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witnesses in libya say the situation and bani walid is getting more dangerous with foreign snipers spotted on rooftops and allegations of chemical weapons being used in the besieged town. the i.m.f. trashes greece's plan to deal with its massive deficit as that used last line of economic defense celebrates one year in service. how we look at how the two main runners in the u.s. presidential race plan to deal with the powerful israeli lobby and tell of eve's unrelenting. ron. thank you for joining r.t.e. this friday with me karen town in moscow where it's one o'clock now gangs of

foreign mercenaries reportedly from the gulf states and turkey have joined the assault on bani walid in libya has been gathering first hand accounts of the situation in the besieged town traditionally loyal to the toppled gadhafi regime archies parsley or joins us live. hello there paula now fighting and fatalities that's really the story of bani walid what do we know about what's happening there now while fighting continues in the besieged libyan city of baghdad where it has been on the go for more than three weeks now we are beginning however to hear disturbing reports that a foreigner troops and snipers could be used in the assault on the city. they told something dangerous that. the snipers are those the photos. maybe if it got out of them the key of the room somewhere else inside the city do tonight do. a bit of you know and be today too. now earlier

in the week there were conflicting reports that the city had fallen these reports have proven untrue but not before thousands of bani walid residents tried to make their way back to the city now we are hearing from our sources on the ground that these people have been stopped by roadblocks that have been set up by militias at the entrances and exits to the city that there has been firing in the air wide scale panic and that now thousands of people are on the desert highway in addition to this our sources tell us that they continues to be armed gangs and militia that opera trolling the streets and are ransacking people's homes we're hearing reports of homes being bulldozed of homes being looted and we continue to hear these reports over the at the moment and verified of the use of chemical weaponry one particularly disturbing source tells us that he has seen that the militia have been trying to hire bodies try to remove them from the city and these are bodies that

have been killed by chemical weaponry. i can confirm that these militias used internationally prohibited weapons they used phosphorous bombs nerve gas we have documented all these in videos recorded the missiles they used and the wire transfers raining down from these missiles many people died without being wounded shot they died as a result of gases the world needs to see who are they targeting other really good doctors men other children women and old men killed his men. now one particularly alarming note regarding the banning wild story is the silence from the united states and other european capitals the united states state department was questioned by our team here in terms of why the story is being ignored in the way it's done their answer was that they're not ignoring the story they are following it but you only need to take a look at the u.s. state department website and see that the last time

a. anyway it was mentioned was back at the beginning of the year there has been no condemnation by washington or others in terms of the human rights abuses that also clearly taking place in bani walid there has been no condemnation of the reports of wide scale killings and even of the reports of the alleged use of chemical weapons . we support the efforts of the libyan government to get control of militias and to provide security throughout the country including in bani walid and to do so in a way that. is respectful of the human rights of all citizens and allows humanitarian organizations to get in so we are watching the situation very closely . now the libyan army was given the order to use all means necessary to deal with the city and so what you're saying is that all means necessary are being employed

this is just a little more than ten years since libya got independence and certainly from the scenes that we see coming from by anyone made the situation in the country looks worse if not if not even more terrible than of was during the time of moammar gadhafi. this is a message to power so it's a leech is a message to all of them across libya wherever they are whoever you are and however strong you are in whoever your back is on the seventeenth of february revolution should we show that. so the five thousand continues we are still receiving these pictures of dismembered bodies of dead children also we hear from our sources both within the city and elsewhere in europe and north africa people who have family inside the city that the killings are far from over all right with the latest developments there from in bani walid our middle east correspondent in beirut thank you paula slater.

greece apparently stands no chance of meeting its deficit reduction deadlines according to a preliminary report by the international monetary fund's debt inspectors nevertheless they remain undaunted the write up will recommend more austerity on top of eighty nine stalled reforms that outlands has yet to push through leaders are also mulling giving greece a time extension to implement carts but the timing of it all is symbolic on missed day one year ago a desperate e.u. agreed on some of its most extreme crisis fighting measures the effects of which is archie's marie financial reports have proved somewhat underwhelming. there is approved by european union leaders these day in ago were designed to tackle the debt crisis that german chancellor angela merkel described as europe's worst economic crisis since the end of world war two e.u. has spent months hammering this package out of the ventral it was proclaimed and it was hoped to first save greece by writing of awful for its debt which amount of

that at that time again to one hundred sixty percent of the country's g.d.p. and the second aim of this package was to protect other european countries from this financial instability too and for that purpose it was decided to more than double the european union bailout fund also known as european financial stability facility we've been hearing skepticism already that but a year later it's clear that not only has the crisis is not drawn back but also the european financial climate has worsened with more and more countries now joining greece and experiencing financial economic fallout like spain or all to go experts say the rust several reasons behind this fiasco and one of them is some countries squandering in tough economic times they're still continuing to spend too much cash on military sector rather than on social needs and greece is

a very good example here of this very bad tendency let's take a look at the greek people are making their anger towards government spending cuts very clear. one area where greece continues to spend big when it comes to weapons seven billion euros last year alone spent on defense greece through considers that it's it's facing a threat from turkey. and that we need to mundane credible military forces there that threat and one of the key places where greece shops for its defense needs. germany athens is orders make up around fifteen percent of berlin's arms exports the most in europe despite germany's repeated belt tightening mantra of course is export earnings from germany of nato interests. us being down there this not being talked about so much every once

a while the topic pops up but that's just being done and politicians in germany are not really questioning it with greeks enduring a dire financial plight with little sign of reprieve is there an element of hypocrisy in germany calling for cuts while encouraging greece to buy its weapons. not all of berlin's elected representatives buying into their gun peddling government's priorities for them social spending cutting is the first you know thing that comes to their mind for me as a green the first priority that comes from my wife is cutting a defense sector as a proportion of its national earnings greece spends almost twice as much as any of the e.u. member on defense compounded by a less than transparent cumin process and a reputation for corruption i think there is in the lead in greece both within the all its course fear as well as the. say of weaponry that does keep specific percentages and bribe or is it never

a single cell of arms with former defense minister. singh custody facing charges of stealing government cash it's easy to see why big money for the military gets people riled especially when economists estimate that if greece had cut defense spending over the past decade to similar levels of fellow e.u. states they would have saved around one hundred fifty billion euro more than their last bailout peter oliver r.t. . and in about ten minutes time our business desk will delve into the real impact in use boosted bailout fund has had over the past year also we've got more news for you in just a few minutes straight after the break. nineteen

iranian channels have been banned in the countries that scold iran for not tolerating free speech among other things well played lads well played i love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning personally a bit of censorship doesn't bother me that much because there has always been censorship and there were always be censorship if there are any words or symbols or opinions that could get you bumped off the air or legal trouble in your country the guess what you have censorship sorry to say it but that's how it is i don't mind a country saying that there is something so antithetical to their way of life that it must be banned i'm fine with that that's your business in your country and you should be able to protect your culture and your values but they'll lie to me and tell me that you live censorship free when you don't it's your choice you let your reading channels back on the air or come out of the closet and admit you believe in restricted speech but that's just my opinion.

news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world from the street can do that. showing corporations rule today. culture is the same or different and there's a huge music history on the mark when living in a tricky and dangerous neighborhood this is long been living on space the assassination of the country's top security official and a political. what will change when america picks its president and made muslim rage walking the iran tightrope pushing china dry as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate will there be. this election

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back to r t a lot from moscow and karen terrill well one of the pressing issues the next u.s. president will have to deal with is the hawkish cries of his country's close ally israel backing or blocking tel of eve's calls to bomb iran may ultimately be a choice between keeping israel support and what's best for the american people aren't he's going to can explain. a red line should be drawn right here the line beyond which lies war with iran and many thought benjamin netanyahu is message at the u.n. general assembly this fall was addressed not so much to the international community but to washington netanyahu would like to be able to communicate to the world that the israelis are ready which he has to attack and that it will be done with the

full support of the united states and he's not getting that the tension in the media peaked when president obama practically referred to is world's worst mongering as noise that he's trying to block out any pressure that i feel simply to do what's right for the american people and i am going to block out any noise that's out there pledging full and unconditional support for israel is part of any presidential election campaign in the u.s. the possibility of war with iran needs a new dimension to this election season the israelis will attack the iranians they will attack it's just a matter of when so americans must decide which presidential candidate can better manage the situation despite campaign big crating president obama has strong allies like israel under the bus the last debate on foreign policy has shown the candidates hold almost identical views on the issue what if the prime minister of

israel called you on the phone and said our bombers are on the way we're going to bomb iraq. what do you know bob let's not go into hypotheticals of that nature our relationship with israel my relationship with the prime minister of israel is such that we would not get a call saying our bombers are on the way when i've sent young men and women into harm's way i always understand that that is the last resort not the first resort of course a military action is the last resort as far as red lines for iran i understand and share this or not you know whose 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. twenty nine standing ovations to these really prime minister's speech before congress among other things showed just how powerful these really lobby is

in washington despite president obama's support of a two state solution for israel and the palestinians his party members that their convention this fall called for moving the capital of israel from tel of the of to jerusalem it remains evident that there is no daylight between the two parties of israel obama was the guy who gave the impression with his cairo speech and others that he was willing to begin to renegotiate america's policy on you know on israel and palestine but in fact when he came down to hard political realities has backed off but will he back off when israel decides to attack iran whoever is elected as america's next president will have to walk on the same raise the weight which is between this world that is itching to bomb iran and the american people don't want another costly and devastating war based on phony red lines in washington i'm going to check on. what differences between obama and romney are hard to distinguish artie's helping other candidates have their share of airtime

exclusively on this channel you can watch the live clash between the winners of the last round of the third party debate jill stein and gary johnson. governor romney and i we both agree we agree we ought to bring the tax rates down i feel the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's get back to something the president i agree on and you tube you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates but i cover thirty of. a new iranian opposition t.v. channel has been launched in london a founder of ross says it's his goal to overthrow his goal rather is to overthrow president mahmoud ahmadinejad the new arrival is being embraced in europe as

a success for freedom of speech even though tougher on itself is denied a voice in the e.u. after nineteen of its state run stations were taken off the air. takes up the story . in london we went to the launch of a brand new and very different iranian news channel this studio belongs to t.v. now from foss the rocket translates to freedom and that could give an indication of the political agenda behind the new t.v. station in fact its founder is so very opposed to the current government that he says that he wants to help the rainy and people to capitated the current regime he denies having any financial backing or any seal of approval from international organizations or western governments cannot believe. the british government. the regime can be t.v.

for the change of dictatorship. they want to put. on the news in fact the very emergence of a new oppositional iranian television channel in britain teamed with the involuntary departure of press t.v. from the u.k. that's led some to question whether the brits with all their love of trumpeting free speech and balance are doing so very selectively obviously. very early on the first country in the world that. television news channel there are only too glad to welcome a propaganda channel as it were the one percent does no one in iran even those opposed to it but it even there's a reason we do that islamic theocracy. would support this out of t.v. its founders say that they are inspired by events like the arab spring and television channels like al-jazeera and al-arabiya in fact they say that unlike in libya and afghanistan they want to promote political change from within and looks

like perhaps because of their oppositional political agenda nobody here is stopping them. see london. now a look at some other international headlines in brief for you this hour at least thirty seven people have been killed and seventy wounded in a suicide bombing in northern afghanistan the attacker wearing a police uniform blew himself up in a crowd gathering at a mosque to celebrate the holiday the province's top officials were inside the mosque but escaped unharmed there were however police officers and soldiers among the dead no one has yet claimed responsibility. at least one person has been killed and over forty injured in peru's capital lima during a protest against the government's decision to move a local wholesale market demonstrators allegedly attacked police with clubs and rocks forcing them to defend themselves it's already has had to use concrete blocks to prevent vehicles from entering the market.

dimitris here with the business news and today marks the one year exactly since a breakthrough in solving the greek crisis is that right well it was indeed a crucial moment when the banks agreed to write off around fifty percent of what they had in greek debt but whether there has been much progress in stance really hard to say let's take a look what's happening in the european markets in the the we have not seen of the past three quarters of this year that much of an optimistic picture. is saxo bank action danish saxo bank if i may correct myself says that what they're seeing basically reminds them of groundhog day so it's basically the same headlines the same lack of progress same lack of motivation to have any decisions made but. stephen jacobson chief economist from saxo bank says the catalyst for a change should be the elections in germany when angela merkel will require to form

a new coalition. i think what we see is a combination of germany being still saying nine nine nine and at the same time that the social change unless you just talk briefly will increase i mean to me the real surprise here is that the source of tension is not bigger and more to be seen in the streets because ultimately this extended britain the big jim has become the middle class and the employees who today take hold listen ever before and what they do take home is actually not able to buy them anything close to what it did just one year or two years ago. all right well in russia we're also seeing a very negative session second in a row the r.t.s. falling one point seven percent this is also global leader revenue awaiting the g.d.p. data in the united states and of course the u.s. got to be growth has been revised over the past couple of months all to another slowdown the housing market has not been promising so therefore investors are

trying to keep it safe so far so good what's happening on the currencies market the euro and the dollar pretty stable but you know going up and down a bit whereas the russian ruble is losing value against both parents now european bank for reconstruction and development has upgraded its growth forecast for russia now the bank expects the country's economy to surge of three point two percent this year however the anticipated result could be shadowed by high inflation the expected to beat official targets and reach six point eight percent by the end of the year. all right and in asia this is the closing picture for overhangs saying and the nikkei and both indices were pretty much disappointed with apple's forecasts for earnings in the fourth quarter which is crucial for any company or any company in this sector because of the christmas sales and they were disappointing so therefore having this wave of disappointment to all right that's all i have time for this i'll be back in fifty five minutes time with another

update so cross talk is next. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet off that beauty is good for you is that if in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients shattered bones and in many cases their shattered lives will go when professor of design first frame using bicycle parts sixty years later says

invention is increasingly being used to help people what eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies lives both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the ways out of center nowadays seeking syringe refocus medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg lengthening request to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many

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you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. and. following welcome across talk on people about living in a turbulent and dangerous neighborhood this is long been lebanon's fate the assassination of the country's top security official and the political fallout that has followed again reveals just how fragile this country is for those powers in forces determined to see the end of assad in syria will be destroyed lebanon in the process.