barack obama to stay in the white house for four more years saying come and do as president is projected to secure two hundred seventy electoral votes after an extraordinarily tight race. right now you're looking at live pictures from mitt romney's headquarters who's now conceded defeat he's currently giving a brief speech. where the u.s. having made its choice so we look at how diverted might affect america's ties with the rest of the world. also the regularities very suppression then long queues are reported during the polls sparking claims of a rigged election.

you're watching r t a live from moscow with me tom won't say our top story the biggest electoral intrigue of this year is drawing to a close with u.s. president barack obama set to stay in office for a second term. america's incumbent leader is extending his the lead in what's been a close race his victory looks shorter as a number of key battleground states are leaning his way artie's going on it as you can is in washington now following the vote for us they are they are how are things are looking right now obviously for a raise. right will catch up with diana in the next couple

hours for more details right richard spencer. and the editor of alternative right to dot com says tied to voting results reflect deep divisions within the united states in america demographics or is destiny and i think in some ways what this election represented was a demographic model or a demographic snapshot of what this nation is it's a nation that starkly divided in many ways between hope and rule white people in the red states. blue states non-whites and liberal and of upper income whites there seems to be a very very stark divide demographics aside that if you look at the ruling order in the united states there seems to be a great deal of stability brock obama kind of painted himself as his kind of left wing in a way changed let's shake everything up at the end of the day he bailed out banks or as he bailed out wall street he wound down some stupid wars like the iraq war

but he wound up some what on a smaller but equally stupid wars and libya and elsewhere so i think essentially there's less sadly there's really a great deal of stability between these two parties and the sooner they're going to wake up to that the better in my opinion. right we now have gannett she can live with us now from washington how are things looking right now in this fiercely fought face. well we just heard mitt romney conceding he accepted his loss basically president obama now has three hundred three electoral votes and he needs just two hundred seventy to win mitt romney is behind with two hundred three electoral votes quite impossible for him to catch up at this point those are the latest projections there and although it was a very close race in some of the swing states like ohio for example florida and

we're waiting for a more. solid numbers to come in but if you words about how people voted that there were long lines of very long queues at polling stations especially in swing states there was something admirable about those long lines in the peoples' urge to vote with this year one could see that the euphoria that was there four years ago when president obama was running for his first term was not quite there anymore it's not that his supporters were not excited they are they were but it's more of a relief than euphoria so there's the excitement but it's different from what it was four years ago that there has been quite a bit of disappointment the economy is not recovering this fast as people would want it to to the obama campaign's argument is that he inherited such a disaster in terms of the economy that the process couldn't possibly go faster but again a lot of it has to do with very high expectations for president obama when he took

office but when he got down to down to business it turned out that the congress was standing in the way of some of these robots reforms and all the obstacles and the reality of the day sort of came to light just a few months ago the president the president's job approval rating was barely above forty percent is different now of course with the argument is that maybe the euphoria is not there but that people were simply scared of mitt romney's. aggressive way rhetoric and they saw mitt romney as someone who's kind of out of touch with the middle class and the obama campaign has been successfully making that argument as well as the argument that mitt romney would be like the second coming of george w. bush with more wars on america's plate and possibly another disastrous economic meltdown more on the celebration and the expectations of the obama voters here is

my report. and the winner. who lawn excitement here the white house the main pledge of president obama's campaign has been to bring back the shrinking middle class and made the economy slow recovery and gigantic deficit at a time when the gap between the rich and the poor is as high as ever in america i want to give middle class families and folks who are striving to get in the middle class some relief. because they have been hit hard the president has blamed congress for his inability to implement a more robust plan to help out the middle class president obama's claim that he's being handcuffed by republican lawmakers in his plan to dramatically cut taxes for middle income americans does not hold the vast majority of americans and our entire economy hostage while we debate the merits of another tax cut for the wealthy and skeptics argue there is no reason to believe congress will give the president an easier ride in his second term however president obama had no problem with congress

when he signed into law the controversial legislation which allows for the detention of american citizens for indefinite periods of time without charge in due process and you don't pull the trail of our civil liberties that the president has assumed a dictatorial rights to put us in prison at his pleasure without charge or without trial and congress did not stand in the president's way when he was increasing military spending here after a year something he almost bragged about during the debate on foreign policy our military spending has gone up every single year that i've been in office. the actions of the administration overseas in the last four years have indicated that the president is party in favor of military interventions but is the clear strategy is to stay away from fighting ground wars to opt for more hit and run style

interventions like the one executed in libya. syria the administration indicate that they would like to intervene more actively but for now syria just seems too complicated and washington cannot count on a desirable outcome for us to get more in tangled militarily in syria is a serious step and we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against. us or our allies in the region having spent one hundred billion dollars in this election campaign brock obama is america's commander in chief again . president obama will be sworn into office in january something his supporters are very excited about their hopes and expectations include jobs no more devastating wars and no more financial meltdowns there was a good number of people who voted for barack obama because they were voting against mitt romney seeing him as more aggressive especially when it comes to foreign policy and seemingly out of touch with middle class america and

a lot of people they don't see a choice at all in the selection in washington i'm going to check on. arches than it can in our washington studios i'm sure lots of people will be asking some of those questions that you raised in your package. ride with obama germain in the white house the question now is how washington will develop its relations with the rest of the world let's talk about this with iraqis you've got peace cannot live in moscow for us you go to there's been a general feeling around the globe that obama is less hawkish than romney when it comes to international relations so how does the prospect of the u.s. ties with russia look them with the election result in. well on one hand a bomb is used by many as the engine behind the reset of relations with moscow and the biggest achievement of that is definitely the new strategic arms reduction treaty obama is also knowledge of bursley support of russia's accession into the world trade organization but on the other hand the key stumbling blocks in the

relations are still there like washington's plans for the anti missile defense system in europe that's a major irritation factor for the kremlin there's also the so-called money skill list of russian officials who are banned from entering the united states and of course the deadlock at the u.n. security council over syria so all of that has led many analysts to go west and how successful that this reset relations really has been in fact many analysts say that obama's already done everything he could when it comes to russia and the republicans simply won't let him do too much more but i guess it's really a question of what sort of heritage mr obama would like to leave after himself since this is going to be his second and final term in office. here sororities you got a piece going to be arching out for more details on that thank you for that. but i will have more live reports and malices over the next few hours from the middle east and europe on how the u.s.

election results might affect the situation in those parts of the world but some experts already say that for the rest of the world in terms of washington's foreign policy it wouldn't have made much difference who won. there'd be very little difference between a republican or a democrat as we can see from president obama's policy of covertly funding syrian rebels and do you know about assassinations in tehran on their own streets of academics we don't know but what we do know is american democracy works with. a massive elite force money what is obama promising in this kind of vague idea of constructive engagement world all the time supporting the. terrorists we know president obama has been actively courting along with the secretary of state be relevant in the rebellion in syria and of course supporting all sorts of elements in libya so how many really who would you be thinking that president obama or

president romney would be different when it came to foreign policy i don't know where they get tougher. ride an update on the latest results of these are preliminary figures spurlock obama has three hundred and three electoral college votes and mitt romney currently stands at two hundred and six what you're looking at now is those are live shots actually coming from the democrat headquarters where president elect again president obama will give his. his that stepped in speech in a moment we'll of course bring you more of that of what he says in a few minutes. roger a number of organizational floors and varied violations along with huge choose at polling stations have been a whole mark of the election process blogger brad friedman says the problem is up assistant once in u.s. democracy. i was just looking at

a video report out of south carolina where you had a woman who said i've been here four hours and i can't wait any longer i'm leaving they said oh well it's only going to be another hour i got to tell you you know no matter what the cause is i believe this is a national disgrace at this point these lines that we're seeing three four six nine hours to vote we saw that in in ohio certainly in two thousand and four you would think we would be beyond that now clearly we're not and in many ways this seems to be getting worse we're also getting reports from all over particularly in philadelphia long time voters going to the same polling place they've been going to bring yours and all of a sudden they're no longer on the voting rolls today they have to vote provisionally so something is going on that you know we may not fully come to understand until the days and the weeks after this election when we can fully sort

out exactly what is going on here today. the third party candidates from the justice party says the alternative it would suit the american public well if it wasn't for the fact it's silenced by the corporate media. power message which resonates so well with the american people when they europe has not been heard because the mainstream corporate owned media shots just as the presidential debate commission shots from the debates which have been so constricted our goal was not to win the election and get governing power and at least now it was to elevate the narrative in this country but also help create the conditions so that we can put together a broad based people's movement for change. stay with our g full all election coverage she will be bringing you the latest results expert analysis and international reaction with our correspondents on standby across more news from our

team after the shot break. the six america votes for its next president. who takes the wheel as the u.s. drives into the field. get the news the mainstream misses with a close election. the u.s. election up please. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is dr van amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever

more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snowy wilderness as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lawn or doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in the tundra they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native new nets reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so all medical problems simply fixed here in the tent that i should they

used to be but now we can go to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air on balance of being treated the service costs fourteen million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service accusations vladimir firmly dismisses your brother is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals for waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but vladimir is confident the diva now after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north.

more news today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all day. wealthy british style. is not on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune

into cars a report on are. you watching r t good to have you with us to other news now thousands of greeks have lost through athens and the latest show of anger against tough will start being forced upon them the government has to vote on a new package of pension cuts and tax hikes later in the day that as life in the country will again be put on hold amid a general strike pete all of us is in the greek capital. midway through the forty eight hour general strike here in greece the greek people have been making their anger towards the next round of austerity measures clear they were out in their thousands here on syntagma square on tuesday and they're going to be back later on wednesday they're upset at what they say are unfair measures is going to be imposed upon them should prime minister says modest this latest round he says the last round of austerity measures he voted for and be ok in the parliament building just

behind me later on whedon's day and right here where i'm standing on syntagma square is where thousands of demonstrators are expected to gather in order to show their displeasure for what is expected to be thirteen point five billion euros worth of cuts and savings forced upon them now the reason that that thirteen point five billion will be voted for is because it's being demanded off by greece's three main creditors and the reason that they're demanding of it is because the creditors the troika as they're called have said that if greece doesn't cut massively the late don't get the next round of bailout money and the question remains that has to be asked if this is voted for will that be enough political support in greece in order to enact these cuts prime minister antonis samaras has promised the greek people that this will be the final round of belt tightening however been a geologist the terror is

a lecturer at the university of age on things there's more pain i hate. every a sturdy package in the past two and a half years was supposed to be the last one so no it's won't be the last that we're going to see more of it. would just been happening parliament is something very close to a parliamentary could it up you know the rapid way you can just one day two days of this just so you're going to pass a huge level that does not only include budget cuts all changes in the pension system and the wage system for large segments of the public sector it would also affect aspects. of taxation so this is it's not here and you're in a way. where there is far from no democratic procedure this is a set of measures that have been actually dictated by the troika and it's just going to be passed repellent without any absolute stassen. and much more news

obviated all at our tea dot com main clearing a warm shelter from overseas but the story of how superstorm sandy has driven one russian you just submarine right to a u.s. harbor. doubts the sand the rattling and haas rhetoric from the north korean un ambassador saying his country is on the brink of war with the southern neighbor. they went out of league envoy for syria is warning the country could become another somalia where al qaeda linked militants and warlords battled for decades after the else solve a dictator if the conflict and not ended soon that off to bomb explosions killed at least fifteen people and wounded dozens in a damascus district populated mostly by members of syrian president bashar assad's ally sect. you know all these rebel groups i mean most of them.

they receive drugs from the. duties. of the food. so exert is good to know exactly what's going on very soon we're concerned to receive. a return to our top story the u.s. presidential results are in which barack obama has won the latest preliminary results are the following or obama has three hundred three electoral college votes and mitt romney currently stands at two hundred and six right now you're watching live footage of from the obama headquarters he'll be giving his victory speech in a few moments we'll bring you that soon as we have it. head of the latest edition of capital account with laryngitis just stay with us

here on r.t.e. for. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is good for you is that if in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration. was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be soon to be out their patients. and in many cases their shattered lives go when professing designed

his first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people what eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller in the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the was out of center now days seeking series three focus medical reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novikov who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride. the first patient to turn to us with a leg linked to me and quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to still want to surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many

countries and even the out they're pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations for one of the reasons that brought this washington state nature to western siberia if he's main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america average height is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so eight centimeters would have brought me right to average users what is your average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big door to your guy it's like expect to be taller just before the operation most mad russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite india and if you still want to have the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she told you the whole time you're crazy

you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. good afternoon and welcome to capital like out i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for tuesday november sixth two thousand and twelve the u.s. presidential elections are today along with elections for hundreds of lawmakers for everything in the house of representatives and some in the senate will discuss what opposed to election economy may look like with credit write downs founder edward terrorists and and europe may be an example of what happens when you cut spending without writing down the debt so far the u.s.

is postpone financial reckoning day by ramping up the presses but how much longer can do is continue plus the u.s. fiscal cliff has people worried about a u.s. recession if washington does nothing meanwhile in france president francois hollande is. pressure to reform the economy loosening labor laws for example reuters says he's expected to brush aside the prescriptions from an i.m.f. and also a government commission report our elected politicians just universally aligned and not wanting to make that tough decisions we'll discuss let's get to today's capital account. so soon we will presumably know who will be president of the united states but do

we know exactly what we will get after that looking at the economy and their agenda well let's take a look at one talking point. the both the world of the united states. from going are going to go to work to help get a merge back to work and people across the country are responding to our for our work plan so really what's the difference we're looking out when it comes to the economy and does a president get people back to work anyway joining me now is edward harrison founder of credit right down to talk about that and what a post election economy is going to look like so first edward thanks for being on this is an opportune time to talk about all this stuff given that it is the election. so you know let's start with some of the pretty decent economic news we've seen recently i have a list of a few of the highlights i guess you could call them household debt is the lowest since two thousand and three reportedly we've seen increased high.