breaking news at this hour here on numerous casualties reported in a car bomb attack in the syrian capital damascus this despite the agreed four day truce that the government and some rebels committed to for the muslim holiday by. foreign mercenaries fighting alongside libyan forces reportedly spotted during the ongoing assault on

a former stronghold but we've got firsthand accounts from bani walid. one year after the e.u. hailed the measures to tackle its debt crisis the books financial turmoil is only worsening with greece failing to deal with its deficit and spain hitting record unemployment. look at how the upcoming presidential election in america could determine an attack on iran action that america's ally israel is increasingly pressing for. from moscow this is on the with me rule re sushi let's get straight now to our breaking news for you this hour a car bomb reportedly exploded in the syrian capital damascus killing a large number of people it's on the first day of an agreed truce between rebels and the government marking the four day muslim holiday of now some rebel groups the

al qaeda linked al nusra front fighting on the side of the rebels announced earlier that they would not abide by the terms of a cease fire the deal also sore a rare agreement at the u.n. security council over syria with its members it unanimously calling on regional and international powers to use their influence on the old warring parties independent journalist ron. but harness says given ongoing western opposition to the syrian government there are questions over their commitment to the opposition laying down their own so how sincere the western powers are of course is another matter they are beginning to realize that what they're doing in syria because it's taken so long and been so messy and unsuccessful is beginning to make them look very bad indeed i don't think there's any doubt that the west if ever they have done are losing the argument the intellectual argument in this case they're beginning to look very shoddy in their reading to look as if all you're interested in is oil and power and it doesn't matter how many syrians get killed now i think eventually it

sinks into the to the political leaders that this actually doesn't make them very good look very good and even domestically eventually people are going to notice so they start moving a little in the security council but how sincere they are i seriously question well libyan forces are now using foreign mercenaries in their assault on the town of bani walid the traditional stronghold of the topple the regime that's according to sources who spoke exclusively to us here at r.t. the deadly siege is said to be turning more violent just days after washington objected to a u.n. call for a peaceful solution in the region artie's polis live. while fighting continues in the besieged and libyan city of bam while aid 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 certain. people inside they told something dangerous that. the snipers is the first and not

the not even maybe if it got out of the dickey of the room somewhere else inside the city today to look to fit into this and build it you know and did today to go through if it seems now earlier in the week there were conflicting reports at the city had fallen and these reports have proven untrue but not before thousands. bani walid residents tried to make their way back to the city and now we are hearing from our sources on the ground that these people have been stopped by road blocks 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 on the desert highway in addition to this our sources tell us better 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 i can confirm that these militias used internationally prohibited weapons they used phosphorous bombs and nerve gas we have documented all these in videos recorded the missiles they used on the wide 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 of his men other children women and old men killed his men the united states state department was questioned by our team 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 it was mentioned was back at the beginning of the year 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 or 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. choose a message to all of them across libya wherever they. are and however strong you. are your back is the revolution should win. 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. and in the meantime author and journalist neil clark believes the worsening humanitarian situation in binny while lead is an inconvenient truth for those who threw their weight behind last year's

armed revolt in libya. let's think back to every twenty eleven we couldn't because newspaper in the u.k. or us or put on the b.b.c. or c.n.n. without hearing about what was going on in libya a humanitarian disaster or a whole colonel gadhafi forces were killing lots of people they were going to have a massive massacre in benghazi and because of that we went to war that that was the reason for war and today the situation lever is much worse you got a humanitarian catastrophe taken place the number of people killed since need to intervene has gone up but by between ten and twenty times we've got massacres going on at the moment and there's silence complete silence here in the u.k. and in the u.s. they got what they want what they wanted they got rid of gadhafi they've got to progress to government in power now in tripoli they've taken control of the oil industry this privatization western corporations really you know they don't really give a toss to be honest about what's going on about about human rights abuses the fact that demonstrations are banned throughout the country it's time to move on on to syria of course.

could have you with us here on r.t. today the iranian opposition has a new voice this time on the airwaves of a london based television channel for the founder of iraq t.v. a businessman and leader of an anti-government movement says its primary goal is regime change in teheran another launch came on the heels of a ban on more than a dozen state run iranian t.v. and radio stations across the e.u. art is probably 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 many opposed to the current government he says that he wants to help the iranian 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 will back the regime hard it can be a t.v. for the change of dictatorship. they want to put. on the news in fact it's the very emergence of a new oppositional iranian television channel in britain teamed with 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 britain press t.v. very early on the first country in the world that. television news channel there are only too glad to welcome the channel as it were the one percent does no one in iran even those opposed to it but it is even there's

a reason we do that islamic theocracy. would support this outfit its founders say that they're 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 . r.t. london. and the iran has now come between the us presidential candidates. iran should not obtain a nuclear weapon iran may not have a nuclear weapon israel continues to push washington to back action against iran and obama and romney aren't all that far apart on the issue in their pre-vote count . are now ten minutes past the hour moscow time one in four people are now officially out of work in spain as unemployment in the

debt ridden country reaches yet another record now the grim news comes as madrid transport workers go on strike right into a sixth day of protests in the capital against austerity cuts that's another epicenter of the e.u. crisis greece looks likely to miss its promise deficit deadline the forecast from the international monetary fund's debt inspectors comes a year after e.u. leaders applauded what they called a key deal to save athens maria for an austere investigates. measures approved by european union leaders these day igo 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 venture it was proclaimed an impulse to first save greece by writing of awful for its data which amounted to 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 than but a year later it's clear that not only has the crisis is not drawn back but also the european financial climate has more student with more and more countries now joining greece and experiencing financial economic fallout likes a call to go. just over here and also you will have some expert analysis on the. joined by author and publicist william and after a very short. nineteen

iranian channels have been banned in the countries that's called 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 then 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 the iranian channels back on the air or come out of the closet and admit you believe in

restricted speech but that's just my opinion. what lies ahead for you will lose lives mobilized cools for a new american who stands for the millions nine percent do a selection of clothes go right to twenty ninth on r.t.e. . wealthy british science it's time. for the. markets.

scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports on our team. at a quarter past seven pm here in moscow this is r t we've been reporting here all day and just a bit earlier as well there's just no use for the e.u.'s economic plight as spain's unemployment which is at record highs and greece's failing on his deficit reduction open occasions it's a year off the e.u. leaders agreed on a key deal and bringing an end to the crisis discuss all of it now with william engdahl author of gods of money now joining us live here good to see you today thanks for joining us a year ago the e.u. leaders they came to huge victory in the crisis as they agreed to slash the greek debt and increase the firepower of the main bailout fund to tell us how has it been

how's it going. and so the catastrophe about to happen all of the e.u. the european central bank has done since one year ago is simply to buy time with cosmetic measures but the problem i mean again is not a sovereign debt problem not the sovereign debt of greece nor. the whole didley rather contribution the core problem has been from the beginning and remains the banking system the major international banks in europe. are de facto insolvent and being held held the float of life support from the e.c.b. so that would be a lot of measures toward greece are not done anything to help the greek economy or stabilize greece they've gone to bail out the banks in france and elsewhere in the e.u. better are technically in insolvency because of their exposure to this so william if indeed it is the banks as you're saying if it's the bank's fault why athens continues to fail in its promises and then why is it being forgiven each time it

fails to fulfill what its promised well it is somehow or. i can imagine if you if you understood mary or you get everything wrong in the way that the e.u. governments have done in the last four years of this crisis for three and a half years but from the get go they have shied away from any resolute action on the banks involved in the in the dodgy lending in the first place during the financial bubble years so those banks remain the source of the problem there's no lending going on to the real economy and that's what is the root cause of twenty five percent unemployment in spain and greece and elsewhere across the e.u. so the austerity that's being demanded by e.u. governments like germany is having the effect on the irony is this is what really did in one nine hundred thirty one that paved the way for the third reich because of the unavoidable across germany and germany is. in forcing that same same policy

on restraining other weaker southern european countries as you said a moment ago you know twenty five percent unemployment in spain one in four people without a job as your say that the banks are ultimately a for at fault how will the government for example in spain deal with this if the only remedy it keeps using is painful austerity measures including every duction of jobs what is the solution here all they can they can do with it i think the solution is to do what sweden did in ninety two and that is create a bad bank. bank situation where you take the insolvent banks isolate them from the real economy nationalize them yes that's a dirty word i know and washington but that's the logic of capitalism one one of banks fails because of the prudent lending you have to you have to take resolute action and put them through a chapter eleven process isolate the bad real estate debts and get on with lending to the real economy so that real jobs begin to be created again in

spain the same thing in greece so austerity is never a long term solution to a crisis of this scale and the world has never seen a crisis of the financial scale or we're talking another problem is right now the i.m.f. you mentioned in your announcement the i.m.f. on wednesday issued a review of the european banking situation the banks in europe are facing a potential four trillion dollar deal leveraging over the next few years of their balance sheets in order to. meet the capital adequacy and other requirements that are being imposed on them for banks debility and that the lever jane is creating a credit crunch such that there's no lending going on even if you can find that there are such a credit crunch and effect these austerity measures in effect went in for a moment i'm low on time here i'm sorry but for a broader picture the e.u. leaders are regularly meet for summits which result in solutions which they hail as historic and i know some may be thinking they're high on their champagne and caviar are there any positive results of that this decision making strategy or is it

a case of the wrong people in the wrong jobs i think the latter is the case i don't think anybody really making the crucial decisions has an historical perspective of what happened in the last seventy eighty years back during the one nine hundred thirty s. in europe and that's very important to have a historical perspective because the same errors are being repeated again and again you have to isolate the dodgy credits of these banks that went on a speculation binge. triggered back in the in the last decade by you ultra low interest rates generated out of the us followed from alan greenspan and others so until the problem of the banks is addressed we're not going to see economic recovery we're not going to see so to treated only as a sovereign debt crisis is grabbing the to be old friend and calling it a snake william angle author of gods of money joining us live here on r.t. thank you again. well israel's calls to bomb iran have stoked the

u.s. presidential debate making support for televisa tough issue for the candidates as artie's guy nature can explains president obama and his rival romney and they are walking a tightrope with a less than two weeks left before the big election day 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 empowered

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 thrown 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 what 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 at their convention this fall called for moving the capital of israel from tel aviv 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 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 it's world that is itching to bomb iran and the american people don't want another costly and devastating war based on phony red lines and washington i'm going to check on. all the other u.s. presidential candidates will have their second debate next tuesday sharing more ideas how to handle america's foreign policy because you vote online as you watch this final round between gary johnson and jill stein brought to you live pilot see america and of course our web site artsy to go.

agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did. you agree let's go back to something the president i agree on and you tube you agree that 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 october thirtieth . or it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today into the world update we go with perhaps no more bunga bunga parties as the former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has been sentenced to four years in jail. being convicted of tax fraud for the trial dealt with the purchase of rights to show us films on an italian t.v. channel owned by berlusconi the media mogul was not in the courtroom and is expected to appeal the verdict of friday's conviction is the first one for berlusconi previous criminal proceedings either ended in acquittal or thrown out

due to a statute of limitations. violence during the religious holidays being reported from northern afghanistan forty one killed fifty wounded after a suicide bomber dressed as a policeman blew him self up in a crowd outside a mosque for the provinces top officials were inside the building but escaped unharmed police officers soldiers and civilians including five children among the dead at this point no one has claimed responsibility. let's get some business news here for marty's kid appeal being nice to see you again as you well know we've been reporting a year ago today the struggling greece given a huge bailout of cash katie pilbeam has it worked that is indeed the question i don't have on the right person to a long thread but i certainly have a gentleman that that got an idea as to what he's referring to a danish that's a bank says that the situation right now is reminiscent of groundhog day. i think what we see is a combination of germany being still saying nine nine nine don 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 takes hold listened 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. advancing. completely died down in negative terms which is a supply because they had g.d.p. coming out which was not sneak fall but the mantissa paid to pull the. changes. and second the boston market said because they are closed down and up to find out it was a poor performance over

a down to the kind of mindsets we're looking at nine tenths of a percent in strength in negative territory those markets in the business now right here we've got will start to say. if you're passing through russia's region you really can call 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 fishermen and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lacks in force means many animals are killed out of the a lot of times which can leave young animals orphans and unable to survive. the heart of just u.s. forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beasts in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend

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