the stories that shaped the week your one oddity a deadly disaster hits the u.s. just days before the presidential vote we look at how the election is now defined not just by the two main candidates but by the devastation of superstorm sandy. in the absence of democracy greece is governed by corrupt thirty two characters the greek whistleblowers message has been backed by thousands of journalists in the country claiming the government is muting those exposing its wrongdoings of. russia claims washington is derailing peace efforts in syria by urging the opposition to continue fighting as rebels face accusations of a war crime after a brutal video comes to light. the live pictures for you right here central moscow now and far right slogans swastikas and pro brevig shall thousands taking to the

streets of the russian capital and other cities here for a nationalist march stirring up divisions on a day of unity again live pictures right central moscow. with the top stories over the weekend of today this is the weekly on our with me wrong. just as the u.s. was about to be sucked into a political vote in the last week before the presidential vote and the country was hit by a devastating and deadly super storm ripping into the eastern seaboard sandy also tore away the candidates plans with rallies canceled and early voting disrupted more important now takes a look at the role the swirling disaster has played in the final rush of the presidential race. she was a storm the size of europe and it might be

a game changer for america's upcoming us presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and a half million homes and businesses to lose power president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle the superstorm the election will take care of itself next week. to make sure that. national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response. was the president. is my man. vote for obama. possible yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter of cooperation for the president i did states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you

think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief a vent for sandy victims. to stop their political campaigning because. they. are still being very close but while the candidates attempt to feature sandy in their quest for votes her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are being moved in parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans

disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is been wiped out in these cities and states the voting of the elderly on the election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting in the of new yorkers on election day is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election an election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york. and the damage done by superstorm sandy has put at about fifty billion dollars put whichever presidential candidate ends up being successful probably won't be dipping into the massive military budget to help pay for it despite the u.s. defense spending continuing to be the biggest in the world

a growing numbers of observers now say this money would be better spent elsewhere. there's no more important issue in america today and how much we're spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go at most americans know that this is 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 violence around the world it seems like the legacy of us being involved in all these on this war's 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 in their own this is very wars that happened 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 of course iran and say we will continue our coverage of the us elections are looking at the race from different perspectives plus r.t. is hosting a very special event this coming monday and we are exclusively bringing you the final round of the third party candidates debate about to be broadcast live from our washington d.c. studios. will two parties keep us politics a woman way street. or will new voices disrupt the power of power allow. us if the american changes trucks us election close guy monday nov fifth on our three. thirty six hours to wait on that one here on our say for now a great whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of the country's potential tax evaders was acquitted on thursday but his case was only the beginning of a string of scandals involving the country's journalists with another one remaining

in custody after threatening to reveal the bailout deal fraud and saudis peter all of it now reports many greeks simply think the government is only covering its wrongdoings by attacking those who are trying to disclose it. is the greek government using bully boy tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of greek journalists to the streets of athens they cancel list for their outrage was the arrest of journalist cost us vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stashing illicit gains in swiss bank accounts. we published a list that other countries had in their possession in our government was aware of for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy is governed by corrupt characters who deceive the public claiming their handling tax evasion vaxevanis was

set free after the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in a period of political and political crisis social crisis is obvious we have dreamed. of an employment. thing one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment levels there is poverty. there or there is more austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior member of the greek mean of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit a mess some of its own members of the frustrations have been imposed to any voice of the opposition and the media goes restricting journalists some two thousand five hundred media professionals technicians included have lost their job since last

year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption are handcuffed but we see a guy to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state. but vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names they already do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover skin they told the truth in the elites tried for two whole years to convert me to evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable one of the good from the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that their democratic rights have been a road here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of a party. that's the greek government continues to push through painful cuts the strategy is being challenged by the country's court on thursday and ruled that the

planned pension reforms could be unconstitutional as greece or portal have to introduce another one hundred and fifty financial changes to please its international creditors but investment adviser patrick young says it still won't be fulfilled no matter what the case alice in wonderland that fabulous children's book had alice famously saying that sometimes she imagines six impossible things before breakfast well now we've got the troika of lenders that there are merging one hundred fifty impossible cuts before breakfast for the greek economy look the greeks are in this mess because ultimately they spend huge amounts of money we have terrible sympathy with the ordinary greeks on the street they are being left in a situation where they don't even have primary medical care in many cases but are we going to be able to see them manage to cut the economy or cut back in many different ways of course not they'll be lucky to manage to get twenty of these cuts to stick let alone one hundred fifty it's alarmed alice in wonderland economics.

just a bit later in the program here at r t the u.k.'s prime minister is being increasingly pushed to bid farewell to the european union i travel between the block and a hostile westminster they may have to decide whether it's country's membership of the club is worth a regular. the syrian rebels have been accused of a potential war crime after a video of most online that the u.n. says could be used as evidence the footage apparently shows opposition fighters who are writing the soldiers who are no longer believed to be combatants the ten men the cold assad's dogs before they are sprayed with automatic gunfire investigative journalist james colbert says it's just that the methods of opposition forces and i'll finally coming into focus of the global finance of 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 stock human 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 has the hypocrisy that's underlying this and it's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the floors and on the side of these rebel forces so good to have you with us here on r.t. today russia has accused the u.s. of encouraging the syrian opposition to carry on fighting against the government instead of urging political dialogue that's up to washington called for a complete shake up of the opposition in syria revealing plans to bring in militants to fight on the front line political analyst of course but the boss

believes the white house is unlikely to limit itself to just diplomatic support for the rebels. the american state department are probably looking at a more direct approach now to remove interest and now when i say a direct approach that doesn't necessarily mean nato intervention i think we will probably say that in groups of in syria who the americans have and it's all more comfortable with. this even possibly american arms intelligence information one can argue that's possibly happen in a remote at moment certainly the russian governments in recent days have alluded to that but i think in in the future they could be director more direct assistance has been given to them so it certainly will turn into a proxy war between troops by america and very possibly some other western governments it's ironic because earlier this year the american ambassador to the united nations susan rice and she's the russian and the in particular the russian

but also the chinese government of having blood on their hands well i think she needs to look closer to home so that the people that are arm in the syrian militants are actually the ones that have blood on their hands both sides in syria must people together to try and compromise to try and bring a peaceful when's what is an absolutely diabolical situation and another hot spot for violence and one of the first arab spring countries that have yemen still struggling to recover after its own revolution what our website r.t. dot com we've got a photo report from the streets of the yemeni capital still in ruins after more than a year of turmoil. and we have a plenty more news to come for you after a short break. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology versus trees and

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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 don't know i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines you need to cause a report.

good to have you with us here today i'm a share in the russian capital thousands of gathered in the center of moscow for a nationalist a rally to mark russia's national unity day similar demonstrations have also been held in other major cities where the dozens of arrests being made there's also. reports from the capital it seems that perhaps more than one message on the minds of some on this day supposedly to be a day of solidarity with the slogan send the message is that we've been hearing from the crowd behind me is that russia for russia is only they want the flag of the russian border they're basically demanding jobs for their russians whatever that means and they're also pushing to repeal the part of the russian president a law that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religion. they tread on nationalist and like hatred so it's. a message of national unity that probably doesn't sit well with a large chunk of the population now there are some reports about six thousand

people in that crowd right now and the permits for about ten thousand people so we could see those numbers a lot of force not massive police presence here as well so far the protest seems to be largely peaceful although we've also heard reports of about twenty five people wearing black clothes with the swastika shouting slogans they've been detained in another part of the city center here in moscow now we have to keep in mind that this is the play of swastikas is of course banned in russia as well as many european countries similar types of rallies have been taking place across russia and we've heard of another report of about ninety people detained in the urals city you'll get to be in the water for taking part of an on off the rise nationalist rally there and now the police say that most of those people were teenagers again rather disturbing sight frankly we've seen a lot of by nationalist flags us sort of icons from the church which i guess is the symbol of some of the people here as well as some reports of people actually chanting long live anderson braving the person far right extremists was massacred

seventy seven people in norway so again a very disturbing story but we'll keep you updated on all the developments here. remaining in central moscow while the nationalist march continues and you can catch up with the latest updates on twitter photos from the crowds on the spread of the slogan. we also have a live transmission of the rally on our web site there is much more to discover it dot com for example access denied that's the u.s. national blocks chinese search attempts which contain the name or any keywords of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks much more on that side off people.

just a moment on the r.t. world update for now though the e.u. is calling on britain to make a decision on its membership of the block as its leaders begin losing patience over the u.k.'s budget squabble david cameron is facing huge opposition in parliament on how much the country should pay for being a part of the club earlier this week a number of conservative m.p.'s sided with the opposition and defined the prime minister by voting for demands to cut the money britain hands over to brussels every year cameron's deputy has already warned the budget crisis may leave britain out of the block euro m.p. paul nuttall believes prostration over bills is continually growing and the majority of the british public simply want to go it alone but the owner of the problem that you've got is not a status he 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 the out the money doesn't. matter they spend more and more every single year the budget goes up a member states including states choose greece and portugal and ireland who are in

serious trouble will be asked to put their hands in their pockets and give most apostles it's wrong couldn't see blocks. of britain actually out of the states which until you couldn't see we paid them with the train of around fifty million pounds a day just to be members of that club that doesn't take into account the mega amounts of money the street tens of billions it costs to comply with the you direct there's a regulation so it's bad in some of the british people it's something we know happy about you look at recent opinion polls eighty percent of people want a referendum so around sixty percent of people actually want to leave the european union altogether so the people are certainly moving away if the european union is a company and that's our directors on the chief executive all be in jail but it's not it's cruel to not to move the reason why. the british people want that referendum i want to leave our time for the r.t. world up to now let's start with tripoli over the sound of gunfire rocket blast have again a rope the capital of libya the clashes have been reported after the intelligence

headquarters came under attack from a grenade launcher i wanted by hospital which also sustained minor damage confirmed it had taken at least five casualties from the fighting which did begin early on sunday. a guard has lost his life trying to prevent a suicide bombing in somalia's capital mogadishu two a typist detonated their explosive devices in a popular restaurant after refusing to go through a security check the anti government islamic extremists al shabaab are thought to be behind the blast. in egypt suspected members of a she hardest a group attacked a police vehicle leaving three officers dead of the use of cordoned off the city of el out in north sinai in an attempt to trap the gunman it was back in august that egypt dispatched thousands of troops to the peninsula after militants carried out the deadliest attack on police in the region in decades. i just heard it here r t a part three of our special report american autumn weather becoming your way after

a short break. if you're passing through rushes to veer region you really can walk on the wild side. thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land and enterprising locals so the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road. such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters. going on he has been hunting for more than thirty years and works for a company providing expeditions for tourists this season ducks are on the menu. things are successful. at

a silo which means that i need to be very quiet i'm not going to frighten the. office. but when you've been in the business as long as he has the birds don't stand much chance. there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive but environmentalists are fighting back the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beasts in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have

a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys going to act as pasta parents for the next generation will come here using the old walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's an important part of the world's development and a major factor in the success of a project which has seen more than twenty generations of cubs grow up here it's

going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication mean the will soil and remains a place where visitors can truly understand the cool of the wilds. i guess. i work for. my father is the way you are here and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of seed anyway district one chris shelton one of the groups c.w.a. represents the rising 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 rising disaster the very same people that have made a lucrative and a rich corporation that they now want to go to will benefit by acceptable form up they want to feel their eyes 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 kyra 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 on message are exactly the same corporate greed is destroying this country and we cannot let it we have very close ties with the communication workers before september seventeenth we were already supporting the fall markets and responding by supporting us when their last rally at headquarters they marched

back to the park with a. yes 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 sees is 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 their mass work i don't even think they identify the enemy as the ruling class.