the best yet to go. is a fully moved barack obama promises to resurrect his four year old message of hope after winning his second term as president of the united states. and the world reacts to obama's victory from a cold response in israel and the arab world too cautious optimism in the halls of the. greece is about to vote on a new austerity measures with thousands of angry workers gathered at the doors of parliament as part of nationwide protests against pay cuts and tax hikes.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow i'm showing how barack obama. filled his promise of change in a victory speech to jubilant supporters that of course after securing a second term as president of the united states. and what was predicted to be a close finish if not a tie turned into an electoral college landslide as obama swept to victory in almost every battleground state his republican challenger mitt romney who wasn't far behind in the role of votes did ultimately concede defeat. nature can now reports on what was the most expensive win in u.s. history. 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. relief rather than you 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 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's my report. and the winner is i want to play here merton who participated in this is likely to do. you made your voice heard. and you made a difference mitt romney has accepted his rights to destroy social bomb went to congratulate him on his victory. for lawn excitement in the president's hometown of chicago illinois. president obama's daughters chanting four more years savor what do they expect in the next four years and are they so happy with the

past four of his presidency the 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 have 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 without 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 year after 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 disquieting favor of military interventions but is the clear strategy is to stay

away from fighting ground wars and to opt for more hit and run style interventions like the one executed in libya. has for 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 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 allies in the region having spent around a billion dollars in this election campaign barack 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 didn't see a choice at all in the selection in washington i'm going to check out. richard spencer the founder and editor of alternative right dot com believes the victory exposes a clear problem but of a rift between the population of the united states and america demographics are 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 god rules white people and the red states and indeed blue states non-whites. believe rule of law for income whites there seems to be a theory very stark divide and i don't think any of the issues really matter that much i don't think things like debate performances matter that much i think this

election was primarily about us demographics. and in the middle east a victory isn't defocusing that much tribulation israel openly backed mitt romney who went out of his way to massively support tell of eve while the arab world is not exactly through is yes to can does view about as flawed but moderate and the lesser of two evils middle east correspondent paula slater has this. 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 preferred a republican inside the white house what we now witnessing and what we have seen in the past is sometimes a very public clashes public spat between the obama administration and israeli leaders and these were often over the iranian nuclear program as well as the palestinians 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 is of netanyahu and obama the relationship between the united states and israel has deteriorated to an awful time low and the big question of course is the whole question of what netanyahu now will do these are the 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 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 it was a lot of criticisms leveled against him in his administration over the way they handled the arab spring they were accused of employing 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. israel's government may be disappointed with the outcome of the election but even on election day it was pushing forward with its own plans tel aviv confirmed the construction of more than a thousand homes for its settlers on internationally recognized palestinian land and even an immediate chorus of condemnation isn't going to stop it this according to the experts as long as the u.s. has its back. it's true the international community opposes israeli policies but it won't do anything to say israel and israel knows it and it knows it whether obama's elected or romney selected its trump card is the american congress support that israel has from both political parties and it doesn't care anymore it will do this

in the light of day israel has eliminated the two state solution as it's called it's completely imprisoning the palestinians and no one in the world is going to speak up against it so it doesn't matter really if it's opportunistic or not the point is that israel wins. and comparing obama's history and mitt romney's promises on foreign policy london based author and journalist afshin rattansi says a at the end of the day you wouldn't really have made much of a difference who won 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 terror on streets of academics we don't know what is obama promising except this kind of vague idea of constructive engagement while all the time supporting. terrorists we know president

obama as we now actively courting along with his secretary of state we. are in the rebellion in syria and of course supporting roles who are two elements in libya so how so many will be hoodwinked 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. now while the e.u. often acts in unison with the u.s. when it comes to the outside world on the economy there's a deepening rift as artie's laura smith reports obama's victory is getting only a muted response and the old world. europe is very unwilling to commit any more troops to anymore battles abroad the problems in the middle east i think the us the us is having reflect hugely in europe and in fact in a poll published in desh biegel newspaper in germany we have that sort of almost foreign policy rating in europe has drop since his election in two thousand and you know i from eighty three percent to seventy one percent said people here are

clearly worried about that and of course i think the major. moose pressing issue is the economy the u.s. economy and how it recovers has a huge knock on effects in europe in the u.s. appears to be in a much slower recovery than was hoped for many are worried that obama isn't doing as much as he could be to. be a little fall in unemployment and little increase in the size of the private sector and in fact this yeah the european countries in here the median 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 too medals in what they were doing with their economies germany told the u.s. to mind his own budget deficit before it looked to other countries and france directly said that the u.s. was responsible for the economic crisis it had nothing to say about how they were going to get out of it so we 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 all some issues to be discussed and it means. a lot next to and also you will be looking at the kremlin's take on obama's victory. for the target of ties between the two powers i thought much more. trimmings in this tree even for specialists a voice can produce several sounds at once but we didn't use the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a

language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects like reverse tourists and even stones souls imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. to get to one of the five main stars of scrotes and it imitates the gentle breezes of summer jara whose name means great hunter says he suspects adopt. there are special instruments that accompany the singing if gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument book it was it of stop

the fall is gone the spirit of the horse came to his dream and said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings . and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody only instrument is called. joining us here on r.t. today i'm rory suchet live in moscow we continue with our u.s. election coverage.

obama's election trial has been welcomed right here in russia the question remains whether a second term can breathe new life into the historically sensitive relations between the two nations artie's that you could if it's going off as more on the challenges ahead many do view missouri bombers 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 and the head of the international affairs committee at the russian parliament alexei pushkov says a u.s. proposed reset of relations has ultimately run out of steam. some kind of dialogue was written stored between moscow and washington a dialogue we sure had almost died in the last months of the bush administration so in this respect the first research has given some results but it also has expired this agenda and so now we should not talk about upgrading we should talk about saving the reset and for this we have to reset the reset because the reset has stuck it doesn't work anymore so we don't just to try to push on the bottom because the bottom is not functioning we have probably to switch the computer. or the left off then switch it on and to try from a new beginning and what can be conducive to a success of a new research is. an american policy which would

refrain from make making russian the many domestic promises is a key issue of the relationship. as the biggest electoral intrigue of this year draws to a close and bringing you the final few results are expert analysis and continued international reaction right here on r.t. . twenty minutes past the hour moscow time athens is again the scene of protests by greeks angry the new austerity measures are they are certainly making their presence being felt just ahead of a vote on a fresh set of cuts demanded by international lenders the strikes and demonstrations against the bill that brought the nation to a standstill and with this report from the greek capital artie's pretty rough. 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 this going to be imposed upon them should prime minister some modest this 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 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 then they don't get the next round of bailout

money and the question remains that has to be asked if this is voted for will lead be enough political support in greece in order to enact these cuts. and a prime minister some marise has promised the greek people that this will be the final round of belt tightening however pterosaur lecturer at the university of the achaean says no not at all they're still paying right up around the corner. every a sturdy pockets in the past two and a half years was supposed to be the last one so no it's won't be the last austerity package we're going to see more of it and we're just been happening parliament is something very close to a parliamentary could get out you know the rapid way it was just one day two days of discussion we're going to pass i should slow that's not only includes budget cuts all changes in the pension system and the wage system or a large segments of the public sector it would also suspect aspects.

of taxation so this isn't it's not hunger in a 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 just going to be passed repugnant without any absolutes ghassan. why from the russian capital this is artsy a gunman who went on the rampage in moscow early wednesday morning shooting dead five people and severely wounding two he carried out his killing spree at a pharmaceutical depot where his he was working as a lawyer he's been arrested and is being questioned apparently the suspect had been drinking heavily for several days after his girlfriend left him he had reportedly published a manifesto saying he hated mankind although police currently believe he just acted out of jealousy. or let's do it into the arty world of there we go right now starting with turkey and its allies including the u.s.

are reportedly considering stationing patriot missiles along the border with syria a report suggests that nato is preparing to take responsibility for the deployment of the missiles and the plans however were put on hold due to the election period in america of the syrian crisis shows no sign of a let up with a string of deadly terror attacks rocking the capital damascus earlier this week. bahrain has revoked the citizenship of thirty one activists claiming they are putting the kingdom security in jeopardy by the monarchy has been repeatedly accused by the opposition of ordering a police on political crackdown against the protest movement in october all public gatherings were banned although that has failed to prevent hundreds of program form demonstrators from staging round. the top floors of a brand new five storey shopping center in uganda's capital have collapsed reportedly killing up to three people and trapping around thirty five rescuers are currently working at the site amid reports the actual number of people buried in

the rubble could reach two hundred again as president has cut short his election campaign for next month's ballot and declared the scene a disaster. china is preparing for a crucial once in a decade congress of its ruling party a vice presidency jingping is expected to be named the next communist party head group. placing president hu jintao is widely seen as a signal that jingping will become the country's next leader when the transition takes place in march he will bring you special coverage of the communist gathering . once in a decade the ruling party gathers to select the next generation. thursday november eighth on hearty i don t. dot com. and coming up after a very short break here i'll see the second half of the special report senseless that.

you can tell an ordinary russian and a siberian appalled and the blink of an eye wrote one nine hundred sentry anthropologist in those days siberians were different clothes a different food in front of different animals but what about now my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny all funded skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian outpost. so i decided to. a small town just outside. well many these humble me dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine

but only in siberia to put them in super bowl filled with cabbage and jam making sure you can have many as a start the main dish. although it may draw the whole of a most people inside. see nothing wrong with hunting there only if you decide to participate. when you look upon martin iska. amok as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by air transport in the summer months and winter a path is cleared through dice it's inhabited by siberian startles a large muslim minority that migrated ahead before the russians.

and this. israel siberia maybe not the stuff of tourist brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these yeahs siberia still not quite like anywhere else.

i think now it's very obvious and clear and i have no doubt that donald rumsfeld may god forgive him dick cheney and george bush and the other people who have been responsible for the deaths of these tens of thousands of people americans iraqis and other nationalities tens of thousands if not over one hundred thousand people they are responsible for that because they lied because they wanted

a war for economic reasons for political reasons for popularity reasons and maybe in george bush's case for family reasons. united states right now it's not beating its recruiting targets. we have walked through some neighborhoods down here in guatemala tens of thousands of young able capable boys girls men and women. give them the opportunity to come fight for us for five years and here's your green card. and lot of them are going to say yes. they think if they go to the united states they're going to find this beautiful lush lovely land no problems no one employment no violence no poverty. and sell that story create that image and they're going to have lines willing to take the risk to get into heaven like that. and as long as people are willing to pay illegally low salaries some.