at eleven pm moscow time shocking video of alleged war crimes of jews appearing to show syrian rebels executing government through. america's military budget is off topic as the presidential candidates resume campaigning in the aftermath of superstorm sandy. and british media reports that the country set to send warplanes to the persian gulf to be stationed just a couple of hundred kilometers from iran. if you just joined us for a good evening from me kevin though in here at r.t. tonight our top story 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 constitutes another war crime online footage appears to show the summary execution of twenty eight syrian troops in the north this video can't be independently verified but it is seemingly of rebels beating and kicking the soldiers some of whom were wounded before shooting them bad. this is china is calling for phased ceasefire now and a gradual transition in syria and the united states is planning to get greater influence for frontline militants investigative journalist james corbett told us it's in washington's interest to silence the crimes committed by. 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. arguments coming out

from different organization 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 buried 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 if it be hypocrisy that's underlying this and that's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the floors and on the side of these rebel forces 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 nonstarter 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're 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. britain's deputy prime minister is warning rebel more makers they could leave britain iceland to within the. governing coalition sided with the opposition and defying prime minister david cameron by voting for cuts to the money britain over to brussels over a year of his laura smith explains more with the cloud hanging over the houses of parliament could this be the beginning of the end of britain's membership of the european union pro europe deputy prime minister nick clegg certainly seems to fear so he's said that wednesday's rebellion by conservative m.p.'s when they voted in

favor of cutting the budget the e.u. could leave britain either isolated inside the union or out of it altogether that will be music to the is of many who support leaving the e.u. the money britain contributes has become a huge bone of contention while brussels encourages e.u. member countries to tighten their belts it doesn't appear to be tightening its own in fact if the e.u. commission gets its way britain will be forced to pay an extra one point three billion pounds next year in budget contributions on top of the eleven billion we already pay and we'd soon be handing over a staggering twenty two thousand pounds a minute to brussels david cameron has promised till negotiate a deal that means u.k. contributions would rise only in line with inflation but that's proven not good

enough this week with rebels in his own party to managing a real terms cards in cash going to the e.u. there's a summit in brussels to discuss the budget towards the end of the month and this could all push cameron into taking a tougher stance which could end in annual budget negotiations with the union and eventually what nick clegg fears but many support. i slide out at the all together . or a smith and the last time the british public voted on being part of europe was in one nine hundred seventy five when it joined up to what was then the european economic community here when people nuttall says it's high time people got another chance to choose currency blocks me realize. britain actually out of the states which is in the currency we pay to the tune of around fifty million pounds a day just to be members of our club that doesn't take into account the mega amounts of money that the street tens of billions

a cost to comply with the utah directors and regulations of its bed and some of the british people it's something we know happy about it's something which we want a referendum on 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 away the political class start to move the debate i mean the problem that you've got is that austerity doesn't exist in the european union and might exist in the member countries where we're asking to cut back on almost everything we have real estate is it out the money doesn't. matter they spend more and more every single year the budget goes or a member states including states such as greece and portugal and ireland would in serious trouble will be asked to put their hands in their pockets and give more to proselyte that's wrong seventeen years it is now since the accounts of concerns of look if the european union was a company then the directors on the chief executive would all be in jail but it's not it's corrupt and that's another reason why the british people want that referendum and want to leave. the ports in the british media say the u.k.

needs of standby to send warplanes to the persian gulf the jets would be stationed in the united arab emirates just a couple of hundred kilometers around britain's minister of defense says any such deployment won't be over concerns about iran's nuclear program though and ever and the war activists john reese told me he believes it's bound to destabilize the situation in the region. this is not the first report we've had all western increased deployments in the area there have been a whole spate of them in recent weeks and months which all point in the same direction of increased u.s. british and western nations deploying a great deal more than the normal commitment to the gulf area not big enough in normal times i think we all understand what the imperial structure of the of the middle east is and that is that the western powers britain and america with the support of other western european powers believe that it has an absolute right to control this area of the globality employees the israeli state has its watchdog

we've seen a very complex series those sort of moves character moves bluff statements and so forth in the course of the u.s. elections or by the exact timing and about relations between israel and the united states over any attack on iran but as i say i think that process is about to come when we we read stories that the israelis and the u.s. have now come to an agreement about a time scale within which they must deal with iran so that's going to happen a day after the u.s. elections but i do think that things will move on and we'll be clear exactly what the program of deploying further pressure on the iranian regime is in a week or so as time. as america's eastern seaboard works to get life back to normal after superstorm sandy so both barack obama or mitt romney resume electioneering in those final crucial days before the vote the damage done by the deadly storm those now put it fifty billion dollars however neither candidate is

ready to dip it seems into that massive military budget to help pay for it when important 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 more than forty percent it's 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 north carolina's police you know cracking down on protesters now you have this massive empire in order to sustain the move there. you need to have peace. to make sure that the war came rages are 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 only the deaths and the injuries or happens afterwards you know you have these there are basically veterans coming home you know to two broken communities and families with. moms and this in terms of society is that something the wants you know do we want as a society where we have important members of our communities in 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 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 times if hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent to increase security or even road stability the forty feet or more enough for night parties. well we've got some more insight for you in comment on this very subject in a few minutes to talk about the legacy of america's foreign wars and why the main candidates are clinging to the military cash so tightly that shortly also to bring if they don't push the right failing now to get their claws into copyright in the wake of the cathedral stunt as a bid to make big bucks from the brands being thrown out will bring in like there's not a lot more to we'll see. 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 sorts 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. then so i get it when after a long police chase someone just snaps and in all honesty fire in the police i 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 wheelchair bound people then you probably don't have much of

a certain something but that's just my opinion. it's the. food. you know 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 everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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hello again barack obama mitt romney of resume campaigning in the aftermath of superstorm sandy despite the massive cleanup costs neither seems prepared to budge on a huge military budget lot of money there let's talk to gareth porter whose story in an investment journalist specializing on u.s. national security guard good evening but democrats and republicans say they still want to big military budget and national security in the war on terror being cited because of it but no mention of those civilian casualties in those wars how much of the american people truly aware of what's going on in their name do you think. well unfortunately the american people are vaguely aware that there have been a couple of wars that have been fought in iraq and afghanistan much less aware of wars being fought in pakistan with drones and of course in yemen as well and a couple several other countries where the united states is involved in some i

covert to covert warfare but i think the really big point here that has escaped is the certainly the net of the political process in the united states is just how calamitous these two major wars in iraq and afghanistan have been for the united states and just all kinds of ways i mean this is a situation i think unprecedented in the history of this country where within the space of one decade the united states has fought two major wars both of which were disastrous wars and which showed that the u.s. military and the pentagon are incapable of advancing the interests of the united states in a key part of the world namely the middle east and south asia southwest asia and that in fact when they are given the authority to use force the results are

just absolutely the worst possible results in terms of u.s. interests around the world as well as at home and of course kyra they say that the raids but it pulls calamity back to courtesy of mother nature with such massive damage from superstorm sandy so many people homeless is still without power even tonight how difficult is it for a bomber and romney to keep campaigning for the same time spending so much money on the army. well i don't think they're having too much trouble doing that simply because this has been so little discussed it's been not discussed at all my campaign except when the president himself talked about how romney was asking for two trillion dollars more than the pentagon was asking for over ten years which of course is a extremely important point but this was not discussed in terms of its deeper implications throughout the campaign and outside the context of

the campaign you simply do not have a lively debate in the united states over this extreme degree of military spending and the militarism that goes with it unfortunately you have a system of communications media news media which. not entirely mute on the subject nevertheless fails to exercise the kind of investigative attention and analysis that is really required by this extraordinary set of circumstances and i think it's quite astonishing that the president himself even talks about how the u.s. military budget is far greater than the next ten or so powers in the world combined and makes the case himself that that this is completely out of line with reality but it does not really been picked up

as a theme in american politics and that i think is a measure of just how in your the us public and the political system have become to militarism and empire for the united states as you say cast for us national security expert thank you for being on our team. an activist in bahrain's been sentenced to six months in jail for insulting the gulf nations king on twitter three other people are awaiting verdicts on similar charges next week to me while anti regime rallies are continuing despite shoes days ban on public gatherings move the sport harsh criticism from the u.n. in the u.s. but colin cavell as a former lecturer at the university of bahrain he told me the monarchy is unlikely to listen on the left to jail someone for voicing their opinion violate the rule of expression it violates any standard of democracy

around the world there is no improvement at all except that the regime has learned to play the world media like a violin and they claim they support human rights they claim that instituting dialogue with the opposition they claim all sorts of changes are just rosy in bahrain meanwhile they continue the crackdown they continue the torture they continue to jail and they continue to kill even bahrain majority overwhelming majority of the population over three quarters of the population of iraq or out of it the royal family which is power now for two hundred thirty years mostly they must abdicate there will be no social be in bahrain and the situation will continue to get more chaotic the jailed punk band pussy riot anti putin stunt landed them in the global headlines but now the potential to cash in on that fame so battle

commence over copyright lease caffein of course. pussy riot the members of the band themselves may be toiling away in hard labor as a result of their anti-crime land 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 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 a 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 is 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 a work camp one of the members was released on october a 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 for nineteen 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 area. 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 a free pussy riot t. shirts. from a couple of most intense devoted people of those like his gas coming away across talks on t.v. . to mean isn't this true even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds at once 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 to capture the power of nature. through our special instruments that accompany the singing guinea says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says it wants to leave to poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument. that was it of so pitiful is because of the spirit of the horse going 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 of the instrument he did so cool beans from an igloo which means come back and this melody on the instrument is called. to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour they say for you were p. and since difficult to pick up and sing so i asked them to teach me see if i can do it chill you cheerlead the. shero you shared them out of that was sure to say can out who was you think gang are all ok. but now it is the and moody part of the

song and not the actual throat singing which i wouldn't even dare try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met small chooks like a deveny and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most s. to far in mind that she planned 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. if you. want

to. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle sandy has come and gone but in the storm's wake all the conversations around the climate change return to american political discourse and debate politicians on both sides of the aisle agree that much needs to be done to prepare for future super storms and continued severe weather what is not agreed upon is the strategy to head. to. cross talk climate change i'm joined by patrick michaels in washington he is the director of the center for the study of science at the cato institute in ottawa we have done the ramp or he is a former professor of physics at the university of ottawa and then where we crossed to richard noam he is a lecturer at the university of edinburgh all right gentlemen crosstalk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want patrick you're in washington do you think in the wake of the storm they'll be a new debate a new discussion of a.