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governments of. support for the rebels in syria cure the cancer rejects a rush. friday's deadly blast in damascus. before the u.s. presidential vote democratic and republican hopefuls on. an alternative many american. international. center here in. the fierce clashes have erupted in a town in northern italy where police used tear gas and battens to disperse antigovernment protesters it's a so-called no. with tens of thousands of people expressing their anger over tough economic measures taken by the prime minister. reports from madrid where crowds are

also expected to gather this evening. we've already seen anger exploding in parts of italy we've had the clashes breaking out in the town in italy it was when he was visiting today to give a talk to a conference and. he's come out today and this million moments the day already had a run in with the police some take us being nice to me this past is getting quite nasty as well unfortunately these types of sites forty five million out all across the usa if you close your mind back to last year around the table fifteenth and we saw all these protests in italy and you know the violence breaking out that very very very volatile situation one year old and we think much the same thing happening again it's not just the day in madrid where crowds are expected to gather later on today that turning out of you'll start to protest again in spain is just

hit post the twenty five percent most one in full people in spain now unemployed absolutely cripplingly high figures and as you said really a story that's repeated time and again across the usa we've seen it in greece we've seen it in spain with thing it in italy the euro crisis housing discriminated the large members the small members all of them had been dragged into this and it's just continually ongoing i think people are really starting to get to the point where they feel like there is no end in sight and then not being listened to and no solutions on the horizon and that's really where you're seeing so much of this anger and seems as we were already seeing today the breaking up when all through a publicist says we've seen the same problem in the e.u. of all talk and no action. i can't imagine if you if you understood mary or you get everything wrong in the way that the e.u. governments have done in the last four years of this crisis for three and

a half years but from the get go they have shied away from any resolute action on the banks involved in in the in the dodgy loan in the first place during the financial bubble years so those banks remain the source of the problem there is 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 for 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 treated only as a sovereign debt crisis is that grabbing the tail of the old phone and calling it a snake. and a do stay with us for all the updates on the protests in the e.u.

as our correspondent brings you the latest throughout the day. after three weeks of siege and deadly rocket shelling thousands of families are now trying to flee the libyan town of bani walid residents of the traditional stronghold of the late leader moammar gadhafi say there's no water food or medicine for an assault by government forces and lawless gunman but even those who managed to escape the violence say their suffering is far from over as they're being blocked by militias on a desert highway. look at this people did. this get this gun and this people know this so i think now why you don't know one week now this is the buildout side and does it know what the were doing when i was leaving when i think when when what does the government you know meant that it was chaotic shelling they fired at how it was and shelters indiscriminately more than two thousand families

have fled seven families are with us at the moment yesterday we fled to the valley but they were firing at us even their their families who died in the shelling children died too they fired by women and children straight to the head i sucks potions and rockets of our hands i saw the dead. see a libyan political activist whose relatives are trapped in bani walid says those inside the town feel abandoned by the international community just a warning you may find some of the following images upsetting. houses are being. the people who are inside this can. leave the city you've got all of the militia of people of. the inside and see if the united nations if you let people go inside. you will see

a. picture. of him until he introduces the west is there about. letting these militias do whatever they want to the libyans you need to kill them you know who i don't think that worse is the engine criticizing the militias so in libya you look along with them on the first of. all of the interview you use militias. and then we'll be getting reaction from a former u.k. ambassador to libya on the developments in anybody and he's keeping a close eye on the situation in the besieged town. more firsthand accounts from there are available com a website check out the analysis on the troubles libya is facing a year after its longstanding leader moammar gadhafi was toppled in the revolt with the help of nato.

to the u.s. now in the race for the presidency is heading towards its final week with the polls putting both republican and democrat candidates effectively toyed and it's the third party candidates that many believe may affect the outcome is 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 despite the u.s. political landscape seemingly ready for a new political forces many americans still don't realize they have a big choice than just two candidates now is ignored by the mainstream media third parties have a column time making their views that the resident nor healthiness took to the streets of new york to find if people know they exist a tool. 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. what 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 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 or i would think either one of the third party have other ideas other than democratic from 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 no drone strikes no why not because of 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. good to go get it right i think the media has pretty much blocked that whole aspect out why do they do that they're supposed to be impartial this supposed to be saying the news the poor you know i mean. you've got democrats you got republicans 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 it's 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. while being built by the mainstream media third party candidates do have a chance to deliver their messages to the voters here on out see this coming

tuesday the final round of the us presidential third party debates will be hosted on this very channel and in the run up to the event moderator tom hartman from the big picture shared his view on its significance third parties historically have have influenced 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 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 things. and don't miss the fun a run of third party debates you'll see that nowhere else but exclusively here on this tuesday and 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 we assess the presidential campaign through the eyes of the protest movement with a focus on domestic policies and the economy what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the tightrope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate will their future do a selection of clothes every day for our team beginning of two hundred twenty second stay with our team for that throughout the week but still to come in the program this for you. several russian activists have staged a rally showing support for opposition members recently. disorder. from.

police in seattle get the go ahead to secure the city. but as an attempt to build a police things. in just a few minutes. the sun rises over what seems like and last forest to hear and cry for hundred kilometers north of life i'll stop as much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. bloggers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be

easy to forests. and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that the twelve tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're legal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done. he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the primark ski region and the w w f says the government isn't

doing enough to stop it. there's no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone what will the people who live afterwards do it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. these continues here on r.t. live from moscow al qaeda leader ayman al-zawahiri has called for muslims to kidnap westerners as a bargaining chip to win the release of its members held captive around the world in a new video posted online he also urged islamists to support syrian rebels with quote

all that they can he cues world powers of giving the syrian president opportunities to quell the uprising which the terrorist leader sees as the rise of jihadists. meanwhile the u.n. security council has rejected a russian proposed resolution that condemned the latest deadly blast in the syrian capital damascus the explosion that killed at least five people and wounded dozens of others took place shortly after the four day truce between government forces and the opposition came into effect on friday following the attack syrian warplanes reportedly conducted a series of strikes and right cease fire had initially led to a rare consensus being reached in the u.n. security council but the body united in its calls for all sides in the conflict to observe the agreement but independent journalist robert harness suspects ulterior motives the 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 beginning 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 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. as the bloodshed in syria continues its effects are being felt in the nearby israeli occupied golan heights and in the reports on one druze community which has for years been dependent on the massacres and is 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 rest 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 local 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. says part of syria their produce our produce is part of syria so they were committed to us to help. farmers and. for marketing 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. and now they're not and that affects us financially hammerstein's this year's harvest is much bigger than last year's but since the quota for the israeli markets has already been made and syria remains 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 courtin the golan heights. just to remind you more stories available on our website of the moment including

dangerous waters around for fifteen or eighteen months after japan's nuclear disaster the plant owner admits dangerously high levels of radiation are still flowing directly into the sea. pretty divorce on line we've got the story of one key. one hundred thousand dollars. for giving. opposition activists. inciting disorder in russia. but what exactly was the opposition's message today. really changed over a year. a. day was

a demonstration and. they were released from custody but this. is. what we've seen the. head of the. police. charged. they've. been held. by police.

the federal government gave its permission for aerial spy drones to be used. doesn't believe the claims that they are only. 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 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 time for it very cheaply and start using that first valence 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 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. to some of the news now from around the world violence has continued to mawson abrasions of the muslim holiday indeed in iraq twin blasts claimed demise 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 it came not long after got to tackle more ship is in the northern city of mosul authorities are now promising to ramp up security during the holy period. the proposed expansion of a chemical factory in eastern china drew mass protests with locals filling increased pollution will impact on their health the local police claim that they were forced to break up the running after being attacked with rocks and breaks

residents however said the protests turned violent after security forces used to gas arresting activists. also in the world of the police of rubber bullets miners in south africa who are trying to prevent a trade union rally from taking place and were furious of what they see as the poor handling by the unions of the recent dispute that ended with twelve thousand workers sacked for striking the monies were reinstated this week i'm. demand they return to work by chews day south africa's mining industry has been plagued by rest for months now dealing a huge financial blow to the country's economy. and states of emergency being declared across parts of the u.s. amid forecasts hurricane sandy could merge with winter weather fronts to create a devastating super storm is expected to bring high winds heavy rains and even slow to america's east coast sandy's already claimed at least forty lives across the caribbean cuba said it was the most destructive storm to hit the country in years after of course severe flooding and killed more than

a dozen. burdened by heavy domestic economic challenges india still manages to remain one of the world's fastest growing economies. 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 believe. 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. my quality of life my hope is high but if we can see that i can prove it and it was trying to say it's a relative thing really about. so much about where you are where you can get to.

the think a lot of western economies feel like the best parts needed 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 in 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 a. different. growing bones of.

so to the world what we can see that we have the money on the consumer has good power. so we're going to buy your products. optimism when the rest of the world is more cautious about what's in store preassure either r.t. new delhi india. that's all the news for the moment coming up parties on the money program looks at whether the world's economic gears are shifting to the east. on the money with the business of russia. do we speak your language or not of the. news programs and documentaries in spanish

matters to you. stories. here. the spanish find out more visit. you can tell an ordinary russian siberian appalled in the blink of an. anthropologist in those days siberians were different clothes different food. different animals. but what about the. journey began in two men but the big city was all shawnee all funded school scrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian.