please you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here so you saw the part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard is a big. government telling to militias continue the blockade i'm shutting of libya's opposition stronghold bani walid more details last time to come from inside the besieged city interesting moment. where the rest sweeps lebanon following clashes between police and until government protests is over the killing of a top security official. and foreign policy is in focus as barack obama under the tranny gear up for that final production debate with some observers saying there's

no difference in their view of america's role in the world also a special coverage of the presidential race as. you saw russia and around the world this is our sea with me hello and welcome to the program the ongoing standoff has intensified in libya where government linked militias continue to surround the former gadhafi stronghold of bani walid fierce clashes in the outskirts of this if they have left at least twenty people dead and more than three hundred injured and she's really going to as nor and you might find some of the scenes disturbing. a 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 lead us continuing for the eighteen days straight for the very stupid 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 of the civilians building our fallen even the burning oil it has with all who don't have a lot of medicine right now the house and the hospital the and the people outside from the hours with the 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 and there are women been away from the three sides they use the house that grow the rockets and the guys weapons and actually found even the guards mask is that of course of the hospital says it is clearly that the civilians the bomb with with the guards of course this couldn't go unnoticed from the libya itself so for

some two hundred protestors 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 magic personnel as well as probably the country is in a state of utter chaos for a year and now you have spread it fighting freaking out in various parts of the country their eyes still pockets so to speak. to supporters who continue to resist 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 right least has admitted that such groups actually are there on the ground in libya so i'm going fighting people continue to die this is a situation that's happening and we are right now. i found a by your me as a kiwi i did so the pan african news weiss says it's washington's blatant pursuit of its own agenda and financially trusts any bad loss share 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 while the targeted this town of one hundred thousand people this is totally unjustified and i think the state department should really be called out for it now after their big. siege on body walid because they in fact was that are backing the general national congress government it's a pull us regime only reason why the united states and nato went into libya in the first place was regime change to see them 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. and moving on now to lebanon where it leads to six people have reportedly been wounded in the

southern part of the capital beirut in clashes between sunni and shia protest as government troops are trying to keep a tight grip on security following we can find between police and demonstrators at least two people were killed and a dozen wounded overnight in the country as protesters blocked roads and burned ties and bends that rest began on sunday when security forces used tear gas to contain cries of protesters trying to storm a government building the opposition blamed syria for the company lebanon stop trying or they say their government which has close to they regime in damascus could have had a hand in the matter that's political analyst on mana chavez says a 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 supports the opposition or the armed rebel groups in syria and other groups facing it 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 and with the assassination of john and has 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 has 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 this kind of 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 and i've been on today. now with science right now disturbing reports from the last chemicals used in the extraction

technique and. make their way into the. accidents. i don't song line by spending cuts push thousands of italians to protest and also force them to cut back on one of the most famous traditions doubt that. well just over two weeks left until america votes all see is tracking the race for the white house with our in-depth coverage of the presidential election barack obama and me trump tied in the polls ahead of that third and final debate on monday focusing on foreign policy also he's going to look into whether the leave 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 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 are full that the obama administration jumped on the bandwagon of the revolutions hoping to forge better all lines is 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 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 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 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 thede 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 suggest that 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 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 in a 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 in the fifty's sixty's seventy's who remember the cold war who 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 mr harper and thank you for your grandpa so as we watch the debate the questions are the two candidates different morning style than substance i'm going to check on 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 in our series of pre-election reports make sure that thanks for watching welcome party presidential come to our from taking part in the debate between romney but he is helping to break the blockade by offering the outside and have names on the ballot a platform for discussion and you can watch the event live in america or now website 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 like over twenty third.

and in just a few minutes this trained silence of the desert for the last pro-democracy protests in kuwait continuously child at home and bluntly ignored. and also they said if we end you wave of separatism coals is expected in debt stricken spain as our independent sponsors when i play reach election this story and much more after a break. it's perched atop a jaw drop and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the i can see up for a city to all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed but a child siberian railway but the poles cremains a spiritual center.

scenes like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of also talks worshippers dip them selves in bless it will to commemorate the baptismal jesus. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just called good siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies to ball supposed to be their strong. constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian was the oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the balls location head of the says for the russians the russian crowd a revolt against the eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists will stand here in droves there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also set up some bit of

irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here they led a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves leading the ordinary normal countryside life style they even had thought it was but within the year the czar and his family would be dead.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry is a big. this isn't see welcome back probably independence one elections in spain's abbas kind of

train with the results expected to spark more talk of separatism they probably didn't abandon this kind of have secured the second largest majority in the racial says. for years the winning. party has as the country's economic problems that serve to describing the trade as a brake on the development of the region and it's not a fast start the victory comes weeks ahead of elections in catalonia the wealthiest part of spain that's why simply say massive separatism rallies taking on this blogger that. says the financial crisis is at the core and. 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 how 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 lonely and but

each independent region each of you just on this region feels a 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 joe 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 a generalized economic review of the country and that's why you're seeing so much protests and so it will be bulgarians for the independents who have. over one hundred people have been injured in the capital of kuwait police stepped in to break up a series of regime rallies tens of thousands flooded the streets and virus pulse of the city and headed towards a government headquarters but were met by tear gas and stun grenades their protest was sponsored by a reform of electro norwich the opposition called a constitutional claim it would significantly its chances of winning a parliamentary opposition activists have adequate enough to avoid course the

election for december. the ruling. ally who regularly. what are the traits of from stopping her isn't up on a plane with they haven't attracted and nothing to national attention because a washington is to teach interesting people divisional power. but 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 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. next to the business of days and dimitri the gas dispute between russia and ukraine could be coming by well it could indeed because it's at least on top of the agenda in the presidential meeting between will ukraine's president viktor yanukovych and president putin in a car which has come to moscow on a short notice visit and the speculate the negotiations indeed could be focusing on signing a new gas deal since russia launched the nord stream undersea pipeline to germany transit for ukraine has been gradually decreasing in the first seven months of this year students forty nine billion cubic meters which is around

a quarter less than last year year and you know at least also ukraine has been long unhappy a bit about its current gas prices of more than. hundred dollars per one thousand cubic meters. but the long lasting dispute between t. and k b p shareholders could be coming to an end finally well according to media reports the british co-owners reportedly decided to sell its part of the venture to russia's energy major rosneft b.p. could get up to twenty seven billion dollars for its fifty percent in the oil further and media reports suggest the half of it will be paid in money and half in a row snared shares so b.p. could end up owning twenty percent up to twenty percent of rosneft meanwhile the company's confirmed they are in advanced discussions adding that no far you know very much has yet been reached earlier the bridge from decided to put its russian venture due to shareholders dispute with the local partners and now ross that is also expected to require the rest of ten k.b.

to hold one hundred percent and become the biggest publicly traded oil producer in the world. and now let's take a look at the markets and on the russian market where the r.t.s. the my six is showing very small growth if any at all ross snapped is actually one of the hospice said the sour so news is really helping that stock and exist so it was happening over in europe there we've also seen both london frankfurt move slightly towards positive territory now we're in the middle of the reporting season and philips has been very successful in providing optimism to the markets of more than four percent the selves a very good third quarter report over in asia we've had bad news coming out of japan saying that the exports fell ten percent in the month of september which had exporters but the hang seng was feeling much better a point seven percent and currency markets the u.s.

dollar was lower against the euro that's on the back of a poor housing report for housing reports in the month of september in the secondary markets in europe are gaining against the russian ruble and on the commodities market we're also seeing more oil coming back of two week lows around half a dollar per barrel but still demand concerns are limiting patents and that's all we have time for this hour we've got a fifty five minutes time with more coming up next on our c we talked to the survivors of the goofy it's a siege to talk about the horrors of the trash. which

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