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

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. while voters in florida lined up to cast their ballots in 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 a week after superstorm sandy ripped through. 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. 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 this is . the president. he's 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 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.

before. being buried 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 being wiped out in the cities and states the voting of the elderly on 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 an election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york. one aspect of the race that's putting many voters off is how to holiday it is to tell the leading candidates appalled from their relationship with banks to their foreign policy there are striking similarities between the two joseph and cash all from the socialist equality party says the ballot lacks a true choice well we enter the election with the understanding that the whole process is fundamentally antidemocratic it's controlled by billions of dollars now and corporate money the media controlled by corporations and getting on the ballot is incredibly difficult requiring millions of dollars for the. signatures in every state it's something of

a farce and even within this framework of course the choices that are available even you know that within this anti democratic primary or basically agree on everything so even if of course if you had a democratic process between these two candidates the american people don't have really anything to choose from in the end war the attack on democratic rights the bailout of the banks the attack on social programs all of this is really agreed to by both romney and obama. it is accepted as the framework by the media. country to what many disenchanted americans believe there is an alternative to republican and democrat if you will please we've been bringing extensive coverage of the third party candidates plans and policies and it continues on monday 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 powerless. what if america changes. us election guide monday nov fifth on

r.t.e. . militiaman in libya's capital have set the supremes security committee headquarters on fire and looted it in followed series of sporadic gun battles outside the building our middle east correspondent has more details while a gun battle was raging in south tripoli between two rival libyan militias around the libyan security cave courses 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 killing themselves in front beside of their homes and also arming themselves with private weapons 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 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 an actual 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 coming 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 what he half the territory of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil reserves they want their own autonomy they want to manage the other things and then one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more there. you know since we so corporate release an ounce to be formulated by gadhafi and. polarize nations of people polarization sometimes for people wanting gun battles on the streets we also know that for weeks now the city

of anyway good has been and to see and from there we saw how to win pictures of death and destruction. the editor of the pan-african newswire told me earlier that the revolution has turned the clock back for 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 are designed in the south. and the last 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 of daffy and his cohorts in 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 terrible 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. the 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 how the books were cooked before greece got its bailout and peter all of the 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 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. 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. 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 a mess some of the seven members of the frustrations have been imposed to any voice of the opposition and the media does 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 told the truth and the elites tried for two whole years to cover up major 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 democratic rights are being a road here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of a party. britain's got a bunch of warplanes but the persian gulf on the flight plan but the plan to iran's

backyard is nothing to do with iran's nuclear program. and of the sons for sure. we tell you why after the break. what's the difference between a samurai sword and a blind guys walking stick well known if you're one of the cops in northern england an elderly blind architect with taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used in a nearby crime honest mistake because sorts are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth 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 abusing their uniform to make the helpless suffer you can't tolerate sadists or those with napoleon complexes in the police and you know what they aren't that hard to spot in the shower because if you like to tase the elderly or shoot wheelchair bound people then you probably don't have much of a certain something but that's just my opinion. two parties keep u.s. politics a woman way street. who will new voices disrupt the power of power in the. us if america changes trucks to a selection of those guys monday nov fifth one or two. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you. are welcome to the big picture. the way or.

the light here in moscow the u.k. is reportedly planning to send warplanes to the persian gulf the jets will be stationed in the united arab emirates just a couple of hundred kilometers from iran but its defense ministry insists there's no connection to concerns over iran's nuclear ambitions but i do want to respond to swallow. 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 of increased u.s. british and 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 a better america with the support britain the european powers believe that it has an absolute right to control this area of the globality employees the israeli state has its watchdog we reach tori's that the israelis and the us now come to an agreement about a time scale within which they must deal with iran so that's going to happen a day after the us elections but i do think that things will move on and we'll be clear exactly what the program of deploying further pressure on the iranian regime is in a week or so is time. place of worship in london that's four times bigger than support a cathedral except this time it's

a mosque here from the community including muslims where we have plans drafted by a group that's neat the places where some of the seven seven bombers prayed that's ahead. but first some of russia's most radical political groups are out in force this sunday from diehard nationalists to outride fascists and dozens of cities tens of thousands of joined marches chanting against immigration israel is the land and all things foreign bodies lucy cavanagh has been watching the crowds 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 the law part of the russian from an oil law 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 and the permit us for about ten thousand people so we could see those numbers of course a 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 playing up swastikas is of course banned and 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 in what are taking part of an authorized 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 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. an explosion in the syrian capital is wounded at least eleven people the blast took place in a heavily guarded military government buildings now one of the attacks but all cards on the militant groups have been behind some of the recent incidents meanwhile the u.n. is examining whether a video of rebels apparently lynching captured syrian troops is a war crime and these ten soldiers were kicked and beaten before being sprayed with bullets vesting a journalist james called and says it's rare for a rebel actions to come into. foreign scrutiny. 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 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 meeting catalyst capital the shake up is being proposed by washington which reveal plans to bring in militants fighting on the front line geo political analyst eric draitser says the initiative has not waned resolving the crisis. first and foremost i think it represents the manufactured nature of the opposition or at least the political opposition that we see in the public sphere the syrian national council and people like boss michael mani and other leadership there they never had 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 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 the u.s. national archives the library of record but try funny and to do with wiki leaks the record doesn't want to divulge anything uncomfortable so this is what you get when you search the archives about anything to the whistle blowing web site. plus going to tip off to see the international space station with your own eyes with an astronaut to tell you when the i assess it goes flying overhead the details online of the moment don't come. london's been filling plenty of john venues and

it's a limpet year but next in line could be the building of a massive ten thousand capacity mosque but even muslims in the british capital fairy could be a fundamentalist breeding ground. find out. four times bigger than some paul's cathedral a mega mosque that will fit ten thousand people and it could be coming to london's east end if it gets the go ahead it's built the river in center will be the same size as london's looming but as a power station it would also be the biggest place of worship in the u.k. of any religion but critics have slammed the proposal saying that it would create a muslim yes or the forces that were still working to bring the largest mosque the u.k. has ever seen interior ality revered architects planning consultants and glitzy p.r. teams all paid for by the organization behind the idea to matt

a group that's causing significant concern this is a return beat him out of all the islamic groups has created ghettos over in toronto you know and kind of right there around the world is a huge group and wherever they go they create barriers they create hostility they create division they create separatism whether it's unassuming name the riverine centers website claims there's a demand for a new muslim place of worship in culturally diverse east london not that they're happy to talk about it it's representatives refused to speak to us when we approach the proprietors site home to their current mosque it does not want to integrate the grounds on which search trying to set up here in britain and a big way hot anti british they are anti worst but actually they're also anti worldly. other worldly but this is not just going to be a mosque this is going to be a center of training in which to reach out to islam is muslims

to harden up and mediæval lives. of ordinary muslims in this country and i mean so many muslims don't want that the problem here is that. most of them selves are opposing this most not on the grounds that they don't want to worship their god but on the grounds that women aren't allowed the local population of muslim population has no on the side in how the mosque itself is governed or the local authority would say to us as you can confer you have received a planning application as this is currently being protested it would be inappropriate to comment sure at this stage in many ways if this went ahead if you like a tipping point. there be no stopping fundamentalist islam if this one goes up well if that happens we all need to leave the country over the last one out please turn the lights off while the council ponders campaigners hair of war religions say they hope the decision makers choose carefully just today let's set up shop in the

british capital polyploid art see east london. coming up we take a closer look at the roots of the occupy movement that'll be after a short break here and. 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. you know 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 bubble silence which means that i need to be very quiet right in 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 beast 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. and this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get up close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are 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 his 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 wolfs reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication in the wolf islands remains a place where visitors can truly understand the cool of the wilds. sigrid laboratory to kirby was able to build a clueless most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the r.t.

dot com. my name is dan as i made this movie and there are a few things you should know about me right from the jump i'm not an expert on the economy climate change or foreign policy i'm also not an expert on sustainable farming systems the history of social movements or lego's the occupy movement has experts on all those things and more not really want to i'm happily married husband a father of two fantastic children i live on a main street in a small new england town with actual white picket fences i made this movie for you me and everyone we know in the hope that we can create a world where human need comes before corporate greed so why does it feel almost un-american to say that i think about it this way just go with me for a second here you know that scene from the oliver stone film wall street when gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that would win him an oscar appears at a shareholders meeting of a company paper to defend his actions and his grotesque worldview and.