lebannon in flames violent protests rage on into the night across the country with several demonstrators killed after the funeral of the slain security chief. dozens killed as the former stronghold of moammar gadhafi sees another assault by pro-government militia a year after the western backed libyan rebel we talked with a man whose family is trapped in the cedar city. war in kuwait city more than one hundred people wounded as clashes in clashes as police fired rubber bullets and tear gas on demonstrators angry at new amendments to the voting law.

six am in moscow i mattress are giving you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news starting in lebanon mass protests in beirut raging into the night with shots fired in southern districts of the capital residents also report hearing ambulance sirens although there are still no information on casualties meanwhile in lebanon the northern city of tripoli armed clashes are left up to four people dead including two children tear gas was fired by the army to control hundreds of angry demonstrators after the funerals of those killed in a friday car bombing or two serena glue shows been following the protests that started as a peaceful procession. it started off as a substantially a brother mourn for march out during the funeral of the police official who was killed on friday in the bomb blasts that went off and and it got some people then

several hundreds of those people branched out and went on to storm the 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 once they got there the family throwing rocks and of course the very heavy police presence when trends started firing tear gas and also fired several rounds of live shots into the air is really that there will be before heard but not by the gunshots just three misses that followed the protests that you get very far he was in the christian quarter of the it was on friday afternoon killing eight people among them police intelligence chief with some of her son who is known for his active and serious downs and a lot of his supporters are saying that in fact it's syria that was behind that terror act in the on friday it holds for him to rage on sunday quite spoken

to what the situation in lebanon and over in the it's a growing number of lebanese accuse the regime in neighboring syria friday's deadly blast their national relations professor mark almond says the assad regime would be the last to benefit from the situation. if we 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 and it's been. 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 so you have demonized in the west maybe outside forces would use that 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 almost 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 would destroy whose book business matter rivalries to 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. meanwhile in syria a car explosion hit damascus sunday killing at least thirteen and wounding dozens more a taxi ride with explosives blew up outside a police station in the busy district no one's 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 titling group said they were behind such attacks this latest blast came as the international peace envoy met syria's president to try to brokering a temporary ceasefire in the civil conflict editor in chief of the syria tribune channel and blog believes the blast saying that ideal railing peace efforts 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 any brahimi 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 sure money weapons and means of communication this means they can control and these countries can have that it will cease fire in forty eight hours or even less if they 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 happen. there's been a new spate of violence in the deadly siege of bani walid in libya a 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 party spoke with one man whose family is currently in bani walid he asked us to obscure his identity while he explain what's going on because he says he's scared for his life just a warning you may find some of the video in the upcoming report upsetting. i have

a quote 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 flippant everywhere in the city the civilians. building a fallen down even the venue and hospital we don't have a lot of medicine right now the house and the hospital keep in the wind with people outside from the hospital three week that there is no food can go inside but only because of the militias that it's around but what if the closing the routes that they think the food into fuel that long and then away from the three sides they use the house that the brackets and the guys with pens and actually found even the guys not is it about i don't know how to get out and get ready clearly that at this it is that then bonded to the guts. and the bani walid sieges resonated in libya's capital where hundreds of gathered to protest against the deadly bombings they reportedly broke into an area around the parliament venting their fury over the

attacks that have left dozens dead and hundreds injured in the past few days how do you know me as a kiwi editor of the pan-african news wire says those who backed the revolution in libya should share some of the 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 while 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 it was that of backing the general national congress government it's a pro u.s. regime only reason why the united states and nato went into libya in the first place was regime changed 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 was waged against libya last year's report it. in kuwait more than one hundred people including eleven police officers have been injured in clashes as protesters took to the streets calling for a change demonstrating against rather a change to electoral laws police use rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds gathering to vent anger with the government for what they say is a constitutional who the opposition says the amendments to the electoral laws give the government an advantage and i've called for a boycott of the parliamentary vote scheduled for december first to wait seen regular protests demanding democratic reforms for more than a year or two rights or from stopping period resume dot com thinks the wave of unrest hasn't gotten enough attention because it's in the u.s. strategic interest to keep the monarchy on the throne. but 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 on kuwait it's been used as

a weapon by the us foothold in that 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 client 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. get lists still to come here on r t spain suffering a lots of economic worries facing now a new challenge is the road dependent nationalist party wins the basque region

selection in spain plus. russia's rosneft in line to be the. the world's largest listed oil producer as britain's b.p. plans to get rid of its troubled part of the joint russian venture that and more after a break. for a decade of north austin terrorist attack. ex hostages blindness into their lives and after the tragedy. still gives try to cross over the past. because their future will yet be written. surviving terrorism ten years on our team.

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free. free. free. free bird video for your media project free media to r.t.e. dot com. thirteen minutes past the hour in moscow now the cia wants to expand its fleet of drones and try to tap the white house to green light the move or earlier this week it would let the pentagon potentially increase its operations abroad including regular strikes in pakistan the cia's request came shortly after new troubling statistics are murdered on attacks that officially target militants pakistan's interior minister said of more than two thousand people killed by u.s. drone strikes eighty percent listen billions made her ration for pakistan's first political lobbying group says washington is only creating more militant with some of its tactics and this is

a major blow to us said diplomacy position in pakistan in 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 back 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 facts and soldiers and bugs and civilians. it emerged this week about a new company could take the title of being the world's biggest listed oil producer and it could be a russian giant ross now after britain's b.p. moved toward selling its fifty percent stake of its joint venture and russia. they

were turned between gets fifteen per cent of. rosneft in around seven hundred billion dollars cash the state owned oil major actually wants to get its hands on all of t.n.t. and is apparently holding talks with its other shareholders if signed the overall deal is set to become the second biggest oil agreement ever. a new top dog in global oil is bound to make some ripples across the industry you can find out more in our tea dot coms business section for more on what that could be. there is old to play for in monday's final and crucial debate between in between the main u.s. presidential candidates as polls put barack obama and mitt romney running neck and neck while they trade sound bites not live television the other contenders say they're being sidelined green party presidential nominee joe di and her running mate arrested this week after trying to make their way to the venue for last tuesday's debate stein blames the system for locking up nearly a third of the country's population at the upcoming election green party campaign

manager ben manx he believes the two party system is outdated laws any corporate influence. the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the us 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 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 jill 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.

. voters keep their options open the other candidates through the media blackout 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 web site. there. is. a sense in. this election. turning now to elections in spain where the pro independence parties have won the basque regions election the outcome will likely trigger calls for independence you know well enough and so i think region catalonia also pushing for independence as they head to the polls next month economics blogger gonzalo lira says the debt crisis is the main impetus 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 equally and this is the case in spain everybody's suffering under the sea and step by step the loan yes but each independent region each of each of thomas region deals a day in particular are being made to suffer its impact 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 it's political gains for the independents because. there is a similar push against cuts in britain who are around 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 london's rally saturday's rally in london was organized by trade unions and attracting people from across the country prime minister pam and recently warned of more tough decisions to come for the struggling economy for full ports. you can see how many people have panned out that that is against the cuts but they say have flatlined the economy now there are people from oh whoa. of life there are no us is worried about the other there are police officers all feeds the room worried about cut the frontline 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's a steven he's paying the ground here in fees i work in the country sector and 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 they just protect their rights they protect the interests of the rich i'm a bit unfair in the people who are it now because it's not just person that's been affected the start because if you're employed at the euro crisis rumbles all we see . 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 as we said thousands of the come out here to march against the all star it's. the rally in britain echoed feelings elsewhere in europe with angry crowds gathering in spain and greece tens of thousands of greeks descended on clashing with police as a nationwide strike got underway in madrid parents teachers and students to condemn imminent government cuts to education and cap three days of industrial action but their hands on the purse strings moving farther away from the national capitals with leaders agreeing to give even more power to brussels with a deal that could bring centralised banking supervision researcher jerome russo

says no summit will help solve the crisis until it tackles the root cause. there's one thing we've learned over the past couple of years is that when you're in the years something about this crisis they usually mean the exact opposite. end of the phrase inside probably means the resource that went into depression or greenspan next to one of the conservative economists in fact points and unemployment stands at twenty five. the regions and the demands is said to have actually. you fascist forces on the right these. are the move that we haven't seen since the one to. the region what's happening there is the spread of the elections getting out of these little things are getting a lot worse and the summit can be billions to address any of the structural problems which include most importantly be embraced between more of the financial sector which is completely insolvent and a series of states which are going to be. turning out of some other stories making

global headlines israel's prime ministers and construction in east jerusalem will go on despite palestinian claims the proposed area is part of their capital city the palestinian leader and the european union of criticize the new building plan describing netanyahu netanyahu his actions it's destructive to the peace plan for the region to the two sides have been embroiled in a turf war over ownership of the party of parts of the city since one thousand nine hundred seventy. three people killed or 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 of self-inflicted wounds after a six hour manhunt that locked down the shopping center the attack the second mass shooting in wisconsin this year. eleven suspected al qaeda linked militants have been arrested in jordan authorities say they detained were plotting to attack shopping malls and western diplomatic missions in the country in the foil plot in the u.s.

ally smuggled weapons and explosives from syria were to be used is the first planned attack to be intercepted says a triple hotel bombing in amman almost seven years ago. pro palestinian activists and european m.p.'s aboard a gaza bowed humanitarian ship have been detained upon arrival at israeli port the vessel was commandeered by israeli troops during the latest attempt to break the blockade of the palestinian coastal territory two years ago a similar enterprise ended tragically when nine activists were killed because their quote freedom flotilla was raided by israeli troops they torrie a strand from the company that owns this latest vessel and since their missions won't be held back from bringing international attention to gaza's plight. we can achieve that we can make the international community to focus on the fact that the book a stable is going all that it is a siege equally long and it is getting worse year by year and to what we are doing

is actually walk to w.h.o. new niece to save the children and fifty other n.g.o.s are saying that. the blockade has to end it is now its sixth year and he'll say that there are. situation fuel situation the health situation is deteriorating you dettori eighteen old. in a few minutes insight into europe's tough choices ahead and why a short sharp shock could be needed stay with us. are divorced terrorists. ex hostages blindness into their lives and after the tragedy. still gives try to cross

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there's more on iraq. friends or for this missile defense offensive. stuff u.s. election close to the second one. 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 jeremy currently finds itself in a relatively decent position economically can it keep that up germany is not at all

in the driving seat germany's economy is functioning but germany is driven rather than driving by the processes that are going on unfortunately i think the current system will last for a while because the european political elite really has sworn to defend it whatever the costs and the car sign norma's so really the current system is hurting europe we have to make some changes but i do think that the current rather detrimental state of affairs is going to continue for quite a while we see germany isn't in the driving seat what can change that but what we do right now is we have the fiscal union which is austerity which means we save on the back of people of taxpayers in the south and in the north the euro has created the problems because the euro and that's what i predicted in ninety eight ninety eight in a lecture at boston university the euro will create artificial wombs in some areas and artificial busts than others because we don't have an after them currency area

and that's exactly what happened of seoul it created a competitiveness problem for the south because wages went up and so on but they couldn't devalue any more and that's the root cause of the problem and we're trying to mistakenly correct there to rectify that by. by saving by a public by by cutting down public deficit which will not work in the situation and at the same time we're saving on the one hand on the other hand we're having a hugely expansionary monetary policy that we are stepping on the gas pedal was one foot and on the brake was the other and that's the frederick and so one would have to ask. who benefits from that kind of policy and they said that it couldn't deficits wouldn't work perhaps would getting rid of the euro getting rid of the euro would be very painful it would work in the long run because we had a perfect system before the european monetary system which was just the right mix

of flexibility and stability it was a stable system that you could adjust it if things went out of hand so that was a good system going back there directly would be great in practicality you would not be great because it would be extremely painful but. what i envision is that some some countries leave the euro like greece and maybe later spain or portugal italy not so a flexible union countries that are not ready to stay in should leave and that's not the end of the eurozone quite to the contrary it would strengthen the eurozone but the european political elite. is basically upholding a dogma if greece fails meaning greece leaves the euro greece has failed horribly greece is basically a failed state but they say of greece fails the euro will fail and europe will fail all of this by itself is wrong and in this.