the dark horse candidate for the american president prepared to make the pitch to voters here. by passing along. a string of deadly explosions rock syria a suicide bomber detonated himself in the flashpoint province and children are reportedly among those killed by a fresh in damascus. plus greece is set for a week's freeze as workers across the board kick off strikes against austerity or make a vote on new cuts to satisfy international lenders. international

news and comment live from the new center here in moscow this is almost thirty million americans have already cast their votes for president queuing for early polling stations across the country. to tell which way the vote is swinging barack obama or mitt romney a lot together according to most polls but lost in the rivalry between republican and democrat all the alternatives that many americans have longed 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. 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 and 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 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 on the 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 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 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 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 radio studio here in washington i'm going to. so be sure to tune in for the third party candidate debate here at nine pm t. or two am g.m.t. . two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power powerless.

because if america changes. this election close god monday november fifth on our trip. at least fifty syrian soldiers have reportedly been killed in a suicide bombing in the flashpoint hama province while civilians including children are reported dead after a new terror blast in the capital damascus middle east correspondent joins me live with details of. the violence in syria give us more details of what happened. well three major attacks have taken place across syria on monday in the first a suicide car bomb that killed more than fifty seven soldiers as well as pro-government gunmen now it happened in the central syrian province of hama and according to reports the attack was carried out by an al qaida inspired islamic militant group states also say that only two people were killed but we have no way of independently verifying this information there are suggestions that at least one ton of explosives was used in the attack in

a separate incident in the capital city of damascus a blast there has killed several people and injured many more among them children it is thought that the cause of that attack was a car bomb and then also on monday a bus attack also in damascus so five people killed three of them children as well as and women there many bats in which there were traveling was hit by a mortar shell and that that caused this explosion now we do not know who is behind these attacks but soaking in the past rebel groups have claimed responsibility for similar such attacks what we have seen as monday a bloody day of violence in syria where the situation on the ground is intensifying . paula thanks very much indeed for that live update have from tel aviv and london based journalist and roy to nail clark says the latest attacks will join the many previous ones that have been ignored by key international players. the trouble has been caused by groups should have been outside forces with weapons arms coming in

from outside these are terrorist attacks by any objective assessment but of course they're not being condemned as such by the western powers the hypocrisy is gray area just imagine the sort of bomb attacks were going off in riyadh saudi arabia if you were in tel aviv in israel then we have william hague and hillary clinton in seconds coming out condemning them they're not doing this we had a bomb outside a nursery school a few weeks ago we had the appalling murder this weekend of a famous syrian actor who was killed he's only crime was of course supporting the government in syria and so we've got terrorist attacks taking place on a daily basis and not me by the west and i think we all know why. russia says western efforts to unite syria's fragmented opposition to doomed to failure because they're based on warmongering foreign minister sergei lavrov believes the bloody battle is being encouraged deliberately to create conditions for regime change more on russia's latest assessment of the syrian crisis from artie's lucy coming off. 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 some 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 are called among other things for the creation of a transitional governing body he also 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 and 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 causes great you will when 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 lauching out of western efforts to essentially create a government in the exile russian position has of course been to to come. and 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. caught in the middle civil war across the border sends off to shops and to israel later this hour to israelis who fear it will long be easy living next door to the reshape the syrian state. deaths in bahrain is five homemade bombs go off in the capital we bring you one expert's opinion on who could profit from further destabilizing the protests not a nation that's to break. usually the police and occupy protesters are like oil and water but in atlanta they've come together to save the house of

a former detective jacqueline barber unfortunately ms barbara 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.

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and he continues here on r t a wave of at least five explosions a sweat bahrain's capital manama the bombs which exploded in different parts of the city were all homemade at least two people were killed in what the government say were terrorist attacks it comes amid the kind of regular pro-reform opposition marches that often end up with riot police resorting to violence shia political analyst from the u.k. calling website patrick henningsen believes the morning he will use these attacks as a pretext to suppress opposition. it doesn't fit the modus operandi of the reform movement in bahrain this hasn't been done before and also by looking at the victims and the locations it doesn't fit standard terrorist bombing so the government is the one who's benefiting from these blasts and not the protest movement one should ask that maybe this is a false flag bombing whereby. parts of the government security agencies or mercenaries hired by them have set off the bomb in order to radicalize the protest

movement but also to give the government justification for heavy crackdown against pro reform movements in bahrain uprisings in places like kuwait in bulk rain. or i believe there are genuine arab spring uprisings if they're u.s. allies if this starts us allies and you see an uprising then there's a high probability that they are genuine uprisings therefore the west will not cover this. hundreds gathered to demand a recount of the parliamentary election in ukraine position parties say they are ready to announce plans to complete the to protest against the next room that had from here to. greece is about to grant to hold during a week of nationwide strikes against austerity the government is losing support as he gets ready to vote on a new set of tax hikes and spending cuts international lenders are demanding the measures before they had to have a more bailout cash on the people of his in athens well it's been rather ominous

the cold 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 and potentially crippling all star team as is now the first strike is have walked out we've seen top two drivers some journalists and others i walking out on monday the main strike so taking place on tuesday and wednesday that's when the main. 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 greece covered greek government as the government looks to save 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 lighting you

negotiate the terms of this next round of austerity measures with our creditors and he said well we didn't negotiate 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. while greece is cutting to the bone elsewhere in europe lawmakers are splashing the cash british employees of course spending thousands on not sure if business trips all around the world that's coming up. ukraine's election commission says it's impossible to determine the results of parliamentary voting in five constituencies it's suggesting polling in those districts be repeated earlier today opposition protesters gathered at the commission in kiev accusing the ruling party of election fraud. is in kiev.

politics in ukraine are back to being a boiling point only a week after 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 have been fist fights and confrontations between between the authorities between the police and members of the opposition who believe that a result of 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 protests will continue this is only the first action where waiting for the official results from the central action commission to come out and certainly the protests are likely to intensify as the

date of the official announcement draws closer the situation is certainly getting more and more tense with holes in the opposition are getting more and more vocal to hand over the mandates to lay down their seats in parliament and thus cancel the result of this election and cause a revote but if the official results if the final result will stand a 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 nine hundred forty s. which many believe in ukraine to be nazi collaborators and definitely in the country which suffered greatly from the nazi invasion things like having this party in parliament would definitely cause lots of controversy and we'll probably see more fights in parliament and more heated debates inside the ukraine's highest body . big biz. this big game with the

story of one supermodel and the billionaire husband planning to stage an elephant polo match to mark tycoons fiftieth birthday. apparently wants to take part in the latest on the weekend just to pretty naturally choosing the perfect costume. the civil war in syria is encroaching on israel after tanks entered a sensitive buffer zone on the golan heights breaking a decades long truce 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 i'm in as a generation of young people and number so some friends find a song to get 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 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 governments little to do with the old ways of tacit compliance it's 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 appear to have shot up even in places considered

its own 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 to call very damascus was said to be involved in talks over a peace accord with israel clandestine ones power in syria be transferred to the opposition the result will surely mean peace and stability for tel aviv of course

when our side was in full control the assad family in syria knew what it's going to get from the 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 this period of the arab spring they too are prepared to burn bridges which will. go and will go back to syria what was taken and will have to come back in war. it will go. golan heights. check out some of the world news in brief in. the south at least twenty two people have died in flooding in southern india the deaths were caused by drowning and house collapses worst storm in forty years hit the state of the pradesh dumping over thirty one centimeters of rain over the weekend the weather forced almost ninety five thousand people to abandon their homes and move

to state run camps. british prime minister david cameron has vowed to raise the issue of human rights as he arrived in the middle east on arms sales to all u.k. is looking to sell fighter jets to saudi arabia and dubai despite concerns over brampton 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 might lose out on you could evolve steel's. grapples with the e.u. over how much it 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 sarah firth has been fact finding herself. 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 destinations 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 shipped 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 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. because 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. 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 our london. special report on the volunteers getting ready for the twenty fourteen olympics in the russian city of sochi.

as his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition and familial duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. has just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his new it is additional to fenian round tent made of diskin. his beastly back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celcius says that i've missed them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five.