like nuclear power plants put on alert in the u.s. because of deadly superstorm sandy the weather is also put election company on all fears it could cause vital votes we've got the latest just ahead. bahrain plans gatherings intensifying crackdowns on anti-government protests clashes with police rise. and britain set for a clash over cash in funding you know what a rift among greek lawmakers could mean no bailout money for the struggling.

hello midnight here in moscow right now this is our my name's kevin and it's very good to have you company first this hour a nuclear power plant in new jersey has been put on alert tonight as waters around the facility swell as a result of superstorm sandy the plant's about one hundred kilometers south of new york city it was shut down for refueling last week but nonetheless radioactive material at the site could prove potentially dangerous nuclear expert arnold gundersen told me the authorities should take he thinks more precautions. the water level was somewhere around two meters perhaps a little higher because the gauge that the government uses to measure it actually broke in the storm surge and because pump is critical to cool the water when it's in the nuclear reactor but in america when we move the fuel into the spent fuel pool we have no way of cooling it off of easels and we need power to run the large pumps the real problem is that the

box at the fuel is in can get very very humid because as this water begins to get hot steam goes up and the equipment in that box safety related equipment is really not designed for high unity so it's important that the fuel pool cooling be reestablished and it's important that it be maintained in the long haul i don't believe we'll have a. disaster but i think it really should show the american nuclear regulatory commission that it can happen here we did have a flood inland in one of the pennsylvania plants and we having the same conversation two days from now. well the race to the white house with both a bomb around his republican challenger mitt romney suspending their election campaigns the storm could hit obama's chances it might make voting in the traditionally democratic state of new york difficult u.s. political activist tom hayden says sandy could fuel in the 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 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 you get

a live update some superstorm sandy at home plus our coverage of the presidential race comes down to election day as we take home one of the channels ignore you can watch the final round debates between the third party candidates right here in the 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 there two of you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wondered who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things never 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 our t.v. . authorities in bahrain banned all mass public gatherings clashes escalate between police and protesters the government says the anti money protesters are abusing their right to freedom of speech and threaten national unity

that almost daily trash is now with police using tear gas and the bullets to disperse the crowds. this is the mother of all right still become educated from the somalia keep ready opposition politician pelosi told me a government filled with the crosses it claims is trying to prevent. this is a. uniter. nothing but an explosive institution steves on positions taken by the individual and window. maintaining that the assistant believed to be on. more than one hundred this is. the people of this. month's. political and people who. did all this to block this if there's a spike be a lot of the government being bought out that it just slipped a little bit a team exploded having an independent judicial system where there is that there are

just a few willing the law under isn't buying because what they're going to do with it is that they will see what they did. last week they will see almost sold i didn't mean people from going outside of their homes this is not going and going to sit here and behold this is still the case laws. battle over funding for the e.u. is brewing in the u.k. parliament conservative backbenchers there are leading a rebellion calling for their cash flow to be cut while at the same time prime minister david cameron faces pressure from brussels to increase the u.k.'s contribution in line with inflation. further explains more. prime minister david cameron certainly going to be feeling the pressure this is a rebel motion this being tabled by the tory backbenches and it's going to be in the commons tomorrow and it's certainly as he said going to put david cameron under

pressure they're calling for a real turn cuts to the budget between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty now the edith wanted spending to rise by about five percent downing street has said the prime minister supports the rise in line with inflation about two percent but as you can see a real difference is sentiment amongst his own party now he's going to be meeting with other european leaders in brussels in a couple of weeks time negotiations are going to start we've seen labor jumping on the back of this as well it is a conservative motion they will it won't be binding on the prime minister but it would certainly put him under a lot of stress whilst those negotiations are going on in brussels it could also maybe see he used 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 well an interesting time for britain when it comes to the question of the membership i say no the point in the history of our membership has

prisoners place in the. un's a question this certainly even arises and he feeling austerity measures a very much affecting people we spoke recently to the former conservative chancellor who also he was telling us that there really has been a very significant rise in anti and with good reason for the public you know there are a lot of pretty restrictions which come to us from europe or european law which we can't change which you have to go along with even though we are so large degree with them you can see that the single currency is a mystery your european economy is based. doing before. it is not particularly inspirational but there's a big question where oh the you are facing millions going you know all this money going to all these projects and still you know people are facing very very severe were thirty minutes is what people are going to be looking for ahead of david

cameron going into these negotiations next alone and certainly with this with that with saying it is part of a wider rift in the government people want to see leadership a 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 no in europe than just. well talk it will be waged a political battles be waged to greece to shortly we're reporting on a split at the top enough that some of the money to bail out potentially in the balance that story a lot more coming up after this break. what will change when america picks its president made muslim rage looking the around tightrope pushing china russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate their future this election a close guy every day to the fifth on our team. we

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a massive new austerity package worth thirty billion euros as the coalition can't agree on the cuts is parties on the left the leading the dissent greece's creditors won't hand over the next bailout tranche though which athens needs to avoid bankruptcy unless those cuts are past i spoke to international public policy analyst lucas demand r c says the latest planned austerity is going to hit the people hard it looks pretty grim it looks pretty black out here in athens so we're really talking about. new tax rates forming labor hours in general moving into what could be call of flexible tape of economy. supposed to use for people within the greek economy but on the other hand we have already seen the negative consequences of such a policy with unemployment reaching almost twenty five percent within the general population i do think indeed the government will succeed in passing the new cuts i

have to mention that could huge and problems will of course appear on voting in favor of new fresh tax hikes as well as haricots this is something that has to be expected but i do think that at the end of the day this this new deal will pass and the final disbursement of the trench will be completed successfully. banking malpractise excessive risk taking a bonuses paid for out of taxpayer bailouts was the one of them is the people's patience with the banks has run out but if not the global financial giant question is where do we all trust our hard earned cash shelters or smith means one british man who thinks he's got the. to follow. along the work like 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 this late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my mini. me to get funded for their bosses as they are done for the last fifteen years but overnight that just stopped the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking have a 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 that have the problem try thought aland of them so that's what it 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 he profits go to charity. if 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 made in a way is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic need to understand to saving with. mad rush where highly leveraged change in the last sixty. 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 before the mega box 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 way showing the way to a better banking system which is responsible local 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 saints i use a lot of people who rob banks go to prison banks who real people get paid bonuses that has to stop laura smith artie birmingham. the bank of dave now there are plans for a london venue with a ten thousand strong capacity rock talk about a theater here that we're talking about four times the size of some paul's cathedral with locals including muslims fearing it's designed to be

a hot bed of extremism if you want to read up more about the latest report. out of major withdrawal of our swiss banking giant u.b.s. we're talking about the two it's actually thousands of jobs as it pulls out of the risky investments of the city's debts explode. with renewed fighting serious failed temporary truce shows that it's a country that's far from solving this crisis will give us neighbors on the edge too but to see what happens after western driven regime change need to look no further than libya where fear of violence still stalked the streets a gear after what was supposed to be its democratic liberation as policy 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 and libya one year after the revolution guess 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 own 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 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 saying syria. 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 i'm sure of one thing the 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. but

if assad goes it's almost guaranteed that the carnage will continue. to shut us out protects minorities including the christians that have lived in syria for hundreds of years even the strictest estimates of the situation received from our west european partners says that at least one third of the population still back assad regarding 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 we're here to the u.s. has made it clear it supports a new government it wasn't false hope. the neighbor me's intelligence officer was killed that murder prompted widespread condemnation and a chorus for the international community to stay out of domestic affairs 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 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 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 fall from the minds of those who once championed the arab spring and what it could bring. syria's neighbor turkey which is one of president assad's strongest critics has been cracking down on kurdish protesters thousands of plastic storage fees in a so-called day of resistance across the country police in the southeast used water cannons and tear gas to disperse crowds marching towards

a kurdish prison inmates there have been a six week hunger strike demanding improved jail conditions for the kurdish rebel leader who's been housed on an island near a stumble for turkey's prime minister says the bomb would be called prisoner blackmail. to nato soldiers and shot dead by a man wearing a police uniform in afghanistan's helmand province both victims are believed to be british nationals this instance the latest in a spate of so-called green on blue attacks they've already claimed the lives of fifty six nato soldiers this year undermining the trust between local and coalition forces. ukraine's ruling party has been given a bruising of the parliamentary elections leaving it with just over thirty one percent of the votes now the opposition parties coming second and third that including that of jailed former premier yuliya tymoshenko they're both strong critics of president if they unite they could hamper his party from securing a majority include the communists though they've refused to join any bloc after being pushed into fourth place. thanks for being with us tonight at r.t.

in just a couple of minutes we bring you the story of a catholic priest who was demon hours were demonized while trying to stand up to us so multinational corporation that story coming right up. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged comfort but they joy is the wildest guaranteed guinea's a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in washington every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go in the wrong the wrong and surprising and you'll go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper field before.

one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small weaver this sort of bears are fulfilled they have a very good sense of flow will be able to see that we have to keep an eye a wind direction at. them and both up all that could be going for it so we're going to go yes we'll shell but people require. it. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away and they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the

bears peanuts another local resident to haiti's peace being disturbed here is the. eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters ignace only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and sea gulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here mara island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region the climb up was tough. but the prize was worth it. if there was no superior to here it would be the reason why you will have tons of people coming here just to get some for only on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get your piece of bread there is nothing really all you can. predict you have to

rely on yourself and two bucks. or so were have to be put back. maybe we'll do wild life here is the lack of these tools of banter between you stand on top of this you just cantelupe wanting to share the beauty. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm more in worcester here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for october twenty fifth two thousand and twelve c.e.o.'s are ringing the alarm on deficit. there were some of them ringing the bell top execs including those but eighty of

them total from big u.s. corporations sent congress a letter asking for a simpson bowles type approach to reigning in the u.s. deficit the budget deficit three dollars in spending cuts for each dollar of tax increases what would be the impact of this or other possible scenarios for dealing with the u.s. debt and deficit simon mccaleb edge of ideas capital is here to talk about it and speaking of deficits according to the financial times japan's finance ministry will hold crisis talks with bond dealers tomorrow as politicians there are at odds over a bill that's needed to allow billions more in borrowing to finance the country's deficit sound familiar japan is often brought up when talking about a country the us is ability to run massive deficits will discuss the lessons for the u.s. and new g.d.p. numbers from the u.k. if you put stock in them they show the countries rebounding from recession growing by one percent is this growth a reflection of better days to come or is it just the result of one off the lympics

summer spending we'll talk let's get to today's capital account. we all know the drill the us has been running trillion dollar budget deficits amounting to more than sixteen trillion dollars in national debt with no plan that the markets have deemed credible to significantly rein in spending let alone balance the budget now c.e.o.'s are trying to act like they want to do something about it they wrote congress asking for a simpson bowles type solution of spending cuts paired with a tax code overhaul eighty of them signed on and there's an argument this overspending cannot go on for ever and that the day of reckoning could be near but

then you look at a country like japan one last decade turned into two was the country's government proceeded to rack up debt levels over two hundred percent of g.d.p. yet there's been no cataclysmic explosion in the bond market the yen has actually seen a dramatic appreciation in its value viz a viz the dollar since the two thousand and eight financial crisis in fact the government of japan can borrow for thirty years at less than two percent according to bloomberg that's a better rate than the u.s. can ask for now this brings me to the u.s. take a look at the exponential increase in the u.s. debt how long can this continue now our guest argues that this increase in nominal debt has been offset by a decline in rates here's the rate for the five year treasury ok well the fed shown a willingness to keep rates suppressed and japan shows that this can keep going and going so why should citizens or businesses in the u.