the dark horse candidates for the american presidency prepared to make a very last pitch to voters here on party bypassing a long standing media embargo. deaths in bahrain as five homemade devices go off in the kingdom's capital manama further rocking a country that's been engulfed in opposition protests for more than twenty months now and. greece is set for a week's freeze as workers across the board take off strikes against austerity while lawmakers vote on a new cards to satisfy international lenders. and moscow lashes out at the arab and

western partners it accuses of for if you willingly bloody syrian war instead of encouraging talks. thank you for joining our t.v. this monday live with me karen tara almost thirty million americans have already cast their votes for president curing for hours at early polling stations across the country although too soon to tell which way the vote is swinging barack obama and mitt romney are locked together according to most polls but lost in the rivalry between republican and democrat are the alternatives that many americans have been pining for. 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 it will make sure there is lots of room for discussion on issues that somehow 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 they. pushed out and quite literally jule styne presidential nominee from the green party was arrested 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 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. 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 who i 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 is also rigged but in ways that are not as straightforward and with the like of interest from the mainstream media smaller parties 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 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 the 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 by 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 they often make political contributions both sides of the aisle this is called hedging your bets here in america as you would say in los vegas. and in vegas as they say no matter how you play the house always wins speaking of us alexion as one could say no matter how you vote business as usual wins 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 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 radio studio here in washington i'm going to. yes on be sure to tune in for the third party candidate debate here on our team at nine pm eastern or two am g.m.t. . will two parties keep us politics a woman way street. or will new voices disrupt the power powerless. wanted to america changes. this election let's go right monday november fifth on or to. a wave of at least five explosions how swamped bahrain's capital manama the deadly attacks come amid the kind of regular pro reform opposition marches that often end up with riot police resorting to violence arches possibly or has details. according to officials at least two people have been told they were asian guy going to sleep in the country we don't yet know who was behind the blast

but in the past such explosions have targeted the country's police 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 seen pro-democracy demonstrations taking place since gabriel last year and human rights organizations have condemned this government bad they say that it is a violation of freedom of speech wasn't just the five people have been killed since two thousand and eleven the twenty one months i raised have seen the nation's majority shiites pristine for a greater political voice in a sunni ruled in a sunni ruled island nation approaches though has largely gone unnoticed in the international community and this is because the ruling family enjoys it close an alliance with the united states the main is a strategic alliance a strategic ally to washington and hose the u.s. navy's mabel's she's. bahrain is not the only government accused of using on

proportionate force against protests police in kuwait resorted to smoke bombs and stun grenades to quell a thousand strong rally some activists claim security forces made dozens of arrests despite the demonstration being peaceful if there are major protests in the past few weeks came as marchers defied the recently imposed ban on public gatherings uniting against the new voting rules the opposition thinks the restrictions the balance of next month's election to the advantage of pro-government candidates to political analyst eric draitser says the rulers understand that our question is the only way for them to stay in power. the government scarified 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 of 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 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 gemini 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. caught in the middle of the civil war across the borders sends aftershocks into israel later this hour r.t. talks to israelis who fear there will be no easy living next door to the reshaped syrian state. greece is about to grind to a halt during a week of nationwide strikes against austerity the government is losing support as it gets ready to vote on a new set of tax hikes and spending cuts international lenders are demanding the

measures before they hand over more bailout cash parties peter oliver is now. well it's been rather ominous lee called the devils we kid some parts of the greek media not stoop to the fact that nobody really knows what state greece is going to emerge from the coming days worth of protests strikes a potentially crippling austerity measures now the first strike is have walked out 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 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 of greek government as the government looks to say 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 summers lie didn't you negotiate the terms of this next round of austerity measures with our creditors and he said well read negotiate it 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 use the demonstrations coming up over the next few days to rise up peacefully and take back their country . and while greece is cutting to the bone elsewhere in europe lawmakers are splashing the british m.p.'s are calling out spending thousands on the jury is business trips around the globe. and meet america's newest found its own librarians they usually a lot are up in arms after the white house censored and will mention of wiki leaks from the us national archives more on that in

a few minutes. 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 ms barber lost a lot of money battling cancer and was facing eviction which 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 the 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've paid for for 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 rented from big banks but that's just my opinion. world. series technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style.

markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines comes a report. back to our team live from moscow and karen tara wall russia says western efforts to unite syria's fragmented opposition are doomed to failure because they're based on warmongering foreign minister sergey lavrov believes the bloody battle is being encouraged to liberally to create conditions for regime change more on russia's latest assessment of the syrian crisis from artie's those who cough now. 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 but 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 and has earned sort of quite harsh remarks from the foreign minister and 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 are called among other things for the creation of a transitional governing body he also in the inner furring to this u.s. backed effort sensually accused 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 a path quote a path to

a very dire situation that let's take a listen to what the foreign minister said in his own words. in geneva four months ago we all agreed to do is we'll 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 fighting cause is great you will win it's up to you to decide whose position is creating the danger of more and more deaths in syria. well there you have a turkey a laugh or of lashing out at western efforts to essentially create a government and the exiled russian position has of course been to to come. some sort of a diplomatic non military solution to this tragic crisis which unfortunately continues to unfold day by day weather more tragedies more casualties reported on a nearly daily basis the u.s.

has the just of the new border of the opposition should be exactly expanded from just the syrian national council which enjoyed america's backing in the past and also revealed plans to bring some militants fighting on the front line into the fold dr ali mohamed atta here in chief of the syria tribune says washington has meddling too much in syria's internal affairs. it definitely will make it worse the only thing that can make things better in syria is for everybody to. put pressure on the rebels to put down their weapons and stop the negotiation process and it's funny that the u.s. should call for. an opposition body but the syrian people i mean if those people that claim that they have support in syria would it be different from clinton the same person who a year ago described the syrian national council as it leaving. the present if it will syria's looking for freedom the same person now saying that this is a civil war is encroaching on his rail after syrian tanks centered

a sensitive buffer zone on the golan heights breaking a decades long truth's the incident was not considered an act of aggression against the jewish state but increased fears inside israel that the political shake up in the region may eventually see israel stuck between a rock and a hard place. explains. remember this. this hour. has a generation of young people number to some friends signing off again to dispose of a country in just 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 if the arabs. versus. the arab spring uprisings primarily sought to do away with their own regimes they now own creasing we seem 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 barak and the coming to the fore of the muslim brothers it is definitely definitely much more difficult middle east for israel sprouts 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 jews 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 were annexed by israel during the six day war with syria forty five years ago though the current unrest in syria

is viewed differently by residents of this village they are united when one thought . israel is a stable country but we in our historic you are part of the syrian nation and it's our culture we want to be on the syrian authority even. under this oppressive regime we want to be part of syria before the civil war to call very damascus was said to be involved in talks over a peace accord with israel clinton's time ones should power in syria be transferred to the opposition the result will surely mean peace and stability for tel aviv of course when assad was in full control of the family in syria israel knew what it's going to get from the us attorney so to speak to me and 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 this period of the arab spring the two are prepared to burn bridges which will also for you i would.

go and go back to syria what was taken and we will have to come back in. those days i look at. it we go scolari t. golan heights our stories are available for sale on r.t. dot com including biz biz big business rather big game. the story of one supermodel and her billionaire been planning to stage an elephant polo match to mark the tycoons fiftieth birthday. plus painted black and orange that's creepy lobster apparently also wanted to take part in the hollowing festivities choosing the perfectly colored. as britain grapples with the e.u.

over how much a pays for membership cash appears to be leaking in another direction it's been revealed that some politicians are spending tens of thousands of pounds flying to exotic holiday spots on so-called fact finding missions are to sarah furthur reports. 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 at destinations fact finding mission 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 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 very the. luxury hotels when they could look at more modestly combination or they're using business class travel when they could travel most of the rest 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 save the pennies the public has a symbol for that five. cent of all meaning you know you're ok thank you. 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 to some other world news and pray for a now several hundred opposition protesters a gallery around the electoral committee in ukraine's capital demanding or. count of votes in the parliamentary election they're accusing the ruling party of rigging the poll the committee hasn't announced any preliminary results yet saying vote counting is being slowed down by reported violations three opposition leaders are considering a run out sing any parliament seats they may have won in protest so. south korean authorities have warned of an unprecedented power crisis as they had to shut down two nuclear reactors such decision was made after it emerged they contained components with fake quality certificates the country's nuclear plants have suffered a series of malfunctions over the past few months. wiki leaks has dubbed the us national archives they knew a ministry of truth after it banned any mention of the whistleblower organization

in its records the justification is that classified leaks are illegal the rights groups and even librarians have labelled the move as a clear act of censorship also lost a leader of the u.k. pirate party says the ban achieves nothing this is an entirely futile gesture anyway all these documents a perfect perfectly acceptable anyway it's simply actually trying to add to a bog a dark to the horse's fluid but essentially this is still censorship and censorship laws are actually stepping on freedom of speech we often see that the united states is very quick to criticize leads and states abroad stepping on premium speech would seem able to hold to certain standards at home we can see how well you thought that the principle of whistle blowing both journey for democracy. and just share with us in just

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