the week's top stories from superstorm sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern usa leaving one hundred dead millions cold and the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date in a tailspin. no peace for post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked the grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli while a car bombs detonated in benghazi. truth under attack in greece journalist show solidarity with whistleblowers who are being silenced trying to expose government wrongs. fly in the streets of moscow russia's most radical nationalist emerge in the capital and nationwide aiming to stir up the visions on the country's day of unity.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly. while voters in florida line up to cast their ballot an early voting those in new york are 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 nearly a week after superstorm sandy ripped through its artie's report 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 eight and a half million homes and businesses to lose power president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle the superstorm the election world. 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 responses to my a lot of faith and fema i think he'll do ok that was the president flying overhead but. he's my man. vote for obama. the possible yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter the cooperation for the president i did states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you say great 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 it is so much use the state of the fight. being very close thank you 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 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 and election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york. regardless of who wins the election on tuesday washington will still have to find fifty billion dollars to cover the damage sandy did and it's not likely to come from cuts to the military the country's military budget was that of any other nation and in these hard times observers say that money could 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 our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean 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 sort of violence on the wall that seems like the legacy of us being involved in always in the same wars 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 and there are necessary 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. whether your disenchanted with military spending or the lack of political attentive to the republicans and democrats take heart in that there's at least some choice we've been bring you extensive coverage of the third party candidates plans and policies and it continues on monday tomorrow when we host their final debate live from washington. will two parties keep us politics

a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power power that. was if america changes. to its election close god monday november fifth on r.t.e. . michigan in libya's capital have set the supremes security committee headquarters on fire and looted it it funded series of sporadic gun battles outside the building a middle east coast want to put us there has more details. while a gun battle was raging in south tripoli between two rival libyan militias around the libyan security it 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 if they're keeping themselves in fine inside of their homes and also arming themselves why one can say that security building is also makes to the tripoli central hospital and some of the but it's from his gun

battle has the hospital was also on a sunday morning today 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're not hearing any reports as 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 number of shattered windows now one of those comes up to 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 roughly half the territory of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil reserves they want their own autonomy their one too many of the other 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 we so corporate relation to the former. gadhafi and what the book is

these polarized nations of people polarizations in terms of what people want and gun battles on the streets we also know that for weeks now the city of funny when it has been and to see and from there we saw how when pictures of death and destruction. and the editor of the pan-african newswire told me a little earlier here that the revolution has turned the clock back from libya by several decades. historically during the period of the ottoman empire as well as attire colonialism the country was divided basically in the three different regions of states on in the south tripoli in the west and of course are annika in the east and as a result of the independence movement in libya after nine hundred fifty one and of course after the seizure of power back a daffy and his towards nine hundred sixty nine there was a concerted effort to bring about some type of national identity and cohesiveness inside of libya all that has fallen apart over the last year and this is why we're

having these type of sexual conflicts inside the country. there's also terror in syria in the heart of the capital shortly we have details of an explosion in a highly secured government buildings in damascus. resolute to reform bahrain is defying the ban on rallies with crowds holding out against more tear gas and arrests we get an expert view very shortly here on r.t. . but first 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 hell the books were cooked before greece got its bailout page one of reports the trend in greece is to root out those who reveal wrongdoing rather than the perpetrators. 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 reese is governed by corrupt cartoon 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 fossil and political crisis social crisis it's 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 or 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 and tough restrictions have been imposed to any voice of the opposition and the media 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 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 but what would he do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals they tell the truth and the elites tried for two whole years to come for a major evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable the good from

the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that the democratic rights being a road it's here and the very birthplace of democracy peter all of us are see. they use main plaza set to square up to britain calling on it to decide if it really wants to stay part of the club it's after this week's brew. prime minister david cameron his own m.p.'s turned on him and sided with the opposition in a vote urging a cup to the yearly payments to fund the e.u. deputy prime minister the political rebellion could see britain isolated within the bloc but cameron's conservatives using it to push for the people to choose whether to. commit. an inflation increase on the budget would equate to an extra three hundred million pounds a year and that would increase over the multi annual budget up to two thousand and twenty and at a time when u.k. families are having to make very difficult often painful decisions with their

household budgets local councils doing the same and even our own national government here in the u.k. i think it is absolutely right to expect the european union to try and trim its very large budget and i think it's politically smart for the government to actually be in touch with public opinion majority of people in the united kingdom have never had a say on our relationship with europe we need a referendum this side of the general election in this parliament and let democracy rain and let the british people have their voice heard. no is not the answer for one british man stripped of his citizenship for refusing to spy we hear from his terrified family in a few minutes they think he's now locked up in a us to america for defying m i five.

horses and bayonets big bird these are the words of internet legend from the two thousand and twelve presidential debates when a candidate says something dog. so much fun to make silly pictures like these on the internet. he but the problem is that the person who wins the bait is the one who makes the best argument not he who doesn't make a verb. pup's people react to these debates like schoolgirls picking prom queen or rummy talked about big bird who howard dean screamed yeah gaffes don't matter that much it matters if the idea is the candidates present are effective or not but more importantly it matters if they will actually do them if a future can't they proposed a brilliant economic plan that could save america but instead of saying pennies let the word penis slip our gossip celebrity culture would make him lose the election for sure he's a potent army of photoshop

a sort of hundreds of copper fellas destroyed all over the internet by the next day a schoolgirl attitude towards politics won't do anything except make fun internet memes but that's just my opinion. more news today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images from world and seeing from history and canada. china operations through today.

quality of life here in moscow some of russia's most radical political groups are out in force this sunday from diehard nationalist to outright fascists in dozens of cities tens of thousands of joined marches chanting against immigration israel is in amman all things foreign bodies a couple of has been watching the crowds here in moscow. the slogans and the messages that we've been hearing from the crowd behind me is 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 criminal law that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalists 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 and 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 flooded before some massive police presence here as well but 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 to even go to court taking part of an on authorized nationalist rally there now the police say that most of those people were teenagers again a rather disturbing sight frankly we've seen a lot of by nationalist clogs 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 and there's braving the of course the far right extremists was massacred seventy seven people in norway. an explosion has hit the center of the syrian capital damascus the blast which state t.v. described as terrorism took place near heavily guarded military government buildings which will analysts tell r.t. that those who support radical elements in syria are 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 so 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 was the pie in the spoilers you know in 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. bring the parties together and achieve cease fire. syria's opposition leaders are trying to reshuffle their ranks and agree on a more common platform as they meet in qatar's capital gathering comes amid disturbing revelations of the methods rebel fighters are resorting to while battling the army on the ground the video surfaced this week depicting what the u.n. described as a potential war crime but apparently shows the rebels the rating the soldiers they seized at least ten men called assad's dogs by their captors would kick to all be sprayed with bullets the president of the arab lawyers association says there's unlikely to be any punishment for the western world which created the international court of justice does not want it to operate except when they wish it didn't happen

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 these companies that took where the western powers particularly nato and the usa and therefore the international justice is not to look into these things specially if one recognizes or remembers the usa has withdrawn from that agreement or refused to sign the agreement on the boundary 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 us national archives is the library of record but trying to find nothing to do with wiki leaks. is not easy the library 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. just got a tip off to see the international space station with your own eyes with a master alert to tell you when the goes flying overhead the details online at the moment about dot com. spoiling wiretapping and renditions seem to be no longer enough for british intelligence agencies in their fight against terror now it's allegedly resorting to disowning its own citizens who won't play ball because r.t.d. reports it's not always terrorists taking the full. 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 mahdi is an innocent victim of

a british intelligence plot because he refused to work for m i five. that he's a muslim and believes and he's a practicing muslim but being a muslim is not being an islamist. that's what that's all why he's been 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 claimed that m i five threatened to label them islamic extremists if they refused to become informants for british intelligence campaign is raising awareness for maddie's plight said that the constant threats made by british intelligence made life so on bearable 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

your the only way out of this is for you to come and work for us to come and help us these will become tactics that were being used because somali origin this is a purely racist profiling policy of the british government and particular 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 he if he lived or died here. we are very wooded although all of the family 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 but he told us that he had beautiful. d.n.a. has been taken from him and then may become contacted when they can be found out that his approach does in the conduct of the british council and the british

council say that we have a duty to move this decision probably and then the medicals talking to. someone we don't know they don't know but they fear he's being held at camp limo near in djibouti and a tourist us 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 it has been the policy of successive governments neither to confirm or deny. speculation allegations or assertion in respect of intelligence matters this policy is maintained and the cornyn the the secretary of

state can either confirm nor deny the allegations made on behalf of your client and these cases a classic case where profiling and you know kind of almost ludicrous policies within this war on terror have resulted 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 polly boyko r t london. the people of bahrain were banned this week from organizing public gatherings but it didn't stop hundreds of pro-forma it's from keeping their message alive as a result their peaceful rally faced riot police to gas and buttons from opposition m.p.'s who is thinks that the government has no real intentions of stopping the torture or killing of its people. this is against art but 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 year and i have obeyed demonstrations were very peaceful is that over the past two months or so when people who were killed by by the government. and also lots of people are being tortured in the in the jeans and there is nothing being done against the government hasn't seen five billion dollar just recently from here even though countries just to support it in this. atrocities. it watching the weekly here in r.t. coming up week seven cases of bride snatching and stand it's official break.

if you just love me enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that just office of course bleeder on the island of bohol and at the heart of bike all his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and she's horses what sometimes it gets lonely here because of horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes they bites as well it's part of my everyday life. forms been

home to a rats just laugh for centuries most still live off the land of cattle and fish. by coal is often called the pearl of siberia a horn is said to be the pearl of by. it's a land of think forests. and vast staps. virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i haunt us quickly become a magnet for nature lovers and if you will seekers you're quite some way from civilization here accommodation on the island is very basic so you can forget about a t.v. or even run in water for most people a tent is the on the eruption but for those who come here it's exactly what they're looking for. in journey to buy coal can be a trip of

a lifetime and the locals say once you've seen it will be coming back again and again. one. draws to a close. to goodbye. to see them for over a week after the ceremony the bride to be taken to a new husband's house and kept in a room for seven days the young wife will have to spend time with the husband so she can get to know him she's never even tristen embraced him held his hand before what's more nor one of the guests can be certain that the groom has ever even proposed was it real. or if he simply kidnapped.