more jar to any toy. government telling to militias continue the blockade and shelling of libya's opposition stronghold bani walid and more details in just a moment but. away one red sweeps in lebanon following clashes between police and anti-government protesters over the killing of a top security official. once foreign policy is in focus as barack obama and to me try new gear up for that final pre-election debate with some observers saying there's no difference in their view of america's role in the world with special in-depth coverage of the presidential race as.

this is also you coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the ongoing standoff has intensified in libya where government a link to militias continued to surround the former khadafi stronghold bani walid fierce clashes in the outskirts of the city have left at least twenty people dead and more than three hundred injured also he's really not going to has more on the have to warn you you might find some of the following scenes disturbing. 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 many what we need is continuing for the eighteen days straight with very huge fighting going on for the days straight so you have this outrage war going down at least in this one city and now we have this exclusive piece from a man who literally risked his life to give an interview to r t i have a call from my family in there told me that the situation there right there is

a really horrible the. heart of all of qana for. everywhere in the city the civilians building our fallen even the burning oil it has with oh we don't have a lot of medicine right now that the hospital keep in the in the people out from the hours with a three week there's no food. but only because of the militias that it's around but already the clothes and the roads that it is there the food industry all there are women benoit from the three sides they use the house that the grad rockets and the guys weapons and actually found even the girls mask is that it boss of the hospital says it is clearly that the civilians the bomb went with the guards of course this couldn't go unnoticed from the libya itself so for some two hundred protesters went to the government building and kept no tripoli to protest the siege to demand that the siege stop and that they were actually distressed by not your personal as well

as the country is in a state of utter chaos for a year and now you have spread it fighting breaking out in various parts of the country there are still pockets so to speak but his supporters who continue to hear is this the government that is now in libya there are also armed groups which are affiliated with al qaida at this point even the international community has come to terms with that or at least has admitted that such groups actually are there on the ground in libya so i'm going fighting highly unstable situation people continue to die this is a situation that's happening and we are right now. and you know me as a key word in the pan-african e.-y. news wire i should say says it's washington's blatant the seed of its own financial interests and lee bell last chair 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 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. moving on to lebanon where government troops are keeping a tight grip on security following weekend clashes between police and demonstrators at least six people were wounded overnight in the capital beirut protest has blocked roads and timers and bins beyond clashes have also that one person dead and

ten wounded in the country's northern city of tripoli and west began our sunday when security forces used tear gas to contain crowds of protesters trying to storm a government building the country's opposition blamed syria for the car blast killed in lebanon stop they say their government which is close to the regime in damascus could have had a hand and. political analyst on a shot it says that far 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 eleven on support the opposition or the armed rebel groups in syria and other groups does not support the 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 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. only started you know and well this has been a trend in lebanon on its. prime minister how it was in two thousand and five and others were assassinated afterwards there was also this kind of rush to. the outcome for political purposes and accusations that are based on political interests not based on the findings of independent judicial body so this is happening again and i've been on today. and on our website right now the. serving reports from the u.s. as chemicals used in the controversial gas extraction technique known as franking make their way into the homes of local residents. and also online biting spending cons pushing thousands of attorneys to protest and also force them to cut back on

one of the most famous professions find out which one. was 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. tied on the polls ahead of the third and final debate on monday focusing on foreign policy he's going to conflicts now into whether the pad 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 there were folks mess with americans we go after the arab spring of 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 strong allies like israel under the bus these three leaders open saber rattling towards iran's has 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 whose 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 shows

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 pivot toward asia makes perfect sense to mr romney and i really don't think he would change anything in nature 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 qaeda russia. unless you're still start going to cold war mind warp despite a more forthcoming official attitude feed this ration 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 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 of 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 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 bomb a 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 over it thank you mr harper thank you but you're going to so as we watch the debate the questions are the two candidates different morning style than substance i'm going to shut down and i'll certainly be right here after the debate trying 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 and third possible. from taking part in the debate between me but also helping

break the blockade by offering the names on the ballots a platform for discussion and you can watch the event live in america all know what signs 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 our two jacobi twenty third. and in just a few men as they strained silence of the day as it were in the last part of the officer process in kuwait continuously child at home bluntly ignored or floor. on the new wave of separatism kohls is expected and deaths trickle in spain as pro

independence policies of win a clear way trilateral this story and much more to bring. the sun rises over what seems like and most forest be here in new directions quite hundred kilometers north of light of all stalk as much of the world it's disappearing and accounts traffic great. lawyers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system and filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy the forest is enormous and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our

wheels and get out and move silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers look easy. to work when snow falls we put in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they've twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're legal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f he says the government isn't doing enough to stop it just you . know one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone what will

the people who live after those who do it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly 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.

north of last terrorist attack. ex hostages let us into their lives after the tragedy. still gets try to cross out the past. because their future will yet be written. surviving terrorism ten years on or to. great to hear what to have you with us let's move on now pro independence party is one of actions and spain's basque country with the results expected to spark more talk of separatism the pro independence candidates secured their second largest majority in the region of. the winning party as well as the country's economic

problems that's after describing the trade as a break on the development of the region and its manifesto to trade comes weeks ahead of elections in time lonia the wealthiest part of spain that's recently seen massive separations rallies in comics blog and sallow leader at some of the financial crisis is at the core calls and. with an 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 equally 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 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 the fifty percent youth unemployment and twenty five percent joe adult unemployment and the problem of these far away. 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 independence from which and let's not check some other world news and briefly here this hour addiction also has his clothes on the assets of the country's former prime minister presidential race runner up after the take this comes after stays media reported after his team to the. on file in december for alleged corruption a former confidante of the ousted president hosni mubarak shafiq left egypt soon after losing out on the country's top job this summer he says all allegations against him are politically motivated. israel's prime minister has vowed to continue the construction of settlements in east jerusalem as grounds despite a palestinian up directions that there is part of the capital of the future a separate state the us foreign policy chief pass along to the building plan as

destructive to place efforts in the region to peace i should say officer. green troops and police have blocked out of its from sending propaganda leaflets into north korea after pyongyang threatened a merciless military response so mobilized army units and prepared evacuations from an area near they did militarized zone that after the north announced it could fire on a group which was looking to launch blueness carried two hundred thousand flyers into the communist country beyond the i have described it as an acceptable display of psychological research. over one hundred people have been injured in the capital of kuwait as police stepped in to break up that series of anti regime rallies tens of thousands flooded the streets in various parts of the city and headed towards government headquarters but were met by tear gas and stun grenades the protest was sparked by a reform of electrons which the opposition polls the constitutional claim it was

significantly hump its chances of winning the parliamentary poll opposition. to kuwaitis to avoid course the election for december that's against the ruling family to us ally have regularly over there but every traitor from stopping a parent is not cause things they haven't attracted enough international attention because of washington strategic interest in keeping the regime in power. when kuwaitis want to be in a quiet united states and more and more. central role in the. g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council kuwait is being 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 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. dimitris next to a business high that so these he is apparently sending it's taken t.n. told people tell us who the firings well apparently the bae is russia's largest oil company ross state company of course but that's all according to media reports let's get more details now from tom bought some good to see that so what other companies involved actually saying so far. both parties are saying that they are in advanced negotiations need of confirms that

a deal has been made there's widespread speculation that it has with the financial times of the u.k. saying that their sources say a deal house already been signed. all right while we're talking about day he of course of value of this deal tell us about that. could pay up to twenty seven billion dollars for b.p.'s stake in t.i.n.k. b.p. half of that coming in cash and the other half coming in. perhaps up to twenty percent of rawson after the b.p. would get the b.p. they get out of t n k b.p. and the difficult relationship that they had with the russian shareholders there the russian government gets to keep all of its privatized promises and for all sniffed if this deal goes through many speculate that it could lead to them buying out the other half of t.n. k.-b. p. which could potentially make them the world's largest oil company all right indeed

a unique and huge deal in the making there tom barton thank you very much that was our correspondent with the details on the deal all right let's move over if we have time to take a look at the markets in russia the markets in general going down around half a percent with the r.t.s. and my sex-ed declining their ross nafta's feeling better on the deal it's up around half a percent now over in europe if i'm not mistaken a second to what's happening there also we've got a negative dynamic there with a slight decline for both london and frankfurt but philips is feeling so much better it's up more than four percent on the back of very very positive first quarter results over in asia we've got the closing of the markets actually on a positive note which was a bit of a surprise after a mostly negative session that's up there also japan exports went down ten percent in the month of september hurting

a lot of thanks to stocks. and on the currencies market was seeing the u.s. still shedding value against europe against the euro on the back of a disappointing housing market report on friday and the russian rubles also losing value on a low of when we will. probably take a look at what's happening there and commodities indeed are quite low with brant falling in the fifty four cents on the back of. demand concerns. we have time for this hour coming up next starting as marina portnoy talked to the foreign minister of iceland about how his country managed to pull itself out of the financial abyss of the economic crisis and maybe what lessons it can teach to the years and.

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