superstorm sandy claims at least thirteen lives as a slammed into the east coast of america forcing barack obama to be called need to get down just days ahead of the presidential election. no bailout needed pain and these prime ministers this is their countries don't need help but their latest economic forecast sounds financial collapses and then they. also hit sound foreign powers who are refusing to negotiate with all the signs in the syrian conflict that stops them all violence is a good one for good kurds. this

is all she cummings who live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the race for the u.s. presidency has been struck by superstorm sandy which hit hard at america's eastern seaboard packing a deadly punch it claimed at least thirteen lives before losing some steam and it's moved further inland and at least five million have been left without electricity in several states an explosion at a power plant in new york plunged large part of the city into darkness had rains that are expected to continue for at least another twenty four hours adding to the mood flooding in their area. reports now from the eye of the storm i made the blackout. superstorm has been reading all a lot of havoc on new york and nearby state downtown lower manhattan but battery park there are some. holding the surge the tide has gone above. and lower manhattan literally under water and we have seen. throughout the city some

planes collapsing a building on the west side of manhattan has collapsed tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes millions are now without power me included and clearly this storm is not over we don't know how bad it's going to get is of course the horse else you are in manhattan but you can't disregard the outer boroughs like queens and brooklyn and staten island. all of all of new yorkers right now are suffering i should extend that to all those living in new jersey virginia maryland along the east coast this is this is a brutal storm may be easing up but clearly it is causing significant damage a sandy is clearly becoming a huge player in this two thousand tom alexion u.s. president barack obama and his opponent mitt romney they were going to suspend their campaigning events for monday and tuesday president obama returned to washington d.c. he addressed the nation about the series weather conditions told americans as this

is a very extreme and. serious storm and everyone should be taking this circumstance very seriously now on the gallup poll what's interesting is that they have announced that they are suspending their daily election cooling due to this hurricane hurricane sandy it's not clear when they will be good polling again but sandy is likely to accept early voting no early voting typically helps i democrats but we don't know what kind of damage will be caused by next week how are people going to get to the polls in six or seven days that is the major concern but that's something that we can insist pete and we until we see the opera math. turn to us political activists on the hayden says some good help. turn a between the current that it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast. just early voting is being wiped out in these cities

and states the voting of the elderly on the election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting of new yorkers on election day is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election but at the same time it's extremely possible to manipulate the computers so if it's a close election it will be protested and contested as illegitimate for days and days and into the future just as the election between gore and bush. was seen by most americans as stolen that could happen again so we are in for a an electoral crisis i think of a very very profound nature. even as wall street closed down in the face of sunday and pretty cool for it all here by accident still believe the bond possible come

out try the presidential campaign has become the most expensive in u.s. history with major corporations pouring billions into both camps and independent journalist john a mess and believes this will cave the occupy movement growing even offset action. presidential election the united states really sucks all of the oxygen out of the room there is essentially no political work that can be done during an election i would say that the many different organizing projects the different. organizers and instrumental motivators and occupy have taken on in this period without you know. actually argue quite well for the future of the movement because of a moment of political maturation happening among occupiers and i think that. you know occupy wall she was really useful in that it introduced everybody to each other and get everyone to come in. a common conceptual framework for understanding the problems and that people are organizing in solidarity with one another in a in

a really promising way but essentially the story of american politics is that it is completely incapable of reforming it is intransigent it is in the death grip of a system of corporate acquisition and accumulation that it simply cannot get out. of more live updates on superstorm sandy or no websites home coverage of the presidential race also continues as we take on what the mainstream is missing and you can watch the final round of debates between the said candidates right here next monday. governor romney you know we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did. you agree let's go back to something the president i agree are there to view that the voters have a choice perhaps you wondered who to vote forward and romney and obama agree on so many things where you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on

r.g.p. . spain in a series prime ministers are denying claims their countries will be seeking financial help anytime soon mario monti and mariano rajoy has tries that getting bailout cash is not in the interest of their people but as countries have already faced mass price has those people venting their frustration of a bias in spending cuts that has stayed sara tromping in the severe recession with unemployment numbers reaching alarming heights and financial expert patrick young says the leaders claims of the no bailout future borders on they didn't know. we've got the italian and spanish leaders who obviously don't read their own newspapers i mean just to give an example last week the spanish said they would launch an eighteen billion euro from to be allowed the regions by today can the ninth region have claimed their little share of the pile and they've already therefore got commitments for seventeen point six billion up to nine regions of space and there

are lots of other regions that are bankrupt to go certainly should be in desperately need to be a large italy we'll be lucky to escape with one mr rudd holywell good on history as the man who ultimately signed the euro through an unbelievable pigheaded obstinacy when he simply refused to appreciate the fact that he'd let his country slip backwards and alternately the spanish economy at the moment is going towards where it was about nine hundred seventy two when franco was still alive and well. meanwhile greece is being forced to introduce one hundred fifty no financial reforms by its international creditors. journalist was arrested after publishing a list of the country's top time store jews with secret swiss bank accounts and costas vaxevanis the same information was given to the greek authorities two years ago by christine legarde who was the french finance minister at the time while authorities decided not to actually let legal experts george says those accusations should have been investigated then end there. baby could not use it up the court

exactly because it was not. a proof but the quick start investigating these me if they come to click that so i think the system only by what the other use in the appendix is now that the list is published in this material he's still going after these suspects it's getting less of tax evasion they're good enough to the list it would be great if he could be a little difference is a good thing the sentiment of the justice that the now i would hate to see these in the scene. would be some subset of this meeting better than the other we all face enough so maybe the least to be used would not be as old or fine no several of them might think could be a food stamp good enough times for the good of the us this is a good political thread and this. late in the program will tell you how the crisis is pushing some to find by. people who rob banks go to prison banks who rob people

get paid bonuses that has to stop. appalled by the economic woes and here is what binds one british businessman find his own way to support the local community will bring you his star and much more to happen. 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 dog or i did to so much fun to make silly pictures like these on the internet whole he 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 ideas the candidates present are effective or not but more importantly it matters if they will actually do them if a future candidate proposed a brilliant economic plan that could save america but instead of saying pennies let the word penis slip or gossip celebrity culture would make him lose the election for sure his opponent's army of fota shoppers would have 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. sigrid laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new its most sophisticated robots which fortunately. found anything tunes mission

to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the. wealthy british style the stock. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred the global financial headlines kaiser report on what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage working the. pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate their future person

action up close guy every day to november fifth on artsy. more news today violence is once again flatow for these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for the day. this is the welcome back russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has urged all sides in the syrian conflict to open dialogue that's after a un brokered truce failed to hold violence between government troops and the rebels international envoy lakhdar brahimi of knowledge said the talks in moscow that some violence during this cease fire was committed by extremist groups

operating in syria russia believes foreign states should take responsibility for the factions in syria they support and convince them to lay down arms on his promise to explain the why the west stance of backing their opposition and aiding regime change across the arab world is not a solution to the continuing calles. things have gone from bad to worse in a region powered by the hope of change not so long ago in libya one year after the revolution that gas shells and artillery reportedly being used against peaceful civilians in lebanon is on the brink of civil war and syria is already fighting one idiot there is a process of another reformatting of the geo political map of the middle east when various players try to secure their political position we consider this counterproductive such measures imposed from outside can never give a stable long term result. this is the result of wisdom efforts to encourage the

so-called democratization of the arab. countries in ruins tens of thousands killed and hundreds of thousands maybe a few g.'s but western nations it seems are still not ready to stop we are going to do everything we can to make sure that we are helping the opposition and to further pressure and isolate the regime seeing syria remove assad is a very high priority for us and it's not mere lipservice washington and its european allies our system the rebels to get rid of assad going i'm sure of one thing the syrian regime will never find its place. among the community of nations it has a nice future among us that is why france will recognize a provisional government representing the new free syria once it's been formed for me but if assad goes it's almost guaranteed that the carnage will continue. bhatia assad protects minorities including the christians that have lived in syria for hundreds of use even the strictest estimates of the situation received from

a west european partners says that at least one third of the population still back assad regarded him as a person destined not to let syria turn into a country impossible for minorities to live in. and no more than ever syria's instability threatens the security of neighboring lebanon and here too the u.s. has made it supports a new government it was a false hope that the lebanese intelligence officer was killed that murder prompted widespread condemnation and a coup for the international community to stay out of the mystical say is a message the international community would do well to heed a phony to prevent the region from forming into for the chaos today we're seeing the a western and and g.c.c. led counter revolution while at the same time on one hand the west is is proclaiming some kind of backing of people's you know rights to

self-determination through this arab spring and actually what they're doing is unwinding it for them in countries like bahrain in yemen in countries like libya and in syria where the west has acts of ways thought to foment rebellion and force regime to paint a reality far from the minds of those who once championed the arab spring and what it could bring. and some pay a tracing analysis on syria on their expanding influence of its neighbors coming up in about ten minutes the head of russia's parliamentary foreign affairs committee talks about turkey's role in the conflict and here's a quick. break you can be dragged or drag itself into this conflict you know that the war in syria. may have a lot of traps for turkey and it's the turkey has refrained from crossing the border and it's the ground troops of syria because it's easy to go in it's

difficult to get out and the story of all the conflicts there against iraq whatever shows that you go in and the decisions taken a couple of days and then takes years and years and years to get out so i don't think that the government is willing to open a war with the syrian government. but. those two states are basically on the brink of war. people across the globe choose different ways to vent their anger at the economic crisis some resent the fact that some opt for direct action or a smith tells us on the story of one businessman who decided to spearhead changes to the system by declaring himself a financial institution. thank you to the number of thank you dave fyshwick is a cheeky northern charmer he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown as

burnley but instead of fancy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank is late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my many customers are coming along to me to get funded for their bosses as they are doing for the last fifteen years but overnight that just stopped the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking how they've done something wrong. long have they made a mistake of that up at the gas bill. you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks that have the problem try thought oland of the. bank on dave he says although thanks to extensive red tape he's not actually allowed to call himself a bank and he's keen to differentiate himself from banks in other ways too he offers five percent on savings and he lends that money out to his local community and no bonuses and the profits go to charity. but there just

isn't a day in every town more's the pity so his isn't a model which could be rolled out nationwide in its current form but financial experts say lessons can be learnt for a healthier banking system one point is clear and this is a point that the bank makes in a way is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic need to understand. saving which has been. highly leveraged gains a lasting. dates ultimate goal is to bring banking back to its roots no more faceless conglomerates where computers and mavericks make the decisions and the one percent pockets unimaginable bonuses instead of local banks the local people run by the community to benefit the community it's not

a new idea in fact it's how banking used to be before the megabucks and mega banks stepped in and dave still taking to get some political support you have to take save us money and invest it in real productive activity to take responsibility for doing it which is not the way that banking currently works in his comic kind of crazy way showing the way to a better banking system which is responsible. in touch with entrepreneurship which actually could be the basis for going forwards there's certainly got to be some way forwards as wave off the wave of scandal hits the financial sector banking on dave and others like him looks more and more attractive one of the sayings i use a lawyer people who rob banks go to prison banks to real people get paid bonuses to stop laura smith forty birmingham. and on r.t. dot com right now a golden treasure hunt subra ships and see this aircraft and

a helicopter go over the sea of a whole school with a fine tooth comb in search of vanished a russian cargo ship with seven hundred tons of pressures on board. and also that facebook could be facing trial for allowing children to rack up charges on their parents credit cards find out the details on our state of our. business time in our case here and hurricane sandy means traders have been told to stay at home yeah they have because the new york financial markets will indeed be closed for a second day that is a safety precaution to keep the workers say some sixty million working in and around the city we've got the financial district now. so large it and the estimated financial cost of the months the storm is now being said to be twenty billion of course that could rise if the natural disaster does continue to be longer than

anticipated so we really with the wall street close it's domestic news and i can tell you that just in the last ten minutes or so the outcome of the bank of japan's me saying has been finalized they are going to stimulus into the system and that is why we are looking at large decliners out for the nikkei with positive territory. in the session is actually for the second time in two minds. making. making steps to shore up the economy to get it guy again for the hang seng that we're looking at six tenths of cent down and that's because property stocks are particularly suffering after the government decided to impose its first pope to the check out some changes that we got the ruble is still to corning is up to sell now and it leads from the declines that we have a monday your adult is seeing little movements to read it if they slant the russia negative how trading a session and again we are indeed looking at the coal lies not

a lot going on internationally we have a declining over price as one of the russian president putin said has requested that gas will get so still the east simply mind to that is a stock straight away the coaches would invest thirty eight billion dollars into the projects a third of that money will be spent on developing a gas fields in the republic where these thirty hundred kilometer link will begin to be finished by twenty seven t.v. the pipeline will provide russia with gas as well as allow the country to set up liquefied natural gas supplies to the asia pacific this check out of your prices while we're on energy right now and you can see they are low we're now looking at a three month low for routes. really taking effect that trees in the u.s. now russia has launched the privatization process of its biggest seaports and c s p the states themselves talk to possible investors intending to sell the whole twenty

percent in the hope the stake is currently estimated of three hundred fifty million dollars and is expected to be offered in both most. from basis ahead also the break we try to find out the answer to the syrian standoff with the head of the russians parliament's foreign affairs committee. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were

they also looks. at how prosperous this was well times have changed by this so it lags they still attracting new original tourists or barons work cons watch native cash that's why while. our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the bin you. wear that can do nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs. are located halfway between north america and western europe the burden archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of western most outposts now it's one of the last preserved relics.

of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades curious interested i think it could be even more appealing for russia. to keep its presence on spitsbergen russian film until a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so we've memorabilia is a big hit defunct are incurred and still help. keep the money flowing. it's the russians doing your what you can but if. you're almost enough good girl your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like non-sport should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the a little you know authentic traditionally opulent. i should not i would not like to

have it in a shiny condition to be on as the time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add the morning russian songs to die repertoire it left the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. turning me now is alexei pushkov who's the head of the international committee in the russian duma thank you for being with us i'd like to begin with diplomacy in the world today and it's never been easy but it seems even more powerless with

situations like we're seeing with full blown conflict in syria do you think a political solution that through words we can have peace there well i think the situation. has deteriorated extremely since last spring. and today it looks more like a bloody deadlock. than something that would give their prospects for and. peaceful solution yet i sing the bets. the international community can generate nothing better than the geneva communique. that was adopted at the end of june and which says that. the international community has to bring both sides at the negotiation table chris no secret here who reads no medical answers the answer is first for both sides i mean russia and china one and.