obama to stay in the white house for four more years to be incumbent u.s. president defeats challenge of mitt romney to win the election. obama's reelection is hailed a broader concerns over the u.s. policy on syria and iran as well as financial worries in europe and hopes for overcoming stumbling blocks with ties to russia. and in other news today here on r t turning up the heat thousands fed up with the in athens vent their anger this is just ahead of a crucial vote in parliament that could see the already. getting more brutal.

worldwide news live from moscow this is he with me will receive. barack obama has vowed to move america forward in a victory speech to cheering supporters after winning the us election to stay in office for a second. america's incumbent leader comfortably past the two hundred seventy electoral vote threshold in what had been a hard fought campaign republican challenger mitt romney conceded defeat after losing in number of key battleground states. has been following the nervous night that gave obama four more yes. well mitt romney has accepted his loss president obama is reelected and got his supporters very excited of course but this year one could sense that overwhelming euphoria that was there four years ago where president obama was running for his first term was not quite there anymore is that

that his supporters are not excited they are we saw that at the democratic rally in the president's home city of chicago but with the rest of the country feels more like a former cop relief rather than new for you there has been quite a bit of disappointment over the last four years the economy is not recovering as fast as people would want it 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 the president when he took office just a few months ago the president's job approval rating was barely above forty percent is that for now of course the argument is that a lot of people voted for the president because they were simply scared of mitt romney's aggressive rhetoric and they saw him as someone who is out of touch with the middle class the obama campaign has been successful we are 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's my report. and the winner is i want to say they're going to murder him who participated in this is what. you made your voice her and you made a difference mitt romney has accepted his will. destroy social bomb went to congratulate him on his victory. for lawn excitement in the president's hometown of chicago. president obama's daughters chanting four more years savor the weapons they expect in the next four years and already so happy with the past four of his presidency congress hasn't been very cooperative the past two

years but i think he needs these four more years to continue i'm very happy with what he's tried to achieve i really need to help the help of the health care that he's going to offer and like i said we need more time than the last four years 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 we don't charge in due process and incredible the trail of our civil liberties that the president has assumed and 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 you 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 indicated 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 entanglement 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 allies in the region having spent around 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's 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 didn't see a choice at all in this election in washington i'm going to check on and with obama to remain in the white house now the question is how washington will develop its relations with the rest of the world. live reports now on the middle east. what we have seen from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that he has not shied away from making it publicly known that he would have put food a republican inside the white house what we now witnessing and what we have seen in the past is sometimes very public clashes public spat between the obama administration and israeli leaders and these were often over the iranian nuclear program as well as palestinian peace talks now there are commentaries at the moment circulating here in israel that say that netanyahu now has a very serious problem on his hands and there is no way that he can cover it at a recent poll put the support amongst israelis towards romney at fifty seven percent twenty one percent supporting obama under the watch as of netanyahu and

obama the relationship between the united states and israel has deteriorated to an all time low the big question of course is the whole question of what netanyahu now will do these are very rare and he has been quite vocal saying that he is threatening to strike iran but it is quite clear that he cannot carry out such a strike without american support and obama for his side has not given the support of most in the arab world has preferred and obama victory back in two thousand and nine in his now famous cairo speech a bomb a pledge that he was going to introduce a new chapter in american muslim relations but since then there has been a lot of disappointment over the way he has dealt with issues in the arab world particularly these are the muslims he was a lot of criticisms leveled against him in his administration over the way they handled the arab spring they were accused of including double standards and inconsistency and also accused of meddling in countries such as egypt and libya and

then when it comes to the so-called and noticed revolutions of bahrain for example with pro-democracy demonstrators have been taking to the streets a bomb has kept quiet and where the middle east is concerned the u.s. and the e.u. often are close allies as artie's laura smith explains the support for obama's strategy is fading on. the other side of the atlantic europe is very unwilling to commit any more troops to any more battles abroad the problems in the middle east i think of the us the us is having reflect hugely in europe and in fact in a poll published in desh spiegel newspaper in germany we have a bonus foreign policy rating in europe has drop since his election in two thousand and nine from eighty three percent to seventy one percent said people here are worried about that and of course i think the major and most pressing issue is the economy the u.s. economy and how it recovers has a huge knock on effects in. the u.s.

appears to be in a much slower recovery than was hoped for many of worried longer isn't doing as much as he could be doing been little fall in unemployment and little increase in the size of the private sector and in fact earlier this year the country's in here in union and the u.s. entered into a sort of war of words france and germany in particular felt that obama was much too involved much to metals and what they were doing with their economies germany told the us to mind his own budget mind his own deficit before it looked to other countries and france directly said that the us was responsible for the economic crisis and it had nothing to say about how they were going to get out of it so we've had reactions from david cameron he tweeted his congratulations as has the e.u. commission to say it's all smiles on the surface and i think that awesome issues to be discussed and that means. russia's president vladimir putin has also congratulated president obama welcoming his reelection however as a person often are explained the ties between the two nations might well be tested

during obama's second. many do view mr obama as the engine behind to the reset of relations with moscow and one of the biggest achievements of that is definitely the new nuclear arms reduction treaty but at the same time some of the biggest stumbling points in relations are still there including washington's plans for the anti missile defense system in europe and despite moscow's concerns that it could be a threat to russia's national security we know that obama promised to be a bit more flexible on that will really have to see how it works out and also the two who are probably the most fierce opponents at the u.n. security council when it comes to the conflict in syria but certainly there are many things that you could work together on which could really tilt this relationship in either direction including things like how russia and the united states will deal with the syria or the iranian nuclear program however some experts are already saying that for the rest of the world in terms of washington's foreign

policy it wouldn't have actually made any difference who ended up winning the white house. 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 and what we do know is american democracy works with the hand of a massive elite force money what is obama promising except this kind of vague idea of constructive engagement while all the time supporting. terrorists we know president obama has been actively courting along with the secretary of state we. are in the rebellion in syria and of course supporting roles with the elements in libya so how so many of you lean who you into thinking that president obama or president romney would be different when it came to foreign policy i don't know

where they get that from or let's take another look at the stats here on r.t. how it all played out over night barack obama's sizable advantage in the electoral college votes was held by victory on the west coast and in a number of swing states among those were crucial wins in colorado ohio and virginia florida though still yet to announce its results as for the popular vote here the president's lead was not so extensive with obama just over two million votes in from. richard spencer founder and coeditor of alternative right dot com says tight voting results certainly reflect some deep divisions within the united states in america demographics are its destiny and i think in some ways what this election represented was a demographic model or a demographic snapshot of this nation. it's a nation that starkly divided in many ways between white people in the red states.

blue states non-whites. and often. income whites there seems to be a very very stark divide demographics aside and 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 story he wound down some stupid wars like the iraq war but he wound up some smaller but equally stupid wars and libya and elsewhere so i think essentially they're saying sadly there's really a great deal of stability between these two parties and the sooner they are going to wake up to that the better in my opinion on if i can i do stay with us here a nazi continuing election coverage and of course the reaction to the news that barack obama has got what he wanted four more years more news in just

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download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is now required to watch on t.v. . any time. if you're just joining us welcome to the program here on r t of course bombers a reelection win in america let's turn to some other of today's news in moscow five people have been killed and two wounded in a shooting in the city's northeast and the killings occurred early wednesday morning when a gunman opened fire at a pharmaceutical depot that the suspect was reported to have worked at the company shortly before going on the killing spree the thirty year old shooter is also said to have posted online about his hatred of mankind.

thousands of. greeks have marched through athens in the latest show of anger against tough austerity being forced upon them but the government has to focus on a new package of pension cuts tax hikes later in the day as life in the country is again put on hold amid a general strike. report from 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 are upset at what they say are unfair measures it's going to be imposed upon them should prime minister says ma this is the latest round he says the last round of austerity measures he voted for and be okayed 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 of 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 there be enough political support in greece in order to enact these cuts. course want to put all of the reporting right in the meantime a prime minister antonis samaras has promised the greek people that this will be the final round of belt tightening however. at the university of the aegean things . more pain ahead. every a sturdy package in the past two and

a half years was supposed to be the last one so now it's will be the last. we're going to see more of it and we're just been happening parliament is something very close to a parliamentary could it up you know very rapid way in just one day two days of discussion you're going to class i should say though that does not only include budget cuts all changes in the pension system and the wage system or a large segments of the public sector it would also affect aspects. of taxation so this is it's not the way we want it we're very far from you know democratic procedure this is a set of measures that have been actually dictated by the troika and this just going to be passed repellent without any question. of course always are much more news to be had at our teeth dot com including

a warm shelter from overseas the story of how superstorm sandy drove one russian nuclear submarine right into a us harbor. plus saber rattling and harsh rhetoric from the north korean un ambassador he says his country is on the brink of war with its southern neighbor. and ask about our top story here on r.t. of course one last look now at the u.s. election results before we head for a quick break this is how the preliminary results looked at state by state the democratic candidate defeated his republican rival in colorado ohio and virginia a battleground states that were expected to determine the outcome of the election there was far as the popular vote goes so far obama is ahead of romney by a little less than two million facts. are just a couple minutes here on r.t. it's almost half a paedophile and the latest episode of crosstalk. if

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for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. and this is where i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as pasta parents for the next generation will come here using the older walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs his parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's an important part of the world's development and a major factor in the success of a project which has seen more than twenty generations of cubs grow up here it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication mean that wolf

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still. want to. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle america's political marathon has finally come to an end but was there really a choice to what degree was this campaign season only about money do republicans and democrats collude to control political discourse and what about the issue of voter suppression. and. started.

to cross out the u.s. electoral system i'm joined by iliac shapiro in richmond he is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the cattle institute and in philadelphia we crossed england in he is a writer and blogger for counter products are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want ok lynn i'd like to go to you first in philadelphia how would you describe this selection here and how is it different from the election of two thousand and eight because we had citizens united in between time and i think you know where i'm going well in two thousand and eight there was a lot of optimism. as a bush there was a lot of hope specially among american progressives that change was coming and it hasn't really hasn't at all actually so this time is more measure their enthusiasm for obama and i'm surprised there's any foozie as a model and this is certainly not.