support for the uprising in syria.

the democrat and republican hopefuls. for the third. day. three weeks of. thousands of. residents of the traditional stronghold of the late leader. say there is no water food following an assault by government forces. but even those who managed to escape the. desert highway. look at this people did. this get this gun and this people know this thing now why

you don't know when we see been down that sign and didn't know what the we're doing when i was leaving when a thing when when what does the government do you want to. get their own homes. just own homes they still want homes we want to protect our own homes and while it was captured those inside the city claim the severe fighting is still ongoing here spoken exclusively to one man and his relatives are trapped inside the town he says the attackers of being increasingly helped by foreign fighters our source is currently in egypt but is afraid to reveal his identity of affairs for the safety of his family. it is not forwarded his know. anything that didn't float it was ability to life then people and the media does not allow anyone to come back that we did won't be a mortician on most of whom it's by

a machinery fake and gives nobody did is no a connection there is no communication money being killed inside the militias and this is blocked there's also going to not be loyalists this is lying here this is their you game they get. yours at this night but as i thought and said i am but i think all it was from qatar out of rome. we are good for him for all of this ticket i do you know that of the united nations mr mystery where does he know where is the united nation where it is. where is the evil right where i we are as good forward to finishing now as soon as possible to please. and in the next hour here on ars he will be speaking to one of those who fled the violence in libya last year to get his account on the situation in the pussy. but

we are keeping a close eye on the situation. more firsthand accounts from the embattled town are available at r.t. dot com check out the analysis on the troubles in libya is facing a year after its longstanding leader was toppled in the revolt of course with the help of nato. are turning our attention now to the out of the united states and the race for the presidency is heading towards its final week but the polls putting both republican and democratic candidates effectively tied but it's the third party candidates that many believe could affect the outcome as former cia officer philip giraldi explains . 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 and despite the u.s. political landscape seemingly ready for a new political forces how many americans still don't realize they have a big choice than just two candidates largely ignored by the mainstream media third parties have a hard time making their views heard and the resident laurie oftenest she took to the streets of new york to find out if people know they 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 debates. 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 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 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 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 and junks 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 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 there are no rights 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 ocracy 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 but 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 of voting day chances are obama or romney is going to be elected. a while being up locked up by the mainstream media third party candidates do have a chance to deliver their messages to photos they'll be doing it though here on. 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 dates. well i missed the final round of the debates featuring the past winners joel stein and gary johnson here on r.t. this choose day and i don't forget we have a special coverage of the u.s. election on air and online and each week looking at the race from a different perspective starting this monday we assess the presidential campaign through the eyes of the protest movement the focus on domestic policies and the economy do if you can stay with us for that throughout the week. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the iran tightrope

pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate will there be. a selection of clothes every day r t beginning of two hundred twenty second ten minutes past the hour moscow time al-qaeda leader i am and also what he has called for muslims to kidnap westerners as a bargaining chip to release the terrorist groups captives in a new video posted online as a what he also urged islamists to support syrian rebels with quote all that they can be accused of giving the syrian president opportunities to quell the uprising which the terrorist leader sees as the rise of the jihadists meanwhile the u.n. security council has rejected a russian proposed resolution the condemned the latest deadly blast in the syrian capital damascus the attack that killed at least five people and wounded dozens of others threatened to record for day truce between government forces and the

opposition that came into effect on friday the ceasefire had even led to a rare consensus being reached at the u.n. security council for the body united in its calls for all sides in the conflict to observe the agreement but independent journalist suspects alterian motives could be a play. 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 taking 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 shoddy to begin 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. and

as the conflict drags on it's not only syrians living inside the water own country that are being affected by just across the border one druze community is facing tough times by the trade in damascus has knowledge dried up just after a short break we'll be reporting on this. 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 but 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 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. which great. move. from science to christian.

screen starts on t.v. dot com. wealthy british style it's time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to gaza report. good to have you with us here in our city today on moscow hundreds of protesters have clashed with police at shall the goal airport in the french capital of the scuffles disrupted some of the flights in a crowded departure hole and workers of air france are outraged over planned job

cuts of 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. let's give you some i live pictures here on our t.v. now in another struggling country out of italy it's a day of rage against painful austerity measures being taken by the government many people already protesting in the capital rome the demonstration is called no day for the masses blaming italian prime minister mario monti for their plight and that is again the life it is for you right there from rome and the same sentiment they're also being felt in spain where massive protests are expected later on saturday healthier and publicist william dahl says we are constantly seeing the same problem in the e.u. all talk and no action. i can't imagine i understood mary or you get everything wrong in the way that the e.u. governments over the last four years of this crisis were 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 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 last decade by ultra low interest rates generated out of the us but 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 that grabbing the tail of the elephant and calling it

a snake. and later this hour here on our financial guru max kaiser dives into the waters of economics and exposes the psychology behind the fraud schemes. is 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 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 give a higher price and these slobs are cargo if your friends 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 slog fests and virtual markets and fake prices and i frequency trading and it is here in the u.k. condoning by the actual right.

now because report coming your way very shortly here and it's here now as the bloodshed in syria continues its effects are being felt in the nearby israeli occupied golan heights aussies are going to go to school reports on one druze community would chance for years been dependent on damascus and is now facing desperate times because of the conflict he cannot hear the gunfights of homes and aleppo 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 a 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 three doubt both 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 reality 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 says part of syria so their produce our produce is part of syria they were committed to use to help the. farmers and. for marketing in syria 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 around and now they're not in the sense financially let me say 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. the ones getting hit goes courting the golan heights. many more stories available on our website including the dangerous waters around fukushima eighteen months after japan's nuclear disaster the plant's owner admits that dangerously high levels of radiation are still flowing directly into the sea. bass and i'm pretty divorced on line with. well the story of one chinese man who's received more than one hundred thousand dollars off the suing his wife why she gave birth to an ugly

baby. are just a moment on the altar he won't update but for now fears of a police state are becoming a reality where but in seattle and that's often the federal government gave us permission first aerial spy drones to be used over the city trevor tim an activist for the electronic frontier foundation doesn't believe the claims are they are only for 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 the 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 that 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 the time for it very cheaply please 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 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. right into iraq we go to start off the r.t. world update us where violence has continued to the celebrations of the muslim holiday of aida twin blasts claimed the lives of at least eighteen people and injured 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 a worship pose in the northern city of mosul authorities are now promising to ramp

up security during the holy period. panama's authorities seem to be pulling back from their plans to sell land in latin america's largest duty free zone however the announcements done little to quell street rallies as protests once again turned violent demonstrators battled police with sticks and rocks did a move that they say will cost them jobs government security forces were called in to bring the situation under control and arrested hundreds of demonstrators. states over emergency have been declared across parts of the u.s. amid forecasts that hurricane sandy could merge with winter weather fronts to create a super storm expected to bring high winds heavy rains and even snow to america's east coast sandy has already claimed at least forty lives across the caribbean cuba said it was the most destructive storm to hit the country in years after severe flooding and killed more than a dozen. now burdened by heavy domestic economic challenges india still manages to

remain one of the world's fastest growing economies as artie's preassure explains things are looking up as long as people believe they will be rewarded with higher standards of living. 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 for most notably. 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 the indians are actually more optimistic about their economy than those in the west. you know everybody my quality of life my hope is hard but we can see that i can prove it and it was joint so it's a relative thing really about. not so much about where you are as where you can get to. nothing global western economies feel like the best is possibly even 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 suggest the consumer confidence is up here and many believe that 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 tesco being. different. is the 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 me so we're going to buy your products told optimism when the rest of the world is more cautious about what's in store preassure either r.t. new delhi india. or just a few minutes here not saying it's the one and only box keyser trying to shed light on the dark side of world economics the kaiser report in just a few. looking at some jokes you simply do not believe they come speak and good news how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as australia canada and the us they come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like alaska and so i felt at

home the first sled dog was brought here from a stray and now a stray as come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top. grazing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for those who brought their dia to life. five years ago. built a dog kennel in the village kids from the local open h. came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys regularly update their website and they're in touch with the busy

maga twenty four seven on the phone itself but children are the most important thing my own interests not play any rule any more and regardless of whether parsky has huskies window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the weaning but truly just the taking part that counts. mission free credit take three times for charges free. range month free. free. to tide free.

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