while barack obama and mitt romney make their last gasp fever votes in the final hours of the presidential race parts you know it's a debate with the alternative candidates whose voices have gone largely unheard during the campaign. polling problems caused by last week's superstorm sandy lead to the widespread use of online voting cybersecurity experts warn it could result in fraud which could swing such a tight race. and look at how the outcome of the election could affect the course of america's foreign affairs and its relations with the rest of the world.

you're watching r g a live from moscow with me to obama's a good to have you with us as voters of the u.s. begin to voice it choices at the ballot box this fall either barack obama all the drum name other voices have gone almost unheard of during the campaign for the white house but step forward out to you which provided a stage for them in our washington studio the notion that we've been a country that stood up to the bullied as opposed to being a bully it's a growing police state quite obviously we can end the failed racist war on drugs downsize the military and the drone wars bring the troops home let's stop with our military interventions let's get out of afghanistan to moral thirty thousand drones flying over the united states or a very flying over the united states who are in the unemployment and jumpstart the green economy that spells an end to climate change and makes war. as for oil

obsolete. it's often been argued that although direct rivals obama and romney tend to sing from the same song sheet on many issues archie's gannets as you can now takes a look at just how different the third party candidates message is with this of two presidential candidates who know very well you know perfectly well that they don't stand a chance to win this election but they screw their hats in the ring because they claim the two parties were public and democratic have conspired to leave americans with no choice or with an illusion of choice as they say joel stein from the green party and gary johnson from the libertarian party debated in our studio this monday night but it was not a debate simply against the two party system listening to how these alternative candidates argued on the economy you could see how dramatically opposite their views are. on the subject it was a heated debate on the role of the government the libertarian candidate for

instance was arguing that the u.s. should get rid of all taxes except the federal consumption tax the green party candidate argue the opposite of course but on foreign policy they demonstrated a similar view both against military interventions by the united states both offering views distinctly alternative to those of romney and barack obama who we deserve a foreign policy based on international law human rights and diplomacy unfortunately we currently have an international policy based on wars for oil and the use of brute military force as a tool of foreign policy we're funding the syrian insurgents quarter of the syrian insurgents are just. did we not learn our lessons when it came to afghanistan and the fact that we bankrolled osama bin laden and how did that turn out look there are unintended consequences to our military interventions always worst. better as

far as the electoral system it is actually quite difficult for an independent candidate to get on the ballot in the us something that our her jill stein talk about campaign financing has become a huge issue here especially with the supreme court ruling which now allows corporations to funnel as much money as they want into political campaigns which makes it virtually impossible for someone without the backing of the big party machines to win an election the news cycle here in america is entirely focused on the two parties americans know very little if anything about alternative candidates when green parties jill stein was arrested protesting outside the place where president obama and mitt romney debated in mid october it went completely ignored by the media here both parties were probably going in democratic arguably fear that is third party candidate could become a spoiler in the election for example in the year two thousand independent candidate ralph nader was seen as a spoiler who contributed to the victory of george w. bush so it seems the party solution is to black out alternative voices and to convince the american people that they have no other choice but barack obama and

mitt romney and the mainstream media here are very much part of that blackguard. you can watch the full version of the debate between third party candidates a joel stein men gary johnson on the website at r.t. dot com now while the agenda all the third parties may be left out of the raise they still have the politics influence the outcome that's the view of antiwar activists and journalists donna de bomb here refers to the so-called and made it effect after presidential candidate ralph nader robbed crucial votes from al gore in the two thousand election you go into the nader effect quote unquote basically first of all i have always been upset with ralph nader even though he did not cause gore to lose the election for not claiming that he cause gore to lose the election and use that as a lever of power saying on the margins to the democrats if you don't do what we want you will never win another election because i will do this repeatedly but i don't know that there is. an ability to do that but i think that that's the first

most important tool the third party should try to game which is to leverage themselves in power politics at the margins which is where their numbers are at the moment keeping in mind that half the people of the united states that are eligible to vote do not vote and so there's a huge constituency out there that is disaffected waiting for someone to speak to that person is a who is running for the u.s. presidency as a candidate for the pontiff will say show an ism and abrasion says it has a way as to give voters an alternative that's not influenced by a corporate finance. we were running to expose the elections and to give voters an alternative to talk about how you know from our perspective change has never come from the elections never come from the politicians change comes from building the movement in the two party system is really just a form of class rule you know it's a way for the one percent to exercise their almost unlimited domination of the political and economic system in this country you know obama and romney are spending like two point five billion dollars which first off what

a tremendous waste you know i've been in new york doing relief work for hurricane sandy you know there are forty thousand people who become homeless as a result of this hurricane what could those people do with the two point five billion dollars you know why are we using it to build housing instead but you know the corporations given this money you know you don't get that kind of money without the support of the big banks and corporations to ensure that their interests are present in the elections you know and so that regardless of whether it's a democrat who wins or republican wins it's the corporations who when it's the banks when it's the people who lose. even before we it's begun verging on election day already faces destruction of the devastating storm that tolls through america's east coast and some measures introduced to avoid these breakdowns threaten the transparency of the process as archie's marrying up at night reports from new york . for the first time in history americans are embracing election day in the shadow of a deadly super storm that left behind a trail of devastation and voting disruptions here in new york city sixty polling sites have been relocated due to the unprecedented damage caused by sandy just one

week ago city officials say military trucks will also be used as makeshift polling stations in areas still without electricity this is of course to ensure that citizens well all be able to cast their votes in their right new jersey millions are being allowed to cast their ballot by fax mail or online the last minute decision was made after a reported two hundred fifty polling sites in the garden state were damaged by last week's superstorm now as government officials along the east coast are scrambling to ensure that millions are not disenfranchised from the presidential election cyber security experts warn them online voting can't be verifiably secure and this could lead to a disaster in a close conscientious race such as the one between barack obama and mitt romney several computer scientists and cryptologists a weaknesses in u.s. cyber security leaves room for online votes to be intercepted changed or deleted

but even before sandy became the us political game changer of twenty twelve america's election system was still considered controversial archies honest. explains you elected me to tell you the truth honesty is the best policy maybe not in u.s. elections two words define why people hate america double standard on everything in this presidential election season these two words are back in full swing the basic definition of a double standard is a rule or principle unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups let's find out if this is relevant to the us elections. system respecting every single vote is key in a democracy yet voter suppression is alive and well in the us given the way that citizens are kept away from the from the voting booth by rules that are meant to keep away a certain segment of the population. we have

a lot of nerve frankly criticizing other countries for the way they run their democracies from questionable voter id regulations to shorten to early voting time slots to gerrymandering rejoicing congressional district lines to favor certain party laws affecting voters' rights are passed left and right and vary state by state you have an error this video shows how easy it is to attempt to steal attorney general eric holder's vote when an idea is not required actually forgot my id you are yet places that do ask for a government issued photo id can affect over ten percent of americans that simply don't have one there is an attempt to prevent large numbers of people from actually exercising the ballot and election monitors usually serve the purpose of keeping track of and discrepancies and while the us likes to keep a close eye on the way elections are handled abroad we have the right to monitor other people's elections of course and if they don't do it then clearly they're

cheating that's not democracy it's rigged it's a dictatorship what the hell the need for monitors at home is vastly undermined when you're looking at an election where the votes are counted in public are humans that's the kind of election that it's possible to observe there really is virtually no opportunity for international observation but the same goes for domestic observers even the carter center which grows a rod and does the great work of monitoring elections abroad refuses to monitor u.s. elections on the grounds it don't meet the basic standards of integrity when election ideals are not met elsewhere criticism runs rampant elections in venezuela. elections in iran elections in russia. the press will go to town on any sign that the outcome was fixed you know regardless of whether the evidence is sound though just go crazy and while nitpicking abroad is all the rage the elephant in the room remains unnoticed at home i promise you that the evidence that they use to

screaming yell about the outcome in those countries is usually a whole lot weaker than the evidence of election theft in this country the good news not all of the hypocrisy goes unnoticed our policy makers and to a great extent our media and and trickle down to the american people have literally the literally think that the rest of the world is stupid but they don't see it that everybody naturally house to admit you know admire us that we're great and it's not the case well obvious flaws are met with a deaf ear and here in and year out a flawed election process continues to be the first vote cast in the u.s. and if there are parties new york whoever's voted into the white house will inevitably affect the country's relations with the rest of the world russia included and while the four previous years of barack obama gives a fair idea of america's foreign course if he retains power victory for mitt romney

could present a plenty of surprises. you look said what the globe should expect if the republicans elected. if mitt romney wanted to make friends across the atlantic during his somewhat sore he certainly failed first he doubted britain's preparations for the olympics then he angered by the steamiest by calling jerusalem israel's capital even though washington does not recognize israel's an extension of its eastern lands romney has been bashing europe in his campaign back home but across the board many have been thinking where they he really has a clue what was happening in the old world and some are even openly concerned about his potential when. there is a fear of victory will see a for the implementation of free market measures particularly tax cuts which can only encourage governments like david cameron from britain to emulate what happens in america under a republican presidency that has been

a pattern of the last three decades so i think people in britain would be scared of a romney victory china is also among those closely watching the republican candidate ties between beijing and washington have already hit a low with the u.s. planning to relocate most of its naval force into the pacific but romney's even more combative stance is met with criticism in china namely his calls to step up weapons sales to taiwan and labeling china a currency manipulator already many has to do is declare war on china on a day on the first daily it takes office relations with russia was a large chunk of romney's election campaign and that's where he also created some grounds for concern just like his republican predecessor in the presidential race john mccain romney has been expressing a hard line if not hostile attitude towards moscow which made many in russia think that should he become the new u.s. leader the relations would be reset again but this time towards negativity

president romney is branding of russia as the united states main geopolitical foe even prompted some rather sarcastic gratitude from russia's president putin said it's thanks to romney that moscow understood its suspicions about the missile defense shield in europe were spot on mr romney is elected it will be farcical see a trickle called war. where there romney's bid for presidency will be successful is yet to be determined but he's saber rattling towards russia india iran have already sparked comparisons with george w. bush's first term that proved to be the case that it's completely vague how romney would build transatlantic corp having made so many blunders already let's see. see reporting from mosco. we continue live coverage of the u.s. presidential elections are out the day plus a plenty of expert opinion and analysis on and on line and more news coming your way here to celebrate stay with us. the six america

votes for its next president. to take the wheel as the u.s. drives into the feature. get the news the mainstream missives with a place for the next three to do a selection of clues. dot com. 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 payments just because they got sick and america i thought we believed in private property not eternally rented from big banks but that's just my opinion.

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on t.v. any time to the. wealthy british style. spot on the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. without a series of deadly blasts have hit syria killing more than sixty people want to expose in targeting syrian troops took place in the flashpoint hamam province or. through the capital damascus claiming civilian lives his middle east correspondent

policia has more details. three major attacks have taken place across syria on monday in the first a suicide car bomb that killed more than fifty syrian 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 he's 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 eight bus attack also in damascus so five people killed three of them children as well as a woman 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 certain 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 . mourners are waiting for you on our website at r.t. dot com including a warning sign in london as hundreds of members of the had come event anonymous have showed it to a thing you case government mounting gospel today with protests in the country's capital. in class elsewhere a close call for you ron that has now and his way doesn't matter really reveals tel aviv was all set with planning a strike on to run back in two thousand and ten then mall at r.t. dot com. the british prime minister has embarked on a low tea arms tour to the middle east but as artie's potter book explains of both the needs of being che's and david cameron sales pitch raising more than

a few eyebrows. in the past the british prime minister has spoken about how britain's interests line up holding the country's values but it was all interests and no talk of values this morning when david cameron touched down in dubai he's going to be trying to sell over one hundred u.k. tie thing fighter jets to the leaders of the united arab emirates and saudi arabia that's despite concerns about person pedaling fighter jets to regimes with questionable human rights records david cameron says he's happy to discuss human rights as well as lucrative bronze contracts with countries that he calls old partners but it looks like talk about human rights is familiar rhetoric to justify a long standing tradition of toys to less than squeaky clean gulf states sandhurst military academy behind me last year i accepted a three million pound donation from the kingdom of bahrain inside these gates

sandhurst offices train in the new bahrain sports hall even though the bahraini government launched a brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters last yeah scientist even said the bahraini government and crushing letter thanking them for their generosity the three million pound gift was hardly a break with tradition but it's possible a long standing relationship of reciprocal favors between the bahraini monarchy and strains within the british establishment so it looks like talk of british values is good p.r. when it comes to defending trade links and good relations with countries whose human rights records some would call into question. r t. georgie to the editor of the new statesman political magazine things gulf countries might turn out to be blinded by the fool's gold at london's offering.

it's perched atop a jar and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see. for a city to siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance siberian railway but a spiritual center. things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of worshippers and blessid water to commemorate the baptism of jesus.

it doesn't matter if it's minus thirty it's a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's picture postcard churches the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles and crafty fur traders. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslim. surrounded by enemies to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian for the oil of its time bringing in a third of the state revenue but the location had of the uses for the russians. to moscow's one of the most popular places to send political dissent is not any people were exiled that once a giant that was used to incite riots was supposed to set a three hundred ten. a revolt against the eight hundred

twenty five known as the december hare in droves. they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia but the city also served up some bitter irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here they were the fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves whilst leaving this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had thoughts of escape but within the year bizarre and his family would be dead.

the ball school never again its political significance but the streets will always go with glories paulist. will likely provide the livelihood for some habitants in the future. here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donor night concludes the longest and while this campaign in our history let me. look for some of. the twists and turns in the parts of this campaign what you want. to do because you've never seen anything like until.

you're all welcome to break into said i'm abby martin well election day eve here in the u.s. tomorrow voters will be head to the polls thinking that they have a decision between two men and two parties democrat barack obama and republican mitt romney but if you're a fan of reagan the said you know very well that we have more choices than that from the. as a time for lunch and i'm encouraging you to forget the tea party dictatorship give the third party candidate some consideration more than likely we've seen some other names on the ballot tomorrow tonight right here on our team will give you the opportunity you'll see a debate between two of the main thirty party candidates gary johnson representing the libertarian party and green party candidate jill stein listen to their views from nine to ten thirty pm eastern standard time and break the set tomorrow with your vote i promise you're not wasting it but first join me to break the set right

now. even though it like to think of ourselves as involved beings who's logic an individual isms that's above the rest of the animal kingdom there are many phenomena because human beings are to fall back to our animalistic base tendencies whenever people are in groups it's a concept called a herd or mob mentality coined by french social just gustave ball and they said that the mob seems to act if it were a single thing unified by a shared sense of purpose when people are in large groups they lose a sense of identity and gain a sense of anonymity result in things that they would not normally do individually take the recent riots and seven cisco for example when the giants won the world series people in the community took to the streets to riot where they smash windows and burn vehicles so what was the media and police response to the mob and also what does it say about a society who only takes to the streets first.