leader. with opposition and flags in the crowds. a deadly blast rocked damascus as the u.n. peace envoy meets the syrian president to try and broker a truce in the conflict torn country. and other stories that shape the week dozens are killed as the former stronghold of moammar gadhafi sees another assault by pro-government militias a year after the western backed libyan revolt his family is trapped in the besieged city.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. mass protests in the lebanese capital have descended into riots with the army firing tear gas to control hundreds of angry demonstrators they tried to storm the government headquarters in beirut after the funerals of those killed in friday's car bombing. in the region following the developments. started off as a potentially a peaceful and rather more and from our chat during the funeral of the police official who was killed on friday in the bar less that one often and it got some people then several hundreds of those people branched out and went on to storm he office of the prime minister they were the ones who had flags up the free syrian army or rather the syrian opposition and also all kind of once they got there they started throwing rocks and of course they were met with

a very heavy police presence when trends started firing tear gas and also fired several rounds of live shots into air is believed that several people were heard but not by the gunshots just as much as that followed the protests which are going on for essentially a third day now began after the. who are in the christian quarter of the road on friday afternoon killing eight people among them police intelligence chief. who is known for his acting and serious stance and a lot of his supporters are saying that in fact it's the syria that was behind terror acts in the route on friday they were the ones who began the protests which started on friday evening which continues to saturday that called for a day of rage on sunday we do know that the situation being has subsided but there was heavy gunfire when you then the town of tripoli as well as on the outskirts of

beirut earlier today i heard spoken to what the situation in lebanon and will bring the voices. a growing number of lebanese accuse the regime in neighboring syria for friday's deadly blast but international relations professor mark almond says the assad regime is the last to benefit from the situation. if you think about the legacy of the murder of her career in two thousand and five that played very heavily against syria whoever did it to stand by in salute you pinkos been trying. for me it seems unlikely that assad's government directly would want to be involved in this because it's all too easy to point the finger at them they are seen demonized in west maybe outside groups use it as we're talking on the other hand perhaps there are cynical people who thought this would be a very good way of getting outside forces him aside and maybe they then decided that for. the least for gigi was expendable that could have happened we don't know

the could be an entirely internal lebanese reason rural sort so if you are not a political registrar rues the business trip maffia rivalries too and so i think to leap to conclusions the moment although it's very tempting in this huge pressure to do it is rather dangerous. in syria itself a car explosion hit the massacres on sunday killing at least thirteen people and wounding dozens of others a taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station in a busy district no one has admitted the blast which is the latest in a series of deadly bombings in syria's biggest cities in the past few months previously rebels and al-qaeda linked groups said they were behind such attacks the latest blast came as the international peace envoy met the syrian president to try him with a temporary ceasefire lines in the civil conflict if he had a joint chief of the syrian tribune media channel and blog believes the blast is aimed at the reigning any peace efforts in syria then both the money they are trying to destroy what they were bringing me is trying to do obviously there are countries that are not happy about. any success that they've got he may have it all

depends on the will of the countries backing the rebels the rebel groups are all controlled from the outside if somebody gives money weapons and means of communication this means they can control iraq and this country is can have that i will cease fire in forty eight hours or even less if they are if they have their will see the rebels have absolutely no prospect of achieving what they want all what can happen at the moment is a longing to struggle to weaken syria more and more and this is what we are syrians hope will not happen. there's been a new spate of violence in the deadly siege of the town of bani walid in libya a traditional stronghold of ex libyan leader muammar gaddafi the libyan army and the loyalist militia have been shelling the town accusing those inside of kidnappings r.t. has spoken to one man whose families are currently in bani walid and he asked us to shield his identity while he explain what's happening there because he tells us

he's scared reason you might find some of the video we're about to show you just. i have of course from my family in there told me that the situation there right there is really hard it. is hard of all. kind of. everywhere in the city the civilians building our fallen down even the hospital we don't have a lot of medicine right now the house the hospital keep in the world of people outside from the hospital three weeks there is no food can go inside but only because of the militias that it's around but already the clause in the rolls that it's the food and if there are women been away from the three sides they used the house would be very good guys and i actually found even a gas mask recording of the hospital very clearly that the civilians there. and hundreds of gathered in the libyan capital to protest against the bani walid bombings they've reportedly broken into the area around the country's parliament

and to be attacks that have left dozens dead and hundreds injured in the past few days and online we more about the country's troubles which are piling up a year after the revolution which was strongly backed by western countries. police in kuwait have used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse angry demonstrators over a change to electoral law they cues a government of a constitutional he won't seem regular democratic reform protests for more than a year let's hear now from geo political analyst eric draitser from stop imperialism com joining me live now here from new york where does she waits political crisis stem from and just how severe is the situation there right now. well i think that the political crisis stems from the structural formation of the kuwait state i suppose we could call it the fact of the matter is that the type of government that exists in kuwait as in bahrain or and qatar this this type of feudal monarchy as i would call it this is something that is a relic of

a bygone era and i think that people in the region have seen in the wake of the arab spring democratization process that is taking place in certain parts of the arab world and then they look at their own countries like bahrain and kuwait for example and they see that they don't have any real political rights at least not by twenty first century standards so i think that the rage is real the indignation is real and it's spilling over into the streets as we've seen in the past but what about the regime itself how robust is it. well the regime in kuwait is a little complex i would say because it's true that there is a significant welfare state element in kuwait i think that the people there generally enjoy a standard of living that is higher than their neighbors in the region but at the same time it is still an emirate it is still run by a central figure with fifteen tauriel powers who can dissolve the parliament as the leadership in kuwait has done i believe six times in the last five years. and the

pressures from within just how vulnerable is the country from the pressures around that from all the tensions we're seeing in the arab region. i think it's i think it's incredibly vulnerable i would say that even the ruling class in saudi arabia and in qatar and in bahrain and in kuwait i think they're all vulnerable what the arab spring has started it's not reshaped the region exactly along democratic lines but we have seen this upsurge of democratic sentiment and it's very difficult for these i would call them backwards states to to to stem this tide of democratization when they see all around and the effects in say a place like egypt. is kuwait's relationship with the west how would you describe that when kuwait has long been a client state of the united states and more and more kuwait plays a. central role in the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council kuwait has been used as a weapon by the u.s.

hold in the region along the person in gulf and kuwait continues to fill that role it's a country that we don't hear so much about in the headlines but it is very much part and parcel of us a gemini in the middle east and you raise a point in point is a country don't hear much about in the headlines but what about these demonstrations in kuwait and of course bahrain they they cannot be on notice by the international spotlight why is that. well it's very simple because the the western media which is controlled by the same interests which control wall street the western media it's not in their interest to tell the story of rain or of kuwait in bahrain the united states has military interests as well as political and propaganda interests bahrain is a client of the saudis which is in turn a client of the united states kuwait similarly is also a client state and for that reason you don't hear about rand but human rights abuses you don't hear about the attack on working people the way you do in places

like libya or syria which were long since on the u.s. hit list from stop imperialism dot com thanks for joining us live on r.t. thank you bill. separate his elan e.u. states could get another boost in spain which is holding regional elections from independence parties a widely expected to win in the basque region a challenge for the beleaguered government which also faces separatism calls in catalonia economic growth of consolidated a says the debt crisis is the main reason behind the desire to break away. with economic problems and economic discontent you have the urge to split away from the majority because you feel that the majority as a minority you feel that the majority is not cognizant of your problems is not helping you to overcome them and it's a certain kind of blinders that the minorities will have that they feel that they are not being taken care of when in fact everybody suffer equal he and this is the case in spain everybody suffering under the sea and step by step alone ians by them each independent region each of you just on this region feels

a day in particular are being made to suffer and it's in fact the entire country to suffer the huge unemployment issue in spain fifty percent youth unemployment and twenty five percent adult unemployment and the problem of these fire a. crisis that spain faces which is not going to have a happy ending and which is going to require drastic cuts. and just said generalized economic reboot of the country and that's why you're seeing so much protest and so much political gains from the independents who are. well similar separatists moves over in britain with scotland to the north gearing up to ask these people whether it's time to break free while down south it's been the great r. of london around one hundred thousand in the capital rallied against the deep social cost being imposed by need is more right after the short break.

green party candidate jill stein was arrested for trying to enter the presidential debate at hofstra university and now i know why there's never a third party candidate at the debates because the cops left the cuffs on them when they try to get in we all know we have a two party system so why do we lie to ourselves and pretend it's not that way it's the lying that bothers me it's the illusion that you have the freedom of choice when there are only two real options cut out the games just make the two party system the law of the land just make the two parties part of the government make their inner workings transparent and bound by the law and make it clear to every american that there are only two real ladders to climb to power stop lying to me and to everyone else about this democracy stuff where forty percent of the country are independents with virtually no representation either cut the lies and make the two party system the law or make your lies become true by letting the candidates

like jill stein and gary johnson have a simple conversation with obama and romney on t.v. if they're indeed extremists then this should show through at the debates right there's nothing scary about competition in an election but that's just my opinion. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images cobol has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are the day. the gold fever. turns out his hands into slaves. my father but also among

brotherhood involved in the mines and since i started working at the moment i stay here i look at it and feel multinationals. a cash cow to be milked dry and if i think that in this country gold medal logie as an environmental cost which is unacceptable to local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace . we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups watch prices colombia going to pay. the price of the modest effect on r.t. . will there be who are on the rise. friend or foe is missile defense offensive. stuff the us election close

october twenty second on our. news continues here in r.t.e. knife in moscow there's a similar push against cuts in britain where around a hundred thousand people turned out in london to protest against a sturdy a similar reaction to what we're seeing in europe of course scuffles erupted immediately after the marches hundreds of protesters broke away and tried to storm the shops so today's rally in london was organized by trade unions and attracted people from across the country minister david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions for the struggling economy surfer was among the. many people that turned out that is against the cuts they say have flatlined 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 room worried about cuts the frontline services in amongst the people he seemed 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 cars getting worse my son to stephen is paying nine grand a year in fees i work in the tree sector and legal aid is being so we work with three hundred people and i 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 now because it's not just britain that's been affected the start because of europe wide of the euro crisis rumbles all we see disparity i guess taking great the specially in the last month in spain in greece all across the year i say that people simply saying that they've had enough here in london as we said thousands of the come out here to march against the austerity. the rally in britain echoed feelings elsewhere in europe with angry

crowds gathering in spain in greece tens of thousands of greeks to set upon athens as a nationwide strike but on the way clashing with police and adric parents teachers and students marched to condemn imminent government cuts to education and caps three days of industrial action but the hands on the purse strings are moving further away from national capitals with e.u. leaders agreed to give even more powers to brussels of a deal that would bring centralised banking supervision but research at jerome root says no summit will help solve the crisis until it tackles the root cause. there's one thing that we've learned over the past couple of years is that when you're in the u.s. say something about this grace is they usually mean the exact opposite and on one side on the say the end of the phrase inside probably means it's been resistant into the pressure that greenspan next to one of contracts in the economy contracts but the point that employment things are pretty. different regions and speed which are the main suspects are actually two factions forces on the right briefly give

you a move that we haven't seen since the one nine hundred thirty for the region what's happening there is that stress is actually spinning out of the old things are getting a lot worse and the stomach completely fair has to address any of the structural problems which include most importantly the deadly embrace between the financial sector which is completely insolvent and a series of states which are completely over and. well coming up later in the program america's main presidential hopefuls get one last chance to get on the t.v. to win over voters on monday and the race couldn't be tighter. leaving other parties and independent candidates out of the picture plus. big bigger biggest russia's rosneft is in line to be the world's largest listed all producer as britain the peak plans to get rid of its troubled part in the joint russian venture. stores. come first the cia wants to expand its fleet of drones and try to

tap the white house to green light the move earlier this week it would have the pentagon to potentially increase its lethal operations abroad including regular strikes in pakistan the cia's request came shortly after new troubling statistics emerged on attacks that officially target militants pakistan's interior minister said that the more than two thousand people killed by american drones eighty percent were civilians but as she from pakistan's first political lobbying group says washington is only creating more militants with its tactics. this is a major blow to us diplomacy and position and box done and this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement there's no evidence that the drones have actually helped buckstone control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful lives in the military in flushing out a terrorist from the northern region of so wide that in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that entire area and if now we see

a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorists it is because of these safe havens on the what i would call the american side of the border which is the afghan side of the border ninety six incursions from the of gun territory into pakistan resulting in killing of bucks and soldiers and bugs and civilians. has all to play for in monday's funnelling crucial debate between the main us presidential candidates as polls put the record bomber mitt romney neck and neck and while the trade soundbites in georgetown nationwide t.v. again the other contenders are being shoved to the margins party presidential nominee jill stein and her running mate rested this week after trying to make their way to the venue for last tuesday's debate stein blames the system for knocking out nearly a third of the country's population at the upcoming election when his party campaign manager believes the two party domination is down to outdated laws and corporate control. the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the u.s.

but we do have laws on the books all across the country and we also have the actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to kill voters that choice those laws date from the cold war they date from the mccarthy era in which there was a fear of communism and socialism and they tried to make it very difficult for a progressive party some particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of those challenges joel stein is on eighty five percent of the ballots yet they're still preventing her from taking part in the debate if you look at the success of the green party despite all the obstacles we face it says that there is a great demand for the greens people vote for the greens here in the u.s. . well to help keep the voters' choice open you know the candidates get to come through the mainstream media blackout in their own televised debate brought to you by all of the america we're also keeping

a close eye on the upcoming election on our web site. well there are these who are on the run. for dismissal of the offensive. against the us election it took a pretty secular. it emerged this week that a new company could take the title of being the world's biggest listed all producer and it could be russian giant or last nifty after britain's b.p. moved toward selling its fifty percent stake of its joint venture in russia t.n. k b.p. in return b.p. gets fifteen percent of around seventeen billion dollars in cash the state owned or major actually wants to get its hands on all of teen k.b.p.s. and the parity holding talks with its other shareholders if signed the overall deal is set to become the second biggest oil agreements ever. when a new top dog in global oil is bound to have some ramifications across the industry and r.t. dotcoms business section outlines what they could be cheated out of the website.

well coming up in just a few minutes from now insight into europe's tough choices ahead and why a short sharp shock could be needed this is the weekly on arctic. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so horrifying you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and 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. the new super secret lover touring the two mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot of which all unfortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about

humans and world this is why you should care only on the dog call. for a north austin terrorist attack. ex hostages let us into their lives after the tragedy. still gives try to cross over the past. because their future. be written. surviving terrorism ten years on our team. download the official. language stream quality and

enjoy your favorites. to watch. any time. and how can the truth be revealed if there's no official evidence there was a very bright day to the service make a search. to the people of this country generally because of radio like the full. the secrets of the.

wealthy british. find out what's really happening to the global economy. headline news to report. it.

wall. the gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. my father a little son brother is involved in the monsoon and since i started working at the mine i stayed here to look at it. says multinationals. is a cash cow to be milked dry and if i think that in this country is gold medal edgy as an environmental cost which is an acceptable local business was labeled illegal

and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. most of us don't we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups what price is colombia going to pay. the full the modest affects on r.t. . i'm joined today by dr max also a professor of political administration and author of the books investing rather than saving and the delightfully optimistically titled the crisis is coming to talk to us a thanks very much for speaking to me now gerri currently finds itself in a relatively decent position economically can it keep that up.