finding their way into the. deadly assault on the city of bani walid. governments of turning a blind eye to the. support for the uprising in syria as the u.n. security council rejects. friday's deadly blast in damascus. ten

days before the u.s. presidential vote democrat and republican hopeful. the race. for many americans. there has been in the bloody assault on libya's with more weapons of pro-government militias in the area and that's according to a man whose relatives are trapped inside the besieged city which was a stronghold of the deposed leader. sources and is afraid to reveal his identity fears for the safety of his family. it is not forwarded as no. anything began to flow disability to the life the people and the media does not

allow to anyone to come back that we did whom they didn't want to shoot on most of whom it's by a machinery by a tank of nobody does nor a connection there is no communication there is no internet because nobody thinks that is the people who are not able to connect with each idea that is the reason you know i'm money via being killed inside the militias and be said this is blocked there's also going to not be loyalists this is lying here this is their to game they get that it's not what is yours at this night but as of thought in somalia but i think all it was from qatar out of rome. and they didn't it exactly in which to act out you always. got to but it was a bit slow if anything for the duel with all comes out of the costs what if anything if an affront to the foot of a is c. but in misrata but he see for. which we've been is and many think

there is no government in libya a group of british yet nikken to admit control sort of anything they don't get about libya they don't care about 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 week i was good for him for you over there stick it out do you not of the united nation is it mr where does he know where is there not a nation where you where is the evil right look at where i we are as good forward and if in should know as soon as the voice of a police. one of those who did manage to escape the violence and signed by would lead the suffering still isn't of paul a 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 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 thousands of people are on the desert highway look at this. this get this gun and these people know this thing now when i don't know when we now. go outside and know what the we're doing even when i think we're in when the government doesn't want to. room just on whom. we want to protect the room. 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 we could the missiles they used on the one transfers raining down from these missiles many people died without being wounded or 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 the his men. 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 overpower so it's a leech is a message to all of them across libya where they would be living however strong. the revolution should. show that 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. paula slave reporting right there while we are closely following developments and benny walid and gathering firsthand accounts

from the embattled talent you can catch up on the story on our web site more analysis and reports on what libya has become a year after its longstanding leader moammar gadhafi was killed by nato backed rebels so all of that lined up for you on our web site. now turning our attention to america and the race for the presidency is heading toward its final week with the polls putting both republican and democratic candidates effectively neck and neck and it's the third party candidates that many believe could affect the outcome by taking some critical votes in swing states a former cia officer philip giraldi says the way the two major parties are handling the issues might soon lead to the smaller players not just swaying the election but just. going after a possible win themselves i think there 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. all of this why the u.s. political landscape are seemingly ready for a new political forces many americans still don't realize they have a bigger choice than just two candidates largely ignored by the mainstream media third parties have a hard time making their views heard and the resident took to the streets of new

york to find out how many people actually know and if indeed they do know the candidates other than the main to exist at all. 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 the third party debate i think think the parag obama did a little bit better job than mitt romney i know that the third party debate that was the main candidates the 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 but 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 i don't think either one of the third party have other ideas other than democratic that somebody sure they do they're against the n.c.a.a. they're against the war and junks they're against drone strikes there's a lot of other ideas coming from you don't agree with any about you know drone strikes not why not because you protect us and saving our soldiers from being killed even when they have a very low actually percentage rate of unfortunate collateral damage as part of war you know who 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 to no right i think the media has pretty much walked to that whole aspect out why do they do that they're

supposed to be impartial disposed to be saying the news the poor oscar so you know i mean. you've got democrats you go. two heads of the same snake and they're both supporting big business big corporations to me they want to make it look like you have a choice you know what's been said at the same point so it seems like most americans don't know that there are more than two candidates running for president and with only a few days left till voting day chances are obama or romney is going to be elected . and while being blocked out by the mainstream media third party candidates do have a chance to deliver their messages to voters here on t.v. this coming tuesday the final round of the us presidential third party debate will be hosted on this very channel and in the run up to the event one of its potential moderators tom hartman from the big picture showed his view on its significance

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 so i think that these are very important things. what i missed the final round of third party debates featuring the past winners are joel stein and gary johnson here on this tuesday don't forget we have special coverage of the u.s. election on air and online each week looking at the race from

a different perspective starting this monday the presidential campaign through the prism of the protest movement with a focus on domestic policies and the economy stay with us for that throughout the week what will change when america picks its president made muslim rage walking the tightrope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads to parties still dictate will there. you a selection of clothes every day r t beginning of two twenty second. thank you drawing us here today al qaeda leader ayman al-zawahiri has called for muslims to kidnap westerners as a bargaining chip to release the terrorist group's captives in a new video posted online what he also urged islamists to support the syrian rebellion with quote all what they can he accused the world powers of giving the syrian president a license to kill and opportunities to end what the terrorist leader called the

jihadi uprising. meanwhile the u.n. security council has rejected a russian proposed resolution that condemned the latest deadly blast in the syrian capital damascus the attack that killed at least five people and wounded dozens more threatened to record four day truce between government forces and the opposition that came into effect on friday the un security council had displayed a rare consensus in committing to press all sides in the conflict to observe the agreement but independent journalist robert harness questions the motives of certain nations. house in syria 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 then 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 intellectual argument in this case they're beginning to look very shortly to look as if all they're interested in is all 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 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 as their conflict drags on it's not only syrians living inside the war torn country that are suffering just across the border one druze community is facing tough times and vital trade with damascus is now dried up and a report on that after a short break. you can tell an ordinary russian siberian in the blink of an. anthropologist. those days siberians were different clothes a different food. different animals. but what about. my journey

began into men but the big city was all shiny skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian. so i decided to. a small town just outside. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia. with cabbage and jam making sure you can have as a starter main dish. although it may draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you decide to participate.

when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swarm only accessible by air transport. and. it's inhabited by. a large muslim minority that migrated head before the russians. and this. israel siberia. maybe not the stuff for tourism brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these years from siberia still not quite like anywhere else. coming to life from moscow with me wrong are seeing sharia hundreds of protesters

have clashed with the police so shall the goal airport in the french capital workers of air france are outraged over planned job cuts at the country's flag carrier about ten percent of the workforce will be affected as the economic crisis continues to take its toll on the e.u. and another center of it spain facing a record high unemployment with one in four people now officially out of work massive fantail starting protests are expected later on saturday in the capital madrid author and publicist william engdahl says despite all the talk in the e.u. the leaders are failing to address the root of the problem. i can't imagine if you if you land a scenario 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 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. the same errors or be repeated again and again you have to isolate the dodgy credits of these banks that went on a speculation binge triggered back in the last decade by you ultra low interest rates generated out of the u.s. but from alan greenspan knows 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 treated only as a sovereign debt crisis is grabbing the tail of the elephant when calling it a snake. well the next hour here our financial guru max keiser dives into the murky waters of economics and exposes the psychology behind the fraud scams. it's not economics and psychology people want to invest in

a quote unquote winner if they can move the price to something that's higher people are going to vote that way because they instinctively go toward the winner people are effectively logs you know you put a little small salt in front of them that's the way that they'll go that's the basic human mind and they know that when this virtual world the price perception you get more higher price and these slobs are cargo if you're french are going to move in that direction and that's it that's out that's so simple minded unfortunately when democracy died ten or fifteen years ago in america what we're being replaced now with the slugfests and virtual markets and fake prices an eye for concentrating and it is here in the u.k. condoning by the actual right. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow now as the bloodshed in syria continues its effects are being felt in the nearby occupied israeli golden heights aussies

are going to go to reports on one druze community which transfer years being dependent on damascus and it's facing desperate times because of the conflict he cannot hear the gunfights of homes and the little from here but residents of the small village of mine in the golan heights are nevertheless feeling the effects of fighting in syria since two thousand and five the druze 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 says their most 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 the israeli settlers who locals say go 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 looking at it as part of syria so

their produce our produce is part of syria so they were committed to us to help the. farmers and. 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 the israeli 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 worry local farmers. we are just simple people we have no idea about politics but our country used to be. and now they're not and that affects us financially emerson's this year's harvest is much bigger than last year's but since the quota

for the israeli markets has already been made in syria remain silent the jews leave much of the produce to rot. the whole of the middle east is in trouble now they get . the ones getting hit goes closer to the golan heights of course so many more stories available on our website r.t. dot com including a dangerous waters around focus fema eighteen months after japan's nuclear disaster the plant owner says radiation is still leaking into the sea to satisfy the contamination levels are not. pretty divorce online you've got the story of one chinese man who has received more than one hundred thousand dollars off to suing his wife because she gave birth to another ugly baby.

just a moment in the world of data for now and fears of a police state becoming a reality in seattle for the federal government gave its permission for aerial spy drones to be used over the city trauma tim activists to fold the electronic frontier foundation and believes that the excuse me doesn't believe that the units of the only basic law enforcement 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 that's 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 at a time for it very cheaply at least and 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 the public records requests that suspicious persons or large crowd control so there's definitely a legitimate worry that this is what they're going to use them for. all right into the arty world out there we go will start with iraq where violence is continue to maga celebrations of the muslim holiday of i ied in the country their twin blasts claimed the lives of at least eighteen and injured over twenty four in the first attack a roadside bomb detonated as a bus carrying pilgrims from iran passed by and came not long after a gun attack on the worshippers in the northern city of mosul now authorities are now promising to ramp up security during the holy period. panama authorities seem to be pulling back from their plans to sell land in latin america's largest duty

free zone however the announcement on that will to quell street rallies there's protests once again violent demonstrators battled police with sticks and rocks angered at a move they say will cost jobs government security forces were called in to bring the situation under control and have arrested hundreds of demonstrators. states of emergency have been declared across parts of the u.s. and it forecasts the hurricane sandy could merge with a winter weather fronts to create a devastating super storm sandy has already claimed at least forty lives across the caribbean and haiti was worst hit with up to twenty six deaths all cuba said it was the most destructive storm to hit the country in years after of course severe flooding killed more than a dozen. well burdened by heavy domestic economic challenges india still manages to remain one of the world's fastest growing economies and saudis are explains things are looking up as long as people believe they will be rewarded with

a higher living standard. in a country where every one in three people is still living in poverty it's hard to imagine things are looking up but many people in india seem to think that's the case with. strong. economy going to the store and that's where the people are feeling strong and while the poverty rate in the u.s. is still less than half the rate in india some experts say that indians are actually more optimistic about their economy than those in the west. you know. my quality of life we can see that i can prove and it was joint so. ready to think really about. not so much about where you are is where you can get to. think a lot of western economies feel like the best is possibly in the u.s. . according to a recent poll almost seventy percent of indians categorize the economic situation

in the country as good making it one of the top five most economically confident countries in the world in the u.s. less than thirty percent of people were positive about the economic situation while india's economy is seen tremendous growth over the years the rate of growth has been cut in half in the last five still several polls to just the consumer confidence is up here and many believe that's because the government has put in place reforms that's going to keep the country's economy moving in the right direction. the most talked about reform foreign direct investment would open up india to multi brand international retailers like wal-mart and tusk oats being a. growing bones of. so to the ward what we can see the ok i mean we have the money on the consumer has good power so you come and visit india so we're going to buy your products pulled optimism when the rest of the world is more cautious about what's in store

preassure either r t new delhi india. well as a lot of the world's money heading towards the east it could well be that will be looked into now with the money programme here i'll see that's coming your way in just a second. that's . phone watches show every single day. and waiting for you to stumble. i saw a man with

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