thank you. lynn. as the main presidential candidates in the u.s. make their a last ditch attempt to curry favor in crucial swing states r t prepares to give the floor to those also running for the top job being left out of the spotlight. to slam the western and some arab countries for encouraging the syrian opposition to step up their fight instead of looking for ways to stop the bloodshed. and the tear gas is fired at thousands of protesters in kuwait as the crackdown of the opposition intensifies in the gulf monarchies which enjoy that close friendship with the united states.

this is coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie now it starts with the u.s. presidential race where barack obama and mitt romney are in their last gasp dash to win votes in the so-called battleground states polls show the two rivals are still level with roughly forty eight percent support each in the heat of an extremely tough campaign most americans forget the actually have a bigger choice than just a candidate and what he's been reminding them of the alternative. here it is the venue for the next presidential debate with the alternative candidates in this election our studio in washington d.c. though it's not very big as you can see will make sure there is lots of room for discussion on issues that some hope don't fit into the mainstream media discourse here alternatives to obama and romney have effectively been pushed out of the major national debates we asked how and why. pushed out and quite

literally jule styne presidential nominee from the green party was. on the day of the second presidential debate because. in mitt romney and barack obama in mid october right outside the venue where it took place she was there protesting her exclusion from the debate we were tightly bound with plastic restraints and tied to chairs for eight hours for daring to stand up and demand open debates turn out of presidential candidates had their own debate in chicago they brought up issues which the big party candidates never came close to discussing like the legislation signed by president obama which allows the government to indefinitely detain american citizens without charge or due process it's an incredible the trail of our civil liberties on foreign policy the alternative candidates argue there's practically no difference between mitt romney and barack obama regardless of whether or not romney gets elected or obama gets elected three things are going to

happen we're going to find ourselves with a continued heightened police state in this country we're going to find ourselves continuing to militarily intervene in the world which results has resulted in hundreds of millions of enemies to this country that wouldn't otherwise exist the similarity of views that president obama and mitt romney showed during their foreign policy debate became a matter of numerous jokes on foreign policy it appears that all that's left for the presidential race is this one model. i mean at least we still get our choice of color but it's. the us mainstream media are entirely focused on the two party race the majority of americans know very little if anything about alternatives jule styne of the green party why sit down with before her arrest is not going to be represented on ballot papers in every state the american system is designed to eliminate political opposition like some of the you know dictatorships that we

criticize that have rigged political systems in many ways the american system has also read but in ways that are not as straightforward and with the like of interest from the mainstream media small the party see the deck stacked against them in a national vote but not only are americans stuck with a two word phrase but they're also not guaranteed to get the president to the majority cast their votes for in a us presidential election a candidate can win the majority of the popular vote and still lose the election because it's not the popular vote but the electoral college that decides the outcome of the presidential election here so how does it work every state but maine and nebraska give the candidate a certain number of points and the winner has to collect the magic number two hundred seventy points even if a candidate loses a state by just say three votes they get zero points that's how george w. bush won the election in the year two thousand although he lost in the popular vote

he won due to the tricky state to stay score system according to a gallup poll a record forty percent of americans now identify themselves as independents the chief of the federal election commission on the george w. bush michael toner told me in the us a like troll system they don't have much choice if you moved away from a winner take all electoral system and once or proportional representation i think you would have far more successful political parties here in the states because there are a large number of americans actually the most. most of the biggest share biggest increase in voter registration today in america is not democrats it's not republicans it's independents if you look at these states large numbers of people now are identifying it as an independent now they often will vote pretty reliably republican or democrat but that's a pretty good indication that there's a million tens of millions of people who if they had their choice might pick

another party but one group that stands to win from the lack of choice are the corporations that contribute lavishly to political campaigns trying to buy support for their companies what we have in this country in many respects is covert corruption legalise corruption in the political system itself being held hostage by special interests is a form of corruption each candidate on the republican and democratic side now spend nearly a billion dollars each in order to get to the white house i mean i think our founding fathers would be spinning if in their graves if they could see this while in office mr toner oversaw a campaign finance of the elections the most sophisticated companies what they do is they're in good shape no matter who wins right they hire lobbyists on both sides of the aisle they often make political contributions both sides of the aisle just called hedging your bets here in america as you would say in las vegas. and in

vegas as they say no matter how you play the house always wins speaking of us selections one could say no matter how you vote business as usual wins it won't be business as usual during the alternative can of this debate this monday night the candidates will be here in this studio were chosen by online voters as the winners of the last third party debate held in chicago about two weeks ago we brought has that debate live no mainstream us news channel that so an important point to make here is that by giving a media platform to these candidates does not mean that we're indorsing their views it's an honor for us to host the event. we're trying to show what others don't and we also think it's going to get a lot of viewers you're welcome to be one of them by certainly well from our debate ready or almost ready studio here in washington i'm going to check up. and don't miss the special events watch the third party candidates debate live on our team this monday evening at nine pm. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power parallel.

what if america changes. this election please god monday november fifth on our team. now russia's foreign minister says western efforts over syria are so waned at inflaming the situation on the ground in carrying out regime change sergey lavrov also said such opposition is only leading to further bloodshed in the rest of country. in geneva four months ago we all agreed the world powers will say the same to the warring sides in syria. this is exactly what russia is doing saying this to both the government and opposition groups some other nations both western and regional telling the opposition go on fighting your cause is right you will win it's up to you to decide whose position is creating the danger of more and more deaths in syria. the israeli army is on alert after the

fighting in neighboring syria raged closer to its border israel is increasingly concerned the conflict in the arab nation could become its business as well as a real english go now explains there are fears that a change in syrian power could lead to another war in the region. remember this this hour of live from has a generation of young people. some friends trying. to dispel the country's interest under two years the rage against dictators seems to have turned in a new direction similar to the capital of the caliphate the capital of the united states the arabs who preach. the arab spring uprisings primarily sought to do away with their own regimes they now own creasing received to turn against israel with the old leaders out of the pictures the first new

government's little to do with the old ways of tacit compliance if not friendship with israel's existence a pattern that didn't escape israel should get used to a different middle east for all means and. i think that the most important thing is that the barak. coming to the fore with the muslim brothers it is definitely definitely much more difficult middle east for as well spruance of the revolutionary spirits which took over the region appeared to have shot up even in places considered soon by israel here in the golan heights some twenty thousand consider themselves syrian their home country is just across the road has a daily reminder of the home they have lost and though it may be in the grips of a civil war many of them with gladly make their home in a stable syria rather than in israel golan heights where annexed by israel during the six day war with syria forty five years ago though the current unrest in syria

is viewed differently by reza. this village they are united by one fort. israel is a stable country but we are historic you are part of the syrian nation and it's our culture we want to be on the syrian authority even under the suppressive regime we want to be part of syria before the civil war took over damascus was said to be involved in talks over a peace accord with israel clinton's time ones to power in syria be transferred to the opposition the result will hardly mean peace and stability for tel aviv before course when assad was in full control of the family in syria knew what it's going to get from the us and family so to speak i mean the notion was what you see is what you what you see is what you get. all the residents of the golan heights the future of territory is much clearer in the spirit of the arab spring the two are prepared to bring great just what you learned so far i would.

go back to syria what was taken and have to come back and rule. it we go. golan heights. well coming up later in the program the working paradigm. there are just some of the exotic destinations chosen for luxury business trips by british m.p.'s despite the fact u.k. struggling to plug the huge hole in its finances. plus search but don't find wiki leaks has blocked the u.s. national archives raising questions over the freedom of speech. wealthy british. that. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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piece intriguing story. troy arabic. visit. welcome back you're watching r.t. rival libyan militias have fired guns and rocket propelled grenades at each other in tripoli in one of the worst collapses in security and the capital since formerly

known as fall last year the country continues to be in disarray with residents of the city of benghazi calling for the autonomy of the oil rich east the outer of the pan-african news wire believes the nato backed revolution of two thousand and eleven has turned the clogged back for libya by several decades. historically during the period of the ottoman empire as well as a time colonialism the country was divided basically in its way different regions on three design in the south tripoli the time yet 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 by gadhafi 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 done has fallen apart over the last year and this is why we're having these type of sexual conflicts inside the country now local activists in

kuwait say security forces detained dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators and another clampdown on unrest in the gulf nation protesters defied kuwait's batum 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 handed advantage to the pro-government candidates in next month's election political analyst eric draitser assassin golf marquees confidently take on democratic national comfortable in the knowledge they have the support of the us. government is terrified 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 are able to successfully suppress the end repress the opposition these are client states of the united

states bahrain as 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 us that germany u.s. does not want to see its control over the region slip away by something as silly as the democratic aspirations of people in the region. as just mentioned the bahraini regime continues to mute anti-government slogans on the streets on our website r.t. dot com find out the latest on the protests which have been ongoing for more than twenty months now. well as the u.k. is set for a clash with its e.u. partners over how much britain pays for its membership it seems there is still a chance to save taxpayers money back at home it's been revealed that m.p.'s there are spending tens of thousands of pounds flying to exotic destinations on so-called

fact finding missions are the surfers reports. china miami we might all dream of just being off to some exotic destination but unfortunately in the middle of a double dip recession with thirty measures. we're being kept ground. for some lucky and just think of the some of those far flung destinations on fact finding missions one fact that has been found is that these trips costing millions in taxpayers' pounds so take a look at the figures they regularly come in at more than forty thousand pounds per trip one ship singapore in china cost a whopping seventy two thousand pounds something has clearly gone wrong when you have a coach trip costing eight to ten thousand pounds per member of parliament on the trip there either. staying in luxury hotels when they could look at more modest

accommodation or they're using business class travel when they could travel most of the rest of us not surprisingly the public's not impressed i certainly think it's excessive and i think they i can't say taking the piss but they're taking advantage there's absolutely no question. that there is a good place if you have the patience to look on the right side and if the m.p.'s need some advice on how to save the pennies the public has a symbol for the device for the. central meaning you know you're ok guys i think he. was we'd all love to just fall into the sunset to help us deal with the economic crisis those excessive expenditures are going to leave many m.p.'s looking like they simply got their heads in the clouds so artsy london. now more stories are available on our website r.t.

dot com including big in business big game online we've got the story of one supermodel and her billionaire husband's planning to stage an all of polo match to mark the tiger's fiftieth her. boss painted black and orange head to our t.v. dot com where we've lined up a story of one creepy crustacean perfectly colored for hello. now the case of wiki leaks is once again hitting the headlines that's after the u.s. national archives blocked any search teams containing the name of the whistle blowing web site the move on the recommendation of washington was said to be protecting classified information but last cait leader of the u.k. pirate party believes what happened is

a clear sign of censorship. mission of the library of congress to preserve a collective body of knowledge the job of any line shortly should be to share that knowledge well since frankly not surprising that such organizations that are under pressure actually conform to these kind of classification law but essentially this is still censorship and censorship nor is it actually stepping on freedom of speech we often see that united states and its very quick to criticize states abroad stepping on premium speech would seem able to say to uphold the same standards at home we can see how. the principle of a whistle blowing both to journalism and the democracy. let's have a look at some other stories from around the world. a grenade attack on

a church in kenya has claimed the life of a police matter fourteen other people most of them security officers were warned the country and the wider region have suffered a wave of similar deadly attacks in response to kenya sending troops to neighboring somalia to battle qaeda linked insurgents earlier this year two other churches were assaulted in the same town leaving eighteen people dead. an eleven year old child has been killed and eighteen people injured after a bomb targeting a police vehicle exploded in southeastern turkey now a group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack the country's officials though put the blame on the kurdistan workers party which has been active in the region trying to attain sovereignty. now some of russia's most a radical political groups were out of force on sunday from diehard nationalists to outright fascists and dozens of cities towns of thousands joined marches chanting against immigration israel islam and all things foreign enough was 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 laws part of the russian criminal law that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalist and that make a trend 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 the permit us for about ten thousand people of course a massive police presence here as well 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 we have to keep in mind that this is the play of swastikas is of course banned in a 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 could to be in good part taking part of an unauthorized 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 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 and first braving the person far right extremists was massacred seventy seven people in norway. reporting there and the after a short break our special report on the volunteers getting ready for the twenty fourteen olympics in the russian city of sochi.

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russia's black sea coast resort of sochi is busy working towards the twenty fourteen winter olympic games the city is preparing for an event that would welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors from all across the world and when they arrive they'll be greeted by the faces of the games sorties for lympics volunteers. there are hundreds of volunteers lined up to take part in sochi twenty fourteen but

it's sad to say that some of got a bit of a head start and i'm about to meet two who got a taste of the real thing at london two thousand and twelve. constantine and christina were among a very select few chosen to head over to the u.k. . just in the last you know they had to become to be. along to us from russia it was in russia have to say it's a centrist. group pressed them socially. it was a competition in which skills to check our skills and. skills and other personal qualities. and they learned plenty of things that should be a great help for the sochi games but has entered your rants from one. prompt i guess. we want to add bellatrix to always so. fast you can say without the confidence.