the dark horse candidates for the american presidency prepared to make their last pitch to voters here on our team bypassing a longstanding media embargo. deaths in bahrain as follett homemade devices go off in the kingdom in the caymans capital madama further rocking a country that's putting golf in opposition protests for more than twenty months now. greece is set for a weeks free says workers across the board of strikes against austerity while lawmakers voted on new cuts to satisfy international lenders. and moscow lashes out at arab and western partners it accuses a few in the bloody syrian war instead of encouraging talks.

thank you for joining r t this monday live from moscow karen tara well almost thirty million americans have already cast their votes for president queuing 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 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 betrayal 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 if you say. to 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 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 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 on the george w. bush michael toner told me in the u.s. ally control system i don't have much choice if you move 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 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 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 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 it the house always wins speaking of us alike sions 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 did 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 as 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 i certainly well from our debate ready for almost radio studio here in washington i'm going to. 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 power that. was in the american changes. u.s. election close monday november fifth one or two. a wave of at least five explosions has swept bahrain's capital manama a deadly attacks come amid the kind of regular pro reform opposition marches that often end up with riot police resorting to violence falsely or has the details. according to officials at least two people have been told they were asian immigrants working in that 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 the agree last year and human rights organizations have condemned this government bad they say that it is a violation of freedom of speech wouldn't just be five people have been killed since puberty two thousand and eleven twenty one months i raised have seen the nation's majority shiites christian for a greater political voice in a sunni ruled in the sunni ruled island nation approaches though have largely gone unnoticed in the international community and this is because the ruling family enjoys a close and alliance with the united states the rain is a strategic alliance a strategic ally to washington and hose the u.s. navy's mabel she used 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 is major protest in the past few weeks came as marchers defied a recently imposed ban on public gatherings uniting against voting rules now opposition things the restrictions chip the balance of next month's election to the advantage of pro-government candidates little analyst eric draitser says the rulers understand that pressure 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 or bought rain we see the same around the arab world more generally and kuwait looks at. so far 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 the geo political calculus of u.s. germany u.s. 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. in the middle civil war across the border sends aftershock sent to israel later this hour r.t. talks to israelis who fear there'll be no easy living next door to the reshaped syrian state. and hundreds gathered to demand a recount after the parliamentary election in ukraine opposition parties saying they are ready to renounce their seats completely to protest and lead to. greece is about to grind to a halt during a week of nationwide strikes against austerity the government is losing support as 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 archies peter oliver. 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 the potentially crippling all story team measures now the first strike is have walked out we've seen top two 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 grew. to protest against what they see as unfair measures being taken by the greece gover creek government does the government looks to save thirteen 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 why didn't you negotiate the terms of

this next round of austerity measures with our creditors and he said well they're even negotiating because it wasn't up 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 cash british m.p.'s are caught spending thousands of luxury as business trips all around the globe. meet america's newest fellow librarians the usually docile lot are up in arms after the white house censored any mention of wiki leaks from the us national archives bar and that in a few minutes. this

is day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of teavana thirty five years old it wasn't the life he told having studied accounting but he dition and familiar duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of disc ins his p.c. back amongst his family and his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone in my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so most of us are simply carrying out the work that his father

did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of a herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a higher fair price i sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life they in their publics capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of

fact he can start to look for a new wife. though welcome back to r t a lot from moscow i'm karen tara now russia says western efforts change that 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 liberate lead to create conditions for regime change more on russia's latest assessment of the syrian crisis from artie's lucy carter both. 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 subtle quite harsh remarks from the foreign minister 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 for the creation of a transitional governing body he also in the inner furring to this u.s. backed effort sensually 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 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 power was 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 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. well there you have a turkey lavrov lashing out at western efforts to essentially create a government in the exile 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 with more tragedies more casualties reported on a nearly daily basis. the u.s. has suggested the new board of the opposition should be 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 editor in chief of the syria tribunals says washington is meddling too much and syria's internal affairs. 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 a negotiation process and it's funny that you should call for. an opposition body of one of the syrian people i mean if those people don't claim that they have supported syria what if the initiative comes from the same person a year ago described the syrian national council as it leaving the legitimate representative or syria looking for freedom the same person now saying that this isn't. a civil war as encroaching on israel after syrian tanks sunset a buffer zone on the golan heights breaking a decades long truce the incident was not considered an act of aggression against

the jewish state in chris fears inside israel that the political shake up in the region may eventually see israel stuck between a rock and a hard place arches or in a plane. remember this. this hour in the world as a generation of young people not to suffer in silence. to discuss their 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 the arabs who will be. the arab spring uprisings primarily sought to do away with their own regimes the known creasing we seem to turn against israel with the old leaders out of the pictures the first new governments want little to do with the old ways of tacit compliance it's not

friendship with israel's existence apparent they didn't escape israel should get used to a different middle east for all means and both of. i think that the most important thing is that the bowl full of. barak. 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 why one thought

. 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 this oppressive 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 clandestine 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 the assad 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. although for 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 so for you i would.

go and we'll go back to syria what was taken and we'll have to come back in. it we go. golan heights more stories are available for you on r.t. dot com including big business big game. just change out of things. painted black and orange this. also one of. the city's. protesters gathered in ukraine's capital kiev want a recount of votes from the parliamentary election counting is dragging on slowed

down by reported violations opposition parties say the ruling party has. politics in ukraine are back to being a boiling point only when you got to the parliamentary election now we understand that the vote counting still continues with more than ninety nine percent of the votes have been counted so far and as it stands it seems that the ruling party will be winning this election and will be gaining the majority in parliament once again but the opposition is believing that this result has been falsified that it's been rigged and on a number of occasions on certain polling stations where the votes were counted. a confrontation between the between the police and the members of the opposition will believe the result that those particular polling stations were falsified now a thousand around the thousand people have gathered in central kiev near the central election commission to protest against what they believe to be a falsified result and we understand that will continue this only the first action

we're waiting for the official results from the commission to come out and certainly the. are likely to intensify as the date of the official announcement draws closer. to getting more and more towns with holes in. the opposition are getting more and more vocal to hand over the mandates to lay down their seats in parliament and the council the result of this election and of course the real world what if if the official result is the final result will stand the definitely we're in for a very turbulent new parliament in ukraine because about ten percent of the votes were guarded by the radical right wing nationalist party and this already has causing lots of controversy in ukraine this party openly supports the insurgent army of 1940's which many believe in ukraine to be nazi collaborators and definitely in the ground which suffered greatly from the nazi invasion things like having. them it would definitely cause a lot of controllers and we'll probably see more fights in bottom and more heated

debates inside the ukraine so if we do see the body to some other world news in brief for you this hour 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. for this fan david cameron has vowed to raise the issue of human rights as he arrived to the middle east on an arms sales to the u.k. is looking to sell fighter jets to saudi arabia and dubai despite concerns over around and abuses in both nations ties between britain and gulf monarchies have been tested lately over british support for revolutionaries some arab leaders have hinted that if the u.k. doesn't cut ties with activists it might lose out on lucrative arms deals. and as britain grapples grapples with the over how much it pays for membership karishma

peers 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 sarah furthur reports. real time my. 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 n.p.c. even just think of the some of those fall flying destinations of 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 chip 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 modest the combination 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 a symbol for the device for the. central meeting 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. thank you

leagues has dubbed the us national archives the new ministry of truth after abandoning. its records the justification is that classified leaks are legal rights groups and even librarians have labeled the move as a clear act of censorship and 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 perfectly perfectly accessible anyway it's simply actually trying to add to the bulk gate after the horse has fled but essentially this is still censorship and censorship nor is it actually stepping on freedom of speech and we often see that the united states is very quick to criticize and states a broader stepping on premiums be. able to say to uphold.