good for a government to say this is continue the siege of bani walid the last bastion of colonel gadhafi supporters of the country marks one year since his regime. foreign policy amateur matronly fails to overcome barack obama's two years of experience in the last race to praise your old between the presidential candidates before next month spotted. in this debate seen by many as critical in this election governor romney and president obama were in sync on pretty much everything i'll be back in just a few moments with more. of the police two people are killed in the overnight clashes in lebanon and the nation's security forces trying to force gunmen off the streets

that arrest was started by the death of a top intelligence treats. new song russia and around the world this is our sea was nice you lash above our hello and welcome to the program libyan government willing to militias are stepping up their sort of the country's opposition stronghold bani walid the people under siege say the blockade at sea is being pummeled with gas filled bombs were warning you may find this scenes were about to show you disturbing the city remains cut off from vital supplies the violence has sparked mass protests rance libya with people demanding and then for the siege all this comes exactly a year since the regime of moammar gadhafi officially collapsed he's arena has since. he was accused of numerous human rights violations. and crime

against humanity he was painted as a ruthless and bloody dictator who would stop nothing even at the cost of human life of his own people here on after his demise let's have a look at how today's libya is different from the libya of moammar gadhafi because it was accused of mass executions of his opponents of using chemical weapons against of those who disagreed with his regime during the time of houston with the rebels in libya he was accused of purposefully cutting off food and humanitarian aid and water supply from citizens from residents of towns and villages which were in the midst of intense fighting now add to the democratically elected government as the western media likes to portray it to mean rights watch has said that they have followed conclusive proof of dollar fee associates being massively executed by the rebels or by the militias affiliated with the new government the results of

the alleged use of toxic gas against people holed up in the town of bani walid are staying with body while we do have to remember that this is the town which has been under siege from pro-government forces for more than two and a half weeks now people are talking about the shortage of labor food and medical supplies in the footage fred body really shows just what kind of carnage we're dealing with children young people old people women. their arms their limbs tore off half of their faces blown off from the lot of these images had to be edited out of the gruesome nature now a year on after gadhafi it does seem like none of this stability or freedom or justice or peace that was talked about are actually in place in libya and that the country remains an abode of chaos.

so having syria and iran while maintaining u.s. military dominance barack obama to be trying new lot has in that final pre-election debate the incumbent president pitted his foreign policy record against the republican candidates like all of the one challenger trying hard to stay on their phone so but failed according to polls he's going to stick around has the latest from washington. this debate showed that the candidates agree on a lot of things on some issues they were almost in sync with one another even using the same words it seemed the occasional bickering that happened between them was more for the sake of the debate rather than about real differences in the policies that they propose on iran for example they couldn't agree more with each other they were absolutely on the same page with regards to putting sanctions on iran with regards to backing israel they were saying exactly the same things but president obama did say something interesting he said he's against the premature military action against iran governor romney's a vase of response to the same question suggested that he doesn't want to go there

either and he said i don't want to get into a hypothetical so then on of get is that governor romney showed himself as an added we could of the president's policies there he said that he thinks the surge was successful that as the president of the united states he too would bring the troops home in twenty fourteen something that president obama says he's going to do on syria though they both agree that the u.s. should get outside and make sure that the next government in syria is friendly to the united states they both agreed although they did disagree on whether or not the u.s. should give heavy weapons to the rebels in syria that's what governor romney suggested whereas president obama at least seems to recognize the complexity of the situation on the ground take a listen for us to get more entanglement militarily in syria is serious stuff and we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against us or our allies in the region to more general point governor romney kept using the

word opportunity when talking about the revolutions in the middle east and north africa when talking about syria it's very telling of the foreign policy that he is suggesting is that it's very opportunistic with regards to syria he basically said that the u.s. should take advantage of the crisis there to deliver a defeat to. take a listen to this serious an opportunity for us because syria plays an important role in the middle east particular right now syria is iran's only ally in the arab world it's their route to the sea it's the route for them to arm hizbullah in lebanon which threatens of course our ally israel and so seeing syria remove assad is a very high priority for us the candidates did mention russia on a few occasions although there was no specific question about russia of course that hot mike moment came on you know the one between president obama and russia's image of if this spring when the u.s. president suggested that he would be more flexible to discuss america's missile

defense plans in europe after the election and for that remark the president has come under an avalanche of criticism in washington russia does continue to battle us in the u.n. time and time again i have clear eyes on this i'm not going to wear rose colored glasses when it comes to russia or mr putin and i'm certainly not going to say to him i'll give you more flexibility you have to election after the election you'll get more back on the missile defense shield in europe is a longstanding sore point in the relations between the two countries moscow suggested many times were resolving the issue by building the shale together to no avail the only response russia has been getting that from the administration was don't worry it's not against you but then when they listen to candidate romney who calls russia an enemy and virtually every statement on russia that candidate romney has made so far has actually played into the concerns that moscow has with regards to this challenge because russia then says ok president obama we believe you but what if maybe not this year not two but but four years from now someone with the mindset of governor romney is elected the president of the united states how is he

or she going to a use those military bases so close to the russian borders because that shield is not an end it's not a four year project it's a long running day so this spike this administration's more forthcoming official attitude the issue still stands. let's now get more reaction from dr colin harden and contributing editor to foreign policy is dr helen welcome to the program so did matronly really stand a chance against obama in the debate given their vastly different foreign policy experience. well i think what happened was this was really a debate and and in part of course you know it's because as you say romney has no experience in foreign policy so each moved as quick as he could to his strong suit which is talking about the american economy what i didn't find disturbing was not only that it wasn't a debate but that there was

a hole that asked number of questions tremendously important that were never address the question of the palestinians question of global warming world control of nuclear weapons that sort of thing now it was some differences but you had to be kind of. an expert to spot them at one point during the debate one of the debate the discussion on iraq. governor romney used the term that he would stop iran from becoming a nuclear capable unquote what would turn nuclear capable is the term that prime minister benjamin netanyahu this year uses and what it refers to is that if iran develops the capacity to make nuclear weapons not that it tries to make them richer but it develops that capacity that that it should be attacked now that is not

a position that the obama administration has supported in fact and explicitly backed away from it so you know those are small little kinds of. differences that i found it a little depressing because i write about foreign policy and you know there really wasn't a discussion on foreign policy and we all know has failed to keep his promise to close gone tama bay and he has stopped a stepped up a u.s. drone strikes and talking to the killings across the globe did romney try hard enough to capitalize on the president's foreign policy it's all coming. really because. he i think one of the things that romney has got a problem with is that romney's trying to move to the center i think he's scared a lot of people. and i think one of the mistakes that people make is that they think that this is a debate between two men and i think what's important to do is to see who basically are the groups of advisors and

a group of people behind the president and the groups of people behind romney are really the same people who have bought us the iraq war and they're the what they called the neo conservatives and and so it's richard perle and laymen and and people like this and. they want a much more aggressive foreign policy but americans don't want that a majority of americans don't want to fight a war with iran seventy percent of them don't want to do it unilaterally americans want to cut military spending that's what the polls show so what what romney had to do was to sort of back away from a lot of those positions except on military spending and seen much more reasonable and sort of centrist if you sort of plays out his he and the way he really what's really in his cards i think it into scaring a lot of people and they end up losing votes and so that was part of the what was going on there he was trying to move more toward obama and so there wasn't

a debate. talking about russia or only continues to view russia as america's number one but it is obama any different considering how the reset of relations with moscow has that chinese sold. is there a difference i think there is a little bit of the difference partly the reason it was a kind of a bizarre statement that romney made about russia being an enemy i mean i sort of thought the guy never heard about what happened in one thousand nine hundred i don't you know it was really where this comes from partly that is also his advisors i mean these are the people a lot of the. people are either vote people or the the students of or even the offspring of the people who designed the cold war who back to the one nine hundred fifty s. and the one nine hundred sixty s. and and certainly the one nine hundred eighty s. in the reagan administration and so they tend to look at russia as as an opponent they view the world through glasses that you're either with us or you're against us

so you notice that romney talked about russia votes against us in the un well so do a lot of other countries but the point is that when the russians or the chinese have any kind of independence in terms of how the u.n. should be acting of them people by romney consider that the action of an opponent and i think that's what the differences here i think what you would see with a romney presidency is back to kind of bush and reagan this view of a much more polarized world with good guys and bad guys. and you're in it dr and i thank you so much for your point contributing editor to foreign policy in focus called thank you very much again thank you for having so two holes debates are stealing the show a big third party presidential candidate find lined and barred from taking part on

equal terms but also he's helping turned the tables by offering the alternative names on the ballot a platform for discussion and you can watch that debate live on in america or not websites later 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 t.v. on october twenty third. in lebanon a security forces in full combat gear and vehicles have been patrolling the council beirut to force gunmen of the streets and west was spawned by last weekend's clashes between police and protesters over the killing of

a top lebanese security chief at least seven people have been killed and dozens wounded in gun battles pulis leon reports. there 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 on gunmen from both sides patrolling the streets and this has stoked fears of an increase in sectarian tensions events in syria have brought to the fore the sectarian lines that lebanese suffer from it's brought to the for both their allegiances and tensions you have essentially the march eighth bloc that is led by hizbullah that supports the syrian president bashar assad backing it out with the march the fourteenth movement that is seen as western backed it's 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 been involved in the 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 we're hearing is more more voices saying that this attempt of blaming syria is merely a detraction from who the real culprits are and it is an attempt and essentially just provoking the situation 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 this is all she will continue after a very short break. if

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a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up and this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf i had a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here using the older walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean that we foil and remains a place where visitors can truly understand the cool of the wild.

nuclear fallible side. radioactive fallout of government betrayal the government. and laud and claude how can the truth be revealed if there's no official evidence there was indeed a very great danger to the servicemen concerned who were given no proper protection and to the people of this country generally because of radio like before. the secrets of the u.k.'s nuclear tests it's.

the old. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. and let's not check some other wild news in brief police arrested fifty activists after clashes with protesters and panama's call on the government of masand special troops to take our band sitter to disperse the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets. just nation which allows the sale of land energy to free zone to private companies with demonstrators believing this is his jobs and revenues will suffer. the u.k. is set to double the size of its armed drone fleet in afghanistan by purchasing

five new reaper drones for combat and surveillance operations the government hasn't announced yet whether the aircraft will remain down to twenty fourteen all nato combat operations are due to be terminated the country's ministry of defense insists only four have been civilians have been killed in that strike since two thousand and eight although as made it's difficult to verify exactly who has been hit. the yuan is not in the deployment of peacekeepers in syria but only if a proposed ceasefire takes hold in the conflict torn country the united nations special envoy lakhdar brahimi was a truce to start on the multi multi day muslim holiday which starts this hour this is yet to be fully accepted by either side syria has been a de facto state a civil war for nineteen months with over twenty thousand people killed according to you an estimate. from the trees now next to the business news hello then to russia rubles saw its sharpest fall in two weeks on monday dmitri why is that and

that's because banks in russia basically realize that they're in the desperate need of the greenback of dollars in order to finance a huge deal in the oil and gas sector as we've been telling you ross never does buying up to you and katie before sixty billion dollars and therefore the russian ruble fell around three quarters of a percent against both the dollar and euro yesterday's session in the moron that the all russia's third largest oil company. has been the car owned by b.p. and its russian partners the end of the day he will get twelve billion dollars in cash and around twenty percent of gross never stopped for harm of g. and k. b.b. the other half of the company will be bought. for twenty eight billion dollars now the deal was around two years in the making there were many different scenarios on how it could have gone and writes of it was it was concluded the head

of search and. why. is buying up the whole of tears. but you. do you counsel in those rosneft and b.p. supports the idea of buying the whole of t.n. kavi it's crucially important for us to have the acid totally integrated into rosneft strategy only in this case will we have a synergy effect that will boost efficiency in a wide range of oil fields and refineries and she was in ukraine for. well at the end of the day rose damped was one of the best performing stocks at least among blue chips it was up two and a half percent on the news because investors are considering this deal to be in good favor of ross never develop other companies of course and in my sex was also outperforming global markets up one percent at the close. we will see the beginning of the session in around half an hour's time over in asia we're seeing a pretty flat boring session with the nikkei down around point one percent

expression for utility companies while in the export sector companies there are growing on the back of a weak yet. rushers the business climate is improving its doing business rating has moved up eight notches over the past year according to the latest report by the world bank the country is in one hundred twelfth place well indeed and this makes it stand between the pacific island state of allow and central american salvador earlier president picks and gave the government the task of them proving russia's rankings according to the plan russia will aim to jump to fifty a place in three years. step by step we're getting there apparently all right coming up next on our spotlights with al gore.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

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hello yellow welcome. to. my guest on the program is. underway in moscow. the russian prime minister opened the event which attracted some most prominent economists and politicians from all around the water sector the world. has come to moscow to speak. and today he is my guests and the. world customs organisation plays

a vital role in global trade the only body dedicated exclusively to customs and border control matters. developed standards rules and security for almost all countries since joining twenty years ago russia has been one of its most active members. of the w c o intelligence network and its training centers are among the best in two thousand and seven russia became part. hello mr because you are welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today thanking to saying please are well first of all well i i just mentioned the conference you were taking part in here in moscow well what is the role of the customs of the world customs organization.