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this is. the stories now that made headlines this week and while voters in florida . early voting those in new york for fuel rations blankets much of the big apple remains paralyzed with tens of thousands still without power or hot water all of this nearly a week after superstorm sandy ripped through the area and here's. 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 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 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 my a lot of faith and i think that was the president flying overhead. vote for obama. 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

a vent for sandy victims. they're not going 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. well regardless who 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 any cuts to the military the country's military budget to all thought of any nation and in these hard times observe a say that money could be put to better use i'll swear 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 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 sort of violence around the world it seems like the legacy of us being involved in always 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 what happened to the soviet union and there are necessary wars that happen 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. whether you're disenchanted with military spending or the lack of political alternatives to the republicans and democrats do take heart in that there's at

least some other choices to have and we've been bringing you extensive coverage of the third party candidates plans and policies and it continues on monday when we host their final debate live from our artsy washington d.c. studios will two parties geve us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power of power now. because if america changes. with election those guys monday november fifth on our t.v. . thanks for joining us here on our to today militia men in libya's capital have set the supreme security committee headquarters on fire and looted it followed a series of a sporadic gun battles just outside the building a middle east correspondent paula celera has details on this while a gun battle was raging in south tripoli between two bible libyan militias around the libyan security headquarters 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 that there are killing themselves in front inside of their homes and also arming themselves with the news that security building is also makes 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 the police station in the second largest city in libya of being gods each now at least three police officers wounded in that car explosion we're not hearing any reports as each of people who has been killed we also know that part of the building particularly the entrance has been damaged that facade to that building has the party just for you and the art. number of shattered windows now one of this comes just a few days after the weekend that has seen more than

a thousand protesters take to the streets are being dollars each they are calling for the eastern half of libya to be separated we're talking here about rafi hans that you know two of the countries that hold small we're going to be cautious on the oil reserves they want the own autonomy that one too many to the owner of things and then one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming little more than a year since the so-called relation to the former you were in the gadhafi. polarized nation of people colorization sometimes for people wanting gun battles on the streets we also know that weeks now the city of bunny while good has been time to see and from there we saw how when pictures of death and destruction. was also a terror in syria this time in the heart of the capital shortly we have details on an explosion near a highly secured government buildings in damascus. also britain's got a bunch of warplanes with the persian gulf on the flight plan of deploying to iran

backyard has nothing to do with tehran some nuclear program so they say they were not quite so sure i'll tell you why shortly. just twenty ten minutes past the hour moscow time a greek whistleblower arrested off the 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 as artie's put it out of our 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 greek journalists to the streets of athens the catalyst 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 when i was with them but we published a list that other countries had in their possession and our government was aware of for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy greece is governed by corrupt cartoon characters who deceive the public claiming they're 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. one employment we are reaching 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 a mess some of its own members of the frustrations 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 they already do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals yet they told the truth and the elites tried for two whole years to cover up evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable. the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that

the democratic rights of the road it's here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of a party. certainly seem to have its homework cut out it's apparently got to introduce another hundred and fifty changes to its financial policies to please its international creditors. investment advisor patrick young thinks it's all a futile effort alice in wonderland that fabulous children's book alice famously saying that sometimes she imagines six impossible things before breakfast well now we've got the troika of lenders and they're imagining one hundred fifty impossible cuts before breakfast for the greek economy 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 come 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. and with the money being squeezed all around there's one man who's a beating the big banks spy thinking small. people who rob banks go to prison banks who real people get paid bonuses to stop he's taking finance back to basics looking after his community at a time when the big lenders are on the look out for themselves and that's coming away. 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 swords are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth who was shot in the back to death or the unarmed guy in a wheelchair who got blown away by the boys in blue i understand that being in the police is rough everyone lies to you and any given day you could be shot dead so i get it when after a long police chase someone just snaps and in all honesty fire when the police might do the same thing but it takes a certain kind of person who enjoys of be using 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. good

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gulf. in the united arab emirates just a couple of hundred. 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 all be increased u.s. british and other 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 britain and other western european powers believe that it has an absolute right to control this area of the globe and it employees the israeli state has its watchdog 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 i don't say 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 deploying further pressure on the iranian regime is in a week or so is time. some of russia's most radical political groups are out in force this sunday from diehard nationalists to outright fascists in dozens of cities tens of thousands of joined marchers chanting against immigration israel has long been all things foreign. has been watching the crowds right here in. 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 the law part of the russian president

a lot of that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalist and that that 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 the crowd right now in the permit us 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 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 but 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 brave big person far right extremists was massacred seventy seven people in norway. an explosion in the syrian capital has wounded at least eleven. the blast took place in a heavily guarded military and government buildings this point no one has admitted the attack but al qaeda linked militant groups have been behind similar recent incidents meanwhile the u.n. is examining whether video of rebels apparently lynching captured syrian troops is a crime at least ten soldiers were kicked and beaten before being sprayed with bullets investigative journalist james corbett says it's rare for rebel actions to come under foreign international scrutiny of 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 if it be 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. syria's opposition leaders are trying to reshuffle their ranks and agree on a more common platform as they meet in capital of the shake up has been proposed by washington which revealed plans to bring in militants to fight on the frontline and

geo political analyst eric draitser says the initiative is not aimed at actually resolving the crisis first and foremost i think it represents the manufacture nature of the opposition or at least the political opposition that we see in the public sphere the syrian national council and people like mani and other leadership there they never. at any legitimacy among the syrian people they merely had legitimacy with within the ruling class circles of the west but what's happened in recent months as the offensive from the syrian military has as it has developed what we've seen is that they have no real backing on the ground that is to say the manufactured opposition and so the united states in their imperialist project to destroy the independent nation of syria has to find another way and so a shake up of the opposition with new quote unquote leaders emerging this is the u.s. strategy one that is doomed to fail. a fresh fire exchange on the turkish syrian

border this week saw ankara continuing to beef up its military defenses on its southern front but turkey's stance on its neighbor civil war got an angry response abroad hundreds of demonstrators gathered on wednesday during the turkish prime minister's visit accusing his government of warmongering and human rights abuses german left wing m.p. . says the people are scared of the consequences this kind of approach could bring . human rights situation in turkey is very terrible there are over hundreds journalists in prison in turkey there are over ten thousand political prisoners so and therefore people are fed up with the turkish government coming to europe and talking about integration and human rights but not defending human rights in turkey and also turkey and the turkish government they

are making the escalation politics to what's a war against syria educating al-qaeda militants they're educated in the free syrian army soldiers on turkish ground and they are passing them weapons and people have a really big fear. against the war against syria or iran that's why they are giving such a reception and protesting the visit of. it's good to have you with us for an article today that the u.s. national archives the library of record but try finding anything to do with wiki leaks on it cover tough time 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. get a tip off to see the international space station with your own eyes as it flies or right over your head you'll be alerted from those details or so what r.t. dot com. in britain right now trying to buy a home or set up

a business is certainly a tough task with the big banks having seized up and keeping the cash to themselves but not everyone is going to let their community grind to a war halt laura smith has been to meet the one man bank. to follow. up on the work you do fish which is a cheeky northern charm or he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown as burnley but instead of fancy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank his late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my mini. me to get funded for their bosses as they are done for the last fifteen years but overnight that just stopped the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking have a done something wrong have they made a mistake of that up at the gas bill electric bill a form bill you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks that

have the problem try thought aland of them so that's what it bank on dave he says although thanks to extensive red tape he's not actually allowed to call himself a bank and he's keen to differentiate himself from banks in other ways too he offers five percent on savings and he lends that money out to his local community and no bonuses any profits go to charity in our state but there just isn't a day in every town more's the pity so his isn't a model which could be rolled out nationwide in its current form but financial experts say lessons can be learnt for a healthier banking system one point is clear and this is a point that the bank made in a way is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic need to understand. saving with.

mad rush where highly leveraged changing list of. dates ultimate goal is to bring banking back to its roots no more faceless conglomerates where computers and mavericks make the decisions and the one percent. pockets unimaginable bonuses instead local banks the local people run by the community to benefit the community it's not a new idea in fact it's how banking used to be before the megabucks and mega banks . and dave still taking to get some political support you have to take save us money and invest it in real productive activity and to take responsibility for doing it which is not the way that banking currently works in his comic kind of crazy way showing the way to a better banking system which is responsible. in touch with entrepreneurship which actually could be the basis for going forward there's certainly got to be some way

forward as wave after wave of scandal hits the financial sector banking on dave and others like him looks more and more attractive one of the sayings i use a lot is people who rob banks go to prison banks who real people get paid bonuses that has to stop laura smith r.t. birmingham. now the vote count in ukraine has been suspended in told monday after reports of violations at several polling stations and the opposition claims the poll has been blatantly rigged by the ruling party the election was also overshadowed by scuffles between supporters of the opposition and police in one region it's of course predict the current president's ruling party will retain its lead but lose its two thirds majority i was alter also expected to show a strong performance by the freedom party known for its hardline nationalist stands it could gain around ten percent of the vote with solid results in the west of the country and in the capital. or in half an hour's time with my colleague bill gawd

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