An RT crew covering the situation in Aleppo, Syria, has come under mortar fire. A shell landed some 15 meters from the crew, which was filming in a humanitarian corridor citizens wishing to leave the city can use.

A total of three shells apparently fired from the rebel-controlled part of Aleppo landed near a group of journalists from different outlets, including RT, the crew reported.

Throughout the morning there was heavy shelling of government checkpoints in the area, RT's Murad Gazdiev said. There was then a lull, which prompted the journalists to believe that it would be safe to do their job in the open. However, they then came under fire.

"There was panic. Everybody ran to whatever cover they could find. Our Arabic colleagues got to a house, we got to another one further away," he said. "By all appearances this was happening on purpose. They were trying to send a message."

With information coming out of WikiLeaks at a fast and furious pace, it's difficult for the average person to keep up with the many bombshell revelations being exposed. This is happening so much that the most damning evidence is ending up as background noise in the 24-hour election news cycle without ever making it into the mainstream news.

On October 7th, 2016, WikiLeaks publish thousands of emails belonging to John Podesta's private email archives. More emails have been released in the days that followed. Podesta is Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign Chairman. He previously served as Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and Counselor to President Barack Obama.

Russia insists two Belgium warplanes flying from an Air Force base in Jordan attacked a village in Syria, citing radar data. Belgium denies conducting any airstrikes.

Brussels' continued denial of the jets movements in the area. Belgian Defense Minister Steven Vandeput is "deliberately deceiving people in Belgium and elsewhere in the world, or his subordinates and the Americans are lying to the leadership of Belgium," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said.

An airstrike on the village of Hassadjek in Aleppo province reportedly killed six civilians on Tuesday. Russia has now reiterated its accusations against Belgium, saying data from Russian and Syrian radar stations confirm it.

"Detailed information about the operation of the Belgian F-16s in Syrian sky will be delivered to the Belgian side through diplomatic and military channels," Konashenkov said.

The 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, one of the oldest tank units in the US Army, will move to South Korea for a nine-month "rotational deployment." It comes just one day after the Pentagon threatened an "overwhelming response" to any attack on Seoul.

The US Army said on Wednesday that it had begun the "rotational deployment" of the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team (1st ABCT) of the 1st Infantry Division from Fort Riley, Kansas, to the Camp Casey north of Seoul.

Brigade General Patrick D. Frank, deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Division, said in a statement the brigade's 3,500 soldiers and officers "are well-trained and fully prepared for this important mission to South Korea" that would last for nine months.

So the debates are over. Who won the third and last one?

Once again, most reports carried by the media cite certain 'scientific' polls confirming that Clinton 'won'.

But in American people's eyes, did she?

Online snap polls conducted by (for the most part) right-leaning media outlets after the second debate all showed Trump as the people's favorite:

This time, rather than paying attention to any media polls, let's take a look at a sample of snap polls conducted by non-affiliated Twitter accounts...

Let real history and the truth show that, in 2011, psychopathic warmongers in Washington and Europe deliberately targeted and slaughtered tens of thousands of people in Libya and brutally murdered their beloved leader, Muammar Gaddafi, his public sodomization and execution publicly broadcast to the gloating and glee of animals like Hillary Clinton. Western powers transported mercenary jihadis into the country to attack military bases and public institutions. When the Libyan military rightly defended themselves, Washington and Europe denounced it as 'Gaddafi killing his own people', and this lie was used to do precisely what NATO accused Gaddafi of doing.

Turkish jets have targeted 18 Kurdish positions north of Aleppo, killing 160 to 200 fighters, Ankara's military said in a statement. The airstrikes come as Syrian forces ceased fire in Aleppo to let armed militants and civilians leave the besieged city.

In justification of the airstrikes, the Turkish military said five shells had been fired from the Kurdish-held Syrian region of Afrin, hitting empty land in Turkey's Hatay province, Reuters reported later on Thursday. The shelling did not cause any casualties or damage, but prompted Turkish artillery to open retaliatory fire "in line with its rules of engagement."

Some 160 to 200 fighters of the Kurdish YPG militia group have been killed in 26 airstrikes conducted by the Turkish Air Force on Wednesday night, the military said in a statement, according to Hurriyet.

The armed forces added that the jets targeted areas recently captured by the YPG north of the embattled city of Aleppo, destroying nine buildings "used as ammunition depots," one armored and four other vehicles operated by the Kurdish forces.

The Syrian army and the National Defense Forces (NDF), supported by Russian and Syrian warplanes, have repelled a series of ISIS attacks on the al-Mahr oil field, located east of Palmyra, and delivered a blow to ISIS units deployed at the al-Sha'er oil field in the province of Homs.

Pro-government sources argue that 'tens' ISIS militants were killed in the clashes and a number of command posts, military vehicles and other equipment, belonging ot the terrorist group, were destroyed.

Militant sources say that the army and the NDF lost at least 16 fighters and a battle tank in these clashes.

The U.S.-Russia confrontation over Ukraine and now Syria is far more dangerous than is understood by mainstream U.S. analysts as Russia lays down clear warnings that are mostly being ignored.

In an interview with the Bild newspaper on Oct. 8, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is known for his cautious rhetoric, described the present international situation in the following woeful terms: "unfortunately it is an illusion to believe this is the old Cold War. The new times are different; they are more dangerous. Previously, the world was divided, but Moscow and Washington knew each other's red lines and respected them. In a world with many regional conflicts and dwindling influence of the great powers, the world becomes more unpredictable."

For these reasons, said Steinmeier, "The USA and Russia must continue talking with each other." He concluded his appeal with fairly balanced recommendations to resolve the humanitarian crisis in east Aleppo, urging both Russia and the other powers to apply their influence with their clients on the ground.

Sad to say, this call to reason fell on deaf ears. On the same day, a U.S. State Department spokesman explained to journalists Washington's decision over the weekend to end the joint peace process with Moscow, saying that there was "nothing left to talk about with the Russians."

Meanwhile, the Russian side took as the last straw this unilateral and trumpeted decision of the Americans to bury the deal signed on Sept. 9 between Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that had taken 14 hours to negotiate and was seen as a triumph of cooperation versus confrontation.

Comment: If the people and governments Assange was 'hurting' so badly wanted him - dead or otherwise - they would get him, no question. The reality is that Wikileaks and Assange are useful to those powers for many reasons. Controlling the lies and having a pretext for draconian legislation and censorship on the internet being a couple of those reasons. Wikileaks is a piece on the chessboard.

The left turns on him, the right embraces him

The saga of Julian Assange seems to be drawing to a climax - one that will decide the fate of this historic whistleblower who, for years, has been a giant thorn in the side of governments everywhere.

His role in exposing the machinations of the US government over the years earned him the plaudits of liberals - until the Bush era ended, and he started exposing the crimes of the Obama administration and - most pointedly - the hypocrisy and venality of Hillary Clinton and her journalistic camarilla.

Now we see right-wing figures like Sean Hannity and - yes! - Donald Trump praising and defending him, while the ostensible liberals take up the cry of the Clinton campaign that he's a "pawn of the Kremlin" and a "rapist." Even Glenn Greenwald, formerly a comrade-in-arms, who together with Assange helped Edward Snowden evade the not-so-loving arms of Uncle Sam, has lately sought to distance himself from the founder of WikiLeaks (over the value of "curation"). Nice timing, Glenn!

Funny how that works.

Now we see that the Ecuadorian government, which has provided sanctuary for Assange ever since the frame-up "rape" charges by the Swedes were brought, is succumbing to pressure from Washington to silence him. As Assange released the now famous Podesta emails, that - among other things - exposed the collusion of the media and the Clinton campaign in delicious detail, John Kerry demanded that the Ecuadorians cut off Assange's Internet access - and they meekly complied. Of course, since leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has openly endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and openly abhors Trump, this is hardly surprising: this is how the left operates internationally, as well as in this country - if you stray from the party line it doesn't take long before the knives come out, aimed directly at one's back.