lebannon engulfed 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 militias a year after the western backed libyan revolt we talk with a man whose families trapped in the siege city. or in kuwait city more than one hundred people wounded in clashes police fired rubber bullets and tear gas and demonstrators angry at new amendments to the voting law.

seven am in moscow bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news we begin in lebanon where mass protests in beirut rage into the night with shots fired in the southern districts of the capital residents also reporting hearing ambulance sirens but no information on any casualties meanwhile in lebanon's northern city tripoli armed clashes of what the left up to four people dead half of the children tear gas fired by the army to control hundreds of angry demonstrators after the funerals of those killed in friday's car bombing artie's arena the loucheux has more on the protest in beirut which supported supposedly started out peacefully. it started off as a potentially a peaceful and rather more march out during the funeral of the police official who was killed on friday in the bomb blasts that went off and and. 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. once they got there they started throwing rocks and of course they were met with very heavy police presence when trying started firing tear gas and also fired several around live shots into the air is really through people who are afraid but not by they got charts just in the skirmishes that followed the protest which again after three o'clock i was in the christian quarter of the it was on friday afternoon killing eight people among them police intelligence chief with some other something which is known for his active and serious downs and a lot of his supporters are saying that in fact it's the syria that was behind this terror act in the room on friday that called for him to rage on sunday spoken just what the situation in lebanon and we'll bring you the latest the growing number of

lebanese accuse the regime in neighboring syria for friday's deadly blast international relations professor mark allman though 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 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 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 religious right who's the business trip 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. meanwhile in syria a car explosion hit damascus sunday killing at least thirteen people wounding dozens more a taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station in a 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 i was hired a linked group said they were behind such attacks this latest blast comes as the international peace envoy and met with syria's president try and broker an emperor cease fire in the civil conflict he editor in chief of the syria tribune blog things the blast is aimed at the railing the peace efforts. 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 they've got he may have it all depends on the will of the countries backing that i believe the rebel groups are all controlled

from the outside if somebody gives 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 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 deadly violence in the siege of bani walid in libya a former stronghold of leader moammar gadhafi the libyan army and a loyalist militia have been shelling the town accusing some insight of kidnappings are two spoke with one man whose family is currently walled up in bani walid he asked us not to a show his identity because while you explain what's going on because he said he fears for his life just a warning you may find some of the upcoming video 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 it's all kind of a long. everywhere and the safety of the civilians building fallen down even the venue and hospital who don't have a lot of medicine right now the house and the hospital keep in the lead of the people outside from the hospital three week that there is no food can go inside but only because off the militias that it's around but what is the closing of the roads that they think that the food into fuel that album and then only from the three sides they use the house would be the right track with the guys with bands and i actually found even the guys not only is it about i don't know how to get out and get ready to believe that i did this it is that then monitor the goth bani walid siege has resonated in libya's capital to where hundreds of gathered to protest against the deadly bombings they've reportedly broken into an area around the parliament venting fury over the attacks of left dozens dead and hundreds injured

in the past few days i'll be on the as he we have her a pan african newswire says those from back to libyan revolution 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 the 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 of backing the general national congress government as opposed u.s. regime the 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 that 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 demand heard the demonstrating rather against a change to election laws police use rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds gathering to vent anger with the government for what they call the constitutional who the opposition says the amendments to the electoral laws give the government an advantage and of calling for a boycott of the parliamentary elections scheduled for december first seen regular protests demanding democratic reforms for more than a year eric draitser from stopping virial isn't dot com thinks the wave of unrest hasn't gotten enough international attention for dozens in the u.s. to t.g. interest to keep the monarchy in power. plant 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

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 in 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 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. stay with us still to come spain suffering lots of economic troubles now facing new challenges when dependence passed nationalist parties won the regions

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for staying with us here on r t thirteen minutes past the hour now the cia wants to end expand its fleet of drones and try to tap the white house to green light the move earlier this week who would let the pentagon potentially increase its operations or broader 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 of the more than two thousand people killed by u.s. drone strikes eighty percent were civilians correction from pakistan's first political lobbying group says washington is only creating more militants with its

tactics this is a major blow. to diplomacy and position in pakistan 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 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 banks and soldiers and bugs and civilians. turning to the elections in spain where the pro independence parties have won the basque regions election the outcome will likely trigger calls for independence the basque nationalist party who was the overall you know while the separatist coalition in

the age bill dues placed second giving the separatist movement control of the parliament results the result pose a new challenge for spain whose wealthy region catalonia also pushing for independence and will head to the polls next month economics blogger gonzalo lira says the debt crisis is the main reason behind the zire to break away. with the 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 blind yourself that 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 suffering under the sea and stop boss stuff alone but each independent region each other each other 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 far really. 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 for the independents who had. a similar push against cuts in britain where around one hundred thousand people turned out london to protest against austerity scuffles erupted immediately after the marches hundreds of protesters broke away and tried to storm the shops saturday's rally in london was organized by trade unions and attracting people from across the country prime minister cameron recently warned of more tough decisions to come for the struggling economy a key sara for her ports. even. many. that is against the cuts they say flatlined the economy now there are people from all walks of life there are no us is worried about the other there are police officers

all feeds the room worried about cuts the front line services in amongst the people the many many families all across the age range but 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 stephenie's paying the uncrowned even fees i work in the country sector and legal aid is being count so we won't be three hundred people and they won't be able to get the same help from the next year and 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 in this being a thanks to the. europe wide effects of the euro crisis rumbles all we see. taking great the specially in the last month in spain in greece all across the year you say people simply saying that they've had enough here in london as we said thousand that they've come out here so much against the austerity. 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 marched to condemn imminent government cuts to education and cap three days of industrial action but the hands on the purse strings are moving further away from national capitals with leaders agreeing to give 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 is the. exact opposite. side probably needs. increases that into the pressure and agreed to by next didn't want to contract the economy in fact you claim that unemployment things are pretty tight with your regions and speed and that means essentially you have actually seen

your fascist forces on the rise. in the move that we haven't seen since and into. the region what's happened is that spreads these actions getting out of these little things are getting a lot worse and the stomach can be billions to address any of the structural problems which include most importantly the deadly embrace between the financial sector which is to be insolvent and a series of states which are going to be over and it emerged this week a new company could take the title of being the world's biggest listed oil producer that it could be a russian giant ross nafta after britain's b.p. moved toward selling its fifty percent stake in its joint venture in russia t.n. k b p in return b.p. gets fifteen per cent of ross and after around seven hundred billion dollars cash the state oil major actually wants to get its hands on all of t. and k b p and it's 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 the global oil game is bound to have some industry wide ramifications are t. dot com is business team is on top of that you can find more on their section on our website. there's a lot at stake in monday's final and crucial debate between the main u.s. presidential contenders as polls put barack obama and mitt romney neck and neck while they trade barbs on national t.v. the other contenders say they are being sidelined green party presidential nominee jill stein and her running mate were arrested this week after trying to make their way to the venue for last tuesday's debate stine blames the system for what she says is locking out nearly a third of the country's populace at the upcoming election green party campaign manager ben nancy thinks the two party system is down to outdated laws and corporate influence. it's. 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 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. . to help boaters keep their options open other candidates through the mainstream media blackout in their own televised debate brought to you by r t america we're also keeping a close eye on the upcoming vote on our web site. will there be. a

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if you. want. a low end welcome to crossfire thank you turkey and its road ahead a little over a year ago turkey was being hailed as the new leader and model for the muslim world among many turks the ottoman legacy is again back in vogue my house things have changed instead of focusing on a foreign policy of no problems with its neighbors particularly syria is ankara's foreign policy today in disarray. to cross-talk the new ottomans i'm joined by gareth jenkins in istanbul he is a non resident senior fellow with the institute for security and development policy

silk road studies program also in istanbul we have icon editor mirror he is a republican people's party member of parliament and in washington we cross to ten years of the correspondent for the town daily and a fellow with the henry jackson society right gentlemen cross-talk rosen in fact i mean she can jump in anytime one if i go to you first what is neo optimism and is that a good idea. but basically i think it's the idea that there should be a turkish influence in the middle east in particular in those terraces which were once ruled by the ottoman empire and of a simple answer your question no i don't think it's a good idea and i don't think the people in the region want it ok can you give me two reasons why it's a bad idea. well one is i don't think anybody in the region wants to go back to the age when paris and where you have one particular country loading it over the others and the other is that there are many sectarian divisions within the region now both between sunni and shia and also divisions on ethnic grounds so if you put all of

these people in to one particular block you're both going to get a basically undemocratic system but you're also going to get divisions and tensions within up blocs i don't think even if turkey was able to establish it it would be a very healthy model in which to go into the future in washington d.c. what do you think about that because the term exist people are talking about it a lot is written about it. yes first of all thanks for having me. well first of all turkey administration. foreign minister though tolo has been denying that there is an ear. just for the record i think we need to. tell it but let's look at last ten years i mean turkey. spring started was again being accused.