the stories that shaped this week when r.t. and the blockade of the libyan town of bani walid grew more deadly the reports of chemical weapons being used against the remaining population we bring you witness accounts from inside the battles. tens of thousands unite in a show of anger and italy and spain calling on their governments to stop in forcing austerity measures which they call a social massacre. the final presidential debate between barack obama and mitt romney fails to give either the lead in the third party candidates to fire a media blackout to suggest alternative policies.

it is good to have you with us here on r.t. today i'm a real researcher highlighting the week's top headlines the apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians humanitarian crisis stranded refugees and yet more deaths are the reality for the libyan town of bani walid this week at the residents there are calling for international help as army and pro-government militias continue to shell the former khadafi stronghold. has been gathering eyewitness accounts from the besieged town it's only fair to warn you you may find some of the following images disturbing. 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. people are so concerned for

the safety of their families they don't want to be identified. why it was can you want to fight it how it is and shelters indiscriminately more than two thousand families have fled seven families out without at the moment yesterday were fled to the valley but they were firing into even their now families who died in the shelling children died too they fired 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 misses 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 the 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 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 tried to return home after the army announced the city had fall and they're now stranded on the desert highway in fear and panic look at this. this good this gun and this be able now this thing now why you don't know one week now. go outside and know what the were doing when i was leaving whether you think when we're in one of the government. i saw explosions and rockets about our heads 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 there would go as high that of course there will be. from all mystics but the whole picture of the whole thing is being handled better frankly 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 let's think back to carry twenty eleven we couldn't because when the u.k. or us or put on the b.b.c. or c.n.n. without hearing about what was going to be a humanitarian disaster. the killing lots of people and today the situation leverage much worse you've got a humanitarian catastrophe taking place we've got massacres going on at the moment and schilens complete silence here the chaotic scenes of a throwback to the long running rivalry between wizards 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 oh it illegal but essentially do what they like to all 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 independence came to this oil rich country but little seems to have changed for ordinary libyans many of the crimes he was accused of are now being laid at the foot of the general national council. spring turned out to be a very cold winter. well russia has called on the un security council to the libyan authorities to resolve the conflict peacefully the proposal however was blocked by the u.s. which of course took part in the bombing campaign last year under the guise of protecting civilians from. this report now from new york with.

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 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 meanwhile the russian ambassador to the u.n. . says that it's quite strange the u.s. . 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 ambassador 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 that also expressed concern about the significant escalation of violence in and around the city of bani walid. keeping a very close eye on the violence around. keep you up to date with the developments in the. this is artsy now the latest peace effort for syria fell apart this week with at least two terror of bombings the largest attack took place in the capital damascus where at least five killed and many more injured by a car bomb that happened during a proposed four day ceasefire to mark the muslim holiday of which some rebel groups such as the radical front rejected outright another call to carry on fighting came from the leader of al qaida and criticized world leaders for that loose grip on the syrian regime international affairs analyst. says the truce plan was doomed to fail

. to government the insurgency in syria is far and. worse including the united states who. took it so far for their leave the country is slipping kate friends your money is providing the libyan support so they are really uncalled for we know that they're providing token sure the us will they don't want repeats they want to remove the government of syria from both for us there but for the us but. they believe in the rebels believe that they've got the momentum they've got the support from the outside world and they say that they're not going to abide by these states but it's because they they haven't been pressured by the outside powers the back them perhaps they have even been told not to support this use for. well still to come just a bit later in the program on our t.v. an unconditional apology that washington is on willing to make after a high ranking pakistani politician was pulled off a flight to new york and questioned by u.s.

officials about his views on unmanned drone attacks. in ukraine promises to throw up a few surprises as heavyweights from the world of boxing and politics make their way into parliament and more after a short break. or it's ten minutes past seven in the evening here in moscow and it turns out the tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of italy and spain on saturday in anger over tough economic measures being forced upon them the show of discontent turned ugly in one northern italian town where police used tear gas and battens to disperse the crowds but as r.t. sara further reports the struggling public is still determined to get this message . hitting back at a stare 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 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 up 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 things that we are not we don't agree with them and we are clearly in them on the diamond but they don't listen as they are stared youngest 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 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 using creasing unemployment poverty. the ferns. in people here police offices. dividing the protesters from the governments that more and more thank you are going to learn a bit 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 protesters is grand they've been here 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 offer. get out of this is to grow your way out of this cut your way out of court 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 initial interest from abroad you would come up with a lot more sensible a more rational response to this was

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 and the basque country those demanding freedom and electing separatist politicians meanwhile greece is fighting an upsurge of radical nationalist sentiment is leading to the growth of far right and fascist groups scenes 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 massacre 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. . police in greece have arrested a journalist who published

a list of the country's political and business elite holding swiss bank accounts it was a blow accuses the greek government of failing to go after tax evaders while at the same time preparing to push through more belt tightening measures for the struggling population professor of economics i don't know what a fucking politicians are reluctant to investigate because of their own personal involvement. possibly vaguely investigative it bordering greece has been arrested for effectively selling the public interest but the vast majority of the fear. politicians use are simply. keen to expose the network of court action which in was glad to stand politicians and businessmen for fifty years now during this crisis with these being imposed upon the vast majority of

workers who'll have no old alternative but to pay their tax politicians of major. pointing moralizing fingers at that we can members of critics are sadly saying oh you have not been a good x. you've been back to this is why it's such an identical state to now learn to do this coming out of their tax evasion and about the fact that tax evasion is again played fairly skillfully as it has been happening for the last thirty or forty years now live to be really keen to be idle in the face of such a list watching r.t. live from moscow it's good to have you with us today certainly hoping you can stay with us so we're back in just a moment. 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 there 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. wealthy british science. sometimes. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy comes a report on r g. c good leverage surely to mccurry was able to build. the world's most sophisticated robots will jointly doesn't give a dollar amount anything to submission to teach creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only dot com.

it's a pleasure to have you with us here on r t today i'm rory sushi and shifting our focus now to the united states where this week failed to bring any clarity as to who's likely to be the next president the democrat and republican candidates now are effectively neck and neck some diversity was brought into the race by the third party debates which offered a different slant on some of the key issues only arts he was one of the very few media outlets taking any notice some of the highlights you may have missed. the president has assumed dictatorial rights to put us in prison at his leisure 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 put an end to the use of drones and actually lead not to lead this development of a new arms race but then an international treaty and the convention to permanently and the use of drones we're printing and borrowing money to the tune of forty three cents out of every dollar we spend. dollars. and. say oh we like germany after world war i. the final face off for the third party presidential candidates will be brought to you exclusively by in a week's time for the two frontrunners came together for the third debate this week focusing on the issue of u.s. foreign policy but those who were expecting some frank ideological exchanges were disappointed at barack obama and mitt romney once again displaying striking similarities us foreign policy analyst helen and has explained the reasons behind.

one of the mistakes that people make is that they think that this is a debate between two men and i think what's important to do is to see who basically are the groups of the advisors and a group of people behind the president and the groups of people behind romney are really the same people who bought us the iraq war and the cold the neo conservatives they want a much more aggressive foreign policy but americans don't want that a majority of americans don't want to fight a war with iran seventy percent of them don't want to do it unilaterally americans want to cut military spending that's what the polls show so what what romney had to do was to sort of back away from a lot of those positions except on military spending and seem much more reasonable and sort of centrist if he sort of plays out what's really in his cards i think you'd end up scaring a lot of people and they end up losing votes and so that was part of what was going

on there he was trying to move more toward obama and so there wasn't a debate well our special coverage of the u.s. presidential campaign will continue on air and online introducing a fresh perspective on the race for the next few weeks starting this coming monday will be exploring america's domestic policies and challenges in depth do stay with us for that. what lies ahead for occupy will movements mobilize calls for a new america who stands for the ninety nine percent u.s. election victories guide monday to the twenty ninth on r.t. . we are coming to you live from moscow with a high profile pakistani politician imran khan has been interrogated by u.s. officials over us and drone viewers pulled off a plane in new york he had to explain the details of his campaign against deadly american air strikes in pakistan before cricket star has asked for an apology but

as a teaser we're not going to school reports washington remains unrepentant about his controversial program. killing the civilians of one country in the name of security of another the united states has been doing just that for over eighty 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 don't attacks hundred seventy five were children the fact of the matter remains the u.s. has been carrying out military operations in a country that it is not at war with and the international community says almost

nothing about actions which are illegal by international standard that seems to have thought it was the stuff. that's the toughest the only option was. the was was was since the thought was. back in the day islamabad and washington were all smiles each seeking to benefit from cooperation centered on dealing with the persistent taliban problem though there was a cool off in their relationship in the one nine hundred seventy s. when pakistan began working on its nuclear bomb the valves were renewed in the wake of the two thousand one. trade center bombing and the ensuing war on terror presently however there seems to be no love lost in this match and on strikes. counterproductive but there. are.

it's not just the buzzing of the drones however that threatens pakistan's integrity what was great is 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 islamabad 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 their government but is it the same time taking away the country's sovereignty and killing its people in islamabad it in english go. into the

we go starting with northern nigeria where a car bomb blast at a catholic church has claimed the lives of eight and wounded dozens of others it happened during last similar attacks have been carried out this year by islamist group boko haram which wants to impose sharia law in the country. tsunami threat and seemingly have been spared severe damage after warning of a possible disaster was downgraded by the way it was caused by a powerful earthquake near the canadian coast it was supposed to hit the island earlier today prompting many to evacuate but it's now not expected to happen in. the congo. spacecraft dragon has just undocked from the international space station ahead of its return to earth it does have to be moved to a safe distance away from the eye assess before it can begin its journey home it was dragon's first contracted mission to the space complex where it was delivering over four hundred kilos of food and supplies.

ukraine is electing a new parliament with a new voting system in place possibly allowing room for some surprises as are these reports a former boxing champion and his party may end up with a nuff political weight to perhaps make or break the opposition. after what was the most expensive election campaign in the history of silver in ukraine worth more than two billion u.s. dollars polling stations of opened across the country as thirty six million voters in ukraine will elect its new parliament the outcome of this election is very much unpredictable mainly because it's a completely new voting system and the result of the election may go either way there are many independent candidates which are not belonging to any party and they eventually could have final say inside the parliament and will be able to choose which alliance of parties there will be joining in the new coalition a coalition which can actually spell big trouble for the current president victory

on the court which because the opposition in ukraine as already declared its intends to teach the president if they gain a majority in parliament in one way or another the biggest dark horse of this election is the former boxer who is now finished his career heavyweight champion of the world now turned politician vitali klitschko he made a surprising rice through the political ranks in ukraine just a year ago imagine his party stood at less than two percent of the votes now different opinion polls put his party at second place and many say that it will be klitschko who will eventually have the final say in the forming of a new coalition inside the parliament certainly we'll we'll be bringing all the latest results in this rather interesting vote as we get them. well my colleague of bill daughters here in half an hour's time but in the next few minutes you can stay with us for our special report on the test legacy that the u.k. left in australia this is art.

if you're passing through rushes to be a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or

bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up and this is where i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf i had a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here using the old awards as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolfs reputation in russia.

but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean the file and remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild. the government insists that there was no hazard and indeed fifty years later i have a letter from the president prime minister mr john howard who climbs but there was no hazard to either of the service and concerned or to the people of this country or now i'm very sorry but you don't have to be an intellectual genius to work out that if b. is true men of operation told me not in fifty three had their aircrew clothing taken from them they had their boots taken from them never.