little. league. or little ego. one rests weeks lebanon following sunday's clashes between police and anti-government protesters over the killing of a top on the general. foreign policies and so it is as barack obama and me try many get out for that final three election debate with some observers saying there's no difference and that view of america's role in the world special in-depth coverage of the presidential race is telling our. own discovered and link to militias continue the blockade and shining on the opposition stronghold bani walid will get it does time different from inside the besieged city.

international news life for most this is the with me. thanks for joining us in lebanon have raged into early monday following weekend of clashes between police and demonstrators in the country's northern city of tripoli on countries have left one person dead and eight hundred the rest began sunday while security forces used tear gas to contain crowds of protesters trying to storm government headquarters the country's opposition blamed syria for the car blast that killed eleven installed general they say of a government which in close which is close to the regime in damascus could have had a hundred in the matter international relations expert professor mark almond says syria would be the last to benefit from the situation. if you think about the legacy of the murder of her career in two thousand and five that played very heavily against syria whoever did it to.

clear up what direction we want to be in balkan wars because it's all new to point the finger and they are soon demonized in the west maybe outside forces usually. 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 sighed 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 ribbons reason rural sort so if you are not a political religious right who's the business trip maffia 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 where all the angels. meanwhile in syria attacks apart with explosives blew up outside a police station they counted all damascus on sunday killing at least twenty one at a london twenty nine others this comes as the u.n.

envoy lakhdar brahimi let's see reza president to try and broker a cease fire between the government and the rebels and so this is the retribution line china on the harness says the blast is aimed at raising the south. as they are trying to destroy what they are bringing 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 the rebels the rebel groups are all controlled from the outside if somebody gives money weapons and means of communication this means they can control you and this country is can have the rebels she is fire in the in forty eight hours or even less if they are if they have there will be the rebels have absolutely no prospect of achieving what they want or what but what can happen at the moment is prolonging the struggle to weaken syria more and more and this is what we are syrians hope will not happen we all know now that there will be no. winning for these troubles and the chances for

international intervention are minimal but something should happen just stop the circle of blood because the more it goes on the harder it will be for the country to survive. and on our website for you right now disturbing reports has chemicals used in the controversial gases traction technique known as fracking make their way into the homes of local residents. also online biting spending cuts push thousands of italians to protest and also force them to cut back on one of the most famous traditions find out which one passed out either. well just over two weeks left until america votes all she is tracking the race for the white house with our in-depth coverage of the presidential election barack obama and me troll me are tied in the polls ahead of their third and final debate on monday focusing on foreign policy. looks into whether the pair really viewed the

u.s. role 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 what 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 or 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 them as the arab spring on full day 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 in french history or 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 foot should israel decides 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 my red line is iran may not have a nuclear weapon iran is a nuclear nation is unacceptable to 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 foe china is a foe it's almost as if the cold war war never ended and that regard the pivot toward asia makes perfect sense to mr romney and i really don't think he would change anything 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 unlike romney for whom russia 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 suggest it 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 address think 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 eight. 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 generally what they do is much like what the other party would do well even despite the consistency that the us 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 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 the largest military in the world it's larger than the accumulated militaries of the 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 conciliatory but get out of the way and the drone is going to drop a bomb on your head what 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 people his age people in the 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 a. younger generation that at least would like the velvet glove over a. thank you for your grandma so as we watch the debate the question still stands are the two candidates different more in style than substance i'm going to shut down 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 in our series of pre-election reports make sure you don't miss that thanks for watching and party presidential candidate from taking part in the debates between obama and romney but also he's helping break the blockade by offering the alternative names on the ballot a platform for discussion and you can watch the event live in america all now web site on tuesday. 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 r t i took the twenty third. pro independence posses one actions in spain's boss country with the results expected to spark new talk of separatism the winning nationals process has repeatedly described madrid as a break of the development of the region the victory comes weeks ahead of elections in catalonia the wealthiest part of spain that's recently saying massive separate has run its economics blog that says the financial crisis is that the cool culls bind. 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 blinders that the minorities will have 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 step by step alone yes but each independent region each of you just honest region deals a day in particular are being made to suffer or it's 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 fire a. crisis that spain faces which is not going to have a happy ending and which is going to require drastic cuts. and just 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 who. just a had these train signs of the does it root pool to screw to my house has seen kuwait continuously trying to at home i'm bluntly glued approve this story and.

right. welcome to the. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've gone to the future or covered. the 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 are 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. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized

everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. on. morning news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are rooted a. coupe. will there be more on the rise. a friend or foe is missing the fed's offensive. stuff u.s. election close to majority second one arts.

wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cancer are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. to report on our. hundreds of people run it in the libyan capital on sunday bunting their anger against the ongoing assault of 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 certain 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 monikers families technically in vanni wanting its public exclusively to r.c. earlier has asked us not to name him due to safety reasons and do you might find some of the following things disturbing. i have a call from my family when they told me that the situation there right there is a really horrible the. heart of all of. everywhere in the city 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 world of people outside from the 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 there the food and the fuel there are women been away from the three sides they used to house that and the rockets and the guys weapons and i actually found even

a gas mask is that everybody says really clearly that the civilians the bomb aboard the gas. and-i only as a kiwi as so the pan african news wise says it's washington's blatant seatings of financial interests and the bailouts chad that's responsible for the ongoing violence 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 it was that of backing the general national congress government as opposed 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 reported. of the one hundred people have been injured in the capital of kuwait as police stepped in to break up a series of anti regime ronnie's tens of thousands flooded the streets in various parts of the city and headed towards government has cooled his but one that by chance was on style grenades and processed respond by reform of the next two looming which the opposition called constitutional claiming it was significantly hyundai's chances of winning the parliamentary poll up of the shocks of his have to weightings to born post-election december last against the ruling al shabab fund new ip to us ally have regulator opted for but every traits of from stopping pallies in dot com things they have into trying to gin up international attention because of washington strategic interest in keeping the regime in power want. but

kuwait has long been a quiet state of the united states and more and more kuwait plays a central role in the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council for kuwait has 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 list. now for business of days and dimitris here good morning and that seems the long running dispute of the oil major tan k.b.p.s. finally of the well if you believe media reports then yes because. apparently. he is selling the share in the b.p. which is a fifty percent share to ross near that's according to several media reports financial times daily and b.p. could get around twenty seven billion dollars for its fifty percent in the oil firm media reports say twelve to seventeen billion dollars are expected to come in cash while the rest will be paid with rostam chairs that's equal to thirty to twenty percent of the company depending on what the cash injection will be early be peter cited to quit its russian venture due to a shareholder dispute with the local partners and now rules himself expected to acquire the rest of peter and one hundred percent of it and become the biggest

publicly traded oil producer in the world that of course means higher risk for a while we'll look at that throughout the day in more detail second of all what's happening on the markets around the world the nikkei is right now come down to the opening values is down by just a knowledge and that's. exports were reported to have decreased ten percent in the month of september compared to last year and that's caused some of the biggest exporters like insufficient shared around one half percent of them. over in the united states we've had a very bad session on friday on the twenty fifth anniversary of the one nine hundred eighty seven crash when the dow dropped twenty three percent in just one session which is the good biggest market drop and we've had that gagin the slump on the markets on the back of google releasing its earnings forecast a bit earlier than it was supposed to was supposed to do that after the closing

bell but they came out worse than expected and therefore shares like apple went down three percent now on the currencies markets we're seeing the dollar continuing to lose value versus the euro still above one thirty and that's a disappointing high. before. bad sales in secondary markets in the united states while the russian ruble will start trading around often now this is so friday's close for use mixed against both currencies and the russian of market will also start trading in around thirty seconds this is the way it closed on friday was a bad session might expect more losses after that crash in the united states and that's all i have time for this out thanks me tracy later than right next the survivors of the most serious in siege reflect on the horror and tragedy that took place a decade ago. closure

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