warning shots fired from machine guns and rifles in beirut is supposedly peaceful protest against the syrian leader turned sour but opposition and flags seen among the crowd. 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. dozens killed as the former stronghold of moammar gadhafi sees another assault by pro-government militias a year after the western backed libya revolt you speak with a man whose family is trapped in the besieged city.

two am in moscow mattresses bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t in lebannon mass protests in the capital of descended into riots with the army firing tear gas to control hundreds of angry demonstrators they tried to storm a government headquarters in beirut after the funerals of those killed in friday's car bombing. go is in the region with more. started off as a potentially a peaceful if rather more and from march out during the funeral. of the police official who was killed on friday in the bomb blast that one off and in the gaps on the route 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 off the syrian opposition and also all kind of black eye once they got there they started throwing rocks and of course they were met with

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

in lebanon and we'll bring you the latest. the growing number of lebanese accuse the regime of neighboring syria for friday's deadly blast but international professor mark allman says the assad regime would be the last to benefit from the situation. if you think about the legacy of the murder of herrera in two thousand and five that played very heavily against syria whoever did it to. salute you punkins been trying. for me 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 seeing that demonized in the west maybe outside forces would 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 on my side and maybe they then decided that poor old. lebanese security chief was expendable that could have happened we don't know the could be an entirely internal lebanese reason rural sort so if you

like not just political religious rivalries but business trip matter 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. meanwhile in syria a car explosion hit damascus on sunday killing at least thirteen and wounding dozens of others a taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station a busy district no one has admitted to the blast which is the latest in a series of deadly bombings in syria's biggest cities in the last 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 trying to broker a temporary ceasefire in the civil conflict yet interim chief of the syria term view media channel and blog thinks the blast is aimed at derailing he said afterwards that they are trying to destroy what they are brahimi is trying to do obviously there are countries that are not happy about. any success that you've got

he may have it all depends on the will of the countries backing that up the rebel groups are all controlled from the outside if somebody gives your money weapons and means of communication this means they can control you and these countries can have that it will cease fire in forty eight hours or even less if they are if they have that will be the rebels have absolutely no prospect of achieving what they want and what's what's going to happen at the moment is a longing to struggle to weaken syria more and more and this is what we se as hope will not have. been a new spate of violence in the deadly siege of bani walid in libya former stronghold of x. libyan leader moammar gadhafi the libyan army and the loyalist militia have been shelling the town accusing those inside of kidnappings are to be spoken the one man whose family is currently in bali while he asked us to shield his identity while he explain what's going on because he said he's scared for his life just a warning you may find some of the video we're about to show you disturbing. i have

of course from my family in they told me that the situation there right there is really hard to believe there is a heart of all all kind of. everywhere in this city the civilians building our fallen down even. the venue i need hospital we don't have a lot of medicine right now the hospital and the hospital keep in the wind the people outside from the house with a three week that there is no food can go inside but only because of the militias that it's around but what is the clause in there all it's that it's the food and the fuel that one and then only from the three sides they use the house and the dry the rockets and the gas weapons and actually found even in gaza is that everybody. says it is clearly that this it is that ben bomb making the gas. and the bani walid scenes has resonated in the libyan capital where hundreds gathered to protest the deadly bombings they reportedly broke into the area around the parliament

venting their fury over the attacks have left and dozens dead and hundreds injured in the past few days of the army as a keyway editor of pan africa news wire says those who attacked the revolution with you should share responsibility for the turmoil. obviously the government is behind this siege of bani walid it's clearly a violation of international law of human rights norms why are they targeting this town of one hundred thousand people this is totally unjustified and i think the state department should really be called out for not condemning this siege on body wiley because they in fact was that are backing the general national congress government as a pro u.s. regime only reason why the united states and nato went into libya in the first place was regime change to seize and privatized the oil industry in that country and also to seize the foreign assets of the libyan government which was in excess of some one hundred sixty billion dollars there was absolutely no justification

whatsoever for the war that was waged against libya last year's report it. separators elan e.u. states could get another boost in spain which is holding regional elections pro independence parties widely expected to win in the basque region a challenge for the beleaguered government that also faces separatism calls in catalonia economics blog and salyer 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 and it's a certain kind of blinders that the minorities will out that they feel that they are not being taken care of when in fact everybody suffer equal b. and this is the case in spain everybody suffering under the sea and the loonie and but each independent region each other each other thomas region deals a day in particular are being made to suffer it seems back to the entire country to

be a huge unemployment issue in spain fifty percent youth unemployment and twenty five percent adult unemployment and the problem of these. crisis that spain faces which is not going to have a happy ending and which is going to require drastic cuts. and just a generalized economic reboot of the country and that's why you're seeing so much protests and so much political gains from the independents because. there's a similar push against cuts in britain where about one hundred thousand people turned out in london to protest against austerity scuffles erupted immediately after the marches hundreds of protesters broke away and tried to storm shops saturday's rally in london was organized by trade unions and attractive people from across the country prime minister david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions to come for the struggling economy like the sara for. many people and then doubt that that is against the cuts that they say have flatlined

the economy now there are people from all over life said there is nothing like about the other sad. there are police officers off the team room worried about cut the front line services and among the people he's seen 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. who can say can't get worse my son to stephen he's paying nine grand here in fees i work in the interest turn legal aid is being count so we work with three hundred people and i won't be able to get the same help for my next year they just protect the rich they protect the interests of the rich and my bit of fear in the people who are it now cause it's not just person that's been affected the whole start because it had a europe wide effect of the euro crisis rumbles on we see disparity i guess taking great especially in the last month in spain in greece all across the usa the people simply saying that they've had enough here in london as we said thousand that have come out here to march against the austerity. in britain echoed feelings elsewhere

in europe with angry crowds gathering in spain and greece tens of thousands of greeks descended on athens clashing with police as a nationwide strike got underway in madrid parents teachers and students marched to condemn him and government cuts to education and cap three days of industrial action but the hands on the purse strings are moving further away from national shadows with new leaders agreeing to give in more power to brussels with a deal that could bring a centralized banking supervision researcher jerome loose though says no summit will help solve the crisis until it tackles the root cause. and if there's one thing that we've learned over the past couple of years is that when you're in the years there's something about that it is grace is that you really mean the exact opposite and when i saw it on this is the end of the crisis inside probably means it's been in greece is that when into depression and greece by next to one of the contracts in the economy in fact it was explained that unemployment things to

twenty five percent of the different regions in speed which are demanding secession we have actually two new fascist forces on the rise greece believe the move that we haven't seen since the one nine hundred thirty for the region what's happening is that the stress these actions getting out of these things are getting a lot worse and the summit completely fails to address any of the structural problems which include most importantly the deadly embrace between more financial sector which is completely insolvent and a series of states which are completely over and stay with us here on r.t. still to come on the program stun grenades a light up the streets of kuwait city with police also launching tear gas at protesters angry citizens taking to the streets of the capital displeased with changes to voting was. russia was not in line to become the world's largest listed oil producer and britain's readiness to get rid of its troubled part of the russian joint venture all that and more short.

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 what 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. of you who are on the right. friends who are dismissing offensive. posts to do a selection. to twenty second one or two. more

news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images cobol has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are on the day. the gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. my father but also among other involved in the mines and since i started working in the mine i stated i look at it and feel multinationals. cash account to be milked dry and if i think that in this country is 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 prices colombia going to pay. the people the modest effect on r.t. . thanks for staying with us here on r t sixty minutes past the hour now in kuwait several people injured as riot police beat protesters demonstrating against a change of election law police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse crowds gathering to vent anger with the government for what they say is a constitutional clue kuwait seen a regular democratic reform protest for more than a year eric draitser from stop imperialism dot com thinks the wave of one arrest hasn't gotten enough international attention because it's in the u.s. strategic interest to keep the monarchy in power. well 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 it's been used as a weapon by the us as a foothold in the region along the persian 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 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 bahrain or 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 quiet state and for that reason you don't hear about rampant 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 lists. the cia is looking to expand its fleet of drones and try to tap the

white house to greenlight the movie or earlier this week we'll let the pentagon potentially increase its lethal operations abroad including regular strikes in pakistan the cia's request came from the after new troubling statistic summers on attacks that officially target militants pakistan's interior minister said that of more than two thousand people killed by u.s. drone strikes eighty percent were civilians. from pakistan's first political lobbying group thinks washington's only creating more militants with some of its tactics. this is a major blow to us so diplomacy and position in flux done and this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of 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 and military in flushing out terrorist from the northern region of so wide back in two thousand and nine and clearing it clean. 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 parks done resulting in killing a fox in the soldiers and box and civilians. it emerged this week that a new company could be taking the title of world's biggest list of the oil producer it could be a russian giant rosneft after britain's b.p. moved toward selling its fifty percent stake of its book joint venture in russia. in return b.p. gets fifteen percent of rosin afghan around seventeen billion in cash the state owned oil major actually wants to get its hands on all of t. and k b p and is apparently holding talks with its other shareholders if signed the overall deal is set to become the second biggest oil agreement deal ever. a new top dog in global oil is bound has ramifications across the industry dotcoms business section outlines what they could possibly. all to play in for monday's

final and crucial debate between the main u.s. presidential candidates as polls put barack obama and mitt romney neck and neck while they trade soundbites on national t.v. the other contenders say they're being sidelined all my green party presidential nominee joel stein and her running mate were arrested this week after trying to make their way into the venue for last tuesday's debate stime blames the system for locking out nearly a third of the country's population in the upcoming election green party campaign manager ben mann ski thinks the two party system is down to outdated laws and corporate influence. 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 and they date from the mccarthy era and which there was a fear of communism and socialism and they tried to make it very difficult for progressive party some particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of those challenges chills. i'm 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. . took heed the voters eyes open and other candidates to get through the mainstream media in their own televised debate brought to you by r t america we're also keeping a close eye on the upcoming election on our website. will there be who are going to run. the business of the census. selection. to the second. term now to some other stories making global

headlines israel's prime minister has announced struction east jerusalem will go on despite palestinian claims the proposed area is part of their capital city the palestinian leader and the european union have criticized the new building plan describing netanyahu is actions as destructive to the peace plan for the region both sides have been embroiled in a territorial war over ownership of the city since nine hundred sixty seven. three people have been killed four wounded after a gunman opened fire near a mall in the u.s. state of wisconsin the shooter forty five year old radcliffe haughton was found dead by authorities after a six hour manhunt that locked down the shopping center the attack was the second mass shooting in wisconsin this year. and a few minutes insight into europe's tough choices ahead and why a short sharp shock could be necessary stay with us.

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