you don't really. believe this pro-government forces continue the siege of bani walid they love the bastion of colonel gadhafi supporters as the country marks one year since his regime. of foreign fighters presidential rivals bronco bamma the tranny took syria iran and on the flashpoints of the us trip politics. in this debate seen by many as critical in this election governor romney and president obama were in staying on pretty much everything i'll be back in just a few moments with more. on the security tightened in lebanon following the sponsored by the death of

a top intelligence tree putting the country on the brink of sectarian conflict. this is all see coming here live from moscow hello and welcome to the program libyan government slings militias are stepping up their sort of the country's opposition stronghold of bani walid the people under siege say they blockaded cities being pummeled with gas filled bombs and just a word of warning you may find a scenes where about to show you just a big city remains constant from vital supplies the violence has sparked mass protests rossley where with people demanding and then to this siege all this comes exactly a guess as the regime of moammar gadhafi officially collapsed going to has a. few. accused of numerous human rights violations and crimes against

humanity he was painted as a ruthless and bloody dictator who would stop at nothing even at the cost of human life of his own people if you're wrong after his demise let's have a look at how today's libya is different from the libya of moammar gadhafi because he was accused of mass executions of his opponents of using chemical weapons against 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 let's take a look now as to the democratically elected government as the western media likes to portray it two men rights watch has said that they have followed conclusive proof of gadhafi associates being massively executed by the rebels

or by the militias affiliated with the new government the results of the alleged use of talks in gas against people holed up in the town of bani walid grow 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 to the footage fed body really shows just what kind of carnage we're dealing with children young people old people women to maim and dead their arms their limbs torn 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. and john resupply routes

from the stop the war coalition says as the western backed intervention there that is to blame for the lack of any kind of stability we're beginning to see the fall fruits of the western intervention in libya for over a year ago when the tide recedes when the west's arms are no longer being used you can see that there's a continuation of a civil war that was. happening before. we know that the situation is enormous term stable we know they were able to get the weapons out of the militias hands we know that the government is in control of the capital very quiet about the whole country so i think this shows that the west intervention simply pumped more arms into the country made it ungovernable after they left. so having syria and iran while maintaining u.s. military dominance barack obama and me tranny locked heads in their final

pre-election debate the incumbent president pitted his foreign policy record against the republican candidates like a one as the challenger tried hard to stay on their phones him but failed according to polls or he's going to check and watched proceedings from washington prat. 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 big ring 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 policy is 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 the 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 he's very 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 the 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 of 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 election you'll get more backbone 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 shield together to no avail the only response russia has been getting 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 despite this administration's more forthcoming official attitude the issue still stands. and dr cohen holland and contributing editor to foreign policy in focus says one need double down his foreign policy rhetoric to avoid scaring voters away. 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 bought us the iraq war and they're the the called the new conservatives 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

a quote 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 seem much more reasonable and sort of centrists if he sort of plays out what's really in his cards i think it into scaring a lot of people and of losing votes and so that was part of what was going on there he was trying to move more toward obama and so there was a debate. so too was the debate stealing the show leaving a third party presidential candidate sidelined and bought from taking on equal terms but also helping turn the tables by offering doubt tentative names on the ballot a platform for discussion and you can watch that debate live in america or know website lace how interesting. 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 on october twenty third. in lebanon security forces in full combat gear and armored vehicles have been patrolling the capital beirut to force gunmen off the streets the west was spotted by last weekend of clashes between police and protesters over the killing of a top lebanese security trait at least seven people have been killed and dozens wounded in gun battles point to see and now 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 form a 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 live anees intelligence officer but what people tend to forget is that it is not in syria's interest to have been 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

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 at essentially just provoking the situation people saying that not since her figure really 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. still ahead in the program for you all set and ready to god in that sometimes whole space station crew straps and full blast off and on the countdown takes final report from the site of the final preparations. and we've got a lady who receives a blow from moody's rating agency just weeks before an election focusing on the possibility of independence from the dead stricken central government this story and much more traditional play.

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a new era how we're driven by the mood. here on r.g.p. we've got the future. this is the welcome bok moody's has cut the credit ratings of catalonia and for all of us punish regions to below investment grade this comes just weeks before an early continent action which will focus on whether the region that makes up a fifth of the country's economy should seek independence a million catalonians recently marched in barcelona blaming madrid for their financial woes they spanish prime minister mariano rajoy however has already to block any independence referendums called by regional governments and sociologist carlos del close says it can only call trip and reluctance to shed debt which is driving separatist sentiment. it's really the result of spain being a country that is basically the proper project united under

a crown that imposed one spanish national identity on several other communities with who have their own languages in their own histories what's going on now is the economic situation is weakening the central government so much that independence now seems quite plausible and even favorable to the people in these regions for years there has been work being done on the ground to kind of set up the material conditions for independence that is the basque region and had a more independent i guess tax system where their tax payer uro's would go towards the basque region in the basque autonomous region what. we are seeing now is a shift in large part due to a rejection of the previous government incumbent government which was composed of basically of the socialists and. to be able to a lot of what we're seeing really is a major shift where the independent is radical left has become the second power in

the region. and almost see dot com right now it's where you find semantic court offense the to pursue private members to send in remote correctional facility. and introducing time they have to have a complex of anonymous process to launch their answer to we can be found on giving and even names find out more about the approach of that. and to some other world use them briefly this hour police the rest of. the clashes with protesters in panama support city of law and the government of panama send special troops to the caribbean stated to disperse the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets violence erupted over legislation which had allows the sale of land in a free zone to private companies with demonstrators believing the city has jobs and revenues will suffer. the u.k. is set to double the size of its armored run fleet in afghanistan where purchasing

five. surveillance the government hasn't announced yet whether the aircraft will remain there after twenty forty one nato mission ends written claims it's drones have only it killed four civilians since two thousand and eight but admits it has no way to prove it the u.k. bureau of investigation investigative journalism says nato drone strikes have actually killed hundreds. at least twenty six people were arrested after a violent demonstration outside kosovo's a government assembly building in the capital they sought to the prime minister of serbia and kosovo held a historic first meeting on saturday brokered by the e.u. which demonstrators say on demise and kosovo staters the breakaway region declared independence from serbia in two thousand and eight following bitter conflicts during the breakup of yugoslavia. a live online blog from hundreds of kilometers above earth and thirty two goldfish in orbit just some of the features of the next

shift at the international space station in just a few hours the new crew blast off on a shiny new soyuz craft and with final preparations underway lisa catherine of had a chance to meet a bird strapping in for the ride. they arrived in baikonur like the rest of us an ordinary airplane landing on the tarmac but their departure is the kind that many only dream about. blasting off into the heavens for mission control it's now a routine trip but for these men it's their first mission to the international space station and their debut journey aboard a soyuz rocket. a day before liftoff russian cosmonauts levinsky is guinea to real gain and u.s. astronaut kevin ford met the press. each of us has piloted an airplane. now we'll have to fly up into space inside warm i'm not feeling i think is one we simply won't forget to be at the top of this joint missile construction and beneath

you is so much power that even thinking about it is a bit terrifying. it's a fear their families know all too well this is normal and. of course it's worrying we're nervous after all this is their first flight to space. there is no god i think that every man must have a purpose for which his tribes and when he choose this girl he finds happiness but in reality i think amounts to happen as they explain when he chooses goal and has close ones waiting for him at home. but for now in space three colleagues already on the eye assess await their arrival now says decommissioning of its space shuttles leave russia soviet designed so use craft as the only means for international astronauts to reach the space station and for the countries involved it's a world away from the bitter space rivalry of old we work together we're starting to learn the best of both ways so again by cooperation were cheering something

that's better than any one of us could do individually it will take about two days for the soyuz rocket to reach the station where the team will live and work for the next six months their first week will be a busy one i don't think of. every week. we will tasks include a space walk to repair station equipment as well as returning the world's first commercial cargo space ship back to earth but intense training has prepared them for the tasks ahead getting that rocket off into space may be an act of precise science but here and baikonur tradition and faith play a role to a tree planting ceremony is one of the many soyuz crew traditions each crew member also signs a wall here in baikonur space museum meanwhile in accordance with local custom a russian orthodox priest has blessed the rocket and the media. sure both up in the heavens and here on earth the space program is one of the few things that brings

countries together at a time of global unrest for backup crew astronaut chris cassidy that's exactly how it should be when you're up on the space station you look down on the plane and you see the beautiful blue and browning clouds but no borders there and i think that's the most indicative of how the space program is. lucy catherine of r.t.e. baikonur. and in just a few minutes don't miss our look into the future of space tourism well while the industry's piny right now dimitri's here next with the latest financial news and they talk of the business community is all about the huge ross. absolutely is the third most important oil and gas deal in history actually wealth around sixty billion dollars with rosneft. going to become one of the largest actually the largest publicly traded oil and gas company in the world well let's talk in more detail now with. oil and gas analyst from the nation's capital in moscow very

good to see you so with the rosneft becoming this huge oil behemoth do you see new risks for the company. good morning definitely a risk always there and we know that two thirds of them in a deal globally fail so. we see risks here either number one that we see is really the that you see over the company and we estimate the company will end up with seventy billion dollars of new debt in there basically will lead to up to four billion dollars of annual interest payments that's an enormous and this is bigger than that of gas problem or more than combined that of the whole oil and gas oil sector in russia that's well it sounds like an immense amount of debt indeed with rosneft actually worth seventy five billion is going to have seventy billion now just overall in general is this going to have an effect on the russian

economy altogether which is so much dependent on the weather. there could be a. little views here with the negative for you would be that if the company starts facing. at some stage then the government will be coming up with additional tax benefits so we as as a as the population of russia will. means certain fiscal revenue from the oil and gas sector as their. capital will be spent on repaying that that's on the negative side the positive is that the company will be in theory be much more focused on efficiency and generating cash flow so it will be cutting costs not overspending on international projects committing more capital to russia that is oppose it and even more importantly is that big company called can see the. rest of disposal program to the eleven isabel and the s of disposals could generate more m. and a activity in the sector could reshape the sector probably gain some efficiency

as a result of it so you have two sides here we hope it's going to be more positive but they are definitely well it sounds like indeed there are many positive features from this deal from the new size of the company but isn't the government in russia doing quite the opposite of what it intended to do with providing more private capital in these key sectors of the economy there isn't this reverse privatization well i think the that is the initial of you with it. and the concern is that the russian is getting nationalized that is i think not exactly the case and first of all even in these particular transaction rules naftogaz is selling dahlan about five point seven percent stake i think the government has committed and reconfirmed the recently in its plans for further privatizations in the in the economy including oil and gas so i think this is an intermediate step. in the creative aimed at adding value to the assets that will be potentially sold off so i don't

exclude privatizations in the future when they think overall trend should not be. materially changed from after this deal actually arrives in that direction thank you very much for your comments that was in that a village an oil and gas analyst from brant kept talking to us like thank you very much for that. all right that's all we have time for this hour coming up next on our c we told good to let me tell you eric anderson is a leading space entrepreneur about the prospects of space tourism future. download the official ati application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch all its hear all you need is your mobile device to watch

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