guns are brought in for the leader offensive in libya desperate calls for humanitarian intervention from inside the besieged loyalist strong. un security council block so a russian move to condemn the deadly terror attack in the syrian capital the fragile truce in the civil conflict. obama drive to break the

whole stalemate as election day nears voters across america. that many don't know already exists. and needs now but once the deadline for reaching its austerity targets stretched by two years as a delay which could cost the eurozone thirty billion you see. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow. there's been no letup in the bloody assault on libya. with more weapons apparently sent to pro-government militias in the area and this is according to a man whose relatives are trapped inside the besieged town which was a stronghold of the deposed colonel qadhafi source is currently in egypt and is

afraid to reveal his identity over safety concerns. it is not so we did as no. anything that didn't slow disability told to life the people and the media does not allow to anyone to come back the dead whom they didn't want to shoot on most of whom it's by machinery. and nobody did is no a connection there is no communication there is no internet there's not anything that is the people who are not able to connect with each idea that is the reason you know and money if you will has being killed inside by militias and be said this is block there's also going to duffy loyalists this is line year this is their to get in they get that it's night but it's use of the sniper as a thought in some way but i think all it was from the cut off from. and they didn't hit him exactly him was to act out you always. got to but it

was about phone everything for the. comfort of the costs what if anything if an affront to the front of a is c. but in most of out there but he see fit. which we've been is and many think there is no government in libya a group of with controlled mid control sort of anything but they don't care about levy and they don't get all the nation they don't get about a plan they don't get all of them they have dual nationalities do i have my support this we are screwed floor. of the stick it out to the jennette of the united nation of mr where does he know where is down at the nation where is the e.u. where does the evil rights work that we're i how we ask it forward and if in should know as soon as the voice of a police. well for those who did manage to escape the violence inside bani walid

even then the suffering is not over paula slayer explains why many including children found themselves stranded on a desert road. 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 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 why scale panic and that thousands of people are on the desert highway look at this. this get this gun and this people know this thing now why i don't know why we now. go outside and didn't know what we're doing when i was living when i think when when one of the government they want to. get home. just the homes. own homes we want to protect the room. and we continue to hear

these reports over them 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 phosphorus 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. 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 to. choose 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. of course one of us live reporting right there well we are closely following developments in bani walid and gathering firsthand accounts from the embattled town and you can catch up on the story at r.t. dot com you can see right here more analysis on reports on what libya has become a year after its longstanding leader moammar gadhafi was killed by nato backed revolutionaries are all of that lined up views that. are let's turn our attention now to the united states where the presidential race is in the frantic home straight both republican and democrat candidates racing to sell their programs to voters though tied in the polls many see their appeal as waning because a lack of difference is turning people off the mainstream parties former cia

officer philip giraldi believes a seismic shift in the political landscape of the u.s. is not too far away. i think the possibility of there being some kind of political shift in the united states is much stronger now than it has ever been because there is a lot of disillusionment in terms of how the two parties have managed the economy i mean basically we have a right now a small a large government republican running against a larger government democrat there's not a whole lot of difference between what each would do and in terms of foreign policy they're very close i think a lot of people are actually very much disillusioned with this i can see a split developing probably in the republican party and possibly in the democratic party in terms of foreign policy and other issues where you're going to have these issues emerging in a much more forceful way in the future. the many americans yearning for political choice may not realize they do have other options largely barred from mainstream

media third parties the time being seen or even being good as new york resident laurie hoffman is found out many are simply oblivious to the fact that alternatives even exist. this week third party candidates for the u.s. presidency held a debate do americans even know that this week let's talk about that did you watch the third party debate. do you think did best. obama do best no that's not the third party debate who do you think did a good job in their party debate i think think their parag obama did a little bit better job than mitt romney i know that the third party debate that was the main candidates that day but the third parties are we have actual other candidates that are running did you know that no i didn't know there's jill stein

she's the the green party there's gary johnson libertarian and none of these names ring a bell and i think it's unfortunate that americans don't know they have more than two main options you know we're stuck with democrats or republicans we don't go over for that so why do you think that is. the tradition. tradition. we do we used to why i don't think either one of the third party have other ideas other than democratic somebody sure they do they're against the n.c.a.a. they're against the war on drugs they're against drone strikes there's a lot of other ideas. you don't agree with any about you know drone strikes not. protecting us and saving our soldiers from being killed even when they have a very low actually percentage rate unfortunate collateral damage as part of war you know what else is running besides the two main ones don't i don't so do you feel informed enough to make a vote. no. for to go get it right i think the

media has pretty much walked that whole aspect out why do they do that they're supposed to be impartial the supposed to be saying the news the poor all for so you know i mean. you go democrat you go. two heads of the same snake and they're both supporting big business big corporations they want to make it look like you have a choice you know it's the same coin though seems like most americans don't know that there are more than two candidates running for president and with only a few days left of voting day chances are obama or romney is going to be elected and. well despite an ongoing media blackout third party candidates and their supporters are looking to capitalize on voter disenchantment tom hartman the host of the big picture says they have a very real chance of actually making them message. third parties historically have

have influence presidential elections there's never been a third party that actually won one but there have been third parties that have changed the nature of presidential elections i don't think that in this election cycle the third parties are going to have a real significant effect in terms of this particular election but what they are doing and what these debates are doing is raising those issues raising those topics and subjects that generally are ignored by both the corporate mainstream media and the two major political parties in ways that that tend to energize movements and movement politics is typically where actual political change happens movement politics eventually infiltrate even major party politics so i think that these are very important dates. this tuesday of a third party candidates will be hosting their last debate it's featuring the past winners jill stein and gary johnson there you won't be seeing it on any major u.s. network we will be broadcasting it live right here on u.s.

and international viewers. governor romney you know we both agree we agree we ought to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's come back to something the president i agree on and they do view that the voters have a choice perhaps when you wondered who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tuned in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates october thirtieth. live from moscow this is artsy eurozone finance ministers are set to hold a series of meetings to decide whether greece has undertaken enough cuts to get its next aid package without it the greek prime minister says his country could be bankrupted by mid november athens has received some i.m.f. backing for richard quest that it be given two more years to get its deficit under

control by pushing the deadline to two thousand and sixteen although that would cost the eurozone about thirteen billion euros meanwhile the german finance minister hinted in a t.v. interview that greece's exit from the euro is still a possibility and another crisis epicenter that of spain now has a record high unemployment of twenty five percent hundreds transport workers are on strike continuing almost a week of protests in the capital against austerity cuts author and publicist william engdahl says all the measures the e.u. leaders are imposing of failing to address the true root of the problem. i can't imagine if you if you understood her you want to get everything wrong in the way that the the e.u. governments of the last four years of this crisis were three and a half years but from the get go they have shot away from any resolute action on the banks involved in in the in the dodgy lead 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. the same errors are being repeated again and again you have to isolate the dodgy credits of these banks that won on the speculation binge triggered back in the last decade by you all to low interest rates generated all of us from alan greenspan and others so until that problem of the banks is addressed we're not going to see economic recovery we're not going to see so to treat it only as a sovereign debt crisis is grabbing the tail would be open and calling it a snake and our financial guru max culture of course i never misses an opportunity to take his own shot at the e.u. and its leaders financial policies. david cameron is providing cover once again for financial rape advice some on the prime minister question time he's very sweating

bullets now the opposition is just asking him simple questions like why are you such an anything anything but. you know he's going he's devolving he's devolving forget about scotland the prime minister himself is devolving in real time. well of that program as well as a more use still ahead for you here on r.t. that will be after a quick 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 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. sigrid laboratory to kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot

which all unfortunately doesn't give a doing about anything to submission to teach creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care only on the o.t. dot com. what lies ahead for each will movements mobilize cools for a new american who stands for the its nine percent to a selection of clothes go right to twenty ninth on r.t.e. . over a decade of north austin terrorist attack. ex hostages blood listen to their lives and after the tragedy. still gets

try to cross over the past. because their future will yet be written.

it's a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today on rule received the u.n. security council has rejected a russian proposed resolution condemning the latest act of violence in damascus where a car bomb killed at least five and injured dozens more but the attack came on the first day of a u.n. brokered four day ceasefire between the government and opposition fighters but some rebel groups such as the radical al nusra front rejected the true south right the u.n. security council has displayed red consensus and fully backing the cease fire hoping to bring all sides to the negotiating table but independent journalist robert hahn of ultimately questions the motives of nations. 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 taking 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 a losing the argument the intellectual argument in this case they're beginning to

look very shoddy the beginning to look as if all they're interested in is all yellow 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 looking. good in the domestic eventually people begin to notice so they start moving a little in the security council but how sincere they are i seriously question. what a peaceful syria is the desperate dream of one druze a community that has made its home on the border with israel. reports on the economic despair the conflict has brought to the tiny part of the world. he cannot hear the gunfights of homes and aleppo from here but residents of the small village of marjah in the golan heights are nevertheless feeling the effects of fighting in syria since two thousand and five the dirs farmers here in the golan heights have been selling the excess of their apple crops to damascus at trade facilitated by

the united nations and the red cross but since their arrest began in syria many farmers here start to worry that these sweet apples may end up being a rather bitter fruit apples are the main source of income for the druze families in this area until seven years ago they struggled while trying to compete with the produce of these really settlers who locals say the same apples but because of the israeli government subsidies pay less to go the harvest and sell for a bigger price an offer from damascus seemed like a blessing at the time the syrian government. is part of syria so their produce our produce is part of syria so they were committed to use to help the. farmers. for marketing. the golan heights have been occupied by israel since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven some twenty thousand jews living here consider this land syrian and

themselves syrians does a helping hand from damascus seemed a logical solution to the problem even these are the government allowed the export to take place but with the civil war raging on across the border there still has been no offer for the apples from the syrian government something which begins to be very local farmers. we are just simple people we have no idea about politics but our country used to be around and now they're not and that affects us financially farmers see this year's harvest is much bigger than last year's but since the quarter for the israeli markets has already been made in syria remains silent the jews leave much of the produce to rot. the whole of the middle east is in trouble now big and we are the ones getting hit it in. the golan heights. but i do remember you can always find a much more in our stories at r.t. dot com more analysis more pictures as well as a catching up on anything you may have missed on let's have

a quick look and see what's lined up for you there right now by the taser spree goes on us a police officer shocks a diabetic teenager who passed out and crashed his car at a cop for the teens unresponsive behavior was suspicious. and a year and a half after japan's fukushima nuclear disaster the plant owner says radiation is still leaking into the sea scientists fear contamination levels are not falling. you're watching r.t. a police state that's the reaction of people in seattle to the police department's plans to deploy spy drones over the city they fear the technology is a real threat to their privacy i tried to trim an activist for the electronic

frontier foundation for leaves the drones will be used for all the wrong reasons. people are really worried that their privacy is going to be invaded by these drones you know the argument is that these drones are exactly the same as the ones that fly overseas because they're smaller and their battery life is lower but the problem is this technology is advancing so rapidly these drones are going to be able to fly for hours and days the time very soon and the police will take advantage of that and when the technology advances to the point where they can fly for hours or days in time for it very cheaply police can start using them for surveillance i mean a bunch of police agencies already have expressed interest in this police across the country have expressed interest in using them for proactive purposes in california for example here sheriff down the down the street actually said he wanted to use it to find marijuana growers or use it for proactive policing public records requested suspicious persons or large crowd control so there's definitely

a legitimate worry that this is what they're going to use them for. why the cause report is not far off another the world update into a go starting with massive protests which were forced upon a model dorothy's to cancel plans to sell state owned land in a duty free zone in the capital weeklong riots and looting wreaked havoc on the streets ultimately paralyzing the city police called in to bring the situation under control or rested hundreds of demonstrators. lawyers before former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi say that he will appeal his conviction for tax fraud by the scone he was given a four year prison sentence although that was later cut down to one he condemned the decision as intolerable judicial harassment of a disco and he has faced a raft of charges over the years but this time this is the first time he's been convicted for his business to. live coming up shortly here on our t. the latest edition of the kaiser report as usual this time though we're taking

a curious look at the e.u. economy from more than a typical max keiser perspective. in this remote siberians in which people still sing the sounds which russians sang in the media ages and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced by the will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign the area are conservative community they're known as the simi skia a word which refers to family. that i may believe there yet i feel. i know i'm the first to tell you that. i. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to

dance in the local star. use of prayer and the girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a modest. seventeen year old nanda is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. ok. i didn't ask on time for her dad says because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to have camp my ground paul my sources layered and this is my treasure their attachment to the church brought not just an sistas

to this remote glen east deflate by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in persecuted for not agreeing. to the orthodox who do sting washing the sixteen hundred they wanted to maintain their time honored rituals still believe is still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying but this fall the city says it's not so much the rituals they cherish as the moral principles he does not approve of what ninety's doing was accrue to build believe a woman must never show her naked legs and because this things started to spoil during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving for big city this year is the all believers culture could be imperiled nowadays young people prefer urban life to devoting their lives to agriculture but it's not necessary to leave the inside to remember that and try to keep their. plans to continue her studies

abroad to grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the queues are fresh in her memory so is the culture. i am married guys are welcome to the kaiser report you know. world filled with risk and so someone must be punished for it no most part to shoot straight you never wrecks yes we see it of course in the financial world where we see financial disaster after financial disaster and the people of europe of athens have made sure it of.