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with the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly. keep up its deadly siege of the. lead despite authorities. there are also reports the attackers used chemical weapons against the civilian population. witness reports of exactly what is happening to the people. 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 gangs patrolled the streets looting houses bulldozing properties and shooting indiscriminately if you want to you almost of whom. nobody is know a connection there is no communication there's no anything that is the able. 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 it was chaotic challis they fired at harbors and shouted 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 too they funded by women and children 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 there were accused of kidnappings and murdering of former militia men credited with capturing the libyan leader last year i would nurses and doctors on the scene say people are being fired at with gas folder shells r.t. sources report seeing militia trying to hide and remove bodies of those killed by chemical weapons 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 mates more than twenty five thousand people have so far been made homeless refugees who in the confusion of the past few days trying to return home after the army announced the city had fallen there now stranded on the desert highway in fear and panic. 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 didn't know what they were doing when i was leaving when i think when we're in one of the government i saw explosions and rockets about our hands i saw the dad but the general national council denies the killings despite the evidence to the contrary where the government force. a place where

i would go of course there will be. small mistakes but the whole picture of the whole thing has been better for the. taking care of all the family and it's not only the libyan authorities that are in denial western governments are mainstream media have also chosen to be silent prompting the charge of double standards to be leveled at them but what is. militias who were. criticizing militias the chaotic scenes of a throwback to the long running rivalry between wizard and bani walid and misrata a city khadafi laid siege to they also show the weakness of the new government's authority of a former rebel militias which. 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 are and whoever your backers are the revolution should win. it's a years 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 here r t beirut. now russia has raised the issue at the united nations members to take peaceful steps to stop the bloody is sold on the people but he will lead the motion how it was shot down by the u.s. which ultimately spearheaded the humanitarian war against libya's leader moammar gadhafi. from new york with more knowledge portnoy. 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. 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 a deadly attack in benghazi claimed the lives of four diplomats ambassador churkin said it is difficult in this case to explain the u.s. delegations actions in a rational terms now russia's draft press 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 it also expressed concern about the significant escalation of violence in and around the city of bani walid libyan forces launched

a full scale it's not in town more than three weeks ago accusing it of being controlled by some orders to former libyan leader moammar gadhafi was overthrown in early two thousand and eleven at that time western media outlets made libya for its news today as the fighting in but he will leave continues most mainstream news outlets have remained silent not reporting on what some are calling a humanitarian catastrophe. in new york. political activist from the stop the war coalition thinks that the violence and bani walid is fall out from the nato backed regime change in libya. we're beginning to see the fall fruits of the western intervention in libya were over a year ago when the tide recedes when the west's arms are no longer being used you can see that as a continuation of a civil war that was. happening before. we know that the situation is enormous

terms though who we know are unable to get the weapons out of the militias hands we know that the government is in control of the capital but what about the whole country so i think this shows that the west intervention simply pumped more arms into the country made it ungovernable after they left. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today you're watching the weekly and certainly a feverish week in the american presidential race as candidates burst into a sprint for the last leg of the campaign obama and mitt romney held their final debate very heavily focused on that a foreign policy that once again both candidates plans bore striking similarities top of that former cia officer ramberg up and says there was a lot that was just simply ignored. well obama should be able to say that

our ambassadors are going to be killed our other representatives are going to be murdered unless we change our policy towards the world that's policy be defined by the need for oil and the need to protect what are perceived to be the interests of israel unless we change those policies we will never succeed in being able to protect our our embassies and our other diplomatic establishment about afghanistan probably we're smart say it's a fool's errand we've got to get out of there we were wrong we ought to bring our troops right back now why can't he say that or why is it not likely that is say that because no politician in the united states can afford the slightest risk of seeming soft on things that are described as the war on terrorism it's that simple . and the republican versus democrat debate held a few surprises and even less diversity i was not the case with a third party debate the largely ignored by the mainstream media for other u.s.

presidential candidates gathered together to lay out their own vasili different plans for america here's just a little piece 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 him and 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. two you did speak exclusively to a number of the candidates taking part in that debate one of them just as party candidate rocky anderson he told me that he would have been able to swing votes in his favor how'd he been allowed to challenge obama and romney on national television. one thing that's clear to me is that if i were included on the stage with barack obama and mitt romney i think there would be a very different result in this country because the range of debate between them has been so constricted i mean they're basically arguing about who's going to raise military spending the most who's going to drill on public lands or off shore the most whether we're going to send small arms or a large arms to syria and adds is what's going to be i'm afraid an absolute bloodbath a civil war in that country and the response to this debate has been just overwhelming

i tell you about our third party debate because we're saying things that you never hear from the republican and democrats and what we're saying really reflects what the majority of the american people lot. and the final third party presidential debate is still to come i know be hosted at our ts a washington d.c. studio be broadcasting and life abiathar american and international viewers and also throughout next week we'll be looking in depth to the political landscape in america in the run up to the country's elections. want to lies ahead for occupying will the movement mobilize cools for a new american who stands for the ninety nine percent u.s. election a close guide monday october twenty ninth on r.t.e. .

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 a bit 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 don't lie to me and tell me that you live censorship free when you don't it's your choice you let the iranian channels back on the air or come out of the closet and admit you believe in

restricted speech but that's just my opinion. going to go north on scary stuff. ex hostages let us into their lives after the tragedy. still gives. the past. because they're.

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welcome back this is the live from moscow with me wrong. this week saw the anniversary of one of the most radical steps the e.u. took to fight its ongoing financial crisis and european leaders agreed on a massive debt write off for greece boosting the block's battle out fund but reports the economic contagion is far from gone with its main symptom nation's outrage still plaguing the euro zone. hitting back at a stair it's a people a year of 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 scenes were witnessed in the trades west bank has turned on the us to rally against never ending government cuts but we feel like we are now under a percentage by our government that they are doing this that we are not we don't agree with them and we are telling them on the diamond but they don't listen as they are sturdy anger spread across year thousands of people have taken to the street and it's not just in madrid for in greece to italy big you're using 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 if you look at 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 ferns. in people here police offices. dividing the protesters from the governments that more and more they growing to live with that of g.t. you'll find many of them joining the march is even lower than foresman a feeling the pinch the need amongst many protestors is greg craig dean had many times before and still they tell us nothing seems to change. is actually not 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 not just 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 initial interest from abroad you will come up with a lot more sensible a lot more rational response to this crisis a dogmatic insistence on austerity has seen successive governments across the

isolated from their electorates and amongst the euro members themselves divisions a widening spain's witnessing fierce independence movement catalonia in the basque country those demanding freedom and let things separatist politicians meanwhile greece is fighting an upsurge of radical nationalist sentiment that's leading to the growth of far right and fascist groups seems like these make it hard to believe that earlier this month the e.u. was awarded the nobel peace prize bringing stability and unity to the previously want to own continent some protesters are calling it a social must and 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 r.t. . sudan has promised to retaliate ssion over an airstrike at

a weapons factory in the capital khartoum which should blames on israel and the jewish state neither confirm nor deny it carrying out the attack instead accusing sudan of playing a key role in an iranian backed arms shipping network political analyst excuse me a doctor who thinks the aggressor in this case is rather obvious. this is not the first attack again a sudanese territory. it has happened before since the war ended on gaza at the beginning of two thousand and nine then have been a number of attacks against sudanese territory and it is logically to say that israel is the country that is responsible for such attacks again is sudan my understanding also is that after the war again is gaza the previous american administration and the previous israeli government but it's an understanding to fight terrorism right on its sources israel is the country that is interested in

fighting against other countries who are allegedly supplying hamas with weapons and supporting hamas politically and apple a day seems to be the best remedy for u.k. citizens as the national health service loses people's trust of a serious medical errors his point he reports 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 priming in city hospital doctors hair failed to spot janine harvey's cancer not once but twice all the hospitals missed it too exposing her side of the barrier that led to 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 freights at one point dr 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. the resources that you know. maybe to go private we felt we trust them we trusted to every word janine isn't the only patient to be failed by the n.h.s. some around sixty percent of the baths in hospitals. something else happen but potentially was avoidable and has potentially contributed to that there 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 arras 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 cold. the incompetence of n.h.s. starr it's definitely a problem that patients are repeatedly coming to us with. reporting failure is a similar nature to that which happened to joining harvey 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 some major major or the lack of communication to negligence is leaving someone you know well bent on knowing it's all i can think of any other word for names was months long after. polly boyko r t london. martin died just a few minutes here on our t.v. we are all the story of the in for most russian theater terrorist attack that was ten years ago though so i have a chance to meet and greet and interview some of those who were held hostage this is artsy. trimmings in this tree even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds it warms between aeons the art of throat singing

comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse forests and different stones of souls imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. there are special instruments that accompany the singing give gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument. of stop the fall is

going on the spirits of the horse came to his dream and said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody only instrument is called. to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic there. it's goal is to tour broad they say for you or opinion since difficult to pick up and sing so i asked them to teach me and see if i can do it. cheer it up and they were. share it oh you thought it was sure. to. get a out o.

. but now it is part of the song and not the actual throughout singing which i wouldn't even try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this puzzle so until i met mall she looks like it vini and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most sense to modern minds from two hundred years ago until soppy here she's not planning a professional singing career she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature.

my name is alexandra. ten years ago i acted in the musical north last summer and i was on stage the day that the terrorists stormed the theater. i was lucky i survived stella as a coming after us i began to value life more value times to value the love of those close to us. the conclusion i've reached is to be generous in love and kindness. i will overcome all difficulties i believe in good. footage. alexandra first took to the stage when she was only three and a half years old by the age of thirteen the young actress was playing one of the

major roles in no dust. i. played in her childhood gradually developed into serious dramatic characters but becoming a professional actress alexandra still enjoys playing in children's comedy shows. ten years ago the audience received the performance of the nord-ost musical just as warmly critics even deemed it the first russian show to be worthy of a global stage the popularity of the musical exceeded expectations as producers introduced theatrical techniques that had successfully been used on broadway and in the west end the story about adventurous pilots about friendship and love packed out the theater hall but on one october day the cast would never see the curtain.