the stories that show this week the end of the libyan town of bani walid group more deadly with reports of chemical weapons being used against through many population and bring you witness accounts from the battle scene. tens of thousands unite in a show of anger. to stopping for a sturdy measures which they call a social massacre. plus the presidential debate between barack obama and mitt romney fails to give either the lead third party candidates to fire media blackout to suggest alternatives.

back in the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly on. the apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians humanitarian crisis stranded refugees and more deaths the reality for the libyan town of bani walid this week the residents there are calling for international help me and pro-government militias continued to shell the former gadhafi stronghold. has been gathering eyewitness accounts from the besieged town you may find some of the images in the report graphic. 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 losing houses bulldozing properties and shooting indiscriminately if you want to shoot all most of whom are buying machinery but people are so concerned for the safety of their families they don't want to be identified. it was chaotic

shiling they fired at homes and shelters indiscriminately more than two thousand families have fled seven families are with us at the moment yes they were fled to the valley but they were firing into even their their families who died in the shelling children died too they fired 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 there were accused of kidnappings and murdering a former militia man 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 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 or 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 fallen and they're now stranded on the desert highway in fear and panic look at this. this get this gun and this be able now with this thing now why i don't know one week now this is the outside and doesn'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 heads i saw the dad. but the general national council denies the killings despite the evidence to the contrary where the government for third. place where there would go as high that of course they will be. flowing with there

but the whole picture 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 in the u.k. or u.s. or put on the b.b.c. or c.n.n. without hearing about what was going to be a humanitarian disaster which whole kind of we got all the killing lots of people and today the situation labor is much worse you've got a humanitarian catastrophe taking place we've got massacres going on at the moment and china's 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 of a former rebel militias which only to be generous but essentially do what they like . power so it's a leech is

a message to all of them across libya wherever they are we whether you are one however strong you are your backers are the revolution. it's of 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 policia r.t. beirut. urged the libyan authorities to resolve conflict peacefully the proposal however was brought by the u.s. which took part in the bombing campaign last year under the guise of protecting civilians from then leader moammar gadhafi. reports from new york. 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. 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. . 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 ambassador churkin said it is difficult in this case to explain the u.s. delegations actions in a rational terms now russia's draft 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 miami will leave. close i'll need

anyone who will keep you up to date with developments in and around the besieged. the latest piece of a serious for the part this week with at least two terrible mings the largest attack took place in the capital damascus where at least five people were killed and many more injured by a car bomb explosion that happened during a proposed four day cease fire to mark the muslim holiday read which some rebel groups such as the radical al nusra front rejected outright another call to carry on fighting came from the leader of al qaeda and criticize world leaders for that loose grip on the syrian regime international affairs analyst. says the truce plan was doomed to fail. we don't think government is for don't see in syria is found. powers including the united states. talk itself then leave the country

just like kate france germany is providing intelligence support so they were even thought for we know that they were providing token jordan that's well they don't want repeats they want to remove the government of syria from prisoner bush or the us but. they are the rebels they've got the momentum they've got the support from the outside world and if they say that they're not going to abide by these states it's because they haven't been pressured by the outside powers the back them perhaps they have even been told not to support this use for. our tonight here in moscow come up later in the program an unconditional apology washington's unwilling to make 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. also still to come points a finger at television saying an explosion at a cartoon weapons factory it was a surgical strike by israeli jets. tens of thousands of

protesters filled the streets of italy and spain on saturday in anger over tough economic measures being forced upon them a show of discontent turned ugly in a northern italian town where police used tear gas and battens to disperse the crowds but as a first reports the struggling public is still determined to get its message. getting back into stereo say people all over a year of continuing to fight against this and measures to fight in 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 re the movies 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 but we feel like we are number a percentage by our government that they are doing things that we are not we don't agree with them and we are telling them on the diamond but they don't listen as it

is starting anger spread across year thousands of people have taken to the streets and it's not just in madrid for in greece to italy big here is in countries and small this is the year a crisis that doesn't discriminate affecting people of all ages and from all walks of life here in spain the unemployment figures now told 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 house the sixteen to twenty four year olds in the house of work everything you see preceding unemployment poverty. the ferns. in people here police offices. dividing the protesters from the governments that more and more they grow into low youth that of g.t. you'll find many of them joining the marches the lower enforcement

a feeling the pinch the need amongst many protesters is greg craig dean many times before and still they tell us nothing seems change. is actually not to cut their spending back 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 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 interests from abroad you would come up with a lot more sensible and a lot more rational response through this process a dogmatic insistence on austerity has seen successive governments across the isolated from their electorate and amongst the u.n. members themselves divisions why did they spain's witnessing this independently bit yesterday near the basque country those demanding freedom and elect things that pretty politicians while greece is fighting enough surge of radical nationalist

sentiment is leading to the grave of far right in fascist streets 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 win continent some protesters are calling it the safe must with a massive euro white strike planned for later this month it seems as long as things continue as they are there will be no peace here thursday r.t. the. police in greece have arrested a journalist who published a list of the country's political and business elite holding swiss bank accounts the whistleblower accuses the greek government to failing to go off the turks are made as one of the same time preparing to push through more belt tightening measures for the struggling population professor of economics younus very far to says that politicians are reluctant to investigate because of their own involvement . really investigate it bordering greece

has been arrested for effectively selling the public interest that the vast majority of the relation fear. politicians use are simply the glue key to expose the network of court action which in was good logic stand good politicians and businessmen for fifty years during this crisis with these being imposed upon the vast majority of workers who'll have no alternative but to pay their tax politicians of the major parties are pointing moralizing fingers that we can members of fix aside to say no you have not been painted x. you've been vaccinated is why it's after that it will state so now that to do this coming out of their tax evasion and about the fact that tax evasion is again played

fairly skillfully and as it has been happening for the last thirty or forty years now live a peculiarly keen to be idle in the face of such a list you're watching the weekly here in r.t. more news still to come in just a few minutes. 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 left 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're 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. what will change when america picks this president i made mostly rage working the run times wrote pushing china to russia as occupy hunger spreads to two parties

still dictate move their feet to the selection of clothes go right. to the fifth or. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you. and realize. this is the. us now where this week failed to bring any clarity as to who is likely to be the next president the democrats and republican candidates are effectively neck and neck some diversity was brought into the race by the debates which offered a different slant on the key issues. was one of the very few media outlets taking

any notice. 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 then an international treaty and a 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. bearing. johnson say if we could well be like germany after world

war i. the final face off for the third party presidential candidates will be brought to you exclusively by a sati in a week's time the two front runners came together for the third debate this week focusing on u.s. foreign policy but those who were expecting some frank ideological exchanges were left disappointed with barack obama or mitt romney once again displaying striking similarities u.s. foreign policy analyst colin and explains the reasons behind that 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 advisors and a group of people behind the president and the groups of people behind romney are really the same people that bought us the iraq war the called 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 a quote 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 he did that scaring a lot of people and of losing votes and so that was part of what was going on there he was trying to move more toward obama and so it wasn't to be a. special coverage of the u.s. presidential campaign will continue on air and online introducing a fresh perspective on the race and starting this coming monday we'll be exploring america's domestic policies and challenges in depth stay with altie for all of that . what lies ahead for occupy true movement mobilize calls for a new america who stands for the ninety nine percent us election next close guide

monday october twenty ninth on r.t.e. . the high profile pakistani politician imran khan has been interrogated by u.s. officials over his drawing views pulled off a plane to new york he had to explain the details of his campaign against deadly american asteroids in pakistan the former cricket star results for an apology but as a tease and in a going to reports washington remains unrepentant about its 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 eighteen years in 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 and even seventy five were children the fact of the matter remains the u.s. 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 that seems to have thought. that's innocent that's the talks. to us since. it's this. that's going to date islamabad and washington were all smiles each seeking to benefit from cooperation centered on dealing with the persistent 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 strikes. productive but there. are again. 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 is that the nation of islam of bin laden was a military ration 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 it to close down the nato supply routes for seven months it was reopened only after an official apology from the u.s.

secretary of state with pakistan itself calls to cut off cooperation or submission as many see it to the u.s. gets louder with every passing week pakistanis believe the united states may be getting a lot of money to get out and about is at the same time taking away the country's sovereignty and killing its people in islamabad it in an r.t. report from an american based monitoring group says an explosion of the sudanese weapons factory was going to strike sudan blamed the attack on israel and promised to return it declined to comment but accused of having a key role in an iranian backed shipping network political analyst doctor. thinks that the identity of the aggressor result vs. this is not the first attack again. it has happened before the war in the beginning of two thousand and nine there have been a number of attacks again. territory and. that is why it

is the country that is responsible for such attacks again is. my understanding also is that after the war again as the previous american administration and the previous israeli government it is an understanding to fight terrorism right on its sources israel is a country that is interested in fighting against arab countries who are. flying with weapons and supporting hamas politically other international news in brief now at least five people have been killed and twenty five wounded in a powerful blast outside a sunni muslim shrine in the west pakistan a senior police officer was among those injured no one has claimed responsibility so far but some militant movements including the taliban have been blamed for previous attacks of this kind. the east coast of the u.s. is braced for hurricane sandy which is due to hit on monday night it's already left

over sixty people dead in the caribbean widespread disruption is expected with all schools in new york to be shut down. the cargo spacecraft dragon has undocked from the international space station ahead of its return to earth has to be moved a safe distance away from the ice before it can begin the journey it was dragon's first contracted mission to the space complex when it was delivering over four hundred kilos of food and supplies. so it is a moment here on our team coming next for you how the moon could be used as a new source of energy that's in just a few minutes in the latest episode of technology update. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is doctors run in there brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head

across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snowy wilderness as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lana doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in atlanta they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native new nets reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so a medical problem simply fixed here in the tent. they used to be but now we can go

to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance are being treated the service costs forty million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service accusations land a man firmly dismisses your brother is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but vladimir is confident that even after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian foreign north.

oh and welcome to technology update with demand soaring and resources limited the sun could be setting on an outdated era of global energy simply put new alternatives to invoke alternative sources or the best bet going forward energy directly from the sun is often the first thing that comes to mind when people mention solar power however when you really think about it the sun's responsible for far more than just fueling solar panels wind farms are an indirect result of the sun's rays as convection currents drive. streams and create the majority of the globe. and in fact there'd be no plants or trees to make biofuels from if there was no sun. in the first place. as those plants die off and decompose thermal

heat and pressure slowly turns those into fossil fuels like coal and oil there is one source of energy that has no apparent connection to the sun instead the moon is to think for the motion of the ocean that we know is that. of proximity a much stronger influence than the sun. the water closest to it gets cold especially at the equator there's also a smaller bulge on the other side as the earth is literally pulled away from the oceans further from the moon when the sun moon and earth are aligned we get the strongest tides and if you're in the right place at the right time the moon even provides enough energy to title bores funnel incoming water down the river ways. in this run reflect the eternal nature of the moon's tidal power. and the idea of using the tides for humans purposes has been around for ages several hundred years ago enterprising engineers constructed flour mills.