pro-government militias in libya keep up the deadly assault and see. the reports that chemical gas is being used. america's global position is the. final turn on t.v. with in the polls. we've got in-depth coverage. of the senior intelligence official. process and. one of them.

live from moscow this is r t it's nine pm monday night here my name is kevin though and it's very good to have your company first libyan the pro-government militias are continuing to pound the besieged town of bani walid as the standoff over the gadhafi stronghold there intensifies there are claims that chemical gas has been used to meet fierce clashes on the outskirts of the town that killed over twenty people and left many more wounded hundreds of terrified families of homes really going to report. we are getting reports from bani walid a town which essentially has been besieged by the pro-government forces for eighteen days straight especially in the last five days have been marked by very intense fire exchanged now residents of the town that we have been in contact with

say that they're now starting to run out of food water medical supplies there they're saying that the town has been shelled nonstop essentially that the pro-government forces are being extremely brutal in they are attempting to almost smoke people out of the town one of the men that we have spoken to talk to about the pro-government forces using some sort of chemical gas all of the residents of the bani walid let's have a listen to what else he has to say there out of. their own or. their government. there are. better the books are. coming. on t.v. has also obtained where the appears to be a fax from one of the hospitals in bani walid which seems to confirm the fact that the patients are indeed suffering from the toxic gas poisoning again this fax has

not been independently verified but it is believed to be written and signed by the doctors in one of the hospitals who are saying that the patients are suffering from difficulties in breathing from the secretions and that increases in heart rate the reaction in libya to the fighting which has been going on in bani walid of course is the extreme and now we have people there is darting to pull out of the hilltop town there are literally we're hearing reports of people lining up almost only outskirts of the of bani walid trying to get out we're also hearing of course the reports about former residents of bani while. well you too have marched on the government building in the capital tripoli demanding that the government stop the siege of bani walid they were dispersed by our use of firearms of which were fired in the air there was also case in it been ghazi where people have attacked and

ransacked an american television channel. apparently because they were very displeased with the way that the portrayal of the siege of bani walid was being broadcast all of this is all of this is just part of the ongoing situation in libya which has not gotten any better in the years since the death of more market duffey of course we still have hot pockets of confrontation between the pro-government forces and the people who still support gadhafi they're breaking out sporadically all over the country there are also groups armed groups which are known to have links with al qaida we know about the attack on the u.s. embassy which has happened not too long ago there that as a result the american ambassador to libya was killed that the libyan government of course is saying that vonnie walid is what they call an unfortunate tallinn their home for outlaws mercenaries and khadafi supporters and hence the shelling off again reminding eighteen days they have been besieging one talent and it does not

seem like the situation in libya is getting any better it does look indeed like it's a deja vu a year ago all over again. the fun of the t.v. show. mitt romney the running neck and neck right now they're expected to run put the rhetoric to secure those much needed last minute votes foreign policy will be in the frame later monday i'm just part of our coverage goes. much difference really between the two candidates. 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 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 a map of the spring this week is one that will be despised the one thing we all

fear the most is a weak america what can be an image of america the current administration is also striving for a robust america in their own way we came we saw our guide. 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 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 strong allies like israel

under the bus these three leaders open saber rattling towards in french history or some tension with the white house it's clear the american people don't want to know the costly and devastating war based on phony red lines 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 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 pivot toward asia makes perfect sense to mr romney and i really don't think he would change anything in nature rhetoric as he issues 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 latitude 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 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 policy 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 while even despite the consistency that 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 so i'll be right here after the debate covering their efforts and also

every monday will be zooming into one issue one big issue you know a pretty special series of pre-election reports make sure you don't miss that from washington i'm going to check out. i wouldn't miss it would not. in washington d.c. he's the washington d.c. bureau chief in fact of the into press service news agency jim good evening thank you for being on the ice to see the white house has been ramping up pressure on iran recently both candidates have talked about how to run shouldn't be allowed to lead a nuclear weapon how might the approach to iran differ the depending on who does end up in power end of the day. well i think that's that's very difficult to predict i think on the one hand i think the obama team is quite determined to avoid any military action if at all possible and indeed we had what are described as leaks out of the white house this past weekend covered by the new york times indicating that. obama is looking for one on one talks

with iran although the white house denied that report there seems to be a lot of buzz around it so presumably something is going on and it seems also that the europeans are also encouraging such an approach at this point and it's something that obama himself had promised when he ran for president four years ago that he wanted to engage the iranians directly. romney on the other hand is unlikely to do so in fact his campaign has strongly denounced these leaks as has for example the wall street journal which is a strong supporter of romney as to what romney would actually do again i think it's very difficult to predict he has a range of advisers from kind of traditional realists like robert dallek who's a former president of the world bank. to a group of thinkers who are described best as neo conservatives who are extremely

hot on iran and whose views are very close to those of bibi netanyahu who i think would like nothing better century and to somehow get the united states were to attack iran or iran its nuclear facilities at the very least what about when it comes to china both obama and romney of being them using china as a scapegoat blaming the u.s. economic problems on by just what pinole the almost country to succeed existed in its own merits on the other side of the world. well china seems to be a perennial election year scapegoat for both parties almost every presidential candidate certainly since bill clinton has attacked the incumbent a candidate in his case george h.w. bush for being or for allegedly being too soft on what clinton called the butchers of beijing that was three years after the tiananmen massacre. but

china seems to be a very popular scapegoat and it's not surprising that both candidates are are attacking china suggesting that its monetary policies are manipulating the value of its currency and so on and so forth and that they'll get very tough on china i suspect that the their candidates rhetoric on this can be taken particularly seriously especially romney who as a businessman who's invested in china knows its value to the united states and its importance in keeping the united states solvent to foreign. relations with russia one clear difference to the counter this is the positions old russia romney called moscow america's number one geopolitical foe my and this leadership of relations with moscow if he gets in. well again i think that's difficult to predict on the one hand you have realists on

his team like that like who are not particularly antagonistic toward russia are probably skeptical and suspicious but not particularly antagonistic or hostile and on the other if you have a neo conservatives who have historically been very anti russian dating back to the jackson banneker management in you and well before that for that matter so nobody really knows what romney himself really thinks himself personally i think your correspondent here covered his position quite quite well in referring to it is seemingly something locked in the cold war but romney is nothing if not flexible as he's proven throughout this election campaign to see what pans out later on tonight to see when the latest and the last face to face happens we'll be watching closely from leave it i'm afraid washington d.c. bureau chief of the in depressives news agency thank you thoughts. but on the t.v.

most americans are faced with a two horse race but it's not the full story of course there are other options in our t. therefore is hoping those known as the third party candidates get some may give voters a choice they'll take the stand live your thom hartmann host of all of these big picture there to guide us through. 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 october twenty third. this is the pro independence parties have made progress in spain's basque region a separatist party's victories likely to spur a breakaway calls over with national disparity we've got more often they spray.

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through our special instruments that accompany the singing if danny says there is even a legend about his instrument a guilt it says. there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument. or was it of some pitiful is because the spirits of the horse came to his dream and said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings . and to remember me make an engraving of my head of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again you which means come back and this melody on the instrument is called.

to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour prove what they say for you are opinion since difficult to pick up and sing so i asked them to teach me see if i can do it chill your chair lift up. cerro you shared water that was sure they can out you and was you think gang are all. but now it is only and woody part of the song and not the actual throat singing which i wouldn't even dare try to refute. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met small she looks like a deveny and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most s. to heart and mind so that you come from two hundred years ago until sappy here she's

not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature. hello the lebanese military struggling to contain the violence that hit the country over the weekend after the killing of a senior intelligence official word general has a strong critic of syria's regime in the car bombing friday the opposition not only blames damascus for his deaths but also pointing the finger the lebanese government wants a promise to disturb the latest marty's falsely accusing. hi paula the army restore peace first off. well certainly there is a heavy army and police presence here in and around the capital city of beirut at

the moment the situation is calm they certainly have a lid on things but that doesn't mean that the mood is not tense and that it's can not disintegrate at any moment throughout the day on monday they were sporadic clashes in the northern lebanese city of tripoli this between two neighborhoods one that supports the syrian president bashar assad and another that supports the opposition and the other day and continuing until now we have seen armed gunmen on both sides patrolling the streets and this has stoked fears of an increase in sectarian tensions now the army there has taken up a very visible presence in tripoli's and worth square they're also concerned about a city that has been staged since sunday in front of the prime minister's residence so there's a lot of concern that the situation could disintegrate we're looking at a situation that has seen five people killed since for a day at the same time the former lebanese prime minister saad hariri has called for both prime minister and the government to step down the army too has issued a statement saying that it intends to restore peace and order but the question

remains whether indeed a king can do this and for how long and why is syria being blamed for the killing of general. well certainly for some time there has been concern that the situation in syria will spill over into may bring lebanon and so what we've seen is that events in syria have brought to the fore the very deep sectarian lines that lebanese suffer from its border to the fore both their allegiances and tensions you have essentially the march eighth bloc that is led by his blood that supports the syrian president bashar assad backing it out with the march the fourteenth movement that is seen as western backed also a movement that supports the syrian opposition ever since the assassination in two thousand and five of the former lebanese prime minister rafiq hariri these two forces have been coming to the fore and we see that happening again now over the assassination back on friday of this high ranking lebanese intelligence officer but

what people tend to forget is that it is not in syria's interest to have any of involved in this attack on friday you also need to remember that on sunday there was a suicide bombing in damascus itself that left some thirteen people killed so what you're hearing is normal voices saying that this attempt of blaming syria is merely at the traction on who the real culprits are and it is an attempt at a century just provoking the situation when we have good consensus on across the political spectrum is people saying that not since we're figuring he was assassinated more than seven years ago has there been such real concern on the ground here in lebanon that they could be a mother civil war so certainly the mood here is incredibly tense party's policy of trying to bring you know pressure to. after three years tolling opposition pro dependence parties are back in power and spain's basque region separatism calls are now expected to grow louder with madrid hysterically being first in the firing line

we're winning basque nationalist party described as government break development in the region votes to put its economy back on track for more elections in a few weeks when the wealthiest to cover lonia meantime votes to an area that's also seeing growing separatist sentiment more analysis on this developing story next we hear from so short a scholar still. a bit of a business now the twenty three minutes past nine in moscow time. and katie one of the biggest deals of the decade has been sealed to bring us up to date and you know that's right russia is energy a major role of kevin will pay over sixty billion dollars to buy ross's third largest oil producer t. in k. the b.p. will get twelve billion dollars in cash and about twenty percent in stock fault for its heart of the company that's the situation it's all come out today and if we look at the markets will be able to see that they finished up in positive

territory today and i can tell you that the stock for ross now even though they're going to have debts as a consequence of this. the stock was actually gaining over five and a half percent at some point today so as far as investors are concerned they seem incredibly optimistic about it all to lose work all the way through the markets and so we will check out the exchange rates the russian currency finish up the lower the basket crisis stay out of the european currency if it is not seen managing to gain one thirty sixty seven for the traders favorite pair and the u.s. markets are continuing to gain insert really lucky in direction as you can see the dow jones down around four tenths of a percent just there really the tightening presidential races that's the making investors. less likely to spend because they don't know what the economy is going to look like in the near future so indeed that's how the markets learn some more news over our staff next hour. next the survivors of the moscow theater siege

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