a day. devastation brains and colonel gadhafi is former stronghold libyan pro-government forces keep up their assault hundreds displaced and children among the dead. obama paints romney as a novice who is not ready to be america's commander in chief but he finds out right victory elusive in the final presidential t.v. showdown. in this debate seen by many as protocol in this election governor romney and president obama were on the same page on pretty much everything i'll be back in just a few moments with more. force spanish regions are pounded by the ratings giant rudy's

as thousands prepare to march in madrid against more looming cuts. hello welcome to our tea were we broadcast to you on screen at all mine twenty four hours a day seven days a week. while hungry thirsty and forced to flee their homes the people of bani walid in libya are seeing their home torn and ripped apart by pro-government shelling women and children are among the dead as loyalist militias try to take the last stronghold of support for moammar gadhafi the city remains cut off from violence supplies if islands has sparked mass protests throughout the air with people demanding an end to the siege are two spoke to one man in italy whose family is in bani walid he asked us not to reveal his identity because he's afraid for their safety. i spoke with my family on the last few days and they are telling me

that this is two issues that. on the last few days there won't be because there were. there weren't any place safety on the city right there so they went to the most care with the other families from the women's and the little kids and there were women have the. pregnant women have a baby there and she's dead because the situation was that it. only has five days they did not. and today it was really really strong bombing from outside then early the kind of heavy heavy guns the government did not do anything to start the government was that the what happened in between ben what did the messiah stop. after to he came out and he said that it's a war it's a good war against the wall and he said must go inside the new leader in

clean and but from who i really don't know this is millions are fallen down every day but already do it on the kind of weapons a little. aircraft machines a bullet on the head i don't know what happened else about the few there is a people says the woman right there. it's such a such a mess and from the other side from the road of people in the news in the family as a human shelled right there the latest violence comes a year after the brutal ousting of colonel gadhafi with a disarray in libya still ongoing john recep a little activist with the south the war coalition thinks it's the countries that backed the revolution in libya which are to blame for the lack of stability. we're beginning to see the fall fruits of the western intervention in libya over over a year ago when the tide recedes when the west's arms are no longer being used you can see that there is a continuation of

a civil war that was. happening before. we know that the situation is enormously unstable we know that they were able to get the weapons out of the militias hands we know that the government is in control of the capital they're worried about the whole country so i think this shows that the west intervention is simply become more arms into the country made it ungovernable after they left. he came out fighting in an approach paid off in most polls but still president obama failed to deal has republican rival at decisive blow during their final pre-election faceoff obama took romney to task over his inexperience in global matters while stressing his own foreign policy achievements but as gannets to can now reports the way the candidates actually view america's role on the world stage isn't all that different. 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 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 rid of 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 a 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 and it's very telling of the foreign policy that he's suggesting is very opportunistic with regards to syria he basically said that the u.s. should take advantage of the. crisis in syria to deliver a defeat to iran syria is 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 hezbollah 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 up the one between president obama and the marshes i mean to me that 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 avalanche of criticism in washington criticism that came down to this basically how dare you be flexible with the russians or want to talk to them about security issues and governor romney during this debate has made a similar point 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 him more flexibility have to election after election he'll get more backbone

the missile defense shield in europe is a longstanding sore point in the relations between the two countries moscow has suggested many times resolving the issue by building the shill together but to no avail the only response russia has been getting from this administration was don't worry it's not against you but then 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 schildt because russia then says ok president obama we believe you but what if maybe not this year but four years from now so along with the mindset of governor romney is elected president how is he or she going to use those military bases so close to the washroom borders because that shield is not a four year project it's a long running thing and despite. this administration's more forthcoming official latitude they should still fence but obama and romney pledge to stand by the

military and keep the cash flowing but u.s. foreign policy analyst conn hallinan says behind each candidate there are hawks hungry for conflict 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 the hind the president and the groups of people behind romney are really the same people of course the iraq war or the the cold 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 seemed much more reasonable and sort of centrist 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 wasn't a debate. but not all of the foreign policy debate was a serious as it sounds take barack obama's sarcastic retort to mitt romney discover on r.t. dot com how his remarks about horses and bayonets are galloping across the web. the debates between the two main contenders for the white house may be over but there's still plenty of fight left in the selection the so-called third party candidates outside the two main political forces were excluded from official televised debates but refused to stay silent call minority america are helping them air their views but big picture host tom hartman guiding you there along.

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. spain's government is finding itself cornered from all signs for a giant movie slashes the score of four of its regions new looming cut scenes anger also. to wine. and ignition a max international space station crew blasts off with a team of first timers we report from the launch site right after the break.

if you're passing through rushes to be a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lacks in forstmann means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just u.s. forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group to rescue wolf and bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here. this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have

a unique opportunity to observe them these wolves 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 island 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 old walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs his 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 wolfs reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean that wolf island remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild.

baqir with art in a live from moscow another financial blow for spain as ratings giant moody's slashed the score of four of its regions including catalonia by one to two notches that's a spain central bank says the country's economy keeps trying but speculation it might ask for a lifeline the government is desperately searching for new ways to keep spain afloat with more cuts debated in the parliament for next year's budget thousands are expected to come out to protest against the plans in madrid people angry over every mounting austerity political communications professor victor san pedro says spain's political crisis means there is no real challenge to the policy of cuts the problem is that those cuts are not going to be discussed in the parliament given

the absolute majority of the popular party. which is in government now. in the main opposition party that this story is facing are huge crises and internal crises so the main minority parties will have enough more used to their disapproved of the people in the street and of course of the vote and so you will be developing by their own dynamics i suppose depending on how many people there are they had to do to send. in the wheel is that you know why you are losing was three valleys who have been bad maybe that is not the intention with. of the authorities it was proven in the previous when you took station where the bullies were there first were dark the protesters. there's a massive military presence in key cities in lebanon as the army tries to restore peace after days of unrest the violence was sparked by the killing of

a top lebanese intelligence chief in beirut last week clashes continued into tuesday artie's possibly or has the latest. 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 armed 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 its border to the fore 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 finding of this high ranking live in these 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 lift some thirteen people killed so what we're hearing is more voices saying that this attempt of blaming syria is merely a detraction from who the real culprits are and it is an attempted 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 turkey promotes itself as a regional leader but in fact it's present in person to more journalists that china or an american media watchdog exposes turkey as the world's leading jailer of

reporters who criticize the government for covering that story online now. at exactly ten years on from the moscow theater siege that left one hundred thirty dead archie brings us firsthand accounts from survivors and here's the victims hears from the victim's relatives you'll find it all at our t dot com. or of this hour as world news now a powerful blast has rocked the headquarters of the syrian army in a suburb of damascus there's been no immediate report of casualties or any claim of responsibility that comes just after peace envoy lakhdar brahimi appeal to both sides of the conflict to observe a cease fire for the muslim holiday of aid. in series of deadly attacks have hit shiite areas of the iraqi capital for parked cars exploded northwest of baghdad killing seven people and leaving sixteen injured another attack struck a northern district where two mortar rounds are reported to have landed killing two

and wounding several others it's not known who is behind the attacks but the iraqi capital shiite areas have previously been targeted by al qaeda linked sunni militants. plays out in a hospital in southern taiwan has left twelve people dead and seventy others injured patients died of smoke inhalation as the fire swept through a nursing home located on the second floor of the building most of the victims were bedridden and couldn't escape the fire emergency services quickly brought the blaze under control though the cause of the fires still unknown. the u.k. is doubling its drone fleet in afghanistan to ten multimillion dollar on land and armed aircraft that's even though london says it's preparing to leave the war zone ahead of the two thousand and fourteen nato withdrawal deadline middle east expert tariq ali says drone warfare is a hypocritical crime. i think it's an emergency measure that they want to have the capability to blast people they don't like whenever they want to without

loosing the lives of their own soldiers oh this is always been very a priority they can always find money for weapons for wars but they insist on austerity measures reducing salaries of all workers some of the less well off and going down so should be expended trip innocent lives are lost women being treated ruined and they create more havoc then before so the result is really very gun to productive and they build up a crude in these regions you know on the one hand you have western countries saying terrorism is a threat and on the other hand they launch drone cero on innocents in different parts of the world in africa and now as we're seeing in so clearly sharon tomorrow or who knows where it so but what it does is keep the war feet were going and then

people want to react in individual groups of terrorists want to but countries that are doing this so big on pretend that they don't know this is going to be the result it's well attested a new three man crew is speeding its way to the international space station right now mia for the two russian cosmonauts it's their first ever space flight and their american counterpart is making his debut on board i say use rocket. and i've witnessed the launch at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan i think you might get many things right there firing it out. and one thing all. about you in fact they should be. spending the next six months but they're alive but they're really incredible preparation for this mission we got to watch the rocket rolled out of its range in the early hours of the morning really

incredible to see this piece of machinery up close and personal to really understand what decades of hard work and scientific research has been able to accomplish in finding a human being. something that i don't certainly think wonderful to watch from afar but i would certainly be a bit terrified of being inside that missing and these men are not they've been training for years for the moment now of course impossible to tell what he meant or what thinking but it is absolutely certain that the moment that neither of these men what ever forget the ignition and lift off 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 if any to real again and u.s. astronaut kevin ford met the press. each of us has piloted an airplane we've only

sent rockets down now will have to fly up into space inside warm him up 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. of course it's worrying we're nervous after all this is their first flight to space. there's no question i think that every man must have a purpose for which his tribes and when he achieves this goal he finds happiness but in reality i think amounts to happen a stakes place when he chooses goal and has close ones waiting for him at home. but for now in space three colleagues already on the i assess await their arrival nasa is 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 achieving 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. 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 would be down on the plane and you see the beautiful blue 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. baikonur came out here shortly on r t it's the business up day with natasha. download the official up location cell phone language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from matsushita t.v. is not required to watch on t.v.

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twenty minutes past the hour you're watching business on r t overawes neff plans to pay a quarter of its profits and dividends once it completes its merger with t.m. k b p that's according to its head eager section as for the dividends for t.m. k.b.p.s. shareholders it's a different story all the details just a minute rushes a third largest oil company t m k b.p. has been co owned by b.p. and its russian partners a our at the end of the day b.p. will get twelve billion dollars in cash and twenty percent in rosneft stock for how fifty ok b.p. rosneft will buy the other half the company from a a r for twenty eight billion dollars the deal will result in draws now becoming the largest publicly traded oil company in the world controlling about fifty percent of russians oil exports but old guard of left ssion from around cap says that doesn't reverse the government's call for privatization. first of all even in these particular transaction rules

naftogaz is selling the five point seven percent stake i think the government has to commute to and reconfirm the recently plans for. privatizations in the in the economy including oil and gas so i think this is an intermediate step. created through that aimed at the adding value to the assets that will be potentially sold off so i don't exclude privatizations in the future and i think overall tranche should not be. materially changed from after this deal actually. and staying with the energy sector of russia as gas mildly gazprom on tuesday has launched one of its biggest projects the field has proven its gas reserves of five trillion cubic meters gazprom plans on annually extracting around one hundred forty million cubic meters of gas from the field that's equal to its entire volume exported to europe last year. and less now.