a nuclear power plant is put on the u.s. east coast after a deadly super storm sandy ravages the area where there is also election campaigning because it could jeopardize voting. brain gatherings intensifying crackdown on anti-government protests as clashes with police escalate. and brussels a cash demands are causing reference home in britain as well and. disputes country closer to bankruptcy.

world news and much more you are watching r.t. . the nuclear power plant in new jersey has been put on alert as water levels at the facility surged after superstorm sandy the plant is about one hundred kilometers south of new york city was shut down for refueling last week but radioactive material that the site could prove potentially dangerous well correspondent marina portnoy has been following developments. the super storm known as sandy has left millions of people and businesses along the east coast without power but the greatest danger the hurricane has posed may revolve around america's nuclear power plants at least three nuclear reactors have been shut down and the nation's oldest facility in new jersey is on rare alert exelon corp's forty three year old oyster creek plant was put on alert after water levels at the plant rose more than six and a half feet above normal potentially affecting the water intake structure that

pumps cooling water through the plant and the concern is that if the cool water is not maintained the used your radium rods in the pool could cause the water to boil experts say in an extreme scenario the rods could overheat risking the eventual release of radiation that concerns over the status of oyster creek has caused some to draw parallels to the fears surrounding last year's fukushima disaster in japan that helicopters and fire hoses were enlisted to ensure the pools remain filled with fresh water according to the nuclear regulatory commission the general electric designed nuclear reactors involved in the fukushima emergency are very similar to twenty three of the key design reactors in the u.s. as of tuesday afternoon the u.s. federal emergency management agency says there is no imminent threat of radiation releases from oyster creek reporting from new york marina port r.t. one nuclear expert on the gunderson says the authorities should take more

precautions. the water level was somewhere around two meters perhaps a little higher because the b. age that the government uses to measure it actually broke in the storm and the cooling. is critical to all the water when it's in the nuclear reactor but in america will be the fuel into the spent fuel pool we have no way of doing it or. we need. offsite power to run the large pumps the real problem is that the box that the fuel is in can get very very humid because as this water begins to get hot steam goes up and the equipment in safety related equipment is really not designed for high unity so it's important that the fuel 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 year. we did have a flood inland in one of the pennsylvania plants and we having the same conversation two days from now. you can get all the very latest updates on superstorm sandy. and the severe weather has disrupted the u.s. presidential race both barack obama and his republican challenger mitt romney suspending election campaigns we've got special coverage of the election taking on what other channels are ignoring you can watch the final round of the baits between third party candidates hit 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 and the tube you bring it over to have a choice perhaps when you wondered who to vote for when 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. . the bahraini government has banned all massive public gatherings and made escalating clashes between police forces and demonstrators authorities say the protests to be using freedom of speech rights and any threat to national unity will not be tolerated the shia majority has been demanding more rights jobs and education for soon. after the country have since every two thousand and eleven removing fifty people killed during clashes police have been using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrators drawing criticism from human rights organizations around the world where thousands of protesters have been put behind bars among them activists and opposition leader.

who's been charged with inciting illegal gatherings. position you know since the government is fueling the crisis of claims it's trying to prevent. this is. you know little or. nothing. institution steve's opposition is taking but i want to be just a little bit of. maintaining the peace and stability on. more than one hundred. eighteen months. politically and people do not. get on the spot this is. if part of the bill and being part of the interest of the team exploding having an independent judicial system. is that there are just a few willing the law understood because what they got to do with. what they

did and. almost all of. the people from going outside of their homes this is not going to sit here and this is going to make these laws. always more stories online including raising the process sorry arabia has to bring this part of these moms this spring one more time dot com. plus a major withdrawal by swiss banking giant u.b.s. it's axing thousands of jobs as it pulls out we speak best movies seen its debts expand. the u.k. to contribution to the e.u. budget is causing a rift in the ruling coalition the number of conservative backbenchers going against the party nine rebellious cent piece calling for the cash flow to brussels to be slashed while prime minister david cameron faces pressure from the e.u.

to increase the u.k.'s contribution in line with inflation. has 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 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 is the 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 the 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 if the conservative motion if 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 flesh out this compromise this i think going to be putting him under a lot of pressure will 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 placed in the. under question this certainly being arises and c.e. 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 feeling and with good reason 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 ourselves do do agree with them you can see the the single currency is a mystery your european economy is

a mess do you have for it is don't particularly inspirational. there's a big question where are the year at this thing millions going you know all this money going to all these projects and still you know people are facing very very severe austerity measures 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 think 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 not in your interest . what a battle over the budget is being waged in greece as well surely we report on a specific topic i think the greatest breakdown potentially in the balance of stories coming up just after this break.

this is day starts at five am in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but she dishes. dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute traditional to fenian round tent made of diskin. he's pleased to be back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius is that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here probably most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries

and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cats or dogs girls and with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for i lie still and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the herd i get so high a fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life they in their publics capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact way he can start to look for

a new wife. culture is that so much going to be a huge decision on the market. and it's only worth as. banks in the store take on the.

welcome back here with me in greece the fate of a new bailout deal that involves a thirteen and a half. billion euros in cuts is in jeopardy as part of n two divisions force the vote on it to be delayed further austerity demanded by greece's lenders has been persistent partners and no. doubt the cuts in other forms the country will not receive next bailout tranche which it needs to avoid bankruptcy and international public policy analyst nicholas and says dentist pound austerity would only worsen the economic situation for us. it looks pretty grim it looks pretty black out here in athens so we're really talking about. new tax hikes for me labor laws in general moving into what could be call of

flexible type of economy the supposedly supposed to stir people within the greek economy but on the other hand we have already seen the negative consequences of such a policy with reaching almost twenty five percent within the general population i do think indeed the government will succeed in passing new cuts i have to mention that could huge and problems will of course appear when voting in favor of the new fresh tax hikes as well as harry cuts 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. now banking malpractise excessive risk taking in bonuses paid for with out the taxpayer bailouts or with taxpayer bailouts even that's little wonder that many people's patience with their banks is run out but if not the global financial giants where do you and trust your

hard earned cash these days well arty's laura smith meets one british man who thinks he has the answer. hello thank you there mark like you do. fyshwick is a cheeky northern charmer he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown as burnley but instead of fantasy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank to late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my many customers were coming along to 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 of a done something wrong have they made a mistake of that up at the gas bill electric bill a 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 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 anyway is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic need to understand to a saving which has been. rushed where highly leveraged changing lives that. 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 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 may go box and mega banks stepped in and dave starting to get some political support you have to take save us money and invest 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 to real people get paid bonuses to stop. some world news in brief for you now iran has drawn back from its plans to build a nuclear weapon that's according to israel's defense minister that it could still carry out a military strike against iran godless this comes a little more than a month after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke at the un general assembly drawn a picture of a bomb with a red line to demonstrate what he claims is a danger posed by iran's nuclear capabilities washington and frequently accused iran of developing nuclear weapons to iran denies. ukraine's ruling party has been given a bruising parliamentary elections they're leaving it with just thirty five percent of the opposition parties coming second and third. from

a shrinking of both strong critics of president. if they unite they would have put his party from securing. the communists used to join any bloc. pushed to fourth place. a prominent general in syria's air force has been killed in the massacres the opposition free syrian army has claimed responsibility as part of their strategy of targeting present my ranking officials the country's defense minister deputy killed this fighting in the capital continues so more than three hundred dead since the troubled friday ceasefire was supposed to . well the renewal of heavy fighting has shown that syria is a country that's far from solving its crisis but also keeping its neighbors on the edge comparisons have been drawn between syria and libya western driven regime changes occurred as fear and violence still persists throughout the nation a year after its so-called democratic liberation and 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 gas shells and artillery reportedly being used against peaceful civilians levanon 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 give a stable long term result. countries in ruins tens of thousands killed and hundreds of thousands made me feel cheese 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 me a lip service washington and its european allies our system the rebels to get rid of assad i'm sure of one thing the syrian regime. ever 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 protect minorities including the christians that have lived in syria for hundreds of years even the strictest estimates of the situation we're see from our west european partners says that it 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 and here to the u.s.

has made it clear 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 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 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'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

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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster 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 are going to bellow 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.