perceived former stronghold is said to be sliding towards a humanitarian catastrophe while libya's pro-government fighters claim they're controlling the city center. and america's wars and take the influence of big money out of politics the presidential candidates forced into the sidelines get their voices heard. here on out. and health workers threaten to strike over pay losses a spate of negligence cases shines a spotlight on poor patients can.

live with me kevin now in our top story from moscow at nine pm here libyan pro-government forces say they've occupied the center of the opposition stronghold of bani walid with only a few pockets of resistance left dozens of been killed in recent shelling to end the almost three weeks long siege which has left the city on the brink of humanitarian disaster paula sleep is the latest. what is important to note is that all these reports of bani walid has fallen all coming from poe government forces we in fact are hearing quite the opposite from our own sources we are hearing that fighting continues if anything it has intensified now as nearly three weeks comes since the fighting began we are also hearing that the city has not fallen now it does seem as if hundreds of pro-government fighters have made their way into the city center they've been seen hoisting flags onto abandoned buildings and also

firing in the air but certainly this does not suggest that the whole city has fallen only a we spoke with a man in north africa his family is in bonny wanted and he gives us an update of what the situation there is like there is no government force very large militias a block would know what city and. most of them. because children are. going to really. love food for reducing for everything the machinery here if you're. there yet that could by. far the use. of getting guys is that unless you mean forbidden. civilian people in sight. and their claws for. everything for this is now we've also been receiving reports that the army has

rested at least eighty former gadhafi henchmen it accuses them of being involved in torture and murder this is other reports are circulating that the release of some forty hostages has taken place by anti government forces most people have fled according to the red cross some five thousand families which stands at around twenty five thousand people have fled to neighboring cities and towns but this figure is far below the total number of. people who we understand have been made refused treason by the situation we continue to receive unverified photographs as well as video of dismembered bodies of children that have been slain and we continue to hear reports of the use of chemical weaponry a reminder that we are being told that shells that contain gas are being fired on the local population with i would missiles and doctors at the scene telling us that many people are suffering from poisoned gas inhalation and on tuesday the united

nations security council to have a session and that session russia put forward a draft statement which will be fighting to be ended some kind of him to be brought to the ongoing violence now that statement was stopped by the united states and moscow has responded by saying that it finds the american actions strange and difficult to explain certainly they're difficult to explain if you remember that just last month for us citizens were killed in benghazi in libya and i'm responding to that washington bought out all the stops to try and deal with the situation you have a situation where more and more people are saying that no one really cares about what is happening in bani walid and you compare this to the almost ness hysteria in the mainstream western media and the international community in terms of what is happening today in syria in the past russia and china were blamed for voting against resolutions in libya so more people are saying that will be hard at the

moment on the table is a very clear example of double standards in terms of how the west deals with crises such as these on the go. well earlier we got reaction on the besieged to bunny will lead from libya's leadership i asked mohammed saeed from libya's national transitional council about whether pro-government forces are now in the city. yes they are but you will have to take the whole to the whole picture not part of it the whole picture is this fire is now going over there. for the government because through this some crime has been. carried by some of our close guys and they were supposed to be giving the local government.

their run away they have. they were hiding in certain places very early we've got reports of militiamen shooting in the air in celebration you're saying that's not happening can you comment all on the women the children that have been killed during this twenty days each other's lives this is a human to human question worth the imprisonment of the men who were loyal to the former a hundred. you see for for for for you as a media and your colleagues. you have to take that full picture we are taking care of the family every single family so i been taking out a very worried and houses and everyone we've spoken to families you know singling them we've spoken to families at least two families and they're saying there is not

the case there is an intense amount of pressure they're still. well you see where the government forces attacking a place where there are our close hided of course it won't be easy it's like a surgical operation there will be some small mistakes but the whole picture the whole thing is being handled. better fixie there we are taking care of all the family all the all the really all the women houses are ready for them food everything we're not getting the picture can i ask you but i know there's been reports of chemical weapons being used in fact artie's obtained a fax from doctors purportedly in the city which says victims are suffering from toxic gas poisoning we got a comment on that. these are lies these are lies i trust the guys who are over there i trust our forces there are muslim there

are human values are very high i have lots of trust and confidence there will never use such a weapon the thing is being used during the days of the dictator of the moment of he did lots of things like this but for our forces all of them they have. again and the thing is they have values they have a rule they will never break the will and they will never break their value. with size begin a bit earlier on next bring america's foreign wars to a close withdraw all corporate cash from politics and stop indefinite detention all the election promises but no ones you'll find in the manifest as a barack obama or mitt romney there are other names indeed on the ballot in the u.s. presidential election are to help them and their views by broadcasting alternative live debate that is going to change you can this day.

the four alternative candidates who were debating this tuesday night in chicago did raise a number of issues that were never even touched upon in the debates between mitt romney and barack obama there was a lot of critique of course they discussed money in politics their claim is that washington was bought and paid for by special interests they discuss the indefinite detention of americans the act that president obama signed something that the two party candidates never talked about during the major debates and here is joel stein where marks on the issues she is the nominee from the green party and the trail of our civil liberties that the president has assumed dictatorial rights to put us in prison at his pleasure without charge or without trial among other things sweeping powers of the patriot act also something that you don't hear much about in the mainstream media crackdown on whistleblowers by the obama administration and of course the military judging by their remarks he could very well understand why

there are outsiders in this election all of them were saying the u.s. should stop military intervention and all of them do not see much difference between barack obama and mitt romney especially on foreign policy take a listen we're going to find ourselves with the continued heightened police state in this country we're going to find ourselves continuing to militarily intervene in the world which result has resulted in hundreds of millions of enemies to this country that wouldn't otherwise exist we know the republican democrats some differences but both of them morphed into a militaru square protest anti-democratic force that has betrayed basic human and civil rights these candidates are going to be on balance but not in all states they were also talking about how hard it is for an independent candidate to get on those ballots in the u.s. that every state has its own intricate rules lots of signatures say that essentially it requires

a lot of. no money to get on the ballot and all of these candidates know they don't stand a chance to win this election but as larry king the moderator of this debate said their voices may not be counted on november the sixth but they deserve to be heard . and we bring you one of those alternative voices in the u.s. election just as party candidate rocky anderson joins us here and also reporting on deadly errors in britain's health service. it's impossible to so many individual consultant to tonight so many average it must be this is all i can think of the word. was months no doubt a catalogue of fatal flaws of the u.k.'s health care system just as the government increasing returns back to the business is just a couple of the many stories we're covering after this break.

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cultures that so much time and which of course he's right on it would appear and candidates promise and mitt romney revealed little major difference between the two and their approaches to security in foreign affairs many claim. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the iran tightrope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate will there be change this election a close guys have responded to them for fifty on r t. three cretaceous three times four charges free. range month three. three stooges free. download free

bronco splitting video for your media projects free media oh don the hearty dot com . hello he would you know t. from moscow very good to have you company and kevin owen here tonight now he's helpful tentative candidates in the u.s. presidential election get their voices heard but broadcasting the debates let's then talk to rocky anderson he's a presidential candidate from the justice party and former mayor of salt lake city rocky thank you being on the program well as a candidate first of all outside of the two main political parties the only ones you can realistically expect let's face it to end up in the white house at this point what are your reasons for running well we feel it's absolutely crucial in this country to raise the awareness among the american people and give voice to the vast majority of people who want to see major changes get to

corrupting influence of money out of our government and the worst of a crush and stop the building up of the imperial presidency in the shredding of our constitution what we stand for is what the majority of the american people want but these too large to office political parties have a stranglehold on our electoral system and we're trying to break out of that with these debates and our campaigns so what impact do you think that sent debate last night between you and the other third party candidates sentient made to the voters do you think it sank in any of your message. well i did one thing that's clear to me is that if i were included on the stage with barack obama and mitt romney i think there would be a very different result in this country because the the range of debate between them has been so constricted i mean they're basically arguing about who's going to raise military spending the most who's going to drill on public lands or off shore

the most whether we're going to send small arms or wired to arms to syria and add to what's going to be i'm afraid an absolute bloodbath a civil war in that country and the response to this debate has been just overwhelming i tell you about our third party to me because we're saying things that you never hear from the republican and democrats so no you are hearing so really reflects what the majority of the american people why so while the majority of american people jumping up and saying i'm not a minute we wanted the way the roki wants it. because the corporate owned media is not given a softer to nitty and the debate process now the presidential debate commission is owned and operated by the republican and democratic parties years ago they hijacked away the presidential debate by the league of women voters and now they have total

control over it just like they have total control over the process of getting on state ballots which is an absolute nightmare it is so anti-democratic in this country and we want the american people to understand this is going to take a democratic movement a broad based movement of people regardless of political partisanship where we demand a restoration of our democracy democracy by and for the people rather than the split ocracy where our government is up for sell to the highest bidder wishful thinking a will will it come any day soon. no i don't think it's wishful thinking if you look at the polls more and more of the american people republicans democrats greens and found it's just this party it doesn't matter they want to see our government cleaned up people understand that the public interest is being forfeited because those in congress and in the white house be tray the public interest every

single day that they sell out public policy to those corporate him interests that are buying the election and paying. many millions of dollars to those lobbyists that have there been shows with congress and with the white house so that's why we don't have it was rocking of course this has been going on for you isn't it you were previously a democrat is that why you quit. that is in large part why i quit but also because people that are in the democratic party now the stand behind this president i think they've lost total sight of principle because this president is claiming the federal government has the power to imprison people without charges without trial without the right of he views corpus this is something that is so anti-american so subversive to our constitutional republic and people now are getting it so this isn't wishful thinking at all we're going to see major changes

with the real people's democratic movement in this country and this election is helping to watch that movement right here the same thing's been in the program just as party candidate former there salt lake city is well we appreciate your time. pretty threatening a walk ahead of the government spending cut cd and say that even due to your pay freeze which could be extended as well as increased workload on top of it all of which is ruining medical staff morale was small the national health service is already losing the trust of the people it serves to police found. clearly in agony but in supposedly safe hands in hospital that's what janine harvey says distort when she came down with severe pain last december despite over forty visits to doctors in three different hospitals janine cervical cancer diagnosed

rhyming in city hospital doctors here failed to spot janine harvey's cancer not once but twice all the hospitals missed it too exposing a council of the barrier that nets of the death of the thirty three year old mother of four just months later her family now say they want to news story to be hard to say that others can avoid a similar freights at one point doctors even suggested that jeanine's excruciating pain was all in her mind but her post-mortem examination showed that a cancerous tumor had grown so large inside her that it had shattered her pelvic bone. family gets upset when people ask why they didn't pay for costly private care . is that you know why would we need to go private we felt we trust we trusted that every word janine isn't the

only patient to be failed by the n.h.s. some around. hospitals. something has happened but. potentially contributed to that that's one thousand patients a month a recent study by the national institute of health research says that one patient in ten is affected by potentially serious medical era's half of whom die as a result such as twenty two year old cane gorney she died from dehydration from a combination of misdiagnosis and what the coroner called. the incompetence of n.h.s. staff it's definitely a problem that patients are repeatedly coming to us with. reporting failures similar in nature to that which happened to janine harvey the n.h.s. trust responsible for janine's care says we are extremely sorry for any distress

caused to the family we can understand the need for aunt says and this is what our internal investigation process is about examining what lessons there are to be learnt and making changes if there's anything that needs to be changed janine's family are now turning their tragedy into forming a charity to give other people with complicated medical conditions a chance to get a second medical opinion privately before it's too late it's impossible for so many individual consultants to to make so many errors it must be the sister it must be the some major major or the lack of communication. negligence is leaving someone you know well bent on knowing it's all i can think of any other word for them was my own slaughter. polly boyko r t london.

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these are your headlines for tuesday october twenty third two thousand and twelve in the light of the obama romney foreign policy debate today we'll talk about u.s. foreign tax policy or discuss the i.r.s. is mission creep with the daily reckonings joel bowman and january two thousand and thirteen is not just when the u.s. is set to reach that fiscal cliff we hear so much about it's also when the foreign account tax compliance act is reportedly slated to become effective now this is where uncle sam requires banks all over the world to report back to the i.r.s. on their u.s. account boulder's looking forward could you. us citizens with precious metals overseas be the next targets of i.r.s. scrutiny we'll hear from federal tax practitioner david selig plus paul ryan shirtless is googled nine times more often then paul ryan budget that's according to new york times that. participation will those guys let's get to days capital

account. if maybe you own precious metals or want to or you like ben bernanke he think of precious metals as money there is some buzz about what the i.r.s. is up to that you may want to be aware of this is according to our next guest now he's a federal tax practitioner and he's got some concerns about growing government attention being paid to the laws governing barter and he has analysis as to why this may matter to owners of gold and silver tax professional david selig walked me through his logic earlier stuff.