a fresh cache of arms is finding its way to the libyan government's deadly assault on the city of bani walid these residents are accusing western governments of turning a blind eye to the bloodshed. italy in rage anti-government protests in the north of the country turned violent fierce clashes between demonstrators and police while in rome tens of thousands are marching against austerity cuts during what is called

anti monti day. and the same message is drawing crowds into the streets of the spanish capital with fell's these have surrounded the country's parliament these are live pictures from madrid. support for the syrian opposition one of the rebel groups kidnapped a lebanese journalist in aleppo citing his works in consistency with their revolutionary calls. and also reporting that ten days before the u.s. presidential vote democratic and republican hopefuls are neck and neck in the race third party candidate strive to offer an alternative many americans could be ready for. international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. after three weeks of siege and deadly rocket shelling from libyan army for. says

thousands of families are now trying to flee the town of bani walid despite government claims the military action is now over and aid is being distributed residents of colonel gadhafi is form a stronghold say there's no water food or medicine 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. this good this gun and this people know this thing now why you don't know one week now this is the outside and know what the were doing when i was living with you thing when when one of the government but you know why it was chaotic sally there fired at homes 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 into even their their families who died in the shelling children died too they fired by with women and children the straight to their heads. i saw explosions and rockets of our

hands i saw their dad. see a libyan political activist whose relatives are trapped in bani walid says those inside the term feel abandoned by the international community just a warning you may find some of the following images upsetting. power seems out of being the. houses are being bought this is the people who are inside the city who can. leave the city you go on the field of. hero for. in silence if you give the united nations to go on to fewer. people go inside their houses you will see a. picture. of him until he embraces the west it is knowing that means letting these militias do whatever they want to the

infield of the ocean to know who was. the worst it's been criticizing these militias so we'll leave you alone with the first of. all of the interview and so you use militias. well nato claimed it had the right to intervene in libya last year and critics say it therefore has a responsibility to avert a humanitarian disaster in bani walid the former british ambassador to libya all of them are suspect in a letter he believes that nato no longer has responsibility. i think that these problems are got to be sorted out by the libyans and they are being sorted out of the worst problem at the moment is the one in delhi were lead and that's a political problem compounded by a very old feud between two towns between misrata and bani walid despite the politics many are saying well what's different between syria and libya a lot of calls now for intervention to in syria to prevent a humanitarian crisis there and yet the west is accuse of turning

a blind eye and yet he is surely one has to recognize the fact that there is a humanitarian crisis there in libya at the moment. well you can call it humanitarian crisis relatively small the. lead has something like seventy thousand inhabitants the number of fighters who are believed to be loyal to gadhafi is not very large but of course fighting is terrible and of course it's got to it we must hope that it comes to an end as soon as possible. keeping a close eye on the situation in bani walid and more firsthand accounts from the battle available at all t. dot com you can 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. thousands of people have converged on the spanish parliament to madrid in protest over a sturdy measures being forced upon them so also been

a day of rage in italy with huge crowds out in the streets in rome and fierce clashes as a result of an anti government demo in the north of the country live now to r.t. sara first she is in the spanish capital sara fouls out in the streets as we're seeing here on our screens here at r.t. the people keep flocking to the parliament building so what is their message there at the moment. absolutely crowds of people down here below me on one of the central square in the trade as he said very very close to the parliament building here. and feel stary see signs that unanimous message is no to these austerity cuz we've seen people continuing to join he called the police causing all the roads up towards the parliament and also chanting loads of people holding out that ban is that they for so long as he said them a message is against these cuts that they say is this in the. in thing you ever session and a lot of anger on the streets today a lot of frustration

a little crisis the t.v. . simply fed up at the fact that you know this crisis is ongoing and still no solutions everything good food a plan for an even more austerity now the latest figures that were just out say that spain now has more than twenty five percent unemployment but one in food spaniards who are also work at the baby i mean it really is staggeringly high you speak to people who. and i'll tell you what kind of effect that is having on the population in a deep you know this really covers all different types of people from all different walks of life you've got the police who'd inning of the parliament building here today we've got the results this is of cheating he joined in the months today that protesting is against because alongside the family says suffering alongside the students he can't find jobs and they leave university in some of the signs that we saw rally is said to all of those who are watching saying today they're roping you

to a very passionate message from them here because you know really this euro crisis has been all encompassing all your own today and it's leigh where protests have been happening that as well we saw some clashes breaking out in the north of italy because it's live in a very similar position as we see it in different year using countries in greece as well but these sites are very very limited you can maybe here better the chairing this going on at the moment you know in the past week the scene these big gatherings sometimes turning a little bit violent is the night goes on the tensions the tend to get a little bit frayed there is a lot of anger as we said a long protracted year a crisis that really has no end in sight at the moment sara thanks very much indeed r.t. surface reporting live from madrid and researcher jerome russa's the situation in italy is quickly getting out of control and the country may be the next in line to become the epicenter of the crisis. but people who are very well aware that the

government's main goal is to who was the story on the italian people and so the progress of all was really to discredit the government in a much broader sense and argue for a return to a more democratic form of politics in europe the problem is that the situation is that only getting worse especially since november last year when these i'm elected democratic government came to power we've seen serious tax hikes we've seen in spending cuts we've seen reforms in all the holes in the pension system a. veritable of assaults on labor rights and here in florence i mean you can even see it in the streets in the outskirts there are more and more people here sleeping out in the streets i mean the border guards at night and the situation it's getting worse and it's not just out there it is but i do think that in the immediate next in line with the situation in in spain especially it's been further out of control and the alternative is actually not you will cut back spending money to invest more in the economy to invest in growth to make sure that there are jobs and the only way to ultimately get out of this debt is to grow your way out of that are not to

cut your way out of that so one of the main arguments of the people here is that it is if you actually listen to the people who are not too good for the national interest from abroad you will come up with a lot more sensible a lot more rational response to this crisis so 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 here on r.t. . thank you. al qaeda leader ayman al-zawahiri should say it's call for muslims to kidnap westerners as a bargaining chip to win the release of its members held captive around the world and then new video posted online he also urged islamists to support syrian rebels with quote all that they can he accused world powers are giving the syrian president opportunities to quell the uprising which the terrorist leader sees as the rise of jihadist movement in syria itself the rebels that al qaida pledged to support have kidnapped

a lebanese journalist saying his work did not suit the cause of the revolution. is editor in chief of a german monthly news magazine i spoke to him a little early if he says it's not the first time the opposition has resorted to date on what is a criminal action as journalists but he is not the first journalist who was kidnapped we see and huge number of journalists we are chilled by the by the rebels in syria we're told about related groups just one story needed. to remember that the journalists all of the syrian t.v. channels syrian news t.v. which where were. some journalists and where the news building was also in the end of june this year so what i ask where are the already stationed where are the organizations mortars. or where are they protesting against these actions and i ask myself something else either being in syria as a journalist or. a masters in what i can say i met

a lot of journalists who were not reporting consistent to the syrian government because. they were knocking off their fear free to really this country so you see that there is a huge difference how do you know this. monster huge difference in the risk. as the conflict drags on it's not only syrians living inside the war torn country that are being hit the school support one dream school t. is facing tough times as vital trade with damascus has now dried out we reported last ultra short break. green party candidate jill stein was arrested for trying to enter the presidential debate at hofstra university and now i know why there's never

a third party candidate at the debates because the cops let the cuffs on them when they try to get in we all know we have a two party system so why do we lie to ourselves and pretend it's not that way it's the lying that bothers me it's the illusion that you have the freedom of choice when there are only two real options cut out the games just make the two party system the law of the land just make the two parties part of the government make their inner workings transparent and bound by the law and make it clear to every american that there are only two real ladders to climb to power stop lying to me and to everyone else about this democracy stuff what forty percent of the country are independents with virtually no representation either cut the lies and make the two party system the law or make your lies become true by letting the candidates like jill stein and gary johnson have a simple conversation with obama and romney on t.v. if they are indeed extremists then this should show through at the debates right there's nothing scary about competition in an election but that's just my opinion.

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what lies ahead for auction on the movement mobilized calls for a new america who stands for the ninety nine percent u.s. election next close guide monday october twenty ninth on r.t.e. . the english it would be so much brighter if you knew the song from feinstein question these. stunts on t v dot com.

if you just joined us for a warm welcome this is r.t. live here in moscow to the u.s. now and the race for the presidency is heading toward its final week with the polls putting both republican and democratic candidates effectively time on many americans disenchanted with a bomb romney might be ready for an alternative some didn't even realize there's already a different choice the resident laurie oftenest took to the streets of new york to find a people no third party's candidates 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. of ahmed the 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 their parag obama did a little bit better job than mitt romney i know that the third party to vait 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 there's jill stein she's the the green party there's gary johnson and libertarian and none of these names ring a bell and i don't 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 and junks they're against drone strikes there's a lot of other ideas. you don't agree with me about you know drone strikes no one to 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 to that whole aspect. 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. democrats go public. 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 of voting day chances are obama or romney is going to be elected and. while being blocked by the mainstream media third party candidates do have

a chance to deliver their messages to the voters here on r.t. and a little more than a week the final round of the us presidential third party debate will be hosted on this very channel in the run up to the event moderated tom hartman from ortiz a big picture shared 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. well don't miss the final run of the party debates you'll see that nowhere else but exclusively here on our tea on monday november the fifth and don't forget we have special coverage of the u.s. election on air and online each week looking at the raised 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 also the economy. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage working the. pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads to parties still dictate their future your selection of clothes they are beginning october twenty second. activists have staged a protest in central moscow to support opposition figures who were this week charged with plotting disorder in russia the rally was broken up by police who said the group violated the law requiring advance permission for demonstrations in the

city center some leaders were detained but really shortly after they've been demanding charges against high profile opposition leaders. and his fellow activists be thrown out the three were accused on friday preparing rest in the ship in a sort of charges they deny investigation was triggered by a documentary shown on russian t.v. . by the way more stories available right now on a website including dangerous waters around for fifteen or eighteen months after japan's nuclear disaster the plant's owner admits dangerously high levels of radiation are still flowing directly into the sea. plus another pretty divorce the story of one chinese man who's received more than one hundred thousand dollars after his wife for giving birth to a baby. as

the bloodshed in syria continues its effects are being felt in the israeli occupied golan heights. a report 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 marsh 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 crops to damascus and 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 may end up being a rather bitter fruit apples are the main source of income for the jews families in this area until seven years ago they struggled while trying to compete with the produce of the israeli 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 help. farmers. market. 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 worry local farmers. we are just simple people we have no idea of politics

country used to be. and now the north. and that affects us financially farmers say this year's harvest is much bigger than last year's but says the quarter 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 big and we are the ones getting hit it in a goes courting the golan heights that's the way it is at the moment iran r.t. in a few minutes from now mexico is a pitch behind the curtains a world economic shining the light on those making money the unfair way bets and the cars report. in this remote siberians in which people still sing the songs which russians sang

in the media age it's 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 families. that i may believe need there yet again i feel that i now i'm the first to tell you that. i. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and teach 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. mary and i think. i did 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 background how my ancestors layered and this is my treasure very 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 pesach you tit for not. i mean to do with that are. rushing the sixteen hundred they wanted to maintain their time honored rituals deal believers 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 as a group to build believe a woman must never show her naked legs and because things started to spoil during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving 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 it inside to remember that and try to think you know you know if your plans to continue her studies abroad the grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the jews are fresh in her memory so is the culture.

i am irish guys are welcome to the kaiser report you know when the world still risk and so someone must be punished for it no most part to shoot straight you're never right 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 america must pay for it right well we also see it in the whole scientific world italian scientists convicted over earthquake warning. six scientists and a government official were sentenced to six years in prison each for manslaughter by an italian court on monday this is of last week for failing to give adequate warning of an earthquake that killed more than three hundred people in like in two thousand and nine but i know this is going on obviously what about the economists

who failed to predict the financial earthquake what's the penalty for them while clearly this type of science of course there is some predictable outcomes in some scientific method but in the realm of economics it's all voodoo and tea leaves raining there is no science behind it it's guesswork and best so we have to make sure we understand that when we're evaluating economists we know that basically and so a bunch of mumbo has not yet been scientific rules to established for economics yet is still very much on the come we don't really know exactly what makes the economics work yet and in a way it's the opposite in economics in that you hear all the time now the man who predicted the financial crash you hear that over and over every single economist or financial expert announcer introduced interviewed on a television show but you also.