living in a lick unthink . that way we're going to rest the sweeps lebanon following sunday's clashes between police and anti-government protesters over the killing of a top of the triangle. calls for separatism set to grow in debt stricken spain as poor oh independence party is when a key regional election. foreign policy is in focus as barack obama and me try new gear up for that final pre-election debate with some observers saying there's no difference and that you of america's role in the world of.

news from russia and around the world this is with me thanks for joining us first brought us in the bin and have raged into early monday following weekend clashes between police and demonstrators shoreside reportedly being heard in the south west of the capital beirut as the opposition playing serious with a car blast that killed eleven and stop the general in the country's northern city of tripoli armed clashes have left one person dead and eight wounded on sunday security forces used tear gas to contain crowds of demonstrators trying to storm government headquarters that west follows the killing of why some al has signed a top all of the chief investigating whether there was any syrian involvement in the two thousand and five assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri lebanon's opposition believes the government in beirut is too close to the regime in damascus and could have had a hand in the international relations professor mark army says syria would be the last to benefit from the situation. if you think about the legacy you read two

thousand and five that plague or have a record syria were due to. assad's government being told to do this because you. point the finger. they are so you have demonized wes maybe you have psychosis used to work for the other hand perhaps they're all cynical people who thought this would be a very good way of getting outside forces almost made it over and decided that for . the little dispute you was expendable that could have happened we don't know the could be entirely internal the reason rules so if you are don't be political we just want to repeat business trip battle risk too and so i think to leap to conclusions the moment although it's very tough in this huge pressure to do it is wrong. meanwhile in syria a toxic punk's with explosives blew up outside a police station in the congress hold damascus on sunday killing at least thirteen

people and wounding twenty nine others this came as the u.s. u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi met the syrian president to try and broker a cease fire between the government and the rebels and so the syria tribune online channel on the blog and in the hollow it says the blast is aimed at derailing peace efforts. they are trying to destroy what a liberal he is trying to do obviously there are countries that are not happy about . any success that he got he may have it all depends on the will of the countries backing that are big 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 i will she is fire in forty eight hours or even less if they are if they have their will be the rebels have absolutely no prospect of choosing what they want to go on what's what's going to happen at the moment is the longing to struggle to weaken syria more and more and

this is what we're serious hope will not happen. and while the eyes of the international media glued to this syrian unrest in just a few minutes reporting for a democracy protests in kuwait continuously is child at home and bluntly ignored aboard the. dolls he talks exclusively to martin's family has been trapped in the blockaded leavin city of bani walid part of a two weeks now as the city remains cut off from basic necessities for over two weeks that's just ahead. that's later but now pro independence parties have won elections in spain's basque country with the results expected to spark more talk of separatism a winning basque nationalist party has repeatedly described madrid as a brake on the development of the region the victory comes weeks ahead of election in catalonia the wealthiest part of spain that's recently seen massive separatism rallies and economics bloggers our leverage says the financial crisis is at the core of calls for independence. 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 as are helping you to overcome and it's a certain kind of blindness that the minorities will how they feel that they are not being taken care of when in fact everybody suffer equally and this is the case and. being everybody suffering under the sea and lonely and by the age independent region each other each other thomas region deals a day in particular are being made to suffer or it's impact the entire country to be 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 have made it while in

britain the government has brought cena skeen to help turn spenders into savings workers will be automatically enrolled into pension schemes lend money taken from that pay packet going directly to funds for their retirement and while many welcomed the new system others don't trust the idea well enforced long term piggy bank as an aussie south pole. pensions and retirement already things that you think about when you're young now if you're a twenty two or you might have to the government's new or so romans it's being billed as the biggest take up of the pension system for over a generation and that is how much of a burden is this going to place on people who are just starting out as you race through life it can be hard to keep the piggy bank replenished say many other things to fork out for pension seem like just another financial hurdle but not to worry the government's got a plan to get people saving and their little piggy is called auto enrollment it's

always something that can be left and tomorrow you always got something else to spend your money on it always seems a long way away and then when it gets closer you think was too late. automatic enrollment is to help you by basically saying look you're going to be put in your own decision to take is whether actually you think that that's the right thing and their families go with whether you're actually using no unusual opt out brits have been spending like there's no tomorrow with around half the case workers paying nothing towards their future but with an aging population automatic enrollment will force companies to sign up every employee even though he's ending far below the average salary will be eligible a wage of just over eight thousand pounds a year is enough to make it apply but the first some will know about it is when they see less money already modest paycheck. the risk of course going to be a cost so he's going to cost people some of the hard and income every month but

having said that if money is for real spend the pensions campaign is warned it is an open door to mis selling and the money will be creamed off by schemes and management fees the government is trying to sell this is a winner with tax relief and making employees pay up as well but not everyone's. convinced about of ogun of my own finances rather than forced to by a government even called margin the right now according to the safer to more or less know your future i'm just turned twenty two or more to keeping from a pension i'm thinking about how i'm going to make rent next month more gage whatever i'm up to my my pension right now it's a role that. i would be out. with many feeling we sing governments have made a pig's ear of the country's finances the unconvinced it should be sticking its snout into the savings can consider much at all because i mean this is so many things just to pay for these days taxes of so many things whatever is just

ridiculous i don't think you should have to pay for two no one wants to finish with nothing in the pension pot and whilst the government's need does encourage saving in the current economic circumstances it seems that many people will simply be opting out. was just over two weeks left until america votes also he's tracking the race for the white house with our in-depth coverage of the presidential election barack obama and to be truly are tied in the polls ahead of the third and final debate on monday focusing on foreign policy he's going to take on looks now into whether the air really viewed the u.s. well in the world differently. as we're waiting for the debate on foreign policy the last debate before the election on november the sixth many see it as the make or break point for both campaigns because president obama and governor romney have so far been running neck and neck but whoever is elected america's next commander in chief will take on the same old foreign policy mission and that is to expand the

country's influence in the world but is there that much daylight between the candidates let's try and find out when the rhetoric of the romney team leaves no doubt that he advocates of more intrusive u.s. foreign policy we have to show strength in america that's perceived as weak as one that would be despised the one thing we all fear the most is a weak america with. an image of america the current administration is also striving for a robust america in their own way we came we saw he died. when folks mess with americans we go after the arab spring are full that the obama administration jumped on the bandwagon of the revolutions hoping to forge better all lines is with the new leaders. while prompting the change with airstrikes and arms supplies when anti-american protests spread across the muslim world some asked whether it's time for the u.s. to stop meddling in the middle east and north africa i don't see how how we could

ever talk about divorcing ourselves from the region if for no other reason given the push in u.s. policy you still have two primary drivers in terms of national interest and that is oil and israel president obama has strong allies like israel under the bus these three leaders open saber rattling towards iran's hysteric some tension with the white house it's clear the american people don't want to know the costly and devastating war based on phony red lines but should israel decide to attack what would the two candidates do differently if it were to happen i don't think there's going to be much difference ultimately i understand and share this or not you know who's insistence that iran should not obtain a nuclear weapon the red line is iran may not have a nuclear weapon iran is a nuclear nation is unacceptable the united states president obama said exactly the same thing regarding obama's pivot into asia there's not much daylight between him

and romney either the policy involves expanding u.s. military presence to act as a counterbalance against china's growing power and to advance u.s. interests in asia pacific candidate romney showed a willingness to take that pivot to another level ramping up the pressure on beijing i'll crack down on china having been stuck in this cold war mentality he sees the world in very black and white terms so russia is a china is a foe it's almost as if the cold war war never ended and i regard the paper toward asia makes perfect sense to mr romney and i really don't think he would change anything in the rhetoric is the issue the the presence of subtlety or the lack of subtlety is a primary difference between mr romney and mr obama in relations with russia on. like romney for whom brusha this is without question our number one geopolitical foe president obama avoids cold war rhetoric after all you don't call russia our

number one enemy. not all kind of russia. unless you're still stuck in a cold war mind warp despite a more forthcoming official attitude the administration indicated that they would still forge ahead with plans to build a missile shield close to russia it's a longstanding sore point in the relations between the two countries moscow has many times suggested resolving the issue by building the shields together to no avail. i spoke with former bush administration official colonel lawrence wilkerson and asked him whether a change in the oval office could mean a drastic change in the way america deals with the world is a marvelous consistency in american foreign policy whether it's wrong headed which it has been much sense especially in one thousand nine hundred ninety the end of the cold war. but there is a marvelous consistency to it and that's because foreign policy is foreign policy and security so presidents say one thing and then come in and get briefed and they do another thing and generally what they do is much like what the other party would

do well even despite the consistency that the u.s. foreign policy has shown over the years during the debate the candidates still have to outline their differences they can't just say good evening ladies and gentlemen we both agree on pretty much everything so let's call it a night we have tom hartman here mr harding thanks for joining me my pleasure the host of the big picture show on our t.v. when attacking. governor romney the obama campaign has this line and i heard it many times they say governor romney what would you do differently as if knowing and saying that as the president of the united states he would do exactly the same what do you think well i think that we have a choice between the iron fist of american empire and we have a the largest military in the world it's larger than the accumulated militaries of the whole rest of the planet at least in terms of budget and so there's that iron fist which is what romney would project or at what he has said let's go back to the cold war let's be bellicose let's threaten people with a war or do we put

a velvet glove over the iron fist which is basically been the obama policy you know we'll help you out a little bit will be we'll talk and so you torie but get out of the way of the drone is going to drop a bomb on your head what do you expect from this debate monday night romney will basically say whatever he thinks it's going to take to get himself elected that's the problem he's got two constituencies basically that he's been appealing to want is basically old white male constituency. well his age people there fifty's sixty's seventy's who remember the cold war we still have that mentality who are who are very much in favor of the naked iron fist of american foreign policy and he's got to reach out to those people and obama doesn't have to historically has not and yet at the same time he knows that you know there's this younger generation that at least would like the velvet. thank you if you're going to so as we watch the debate the question still stands are the two candidates different more in style than substance i'm going to check and i'll certainly be right here after the debate try

to answer that question and also every monday will be zooming into one issue one big issue right now and series of pre-election reports make sure you don't miss that thanks for watching so as policy presidential candidates taking part in the debates between. us all she's helping break the blockade by offering the alternative names on the ballot a platform for discussion and you can watch the event live on a number on our website. this presidential election is not just about obama and romney there are also third party candidates on the ticket and they will influence its outcome see a debate among this nation's major third party candidates right here on our t.v. on october twenty third.

about one hundred people have been injured in the capital of kuwait as police stepped in to break up at series of anti regime ronnie's tens of thousands flooded the streets environs possible safety and headed towards government headquarters but were met by tina gas and stun grenades the protest was sparked by changes to metro little by the ruling al shabab funny a key u.s. ally which has been at the country's how for more than two hundred fifty games the opposition has pulled the we're still a constitutional claiming it with a significant you know hundreds of chances to win the parliamentary took the senate and gotten a tax of its how. to boycott same action and pro-democracy protests in kuwait how they all got in but every time the pumps pumping pennies in dot com saying they haven't had time to do nothing to national attention because of washington spent teaching interest in keeping the regime in palm. oil 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 of kuwait is being 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 as. 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. hit list. and we're also closely following the protests in kuwait on our web site so log on to dot com to see more pictures from kuwait city as well as the latest

news and analysis on this iteration of the country ahead of elections. and also that you are stating it was constant is rocked by a second mass shooting this year go online to find the footage from the crime scene and of course pile on the suspect. hundreds of people run it in the libyan capital on sunday venting their anger against the ongoing assault on the country's former gadhafi stronghold bani walid all supply routes to the besieged city remain cut off leaving citizens without access to basic necessities for almost three weeks clashes on the outskirts of the city have claimed other thirty lives so far and left over three hundred people injured pro-government forces have also been reportedly shelling the city with long range missiles and one of his family's currently running while lead spoke

exclusively to r.t. earlier disasters not to name him not to name him due to his fears for him they say tell him and his family and he might bring some of their falling scenes is stepping . i have a call from my family when they told me that the situation there right there is really horrible the. heart of all of our north. everywhere in the city of the civilians building our fallen down even the burning oil it has with all who don't have a lot of medicine right now the house and the hospital keep in the wounded people outside for hours with a three week that there is no food can go inside but only because of the militias that it's around but already the clothes and the roads that it is the food and the fuel there are woman benoit from the three sides they used to house that and the rockets and the guys with guns and i actually found even the guards my answer is that everybody go to the hospital and says really clearly that the civilians there

with the guards. and i only as a keyword so the pan-african nest news why it says it's washington's blatant the seat of its own financial interests and media that's responsible for the outgoing finals. obviously the government is behind this siege of bani walid it's clearly a violation of international law of human rights norms where 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 a backing of 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 was waged against libya last year as we put it. some other world news and briefly this hour egyptian authorities have the assets of the country's former prime minister and presidential race runner up ahmed shafik this comes after states media reported that should take is due to go trial in december for alleged corruption a former confidante of the president hosni mubarak shafiq left egypt soon after losing out on the country's top job this summer he says all of a geisha is against him are politically motivated. israel's prime minister has vowed to continue the construction of settlements in east jerusalem which comes despite state of directions that there is part of the capital of the future a separate state whose foreign policy slams the building plan as destructive to the south.

korean police have blocked out of its from sending propaganda leaflets into north korea after the threat of a military strike by beyond young came as the north announced it could fire on a group composed of defectors who were looking to send two hundred thousand flyers into the communist country young young described it as an unacceptable display of psychological. victory is next to the business news good morning that it seems the only one in dispute over all major t.n. k.b.p.s. finally over to a tree seems so or that's least according to the financial times you know the company's health by british b.p. and russian shareholders well now britain's b.p. apparently is selling its fifty percent stake over to. well according to the financial times b.p. could get around twenty seven billion dollars for its fifty percent stake in the oil for around twelve billion are expected to come in cash while the rest will be

paid with was shares and that is equal to up fifty fifteen to twenty percent of the russian company earlier b.p. decided to quit its russian joint. due to the shareholders with local partners now rosneft is also expected to acquire the rest of to become the biggest publicly traded oil producer in the world. already on the back of this story of course we will be following how rosneft shares will be doing in today's trading because it came over as you may know on sunday but it was happening elsewhere in the world in asia we are seeing the nikkei drop point three percent that's following a huge drop in the united states and as of now the exports shrank around ten percent in the month of september which is a huge drop compared to last year and we are seeing companies like mitsubishi going down two percent on the back of this news now let's take a look at what's there was happening over in the united states on friday and indeed

we've had a huge drop on the what is it the twenty fifth anniversary of the biggest drop in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven when the dow jones declined twenty three percent in one single session and that was on the back of a tech shares slump google reported beforehand reported a pretty bad earnings forecast it was supposed to do that after the closing bell but did it throughout the session and that caused companies like apple to go down more than three percent in just one session. move over to currencies if i'm not mistaken and the dollar is continuing to drop against the euro that's also a housing report coming out in the united states on friday which was showing pretty weak sales and new construction being pretty weak while the russian ruble was mixed in trading on friday we'll have course new figures in around one and a half hours time and trading ends and in the commodities market so we are seeing

oil coming off two week lows it's up as you can see there within just around twenty to thirty. he sends a barrel and that's despite the fact that a pipeline was closed between canada and the united states west and other factors which could affect supply worries about demand dominance in investors' minds and finally in russia this is the closing bell for friday as i said new session will begin around one half hour's time for the week we're expecting a lower opening after this huge crash in the united states and we will see a bad end to the week with my six analyses dropping more than one percent was never actually was down more than two percent we will be pulling closely how investors react to this news that it will be acquiring fifty percent of. all right now coming up next on the see it so interview program course but on monday in

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