the. a powerful blast rocks the syrian capital while russia makes another push for a diplomatic solution to the crisis claiming the west determination to oust president assad is to railing peace efforts. and taking a look back at the week's top stories hurricane sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern united states even up to one hundred dead millions without power and shaking up the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date. no peace for post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli a car bomb detonates in benghazi. truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who say they're being silence while trying to expose government wall.

for i am in moscow why metros are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news on r t an explosion in syria's capital's wounded at least eleven people the blast happened near a heavily guarded military and government buildings 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 met with u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi insists the western things priority of regime change in syria is destructive it leads to more bloodshed dr ali mohamed editor in chief of the syrian tribune it says no resolution can solve the crisis while the u.s. and its allies seem determined to oust president assad. the west insists that

we should dictate the outcome of the struggle it 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 instantly on war and this can lead to being anything good to the syrian people but the russian diplomacy has been very active trying to find a political solution to the syrian crisis and this was unfortunately. from the nato nations is trying to convince everybody that. the new syria will be a syria for for everybody all of its. components and one of these components is the supporters there is obviously too little what's going on is the u.s. will try it for more militarization more weapons to their balls more and more massacre as more deadly events and the other one is russia where everybody has 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 a solution syria's opposition leaders are trying to reshuffle their ranks and agree on a more common platform as they meet in qatar his capital the conference comes amid disturbing revelations of the methods rebel fighters are resorting to while battling the army on the ground video surfaced this week where the u.n. describes this potential for friday apparently shows rebels parading soldiers they seized at least ten men were told assad's dogs by their captors were kicked out for being sprayed with boy it's the presence of the arab world this is. the western world we created the international court of justice does not want to talk to when they do. the crimes that were committed in iraq

and the crimes happened in afghanistan it's not like you to whom. and it is in syria because most of these things. where by the western powers in particular nato and the usa and therefore the international justice is not going to look into these things specially if one recognizes. that the usa has withdrawn from that agreement refused to sign the agreement on the boundary signed multiple agreements with multiple countries that their soldiers would not be subject to the war so i don't think it is likely this is from the political side and i think all the practical side it's also difficult to identify the project that's down to the wire in the us 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 artie's a marina important i mean well has more on the political fallout from the crisis. and she was a storm the size of europe and it might be 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 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 our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks and for his response is what i want to eat and i think that was the president. flying overhead but. he's my man.

vote for obama. the possibility and the biggest praise of all me making from a staunch romney supporter with 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 saving. to stop the political campaigning because. they. are still being very close thank you but while the candidates attempt to feature sandy in their midwest from 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 removed 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 of new yorkers on election day.

it 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 or regardless of who wins tuesday's vote washington will still have to find fifty billion dollars to cover sandy's damage and it's not likely to come from military cuts the country's defense budget dwarfs that of any other nation 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 us being involved in all these 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 that happened to the soviet union and they're in this area 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 what much of the mainstream media shows there are alternatives to the republican and democrat leave us presidential politics we can bring you extensive coverage of the third party candidates plans and policies that continues monday when we host their final debate live from washington. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will the new voices disrupt the power power that. wasn't

american changes. with election guide monday nov fifth on r.t.e. . militiamen in libya's capital oh said the supreme security committee headquarters on fire and looted it has followed 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 rival libyan militias around the libyan security kate 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 they barricaded themselves in front inside of their homes and also arming themselves to the point when i can see that security building is false and makes to the tripoli central hospital and some of the but it's from his gun battle his the hospital was also on sunday morning today was

a car bomb explosion in front of the police station in the second largest city in libya of bengazi now at least three police officers wounded in that car explosion we're not hearing any reports as that 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 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 hostile territory of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil reserves they want their own autonomy their one to many to the end of things and then one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more than a year. sims three so cooper in relation to the former you were in the gadhafi. polarized nation of people polarizations in terms of what people want to gun

battles on the streets we also know that for weeks now the city of funny when good has been and to see and from there we saw how when pictures of death and destruction there were of the pan-african news wire 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 tie of colonialism the country was divided basically in the three different regions of phase on in the south. in the west and of course or 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 and still to come this hour wiki leaks could vanish from the radar of the u.s.

library of record doesn't want to divulge something uncomfortable so this is what you'll see when you search for anything linked to wiki leaks. the way the discontent hits away rain over the country's moderate he's releasing bans on public gatherings and war after a break. usually the police and occupy protesters are like oil and water but in atlanta they've come together to save the house of a former detective jacqueline barber unfortunately miss barbara lost a lot of money battling cancer and was facing eviction what she turned to occupy homes for help so far she's managed to stay in her home despite it being sold out from under her feet but the main thing is that her fight to stay in her home has become like a bridge between two groups who are usually at each other's throats the police and

occupiers the thing is that cruel economic practices can affect us all even retired police like ms barber i know there are some irresponsible people who buy things they can't pay for and here the police have to do something about them but they shouldn't throw. you out of your home that you paid for four years just for getting cancer no one should have to live with the constant fear that their home will be taken away after years and years of payment just because they got sick and america thought we believed in private property not eternally renting from big banks but that's just my opinion. well to the. science technology innovation all this is developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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love. is eve's it's. easy. with us here on r t sixteen minutes past the hour now the u.s. literally trying to erase wiki leaks from memory with the national archives spending any search that includes the whistleblowing group's name civil rights groups joined by librarians though aren't happy saying such blatant censorship is akin to george orwell's ministry of truth low scale leader of the u.k.

. pirate party says he sees little good in the bad. mission of the library of congress to preserve a collective body of knowledge the job of any nine re shortly should be to share that knowledge when it's frankly not surprising that central denies nations that under pressure are actually can form to these kind of classification law but essentially this is still censorship and censorship rules actually stepping on freedom of speech we often see that the united states and its very quick to criticize states' brule stepping on premium speech would seem able to hold the same standards at home we can see how blind to the critical whistle blowing to both the man for democracy. local activists in kuwait say

security forces detained dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators and other crackdown on unrest in the gulf state protesters defied kuwait's ban on public gatherings that was imposed last month as 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 pro-government candidates in next month's vote meanwhile in bahrain the government also announced a ban on public gatherings last week causing outrage among people as hundreds of pro-forma stuck to the streets tension rising twenty one months after dozens of protesters were killed and thousands arrested when the arab spring pro-democracy uprising was heavily suppressed by buffering the security forces geo political analyst eric draitser says gulf monarchies confident when to take undemocratic measures filling the support of rights. that the government is scarify they look at a protest movement developing in saudi arabia one that's continued to go on in bahrain and we see the same around the air of course. more generally and kuwait

looks at itself or rather the government does and they see that they really stand no chance at maintaining power maintaining control of that country unless they are able to successfully suppress the end repress the opposition these are client states of the united states bahrain i know this is the u.s. fifth fleet the navy kuwait as we all know the role that it played in full force 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 that us that germany u.s. does not want to see its control over the region slippery way by something as bitterly as the democratic aspirations of the people of the region former opposition m.p. joel feruz says the bahraini government's actions are unconstitutional violating the international covenant on civil rights this is against article seventeen of the constitution and it is against the international act but if you consider rights

which is part of the local law actually over the past i have only comes to the shows were very peaceful the problem is that over the last month saloon people were killed by the government. and also not some people are in the in between and there is nothing done against that but we know who has won some five billion dollars just recently through uribe of countries just to support of. atrocities. stargazers now of a chance to spot a manmade marvel in the night sky with their very own eyes get to see the space station with a nasa text alert tell you when the is flying over a details on why plus. a prize for a pied piper who can read a small south african town where rats are on the rampage we'll tell you on our

website the bounty for being a rodent terminate. the u.k. reportedly planning to send warplanes to the persian gulf the jets would be stationed in the united arab emirates just a couple hundred kilometers from iran britain's defense ministry insists there is no connection to concerns over iran's nuclear ambitions but anti-war activists john aris sees things differently. 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 that the western powers britain and america with the support britain and other west european powers believe that it has an absolute right to control this area of the globality employees the israeli state has its watch dog we read stories 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 after the us 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 a greek whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of his country's potential tax evaders was acquitted thursday but another is still in custody after threatening to reveal how the books were cooked before greece got its bailout as peter all reports the trend in greece seems to be to root out those who revealed the wrongdoing rather than those doing the wrong. is the

greek government using bully bully tactics to cover up its 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 konstanz boxy vaness after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stashing elicit gains in suisse bank accounts and then there was a spot we published a list of other countries how it in their possession and our government was aware of for two years but did nothing for them. in the absence of democracy reese is governed by corrupt characters who deceived the public claiming their handling tax evasion vaxevanis was set free after the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in

a period of political social and political crisis social crisis is obvious we have. high rates of unemployment we have a real thing 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. a misnomer because any members of the frustrations 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 won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names then what would he do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals 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 teacher all of a party. and greece may have its work cut out apparently needing to introduce another one hundred fifty changes to its fiscal policies to please 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 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 la-la land alice in wonderland economics with the money being squeezed all around there's one man who's beating the big banks small. people who rob banks go to prison banks to real people get paid bonuses to stop he says he's taking finance back to basics looking after his community at a time when the big lenders only look out for themselves that's the way.

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