chaos and killing in the former gadhafi stronghold of bani walid goes unnoticed by those who had a humanitarian bombing campaign against the late libyan leader last year. qatari eurozone governments backed by iron fist police units go up against outbreaks of protesters as anger picks over and left austerity cuts.

thank god it's our neck in neck after a lackluster foreign policy showing towel round us presidential debates with neither man leaving a stink impression. was ukraine heads to the polls to choose a new part of the minute what could become an unpredictable vote for the former boxing champion having the power to swing the forces for or against the current president. live from moscow you're with archie i mean he's now with a look back at the week's top stories for you this sunday we begin with libya and the pro-government militia which is keeping up its deadly siege of the xcode daffyd bastion of bani walid now despite authorities claims the town has fallen there have

also been reports attackers used chemical weapons against the civilian population are to spotlessly or has been gathering the witnesses' accounts of what the people of bani walid are going through. these are the pictures the world has chosen not to see dismembered bodies random killings dying women and children for three weeks the libyan city of bani walid has been under siege armed militia guns patrolled the streets looting houses bulldozing properties and shooting indiscriminately mortars your own most of whom by a machine. nobody is nor connection there is no communication there is no and. that is the people. was not able. to. connect with each other people are so concerned for the safety of their families they don't want to be identified you know meant that it was chaotic shall they fired at harbors and shelters indiscriminately more than two thousand families have fled seven families

are with us at the moment and yesterday we fled to the valley but they were firing attacks even their their families who died in the shelling children died to their frighted by women and children the straight to the head it started with the order for the army to use all means necessary to rid the former gadhafi stronghold of all his supporters they were accused of kidnappings and murdering a former militia man credited with capturing the libyan leader last year i would misses and doctors on the scene say people are being fired at with gas folder shells sources report seeing militia trying to hide and remove the bodies of those killed by chemical weapons and i can confirm that these militias used internationally prohibited weapons they used phosphorous bombs and nerve gas we have documented all these and videos were recorded the missiles they used on the white phosphorus raining down from these missiles many people died without being wounded shot they died as a result of gases the red cross is to me it's more than twenty five thousand people

have so far been made homeless with fiji's who in the confusion of the past few days trying to return home after the army announced the city had full and they're now stranded on the desert highway in fear and panic look at this. this good this gun and this we have a thing now why are doing now one week now. go outside and know what they were doing when i was leaving when i think when we go to the government i saw explosions and rockets of our heads i saw the dad but the general national. denies the killings despite the evidence to the contrary where the government for third. place where i would go of course there will be. flow in effect but the whole picture of the whole thing is being handled better for . we are taking care of all the family and it's not only the libyan authorities

that are in denial western governments and mainstream media have also chosen to be silent prompting the charge of double standards to be leveled at them the west is. letting these militias there were. no. criticizing the militias the chaotic scenes or throwback to the long running rivalry between residents of bani walid and misrata a city khadafi laid siege to they also show the weakness of the new government's authority over former rebel militias which always illegal but essentially do what they like. power so it's a leech is a message to all of them across libya wherever they are whoever you are and however strong you and whoever your backers are the revolution should win. it's a year since independence came to this oil rich country but little seems to have

changed for ordinary libyans many of the crimes gadhafi was accused of are now being laid at the foot of the general national council a reminder that for many the arab spring turned out to be a very cold winter policia r.t. beirut. well russia has raised the issue at the u.n. urging members to take peaceful steps to stop the bloody assault on the people of bani walid and the motion however was shot down by the u.s. which spearheaded the humanitarian war against libya's toppled leader moammar gadhafi last year. has more now from new york so. while the united nations has focused much attention this week on the ongoing conflicts in syria and mali russia's efforts to address the death and destruction taking place in libya was blocked by the united states washington refused to support a security council press statement drafted by russia calling for the resolution of violence in bani walid which has been under siege for weeks the u.s.

delegation cited a further need for consultations but meanwhile the russian ambassador to the u.n. for tali churkin says that it's quite strange the u.s. would block a press statement condemning the use of force in dealing with libya's political problems just one month after i deadly attack in benghazi claimed the lives of four diplomats embassador churkin said it is difficult in this case to explain the u.s. delegations actions in a rational terms now russia has dropped her statement calls on the libyan authorities to take urgent steps to resolve the conflict by peaceful means and to preserve the rights of all libyan citizens and also expressed concern about the significant escalation of violence in and around the city of bani walid libyan forces launched a full scale attack out of town more than three weeks ago accusing it of being controlled by supporters to former libyan leader moammar gadhafi gadhafi was overthrown in early two thousand and eleven at that time western media outlets made

libya for the troops today as the fighting and body will leave continues most mainstream news outlets have remained silent not reporting on what some are calling a humanitarian catastrophe hurried up or nile arts in new york. well a current situation in libya is an inconvenient truth for those who backed regime change there and that's why they are now turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in bunny wilding says author and journalist neil clark. let's think back to every twenty eleven we couldn't because newspaper in the u.k. or us or put on the b.b.c. or c.n.n. without hearing about what was going on in libya a humanitarian disaster or a whole kind of we've got these horses killing lots of people there we're going to have a massive massacre in regard and because of that we went to war that that was a reasonable war and today the situation leverage much worse you've got a humanitarian catastrophe taking place the number of people killed since nato intervene has gone up by between ten and twenty times we've got massacres going on

at the moment and their silence complete silence here in the u.k. and in the u.s. they got what they want what they wanted they got really good they've got a progress to empower america police taking control of the oil industry this problem isolation of western corporations really you know they don't really give a toss about what's going on about about human rights abuses the fact that demonstrations are banned throughout the country it's time to move on to syria of course. still ahead here on our t.v. putting out this cease fire the fragile truce in syria's civil conflict collapses in the first started as the country's sake and by the press terror attacks. and drone drama reaches the skies over america with us and first of plucking our popular pakistani politician off his flight badly over his opposition to washington strong operations that's coming up. but first this week's are the anniversary of one of the most radical steps the top to fight the financial crisis

european leaders agreed on a massive debt grade after greece and on boosting the block's belle out fund raiser to sarah firth reports the economic contagion is far from gart with its main symptom nation's outrage still plaguing the e.u. . getting back at a stair it's a people all of a year to continuing to fight against this in measures that are biting deeper and deeper into the public and private purpose of many usa nations clashes with police break out in the north of italy of thousands marched against the government in the capital reign in what was dubbed anti monte de similar things we witnessed in the trades west bank has turned on the us to rally against never ending government cuts we feel like we are now under a percentage by our government that they are doing this that we are no we don't agree with them and we are telling them on the diamond but they don't listen they don't care as it is start here and is spread across year thousands of people have

taken to the street and it's not just in madrid for in greece to italy big here is in countries and small this is a euro crisis that doesn't discriminate affecting people of all ages and from all walks of life. here in spain the unemployment figures now top a whopping twenty five percent this is a younger generation that's been hit the hardest in the stats for the country you see the half the sixteen to twenty four year olds in the house of work everything missing presumed unemployment poverty. the first. in people here if they are not taking the right decisions is going to. people is going to be angrier because of the. police offices. dividing the protesters from the governments that more and more thank you are going to live with

that of g.t. you'll find many of them joining the marches lower in force with a feeling the pinch the need amongst many protesters is greg craig dean had many times before and still they tell us. nothing seems to change the absolute is actually not to cut back spending but 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 is to grow your way out of it was not to cut your way out of that so one of the main arguments of the people here is that if you actually listen to the people who are not too good for the national interest from abroad you would come up with a lot more sensible a lot more rational response to this crisis a dogmatic insistence on a sturdy this in successive governments across the isolated from their electorates and amongst the euro members themselves divisions a widening a explains witnessing this independence leave it alone year in the basque country those demanding freedom and elect things that british politicians meanwhile greece

is fighting an upsurge of radical nationalist sentiment is leading to the grave of far right and fascist grapes scenes like these make it hard to believe that earlier this month even is awarded the nobel peace prize bringing stability and unity to the previously want to own continent some protesters are calling it a social not with a massive euro wide strike planned for later this month it seems as long as things continue as they are there will be no peace here so if the r.t. . coming up as sad diagnosis for the u.k.'s health care system. where. there are. medics must say exam people lose trust in the national health service as we tell you the tragic story of one woman search for professional treatment. well former pakistani cricket legend turned

politician in iran khan was pulled off a plane and interrogated by u.s. officials for over two hours on his way to new york from toronto he was led away for questioning over his vocal opposition to. america's drone strikes in pakistan now demands an apology from washington one that isn't likely to get. reports. killing the civilians of one country in the name of security of another the united states has been doing just that for over eighteen years and pakistan. there are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered three thousand americans they are plotting to strike again federally administered tribal areas burned bright red on the map that's where u.s. drone attacks have been killing thousands of people claiming the majority of them are militant extremists a study led by scholars from new york and stanford university's found that only around two percent of the total number of deaths were militants among the remaining

several thousand victims of drone attacks hundred seventy five were children the fact of the matter remains the us has been carrying out military operations in the country that it is not at war with and the international community says almost nothing about actions which are illegal by international standard the rest seems to have two options either stop the. talks. which. think the. worst since. the thought was. that in the day islamabad and washington were all smiles each seeking to benefit from cooperation centered on dealing with a persistent taliban problem though there was a cool off in the relationship in the one nine hundred seventy s. when pakistan began working on its nuclear bomb the valves were removed in the wake of the two thousand and one world trade center bombing and the ensuing war on

terror presently however there seems to be no love lost in this match don't strike an order. to protect them but they couldn't on the phone on strike. again focus on top. it's not just the buzzing of the drones however that threatens pakistan's integrity but was great as one of the greatest feats of the fight against terrorism this as a nation of islam of bin laden was a military operation carried out in secret and without knowledge of the pakistani authorities. then came the killing of twenty four pakistani soldiers in the u.s. led air strike forcing you to close down the nato supply route to afghanistan for seven months it was reopened only after an official apology from the u.s. secretary of state but with pakistan itself calls to cut off cooperation or

submission as many see it to the u.s. get louder with every passing week pakistanis believe the united states may be giving a lot of money to the government but is at the same time taking away the country's sovereignty and killing its people in islamabad it in college go r.t. . well a feverish week in the american presidential race as candidates burst into a sprint for the last leg of the campaign rock obama and mitt romney held their final debate heavy on foreign policy that once again both candidates plans for striking similarities and the war activist brian backer says u.s. policy will stay the same no matter who is at the helm. u.s. foreign policy regardless of whether the party in the white house is the republicans or the democrats is that system based on principally the military industrial complex and big oil i think if we take the debate reflective positions

of the two candidates and staged it as a theatrical production we would we would borrow the words of william shakespeare and say it's much ado about nothing fundamentally the two candidates represent a foreign policy based on the new empire the american am. i hear that superceded a british empire at the close of world war two i think the candidates have to be very careful because while they want to position themselves as the best defenders of the empire the best defenders of the military industrial complex they also have to recognize that the american people are sick and tired of war after war after war and sick and tired of having the national treasury drained so that tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of public sector workers jobs are lost but the military coffers keep growing and growing. although the republican versus democrat debate held few surprises and even less diversity not so the third party to bait largely ignored by the mainstream media for other us presidential candidates gather together to they have their own vastly different plans for america here's just

a little of what they had to say. the president has assumed dictatorial rights to put us in prison at his pleasure without charge or without trial we are on the road toward to a lottery in his mind that's not an exaggeration the biggest threat to our national security is the fact that we're bankrupt we need to retrench rather than trying to be the policeman of the world we need to put an end to the use of drones and actually lead not to lead this development of a new arms race but to lead in an international treaty and the convention to permanently banned the use of drones we're printing and borrowing money to the tune of forty three cents out of every dollar we spend. sixteen trillion dollars is bearing down on us and as governor johnson say if we could well be like germany

after world war i think it's time to make public eye or education free as it should be. wired she spoke exclusively to a number of the candidates taking part in that debate one of them was dr jill stein from the green party of america earlier this month she was arrested for protesting the first presidential debate she tells us why she wants. most of the american public doesn't even know that there are other candidates running so that's why i went to the gateway to the debate at hofstra university two weeks ago to demand that the debate be opened up and i was arrested and handcuffed to a chair for eight hours unfortunately this is what our democracy is looking like we are squandering trillions of dollars right now on wars for oil that we don't need on tax breaks for the wealthy and on bailouts for wall street forty billion a month now being spent to bail out the bankers once again so we can stop all that

the establishment parties are quaking in their boots that word will get out and in fact if it does there are enough people to turn the results of this election on its head is that going to happen i'm not holding my breath but if we're ever going to win it we've got to begin it. now the latest peace effort for syria fell apart this week with at least two terror bombings ripping across the state the largest attack took place in the capital damascus where at least five people were killed and many more injured in a car bomb explosion and this comes in the wake of a four day ceasefire to mark the most muslim holiday of eid which some rebel groups such as the radical elmore's are front rejected outright the call to carry on fighting also came from the leader of al-qaeda al-zawahiri journalists many many well auctions are zen roger says he's not surprised the truce has failed . around one hundred chair of the texas we're very al qaeda related

groups in syria what is realistic is that we have the syrian government and the syrian army is close organization where you have people to look where you have an organization on the other side you have this huge number of different terrorist groups or. how mean from from other countries coming across the borders to syria they already announced that they will not accept the truth is that they will not hold the troops so it's not a surprise that it doesn't work out. and i will update seems to be the best remedy for u.k. citizens as the national health service people's trust over serious medical errors r.t. is probably boy cover ports on the tragic cost of a doctor's mistake. clearly in agony but in supposedly safe hands in hospital that's what janine harvey says distort when she came down with severe hit pain last december despite over forty visits to doctors

in three different hospitals janine cervical cancer went on diagnosed rhyming in city hospital doctors here failed to spot janine harvey's cancer not once but twice all the hospitals missed it too exposing parts of the virus but let's have the death of the thirty three year old mother of four just months later her family now say they want to need a story to be heard so that others can avoid a similar traits at one point doctors even suggested that jeanine's excruciating pain was all in her mind but her post-mortem examination showed that a cancerous tumor had grown so large inside her that it had shattered her pelvic bone janine's family gets upset when people ask why they didn't pay for costly private care you know. with all the resources that you know

what we made it to go private we felt we trusted we trusted it every word janine isn't the only patient to be failed by the n.h.s. somewhere around sixty percent of deaths in hospitals. something has happened but potentially was avoidable and has potentially contributed to that that's one thousand patients a month a recent study by the national institute of health research says that one patient in ten is affected by potentially serious medical errors hauffe of whom die as a result such as twenty two year old cane gorney she died from dehydration from a combination of misdiagnosis and what the coroner called. the incompetence of n.h.s. staff it's definitely a problem that patients are repeatedly coming to us with. reporting failure is a similar nature to that which happened to janine harvey the n.h.s.

trust responsible for janine's care says we are extremely sorry for any distress caused to the family we can understand the need for says and this is what our internal investigation process is about examining what lessons there are to be learnt and making changes if there's anything that needs to be changed janine's family are now turning their tragedy into forming a charity to give other people with complicated medical conditions a chance to get a second medical opinion privately before it's too late it's impossible for so many individual consultants to to make so many errors it must be the ceased it must be this my. major or the lack of communication to negligence is leaving someone you know bent on knowing it's all i can think of any other word for. with

manslaughter. polly boyko r t london. then ukraine is said to elect a new parliament a new voting system is in place allowing room for surprises as argue the lex haris obscure reports of former boxing champion and his party may end up with enough weight to make or break the opposition. after what was the most expensive election in the history of silver and ukraine worth more than two billion us dollars polling stations of opened across the country. million voters in ukraine will elect its new parliament this election is revolutionary in many ways the voting system itself has changed dramatically now the voting takes place both on proportional seats in parliament and george very seats in parliament which are split into now in the first part in the proportional receipts nobody has any doubts that the ruling party the party of regions will eventually gain the majority of the votes but the biggest

surprise yet may come in the majority seats where nobody can predict the result there are many independent candidates running for the majority seats and they eventually could have final say inside the parliament and will be able to choose which lines of parties they will be joining in the new coalition the opposition in ukraine as already declared its intent to impeach the president if they gain a majority in parliament in one way or another the biggest dark course of this election is the former boxer who is now finished his career heavyweight champion of the world now turned politician vitali klitschko and many say that it will be. have the final say in the coalition in the forming of a new coalition inside the parliament. he will not be forming a coalition with the ruling party and the communist so far he hasn't yet signed an agreement with the opposition that he will be joining them in the new parliament

this leaves a huge increase on how the new coalition inside the parliament will be and whether this new coalition will have enough seats in parliament to. dramatically change the outlook of the power structures in this country certainly will be bringing all the latest results in this rather interesting vote as we get them. well in just a few minutes here in archie we talked to u.k. based economists mark little what about what he thinks should be done to heal europe's ailing finances stay with us.