think. the week's top stories here on. superstorm sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern u.s. neither one hundred dead millions of the country's the most expensive presidential campaign to date in a state of the tales. no peace for post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli while a car bomb detonated in. truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who are being silenced while trying to expose government wrong. because fly in the streets of moscow russia is the most radical nationalists emerge in the capital and nationwide aiming to stir up divisions on

the country's day of unity. but the stories that made headlines this week this is the weekly with me. and while voters in florida lined up the cost of voting and those in new york lining up for fuel russians and blankets much of the big apple remains paralyzed with tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water all of this nearly a week after superstorm sandy ripped through his arteries marina portnoy with the political fallout from the disaster. she was a storm the size of europe and a mighty game changer for america's upcoming u.s. presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing aid. the 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 right now our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response to my a lot of faith and fema i think they'll do ok that was the president flying overhead. it's my man. vote for obama. possible yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter the cooperation from 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 vent for sandy victims. 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 regardless of who actually wins the election on tuesday washington will still have to find fifty billion dollars to cover the damage that sandy did and it's not likely to come from cuts to the military the country's military budget dwarfs that of any nation and in these hard times observers say that money could certainly be put to better use elsewhere. and there's no more important issue in america today and how much we're spending on our military and our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean 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 always on this war is over these last seven 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 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 whether your disenchanted with military spending all the lack of political alternative to the republicans and democrats take some heart in that there is at least some of a choice we've been bringing you extensive coverage of the third party candidates

plans on policies and it continues on monday when we host that final debate live from our studios in washington d.c. . will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power of power in the town. but if america changes. u.s. election those guys monday november fifth on our team. so i need to stay with us for that if you can a rocket propelled grenade has reportedly struck libya's supreme security committee headquarters in tripoli the attack was followed by sporadic gunfire and clashes middle east correspondent paula has more details while a gun battle what's raging in south mean big. into why the libyan militias around the libyan security cave course is building and from the information we have at least five people have been injured and part of that building has been destroyed

now we are receiving reports that the whole area has been cordoned off that many residents in the area have rushed home and they barricaded themselves in front inside of their homes and also arming themselves with private weapons that security building is also next to the tripoli central hospital and some of the what it's from his gun battle his the hospital was also on sunday morning there was a car bomb explosion in front of a police station in the second largest city in libya of being ghazi now at least three police officers were wounded in that car explosion we not hearing any reports as that of people who have been killed we also know that part of the building particularly the entrance has been damaged that facade to the building has been talking just for you and they are in a number of shattered windows now one of those comes just a few days after the weekend that has seen more than a thousand protesters take to the streets of benghazi they are calling for the eastern half of libya to be separated we're talking here about buffy hostile

territory of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil reserves they want their own autonomy their one too many each their own of things and then one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more than a year since the so-called revolution ousted the former you were in the gadhafi and what the book is the polarized nation of people colorization sometimes for people wanting gun battles on the streets we also know that for weeks now the city of funny while good has been and deceased and from there we saw how when pictures of death and destruction. of as also terror in syria this time in the heart of the capital shortly we have details of an explosion near a highly secured government buildings in the heart of damascus. and stay. and if they don't need a bailout bullet anytime soon and lash out at germany's idea to tightly police the e.u. members budgets and punish those lagging behind. a greek whistleblower

arrested after publishing a list of the country's potential tax evaders was acquitted on thursday but another is still in custody after threatening to reveal how the books were cooked before greece got its bailout. reports the trend in greece is to root out those who revealed wrongdoing rather than the perpetrators themselves. is the greek government using bully boy tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of creatures and lists to the streets of athens they can to list for their outrage was the arrest of journalist 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 the numbers would not. be published or listed other countries had in their possession and our government was aware of

for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy is governed by corrupt characters who deceived 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. high rates of unemployment we are a real thing one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment levels there is poverty. there are there is more austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on government business. one senior member of the greek union of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit american medicine doctors have been

closed 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 to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names then what would he do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals they told the truth in the elites who tried for two whole years to cover up major evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable for the good the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that their democratic rights are being a road here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of a party. but meanwhile are spain and italy as prime ministers this week deny that

they are on the verge of asking for a bailout in madrid on monday the two leaders also criticized germany's plan for an e.u. body to police national budgets and punish those with large deficits both italy and spain are in a severe recession with record unemployment and have seen massive protests over spending cuts the spanish leader did admit though that his country may need a bailout sometime in the future euro economist in your head of the child believes that cash would come at the cost of in the us. it's one of two things you either have to accept the fact that you will lose sovereignty. or you will have major problems of the continuity of this monetary union so if you need money. it's in the vita mode that those who lend you the money starts interfering with your policies so it may sound a little bit brutal or maybe a little bit undemocratic but that's the way things work if you really are in need

of that much money for that the long period of time it's in a vital role that you give up some of your server in it and as a matter of fact to make this monetary union work in a structural and durable way every state in the fall first in this euro zone in this monetary union in europe will have to accept this principle. no is not the answer for one british man stripped of his citizenship for refusing to spy that we hear from his terrified family interest a few minutes they fear he's now locked up in a u.s. terror camp for defying m i five. plus a resolute over reform box raney's defy the ban on rallies with crowds holding out against more tear gas and arrests we get an expert of you shortly.

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it is just off to just after six fifteen pm here in moscow this is art and some of russia's most radical political groups are out in force on the sunday from diehard nationalists to out right fascists in dozens of cities tens of thousands of joined marchers charging against immigration israel all things foreign. and off was in watching the crowds right here in moscow. the slogans and the messages that we've been hearing from the crowd behind me is that russia for russians only they want the flag of the russian order they're basically demanding jobs for your russians whatever that means and they're also pushing to repeal all laws part of the russian from

a law that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalist and that that patron 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 the crowd right now the permit us for about ten thousand people so we could see those numbers a lot of force a 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 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 if you can see the import of her taking part of an on off a rise nationalist rally there 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 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. an explosion has hit the center of the syrian capital damascus the blast which state t.v. described as terrorism took place near a heavily guarded a military and government buildings regional analysts say that those who support radical elements in syria are simply the ones to blame. there are two sides to this conflict one is the syrian government and that can be held accountable in a simple way the other side is very diffuse and this is this is where the problems always been that you cannot control all the elements and even if let's say the majority of opposition figures want to participate you have

a few spoilers who ruin it and we know by and large who supplying the spoilers you know in this countries like saudi arabia and qatar and turkey now if the international community was serious about a resolution of this conflict or at least helping to defuse the humanitarian element of this conflict which is ostensibly what they argue they would immediately penalize. perhaps even sanction the countries that are providing arms to the rebels who are the spoilers every time there are efforts to to to you know bring the parties together and achieve cease fire. and in the meantime syria's opposition leaders are trying to reshuffle their ranks and agree on a more common platform is their meet in qatar's capital at the gatherings come amid a disturbing revelations of the methods that rebel fighters are resorting to while battling the army on the ground that video surfaced this week depicting what the

u.n. described as a potential war crime apparently shows the rebels breaking their soldiers they seized at least ten men called dogs by their captors were kicked and beaten before being sprayed with bullets the president of the arab order fish and says there is unlikely to be any type of. the western world which created the international court of justice does not want it to operate except when they wish they didn't have to it didn't happen in the crimes that were committed in iraq it didn't happen the crimes happened in afghanistan it is not likely to happen when it is in syria because. look where the western powers the particular nato and the usa and therefore the international justice is not to look into these think especially if one recognizes or remembers the usa was withdrawn from that agreement or refused to sign the agreement on the contrary it

signed multiple agreements with multiple countries that their soldiers would not be subject to their war so i don't think it is likely this is from the political side and i think on the practical side it's also. to identify the project as. the u.s. national archives the library of record to try finding anything to do with wiki leaks there the library of record doesn't want to divulge anything uncomfortable so this is what you get when you search the archives about anything linked to the whistle blowing web site. plus get a tip off to see the international space station with your own eyes with enough. to tell you when the i assess is going right over your head do you tells people. spying wiretapping and rendition seem to be no longer enough for british intelligence agencies in the fight against terror now it's allegedly resorting to disowning its own citizens who won't play ball because of his police reports it's

not always terrorists taking the fore. somali born mahdi hashi had grown up in the u.k. from the age of five he was a british citizen until this summer when the twenty three year old went missing and his family found out that the home office had stripped him of his passport for allegedly being involved in islamic extremism his parents are distraught they say that maddy is an innocent victim of a british intelligence plot because he refused to work for m i five all i can see is that he's a muslim and believe and he's a practicing muslim but being a muslim is not being an islamist. that's what that's all why he's being victimized this is the quiet north london community center where mehdi hashi worked back in two thousand and nine it was then that he and four of his muslim colleagues say that they were approached and harassed separately by security agents it's kind that

m i five threatened to label them islamic extremists if they refused to become informants for british intelligence campaigners raising awareness for maddie's plight said that the constant threats made by british intelligence made life so unbearable that he left the u.k. they were trying to offer him a job saying that you know effectively you're an extremist we know you're the only way out of this is for you to come and work for us to come and help us these will become targets that were being used because somali origin this is a purely racist profiling policy of the british government and particularly the security agencies marty had been living in somalia for the past two years taking care of his grandmother and raising a son of his own but several months ago he disappeared leaving his family in despair my son is missing this summer this summer but i don't know if you know if

you like your garden hose here that i don't. we very wooded although. the only information the hashi family have now comes from a man who contacted them to say that he'd been in prison with maddie in djibouti and he told us that he had been fingerprinted. has been taken from him and then. contacted to find out that he's a petition is in the conduct of the british consul and the british consul see that we have. this decision probably and in the medicals talking to. someone we don't know they don't know but they fear he's being held at camp in djibouti and a tourist u.s. anti terrorist base where he may be the victim of an american rendition program in which suspects are unlawfully taken to third party states to be illegally detained and tortured the hashi family want on says to simple questions like what the

allegations are against maddie where he is located and whether he's even alive but when it comes to matters of intelligence they're faced with a wall of silence lawyers acting on behalf of the hashi family have received just this response from the government here has been the points you have successive governments neither to confirm or deny speculation allegations or assertion in respect of intelligence matters is maintained and the corn in the secretary of state can either confirm nor deny the allegations made on behalf of your client this case is a classic case where profiling and you know kind of almost ludicrous policies with . this war on terror result in an innocent individual helpless young man effectively having their life ruined campaigners say that by stripping maddie hashi of his passport the british government has effectively washed their hands of his case leaving his family to continue the search for answers about their now

stateless. son. r t london. we'll get to the world of that in just a sec for now though the people of bahrain were banned this week from organizing public gatherings but it didn't stop hundreds of program for mists from keeping their message alive as a result of their peaceful rally faced riot police tear gas and buttons for more opposition m.p. . i think that the government has no real intentions of stopping the torture or you find out of stopping the killing of its own people. this is against article seventeen of the constitution and it is against the international act of political and civil rights which is part of the local law here actually over the past. three shows where very peaceful group is that over the past two months a solution people who were killed by the government. and also lots of people of the

culture in the in the genes and there is nothing being done against that government has received five billion dollars just recently from we go from trees just to support it in this. atrocities. but a government warning is unlikely to deter crowds forming in kuwait as we go into the arts the world update now protesters they're preparing for a mass rally against new voting rules despite a warning from the authorities that un sanctioned demonstrations will not be tolerated the opposition believes the changes will give an unfair advantage to some pro-government candidates in next month's election public gatherings of more than twenty people were banned after a string of violent clashes involving thousands marching against the way. the middle east largest christian minority the egyptian coptic church has chosen

its new pope in its traditional way blindfolded boy drew the name of bishop to watch draws to replace the former patriarch who died in march and there are ten million copts in egypt who faced a rise in attacks against them which they blame on is the west's. hard after a short break here on r t a closer look at the roots of the occupy movement hope you can stay with us. of the six america votes for its next president. take the wheel as the u.s. drives into the feature. get the news the mainstream misses with up close election coverage the u.s. election up close. and dot com i mean so can only

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