government linked militias continue the blockade and showing up libya's opposition strongholds bani walid more details plus a firsthand account from inside the besieged city in just a moment. security forces in lebanon using barbed wire and roadblocks to contain armed gunmen calling for the government to quit following a wave weekend protests over the killing of a top security official. plus foreign policies in focus sounds barack obama and mitt romney gear up for their final election debate with some observers saying there's no difference in their view of america's role in the world are two special

in-depth coverage of the presidential race is coming up. hello and thank you for joining our team this monday i'm karen with the latest world news the ongoing standoff has intensified in libya where government linked militias continue to surround the former gadhafi stronghold bani walid phares clashes in the outskirts of the city have left at least twenty people dead and more than three hundred injured parties arena joins us live from tel aviv now irina what are the latest developments happening in the ongoing crisis in bani walid. well you know we have to understand that the sea just going on for the eighteen days straight it began when the government forces that is the age the city consider it thinking that it's a man who was responsible allegedly responsible for the killing of one of the

active and gadhafi rebels was hiding in the city so it is these decisions then they will lead. to no avail they didn't find a member they did managed but at least twenty people as you have said have died in the clashes in the city itself has been in a situation which is unheard of since the last. war really want to listen to the man who literally list risked his life to tell us what exactly is happening inside that city. 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. everywhere in the city the civilians building. even the benoit hospital we don't have a lot of medicine right now the hospital keep in the in the people outside from the hospital through week there's no food. but only because of the militias that it's

around but already the clothes and the roads that it's the food in defeat all there are women benoit from the three sides they use the house that the rockets and the guys with guns and actually found even the. the hospital says it is clearly that the civilians there with the guards now iran now we've been broadcasting live footage as well as pictures coming straight out of bani walid some of which scenes are very disturbing and we've been watching the situation cause widespread reaction all across libya is there any sign of a dying down anytime soon. absolutely not this situation has been now going on for a year and actually for more than a year if you consider the fighting that. have ground gadhafi and then it doesn't look like it's going to subside anytime soon and it's not in fact in addition to the fighting there of course protests there were protests in the couch in the capital in tripoli where people went marched on the government building to protest the fact that the city of buying what was being besieged by the government forces

those crowds were dispersed with live ammunition being fired into the air there were also protests and been god you have heard about that but also there were protests in gaza with people are breaking into the headquarters of an american channel allegedly because they did not like it brought it to broadcast the five broadcast channels was presenting. on their works term issues and clashes there as well and of course you have through. the very recent attack on the u.s. embassy in which the u.s. ambassador to libya was killed that was that year that was actually what's dying to watch. out in libya so this is rest of the country is definitely unstable extremely so all the violence continues and there is no sign of any sort of solution coming to the country in time still live from tel aviv. who's also tweeting on twitter you

can follow her at r.t. thank you. now moving on to lebanon where armed gunmen have blocked roads in several areas of the capital beirut following weekend flights between police and demonstrators early on monday dozens of protesters put up tents there saying they would not leave until the government resigns soldiers used barbed wire and roadblocks to prevent the demonstrators from approaching the lebanese prime minister's office in the capital at least two people were killed and over a dozen wounded overnight in the country as protesters burned tires and the unrest began on sunday when crowds of protesters stormed government headquarters accusing syria of masterminding the killing of lebanon's top security chief political analyst says a thorough 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 those not support these opposition groups and in the middle is the prime minister who is trying to say that lebanon is neutral towards the close of the city and that there were with the assassination of john and has son who is close to the fourteenth of march and therefore close to the group that supports. the prime minister is in the peak of the situation and he is very close. resign and this would. chaos the criminal investigation has known it's barely started you know and well this has been a trend in lebanon it's a. prime minister how did it was in two thousand and five and others were assassinated afterwards there was also this kind of rush to use. for political purposes. 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. on our website right now just stopping reports from the chemicals used in the controversial gas extraction technique known as fracking made their way into the homes of local residents. also online biting spending cuts also have a tally of protests and also forced them to cut back on one of their most famous traditions find out which one. is just over two weeks left until america votes our team is tracking the race for the white house with our in-depth coverage of the presidential election barack obama and mitt romney are tied in the polls ahead of their third and final debate on monday focusing on foreign policy. and 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 campbell brown and an image of america the current administration is also striving for a robust america in their own way we came restocked 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

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 the 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 said on 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 phony red lines but 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 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 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 team that went to attacking. governor romney at 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 of the drone is going to drop a bomb on your head what do you expect from this debate monday night romney will basically say whatever he thinks it's going to take to get himself elected that's the problem he's got two constituencies basically that he's been appealing to want is basically old white male constituency. well his age people 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 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

herman thank you but you're going 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 their party presidential candidates on barred from taking part in the debates between obama and romney but our team is helping break the blockade by offering the alternative names on the ballot a platform for discussion you can watch the event live on air in america or on our website. this presidential election is not just about obama and romney there are also third party candidates on the ticket and they will influence its outcome see a debate among this nation's major third party candidates right here on our two jacobi twenty third.

and coming up the strain silence that does are just ahead we report on mass moccasin protest in kuwait continuously choked at home and bluntly the door to brawl and. also a new wave of separatism calls is expected in debt stricken spraying us pro independent artist when a key regional election the story and much more after a short break. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale a shell of oil is a shit test small arms so there's a lot almost machine building plough and a lot of the also lost count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve

years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the plow and history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans south here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it's thrived on the lesser wounds of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but. some adapted to better than others. this is the fuel truck factory russia's number one truck made for doesn't look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these johnsons sold around

the globe have base a brand new be no way to be delivered to a client for seventy trucks like this once roll off the plants conveyor belt every day spoke about this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully it if i can get up that. i can go for a test drive. oh that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to travel to one every morning was with a cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving money. more

to almost perish the. bluntest into their lives after the tragedy. still gives try to cross oktoberfest. because their future. be wrecked. sure by being terrorism ten years on our team. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tired of our lockers a big picture. welcome

back to characterize a pro independence parties have won elections in spain's basque country and what the results expected to spark more talk of separatism that power independence candidates have secured their second largest majority of the region in thirty four years the winning basque nationalist party has bowed to address the country's economic problems that's after describing madrid as a brake on the development of the region and its manifesto victory come two weeks ahead of elections in catalonia the wealthiest part of spain that's recently seen massive separatism rallies economics blogger gonzalo nida says the financial crisis is at the core of 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 as are helping you to overcome and it's a certain kind of blinders that the minorities will out 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 but each independent region each of you just on this region feels a day in particular are being made to suffer or it's impact the entire country that sort of huge unemployment issue in spain fifty percent youth unemployment and twenty five percent of our adult unemployment and the problem of these. crisis that spain faces which is not going to have a happy ending and which is going. drastic cuts. and just a generalized economic reboot of the country and that's why you see so much protest and so it's a little gains for the independents who turn for some other world news and pray for you this hour into present authorities have frozen the assets of the country's former prime minister and presidential race runner up a week this comes after state media reported that shafique is due to go on trial in december for alleged corruption a former confidant of the alstad president hosni mubarak he left egypt soon after

losing out on the country's top job this summer he says all allegations against him are politically motivated. south korean police have blocked activists from sending propaganda leaflets into north korea after threatened a merciless military response the north warned it could strike a group which was looking to launch balloons worth with two hundred thousand flyers into the communist country seoul had to mobilize army units and prepare evacuations from an area near the demilitarized zone tensions between north and south korea have remained acute for almost six decades but the two countries technically at war . over one hundred people have been injured in the capital of kuwait as police stepped in to break up a series of entire 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 a protest was sparked by

a reform of torah law which the opposition called the constitutional proof claiming it would significantly hamper its chances of winning the parliamentary poll opposition activists have urged kuwaitis to boycott the elections scheduled for december protests against the ruling also family a key u.s. ally have regularly erupted for over a year however eric draitser from stop imperialism dot com thinks they haven't attracted enough international attention because of washington 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 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 client state and for that reason you don't hear about rampant human rights abuses you don't hear about the attack on working people the way you do in places like libya or syria which were long since on the u.s. hit list. and dimitris here from the business task and it seems the gas dispute between russia and ukraine could be coming back it might as well be actually because ukraine's president victory in a coverage has come to moscow to meet his counterparts of the putin on a short notice visit actually and speculate the negotiations could focus on signing a new gas deal now since russia launched the north stream undersea pipeline to

germany transit through ukraine has been gradually decreasing in the first seven months of this year instead of forty nine billion cubic meters which is around a quarter less than last year year and year also ukraine has been a long i'm happy of its current gas prices more than four hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters so might want to renegotiate that again. but one other longstanding dispute subduing sales of t. and k. b.p. could be coming to an end because media reports suggest that the. b.p. is selling its fifty percent stake to russia's ross sniffed now if he could get around twenty seven billion dollars for his fifty percent stake media reports suggest around half of that would be paid in cash and the other half in a row shares which could end up with b.p. having twenty percent in ross net now both companies do confirm that they're in advance the discussions between each other adding that no final agreement has yet

been reached but earlier the british firm decided to quit its russian venture due to a shareholder dispute with its local partners and also ross never now could be getting up to one hundred percent of the company which would make it the biggest publicly traded oil producer and a. rival on the news shares are up right now one point seven percent feeling better than the market which on average is gaining around half a percentage so you can see that over in europe we're also seeing a similar picture with the footsie up actually point one percent that's let me correct myself there is going down this hour but philips has been providing a lot of optimism to the markets on its third quarter results coming out much better than expected and it's up more than four percent this hour. and the signal goes out fighting in the currencies market the euro continues gating against the dollar that's up to latest batch of economic data from the united states showing

that the housing market is still far from a recovery in the crisis on the russian ruble is losing value against both currencies and that's about a week of commodities and indeed we are seeing legs we brand right now coming off two week lows but that's just in to the heart of all of the barrel that's on the worries of increased tensions in lebanon. right that so we have time for this hour coming up next he talks to iceland's foreign minister about what lessons. could teach the european union about coming out of the crisis.

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more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are today. sure is that so much of an elderly each musician on the mark let's repeat it in slow to head a little over a year ago turkey was being hailed as the new leader in model for the muslim world when many turks the.