braine bans all gatherings intensifying crackdowns on anti-government protests as clashes with police rise. deadly superstorm sandy deals a blow to the u.s. election campaign with old obama am probably suspending campaigns with fears of what it calls for bottled phones. and britain sat for a clash over cash in funding the e.u. while struggling members italy and spain insist they don't need and out.

thank you for joining r.t. this tuesday with me karen tara well before any authorities have banned all mass public gatherings us cautious escalate between police and protesters it's the second such attempt to quash the anti regime demonstrations since a state of emergency was declared in march two thousand and eleven the government says the anti-monarchy protesters are abusing their right to freedom of speech and threaten national unity there are almost daily clashes with police using tear gas and rubber bullets around eighty people have been killed since the unrest began nearly two years ago human rights groups have a rounded on the brutal crowd down on campaigners calling for more rights jobs and education political analysts sriram chelios says the kingdom is getting away with committing crimes against humanity. results. tactics that have been practiced before internet attempt to completely squelch or cornish peoples of brazing interest of daryn going to call. the unfinished segment of the arab spring

which has never been allowed to even for our sole party in iran there's been a conservative powers in the region as well as the prove yesterday in the arab western patrons who have tried to completely demolish the voice of the people whom you have barely hear of employers in the us about human rights abuses in bahrain so here you have a clear mismatch between america's ideals of disposing universal human rights and the reality on the ground where human rights are selectively being enforced and are we used to topple regimes for political and i'll give you motives what you have is a regional set up which is not allowing free expression are i and then why is for example syria such as fox part and behind not this is the origin of the sin of the whole arab spring narrative and we have not been able to overcome these double standards just because bahrain holds the fifth fleet of the us navy does not entitle it to be so brutal and repressive and get at me with crimes against humanity which are happening. cast calls by the superstorm sandy have hit the race

for the white house heart while severe weather means there have been everything from floods to fires in america's northeast at least sixteen people were killed across the country millions were hit by a blackout in parts of new york after a large explosion at a power plant president obama has declared the city a disaster zone both obama and his republican challenger mitt romney have suspended their election campaigns the storm could hit obama's chances as it might make voting in the traditionally democratic state of new york difficult u.s. political activist tom hayden says sandy could fuel an electoral crisis it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast 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 that 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 electoral crisis i think of a very very profound nature can't live updates on superstorm sandy that are to dot com plus our coverage of the presidential race counts down to election day as we take on what the other channels ignore watch the final round of debates between the third party candidates right here on our team next monday. we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the

president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's get back to something the president i agree on and you tube you agree that the voters have a choice you know you wonder who to vote for whatever romney and obama agree on so many things remember 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. . and battle over funding for the e.u. is brewing in the u.k. parliament conservative backbenchers are leaving the rebellion calling for the cash flow to be cut off prime minister david cameron faces pressure from brussels to increase the u.k.'s contribution in line with inflation that's not how our cities our first in london for us sara so what can we expect to come out of all of this. well prime minister david cameron says he's going to be feeling the pressure this is a rebel mission this being tabled by the tury backbenches and it's going to be in the

commons tomorrow and certainly as he said going to put david cameron under pressure they're calling for a real turn ca's to the budget between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty now the eat his once it spending to rise by about five percent downing street is said the prime minister supports the rise in line with inflation which is about two percent but as you can see a real difference is sentiment amongst his own policy now he's going to be meeting with the european leaders in brussels in a couple of weeks time negotiations are going to start in earnest and i think the feeling very much his in britain is that you know we're in the middle of a double dip recession the time of the severe austerity everyone else is tightening their belts really the should be doing this saying we've seen labor jumping on the back of this is well if the conservative nation if they win it would be binding on the prime minister but it would certainly put him under a lot of stress whilst those negotiations were going on in brussels it could also

maybe see him veto. his veto. with the european leaders and you know germany in particular has been trying to sort of thrash out this compromise this i think going to be putting him under a lot of pressure now what's the general mood like in the u.k. on the issue of europe do people want closer ties with you. but honestly a very very interesting time britain's membership in the i would say pretty much is known as a being so under question in the entire history of its membership as it is right now it really is a big question is a lot of talk of in the referendum coming up is certainly full that something that a head of an x. the next election that both labor and conservative again to have as one of their priorities is offering the british people the choice of any referendum in the routes in the c.b.c. in scotland recently because it a referendum there's a lot of discussion and some jakey about the fact quite possibly you see you know

a scotland be the only part of the day that she remains within the evil because there is a very very strong and t. e sentiment into your skepticism has been rising as we said britain has always maintained some distance that we're not a part of the year is saying we don't have a very much the sense a you know certainly the past couple of years that that was very much the right me whereas people were criticizing britain for sitting on the fence and there's a feeling that we were kind of and i think people are certainly one thing if anything to distance themselves not to come close on the back of this you know talking about the budget we've had a whole wealth of stories recently about each amounts of money that have pumped into european projects that have pumped into the people looking at the you know if you're a crack sitting in brussels and if there's a big question where of the year are missing millions going you know this money going to these projects and still you know people are facing very very severe

austerity measures in their own homes this is affecting people on a daily basis and say i think there is definitely a very strong feeling that they're out they day will close to ties and i think what people are going to be looking for ahead of david cameron going to these negotiations next month and certainly with this rift that we see. it is part of a wider rift in the government people want to see leadership here from david cameron and they don't want it to come from brussels they want it to come from their prime minister and be talking in their national interest in europe than just our live from london our correspondents are for. spain and italy are denying claims they will be seeking aid any time soon the leaders of both countries are pains to stress that requesting a bailout is not in the interest of their people who have been vocal in their anger over punishing budget cuts but investment advisor patrick young says it's a pledge they might not be able to keep. 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 top three of the ninth region have claimed their little share of the pile and they've already therefore got commitments for seventeen point six billion amount to nine regions of space and there are lots of other regions that are bankrupt to go certainly sabean desperately need to be a lot italy will be lucky to escape with i want to run hollywood good on history as the man who ultimately sign your roof through an unbelievable pig headed 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 europe's bankers couldn't have a worse reputation right now so who do you go to for an alternative welcome to the one man bank he's called dave is earning interest in the u.k. for his novels we meet them in a few minutes. but when the west bolsters rebels in the arab world why it's more

likely to leave a trail of destruction rather than a laser trail for to mock us details just. 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 done 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. 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 can't they 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 you lose the election for sure as a potent 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.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images real world and seeing from the streets and canada. change corporations rule the day. back to our team live from moscow i'm karen tara banking malpractise excessive risk taking bonuses paid for out of taxpayer bailouts it's little wonder that people's patience with their banks has run out but if not the global financial giants weren't you and trust your hard earned cash. it's one british man who thinks he's got the answer. oh thank you to all of them ok thank you dave

fyshwick is a cheeky northern charmer he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown of 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 his 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 stop lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking have it done something wrong have they made a mistake of that up at the gas bill electric bill or form bill you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks have the problem so i thought well i'll end of the so that's what it banked 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 he profits go to charity now in our state. 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 learned for a healthier banking system one point is clear and this is a point that the bank makes him away. is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic need to understand to. the last. highly leveraged the last ten. days 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 local banks for 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 for the mega bucks and mega banks stepped in and dave starting 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 comical kind of crazy we're showing the way to a better banking system which is responsible. in touch with entrepreneurship which actually could be the basis for going forward there's certainly got to be some way forward as wave after wave of scandal hits the financial sector banking on dave and others like him looks more and more attractive one of the same people who robbed banks go to prison banks who real people get paid bonuses to stop laura smith forty

birmingham. there are plans for a london venue with a ten thousand strong capacity but not for a theater or for moscow it would be four times the size of st. with locals including muslims hearing it's designed to be a hotbed of extremism we report online. plus a major withdrawal of us was spanking drive u.b.s. axing thousands of jobs as it calls out of the risky investments. seen its debts explode. with renewed hiding a serious failed temporary truce shows it's a country that's far from solving the crisis keeping its neighbors on edge but to see what happens after western driven regime change look no further than libya or fear and violence still stock the streets a year after what was supposed to be its democrat is a show that's policy or reports syria could be next. 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 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 positions we consider this counterproductive such measures imposed from outside can never gave a stable long term result. countries in ruins tens of thousands killed and hundreds of thousands maybe fiji's but west of 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 me a lip service washington and its european allies are assisting the rebels to get

rid of assad going i'm sure of one thing but a syrian regime will never find its place among the community of nations it has no 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. bashar assad protects minorities including the christians that have lived in syria for hundreds of years even the street just passed a. much of the situation we're see from our west european partners say is that at least one third of the population still back a song regarding him is 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 play here to the us is made to kill it supports a new government it was a false hope that the lebanese intelligence officer was killed that murder prompted

widespread condemnation and of course 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 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 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 change a reality far from the minds of those who once championed the arab spring and what it could bring. time now for more stories from around the world this hour

two nato soldiers have been shot dead by a man wearing a local police uniform in afghanistan's helmand province both victims are believed to be british nationals they so-called green on blue attacks are classified as an act of terror by the local government they have claimed the lives of fifty six nato soldiers this year undermining the trust between local and coalition forces. police fired rubber bullets tear gas and stun grenades and sacked protesting miners in south africa they have been offered their jobs back about are refusing until their pay demands are met the workers barricaded roads in johannesburg and allegedly set fire to a mine our station south africa's mining industry has been plagued by last for months dealing a huge blow to the economy. rental rains have drenched argentina's capital killing at least two people in storms knocked out power and flooded streets while the subway system ground to a halt for our worst really three thousand people have been moved into shelters or

made massive disruption to traffic lights. time to check in on business with demetrius so it seems gazprom is heading east now it's rated look at a new project to deliver gas to asia and the energy major will spend around thirty eight billion dollars to build a pipeline in the far east sure further that money will be spent on the development of a gas field in the sahara republic where the link will take its start and the thirty two hundred kilometer pipelines are expected to be ready in five years gazprom also plans to set up a little five natural gas production plant in the region by two thousand and eighteen the company says the far east pasties will allow it to set up gas supplies to the asia pacific equal to the current european ones or even bigger there's basically echoes the calls of the russian president vladimir putin at the apec summit to move towards the eastern market pacific markets let's take a look at. what's happening with stocks actually gazprom is one of the worst

performers today is down more than two percent but that's is kind of in line of what was been happen has been happening in investors' heads as soon as the gastro my now says that it's spending billions and billions of more dollars on new projects then therefore dividends will be cut as profits will become lower and therefore investors are dumping the stock is now down around two percent while the market as you can see the is down point six percent pretty bad day for russia unlike in europe where we're actually seeing some positive dynamics with the footsie and the dax of within one percent and that's despite a surge in germany's unemployment actually a lot of companies have been reporting good profits like b.p. for example also u.b.s. has increased its profits forecast then the stock was up more than five percent and on the currencies markets we're seeing the two year and the dollar pretty flat the

past couple of hours in that respect but the euro is up around fifty points despite again the fact that employment of spike in germany and the russian ruble apparently there's some action from central bank taking place on the market because that will prices are still is around eighty five dollars per barrel no reason for the russian ruble to be stronger but it's gaining value as it did last week. right then another news russia has launched the privatization process of its biggest seaports and c.s.p. now the state has started talks with possible investors intending to sell the whole twenty percent it owns on the hob and the stake is currently estimated at three hundred fifty million dollars and expected to be offered in both moscow and london in early november. for me i'm back in fifty five minutes time next up on r t we try to find the solution to the syrian standoff with the head of the

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in journey to buy coal can be a trip of a lifetime and the local. once you've seen it we'll be coming back again and again . during the now is alexei pushkov who's the head of the international committee in the russell there my 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 you fair prospects for. peaceful solution yet by seeing that. the international community can generate nothing better than the geneva communique. that was adopted today end of june and which says that. the international community has to bring both sides at the negotiation table there is no secret here there is no magical answers the answer is first for both sides i mean russia and china on the one hand and the so-called friends of syria. is to understand that it is not by making one of the signs in the conflict that it can be solved i think russia and china are closer to this understanding then the united states or the european along and or saudi arabia. because unfortunately. until now has been asked. days are

numbered he has to go it's not a policy and we should try to understand that it is not by arming and financing the armed opposition to the present government in syria the dissolution will be the armed opposition has not strengths. to dislodge president assad president seems not to have enough strings to crush the military opposition and so really you know that look so on both sides we should find people who could start to negotiate what about turkey do you think we'll see a conflict with full blown conflict between syria and turkey or anywhere else in the region turkey can be dragged. into this conflict but i have a feeling that the leadership of turkey understands very well that if the.