the stories of this week the blockade of the libyan town of bani walid group more deadly with reports of chemical weapons being used against the remaining population and bring you witness accounts from the battle scene. tens of thousands unite in a show of anger in italy and spain calling on their governments to stop enforcing measures which they call a social massacre. because the final presidential debate between barack obama or mitt romney fails to give either the lead while third party candidates defy a media blackout to suggest alternative policies.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on. the apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians humanitarian crisis stranded refugees or more deaths the reality for the libyan town of bani walid this week the residents there according to international help as army and pro-government militias continue to shell the former gadhafi stronghold. has been gathering eyewitness accounts from the besieged town and you may find some of the images in the following 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 you want to shoot almost of. people are so concerned for

the safety of their families they don't want to be identified. it was chaotic shiling they fired at harmon's and shouted 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 queues 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 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 good this gun and this be able now this thing now why you don't know one week now this is the outside and 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 of 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 are i would go as high that of course there will be. small mistakes 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 let's think back to parry twenty eleven we couldn't because in the u.k. or u.s. or put on the b.b.c. or c.n.n. we were hearing about what was going on in libya a humanitarian disaster. the killing lots of people and today the situation leverage much worse you 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 of a former rebel militias which only to be gins but essentially do what they like to

own 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 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. russia has called on the u.n. security council to urge the libyan authorities to resolve the bunny wanted conflict peacefully the proposal who was blocked 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 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 have 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 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 close eye on the violence around bani walid and we'll keep you up to date with developments in and around the besieged. the latest peace effort for syria fell apart this week with at least two terrible things the largest attack took place in the capital damascus for 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 a muslim holiday when some rebel groups such as the radical nusra front rejected outright the call to carry on fighting came from the leader of al qaeda and criticized world leaders for their loose grip on the syrian regime international affairs analyst says the truce plan was doomed to fail. you know the government is for i don't see it in syria is. it including the united states.

or turkey itself or they leave the country kate burns your money is provided. so do we know that they're providing procure that's will they don't want repeats they want to remove the government of syria from there but for the most part. the rebels believe that they got the momentum they got the support from the outside world and they say that they're not going to abide by the states it's because they haven't been pressured by the outside like them perhaps they're happy being told not to support this use for. well coming up a little later in the program the sad exit polls after parliamentary elections in ukraine suggest president going to cover his party has the advantage it may have to form a coalition to return to power our reporter in kiev will bring us the details. so that still to come but first tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of italy and spain on saturday and anger over tough economic measures being forced

upon them discontent turned ugly in a northern italian town where police used tear gas and buttons to disperse the crowds result of first reports the struggling public is still determined to get its message heard. getting back at a stair it's a people lazy year to continuing to fight against this in measures to fight in 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 re the movies dubbed anti monte de similar things we witnessed in the trades west bank is turned on the us to rally against never ending government cuts but we feel like we are number of 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 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 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 top a whopping twenty five percent this the 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 using christian unemployment poverty. the ferns the. people here police offices. dividing the protest this from the governments that more and more they growing to live with that of g.t. you'll find many of them joining the much. lower enforcement a feeling the pinch the need amongst many protesters greg craig dean many times

before and still they tell us nothing seems changed. is actually not to cut their spending but to invest more in the economy to invest in growth to make sure that there are jobs and the only way to go. get out of this to grow not to cut your way out of it 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 interests from abroad you will come up with a lot more sensible a lot more rational response to this perhaps a dogmatic insistence on the stairs he has seen successive governments across see isolated from their electorate and amongst the u.n. members themselves divisions why did they things witnessing this independently yesterday near the basque country those demanding freedom and elect things that putin politicians meanwhile police is fighting enough said to radical nationalist sentiment is leading to the grave of far right and fascist great things like these

make it hard to believe that any of this month even is awarded the nobel peace prize bringing stability and unity to the previously want to own continent some protest is calling it a safe. 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. r.t. the. growing stronger reaches the skies over america u.s. officials plan to feed a pakistani politician off his flight to question him over his opposition to washington's deadly drone strikes in his country got a story short break. horses

and bayonets big bird these are the words of internet legend from the two thousand and twelve presidential debates where the candidates says something dog did to so much fun to make silly pictures like these on the internet whoa he. he but the problem is that the person who wins in the bait is the one who makes the best argument not he who doesn't make a verbal slip ups people react to these debates like schoolgirls picking prom queen or rummy talked about big bird who howard dean screamed yeah gaffes don't matter that much it matters if the idea is the candidates present are effective or not but more importantly it matters if they will actually do them if a future can say proposed a brilliant economic plan that could save america but instead of saying pennies let the word penis slip our gossip celebrity culture would make him lose the election for sure his opponents army of photoshop are sort of hundreds of copper fellas

destroyed all over the internet by the next day a schoolgirl attitude towards politics won't do anything except make fun internet memes but that's just my opinion. what lies ahead for occupy will movements mobilize calls for a new america who stands for the ninety nine percent us election is close god monday to the twenty ninth on r.t. .

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it's the weekly. polls have closed in ukraine and parliamentary elections which could pose problems for the country's president. exit polls suggest that his party is leading the overall majority the opposition is planning to impeach the president if they win enough seats the battle to form coalitions may decide the final outcome . is in ukraine's capital can't. as it stands the fight boxes which are making it into the parliament they will most likely form new coalitions and unlikely that the ruling party will continue having its majority as it's been having for the last two or three years or so the opposition has been saying that as soon as it gets the majority in the new parliament it will be each president again

the goal of it's the biggest question now and the biggest simply is whether the former boxing champion. or his own political party has managed to get very impressive results according to the exit polls with about fifteen percent whether she will be able whether they can be willing to join the opposition and the opposition which is led by the jail to hold the prime minister of ukraine. and thus they will have the majority in parliament and they will be able to impeach the president but that is the result of all the reports there is he some part of the situation may change if the majority receives provided this which makes three for the ruling party but that such force will made it clear within the next two or three days we are expecting of course changes to happen if the current polls that simple results prove to be correct in the long run but i will certainly be waiting what's the official results will be and we will deliver them to our two suicides we get them within the next several days. to the us now with this week failed to bring

any clarity as to who's likely to be the next president the democrat and republican candidates are effectively neck and neck sometimes a city was brought into the race by the third party debates which offered a different slant on the key issues only he was one of the very few media outlets taking any notice he was on the hot. 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 ad as johnson say are we could well be right germany after world war i. the final face off for the third party presidential candidates will be brought to you exclusively by us in a week from now the two front runners came together for their 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 analysts calling 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 your groups of advisors and hoop of people at the high end the president and

the groups of people behind romney are really the same people who bought us the iraq war or the what they 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 what the whole 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 it into scaring a lot of people and you 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 a special coverage of the u.s. presidential campaign will continue on air and online and disease introducing

a fresh perspective on the race starting this coming monday we'll be exploring america's domestic policies and challenges in depth so i do stay with r.t. 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 is close god monday october twenty ninth on r.t. . the high profile pakistani politician imran khan has been interrogated by u.s. officials over his anti drone views pull off a plane to new york explain the details of his campaign against deadly american air strikes in pakistan the former cricket star has asked for an apology but is obviously in english 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 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 effect of the matter remains the us 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's the talks. which. i think the. worst since the.

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 values were renewed in the wake of the two thousand one world trade center bombing and the ensuing war on terror presently however there seems to be no love lost in this match and on strife and. counterproductive but. good and on the phone on strikes. 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. 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 for seven months it was reopened only after an official apology from the u.s. secretary of state pakistan itself. 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 at the same time taking away the country's sovereignty and killing its people. this is the weekly here in just a couple of minutes from now we talked to u.k. based economist mark a little bit about what he thinks should be done to heal europe's ailing fun and says.

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