agreed journalists faces trial for publishing a list of the country's alleged top tax evaders as media workers strike over threats to freedom of speech. third party us presidential comes at joel stein is arrested for a minor offense once again just days ahead of the election which critics claim could be richer thanks to flaws in the voting system. and british prime minister david cameron suffers a crushing defeat with the party rebels turning on his plans to give more money to the. international news live from moscow this is r.c.

with me thanks for joining it's a major media scandal is developing in greece where a journalist is facing trial charged with a breach of privacy cost us bucks of honest was arrested on monday after he had published those so-called god list containing the names of thousands a wealthy greeks with secret swiss bank accounts on the same day two top t.v. presenters were suspended for criticizing a minister a great journalist a nonstop forty eight hours trying to con wednesday condemning what they called a quandary on free speech and for more let's now talk to my knowledge school state is journalist for electrodes steeples newspaper who is it after this for us good morning monologist welcome to the program also of. course it's vaxevanis is in court as we speak so how much will the verdict in this case mean for investigative journalism in greece entering or. we don't used to have this grand of trials and investigations about journalists because we heard there pretty soon greece but as we can see they go out. some changes mr about seven this issue is really difficult

issue for press because he published for from his magazine the name of the two thousand name of bromine and greeks which they have a bank account in the switzerland maybe they had some they had some text evasions but this is not sure for this isn't now he's going to trial of course. greeks doesn't like this kind of things and so for this reason many greeks will be in front of the trial today. and also there's an ongoing strike over this is functional to t.v. presenters as well who criticize the minister on ash would that be such punishments for simply questioning government actions that. yeah there is an opinion that some governments are trying to manipulate the media because of the. because they are a gang of these new measures of i.m.f.

and of course troika for this is. some people believe that this is a message to media to stop to criticize the government good quality should government which includes three parties. yeah we're talking about this like gandhi list cording to some reports reports at this list of thousands of greeks with secret so his bank accounts of course has been in government possession for over two years now so should they have acted on it well the income would have reportedly cut around church one percent of greece's bunch and why has there has been no action that. this is a question the why why journalists are now in trial and no. they don't send the politicians to the trial because two years fine as most ministers submissive of course dandenault mr venizelos and also mrs tonight has now had this list and they said they didn't know anything about the names because it was in a u.s.b.

stick which in this is like god given to mr public or started two years ago nothing has changed in these two years and now journalists like me sort of are seventies publishing saw his work and politicians didn't do the work so they have to go to. the right how can the government redeem itself now. they have to postpone these trial to a dance of oxidize and they have to start to investigate the names of these least because there are names it's two thousand and fifty nine names so they have to investigate if there is a tax evasion or not the. right to know in this state is journalist greece's. newspaper thank you very much. you. moving on now just days before the u.s. presidential election a green party candidate jill stein has been iressa press section time in two weeks

trying to reach acts of its protesting against an oil pipeline in taxes stein was later released from jail after being charged with trespassing green party officials called mock latte's as a tentative to obama and tony are being sidelined dr stein. was assisting the activists in order to make a statement she was delivering supplies to the protesters i understand that they were camping out in trees they were in the they were in the way of the construction of the pipeline we do know that the last time dr stunned was arrested about two weeks ago when she attempted to enter the obama romney debate that was taking place at hofstra university on long island she and running mate sherry hogg alone were detained and handcuffed to a chair for four eight hours before being released the obama romney debates are sponsored by the commission on presidential debates which is itself owned by

the democratic and republican parties for the express purpose of privileging their own candidates excluding other candidates and we we call that an outrage so kind as joel stein and we'll get another chance to break the mainstream media had located right on the eve of the vote and he will because the final round of that debates live on monday. we both agree we agree we have 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 and there are two of you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wondered how to vote for what 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 team. with obama and romney still running

neck and neck critics say the close race will make it easier to rake the election some claim they called america's voting system is flawed as it relies on equipment which can easily be tampered with and lacks transparency and accountability as all she's in this to say trick and it reports. the u.s. a beacon of democracy and an example to be followed by the rest of the world one big source of pride is its fundamental concept of free and fair elections american elections are a disgrace it's like walking into the kitchen of a first class restaurant and losing or appetite at what you see because we have an election system a voting system that is completely nontransparent an opinion shared by many political experts and educators if you were here. in a magician suit who then went behind the curtain came out having first shredded the ballots to tell you who won would you trust that process and that process largely

to blame is the outdated elec tronics voting system in the states where all they have this electronic voting it could be a real problem. if you don't have some other type of backup source to verify the vote count. it could be a problem spread friedman is an independent award winning blogger who has covered the u.s. election system for years he calls the problem a pandemic and says changes along. overdue every single state in the union uses electronic voting a third of the voters this year will vote on one hundred percent on verifiable touch screen voting systems electronic voting systems. the rest of the country by and large will vote on paper ballots but those paper ballots are also counted by electronic systems unless you can see inside a computer there's no way to know if those computers are tallied those ballots correctly several experiments conducted on electronic voting machines have proven

that simple keystrokes and some knowledge of science and computers could flip results the security side of the machine clears being created in numbers and insert the correct numbers experts say the accuracy of the vote count even with people a trail is a myth in the ninety nine percent plus percent of the cases those ballots never see the light of day or never examined never reach out to basically american elections at this point have virtually zero claim on public confidence and which intimacy the rules and specific ations of how lections are held very locally and state by state four thousand different counties each of them use a different type of system a different type of voting system each of them have different flaws different vulnerabilities one particular company that makes electronic voting machines in the us has earned a dubious reputation for unverifiable results as records vanish into thin air i go to an a.t.m. and it's a debug machine i get a confirmation slip and i go around the corner to vote and i you know make my vote

and there's no record deeble don't other voter machine production companies are also known to have strong partisan affiliations they are not accountable to any voters. they are not just private but but private and extreme in their political sympathies democrats don't actually win that many elections to be precise democrats almost never win close elections and the trick therefore is to see to it that a race is. looks close improving the election process in this digital age doesn't appear to be on anyone's agenda including barack obama's our president who won't talk ever about election fraud and denies that it has ever happened even when you know members of his own party have been the victims of it and while the number of reported flaws grows with each passing election over the past decade since two thousand when i think congress was pretending to want to make things better what has happened is things have gotten much much worse it appears stealing an election

in the us maybe a candidate certain way to secure a win it's easy as one two three in this digital age of smartphones tablets and satellite navigation systems american voters will head to the polls this november to cast their ballots using antiquated and unreliable voting machines machines that will ultimately determine who will lead this nation in much need of its own repairs as they say pretty new york. without coming out standing up to authority. protesters in bahrain defy a ban on public gatherings as the government is censured by rights groups for suppressing basic freedoms. on the first signs of friction within a government come to light ahead of next year's elections were revealed why iran is becoming a stumbling block that and plenty more coming up and that he was. what's

the difference between a samurai sword and a blind guys walking stick well known if you're one of the cops in northern england an elderly blind architect was tasered in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used to nearby crime honest mistake because so. words are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth who was shot in the back to death or the unarmed guy in a wheelchair who got blown away by the boys in blue i understand that being in the police is rough everyone lies to you and any given day you could be shot dead so i get it when after a long police chase someone just snaps and in all honesty fire when the police might do the same thing but it takes

a certain kind of person who enjoys abusing their uniform to make the helpless suffer you can't tolerate sadists or those with napoleon complexes in the police and you know what they aren't that hard to spot in the shower because if you like to tase the elderly or shoot wheelchair bound people then you probably don't have much of a certain something but that's just my opinion. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the iran tightrope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads to parties still dictate will there be. this election up close guys every day to interfere on our team.

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this is welcome back british prime minister david cameron has suffered a massive but from his own policy which revolted against the country's funding of the euro skeptic tories joined forces with the opposition and approved the motion that calls for the u.k.'s cash flow to brussels to become out and has cameras for a significant defeat in parliament since taking power and twenty turn off his safa has the details from london for us but we saw a very. passionate debate in the house of commons and a defeat also at least for prime minister david cameron they were debating the negotiating position of the budget the fifty plus tory.

benches have filed this motion calling for the real time cards for in the between twenty forty and twenty twenty and at the very minimum they want the t.v. for use and so that david cameron's position the government's position was that when they get to these negotiations that are happening in brussels in a couple of weeks time they'll be meeting with european leaders they were going for was to have a rise in line with inflation which would have been about fifty percent well that was not good enough it was very interesting in the house of commons as we saw a lot of the m.p.'s for the first time talking and standing up for the voice of their constituents there's been a very very strong feeling that with such title sarah the most is. that people think it simply isn't fair to the to be asking for their budget increase we have one person saying not a penny more that was the message from the people that he was speaking to as he said a very very impassioned debate is not going to be binding on the prime minister but

it's certainly going to be putting him under pressure when he doesn't use european leaders in brussels later in the month. in bahrain protesters have defined a recent bond on public gatherings by flooding onto the streets of the company noma they're demanding the ruling sunni monarchy release political prisoners and put an end to discrimination authorities brought in the new restrictions on tuesday claiming the rallies which have been ongoing for almost two years now posed a threat to national unity international human rights groups have called on the state to immediately lift the ban saying it violates basic freedoms after eighty people have been killed and thousands arrested since the start of the unrest and the opposition m.p.'s fade recess nothing is being done to stop government killings . this is against article seventeen of the constitution and it is against the international act of political and civil rights which is part of

the local law here actually over the past year and i have. three shows were very peaceful very peaceful not the senior old has been charged of the traitor and all this just peaceful and was of course attacked by the government police the problem is that over the past few months or so many people who were killed by the government. and also lots of people are being tortured in the b.g. and there is no nothing being done against the government has ensued five billion dollar just recently from the very beginning of trees just to support it in this atrocity is really actually the way it is is doing just that the money all over the world in the public relations is just too clear. by its image why it

is killing its people. by foreign army actually from pakistan from all over the world. a massive explosion on the outskirts of the saudi capital riyadh reportedly killed fourteen people and dangerous dozens more the blast caused by a tank a blowing up after crashing into a concrete flyover almost leveled and in time that's troll building scores of other surrounding houses and vehicles quickly caught fire from the explosion. in kuwait security forces have climbed down on a strong march against the detention of an opposition leader the crowd headed towards a prison where the former m.p. is held for critical comments about the country's a western leader but who are stopped with tear gas and smoke bombs this comes amid rising tension of the changes to kuwait elect. the opposition is blaming the government for using registration to favor pro regime candidates in next month's parliamentary poll. you are the towns to overthrow syrian president bashar al assad

have taken an eternal with secretary of state clinton calling for a major or shaping of the rebel leadership or and has grown disillusioned with theories main opposition alliance the national council for failing to gain support from other groups clinton claims the leadership should represent those fighting on the front line the syrian opposition consists of barris rebel militias many of which have reportedly been infiltrated by radical islamists links to al qaida. in ukraine with almost all votes counted the ruling party in the lead with just over thirty percent in the parliamentary election the opposition party of jailed for prime minister yulia tymoshenko is less than five percent behind previously the part is that of one of its main goals is to impeach president he entered college international observers have called the election a backward step for democracy. lead to actual space station has been forced to change its orbit to avoid collusion with the remains of america's satellite menu as were carried out successfully and the station is now located one kilometer further

away from us the news came hours after a russian cargo spacecraft docked with the isis with two point five tons of vital supplies on board. israel has once again stepped up its anti iran rhetoric prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been pushing for more outside pressure on taran to stifle atomic ambitions during a visit to france the premier called for tougher sanctions on the islamic republic this is why the israeli defense minister barak's claims to iran have floated for less nuclear weapons program and called us live reports its domestic matters that lie behind the contrast a remark. 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 is the nuclear capability of iran and have warned of an impending israeli strike we saw it

on yahoo not so long ago at the united nations general assembly during a red line but what many experts here in israel say is that that was a red line by which israel would strike iran rather than a red line in terms of a deadline by which tehran would acquire nuclear capability the 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 saying that netanyahu may not have been completely truthful around the iranian nuclear threat so to me 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. and on our web site r.t.

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good afternoon welcome to your capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. the zeer headlines for wednesday october thirty first two thousand and twelve. there you go the u.s. stock market reopened after two days of sandy and some ask if this super storm had regulators bearing not on the side of caution because of erosion of the shoreline but the a rhodesian of the best are confidence and a year that seen m.f. global terror grand knight capital disasters all to name a few on the one year anniversary of m.f. global's collapse which by the way is to day we'll talk about what we think is standing in the way of restoring confidence we'll talk to a customer in peregrine who is still trying to find a way to hold regulators accountable and a superstorm sandy saw mother nature's wrath amount to death just struction fire unprecedented flooding on the east coast of the u.s.

bad for victims is it also bad for some investors we'll talk to steve evans of artemis about catastrophe bonds and why the hunt for yield is growing this market and an ad for the tallest building support for whaling research these are probably not the ways japan's taxpayers were thinking the government would spend earthquake and tsunami reconstruction funds but that's what a widely reported audit found we'll talk disaster relief let's get to today's capital account. superstorm sandy has flooded streets boys holmes and buildings caused power outages

fires devastation including the loss of dozens of lives in the u.s. this is according to reports much of this all has occurred in new york the largest city in the united states now those in the business of trying to put a dollar figure on the economic damage of sandy put the loss at up to twenty billion dollars it's according to aqua caton i should mention these numbers are still very preliminary they estimate five to ten billion dollars of that amount i cited is expected to be insured losses so that also means a loss for the insurance industry and possibly security is related to it so what is the impact on the catastrophe bond market what it is the catastrophe bond market joining me is stephen evans founder and owner of artemis he consults and writes about catastrophe bonds of risk transfer and more artemis dot b.m. and he's going to tell us all about it so first of all thank you so much for being on the show welcome to capital account.