but. the series of deadly blasts hit the capital of bahrain after the government steps up efforts to stamp out a pro-democracy uprising. as the main presidential candidates in the u.s. make their last ditch attempt to curry break or gain cordial sleep states marty prepares to give the floor to those possible running for the top job a big laugh out of the spotlight. the words to pursue the u.n. resolution on syria is certainly desiring to emigrate the situation can create a great uses for regime change russia fuses western and arab states of encouraging the syrian opposition to step up their plight instead of looking for ways to stop the bloodshed. and agree scares off to grind to a halt as people from all walks of life starting week of strikes and protests at

a government set to cut spending even further. thank you for joining our team this monday live from moscow i'm karen tara well a series of blasts have ripped through the bahraini capital manama killing two people the country has been engulfed in anti-government protests for more than twenty months now the deadly clashes between police and pro-democracy campaigners we're joined now by our correspondent in the region paulus layer paula what more do we know about the blast and how common are incidents like this in the gulf country . well fine explosions have occurred in the capital there any city of the number we don't yet know who is behind the blast but in the past such explosions have targeted the country and his forces now they come just a few days after the government banned all public gatherings as well as rallies and

this was an effort to try and quell the deepening and raised in the kingdom which have see. pro-democracy demonstrations taking place since the angry last year and human rights organizations have condemned this government bad they say that it is a violation of freedom of speech more than sixty five people have been killed since two thousand and eleven the twenty one months and rates have seen the nation's majority shiites christian for a greater political voice in a sunni ruled in the sunni ruled island nation but protests though have largely gone unnoticed in the international community and this is because the ruling family enjoys a close an alliance with the united states the rain is a strategic alliance a strategic ally to washington and hose the u.s. navy's naval cheesed. with the latest situation there are too sparsely or thank you . well the protests in bahrain aren't the only country washington's being accused

of double standards over. u.s. does not want to see its control over the region slip away by something as a good living as the democratic aspirations of the people the white house turns a blind on to thousands of protesters in kuwait all at the same time praising the opposition forces in countries such as syria. and we turn our attention now to the u.s. presidential race where barack obama and mitt romney are in their final dash to win votes in the so-called battleground states polls put the rivals neck and neck on forty eight percent each in the heat of an extremely tough campaign most americans forget they actually have a bigger choice than just the two candidates and artie'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 the 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 ask how and why. pushed out and quite literally jule styne presidential nominee from the green party was already on the day of the second presidential debate between 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 will turn out if 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

and 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. 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 made

in nebraska gives 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 gallup poll a record forty percent of americans now identify themselves as independents the chief of the federal election commission under george w. bush michael toner told me in the us electoral 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 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 spurred 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 it 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 right they often make political contributions both sides of the aisle this is called hedging your bets here in america as you would say in las vegas. and even vegas as they say no matter how you play it the house always wins speaking of us selections one could say no matter how you vote business as usual winds it won't be business as usual during the alternative candidate is 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 block 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 my certainly well from our debate

ready or almost ready studio here in washington i'm going to. tell us the special event to watch the third party candidates debate live on our t.v. this monday evening at nine pm eastern. will two parties keep us politics a woman way street. or will new voices disrupt the power power that. was in the america changes try. this election please go right monday november fifth on our team. russia's foreign minister says western efforts over syria are solely aimed at inflaming the situation on the ground and carrying out regime change so get off it all of also said such a position is only leading to further bloodshed in the rest of country archies lucy coffin of has the details. sergey lavrov is on a middle east tour after a tenuous cease fire in syria broke down during a tragically so during the holiday of aid on the very same day as russia is trying

to restart diplomatic efforts to come to some sort of diplomatic solution to the syria crisis members of the fractured syrian opposition groups are meeting in qatar under u.s. backed efforts to bring together a new opposition leadership a government this is something that people have interpreted to mean a splintering of the international community on how to resolve the syrian crisis that has earned the title quite harsh remarks from the foreign minister he had said he had urged and comments to the press for folks to stick together to the agreements that the international community had come to in june that in the geneva declaration which had called among other things the creation of a transitional governing body he also in the inner furring to this u.s. backed effort especially accuse the west for giving up on their commitments by refusing to work with the syrian government on this issue working only with the

opposition which he says is quote a path to a very dire situation. in geneva four months ago we all agreed to do is 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 game for eating fuel causes great you will win it's up to you to decide whose position is creating the danger of more and more deaths in syria. pressure the system has the force been to come to some sort of a diplomatic non military solution to this tragic crisis which unfortunately continues to unfold a day by day whether more tragedies more casualties reported on a nearly daily basis and do stick around there's more international news coming up shortly after this break.

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back to the program local activists in kuwait say security forces have detained dozens of pro-democracy campaigners and the latest clampdown on a rally in the gulf nation riot police use stun grenades and small arms against thousands of demonstrators who defied a ban on public gatherings protesting against new voting rules the opposition claims changes in the electoral system hand an advantage to the pro-government candidates in next month's elections sunday's rally became the third major protest in the past few days geo political analyst eric draitser says gulf monarchies confidently take on democratic measures comfortable in the knowledge they have the support of the rats the government is terrified they look at

a protest movement developing in saudi arabia one that's continued to go out and bought rain 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 i was as the u.s. fifth fleet in the navy kuwait as we although 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 us does not want to see its control over the region slip away by something as piddling as the democratic aspirations of the people of the region. and on line we have lined up the latest on the unrest coming from another arab country with libya diving more and more into violence

after a while militants fired rocket propelled grenades in tripoli marking the worst security crackdown since the ousting of former leader mark adolfo more on that at r.t. dot com. from ben man to bank clerics greece is set to come to a standstill as a week of strikes and protests has started in the country it comes as the government plans to vote for a fresh austerity package of cost cuts and tax hikes in order to get another cash injection from its international creditors artist peter oliver is an out that's well it's been rather ominous lee called the devils weak in some parts of the greek media nuts due to the fact that nobody really knows what state greece is going to emerge from the coming days worth of protests strikes the potentially crippling austerity measures now the first strikers have walked we've seen taxi drivers some journalists and others walking out on monday the main strikes though taking place on tuesday and wednesday that's when the main labor unions get involved they'll be

taking industrial action and be out on the streets of athens as well as other cities around greece to protest against what they see as unfair measures being taken by the greek cover greek government as the government looks to save team point five billion euros the reason that greece is having to do this is that they've been told to do this by their main creditors the so-called troika on sunday opposition politicians put it to mr morris why didn't you negotiate the terms of this next round of austerity measures with our creditors and he said world need negotiators because it wasn't for negotiation this was dictated to him by greece's lenders this prompted the opposition to say that they wanted to see new elections in greece and they called on the greek people to you. the demonstrations coming up over the next few days to rise up peacefully and take back their country as the you

can set for a clash with its e.u. partners over how much britain pays for its membership it seems there's 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 for three ports. china miami we might all dream of jetting off to some exotic destination but unfortunately in the middle of a double dip recession with thirty measures. we're being kept to ground. for some lucky and peace even just think of the some of those far flung the nations of 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 shit singapore and 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 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 can say taking the piss but they're taking advantage there's absolutely no question. that because i find 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 say the pennies the public has the awful advice for the days of jet. central maybe you know you're ok thank you. while we'd all love to get all into the sunset to help us with the economic crisis these

excessive expenditure is going to leave many m.p.'s looking like they simply got their heads in the clouds so the london more stories are available on our website our column including begin business begin game. all mine we've got the story of one supermodel and her billionaire husband planning to stage an elephant polo match to mark the time fiftieth birthday. was painted black and orange and dirty dot com where we've lined up the story of one creepy crustacean perfectly colored for following. the case of wiki leaks is once again hitting the headlines that's after the u.s. national archives blocked any search attempts containing the name of the whistle

blowing web site the move on the recommendation of washington was said to be protecting classified information but a leader of the pirate party believes what happened is a clear sign of censorship. the mission of the library of congress is to to preserve a collective body of knowledge the job of any line reached shortly should be to share that knowledge well it's frankly not surprising that such organizations that are under pressure to actually conform to these kind of classification law but essentially this is still a censorship and censorship laws it's 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 premiums be. able to say to uphold the same standards at home we can see how much line toward the president and principle of

a whistle blowing both journalism and for democracy and that's our friend made for the moment in just a couple of minutes kate partridge will bring us all the latest from the world of sports. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the client's computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is that if in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent

to the other patients and in many cases their shattered lives will go when professing designed first brain bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to be was out of center now days seeking series three focus medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with a leg length i mean request to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point

of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out they're pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia if his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america average height is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right there are very nice i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big door if your guy is like expect to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's

a regional hype why didn't dering if he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now are going to call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. hello welcome to the r t school roundup thank you for joining me k. partridge and these are the week's top stories marching on discuss score in injury time just not sure to one way to overlook about even the most fair davi to go top of the russian premier league we have full weekend action. while top gear as the

battle to win this year's formula one title guys down to the wire we look at a young russian aims to make his mark among the most just fourteen meat. processing periods brushes and bottle because they called another big scalp to his collection as the kick boxing champion knocked out and got on the go in the first round. although stories to common first of football were a test match a stop in. time when it's a triumph to won in the moscow darby against locking my teeth and the top of the russian prime which a phone call from fourth on a weekend of close to four battles. serious car came into a clash with local rivals lokomotiv moscow in a stunning run of form in the russian premier league and they were looking to make it ten wins from eleven with victory over the railwaymen rosmah zone got them off to the perfect start just before the half hour mark the visitors response was almost instant as somebody issue because first goal of the season driven visitors were form because of them believed his side were reduced to ten men after dimitar last of a send off their toss was made even harder as one caller had to leave the field

which left loco with only nine players on the pitch as big used up all their subs for the second time in a week qantas verbal brute to be beyond him and savior he netted an eighty eight minute winner against terror last time and it's a mess we'd like to even later gives we come on t.v. this is stoppage time goal gave serious couple points which sees them top russian premier league table is looking. to win every game. for the sake of the much better than the games for us is even. before those who are still so much. we keep winning and. that means that we. see this team and we know how to win the game bungy a horse and say askance heels up for a free one win against terror in the caucasus darby i'm back before putting good sitting side into the lead up to the finish of the slick passing.