up to a decade behind bars that is not the price people could pay for wearing a monster in demonstrations in canada the parliament approves a controversial bill. the russian punk band pussy riot kicks up a new storm in a battle for trademark rights that's after the group's growing fame money shows a scramble of those seeking to cash in on the brand. of third party candidates for the u.s. presidency advocacy defense cuts over spending on the military stays out of the duel between the corporate backed frontrunners. and a new video emerges reportedly showing the brutal killings of syrian soldiers by militias and this comes as washington wants a major overhaul of syria's opposition saying it will seek new level deja's out of

those actually fighting on the ground. it's one pm here in moscow you live with our team you with me to about once a keeping our identity private during demonstrations has become a punishable offense in canada and moss activists could now face up to ten years behind bars authorities say that motion is aimed at tackling the growing threat of violence and vandalism canada's massive student protests against her wish and hikes earlier this year and led to hundreds being arrested canadian radio reporter michael foran says of the new law will criminalize anti-government demonstrations nationwide. this law basically what it does is that it will criminalize people who are in protests if the police of that city deem the protest to be an unlawful

assembly of course that varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction terms of how easy it is for the police force to say this is an unlawful assembly or does. a lawful assembly but let's look at montreal for example and across get back in any major city and come back where if you were fifty people or more in a in a peaceful protest a nonviolent protest that could be depended on unlawful assembly if you have not presented your itinerary and the directions of according to your protest routes to the police force of the municipality and come back before the protesters started and that's what's causing a lot of controversy because people are saying you know it's my inherit right to go out and express our opinions be able to go to the streets and take to the streets in a peaceful manner when i was covering as a reporter the major i guess you protests that were happening in downtown one show because of the student protests that were happening there basically what i saw from my perspective is that i was even attacked for basically just filming police for doing my job for being able to report on the story what what's happening here and i

mean to some extent people said to me well you know you have understand they're only doing their job that on a certain extent i think. barack obama and mitt romney are throwing everything they've got into a last ditch effort to woo voters and undecided states in the closing days of the pre-election dual promises of change an economic recovery a taking center stage and what ironically the most expensive presidential race in u.s. history but talk about any cuts to the method of defense spending is up then from the front lines of the campaign with both candidates expected to keep the mighty military machine rolling as marina but neither reports. our military spending has gone up every single year that i've been in office we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined china russia france united kingdom you name it america has a responsibility and the privilege of helping defend freedom we've got to

strengthen our military long term i will not cut our military budget in a post nine eleven america the pentagon's budget has grown more than forty percent averaging half a trillion dollars per year critics say a new party or presidents in the white house won't change the policies firmly cemented in washington is that both of these men are very much continuations of the military industrial complex is domination of our political system in our democracy so when they keep talking about how they're going to supply jobs increasingly that's where the jobs come from. both foreign interventions and also this giant so-called homeland security department price of defending the homeland critics say continues to come at a grave cost to civil liberties this war on terror you know what led to what we discussed before the n.b.a. now you have the military mice police you know cracking down on protesters now you have this massive empire in order to sustain. you need to

have peace. to make sure that the war machine reaches our earlier this year the former cia director applauded president obama for closely following the controversial policies of his part assessor and despite a campaign that was based upon a very powerful promise of transparency president obama and again in my view quite correctly. has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts as much as president bush more than six and a half thousand u.s. soldiers have been killed fighting america's post nine eleven wars and nearly fifty thousand have been wounded in action a reported quarter million americans who have fought in iraq or afghanistan have been diagnosed with mental health injuries from combat service even as america's wars wind down the suicide rate among troops has surged to a thirty year high according to the pentagon this year's total may reach as many as

one suicide per day it's not just what happens in war like the deaths and the injuries or what happens afterwards you know you have these they're basically veterans coming home you know to two broken communities and families with. moms and this in terms of the society is that something the wants you know do we want as a society where we have important members of our communities you know coming coming home with problems and that's the reality of war in the two thousand and twelve fiscal year payers funded a u.s. defense budget of five hundred forty four billion dollars it's estimated that some could provide two million military veterans with free medical care for thirty five years talking about national defense has been almost sacrosanct you know sort of like the thanks department one something to question that is to question.

something that is unquestionable and that has meant that the largest purge of the u.s. government spending has been beyond analysis beyond public scrutiny in four days americans will elect a leader for the next four years regardless of who wins the legacy of war cemented under the past to us. president's indicate that the roots of the largest defense budget will continue ballooning this causing many to ask if hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent to increase security or even road stability for forty three or are enough or not marty. and i want obama and romney to pull the us out of the deep ditch of dead some of the us and say overspending on defense is the main reason that they commonly ended up going down under in the first place there's no

more important issue in america today than i have which we are spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean our total is more than the top fifteen other nations in the world and says most americans know that this is just wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this is sort of violence around the world you know what happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt. as a presidential frontrunner as a shy away from slashing the defense budget the alternative names on the ballot have taken the opposite approach but third party candidates are given no chance to deliver their message in the mainstream media so r.t.

is helping break that blockade you can watch the final round of live debates between the green party's jill stein and libertarian gary johnson on monday. this month international writes on an international poll we should not bomb iran we need to cut the budget and bring the troops home we should end the war in afghanistan. the persecution of whistleblowers. we're not patriotic. they've gone from obscure russian protest group to a global phenomenon and now pussy riot is potential to cash in on that fame has seen a battle begin to get the group's name trademarked well on this let's cross live to our g.'s you see coming off who's joining us live now to see the girls back in the

headlines once again what's closest conflict. hi there oh well you know it looks like the girls from the punk band pussy riot may be toiling away on their hard labor prison sentences but that doesn't stop some folks from trying to cash in on their brand according to the russian language publication commerce and the wife of the company the belonging to the wife of marc bain he's one of the pussy right attorneys has filed to apply to to essentially commercialize the pussy riot brand in order to produce everything from t. shirts clothing toys pens and all kinds of other trademark goods now this hasn't exactly sat well with members of the band they stated that they conceived of the project as sensually a political protest as a nonprofit idea and are really even plea opposed to the commercialization of this story the article also actually mentions that there's a thirty thousand pounds contract in the works to make the pussy riot story into a feature film which again they're not exactly supporting now the punk band has

come to world attention and over the summer after their trial for lukas nisan charges over. mantei prudent man type rebel and protest and at the price a savior cathedral here in moscow they've been imprisoned as a result one of the members was freed and she has spoken out against the whole commercialization project the band has come under. international attention when celebrities like madonna staying and others took the cause under their wing madonna enough in the whole commercialization phase is selling t. shirts for pussy riot for about nineteen bucks a pop unclear where those profits are going to be going but again basically the story is that the wife of their attorney of all people is trying to cash in on this the band is opposed to it and it really remains to be seen whether they can be able to pull through with these rights but it's quite an interesting interesting conflict of interests especially in light of the fact that this is the company belonging to the wife of their attorney mark me. and i also want to mention

actually the story doesn't end there it started on and there really popular cartoon show called south park has also decided to make the right the punchline of their story when jesus christ came out saying that folks shouldn't be wearing their supports for causes on the wrist but instead on their t. shirt and he pulled off his jesus christ robes and said support pussy riot so pretty interesting developments in the story. you see company of live from moscow will keep following this story as it unfolds obviously thank you very much. by coming up later this hour all forking out to go green look at how berlin siple a new class shutdown and the accompanying shift towards renewable energy is the literary painful blow to family budget and. also a magnet media scandal continues to unfold. yet another report of his points away full dressed in the government with an alarming expose on the country's disintegrating economy this story in detail and many will just say hey.

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 with taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used in a nearby crime honest mistake because swords 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 on 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 the pollie and 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. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power power alone. cause if america changes trucks to a selection of clothes god monday nov fifth on our team.

is easy to. meet. says. it all sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. that's not on the title of.

markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. this is archie good. to have you with us a greek journalist who threatened to reveal a high profile government fraud remains in custody spiros cutouts of paris was arrested on wednesday after he promised to expose live on t.v. alarming facts and reported the connected to the country's painful bailout deal this comes off as another reporter stood trial on thursday for publishing a list of alleged top tax evaders mean all the country faces

a major media strike triggered by a suspension of two state t.v. presenters for criticizing them in a star name tim godzilla from free press magazine believes the greek government will go to any extent to stop the information from going public. to journalists in greece are absolutely doing their job the country is in crisis the people need to know what's going on and their rulers on telling the world these are journalists are doing is trying to reveal to the public the very most important information relating to the economic crisis the exposure relate to the real crisis in greece and in other countries too which is tax avoidance of the export of capital the taking of money out of the country which is what's happened in the greek economy the government is in absolute crisis in greece the economy is tottering the most terrible social deprivation it's a terrible time for greek people and they're being very badly treated not just by the greek by the whole european financial disparagement they need to know the truth but don't see how they can get away with prosecuting these people it's actually

going to be a very interesting test of freedom in greece. a brooches scene has occurred in the north off syria with twenty eight soldiers have been killed at the hands of rebels the video which can be independent be very fied supposedly show its opposition fighters berating the soldiers as they are laying on the ground they called assad's dogs to be full multiple rounds of fly it into their bodies the incident occurred close to a government troops have been clashing with militias trying to seize a key on the supply route this comes as one of the rebels main backers america announced a major opposition shake up with plans to head gray to influence the militants on the frontline political analysts every drive the things the move could be a prologue to military intervention. what's happened in recent months as the offensive from the syrian military. has developed what we've seen is that they have no real backing on the ground that is to say the manufactured opposition and so the

united states in their imperialist project and destroy the independent nation of syria has to find another way and so a shake up of the opposition with new quote unquote leaders emerging this is the u.s. strategy we have syrian opposition the manufactured opposition i should say has been riddled with al-qaeda and other forms of extremist many of them imported from the imperialist war against libya directly into syria the reality is they're arming the opposition they're arming the extremists because they want chaos in syria that is the only way to get military intervention and to move forward with the imperialist project we have to remember that the end of the u.s. adventure in syria ending in defeat i should say would be the end of us hegemony in the middle east if they're only able to continue their march from syria that means their attempt to destroy iran is unlikely to you hold that that means that their stranglehold over the persian gulf and the oil resources is weakening so they're

putting all their cards on the table and sort of putting all their chips on the bought when it comes to syria. on our website right now for you the us as the ones in israel that an attack on iran would compromise washington's maneuvers in the region. and cloaking proactive hollywood star george clooney is related to the sixteenth president of america abraham lincoln details on that story and much more on r.t. dot com. germany wallace saw feeling the pinch from sori electricity bills by billions of ject of to rid the country of nuclear energy security and environmental issues behind the bed seemed to be perfectly valid but as i was paid all of our reporters

ultimate implications could hit germans hot. it was a resoundingly no to new clear from the german chancellor merkel abandoned nuclear power completely step by step until the end of twenty twenty two as a country with things that we can become pioneers on the way to create an age of renewable energy the two thousand and eleven meltdown at the fukushima power plant in japan the worst atomic energy disaster since chernobyl is the key motivation for rushing through nuclear decommissioning is the hardest part security concerns a very strong this is the main factor in the decision to begin with duction of nuclear energy in germany potomac energy accounted for just under eighteen percent of german electricity in two thousand and eleven can renewable take up that slack government figures show that for every wind farm bill to generate three thousand megawatts the amount needed to power three million homes the only expected to deliver one hundred megawatts to the national grid in reality though over the last

ten years they've only been getting around half of that slightly over sixty. percent the original three thousand which is force germany back into the arms of fossil fuel with nuclear power taken off the table by angle of merkel germany is building a new fleet of coal fired power stations this one may it's a cologne opened its doors an ogress of this year and it's up to these new power stations to provide germany with the electricity it's crying out for electricity prices are key for the international competitiveness of the non-ferrous metals industry if the electricity price increases by once and total cost are increasing by one hundred eighty millions per year industry is already feeling the pinch the steel workers in north rhine-westphalia went on strike to try and save their mill from closure it didn't work they may not be the only ones germany's importing more and more electricity from abroad which will mean higher prices some plans have

closed in germany sun's past threatened to close. the company's are thinking to relocate new investments to countries abroad germany's neighbors don't share berlin safety concerns over nuclear power france uses atomic energy to generate the vast majority of its electricity whereas to the east poland is set to invest over fourteen and a half billion euro in the construction of eight new nuclear power plants one of them around one hundred kilometers from the german city of dresden peter oliver r.t. germany. on the way as a breaking news that with r.t. is abby martin. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them

even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is there a from the nine hundred fifty s. these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them apart and therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was off was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients shattered bones in their shattered lives in the goal when professing designed his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to be always out of center nowadays seeking series

three focus medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg length i mean request to meet his fifteen centimeters to be still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out there press. expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations for one of the reasons that brought peace washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he

fared auditors in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to every user just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i hear guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter russian girl who found he's a regional hype quite endearing yet he still wanted to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took to told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

cultures that so much about the taxpayers and i mean to say she needs me because my people are very sandy is coming on but in the storms wake up with the conversations of money climate change you turn to american political discourse and debate politics. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call. concludes the longest while this campaign in our history covers if you let me change format before that's some additional time for. twists and turns in the hallmarks of this like you know like what we're going to do to them we're going to be like this.

is going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set i want to talk about a case of two marijuana growers they were caught on secret surveillance cameras placed by the police on the suspects private property in wisconsin now the two men are facing life in prison and millions of dollars in fines for manufacturing and distribution of marijuana charges now i don't want to get into talking about the drug war that's a mess in itself but i will mention that not all of the drug war is going in a normal is failure disastrous ways of our tax dollars but an ever expanding prison industrial complex but has begun to condition american to a life under surveillance just on monday a federal judge ruled that under the right circumstances surveillance cameras can be placed on private property without a warrant we in this country have moved in a surveillance state or more accurately the surveillance state has moved into this country where our rights freedoms and privacy are systematically being taken away

all the name of protecting our way of lights time to wake up folks the only thing threatening our way of life is the loony nanny state it's self that will stop at nothing but you and me under the thumb of it's control time to stand up speak out and break the set. so guys we're now less than a week away from the presidential election so let's talk about something that time again being left out of the conversation voter fraud and no i'm not talking about voting under someone else's identity rather i'm talking about the actual rigging of the elections and out right nipple ation of voting machines take this for example ohio secretary of state john husted has skirted around election laws to install experimental software patches on vote counting tabulators and up to thirty nine ohio counties so what are these uncertified software patches and could they have the potential to alter the election results those are the.