betting on a boat in a tree or some great wall street picks up the bill as obama and romney burned through hundreds of millions of dollars hoping to buy a friend in the future. but never ending violence in syria more challenges for special envoy lakhdar brahimi live in moscow for talks after the holiday intrinsically pones immediately call one of. them plans for a mega mosque in london prompts fears of rising fundamentalism in the country with even some muslims by watching.

football come it's a day i'm in moscow midnight in new york here with our live from the russian capital with me and he's in our way our top story as hurricane sandy bears down on america the presidential race has been put on hold with candidates hunkering down to wait out the storm but in the meantime we're continuing our special coverage on the most expensive election in u.s. history though as i have discovered it didn't take all that much to find out where the cash is pouring in from. as our tees up close u.s. alexion coverage continues this week we turn our attention to domestic issues concerning voters now u.s. presidents have historically referred to america as an exceptional nation a land of opportunity where one can work hard and over time climb the proverbial economic ladder but one year ago that myth was boston when occupy wall street

activists camped out here in zuccotti park igniting a nationwide grassroots movement protesting corporate greed wealth inequality and in a world middle class today the fact is the u.s. gap between rich and poor has never been wider and unprecedented amount of americans are sliding down the proverbial ladder while the top one percent earn an average annual income of twenty four million dollars an hour to bet on both horses running in the nation's biggest political race. it's the most expensive political playoff in u.s. history a competition for the country's most powerful position one of the things i suspect governor romney and i probably agree on is let's come back to something the president i agree on no matter who wins the two thousand and twelve election. oh. oh america's ninety nine percent movement will be left with

a one percent president regardless of who we vote for wall street wins i mean that's really one of the main messages is that when we're casting about we see that we have these corporations giving so much money to candidates and they can't be objective when it comes to the interests of the vast majority of the bonus loving industry that ignited america's economic crisis real estate collapse job hemorrhage and foreclosure epidemic. is also on track to break campaign donation records for the two thousand and twelve presidential election each election cycle each four years because. the more they did four years ago so running for president i say this is now half a billion dollar undertaking you need a half a billion dollars to credibly run for the president of united states and you're going to raise that from large corporations and wealthy individuals in the case of mitt romney wealth attracts wealth the republican candidate has a reported net worth of two hundred million dollars and according to the center for responsive politics the top eight financial contributors to romney's campaign are

wall street banks with employees from goldman sachs bank of america and morgan stanley rounding out the top three. this is a by the moment changes come to america five in two thousand and eight barack obama became the largest beneficiary of wall street backing in u.s. election history. receiving more than forty two million dollars from the finance insurance and real estate sectors it's hard to believe that smart rational guys and big companies with huge research departments and a real understanding of the society are going to give that much money and expect nothing in return so their donation is probably not a charity since becoming president obama's justice department hasn't prosecuted one person in connection to the two thousand and eight financial collapse on the other hand top executives from j.p. morgan chase citigroup and general electric were recruited to work in the white house what we have cemented into place is

a system of legalized bribery public elected officials are in essence corporate employees you know the flagrant sort of corruption the ability of this small rapacious corporate oligarchy to write the laws write the legislation create a two tiered system this ultimately is going to implode according to a two thousand and twelve harris poll the majority of americans see wall street executives as dishonest and overpaid with an overwhelming amount of citizens in support of tougher regulation. an overhaul the occupy wall street movement began championing last year as millions of americans flooded the streets. thousands facing brutal arrests. to protest wall street greed economic inequality and corporate influence over u.s. politics. as election day draws near occupy activists say both candidates have

pander to their financial donors and successfully ignored the biggest american grassroots movement to be seen in decades we see little difference between the two parties they're both basically imperialist parties and i think that one thing that i can really do is expose how the democratic system as we have it right now is basically a sham the political system is so broken in so many ways that the reason that we continue to come out in the streets and raise you know ring the alarm bells around economic injustice and economic situation in our country is because you know people aren't doing their job millions of americans will soon be heading to the polls lacking support for either major candidate but voting against the one they liked least however with wall street successfully cementing strong ties to both presidential runners some may wonder if the winner of this election has already been declared hurry up or najar to be on. our coverage of the u.s.

presidential campaign will continue on there and online for you exploring some of the most overlooked and outright ignored aspects of the race all the way up to the election will be exploring america's domestic policies and challenges in depth so stay with our team ahead of the vote. what lies ahead for occupying the movement to mobilize calls for a new america who stands for the ninety nine percent us election next close guide monday to the twenty ninth on r.t.e. . in other news a four day ceasefire in the bloody syrian standoff officially runs out on monday this while state media points the finger at rebel friendly terrorist groups accusing them of undermining the latest peace effort the truth was proposed by u.n. and arab league envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi is currently in moscow for talks let's join our team if you corpuscle now for more on. your good morning to you

brahimi is the latest piece of art has seen no improvement for syria why moscow. called the main purpose of those visits for mr brahimi is still the hunt for some fresh ideas because he was he has been trying to help resolve the crisis in syria for nearly two months now would be a little progress has been made if any at all the so-called cease fire reached for the course of the self-sacrifice holidays and ends today didn't work really since at least three blasts happened in damascus alone with more violence erupting in the regions actually the first blast happened right on the first day of the so-called cease fire a feeling of least five people while the opposition claims this much more russia did bring this up in the un security council but it failed to agree even on a condemning statement meanwhile the rebels keep on pointing the finger at the government saying it was them who broke the ceasefire still claims it's about only against organized terrorist control from the outside still clearly were

a long way from any agreement in the u.n. security council so this is definitely a good time for some fresh ideas from mr brahimi is set to meet with the russian foreign minister a leader on monday and of course i'll bring you all the details after this meeting happens right parties europe's kind of reporting live from moscow on this latest attempt to find peace in the syrian conflict thanks for that. u.s. based political analyst dr randy short says that elements inside syria are not the only ones responsible for the failure of the cease fire. well it shows set to backers of these extremist groups have no control over them and since they're being supported by the saudis to change gulf states even though it states and its nato allies they want the assad regime destroyed at any cost so and the rebels know it so why should they on any see and if you just eat at the debate between adama and

this month's trust romney where you have these two people dying for heads of state trying to do everything they can to destroy the government in syria so the moral support to t.c.'s not syria not on their side. and more on the nightmare the libyan people are going through is coming up for you later this hour and by residents of bani walid find themselves wondering the desert cut off from supplies and fear of persecution if they return to their devastated town. although ukraine's political landscape faces unpredictable changes a vamp election system puts the fate of the country's new parliament in the hands of an independent candidate and a former boxing champion. in london is an islamic group has intensified its bids to build europe's largest mosque in the eastern side of the city next to the olympic site. is often described as

a separatist sect and two of the seventh of july bombers are believed to have prayed in their places of worship parties polly boyko found out if there is ground for concern. four times bigger than some paul's cathedral a mega mosque that will fit ten thousand people and it could be coming to london's east end if it gets the go ahead it's built the river in center will be the same size as london's looming battle see palace station it would also be the biggest place of worship in the u.k. of any religion but critics have slammed the proposal saying that it would create a muslim just so in the course of capital working to bring the largest mosque the u.k. has ever seen interior ality revered architects planning consultants and glitzy p.r. teams all paid for by the organization behind the idea to matt a group that's causing significant concern they teach that if you want

a good muslim you must separate all from non muslim is a huge amount of all that started over there is only to beat him out of all the islamic groups has created ghettos over in toronto you know in canada you go across the philippines and see what they've done the philippines are right there around the world it's a huge group and wherever they go they create barriers they create hostility they create division they create separatism whether it's unassuming name the riverine centers website claims there's a demand for a new muslim place of worship in culturally diverse east london not that they're happy to talk about it it's representatives refused to speak to us when we approach the proposed site home to their current mosque it does not want to integrate that is counter to david cameron's policy of multiculturalism the grounds on which search trying to set up here in britain and a big way are anti british they are anti western but actually they're also anti

worldly they're also worldly but this is not just going to be a mosque this is going to be a center of training and. which to reach out to islamicize muslims to harden up and made evil eyes the islam of ordinary muslims in this country and i mean so many muslims don't want that british muslim campaigners told us the proposal should be blocked before it's too late the british government is walking a tightrope and the reason is this a lot of people oppose mosques. and due to summer folk and the british government doesn't want to be seen to be pandering to them rightly so however the problem here is that muslims themselves are opposing this mosque more on the grounds that they don't want to worship their god but on the grounds that women aren't allowed the local population of muslim population has no on the site and how the mosque itself

is governed by some it's a misguided but widely held fear of offense which could see the center eventually get off the ground people are burying their heads in the sand and they're not they're not prepared to sift out the good from the bad and to call a thing by worse it is i think that it will go through unless more people are prepared to look at it for what it actually is this is not anti muslim it is not anti marxist. it is anti this to develop all the local authority would say to us as you can confer you have received a planning application as this is currently being it would be inappropriate to comment sure at this stage in many ways if this went ahead if you like a tipping point. that big no stopping fundamentalist islam if this one goes up well if that happens we all need to leave the country over the last one out please turn the lights off while the council ponders campaign as head of the religions say they

hope the decision makers choose carefully just today let's set up shop in the british. polyploidy k. t. . now europe sounds on islamic fundamentalism and tolerance have been a subject of heated debate for quite some time now in our own cross talk is no exception you can watch the full show at seven thirty g.m.t. here's some of what peter the bells panel of guests had to say. in union takes more power away from citizens you know the same time using a committee of the regions and the e.u. structural forms to balkanize countries and to on the mind of the nation state and have them broken up into their constituent that's going to the constituents are going to scream it's going to strike unleashed ethnic tensions and we're going to strasburg sorry that's the biggest cry by overheard story you talk about one

percent of g.d.p. . per cent i'm very sorry. no escape routes have been left for the people of libya's bani walid they fled the assault on their homeland only to find themselves stranded in the desert the former bastion of the toppled regime has seen civilians deaths and devastation across weeks as pro-government militia vow to clear the area of gadhafi loyalists who reports also suggest that the attackers are backed by mercenaries from turkey and qatar are caught up with libya's red cross representative who says people there are afraid of further persecution. but there are many displaced people who have been trying to get something with these either using the new routes but many others have

been using this or that and found truth and have been stuck there as well because the roads there are no roads and so they are stuck because either they have no fuel anymore or for other reasons they are stranded in the desert me i worry that was also good their own thought about their houses that's why they're trying to move quite some of them are trying to say go to scottsdale to the city to go back as quickly as possible they want to go back to secure those they are of course talking about iran. and they are worried that the laws which are of theirs to keep. well remember you can always go to archie dot com to find more stories pictures and malice as well as catch up on anything you've missed on air here's a taste of what's lined up for you there right now french researchers turn to the ancient art of alchemy as gold prices soar saying they can turn water into precious

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need to have an operation on our t.v. . here with our team at live from moscow it's twenty minutes past the hour vote counting is underway after ukraine's parliamentary election exit poll so far south the ruling party is in the lead but opposition parties have more votes in total and the final picture looks like it will swing on where a former boxing champion turned politician decides to put his party's weight lexy are said ski reports of the ruling party may have won this election in terms of the number of votes they've gained they won in the first place according to most of the exit polls but the combined of votes combined seats of the opposition parties may

eventually bring them the majority in the new ukrainian parliament and this could in fact spell big trouble for president because the opposition has been saying all along that one of its first decisions should again a majority in the new parliament would be to impeach the president now the biggest intrigue which remains still is whether the party of the former heavyweight champion boxing champion of the world. will be willing to join the opposition in the new coalition within the parliament because so far as been saying that he will not form the coalition with the ruling party but still he hasn't officially confirmed that he will be will. to make a new alliance of parties within the parliament with the opposition parties the exit poll results are based only on the proportional seats on the parties which were voted for in during this election but things may change when they count the votes for independent candidates which were also running and they will make up in

fact the health of the parliament clearly the main talk will take place after the official results of the central action commission come out and we are expecting it to happen somewhere in the next two or three days this will not happen on monday because there are about twenty million of votes to be counted so we are certainly waiting for all the figures and numbers to be updated from the central action commission and we will bring all the latest details and all the latest results as we get them. well what else is happening around the world tend to become victims of a suicide attack at a catholic church in northern nigeria the blast also wounded more than one hundred when an explosives explosives car branch the building during sunday mass sparked fears of reprisal attacks at the town as witnessed clashes between christians and muslims in the past no one claimed responsibility for the bombing though it's the most vocal was rumored to have had plans to attack. the us is bracing itself for what's predicted to be one of the most fearsome storms the

country has ever seen hurricane sandy is stalking the eastern coast threatening to medicine the most populated corridor in the country mass evacuations have been ordered in new jersey thousands of flights have been grounded and new york authorities have shut down the subway all that amid fears that sandy could emerge with winter weather front and evolved into a so-called franken storm. plans to expand one of china's largest petrochemical plants and frozen after a week of protests in the city of and they call that clashes broke out between protesters and police with locals accusing officers of using tear gas on the crowds is the latest in a series of rallies against industrial food or as people across the country become more environmentally aware. but now check in with katie over at the business. morning to you katie how is

today's trading shaping up ok that well i'm going to concentrate on asia for now because right now we're looking at a choppy session and it's developers that affording and that's because hong kong's decision to impose its first property tax and is aimed at targeting overseas buyers means that developers in particular those stocks are promising at the moment there's also going to be a stamp duty on property transactions by five percent so as you can see just that we are looking at the kleins now u.s. stocks over a wall street managed to just about finish a session with guys that this is a prize considering g.d.p. increased in the third quarter so one would have expected those gains to be fought larger now today is going to be interesting because the new york stock exchange will cease trading in the us as the hurricane sandy barrels towards new york city with the rest of ten foot storm surge no trading today for new york chris check out

the exchange rates and see what is happening there and as you can see the euro is one twenty nine twenty nine so not much movement i want to mention that the european central bank president mario draghi he hasn't told his proposal by the german finance minister for a commissioner who has power over the budgets of nations in the euro reaches that was the biggest news coming out of the eurozone we got a mixed performance for the ruble as for the russian markets as well they will begin their trading session in just under two hours time now but this was the performance of friday it warms the overall that week really taking that international cue now the oil prices are now dropping in the us also ahead runs we juiced it but it is to the lowest level in almost three months he was stopped all being. creases was all taking its toll all right and so moving on here on our t.v. coming up we talked to u.k. based economist mark a little worried about what he thinks should be done to heal europe's ailing

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for your media projects and a free media dog to r.t. dot com. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of china that. china corporations are today

. would be soo much brighter. from violence to pressure. starts on t.v. dot com. i'm with mark little words the director of the institute of economic affairs he says that austerity measures aren't a recipe for economic growth but they are a prerequisite littlewood why are stars the measures so necessary but what we actually need is to get the economy back into some form of balance we are living

a normal sleep but on the make it's and actually all of the talk about austerity in the united kingdom is somewhat misplaced and that might be the political rhetoric but if you actually look at the numbers it is the british government's intention to add six hundred billion to the national debt over the course of this parliament that's to say they're going to spend six hundred billion pounds sterling more than they bring in in taxes and that's austerity i wouldn't like to see us and we can see by looking around the world will that everybody talks about the quotable economic crisis actually this isn't very logical question for the process of course . and i think that one of the lessons that we can draw from is that spending money . is not a return to work moment salvation of spending money so it was a root canal mix ovation greece would be bailing out germany not the other way round so it is void to actually bring it home.