as the u.s. reels from killer superstorm sandy's some say obama and romney are pretending the results to relieve competitors have nothing to do with the race for the presidency . u.k. and u.s. intelligence keep flying toward global terrorism flying high putting little body on the lives of those who refused to follow the battle cry. and obviously international law boston bahrain spawn all public gatherings the saying it violates people people's basic freedoms the gal's motorcade is tightening its grip on the opposition after almost two years of growing addressed.

this is also yukos here live from moscow hello and welcome to the program obama being accused of using superstorm sandy recovery efforts to boost the base for the presidency but it's officially put that campaigns on hold during the calamity turning to relief measures instead but some say the rivalry retro still shows for. an effort for. this was the surprise. i think there's. a hurricane sandy crashing on shore i've never seen anything like this i'm at a loss for words to describe what the storm could do but there is no loss for words on the campaign trail and on the eastern coast of our nation a lot of people are enduring some very difficult times the storm that wreaked havoc on america's east coast is wreaking confusion in the last critical days of a tight race for president so how do you run for office about seeming insensitive

to a national tragedy the candidates are certainly doing all they can to look like they aren't trying to score political points but their actions tell a different story president barack obama canceled his election rallies in. returned to washington to focus on the storm the election will take care of itself next week leaving vice president biden to campaign on his behalf. one of the perks of running for president while occupying the white house is being able to make high profile visits like this one america's whether we are standing behind you and we're going to do everything we can to help you get back on your feet it means coming across as a president on the job which certainly helps when it's a job you're reapplying for the president been in close contact with fema. and all the agencies of course obama is the president with his advisors say means he needs to focus on the crisis at hand in terms of how it affects the election i don't think anybody really knows obviously we want unfettered access to the polls but

it's a choice that doesn't sit well with some political opponents you'll notice he's counseling his troops over the hurricane he did not cancel his trip over benghazi. and then the republican presidential contender mitt romney so far he stopped sending fund raising e-mail isn't affected states he used his campaign bus for relief efforts and put up a blog with the weather related advice he's also scrap schedule campaign events only it seems there are some fine print involved this may look like romney's campaigning in ohio a key swing state but his advisors say that's not the case the so-called victory rally was canceled out of sensitivity. instead of the campaign insists this is a hurricane relief a vent canned goods came hand in hand with anti obama t. shirts there was music and theme songs and those attending the supposedly nonpartisan event were treated to a video about romney getting america stronger that's what american president has to

do. asked by a reporter whether this blurred the line between storm relief and politics romney's top strategist replied i agree i don't know how it happened. people over politics or politics or people it's certainly difficult to tell now we may be impossible to completely stop campaigning in the middle of a closely contested race but then why make the pretense of doing so it seems that both candidates could use a little bit of this age old advice say what you mean mean what you say and do what you say you'll do. r t moscow. superstorm sandy which has left at least forty five dead also sponsor and the told they scare three nuclear power plants were forced to go flying while a state of alert was declared as a fourth facility. as will this 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 water through the plant and the concern is that if the cool water is not maintained you 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 the concerns over the status of your creek has caused some to draw parallels to the fears surrounding last year's fukushima disaster in japan then 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. . new. gunderson says the passing of sunday should be a wake up call for america's atomic industry. 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 because only pump is critical to cool the water when it's in the nuclear reactor but in america will we move the fuel into the spent fuel pool we have no way of doing it 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 there's steam goes up in the equipment in that box safety related equipment is really not designed for high humid or the i don't believe will have

a. disaster but i think it really should show the american nuclear regulatory commission that it can happen here. we could have a flood inland in one of the pennsylvania plants and be having the same conversation two days from now and to stay with them no updates on the also mouth of superstorm sandy as the race for the white house is known what the mainstream is missing on all. next monday on the eve of the cost another live round of debates between the set part of presidential candidates. governor romney and i 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 come back to something the president i agree on and there to you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps 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. . over the years the global war on terrorism has proved a successful rallying call for u.s. and u.k. led military campaigns across the globe however as artie's polly weicker reports the greater cause sometimes goes hand in hand with brutal tactics. somali born mahdi hashi had grown up in the u.k. from the age of five he was a british citizen until this summer when the twenty three year old went missing and his family found out that the home office had stripped him of his passport for allegedly being involved in islamic extremism his parents are distraught they say that mahdi is an innocent victim of a british intelligence plot all because he refused to work for m i five all i can see is that modi he's a muslim and believes and he's a practicing muslim but being

a muslim is not being an islamist does hold concealed that's what that's all why he's being victimized this is the quiet north london community center where mehdi hashi worked back in two thousand and nine it was then that he and four of his muslim colleagues say that they were approached and harassed separately by security agents it's cocaine that m i five threatened to label them islamic extremists if they refused to become informants for british intelligence campaign is raising awareness for maddie's plight and said that the constants threats made by british intelligence made life so unbearable that he left the u.k. they were trying to offer him a job saying that you know effectively you're an extremist we know you are the only way out of this is for you to come and work for us to come and help us these will become targets that were being used because it's all somali origin this is a purely racist profiling policy of the british government and particularly the security

agencies marty had been living in somalia for the past two years taking care of his grandmother and raising a son of his own but several months ago he disappeared leaving his family in despair my son is missing this summer this summer but i don't know if you know if you like your garden hose here that you don't. we are very wooded although. the only information the hashi family have now comes from a man who contacted them to say that he'd been in prison with maddie in djibouti and he told us that he had pretty good pretty d.n.a. has been taken from him and then. contacted to find out that he supports this in the conduct of the british consul and the british consul see that we have ordered it removed or this decision probably and then the americans took him to where we don't know they don't know but they fear he's being held at a camp in djibouti and

a tourist u.s. anti terrorist base where he may be the victim of an american rendition program in which suspects are unlawfully taken to third party states to be illegally detained and tortured the hashi family want on says to simple questions like what the allegations are against marty where he is located and whether he's even alive but when it comes to matters of intelligence they're faced with a wall of silence lawyers acting on behalf of the hashi family have received just this response from the government it has been the policy of successive governments neither to confirm or deny speculation allegations or assertions in respect of intelligence matters this policy is maintained and accordingly the secretary of state can neither confirm nor deny the allegations made on behalf of your client. these cases a classic case of profiling and you know kind of almost ludicrous policies

within this war on terror a result in an innocent individual helpless young man afraid to be having their life ruined campaigners say that by stripping maddie hashi of his passport the british government has effectively washed their hands of his case leaving his family to continue the search for answers about that now stateless son. r t london. bahrain is facing sunshine for the country's authorities beyond all ronnie's and public gatherings mr international has called on the gulf kingdom to live there or strictures saying they violate their right to freedom of expression also as he's in bahrain also threatened. legal action saying they won't tolerate any threats to national unity around eighty people have been killed in the country which is a key u.s. ally in the region since clashes began nearly two years ago bahrain's under fire from human rights groups poison brutal crackdowns on pro reform campaign is

demanding greater political reform freedom job and educational thousands of protesters have been imprisoned including prominent human rights defenders in that bill great job is now setting time for tweeting and participating in gatherings bahraini opposition member. says the government is fuelling the crisis because it's trying to prevent this is for you little. to. nothing in particular splode institutions these are the cities taking by the beach and when they are talking about maintaining the peace and stability on. more than a hundred. dollars the biggest. moments. of their political and people demanding that their own is to block this if there is a spike. block of the government being bottled it just. exploded.

it's. just a few doing the law and worst and because what they're going to do is that they will see what they get and i like. it was. from going outside of their homes this is not going to bring any security and this is going to make these laws if somebody from the. very tonight not tomorrow to go on to the level of the good o. our hero who had the to work if we are any condition we need more from international community and this will be in the work of anything with the to that it will of negotiations are there going into this if you are disillusioned they are and if you are to get more of this is the question and then solving it. and so i had figured a solid greason tool and the country's no major struggle to compromise and yet

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accounts some likes those believe the latest planned cuts will only add up to a grim esoteric progress. it looks pretty grim it looks pretty black out here in athens so we're really talking about. new tax hikes before i mean labor laws in general moving into what could be called the flexible table think tonally that supposedly supposed to use for development 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 the government will succeed in passing the new cuts i have to mention that cohesion 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 bill will pass and the final disbursement of the trench will be completed successfully. and on ask dot com for you right now a treasure hunt continues as the search and rescue operations sweeps the sea a lot harder for the vanished a russian cargo ship with seven hundred tons of precious gold all on board. also that five bombs and barricades find out how he says he himself wants to take it was turned into a bottle filled with all the details and pictures for you that. plus saudi arabia announces plans to rebuild one of its biggest mosques but soundboards down at the expense of prophet muhammad's tomb learn more about the controversial project on our web site.

and look now some international stories in breve this hour a syrian fighter jet has hit targets inside damascus near an opposition held area where rebel fighters clashed with regime troops this comes as a prominent journalist shot by rebels in the syrian capital that follows the killing of the country's defense minister and president assad's brother in law intra why activists say more than thirty five thousand people have been killed since syria's conflict began in march twentieth levon. in the capital of libya angry crowds have broken into the country's parliament building protesters forced prime minister ali's it down to postpone the vote only because new candidate the national journal congress was elected in july replacing the transitional council as the ruling body the incident time lies the ongoing struggle to bring libya under full control since last year's revolution toppled more like a duck his regime. and these are also the strike on iran is still highly possible despite of tehran stepping away from its alleged pursuit of atomic weapons the

state has announced that iran has delayed its nuclear program the claim comes in contrast to prime minister netanyahu speech at the u.n. last month where he stated that iran was on the brink of creating an atomic bomb the u.s. and israel have long accused the islamic republic of seeking nuclear weapons which iran strongly denies. and time now to check with katie at the business desk hello there so. the russian markets are in full swing right kate so they are indeed it's the second hour of trade now we are looking at like game so far and a lot of that is because oil is now going up which is now the biggest weekly decline since so that's good news in that thought of the back of her ok. leaving these shores of new york so as i say it's a real benefit for the russian markets which those figures out just now i don't want to mention the fact that one of the top gainers is norbert tech and those

shares are pulling a bit by. to the mall that solved to the company got access to school the self-will cypress now law on the company which is russia's biggest private gas producer has put more efforts to improve its operations in europe the firm has started talks with a local company is aiming to sign a new gas trading contracts at the moment novacek can only trade gas but not export it from russia as it's the monopoly of state gas bomb but since the kremlin powers to give the pipeline access to other produces no one takes training contracts could help it find gas by is what allowed to supply aboard. russia is a valid social networking group. get out full global expanded should on foreign markets it will concentrate on online game is under the name of my daughter called the company claims that its services are enjoyed by over ninety percent of russian into that uses and hopes for success

a brewers. say any foreign achievement will be tough and not stoop to high competition from global so to see what the russian currency is doing change of fortune is now managing to lose out to the basket of currencies i know you mentioned is a big day for europe without the euro dollar just there is declining and that's because we've got decisions expected to be made about greece and spain as well are they going to get more money we will be find out later on in session and see how the end of the day looks for asia then we were looking again a lot of that was because we had some quite substantial corporate earnings including the likes of canon the camera maker we'll start financials really boosting the markets but that is a business for now up next here and i'll see the latest episode of crosstalk with of course pieces about. the sun rises over what seems like and most forest if you. crime hundred kilometers

north of la de vos stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. much. longer is both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy longer set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve we're only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable to member over

the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to farmers. and their chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander some more you go has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they've twelve's the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no

documents now xander can now call the police to take over. his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now is they started so therefore more for all forest legislation so assumes the pals and so on ribs and you'll forest court and according to the oath every for us it's the guys in waltham in the in the forest to the still this forest courts deal doesn't work just you. know who it is no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do if it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. and

if. you do you think you want to. follow in well come across talk i'm peter lavelle mali a country in chaos and it's only getting worse as molly's neighbors decide on some form of intervention to restore order and take on the spread of religious fundamentalism there's always the possibility of unintended consequences when african intervention into mali and evidently opened the door to a western style regime change and with vicious make things even worse. to cross talk the mali crisis i'm joined by brooke spector in johannesburg he's an

associate editor of the daily maverick and retired american. diplomat in london we have i.i. johnson he is a director at viewpoint africa and an award winning journalist and in geneva we cross to alexander both he is a professor and director of the international relations department at webster university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. i'm going to you first i mean madam secretary clinton is in algeria trying to drum up support for an intervention into mali. can the africa these africans do it on their own or they really need western help and i'll talk about american drones later go ahead. yeah clearly mr clinton going to. express this as a concern a concern for the world that the rebels who have now been supported by al qaeda in many different capacities are taking a stronghold in that country is not to say that the africans cannot do it on their own well clearly with their limitations and echo us which clearly.