which brightened. from plans to. start on t.v. dot com. this is r t tonight no news is bad news in greece media workers walk out accusing the government of targeting journalists trying to bring the powerful to. barack obama or mitt romney refit their campaign versus the big disaster relief funds but they're accused of jumping on the superstorm bandwagon for their election again. until majesty's secret service is accused to cover tactics of brayshaw profiling and taking british citizens off the radar in the terror back.

live from moscow at eight pm this is r.t. very warm welcome to if you just joined us it's kevin owen here this hour with the top stories agreed journalists have walked out of their jobs angry at what they see as government censorship and changes to labor laws it follows the suspension of two t.v. presenters after they criticized the interior minister on air and denounced police for beating up activists to tame during protests r.t. contributor renia says it's not the only thing straining relations between the government of the media either. billions that tension between their relationship with government and the journalists let couple days ago we saw that mr vaxevanis who is a popular journalist investigative journalist in greece was arrested because he was keep up list the. guards released their way to school with more than two thousand. people who have money in debt was it

a nice recent bank this least it is sad that it was event to this then finance minister mr up on sunday no but he never gave it gave it to the government to the responsible to the responsible people to investigate what's going on so mr fox about his funk 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 mr parker's not been with it then finds ministers to be are wasted and not this journalist who revealed the truth so show just kind of go to tears told us today's protest action could help free up reporting in greece's governments tightening its grip on the media. it's a very welcome sign there is today's strike by

a journalist. 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 to the military terry and then from that part of the government telling the rest rhythm is one of the worst things to have in a country especially in a country where what we most needs is male it's an acknowledged information and an open debate on those delegates if you don't have an open debate on alternative to the current crisis then you simply have to follow whatever policies are being dictated by us or bad the so-called troika. next homeless without power of transport and a coastal disaster zone millions of the northeastern u.s. and our coast counting the cost of that deadly storm if barack obama or mitt romney

swap campaigning to pitch in with the relief efforts officially there electioneering was suspended but as lucy caffein off reports it's not how it looked to some. this was the tober surprise. and 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 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 over people it 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 caffein elf r.t. moscow while we invite you to go up to dot com for the latest updates on what's happening there is affected by superstorm sandy as well as the election talk of which next monday on the eve of the crucial vote we'll bring you another live debate between the alternative third party candidate choices for the white house. 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 upsets you wonder who to vote for what 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. . and the regime demonstrations have reportedly continued in bahrain despite massive public gatherings the authorities imposed restrictions on tuesday to try to hold the ongoing protests against the ruling family which they see as a threat to national unity let's talk about this with side she happy from the bahrain freedom movement mr shelby thank you for being on the line international human rights groups want bahrain there they told me to lift the ban saying it completely violates freedom of expression assembly do you think the ruling family is going to listen no. one think you do not believe that the ruling family is would hold the values over human rights which are called for by the. like amnesty international and i think they will continue to as they have been doing for the past. month or so. they have been doing.

this is why we have the revolution. to be the people who will. stop this and. so i think the situation is likely to. also intensify was there apparently such a difference between what you say they're going to do and what they actually do and we just last month bahrain promised tonight to improve its even rights record in line with those u.n. recommendations is there anything being done talking about political activists preventing violence against ethnic religious communities the list goes on. well i don't think that a g.m. is in a position to to to do it to undertake. this simply is an informal group because it is it is built on very shaky ground and b. if they give up any degree of oil or any amount of sovereignty or power the

key to collapse the whole structure would collapse so they would go on to prison and i think they think that their pursuit repression is the only option they have fall is not an option is not on the table because i mean if all is to stall wall that is likely to slip. away retreat because it is not. been elected by the people it has been there because of the support of the americans and the british and the west because of the support from the people there and we look been elected they do not believe in it actually they do not believe in democracy they do not believe in a human rights or in the right of people to do their own and decide their own distant star i don't think reform is an option to divide the moment so taking into account everything you just listed they do expect in some tougher action against the regime to be taken by international bodies like the un security council for

example. well this is this has always been our whole wonder of the of the people however we are always struck by the stands by both the united. kingdom they are locked in a position they don't want to. do to allow me the lesser election to be taken they are only interested in action to be taken against syrian regime who are caught against. twenty four of one hundred because they believe that this is their own territory this is them who are running this three. years of security in terms of routine terror of economy and they don't want to reach the border this is the quickest route so they are likely to continue but i think there will be a point in time when that city is not going to work because. it will just really embarrassed its own allies by its own actions like this is not to allow or

to ban all the demonstrations and we know the critical three in the world access to energy will balance out right the people's right to do restraint. we watch it closely if i got a time for now but thank you for your thoughts there are so clearly side she had been from the bahrain freedom movement splinter currently. britain's revoked a man citizenship for refusing to spy on fellow muslims on a few minutes tonight the same why are you crazy islamic community feel is the war on terror is being used as an excuse for racial profiling arabs. by the apparent suffering of tel aviv's hard stance may only be down to political rivalry among the top politicians reporting on battles a little later too. it's

perched atop a jar and the view from that the ball scrubland stretches as far as the eye can see apt for a city to all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance i bear in railway but the a spiritual center. seems like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers in blessid water to commemorate the baptism of jesus. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies the balls to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic siberian oil of its

time bringing in a third of the state revenue put the location head of the shoes for the russians the russian crowds who had a revolt against the eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists worse than hair and drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also served up some bit of irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office where nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here and they led a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves was leading this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had thoughts of a scape but within the year the czar and his family would be dead.

this is r.t. live from moscow now for years british intelligence has been working to safeguard national security good threats such as terrorism and espionage but the secretive nature of their work sometimes gives rise to suspicion of extreme tactics targeting innocent people that is top police reports no one no one claims 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 because he refused to work for m i five. is that he's a muslim and believes and he's approximation of being a muslim being an islamist. or 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 campaigners raising awareness for maddie's plight said that the constant threats made by british intelligence made life so on bearable 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 help us these will become tactics that were being used because mali 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's

a petition is in the conduct of the british consul and the british consul see that we have order to remove 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 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

nizer to confirm nor deny speaker lieschen allegations or a solution in respect of intelligence matters these policies mean teen into could only disagree. denies the allegations made on behalf of your client. this case is a classic case of where profiling and kind of almost nude across policies within this war on terror have resulted in an innocent individual helpless young man effectively 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 polly boyko r t london. israel says the rana stepped away from its alleged pursuit of atomic weapons defense minister ehud barak explain that to run it you sort of it's a rich to really him to make sure roads for medical research well that's in

contrast to promise and in your own statement at the un last month that iran was on the brink of creating a nuclear bomb in our middle east correspondent paula slit with the latest. 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 binyamin netanyahu both have repeatedly warned against is the nuclear capability of the ran and have long governing pimping israeli strike we saw an attorney who 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 barac 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. let me take you through some top international stories and brief now on a motorcycle bomb. killed at least eight people and injured dozens of others in a damascus suburb another explosive device was diffused nearby the u.n. arab league envoy meantime visiting china to try and give support to his efforts to broker peace. three separate attacks in southern afghanistan has claimed the lives of at least eighteen people first off 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 bombs killed at least ten civilians most of them women

and children and 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 perspired 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 party in july wednesday's instant highlights the struggle the bring libya under control a year after the revolution. turkey's prime minister is in berlin but got no response from thousands who gathered in the german capital. i know. i do want to live as a weapon to the real groups in syria on the other hand he's trying to exert influence in europe demonstrators to the syrians living in germany accused of war mongering by supporting rebels with the recent cross border shelling and grounding of syria planes now while probably chancellor merkel discussed syria one thorn in the talks

is turkey's drawn out a u. membership application everyone's patience is running out giving a ten year deadline now to let it join turkey will go elsewhere but german m.p. told us for there's a fine line between keeping turkey on side while 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. interventionist policy the human rights situation. terrible where over one hundred journalists in prison in turkey. ten thousand political prisoners there for the turkish government coming to europe and talking about integration and human rights but not defending human rights in talking and the turkish government they are making escalation politics to water 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. syria should citizenship for so if you fancy new passport rather than removing its borders. those are big enough wallets to then buy into the struggling government we're reporting on that on line tonight all tito called and america's skid hounded by the courts as to whether the nasal now says qualified enough to make me sniff out suspects. in a few minutes here in ulti to me to see what the latest one is denied business news for you.

go home you know we both agree we agree we're going 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 can do to you agree that the voters have a choice to have sex with you wondering 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 t.v. . government

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alone a warm welcome to our tea is a business update with me dimitri medvedev and co shareholders in the largest nickel mine in the world nor cynical greeting the rumors that basically the shareholder the spew between the two main owners could be coming to an end possibly now we're talking about russian billionaires elected the past can lead to an apartheid and they both around a quarter of the company each for years they've been arguing about dividends and different issues of management of the company now come assad writes that they're about to sign a new shareholder agreement which could result in butts on either buying shares or a new independent director being. brought in by elected

a pastor and other shows one of whom you see in the bottom right size of your screen is another metal so i could ease a likely candidate for that post so we'll see how that develops of course. another story british conglomerate virgin and russia's nano corporation ross nano will now collectively invest into g.e. now to do this they've created a mutual fund worth hundreds of millions of dollars virgin's president richard branson told us an exclusive interview that third of a billion will be invested in energy efficiency enterprises actually to catch that interview hand richard branson's comments about how frustrated he was with losing the race for the london moscow route to easy jet you will have to watch us tomorrow we've got a whole new form of business news coming in for our program at least tomorrow night at six thirty and eight thirty pm london time this is a new thing ten minute program so do do not miss that if you have the chance now

let's move on to the markets where the american markets finally begun this week's trading for two days they were closed because of superstorm sandy and they did open and they certainly with an upswing but right now they're being pressured down by worries that basically the damage is caused by hurricane sandy could be disastrous with around fifty billion dollars the world now apple is one of the biggest losers on the nasdaq that's after a month of reshuffle over in europe this is close to the end of the session seeing the footsie now declining almost one percent has been pushed down by pretty much shares with all over the markets and let's take a look at what's happening in currencies the euro is still rising against the dollar a bit this is one hopes that greece will soon gain a bailout the russian ruble is pretty boring today as you can see there barely any change and the russian markets saw a positive ending of the day after two sessions of losses.