as the u.s. reels from killer superstorm sandy some say obama and romney are pretending their disaster relief campaigns have nothing to do with the race for the presidency. great journalists are raising the alarm over freedom of speech as the government of the austerity burdened country struggles to agree on yet another sad abiding cotts . about britain strips a man of his citizenship for refusing to become a muslim informant raising concerns that civilians are being dragged into the country's foreign and the war on terror campaigns.

thank you for joining our team on the last day of this month with you today on karen tyrone cheney well obama and romney are being accused of using superstorm sandy recovery efforts to boost their bids for presidency both officially put their campaigns on hold during the calamity turning to relief measures and stuff but some say the ravelry rhetoric still show through as are often of reports this was the you tube or surprised that it. and 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 time. 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 are trying to score political points but their actions tell a different story president barack obama canceled his election rallies and 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 was his advisor 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 those republican presidential contender mitt romney so far he stops ending fund raising e-mail isn't affected states he used his campaign bus for relief efforts and put up a blog with 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 of meant 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 over 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 lucy catherine of r t moscow stay with r.t. for more updates on the aftermath of superstorm sandy and the race for the white house we've got more of what the mainstream is missing on our com as well and next monday on the eve of the vote or broadcast another live round of debates between the alternative third party presidential candidates. we both agree we agree we had 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 on in there do you agree that the voters have a choice you know what you want her to vote for whatever romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tuned in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on our t.v. . tensions are running high in greece as the country's media workers started a wave of strikes accusing the government of clamping down on free speech a journalist was arrested on monday for publishing a list of the country's alleged top tax dodgers alley countries two top presenters have been suspended for criticizing government policies and it says greece's lawmakers suspended a vote on the country's latest thirteen and a half billion euro austerity package demanded by international creditors dr dimitrius come out us founder and editor. daily and that believes as great as

crisis deepens the government simply doesn't want any extra attention you don't think that the real question is whether people really care about it's about i mean putting generally stunt driving. then this is perhaps a problem for freedom of speech and media could be getting i mean. journalists and politicians can be in bed together for many years and they can. and when politics you could be right because you have to have years and then juries follow although. except the easy targets as soon as the government said do you remember this guy even though we are already in a countdown today we have a very very two thousand and thirteen. argument the eurogroup were you're

a working group these are in session we're waiting for two years extend sure everything is holding their breath and we don't need that i mean the government does not need any any their unions it's a competition between the powers of course it will. because politics record politicians and corporate. fine art you don't come right now a treasure hunt continues as a search and rescue operation sweeps the sea of cortes for advantaged russian cargo ship with seven hundred tons of precious gold or on board. also fire bombs and barricades find out how a city in southeast turkey was turned into a battlefield we've got the details pictures for you. plus saudi arabia has plans to rebuild one of its biggest mosques because of some grave concerns over one of islam's holiest relics learn about the implications of the project on our website.

over the years the global war on terrorism has proved successful rallying call for u.s. and u.k. led military campaigns across the globe however as archie's polyploid to reports the greater call sometimes goes hand in hand with brutal tyrant ticks. 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 or because he refused to work for m i five all i can see is that the he's a muslim and believes and he's a practicing muslim but being a muslim is not being an islamist. that's what that's all why he's been 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 its claim that m i five threatened to label them islamic extremists if they refused to become informants for british intelligence campaigners raising awareness for the mahdi is quite often said that the constant stress 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 your the only way out of this is for you to come and work for us to come and help us these will become tactics that were being used because the origin this is a purely racist profiling policy of the british government and particular 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 accord at 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 they 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 to go pretty d.n.a. has been taken from him and then. contacted to find out that his approach is in the conduct of the british council and the british consul see that we have order to move this decision probably and then the americans took him to. somewhere we don't know they don't know but they fear he's being held at a camp in djibouti and a tourist us 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 maddie 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 with. this war on terror result in an innocent individual hopeless 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 their now stateless son . r t london. you're watching our team still have the turks facing criticism in germany protests are planned in berlin over a visit by turkey's prime minister and his country's anti syrian policies more on this and many other stories after this break. the issues that so much the internet is a huge decision making on the mark level. and it's only getting worse there's nothing for me to seize on a. bench and restore order and take on the city. 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 go back to something the president i agree on and you tube you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps that's what you wonder who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth going to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on our city. the government no longer represents the. the people are going to take the term. least in the traditional slipped along.

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welcome back to our team live from moscow and karen terrell chain prime minister

recep tayyip erdogan on is in germany to try and get turkey's e.u. bid back on track he's also. berlin is helping with the growing influx of refugees fleeing the war in syria approach us start planted by syrians are unhappy with turkey's policies the countries have lived in a border dispute for months with mutual accusations and war rhetoric flying german m.p. seven says many there are against the arming of syrian rebels by turkey. the explosion for these protests today against out of the un is also because turkey and the turkish government they are making an escalation politics to war to war against syria. is. educating al-qaeda militants there educating the fus syrian army soldiers into

a kid on turkish ground and giving them passing them weapons we do not want that the poorly government is backing some aggressive foreign policy of turkey germany is going to get a big market in the middle east and get a deal political partner in the middle east to do in their own european union interventionist policy. facing censure i have tour of the countries authorities banned all rallies on public gatherings amnesty international has called on the gulf kingdom to lift the restrictions saying they violate their right to freedom of expression authorities in bahrain also threaten all protests with legal action saying they won't tolerate any threat 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 but her. it is under fire from human rights groups for its brutal crackdowns on prover form campaigners demanding greater political freedom chops and education thousands of protesters

have been imprisoned including prominent human rights defender not be over a job that's now serving time for tweeting and participating in illegal rallies but the opposition member. says the government is fueling the crisis it claims it's trying to prevent this is for you know not for. nothing but i don't explode institutions these are the citizens taken by individuals and when they are talking about maintaining that the sensibilities you are. more than one hundred and the last the people of this. month's. worth of. political will and people demand the debt on the spot this is. despite the age of the government being bought out that it just slipped a little through the team explode it is having an independent judiciary it's.

just a few ruling the law and worsened by him because what they're going to do with is that they will see what they did and. they will see almost whole but i think you can look from going into their homes this is not going to bring any civility and this is going to make things law if somebody from very to not look to morrow to go on to the get go no hero who. you know any condition we need more from their community and this is related. to that it will all negotiation going into this if you are disillusioned and if you are. all of this is the question and. so when you. look at some international stories in brief for you this hour two terrorist attacks in the rural afghanistan have left at

least fifteen people dead a roadside bomb which is said to have targeted coalition troops killed eight civilians including women seven policemen were also slain in an assault on a security checkpoint the attacks carmel's kabul so it's april the fifth two thousand and fourteen as the date for the country's next presidential election of the year when international forces are set to withdraw from afghanistan. a syrian fighter jet has hit targets inside damascus near an opposition held area where rebel fighters clashed with regime troops as comes as a prominent air force general is shot by rebels in the syrian capital the attack follows the killing of the country's defense minister and president assad's brother in law in july activists say more than thirty five thousand people have been killed since serious conflict began in march two thousand and eleven. but israel says the strike on iran is still highly possible despite stepping away from its a legit pursuit of atomic weapons the jewish state has announced that iran has the

late it's nuclear program they claim comes in contrast to prime minister netanyahu speech at the un last month where he stated that iran was on the brink of creating an atomic bomb the u.s. and israel have long accuse the islamic republic of seeking nuclear weapons but you're wrong strongly denies. an unmanned russian cargo rocket has set off from them by going to a cosmodrome in kazakhstan the progress of spacecraft is due to deliver over two point five tons of vital supplies to the international space station including water fuel fresh vegetables and fruit along with candies passed from the cruise families back on earth there are currently sixteen members of the i assess among them three russian cosmonauts two astronauts from the united states and one from japan. time for business now and there is a need to. a long lasting dispute around the world's top nickel producers and. camera no risk in the cold there the main shareholders they have reportedly started

a fresh round of negotiations to try and find out why policies bubbling tensions that have been ongoing for years now got more devolve cause more dramas coming up now the russian billionaires i'm talking about that have passed vladimir put time in the they are they only around a quarter of the company during the years they keep on arguing over dividends and management of the home isn't a newspaper says that they want to come up with a new shareholder agreement there's also speculation on potential outcome for example full time they could buy additional shares in the company meanwhile that it could invite a new independent head for the car with another metal type. used as a likely situation. that there's a very important person right here in moscow at the my event so we've got british. and russia's nano corporation of us now collectively invest in energy now to do

this they have created a mutual fund hundreds of millions of dollars now the head of richard branson explains what the venture will concentrate of. russia's. never really tried to preserve. and if you can preserve it it's. export more oil so you know with three hundred billion dollars. detroit. companies that come up with good ways to get it. and speaking more to richard branson we also discussed his airline business as one of his thirteen air carrier recently lost the london to moscow fly to arrival of low cost airline easy jet however the still illegal. version five between the two capitals. it was supposed.

to have flying people into this culture the better so i am speaking with. us about it. but if we could be done. with that we're going to be sleeping at what he's out see while he's in russia for sure let's check out the markets as he was going to get stuck in with a rash and as you can see there we are looking at all the healthy gains of my overdraft that we all see as we nearly one percent which is the heart of the center for the my six just i can tell the oil is actually. helping out the markets here a little bit of support to see what the russian ruble is getting up to just now us see if you're for it's trade or if you're going on your holidays it is indeed a mix of the five it's getting at the u.s. so it's losing out the year and that's as a euro dollar continues it continues north of the my one thirty zero five just a lot going on in the euro zone it's

a day greece is on the lips of every investor all they're going to get then and next tranche of money we don't know as a vet and it's causing concerns with check out with the ex is all doing and i can tell you actually we've been speaking about allies it's actually airline stocks that are actually gaining in the session but not for the city london still struggling around temple percent down while the taxes are gaining around sat out right here on our say we've got more to come to you but peter lavelle with crosstalk stay with us. louis that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these parts no prepackaged comfort but the joy of the wild these guaranteed guineas 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. off the list

below sea line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper field. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot a grizzly here by every small weaver who sort of bears out they have a very well the super will have to keep an aisle when directed at. them and. so we won't go to shell people required. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away but 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. another local resident to haiti's peace being disturbed here is the howlers 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 city or to

hear it with no reason to go you'll have tons of people coming here now 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 well you can. predict you have to rely on yourself two bucks. or so we're going to have to be the bat. maybe for the wildlife here is the lack of things it is this close the better but when you stand on top of finale and like this you just cantelupe wanting to share the beauty. and. stare. into.

hello and welcome across the uk 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 africa intervention into mali inevitably opened the door to a western style receiving change and with this just make things even worse. you can. start. 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 aja johnson he is a director at viewpoint africa and an award winning journalist and in geneva we cross to alexander both arrive there he is a professor and director of the international relations department at webster university all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in and.