the stories that shaped this week here in argentina executions of pillaging that alleged chemical weapons they use are actually brings you exclusive firsthand accounts of what's happening on the ground as the libyan town of bani walid comes under attack the government. kicking back against a social massacre tens of thousands hit the streets of spain and it's a very serious of a government's austerity program people say are destroying their lives. and here was a presidential race enters its final week with both romney and obama are neck and neck in the polls third party candidates a media blackout to offer the country

a fresh take on american politics. there was an r.t.s. of the week leave it with me to bomb was a live from our headquarters in moscow first 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 they are calling for international help as all me and pro-government militias continue to shell the former gadhafi stronghold archies policia has been gathering eyewitnesses accounts from the besieged town and you may find some of the images in this report 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 losing houses bulldozing properties and shooting indiscriminately 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 harmon's and shouted indiscriminately more than two thousand families have fled seven families are without 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 misses and doctors on the scene say people are being fired at with gas pulled the

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 in videos recorded the missiles they used on the white phosphorus raining down from these missiles many people died without being wounded shot they died as a result of gases the red cross is to me it's more than twenty five thousand people have so far been made homeless with fiji's who in the confusion of the past few days trying to return home after the army announced the city had fallen and they're now stranded on the desert highway in fear and panic look at this is. this good this gun and this be able now this thing now why i don't know one week now this libyan go outside and know what they were doing when i was leaving when i think when when 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 i would go as high that of course there will be. flowing mistakes but the whole big sort of. 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 every twenty eleven we couldn't because they were 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. a killing lots of people and today the situation only very much worse you've got a humanitarian catastrophe taking place we've got massacres going on at the moment

and. that's complete silence here the chaotic scenes of a throwback to the long running rivalry between wizards of bani walid and misrata a city gadhafi 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 overpower 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 and some evolution 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. meanwhile the u.n. security council has rejected a russian draft statement condemning the violence in bollywood lead and calling for

peaceful resolution to the siege the proposal was blocked by the u.s. which took part in the bombing campaign last year to protect civilians from violence from the then leader moammar gadhafi. put my reports from new york. while you don't 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 meanwhile the russian ambassador to the u.n. for tali churkin says that it's quite strange the u.s. would block a press statement condemning the use of force in dealing with libya's political problems just one month after a deadly attack in benghazi claimed the lives of four diplomats embassador churkin

said it is difficult in this case to explain the u.s. delegations actions in a rational terms now russia has dropped her statement calls on the libyan authorities to take urgent steps to resolve the conflict by peaceful means and to preserve the rights of all libyan citizens that also expressed concern about the significant escalation of violence in and around the city of money will leave. you will be following the violence are wrong but you are lead and will keep you up to date with developments in and around the besieged. a u.n. brokered truce in syria has crumpled further bombings and clashes across the country at least five were killed and many more injured when a car bomb exploded near a playground in the capital damascus the violence modest ceasefire that was meant to coincide with celebrations for the muslim holiday. some rebel groups as such as

the radical al nusra front rejected the truce outright a position that al qaeda supported in recent video posted online the al qaeda leader urging muslims to join the rebellion in syria international affairs analyst allows us such t. is says the truce plan was doomed to fail. the government is for going straight in syria is found. it including the united states. or turkey itself although many of the countries like kate france your money is providing billions with her so dorian for her we know that they're providing token jordan as will they don't want repeats they want to remove the government of syria from power of pressure but sure there are certain but. they believe they were able to meet 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 or it's because they they

haven't been pressured by the outside powers that backed them perhaps they have even been told not to support this use for. drones drama regions of the sky over the united states american officials plus a popular pakistani politician an obvious flight to question him to his opposition to washington that is right in his country that story to come at this hour. tens of thousands of people took to the streets of spain and italy to protest against austerity measures demonstrations turned violent in the north or any talian town or river delgado where police used tear gas and batons to disperse angry crowds but as our g.'s our first reports the struggle in public is still determined to get its message heard by those in power. getting back at a steri say people lazy year to continuing to fight against this in measures that are biting deeper and deeper into the public and private purpose of many usa

nations clashes with police break out in the north of italy of thousands marched against the government in the capital reign in what was dubbed anti monte de similar scenes 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 now under a percentage by our government that they are doing this that we are no we don't agree with them and we are telling them on the diamond but they don't listen as it is stared youngest spread across the earth 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 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 half the sixteen to twenty four year olds in the house of work everything you see preceding on employment poverty. the first. in people here police offices. dividing the protest this from the governments that more and more 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 too many times before and still they tell us nothing seems to change. it 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 offer. get out of this group and 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 would come up with a lot more sensible a lot more rational response to this was a dogmatic insistence on austerity has seen successive governments across the isolated from their electorate and amongst the euro members themselves divisions a widening in spain's witnessing theists independently catalonia in the basque country both demanding freedom and electing 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 wall torn continent some protesters are calling it a social muska 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 they are to the.

police in greece have arrested a journalist to publish a list of the country's political and business a leader with swiss bank accounts there was a blow or accuses athens of a failing to go after those dodging taxes by imposing punishing spending cuts on the struggling population professor of economics a unit of a far as politicians are reluctant to investigate because of their own involvement in the case. ve investigated it bordering greece has been arrested for effectively selling the public interest that the vast majority of the good population fear politicians use a degree key to expose the network of court action which in was good logic stand politicians and business model editions of major is a one thing moralizing fingers at that we can members of fix or say the saying oh

you have not been a good x. you've been vaccinated is why i said to add that it will state to now to do this coming out of their tax evasion and about the fact that tax evasion is again played fairly skillfully by that age and as it has been happening for the last thirty or forty years now the peculiarly keen to be idle in the phase of such a list. ukraine is choosing a new parliament in an election that could bring about a few surprises i think both of president any confidence party has taken and the need they need to form a coalition government to hold on to a correspondent in kiev will bring us the details to us.

horses and bayonets big bird these are the words of internet legend from the two thousand and twelve presidential debates when a candidate says something dumb or odd to so much fun to make silly pictures like these on the internet ho ho hee hee but the problem is that the person who wins 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 opponent's army of photoshop or sort of hundreds of copper fellas is

drawn 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. the news a secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the dot com. nuclear fallible side. radioactive fallout of all government betrayal of the government. and to laud and lauded

and claude how can the truth be revealed if there's no official evidence there was indeed a very bright day to the servicemen concert who was given no problem protection and to the people of this country generally because of radio like the fall. of the secrets of the u.k.'s nuclear tests explains. what lies ahead for occupy movements mobilize calls for a new america who stands for the ninety nine percent us election a close guide monday october twenty ninth on r.t. .

they're watching archie good to have you with us any of queen polling stations have close and parliamentary elections that look sent to test the country's leadership the opposition has pledged to impeach the president if they win enough seats while the race to form coalitions could yet decide the outcome of the whole race polls so far suggests the ruling party of regions as i had in the vote but has no overall majority. chef ski has the details from here. as it stands the five boxes which are making it into the parliament they will most likely form new coalitions and likely that the ruling party will continue having its majority as it having in the last two or three years or so the opposition has been saying that as soon as it gets

a majority in the new parliament it will be impeached president again the goal of the biggest question now in the biggest simply is whether the former boxing champion televisual or his own political party has managed to get have very impressive results according to the exit polls with about fifteen percent whether she will be able whether they'll be willing to join the opposition and the opposition which is led by the jailed told the prime minister of ukraine if you are too much into this they will have the majority in parliament and they will be able to impeach the president but that is the result of the reports there is he's in parliament the situation may change if the majority recedes provide us with a tree for the ruling party but that so far so good made it clear within the next two or three days we are expecting of course changes to happen if the current bill that simple results prove to be correct in the long run but it will certainly be waiting watching the official results will be and we will deliver them into our to

suicide as we get them within the next several days. prior to the us now with just seven days before the presidential election obama and romney are still tied in the polls last week and ny they kind of this was able to steal a head off of the final race off to discuss america's foreign policy but some diversity was brought to the race by third party debates which offered a different slant on the key issues ati was one of the very few media outlets a taking any notice and here are some of the highlights. 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 in

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 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. johnson say are we could well be right germany after world war. third party presidential candidate. for the third and final time in a week and we brought to you exclusively by our team while in the fallout from that final debate between obama and romney both candidates came in for criticism as it emerged their policies a bare a striking resemblance to one another on top of that former cia officer raid mcgovern says there was a lot simply left out. well obama should be able to say that

our ambassadors are going to be killed or other representatives are going to be murdered unless we change our policy towards the world that's a 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 it's a 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 you 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 coverage of the u.s. presidential campaign will continue on and on line introducing a fresh perspective on the race starting this monday will be exploring america's

domestic policies and challenges in depth stay with our team for the. what lies ahead for. will the movement mobilize calls for a new america who stands for the going to nine percent who is election a close guide to the twenty ninth on r.t. . from a pakistani cricket star turned politician imran khan has been interrogated by u.s. officials and run khan was pulled off a plane and questioned about his campaign to end american drone strikes in pakistan he demanded an apology following the incident involved to continue his campaign as a tease a new school reports nothing is likely to change washington stands on 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 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 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. it's. the. think the was was some thought was. that in

the day islamabad and washington were all smiles each seeking to benefit from cooperation centered on dealing with a persistent taliban problem though there was a cool off in their relationship in the one nine hundred seventy s. when pakistan began working on its nuclear bomb the vows were renewed in the wake of the two thousand one world trade center bombing and then suing the war on terror presently however there seems to be no love lost in this match and on strikes on. counterproductive but. good and on the phone on its face. 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 designation of a sum of the large and 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 routes of ghana's down 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. and the country's troubles drama and real drone strikes as pakistan suffers a religious violence on the ground at least five people have been killed and twenty five wounded in a poll grass outside a sunni muslim shrine in northwestern pakistan a senior police officer was among those injured no one has claimed responsibility

so far some militant movement including the taliban have been blamed for previous attacks of this kind. these coast of the us as brace for hurricane sandy which is huge you hit on monday night it's already left over sixty people dead in the caribbean new york is said to close its public transportation systems over fears sandy could merge with a winter weather front and become a super storm the presidential election campaign is also being affected as romney and obama cancel events. in just a couple of minutes r.t. talks to u.k. based economist mark littlewood about what he things you'd be done to heal europe sailing finances. do we speak your language anybody will inevitably you. news programs and

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