you know. what i know what's really happening to the global economy is a report on r.g.p. . shocking video of the electorate of war crimes emerges appearing to show syrian rebels executing government troops. america's record military budget is all for topic as the presidential candidates resume campaigning in the aftermath of superstorm sandy. and pussy riot fail to get their claws into copywriting in their wake in the wake of their future old stunt as a bit to make big bucks from their brand is thrown out. though and welcome to our team live from moscow where it is five o'clock on karen terrill well evidence of brutality by syria's rebel fighters has been branded

shocking by human rights organizations and the u.n. says the killings of syrian soldiers if confirmed constituted another war crime all nine footage appears to show the summary execution of twenty eight syrian troops in the north the video can't be independently verified but is seemingly all for eating and taking the soldiers some of whom were wounded before shooting them it happened after anti assad fighters overran army checkpoints between damascus and aleppo says one of the rebels main backers the united states plans an opposition shake up and had greater influence on militants but not to investigative journalist james corbett editor. hello there james now human rights group amnesty says this shocking footage depicts a potential war crime in progress how much more astute expect serious violence to get. well sadly it is almost certain to increase from here as unfortunately the only way that we could see an amelioration in this conflict right now is if the

parties that are backing up and supporting and making all of this violence possible were to actually back away from the situation but unfortunately we've seen really just a redoubling our efforts on the side of certainly the us and some of the other actors who are now ditching the idea of the coalition that was supposedly going to to man the did the rebel forces the syrian national council which was supposedly the diplomatic face of of this effort to overthrow assad now they're ditching that in favor of trying to to work more directly with some of the groups there and to really micromanage what's going on from the turkish border so with that decision i think comes the message to the to the rebel fighters that they of course have the green light to continue and even escalate their operations so i think we're not going to see in abating of violence any time soon now with the violence committed on both sides why are the u.s. or its allies universally condemning what's happening rather than only piling into the syrian government. well i think the answer to that is obvious it's the

underlying hypocrisy that we've been noting here since the beginning of this conflict which is to say that that certainly there the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous documents coming out from different organizations including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently birdied in the headlines time and time again and even some of the reports that did note some of these atrocities being committed by the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course and it paid off for see this underlying this and that's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west too to be on the

floors and on the side of these rebel forces even though they are committing atrocities and moscow says u.s. calls to forming a syrian opposition only encourage the violence and trying to oust assad why is it washington's political focus on a cease fire. well again the answer to that is obvious because the only real plan that's on the table that right now that's feasible is the one that china just put forth the four point proposal for the syrian troops which also does not include any language for assad to step down it does not in court include any enforcement language which is a political long starter in washington because of course those are the two key issues that they want to make sure is part of any type of proposal so once again we see that that washington is really absolutely keen to make sure that assad stepping down as part of any proposal and i think they're not going to accept anything short of that so i think they are content to watch these atrocities and and these murders and executions and torture pile up in the name of trying to get rid of assad and

unfortunately the only real peace plan on the table at the moment isn't even being considered seriously by washington all right james cora but added there of the corbett report that details iraq. as america's eastern seaboard works to get life back to normal after superstorm sandy so both barack obama and mitt romney resume election airing in the final days before the vote the damage done by the deadly storm is put at about fifty billion dollars but neither touted it's ready to dip into the massive military budget to help pay for it right a part not looks at the cost of such policies. 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 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 in the last lead we discussed or the n.b.a. now you have not terribly nice police you know cracking down on protesters now you have this massive empire in order to sustain their. you need to

have peace. to make sure that the war machine rages are earlier this year the former cia director applauded president obama for closely following the controversial policies of his part of sesar 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 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 like the deaths and the injuries or what happens afterwards you know you have these they're basically better is coming home you know to two broken communities and families with broken bodies and road miles and this in terms of the society is not something that we want 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 taxpayers 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 ballooning this causing many to ask if hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent to increase security or even road stability forty three are going up or not our team. obama and romney have laid into each other's views on cash for the military and how to maintain the armed forces some observers say this money would be better spent elsewhere and 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 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 that seems like the legacy of us being involved in all these onus of wars over these last several years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other. empires that just they just spent themselves out of existence that happened to the soviet union and there are unnecessary wars that happen to you know it happened to the british you know it 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. and ignores and slashing military spending are calls you'll hear from the democratic or republican campaigns but there are presidential candidates making

those calls they're the third party candidates who are shunned by the mainstream but aren't getting a voice on our team the final round of live debates is here on monday. and. we should not. we need to cut the budget and bring the troops home we should end the war in afghanistan. the first to keep up with. the. britain's lawmakers who voted against more cash for europe slammed a deputy ministers warning they threatened to isolate the country within the e.u. that's coming up. also greece goes gunning for journalists who know too much as

a reporter who says he's got on the deficit gets arrested the details 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 was taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used at 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 the pollie and complexes in the police or you know what they aren't that hard to spot in the shower because if you like to taste the elderly or 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 of the. party if america changes trucks to its election close guys monday november fifth on or to.

be soon which great if you need food from fans to pressure. the stunts on t.v. don't come. back you're watching r t live from moscow the people who brought greece to its knees should be held to account by leaders but one journalist who tried to do just that remains under arrest right now spit also cut outs a fire this was swept into custody straight after appearing on t.v. so. proof that the deficit data that led to greece's bailout was fabricated another

journalist was tried for publishing a list of a legit top tax evaders but he was quickly acquitted an apparent blow to the government investigative journalist gavin make that in the says whistleblowers who strive to reveal the truth are being persecuted by governments around the world and . i'm very concerned about seeing a great journalist arrested it's a disgrace and much has to be done by our own international organization to protect him and to protect others like him we have problems also in serbia and in bosnia herzegovina many places where journalists are at risk against organized crime in italy a reporter is at risk a newspaper simply won't publish things so we have a problem of the fear and during the iraq war here one journalist went on the b.b.c. radio early in the morning a man named gilligan and he said a few things about what actually happened which we know now to be entirely true and he had his career was destroyed the b.b.c. board of governors had to resign the director general of the b.b.c. left the b.b.c.

and that's why capping in some latin american countries but it's broke and that's the degree of pressure there is a journalist not to say things the way they really know them to be journalists are risk politically all the time and it's our job to support them. britain's deputy prime minister is warning rebel lawmakers they could leave britain isolated in the future conservative m.p.'s who are in the governing coalition sided with the opposition and a fine prime minister david cameron by voting for cuts to the money britain hands over to brussels every year let's now talk to. a euro m.p. from the u.k. the parents party now is nick clegg right is the u.k. moving away from europe. but the u.k. is certainly moving away from other people moving away from europe shall we say if you look at recent opinion polls eighty percent of people want a referendum around sixty percent of people actually want to leave the european union altogether so the people are certainly moving the way the political class starts to move good. how they will take like you said this is quite right actually

we can repatriate powers unless you have an iron fist behind those nine first has to be a referendum on our membership of the year and then we can invoke something called article fifty of the lisbon treaty which means we can then start negotiation about what we can be partially back to this country now welcome is david cameron going to be in brussels later this month what do you expect him to say. well i think cameron's already shown his hands i mean if i was by if i was going out there months in the bargain what i would say is that i want to clear that auction of course in the budget what he's saying is that he wants a freeze which in effect is really a rise that go with inflation and i think he showed his hands already and what will happen is that he will talk and in the end he will come back and we will lose again on the british people will end up paying even more money to brussels as a euro and he tell us how much money it is that you really need to go about its business. well the budget last year was one hundred twenty nine billion pounds

which is a crazy amount of money the problem that you've got is the austerity doesn't exist in the european union it might exist in the member countries where we're asking to cut back on almost everything we have real estate is the out the money. it doesn't matter they spend more and more every single year the budget goes all our member states including states such as greece and portugal and ireland who are in serious trouble to be asked to put their hands in their pockets and give more to bushels it's wrong you know large parts of the e.u. budget have been failing audits for years now where does all the money go. well it's a good question i don't know and it seems if the european union itself doesn't know seventeen years it is no since the accounts have been signed off look if the european union was a company the new directors on the chief executive role be in jail but it's not it's cruel to not to move the reason why the british people want that referendum and want to leave that weaker euro zone states are struggling to stay afloat spain is verging on a bailout but the u.k.

is not in the currency union however it's still paying into the troubled regions coffers how much is the currency bloc relying on wider states. well according to me relies. on britain are actually out of the states which is in the code in c. and we pay to the tune of around fifty million pounds a day just to be members of our club gotten so you can to account the mega amounts of money the street tens of billions it costs us to comply with the utah taxes and regulations so it's been some of the british people it's something we know how to be about it's something which we want a referendum on because let's not forget the last time we voted on our membership of this organization it was d.c. back then it was nine hundred seventy five i wasn't even born i was in one thousand nine hundred seventy six we deserve a referendum and we want to say on this issue all right you're our m.p. from u.k.'s independence party thank you. israel could learn the hard way that friends aren't always there when you need them most it's been warned that if it

attacks iran don't expect the world's biggest military machine to come running to hell as we report online. and israel admits they notorious assassination of one of the. yasser arafat's key deputies with a rare declassified inside into the raid in the 1980's a. major punk band pussy riot and putin's stunt landed them in the global headlines but now their potential to cash in on that fame sol battle commence over copyright has the details. 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 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 are stunned at the cathedral there was a high profile trial here in russia where they were accused 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 on 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 and thinks that they have

served their time and it's time for them 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 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 that across costs 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 the bracelets but instead on t. shirts that he revealed his jesus christ robes to show was the right t. shirt all right time now for more of the world's news this hour an activist in bahrain has been sentenced to six months jail for insulting the gulf nations king

on twitter three other people are awaiting verdict on similar charges next week. public protest on tuesday resulting in clashes and harsh criticism from the u.n. and the u.s. the island's shi'ite muslim majority greater rights and freedom and means to me route kingdom. there have been rallies in cities across you're on with thousands chanting anti-american british and israeli slogans they marked the anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine hostage crisis when revolutionary students stormed to the american embassy in teheran and helped fifty two stuff that incident severed relations between iran and the u.s. which have never recovered sense. for chinese patrol ship seven hundred disputed waters around it are people all go claimed both beijing and japan the vessels have sailed through the area for the fourteenth straight day ignoring called stern warnings from tokyo a small chain of uninhabited all els are said to hold vast reserves of natural

resources the territorial fallout has previously sparked mass protests in both china and japan. hiding your face during riots and count of the will be regarded as a crime and could get you jailed for ten years parliaments passed a contentious bill introduced to tackle street violence canada seen massive demonstrations in recent years including those following a stanley cup ice hockey match in vancouver in two thousand and eleven and the student protests against jewish a fee hikes for earlier this year the new law which still needs the senate approval will not apply to peaceful rallies maybe and radio reporter michael for eon says. it doesn't target that the lesson but does criminalize anti-government protests. 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 in a peaceful protest a nonviolent protest that could be depended on unlawful assembly if you have an opera sense of your itinerary and the directions of according to your protests routes to the police force of the municipality and come back before the protests started and that's what's causing a lot of controversy because people are saying you know it's my inherent 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 i guess you protests that were happening in downtown montreal because of the students 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 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. business or politics right romney's son has visited the

country which his father thinks is america's number one geopolitical foe later our business team looks at whether the investment seeking trip will have any implications for the republican candidates presidential campaign at six thirty thirty pm g.m.t. here are. also a couple of minutes lauren lyster gives her insight on global financial headlines and topical account. was his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and panes of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but you dition unfamiliar with duty dictated that he would take on the care of these

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afternoon welcome to capital of town i'm more in leicester here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for november first two thousand and twelve u.s. president barack obama returned to the campaign trail for the first time today post sandy but does it matter as we head into the last few days before the presidential election on tuesday will the next president whoever it is preside over an empire of debt that is past the point of no return well bill bought our best selling author and a gore if an actual founder is here to tell us what he thinks and improving better the next estimated u.s. economic data pushes stocks higher today at least so say the headlines initial jobless claims and consumer confidence are included in that batch of numbers out today but what exactly do they mean what is in these numbers calculated by economists that supposedly show the economy is improving what it's got plus superstorm sandy aftermath. how much are you will.