a new shocking video emerges apparently showing how syrian rebels killed twenty eight government soldiers sparking a wave of outrage from un human rights groups over the reported massacre. while third party candidates for the us presidency advocate defense cuts over spending all the military stays out of the duel between the corporate front runners. and the russian punk band pussy riot picks up a new storm in a battle for trademark rights that's after the group's growing fame unleashes a scramble of those seeking to cash in on the ground.

hello and welcome to r t where on screen and online twenty four hours a day and on karen tara while the united nations has condemned new gruesome footage of what appears to be government soldiers being killed by syrian rebels amnesty international says if confirmed it could be a possible war crime the brutal scene reportedly occurred in the north of the country and resulted in the deaths of twenty eight troops the video which can't be independently verified supposedly shows opposition fighters are raiding the soldiers as they're lying on the ground they are called assaults dogs before multiple rounds are fired into their bodies this comes as one of the rebels principle backers of america ditch syria's main opposition group the national council saying it will have greater influence to militants on the front line the s.n.c. lashed back at washington claiming the us is undermining the revolution geo political analyst eric draitser thinks the move could be a prologue to military intervention. which happened in recent months as the. from

the syrian military as it 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 to destroy the independent nation of syria has to find another way in so a shake up of the opposition with new quote unquote leaders emerging this is the u.s. strategy leave 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 only in 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 hold and it 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 in the bot when it comes to syria barack obama and mitt romney are throwing everything they have got into a last ditch effort to move voters and on the side of states in the closing days of the pre-election till promises of change on economic recovery are taking center stage in what's ironically the most expensive presidential race in u.s. history but talk about any cuts to the massive defense spending is absent from the front lines of the campaign with both candidates expected to keep the mighty military machine rolling as marina point nine now 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 the united 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 to 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. we discussed or to any day now you have a military base police you know cracking down on protesters now you have this

massive. order just sitting there. 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 are 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 the deaths and injuries or what happens afterwards you know you have these there are ways better as coming home you know to two broken communities and families with. moms and dads in terms of the society is that something the wards you know do we want as a society where we have in part of the members of our community in the coming coming home or withdraw. 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 part 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 two u.s. presidents indicate that the roots of the largest defense budget will continue blooming this causing many to ask if hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent to increase security or he wrote stability of forty three are going up or not partying. and while obama and romney pledged to pull the us out of the deep ditch of debt some observers say over spending on defense is the main reason the economy ended up going down under in the first place there's no more important issue in

america today than how much we're spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean our total is is more than the top fifteen other nations in the world and so as most americans know that this is wasteful spending here they create 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 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 them before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt. as the presidential front runner 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 mean green party's jill stein and libertarian gary johnson on monday. this international writes on an international blog 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. like we do you. have gone from obscure russian protests rupe to a global phenomenon and now the riots potential to cash it all that fame has seen a battle begin to get the group's name trademarked for more let's cross live to our tease lucy costello so lucy all this is all about who owns the name is that right. that's right well pussy riot the members of the band themselves may be toiling away

in hard labor as a result of their. protest stunt behind me at the price they were cathedral but that hasn't stopped some people from trying to cash in on the pussy riot brand shockingly enough that the wife of one of the pussy riot attorneys has applied for a permit to essentially gain ownership of the brand rights in order to put out t. shirts and other various items this application has been rejected today we just learned that information so that's not going to happen but that hasn't stopped people from expressing outrage over the commercialization of this situation the band members themselves had said that this is supposed to be a political protest a nonprofit movement they're not happy with the fact that this is turning into a profit venture we've even also heard reports of there's a thirty thousand pound contract to put a full feature movie about pussy riot into works now the band has come under international attention over there stunned at the cathedral there was

a high profile trial here in russia where they were queues of hooliganism. motivated by religious hatred and as a result they got sentenced to labor in the end in a work camp one of the members was released october today actually prime minister dmitry medvedev spoke out about this issue and said that while he personally doesn't necessarily agree with their tactics he's not happy with the politicized politicized ation of the issue and thinks that they have served their time and it's time for them to choose to end the sentences for the remaining two members now as for the commercialization of pussy riot we've seen a lot of high profile celebrities coming to to the pussy riot because madonna apparently is selling t. shirts in support of pussy riot from one thousand bucks a pop unclear where those profits are going and we've also actually seen the pussy riot turn into the punchline of a comedy show called south park better broadcasts in the u.s. the episode was essentially making fun of people who rallied towards various causes

without actually understanding what those causes are all about and in it jesus christ came down and yelled at a bunch of the characters for wearing various protest bracelets saying that people shouldn't be expressing their political opinions on bracelets but instead on t. shirts and he revealed his jesus christ robes to show a free pussy riot t. shirt so that is the that is the development so far dimitri medvedev speaking out about this the permits for to commercialize it denied and of course we'll keep you updated on all the latest developments all right and with the latest there lucy coffin of live from moscow who really belongs to thank you lucy. now coming up later this hour there is no hiding from the canadian authorities protesters well now a face up to a decade behind bars if they are found to be wearing a mask during demonstrations. also a media scandal continues to unfold in greece has yet another reporter's put away for threatening the government with an alarming exposé on the country has just sent

a growing economy this story in detail and more just ahead. 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 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. two parties keep u.s. politics a woman way street. who will new voices disrupt the power of power and. force if america changes trucks to a selection of blue sky monday nov fifth one or two. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you flip something else you hear or see. some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. one. more news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to hope for a shelter old today. wealthy british style.

markets why not. then. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on r g. go back to the program on karen tara and keeping your identity private during demonstrations has become a punishable offense in canada and masked activists could now face up to ten years behind bars authorities say the motion is aimed at tackling the growing threat of violence and vandalism canada saw massive student protests against tuition hikes earlier this year and led to hundreds being arrested canadian radio reporter michael for eon says 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 now 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 it is a lawful assembly but let's look at montreal for example and across go back in any major city back where if you were fifty people or more in a peaceful protest a nonviolent protest that could be depended on a lawful assembly if you have enough presented your itinerary and the directions of according to your protests routes to the police force of the municipality into 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 me able to go to the streets and take to the streets. in a peaceful manner when i was covering as a reporter the major. protests that were happening in downtown montreal because of

the student protests that were happening there basically what i saw from microsoft 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 understand they're only doing their job that on a certain extent i think. a greek journalist who threatened to reveal a high profile government fraud remains in custody speed. was arrested on wednesday after he promised to expose live on t.v. alarming facts reportedly connected to the country's painful bailout deal this comes after another reporter stood trial on thursday for publishing a list of the legit top tax evaders meanwhile the country faced a major media strike triggered by a suspension of two state t.v. presenters for criticizing a minister on air tim gallop so from free press magazine believes the greek government would go to any extent to stop the information from going public. journalists in greece are absolutely doing their job the country is in crisis but

people need to know what's going on their rulers and i'm telling them what 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 to tax avoidance and the export of capital the taking of money out of the country which is one time to the greek economy the government is in absolute crisis in greece the economy is torturing those most terrible social deprivation it's a terrible time for greek greek will. be very badly treated not just by the greek of 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. right now for you in the u.s. warns israel that an attack on iran would compromise washington's maneuvers in the region. and politically probably out of hollywood star george clooney as related to

the sixteenth president of america abraham lincoln details on that story and much more on r.t. dot com. german well it's our feeling the pinch from soaring electricity bills prodded by berlin's objective to rid the country of nuclear energy security and environmental issues behind the. it seemed to be a perfectly valid but as peter oliver reports its ultimate implications could hit termers heart. it was a resoundingly no to nuclear from the german chancellor to the animal abandon nuclear power completely step by step until the end of twenty twenty two as a country within 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 are 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 the slack government figures show that for every wind farm built 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 sixteen 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 me it's a cologne store than ogust 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 increase 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 plants have closed in germany sunspot threaten to close. the companies off thinking to relocate new moons to countries abroad germany's neighbors don't share bill in 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 euros in the construction of eight new nuclear power plants one of them around one hundred kilometers from the german city of dresden peter all over

germany. time now for more world news this hour for chinese patrol ship have entered the waters of an archipelago disputed by tokyo and beijing vessels have sailed through the area a number of times in the last two weeks despite ongoing radio warnings from japan's coast guard both countries lay claim to the small chain of uninhabited islands which reportedly hold vast reserves of natural resources the territorial fallout has previously sparked mass protests in china and japan. heavily armed gunmen have encircled libya's parliament building angry at the approval of a new cabinet they also blocked surrounding roads with armed pickup trucks the gunmen mostly made up of former rebels are protesting against the lineup of new ministers slamming some members for their alleged links to the depots regime after colonel gadhafi libya's ruling national congress which voted on the cabinet on wednesday has struggled to bring the war torn country under control since last

year's revolution. authorities in kuwait have freed a prominent opposition figure on bail a former m.p.'s four day arrest over charges he and salted the nation's west turned back to government incited a wave of angry demos which were brutally suppressed by police officials also responded with a. morning they would toughen the crackdown on dissent should more protests to curb tensions in point were ignited by the proposed changes to be electoral law which critics say is aimed at shattering the opposition's chances in next month's parliamentary poll. and do stay with us in a few minutes on r t with the u.s. election just days away we hear from the editor of the american weekly magazine the nation on what the candidates have in store right after that to us our brand new investigative program the truth seeker and that's with daniel bushell. for.

trimmings in this tree even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it warms but we didn't use the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls by imitating the sounds they believe assumes can capture the power of nature. was. there are special instruments that accompany the singing if danny says there is

even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument. or was it of stopping a fall is causing the spirits of the horse coming to his dream he said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody and this human is called. to fly is one of the most famous groups. in the republic their next goal is to tour broad they say for you are opinion since difficult to pick up and sing so i ask them to teach me and see if i can do it little you cheer it up and they were.

sharing know you. was sure you can know who was you think gang are ok. but now it is a moody part of the song and not the actual scrooge singing which i wouldn't even try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met she looks like a deveny and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most as to modern mindset from two hundred years ago until sappy here she's not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature.

then who will add it are of the nation magazine it's great to have you guys once again all eyes on the u.s. election now and fingers crossed on both sides because the candidates are running really close to each other in exit polls what can become a decisive factor these days for either or you know the national polls show mitt romney and president obama running neck and neck but if you look at the nine states where this election will be decided because of our system the electoral college obama is still leading in many of those polls i think the hurricane might play

a role because obama has proven himself a decisive leader in dealing with a crisis and the economy is slowly improving the economy of course is the number one issue on americans and i think he will find a way to win this election well talking about economy i know it sounds like a simple question but which of the candidates has a better plan to get the use economy back on track there is no simple answer when it comes to the economy as you know there is a world crisis i believe president obama has a better plan he understands the need in the short term to stimulate the economy remember he came in in what was the greatest financial crisis since the depression in our country his recovery program helped create or save two point five million jobs to invest in america today in the short term and create jobs is very important i think president romney's idea of cutting taxes for the richest.