as the u.s. election campaign enters the final straight with the two rivals still neck and meg look at how the race is increasingly resembling a reality show rather than that of a political face off. over a thousand rally for greater autonomy for libya's main oil hub as the country is still torn by conflict over a year since the western backed revolution. the un is looking into what it's branded a shocking video which it suspects could be evidence of a war crime committed by the rebels in syria.

it is a great pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today i'm live in moscow now there are just four days left before the u.s. presidential election but even on the final stretch barack obama and mitt romney remain effectively tied with neither debates nor a devastating hurricane giving either candidate a tangible advantage of questions of mounting what the most expensive campaigns in the country's history have actually revealed and there's a growing feeling it was more about impressing the viewer rather than talking real politics as artie's honest reports. can fire into. the blame game in full swing why didn't you call me when you're working on this thing finger pointing he did make it worse mocking he even called it marvelous. which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget a tax this president's a lightweight we've all agreed that families are off limits dogs however are

apparently fair game what you're seeing is them finally rising up to the level of professional wrestling and i say rising up to it because in pro wrestling in front of the cameras we all hate each other behind the scenes it's a business. and that's the same way it is for them it's a sham a sham largely compared to reality television survivor style started out limited to the contestants on the island and then event they have to form alliances you can call those parties and then they finally in the grand did you know two three five years to go head to head and they and that video gets the big just the big prize the big prize for years to run the united states of america the contestants are giving it their all to win the competition the concept of a reality show we all know is supposed to be some kind of reality but but in

reality it's just really made for t.v. and the presidential campaigns in the us are completely made for t.v. like in any major production a huge crew and big box run the game they have people determine what a guy's going to wear what kind of haircut how much makeup you know some of his opportunity for a lot of people to get rich from looks to comments and statements most of the election campaign and scripted. the mainstream media following the presidential campaigns eats the show right up one example i'm going to stop the subsidy to p.b.s. i'm going to stop all the things i like p.b.s. i love big bird the debate the first us presidential debate of two thousand well had an audience of fifty eight million viewers that makes it the most successful most popular reality show. while fact checking leaves the building. in about track record about x. . you're in yet most of the coverage. i see.

you sporting a giant welcome mat for trivialized news coverage is romney hurting obama's feelings is obama hurting his feelings are they being cordial to each other or are they being angry look at the way obama looks up and looks down the show must go on and. the curtains are drawn presidential candidates putting on a performance to be voted into the white house a superficial media paying little attention to the actual words being said and not demanding to hear the words that should matter as the u.s. election enters its closing act and look to team ain't remains king and politics not much more than a circus and if they see it you're going to party. and i want to presidential race spares all the signs of a stage show there are legitimate concerns about how committed the candidates are to making their campaign statements of reality u.s. national security expert gareth porter shared his views on which election promises

are likely to remain nothing more than just a simple television performance the issues of u.s. national security policy and the military i'm sorry to say that i don't believe. obama will deliver on his campaign promise specifically to. us involvement in the war in afghanistan and the fact is the obama administration has made the decision that there will be a residual force of at least ten thousand for an indefinite period of time i think the closest to romney and his running mate paul ryan have come to making a promise. is perhaps the idea of they would somehow be more successful in putting pressure on iran to end its nuclear program but i must say that it was not made with much conviction in the campaign in the last presidential

debate romney was really more saying me too to president obama's policy toward iran. but candidates have their own ways of dealing with the aftermath of hurricane sandy in an attempt to break the pre-vote deadlock that would come paining now fully back on track our resident new york half a nest has been finding out who basically came out of it looking the best. new york was hit hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan on sixty floor and i seen every day there would just be water. water everywhere was industry do you think the government has handled the storm well no how could they have done better they could have gotten the subway running a lot quicker but you think that they have anything to do with how much water is down there no i think they're just really slow to respond i mean the whole thing

with the buses over here is ridiculous and it's unconstitutional that you have to have three people in a car i used to going to vote on tuesday. the city could have been wiped away if the voting polls still stand i have to be there. reacted to it it seems to be good. to be. together yes so do you think that obama's looking better than romney right now. i think mitt romney is a much bigger natural disaster than hurricane sandy and i hope people realize that vote for obama you don't think there's anything wrong with obama i think there's plenty wrong in terms of his. foreign policy in the mideast but unfortunately he's the lesser evil the bottom line is this is been a tough time for new york city and most of us are looking forward to putting this

hurricane and the election behind us. of course we will be continuing our coverage of the u.s. elections are looking at the race from different perspectives also we are hosting a very special event this coming monday we are exclusive be bringing you the final round of the third party candidate debates coming live from our washington d.c. studios. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power of power allow. us if america changes trucks u.s. election clothes guide monday nov fifth on r.t.e. . are shifting our attention out of out of the libya where crowds took to the streets of benghazi the cradle of the uprising or the calling for greater autonomy in the oil rich region protesters complain the new leadership has deprived the city

of its fair share of political and economic power a middle east correspondent paula has details. more than a thousand protesters have taken to the streets of the eastern city of benghazi they're calling for greater autonomy send if they feel marginalized by the new government in tripoli now this comes a little more than a year on after the ouster of the format libyan leader moammar gadhafi and i asked ironically that of that the people of benghazi played such a central role in bringing about they are now saying that they were basically off before the revolution that the whole eastern part of the country is marginalized and deprived of political and economic power now what they want is an autonomous region in the east we're talking here about roughly half the territory of libya and around three quarters of the country's vast oil reserves what they also want to step in ghazi will become the economic capital of libya what this means is that you

will have key institutions such as the central bank as well as the ministries of oil and finance based in the city and this is not a new court earlier this year we did see tribal leaders come together with the same demands they say that they want to manage the own affairs and also have a larger share of revenue from the resources that are in the east of the country what the warning is that if the demands are ignored they will be dire consequences and certainly what we witnessing is a growing mood of tension and discontent in the country that is being torn apart by protesters just a year on after the so-called revolution part to syria now where the u.n. is examining a video which is says could be evidence of a war crime committed by the syrian rebels or the newly released online footage purportedly shows opposition fighters as summarily executing captured government troops ten soldiers who are no longer believed to be combatants are apparently

showing being beaten and lined up on the ground we would show you the next disturbing scene but all the men were piddly shot with or to my. rifles and investigative journalist james colbert says it's a rare case that the tactics of the opposition forces are now coming on to international scrutiny. the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces 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 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 didn't know 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 had the 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 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. meantime in bahrain a recent ban on public rallies has failed to deter protesters from taking to the streets of several towns on friday there are reports of police brutality towards the anti-government demonstrators and arrests of those documenting the attacks it comes amid a judicial crackdown and with yet another activist sentenced to six months in jail for allegedly insulting the king on twitter colin covell of former lecturer at the university of bahrain says it's too late for international condemnation to try and improve the situation in the gulf country. to do also no one for voicing their opinion but freedom of expression violates any standard of democracy around the world there is no improvement at all except that the regime is learning to play the world media like. they claim they support human rights they

claim instituting dialogue with the opposition they claim all sorts of changes and that there is are just a rosy and borrowing meanwhile they can do neither crackdown they continue to torture and they continue to do and they continually purely and in bahrain we do already overwhelming majority of the population over three quarters of the population. or out of the royal family which has been in power now for two hundred thirty years mostly they most think. there will be no social feat in bahrain in the situation that will continue to get more clear on a. flight from moscow this is r t still ahead for you in the program but a shocking due to a healthier lifestyle we are for you one of the radical approach to turning people off junk food but doing it with the help of deadly diseases that story coming up after a short break. 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 to 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. 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. the government no longer represents the baby and the people are going to take the term . we.

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well. technology innovation. developments around russia we've. covered. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to this is live from moscow on the rushers of dmitri medvedev says members of the controversial pussy riot feminist group should not have been given jail sentences for their stunt and moscow's main cathedral at the same time. said their morals leave a lot to be desired. it's you people you know very unpleasant to me both on the outside and only if they fill me with extreme negative emotions so much so that i don't like talking about them but

i wouldn't put them in jail if i were a judge just because i don't consider it correct that their punishment was in the form of a custodial sentence they've already spent some time in custody that's actually enough for three members of the pussy riot band were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing their so-called punk prayer and moscow's christ the savior cathedral and they were sentenced to two year jail terms but after an appeal hearing one of them released on probation the woman insists the stunt was a political one aimed against the authorities the case is course outrage among the religious community band split the russian public. money many more news stories for you online at r.t. dot com including other ukase fighter jets heard roaring around the skies of the persian gulf rumors are spreading fast that london may deploy its jets amid growing tensions between israel and iran over tehran's nuclear program

a lot more on that on our website. plus the long way home online we've got the story of a leaven of women who have been held captive in a supermarket. just a moment on the r.t. world update for now there was a doctor's around the globe sound the alarm against a rise in obesity and its dire health consequences and medics in canada have come up with a graphic idea of how to warn against the risks but one man's meat is another man's poison as they say and their proposal is fast becoming one hot. potato artist tom barton explains imagine you're about to bite into your pizza when you see this disease liver or perhaps you're taking a swig of your drink when this diseased foot catches your eye put off your food

well that's just the effect some doctors in canada want prostrated with a growing epidemic of obesity the entire medical association have taken a leaf from their anti smoking contemporaries book and called for graphic labeling on fatty sugary and salty processed foods they say society must stop tiptoeing around health risks such as diabetes heart and liver disease which can arise from eating too much of certain foods what we want to do is we want to tax foods that are high in calories in the nutritional value and get tax breaks the healthy food but as you might imagine the shock food tactics have been hard to swallow for those who make or enjoy eating but targeted products they think the labels are over the top and accuse doctors of demonizing certain products and food cut to grease carrying them back so to every day and beverage items non-sensical smoking tobacco products do not really have a balance in

a healthy place that various food and beverage products which the ontario medical association would place label warnings on i can absolutely heart of a balance other proposals that have sparked controversy include labeling excessive salt sugar and fat as pathogens that is disease causing viruses and bacteria age limits for buying soft drinks and temporarily taking some obese children away from their parents william endl author of seeds of destruction says the doctors are right about the dangers of highly processed foods but that these labels will simply be ignored i don't know any single cigarette smoker who. they're obliged to label it i don't think that stopped anybody the foods are engineer today and this has been tested in private lab the foods are engineers today in many cases to be addicted to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain so until you are forced by

law to change that kind of a who content you're not going to have any solution to this my mother theo and they also recommends higher taxes and marketing restrictions on junk food especially to children to to stick suggest twenty six percent of canadian children aged five to seventeen are overweight or obese. all right oh that's good in the aussie world update now a start of the australian capital where one person has been killed at least eight others injured after a passenger train collided with a lorry in the australian capital the train driver was seriously wounded and remains in a critical but stable condition but the truck driver escaped with only minor injuries and local officials say they don't yet know why the accident occurred an investigation is already underway. one of the most important christian pilgrimage destinations in jerusalem has announced it's closing its doors of the church of the holy sapulpa built on a hill where believers say jesus was crucified is protesting sudden demands to pay

off its two million dollar water bill to be israeli state water or thirteen it's appealing to the israeli government claiming the move undermines the sanctity of the site. but after a short break here on our special report taking a look behind the curtains of the occupy movement hoping you can stay with us for that right here in just a moment. to means in this story even for specialists how 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 throughout singing originates from the news believe not only animals but also around in reverse and even stones souls imitating the sounds they believe kept. the power of nature. was. to get to one of the five main stars of scrotes engine it imitates the gentle breezes of summer harra whose name means great hunter says he suspects a doppler. there are special instruments that accompany the singing if gainey 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 look at those that have suffered a fall is because of the spirit of the horse came to his dream and said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings on my tail 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 only instrument is called cry over again. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage working the iran tight rope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still

dictate will their future this election a close god every day to them the fifth on our team. to speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world's hot spots of the ip interviews intrigue. still. are you. trying. to find out more visit our big teeth. that. i work for. my father is the way you and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of seat anyway district one chris shelton one of the group c.w.a. represents the rise of workers and as of june two thousand and twelve the horizon workers he represents have been working without a contract for over a year except this round of contracts is different the rising is trying to break

everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his lifetime so many diverse people who are many walks of life that recognize that we are the not percent of the time of record profits of rise it is the very same people that have made good look at it and in a rich corporation that they now want to do will benefit acceptable from up they want to feel the rise that it should be the poster child for corporate greed because of all the money they make and what they're trying to do to us and everybody else at the body say it's about saving a million dollars next year but what do you think that this car negotiations is really about this car negotiation is about destroying our standard of living this is cooperation is trying to get what they want that they've been trying to get for the last twenty five years and we cannot let them and that's why i keep my wall street's message and i message her exactly the same corporate greed is destroying this country that we cannot let it says we have built very close ties with the

communication workers before september seventeenth we were already supporting the fall markets and boeing responded by supporting us we went to their last rally at the headquarters they marched back to the park with us and some of them slept there they're going to be in a tough struggle that's why we're getting this relationship with labor labor seen as relieved they are i never expected. when i first started contacting unions that the response would be so enthusiastic but the labor movement has been kicked around now for quite a while and they have to fight and they see people fighting and they see their fighting the same enemy and they see them reaching out this movement has shown such an eagerness to reach out to the mainstream of the american public and the unions represent the organized part of that the focus on the one percent and the first time in an american movement i don't even think in the thirty's that the communist party did this in.