the foreign mercenaries fighting alongside libyan forces reportedly spotted during the going assault on a former gadhafi stronghold we got firsthand accounts from body wendy. at least five people were killed and dozens injured in a car bomb attack in the syrian capital damascus despite a four day truce agreed between the government and some rebels for the muslim holiday of heat. and we look at how the upcoming presidential election in the u.s.

could determine an attack on iran actions that america's ally israel easing creasing lee pressing for. international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow this is. libyan forces are now using foreign mercenaries and their assault on the town of bani walid the traditional stronghold of the toppled gadhafi regime that's according to sources who spoke exclusively to r.t. the deadly siege is said to be turning more violence just days after washington objected to a u.n. call for a peaceful solution. is in the region while fighting continues in the besieged libyan city of bam 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 to dangerous that. this night is the father and mother not. maybe if it got out of them room somewhere inside the city to let it invisibility you know. now earlier in the week there were conflicting reports of the city had fallen these reports have proven untrue but not before thousands of bani walid residents try 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 word 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 thousands of people are on the desert highway look at. this get this gun and just be able to think now i don't know why we now. go outside and know

what they were doing even when i think when we're in one of the government we want to. get our room. just the homes. we want to protect the room. in addition to this our sources tell us better continues to be armed gangs and militia that are patrolling the streets and are ransacking people's homes we're hearing reports of homes been 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 nerve gas we have documented all these in videos recorded the missiles they used on the white house for us raining down from these missiles many people died without being wounded or shot they died as a result of gases the whole 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 a way it's still 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 anyone it was mentioned was back at the beginning of the year they 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 they're saying is that all means necessary are being employed 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 your backers are 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. but we're keeping an eye on the situation in the besieged town gathering first hand accounts on the ground and we'll continue to bring you the latest as the fighting goes on. a car bomb has exploded in the syrian capital damascus killing at least five people and wounding dozens of others children are thought to be among the casualties the attack came on the first day of an agreed truce between rebels and the government for the four day muslim holiday of ied opposition activists say they have been several deadly clashes with the syrian army throughout the day earlier some rebel

groups like the al qaeda linked illness for a front announced they would not observe the cease fire the truce also saw a rare agreement at the u.n. security council over syria with its members unanimously calling on international powers to use their influence on all warring parties independent journalist robert harness says that there are questions over how serious foreign states are in their commitments. 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 arguments in this case they're beginning to look very short intervening to look as if all they're interested in is oil and power and it doesn't matter how many syrians get killed now eventually it sinks into the to the political leaders that this actually doesn't make them very good look very good enough to even domestically and eventually people are going to

notice so they start moving a little in the security council but how sincere they are i seriously question. one year after the e.u. hailed key measures to tackle its debt crisis the blocks of financial turmoil is worsening with greece failing to deal with its deficit and spain hitting record unemployment got an expert's opinion on why it's all going wrong. also russia's top opposition figure has been charged with inciting unrest in the country's major cities we take a look into the case. recent calls by israel to bomb iran of stock the u.s. presidential debate making support for tel aviv a tough issue for the candidates and as artie's going to churn explains president obama and his rival romney are now walking a tight rope with less than two weeks left until 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 there the tension in the media peaked when president obama practically referred to is world's word mongering as noise that he's trying to block out any pressure that i feel is 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 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 bob it is 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 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 israel and palestine but in fact when it 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 razor blade 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 in washington i'm going to check and. now the u.s. presidential candidates will have their second debate next tuesday sharing more ideas and alternative ways 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 by america on our website. we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt 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 there to you that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things never 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 . amid those calls from israel to strike to iran

the iranian opposition has a new voice on the airwaves of a london based television channel the launch came on the heels of a ban on more than a dozen state run iranian t.v. and radio stations in the boyko 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 fast 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 denies having any financial backing or any seal of approval from international organizations or western governments cannot believe. the british government.

regime can be a t.v. for the change of dictatorship. they want to put this regime on the news in fact the very emergence of a new oppositional iranian television channel in britain teamed with involuntary departure of press t.v. from the u.k. it said 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 the. television news channel. 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 it islamic theocracy. would support this out of the 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 the. london you're watching. international news for you shortly after the break. 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 don't 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. from the

streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. what will change when america picks its president made 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 up close guy every monday to november fifth on our team. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

would be soon which brighten if you knew about to move from phones to crashing. news crews don't talk t.v. dot com. if you live here in moscow the news continues now one in four people are officially out to work in spain as unemployment in the debt ridden country reaches another

record the grim news comes as madrid's transport workers go on strike out into a sixth day of protests in the capital against a sturdy cuts now this is another epicenter of the e.u. crisis greece looks likely to miss its promised debt. deadline for calls from the international monetary fund's debt inspectors comes a year after e.u. leaders applauded what they considered a key deal to save athens. has this report. measures approved by european union leaders this day ego 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 and eventually it was proclaimed and it was hoped to first save greece by a write in of how awful for its that 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 not drawn back but also the european financial climate has more said and with more and more countries now joining greece and experiencing financial economic fallout likes a call to go. look at other news making headlines around the world a four year jail term for the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has been reduced to just one aimed at tackling overcrowding in prisons but it's going to have been convicted of tax fraud trial built with the purchase of rights to show us films on an italian t.v. channel owned by been a skinny the media mogul wasn't in the courtroom and is expected to appeal the verdict for his conviction is the first for in previous criminal proceedings are

the end of an acquittal with the statute of limitations had to alter you don't call a website a range of expert analysis and opinion on the story. was in the world of big. violence during the religious holiday has been reported from northern afghanistan forty one people have been killed and fifty wounded after a suicide bomber dressed in police uniform blew himself up in a crowd outside a mosque the province's top officials were inside the building but escape unharmed police officers soldiers and civilians including five children were among the dead no one has claimed responsibility. one of russia's top opposition leaders has been officially charged with plotting mass disorder in the country's biggest cities said a good old solve who's now subjected to a travel ban denies the accusations what he told barton is following developments. opposition figure and leader of the left front political movement in russia. has been investigated after suspicions that he may have been planning mass and rest

across russia this investigation started after a documentary was shown on russian television which showed hidden camera footage and said that solvent others were planning nothing less than a coup in russia the documentary also said that he met with georgian politicians to seek funding the caucasus republic of georgia has a hostile relationship to russia russia has seen its largest antigovernment protests in twenty years over the past months and some of them have turned violent without soft denies the charges against him and ses the videos are fake investigators though say they have verified their authenticity he could face up to ten years in prison if convicted and remains under a travel ban after the charges two others have also been arrested in connection with this investigation one of them investigators say gave

a confession although he say's he was abducted from abroad and forced to make that confession investigators do say though that they think they have enough evidence to convict these three men. and they're just a few minutes from now we'll bring you all the latest from the world of business. 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 clients could you just already spend 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 orthopedic is good for you is there a for the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them apart and therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and

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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 countries and even the out there pressure. expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations for one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia yet his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america advertises one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average users wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big deal like you guys it's like expected to be taller just before the operation

most this mad rush in girl who found he's a regional hype quite in deering yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. for now or should i call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. or welcome to business of me. a exactly a year ago today yours buying said take a haircut on the greek debt with the intention to alleviate the klein says in the eurozone but danish wants a bank says the situation in the euro zone right now is reminiscent of groundhog

day. i think what we see is a combination of germany being still saying nine nine nine dong and at the same time that the social change unless you just briefly will increase i mean to me the real surprise here is that the social change that is not bigger and more should 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 hold there's actually not able to buy them anything close to what it did just one year or two years ago. let's check out the markets will get stuck in with wall street and u.s. stocks on to climbing the us despite g.d.p. increasing in the second quarter that softer pool balls was valuable companies slumped over two percent all to pull costing things that fell short of the honest predictions over in europe then we'll see how they closed up this session of the german finance minister was

a ruffling feathers today that's author of course saying he was doubtful about whether or not greece will meet their european bailout requirements which check out the current says to your remains of plants this hour as you can see there is that she dropped playing on that song to some concerns news really coming out of the eurozone say including spanish unemployment now reaching twenty five percent you can see the russian ruble finished up makes a difference to your right to money see news out against the u.s. dollar answer there is then as you can see firmly entrenched in negative territory this friday here in moscow. and moving on. the european bank for construction and development has upgraded its growth forecasts for now the bank expects the culture the quantum leap to surge of three point two percent this year an enviable figure when compared to most developed economies although they anticipate a result could be shouted by high inflation. expects it to be official target

soundly. six point eight percent by the end of the year even on when it's a great games to come the first russian financial corporations provide how late in africa the firm has set up a subsidiary nine zero that will point to sale credits in stores now they say the country's retail banking is not the balance bank of the company global gustaf us bank now is targeting business in nigeria hauspie sad quite risky due to unstable political situation and a high level of crying all right moving no one coming out away discussing what lies ahead for the debt ridden euro zone with professor and author max r.t. stay with us. i'm joined today by dr max also a professor of political administration and author of the books investing rather

than saving and the delightfully optimistically titled the crisis is coming to talk to us a thanks very much for speaking to me now jeremy currently finds itself in a relatively decent position economically can it keep that up germany is not at all in the driving seat germany's economy is functioning but germany is driven rather than driving by the process of going on unfortunately i think the current system will last for a while because the european political elite really has sworn to defend it whatever the costs and the cost so norma's so really the current system is hurting europe we have to make some changes but i do think that the current rather detrimental state of affairs is going to continue for quite a while we see germany isn't in the driving seat what can change that well what we do right now is we have the fiscal union which is austerity which means we save on the back of people of taxpayers.