no news is bad news in greece media workers walkout kucing the government of targeting journalists were trying to bring the powerful into account. drop obama and mitt romney refit their campaign buses to be disaster relief funds but are accused of jumping on the super storm bandwagon for their election again. and her majesty's secret service is accused of covert tactics and racial profiling and taking british citizens off the radar for the war on terror.

and welcome to our team live from moscow joining me on the last day of october it's me karen tara while great journalists have walked out of their jobs angry at what they see as government censorship and changes to labor laws as follows the suspension of two t.v. presenters after they criticize the interior ministry on air and denounced police for beating up activists detained during protests r.t. contributor irene as says it's not the only thing straining relations between the government and the media. millions that tension between the relationship between government and journalists a let couple days ago we saw that mr vaxevanis who is a hope you are journalist investigative journalist in greece was arrested because he was keep out police the. guards released their way to cold with more than two thousand. people who have money in debt was it

a nice response this least it is sad that it was the event to this then the finance minister mr up on sunday no but he never gave it gave it to the government to the responsible to their sponsible people to investigate what's going on so mr vaxevanis flung that police and decided to publish it and he was arrested for that reason so government was blamed for a sensor see because it is not possible to have information for example and not been published many journalists even man simple people say that means their proposals are being moved and then finds ministers to be are wasted and not these journalist who revealed the truth. sociologist by these so theatres says today's protest action could help free up reporting in greece which is tightening its grip on the media. it's a very welcome sign there's today it's

a strike by journalists. because if you combine government attacks and the fact that most major media outlets in greece are run by big corporations you have a problem and well concerns information in greece and i think also think that is that it is a necessary reaction and resistance that many lottery darian down from the public government get telling the rest freedom is one of the worst seems to have in that country especially in a country where what we most need is male it's an acknowledged information and an open debate on identities if you don't have an open debate on those tentative to the current crisis then you simply have to follow whatever policies are being dictated to us bad the so-called troika homeless without power or transport and a coastal disaster zone millions amy northeastern u.s. are now counting the cost of the deadly storm even barack obama and mitt romney

swapped campaigning to pitch in with relief efforts especially in their electioneering is suspended bought as they see confidant reports that's not how it looked to some. this was the october surprise that it heard i think. 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 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 but 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 canceling his trips over the hurricane he did not cancel his trips over benghazi. and then those republican presidential contender mitt romney so far he stopped sending fund

raising e-mail is in effect states 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 is 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 event 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 lucy craft an elf r.t. moscow go to r.t. dot com for the latest updates on what's happening in the areas affected by superstorm sandy as well as the election and next monday on the eve of the crucial vote will bring you another live debate between the alternative third party candidate choices for the white house. are 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 there to you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder who to vote for where 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 our

t.v. . for years british intelligence has been working to safeguard national security against threats such as terrorism and us being knowledge but the secretive nature of their work sometimes gives rise to suspicion of extreme tactics targeting innocent people artie's polly boy reports now that one claim that intelligence agents have resorted to persecute rather than protect 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 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 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 claimed 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 said that the constant 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 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 it's all somali 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 but several months ago he disappeared leaving his family in despair my son is missing this summer this summer but i don't always feel like your garden hose here. 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 been fingerprinted and d.n.a. has been taken from him and then. contacted they found out that he supports this in the conduct of the british consul and the british consul see that we have ordered or movies or this decision from him and then the americans took him to. somewhere

we don't know they don't know but they fear he's being held at camp limo near 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 hash the 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 where 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 aunt says about their now stateless son polly boyko r t london program form protesters are defying the ban on rallies and. french demonstrations are reported a lot how it all with human rights groups closely watching how the authorities react details all that after the break. this is day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of

story hundred sheep in the mountains in pains. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but you just unfamiliar with duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stead setting up his ute the traditional two fenian round tent made of diskin. his p.c. back amongst his family his job is a lonely one and tough going out in a way there's braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just 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. so 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 heart they hurt the cattle. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive they're promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing corporatists for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a higher fair price sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life there in the public's capital. but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life then looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for a new wife. back

to r.t. a lot from karen taraji and the regime demonstrations are reportedly continuing in the bahraini capital munnabhai despite a ban on massive public gatherings bahraini authorities imposed the restrictions on tuesday to try and halt the ongoing protests against the family they claim the pro-reform rallies are a threat to national unity and have been cracking down on dissent with tear gas and about threats international human rights groups have to abandon that bahrain immediately lifts the ban saying it's a complete violation of the right to freedom of expression and assembly bahraini opposition member. says the government is fueling the crisis it claims it's trying to prevent this is a good dog for your little girl and that. nothing will

explode it's usually these are the solutions to everybody individually except they're going to get by. maintaining the peace and stability on. more than one hundred and the last the but this. month's. and the. political and people demand there are those to block this. spike be a lot of the government being bought out that it just looked a little bit of team exploded having him. it's a truck where there is then there are just a few doing the lot and worst and buy in because what they're going to do with it is that they will see what they. will see each fall and was told what to do you can look on going outside of their homes this is not gonna rain and this

if you did this is gonna make things walls if somebody from death that is very tonight's profitable moment to look good to go no fear of a group. any condition we need more from their community and this will bring it about maybe with that with the two that it will all negotiations are going into this if you are disillusioned they are and if you can get all of this is us and. so we can. now look at some other international stories and pray for the sour and motorcycle bomb trying has killed at least eight people and injured dozens of others and damascus and other explosive devices nearby was defused the un an arab league envoy meanwhile has visited china to try to get support his efforts to broker peace. three separate attacks in southern afghanistan have claimed the lives of at least eighteen people a security checkpoint was ambushed killing seven afghani policeman the unknown

attacker then collected the victim's weapons and fled the scene while a suspected taliban roadside bomb has killed at least ten civilians most of them women and children another person also died in a second blast in the same province. angry crowds of civilians and former rebels have stormed libya's parliament building in the capital forcing a vote on the new government lineup to be postponed their anger was directed at proposed cabinet ministers they consider too close to the old gadhafi regime the national general congress was elected as the ruling body in july wednesday's incident highlights the struggle to bring libya under control a year after the revolution. israel says iran has stepped away from its alleged pursuit of atomic weapons defense minister who had barak explained that her own use some enrich uranium to make fuel rods for medical research but warned that a military strike is still on the table it's in contrast to prime minister netanyahu statement at the un last month that iran was on the brink of creating

a nuclear bomb or middle east correspondent policy or explains. such comments are certainly part of the political game that has intensified here in israel ahead of the early general elections that are now going to be held next year until now barack has stood firmly in the same camp as his prime minister benjamin netanyahu both have repeatedly warned against the nuclear capability of iran and have warned of an impending israeli strike we saw in it and yahoo not so long ago at the united nations general assembly drawing a red line but what many experts here in israel say is that that was a red line by which israel would strike you ran rather than a red line in terms of a deadline by which tehran would acquire nuclear capability but rock heads up his own political party and certainly what he is trying to do now is distance himself from netanyahu on the whole iran question he is trying to appeal to voters who have not yet decided and this division between them does seem to suggest brock's saying

that netanyahu may not have been completely truthful around the iranian nuclear threat certainly there is a division not only on this level but in the greater political elite here in israel although the question is still unanswered whether or not israel plans to strike iran and if indeed it does win policy r.t. jerusalem. turkey's prime minister is in berlin or response from thousands who've gathered in the german capital. i do want to live in. a real groups in syria and the other is trying to exert influence in europe the demonstrators who are mainly syrians living in germany accused of war mongering by supporting rebels and with the recent cross border shelling and grounding of syria bound planes but prime minister i don't want to chancellor merkel try to see eye to eye on syria one thorn in the talks is turkey's drawn out you membership

application at the once patience is running out giving a ten year deadline to let it join or turkey will go elsewhere one german m.p. told us that there is a fine line between keeping turkey and silent keeping it at arm's length. the german capital has a huge interest in turkey as a market and geopolitical. in the middle east to do with their. union interventionist policy the human rights situation in turkey is terrible there are over one hundred journalists in prison in turkey over ten thousand political prisoners and therefore the turkish government coming to europe and talking about integration and human rights but not defending human rights in turkey and the turkish government they are making escalation politics to war to war against syria educating al-qaeda militants there educating the

free syrian army soldiers and they are passing them weapons turkey is a nato member state and turkey is not acting without this. conference with washington and berlin backing such an aggressive. foreign policy of turkey their citizenship for sale if you fancy and passport that child wearing. is opening its borders to those with big enough wallets who then buy into the struggling government as we report on mali. and america's drug dogs get hounded by the courts as to whether they're nasal now since qualified enough to legally sniff out suspects. business news is coming up after a short break. culture

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corporation most nano will now collectively invest into energy to do this they have created a mutual fund with hundreds of millions of dollars virgins head richard branson told us that up to a third of a billion dollars will be invested in energy efficiency enterprises now also in that exclusive interview they gave to r t said that he was very upset that virgin recently lost a bad soul to get the permit to fly from london to moscow to easy jet now you can catch the full interview tomorrow we'll present it in our new business format brand new six thirty pm london time ten minute program something to look out for tomorrow of course well let's take a look at what's happening on the markets today now in the united states the markets open finally after two days of over standby basically because. hurricane sandy and the dow jones is up half a percent disney shares were shooting up before the opening after a announced

a deal of buying out lucas film the makers of star wars franchise the new film might be coming out very successful franchise but now the down powerful said and nasdaq is also declining point three percent as you can see there now over in the europe lots of hope still for a new tranche of a bailout for greece coming very soon quite supporters trading today with not much of a change after the opening of the u.s. markets with a frankfurt being led by two makers and in the us a clue what's happening on the currency market still driven by the same hopes and assessment of damages from superstorm sandy the euro is gaining against the dollar just under one point three there while the russian ruble is kind of flat and boring today and on the russian stock markets what we're seeing is the r.t.s. m i six recovering after the losses on tuesday and on monday and recoveries not that strong but no risk nicole on the news that we've been just been talking about

that shareholder conflict could come to an end soon now it's up around two percent . all right so more business news coming next hour in fifty five minutes time i'll be here we have course with another update and next up when i see exclusive interview with the president of nicaragua. what a president that isn't as good as i think you mr president for taking the time recently chavez won the presidential election in venezuela and stayed in office a year ago the people of nicaragua reelected you for another term it does this mean that socialism has proved its viability and is now established in latin america well the near liberal model has failed in other words capitalism reached the highest stage where it was expected to resolve all the economic and social problems overnight resolve the problems of unemployment and poverty but this model failed it

failed not only in latin america it is also failing in developed economies today we see it failing in the us and europe this is why people in our part of the world gladly embrace the idea of a radical change in our country's need sovereignty and independence in every area political independence is impossible without social and economic independence today a new reality is gradually emerging in latin american and caribbean nations they have more freedom today to determine their future president hugo chavez's recent victory will definitely help latin america and the caribbean to continue on the path of change. but this election has been the closest that there is so i was opposition has ever come to victory some say the people of venice so i thought of the present government what do you make of it. the truth is a one point advantage already can.