government links militias continue to locate and shredding of libya's opposition stronghold bani walid and more details live in just a moment. also this hour away bill and the rest sweeps lebanon following clashes between police and anti-government protesters over the killing of a top security official. on foreign policy is in focus as barak obama and wait for me gear up for their final pre-election debate with some observers saying there is no difference in that view of america's role in the world also the special in-depth coverage of the presidential race is coming up.

on the round the wall this is all she was me thanks for joining us then going standoff has intensified in libya where the government telling to militias continue to surround the khadafi stronghold of bani walid. in the outskirts of the city have left at least twenty people dead and more than three hundred injured and he's a rino going to show he's joining us live from tel aviv in just the what a warning you might find some of the falling scenes disturbing how they arena so will some of the latest developments in this ongoing crisis. the seems like the situation doesn't seem to get any better in fact it does seem to get worse with every passing minute unfortunately this siege and benny what lead us continuing for the eighteen days straight for the very suited fighting going on for the day straight now we have this exclusive piece of where we have this explosive piece

from a man who literally risked his life to give an interview to our teach that's how listen to what this man who was there the entire time has to tell us i have of course from my family in there told me that the situation there right there is really horrible the. heart of all of qana for. everywhere in the city of the civilians building our fallen even the burning oil of ha's with we don't have a lot of medicine right now the hospital the and the people outside from the hours with a three week there's no food. or leave because of the militias that it's around but already the clothes and the roads that it is the food and a fuel there are one and benoit from the three sides they use the house that the rockets and the guys weapons and actually found even the gas mask because it had parts of the hospital clearly that the civilians there with the guards.

so you have it's you have this outrage war going down at least in this one city of course that this couldn't go unnoticed from libya itself so a group of first some two hundred protesters rented a government building and the capital tripoli to protest the siege to demand that the siege stop and they were actually does breast or by armed groups but as the military. personnel as well as police were actually open have. actually opened fire in the air from heavy weaponry in order to disperse the protesters. today marks exactly one guesses the death of moammar gadhafi what kind of state is the country right now. you consider those countries in the state of utter chaos for four for a year and now you have spread exciting breaking out in various parts of the country benny will you go there with their eyes still pockets so to speak but his supporters who continue to hear is as the government is now in libya there are also

armed groups which are affiliated with al-qaeda at this point in the international community has come to terms with the back door at least has admitted that such groups actually are there on the ground of course you have those the attack on the u.s. ambassador to libya which initially were started the ball back from the. anti islamic film. produced in the united states but then of course you the u.s. had to come out and admit that this was actually deliberate it's out on u.s. personnel in libya so i go it's so ongoing fighting highly unstable situation people continue to die and this is a situation happening in libya right now. reporting there from tel aviv irina many thanks indeed. protests in lebanon have rationed early monday falling we can clashes between police and demonstrators in the country's northern city of tripoli armed clashes have left one person dead and eight hundred and last began sunday one

security forces used tear gas to contain crowds of protesters trying to storm the government has quarters the country's opposition blamed syria for the car blast that killed lebanon's top jangle they say a government which is close to the regime in damascus could have had. and political analyst oman a sharia says a sorry investigation is needed before any blame is laid. apparently no one is waiting for the investigation everyone is really in a rush to accuse and this is very unfortunate there's a tension in lebanon between two groups you see one group in lebanon supports the opposition or the armed rebel groups in syria another group does not support these opposition groups and in the middle is the prime minister who is trying to say that lebanon is neutral towards the crisis in syria. with the assassination of general hossam who is close to the fourteenth of march and therefore close to the group that supports. the prime minister is in

a difficult the situation and he is very close to resigning and this will create. chaos the criminal investigation has not. barely started you know and well this has been a trend in lebanon it's the same trend when prime minister how it was in two thousand and five and others were assassinated afterwards there was also all this kind of a rush to. the outcome for political purposes and accusations that are based on political interests not based on the findings of an independent judicial body so this is happening again in lebanon today. on our website right now disturbing reports as chemicals used in the controversial gas extraction technique known as striking make their way into the hands of local restaurants. that's on line for you by saying spending cuts which thousands of eternium stiffer sentences forced them to cut back on one of the most famous traditions like the one pointed

out which one. was just over two weeks left until america votes aussie's truck in the race for the white house with our in-depth coverage of the presidential election barack obama and tied in the polls ahead of the third and final debate on monday focusing on foreign policy and also he's getting a chicken looks now into whether the 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 because he is one that would be despite 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 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 a no other reason given the push in us policy you still have two primary drivers in

terms of national interest and that is oil and israel president obama has shown 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 a phony red line that 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 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 foe china is a foe it's almost as if the cold war war never ended and that regard the paper 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 on. like 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 ministration 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 resulting 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 the 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 goals 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 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 conciliatory but get out of the way and 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 one 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 glove. thank you so as we watch the debate the questions are the two candidates different more in style than substance i'm going to 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. process presidential country bought from taking part in the debates between obama and

romney but he's helping break the blockade by offering their names on the bonnet a platform for discussion and you can watch the event live on in america own now. 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 on october twenty third. and in just a few minutes this train to the findings of the dozens over pools on mosque pro-democracy protests in kuwait continuously child at home and bluntly glued i would. say new wave of separatism calls is expected in debt stricken spain is the

primary dependence policies wouldn't be regional election the story and much of 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 everyone else about this democracy stuff what forty percent of the cunts. they're 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. hey if there 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. which shows that so much you know there's a huge musician on the mark with turkey getting screwed ahead a little over a year ago turkey was being hailed as the new leader in model for the muslim world among many turks the.

nuclear file full of hides inside the. radioactive fallout of all government betrayal the government. everything law and claude and claude how can the truth be revealed if there's no official evidence there was a need to use a very great danger to the service make of surgery will give a low problem. and to the people of this country generally because of the radioactive fallout. the secrets of the u.k.'s nuclear tests expose.

this is also the welcome back proud independence party is how one elections in spain's basque country with the results expected to spark more talk of separatism the proud independents kind of have secured their second largest majority in the region in thirty four years and winning basque nationalist party has vowed to drive the country's economic problems that's up to describing madrid as. a break on the

development of the region and it's not if that's the way the victory comes weeks ahead of elections and catalonia the wealthiest part of spain that's recently seen massive separatism rallies and economics blogs on the lever it says the financial crisis is that the cool calls for independence. 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 now 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 is suffering under the sea and step by step alone but each independent region each of you just on this region feels a day in particular are being made to suffer or 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 generalized economic reboot of the country and that's why you're seeing so much protests and so it's a little gains for the independents because. unless now check some other wild news in brief for you this hour gyptian authorities how far is in the assets of the country's former prime minister and presidential race runner up fake this comes after a state media reported that shafiq is you to go on trial in december point edge corruption for my confidant of the ousted president hosni mubarak shafiq left egypt soon after losing out on the country's top job this summer he says only geishas against going up in this kind of motivated. south korean troops and police have blocked activists from sending propaganda leaflets into north korea after beyond young threatened a merciless military response mobilized army units and prepared evacuations from an area near they did militarized zone after the north announced it could be

a fire on a group which was looking to send two hundred thousand flyers into the communist country pyongyang had described as an unacceptable display of psychological warfare . over one hundred people have been injured in the capital of kuwait as police stepped in to break up a regime rallies tens of thousands flooded the streets in various parts of the city and headed towards government headquarters but were made by tear gas and stun grenades the protest was sponsored by a reform of electro law which the opposition called a constitutional claiming it would significantly hump its chances of winning the parliamentary pol opposition activists have urged kuwaitis to boycott the election for december protests against the ruling family a key u.s. ally have regularly erupted for over a year but every draitser from stop of parity isn't dot com the things they haven't attracted enough international attention because of washington's strategic interest in keeping the regime in power. well kuwait has long been

a client state of the united states and more and more kuwait plays a. central role in the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council kuwait it's been used as a weapon by the us 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 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. and dimitris here next with business high that again so the peace apparently sending it's taking tank a d.p. has to buy well apparently the buy is russia's largest state owned oil company ross naff but that's according to media reports financial times and russia's comments on our reporting on this let's get more details from tom bottom now so some good to see that one of the companies involved saying so far. well dimitri that they're staying tight lipped about the exact details but at the moment so the reportedly being advanced discussions between the two companies about this enormous deal that's been months being wrangled over by all of the parties involved it's expected it could be twenty five billion dollars if it's complete it's giving b.p. perhaps tens of thirteen billion. dollars in cash and also saw

a sixteen to twenty percent amount of ross neff stock that's an enormous figure that could result out of the the end of all the negotiations that have gone into this is possible deal and that would come on the sale of b.p.'s fifty percent stake in t n k b.p. so what would all the different parties get out of this possible deal well b.p. would get out of t n k b p it's been a very thought me relationship with the a our shareholders behind t.n. k b p would also be able to move closer to the russian government controlled sector of russia's oil industry personified as it were by the figure of igor searchin who is in charge of the kremlin itself would be able to push keep all of its promises of privatization but also keep the peace expertise in with

rawson after things like deep drilling drilling in hostile environments like the arctic. itself would become possibly the world's largest oil and gas pumping body beating exxon mobil after this deal and may well go on to buy out a r.'s half as well which would make it that biggest company a r itself would obviously get the money of the deal if that was their half was bought out otherwise not it would change the landscape of the oil and gas industry in russia all right thank you very much that was our correspondent tom barton reporting on this and indeed unique and immense a partnership which is looming in the making in the. all right fairly that's all we have time for this hour we will be back in fifty five minutes with an update coming up next after

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who threw stones on team dot com. and you can start. to. flow in welcome to cross talk i'm curious about turkey and its road ahead a little over a year ago turkey was being hailed as the new leader and model for the most one 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 teach students. 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.