powerful blast rocks the syrian capital while russia makes another push for a diplomatic solution to the crisis claiming the western determination to oust president decide his darrelle in peace efforts. and taking a look back at the week's top stories on our t.v. hurricane sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern united states and even up to one hundred dead millions without power and shaking up the country's most expensive presidential campaign today. no peace for post gadhafi in libya the country's two major cities are attacked a grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli probably a car bomb detonates in benghazi. and truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who say they're being silenced while trying to

expose government along. it's three am in moscow i mattress i bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news an explosion in syria's capital's wounded at least eleven people the blast happened near the heavily guarded military and government buildings there no one's admitted to the attack but al qaeda linked militant groups have been behind similar recent incidents meanwhile there's been another drive toward a diplomatic solution to the syrian conflict as russia's foreign minister now with you when peace envoy lakhdar brahimi. the editor in chief of the syria tribune says no resolution can solve the crisis while the west seems determined to oust president assad was the. basis for the west's insist that they should dictate the outcome of the struggle there would be no solution because the. choir member is too

out somebody who was powerful and who enjoys a lot of support from the syrian people and the syrian army more importantly. insisting on having him removed means since to see a long war and this can lead to being anything good to the syrian people the russian diplomacy had been very active trying to find a political solution to the syrian crisis and this was unfortunately minutes. from the nato nations for obvious trying to convince everybody that. the new syria would be a syria for for everybody all of its components and one of these components is prevent accidental supporters there is obviously too little what's going on now one is the u.s. to try it for more militarization more weapons to their balls more and more message is more deadly events and the other one is by russia where everybody where it is to love for us and everybody in the ocean diplomacy are asking people to start stop

fighting and start talking and start negotiating and to start their way to find common ground from where we stand as syrian people it's it's only diplomacy that mr lavrov is supporting is what could bring the solution. it's down to the wire in the u.s. presidential race and while voters in florida lined up to cast their ballots in early voting those in new york are queuing for fuel rations and blankets thanks to hurricane sandy much of the big apple remains paralyzed with tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water nearly a week after the so-called super storm tore through our he's a marine important i meanwhile has more on the political fallout from the disaster . she was a storm the size of europe and it might be a game changer for america's upcoming us presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and a half million homes and businesses to lose power with the death toll expected to surpass one hundred president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle

the superstorm the election will take care of itself next week right now priority is to make sure that we are saving lives national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response is. i think that was the president. he's my man. voted for obama. possible yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter of cooperation for the president i did states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief a vent for sandy victims. to stop the police because. they

. are still 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 the traffic lights do not work and most businesses have remained closed city officials say that power will be restored to the borough by election day the same promise has not been made to millions of voters living in other parts of new york and nearby states 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 election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting in 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 i don't lection now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york regardless of who wins tuesday's election washington will still have to find fifty billion dollars to cover sandy damage and it's not likely to come from military cuts the country's defense budget dwarfs that of any other country and in these hard times observers say the money could be put to better use. 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 around the world it seems like the legacy of being involved in this war is over these last years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other you know and empires that she's just spent themselves out of existence it happens. in there and 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 contrary to all bunch of the mainstream media shows there are alternatives to

the republican and democrat leave us presidential politics we've been bring you extensive coverage of the third party candidates and their plans and policies that continues monday when we host the final debate live from washington. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power power that. wasn't american changes. with election guide monday nov fifth on r.t.e. . mosher many in libya's capital have said their supreme security committee headquarters on fire and looted it this follows a series of sporadic gun battles outside the building our middle east correspondent paula slayer has more. while a gun battle was raging in south tripoli between two wible libyan militias around the libyan security 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 kicking themselves in front inside of their homes and also arming themselves why when can you see that security building is force and makes to the tripoli central hospital and some of the but it's from his gun battle has the hospital or was also on a sunday morning today was a call bomb explosion in front of the 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 this 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 to the order of things and they one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more. there yet since we so corporate relation to the former were my gadhafi and. polarization of people polarizations in terms of what people wanted gun battles on the streets we also know that for weeks now the city of funny when good has been and from the air we saw what happened when pictures of date and destruction. he had are of a pair african newswire says the revolution has turned the clock back for libya by several decades historically during the period of the ottoman empire as well as a tired colonialism the country was divided basically in the three different regions of the design in the south tripoli the time 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 of daffy and his cohorts in one nine hundred sixty nine there was a concerted effort to bring about some type of national identity and cohesiveness inside of libya all of that has fallen apart over the last year and this is why we're having these type of sectional conflicts inside the country. coming up this hour wiki leaks could vanish from the radar america's library of record doesn't want to divulge anything and comfortable so this is what you see when you search for anything linked to wiki leaks. the way its opposition gets its promise to having a response person or even a government public gatherings despite people that's a protest story and more after a break. finds his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three

hundred sheep in the mountains panes of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he jumped out of having studied accounting but he dition and familiar dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute the traditional two fenian round tent made of disc ins his p.c. back amongst his family and his job is a lonely one and tough going out in a way there's braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so all most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries

and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and that's where they fit their could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cattle. with new people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for countries and lie still and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the hoda gets a high a fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life they in their publics capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pasta way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm but more time on his hands he says matter of fact way he can start to look for a new wife. the

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thanks for staying with us here on our t.v. fifteen minutes past the hour now a greek whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of his country's potential tax evaders was acquitted thursday another is still in custody after threatening to reveal how he referring to reveal how the books were cooked before greece got its bell out peter all over a ports that trend in greece is to rid of those who reveal the wrongdoing rather than those doing the wrong. is the greek government using bully tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of greek journalists to the streets of athens i can to list for their outrage was the arrest of journalist cost us vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stashing illicit gains in

swiss bank accounts. we published a list that other countries had in their possession 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 of 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 it's obvious we have. unemployment. one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment levels there is. there are there is more austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior

member of the greek of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit a mess some of its own members of the constructions 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 to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state. but vaxevanis told me he will 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 come for a major evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable one of the good from the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that

the democratic rights of the road here and the very birthplace of democracy peter all of us are to see. greece has its work cut out athens apparently needing to introduce another one hundred fifty changes to its financial policies to please its international creditors investment advisor patrick young though thinks it's a futile effort alice in wonderland that fabulous children's book had an alice famously saying that sometimes she imagines six impossible things before breakfast well not going to the troika of lenders and their emerging one hundred fifty eight impossible cuts before breakfast for the greek economy look the greeks are in this mess because ultimately they spend huge amounts of money we have terrible sympathy with the ordinary greeks on the street they are being left in a situation where they don't even have primary medical care in many cases but are we going to be able to see them manage to cut the economy or 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 a lot alice in wonderland economics. the u.s. is literally a racing wiki leaks from memory with the national archives banning any search including the whistle blowing organizations name civil rights groups joined by librarians aren't happy though saying such blatant censorship is akin to george orwell's ministry of truth lois kay leader of the u.k. pirate party sees little good in the bat. mission of the library of congress is trying to preserve a collective body of knowledge the job of any line reached shortly should be to share that knowledge but it's frankly not surprising that such organizations that are under pressure to actually conform to these kind of classification nor but essentially this is still a censorship and censorship nor is it actually stepping on freedom of speech and we've often see that united states is very quick to criticize and states

a broader stepping on pins being. able to say to uphold the same standards at home we can see how vital a certain principle of whistle blowing to both the man for democracy. security forces in kuwait detained dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators in another crackdown on arrest in the gulf nation protesters defied kuwaiti ban on public gatherings that was imposed last month with reports that thousands demonstrated against new voting rules it was a peaceful rally but police still resorted to stun grenades and smoke bombs the opposition claims changes in the electoral system give an advantage to the pro-government candidates in the next month a vote meanwhile in bahrain the government also announced a ban on public gatherings last week that caused outrage among people as hundreds of pro-reform it took to the streets tension is rising twenty one months after dozens of protesters were killed and thousands arrested when the arab spring

pro-democracy uprising was heavily suppressed by bahraini security forces your political analyst eric draitser says gulf monarchies confidently take undemocratic measures feeling the support of the west that the government is terrified they look at protest movement developing in saudi arabia one that's continued to go on in bahrain we see the same around the arab world more generally and kuwait looks at itself or rather the government does and they see that they really stand no chance at maintaining our maintaining control of that country unless they're able to successfully suppress the end repress the opposition these are client states of the united states bahrain is the u.s. fifth fleet the navy kuwait as we all know the role that it played in both wars against iraq kuwait is very much dependent on saudi arabia and the united states and so all of this is part of a geo political calculus of u.s. germany u.s. does not want to see its control over the region slip away by something as piddly

as the democratic aspirations of the people of the region. stargazers now of a chance to spot a manmade marble in the night sky with their very own eyes that it to fall to see the space station with a nasa text alert tell you when this is flying overhead details online. a prize for the pied piper who can read a small south african town where rats all raging on our website we tell you the bounty for being a rodent terminator. some of russia's most radical political groups were out in force sunday from diehard nationalist and right fascists in dozens of cities tens of thousands joined marches chanting against immigration israel islam and all things foreign or. more in 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 russians

whatever that means and they're also pushing to repeal the law part of the russian president laws 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 and now there are some reports about six thousand people in the crowd the permit is for about ten thousand people but for some massive police presence here as well the protest seems to be largely peaceful although we've also heard reports 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 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 consider 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 this 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 a brave person far right extremists was massacred seventy seven people in norway now to some other stories making international news at least ten refugees drought in the mediterranean sea on their way from north africa to italy the boat carrying around eighty people was on its way to the island of lampedusa off the italian coast a destination for thousands of migrants seeking refuge in europe reports indicate that more than fifteen hundred people died last year while trying to reach italy. a grenade attack on a kenyan church has killed one policeman and wounded fourteen others. mostly security officers the country and the wider region have suffered a wave of similar deadly attacks in response to kenya were sending troops to neutering somalia to battle al qaeda linked in the surgeons there in july eighteen

people died in church attacks in the same town as sunday's assault. and coming up a closer look at the roots of the occupy movement that's after a short break stay with us here on our team. download the official publication so for choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time of the. wealthy british style.

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a year except this round of contracts is different the rising is trying to break everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone in his life so many diverse people who are many walks of life that recognize that we are the ninety nine percent of the time of record profits of rice a disaster the very same people that have made a lucrative and rich corporation that they now want to go to will benefit acceptable from up they want to feel their eyes and should be the poster child for corporate greed because of all the money they make and what they're trying to do to us and everybody else at the bar you say it's about saving a million dollars next year but what do you think that this car negotiation is really about this kyra negotiation is about destroying our standard of living this is cooperation is trying to get what they want that they've been trying to get for the last twenty five years and we cannot let them and that's why i like you by wall street's message and on message are exactly the same corporate greed is destroying this country and we cannot.