imperial troy told us to. go toe to toe. rather said the colonel was hoto as a retreat. tensions and the un general assembly reached fever pitch as rainy and president mahmoud ahmadinejad riles u.s. officials with noisy rhetoric. of recent success of and to immigration political parties in europe is turning heads raising fears of growing nationalism. as arctic ice melts the struggle for access to the region's vast resources heats up prompting russia to call for more cooperation.

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with memory and josh and today we take a look at the stories that shape the week and this week's united nations general sam way has seen another war of words between the u.s. and iran president mahmoud ahmadinejad told a global gathering he believes america was behind the nine eleven terror attacks the claims led to walkout by u.s. and western nations and drew the wrath of barack obama lauren lyster has more. with the fanfare on the streets of new york this week. no one could miss the spectacle of more than one hundred ninety world leaders descending upon the united nations for the annual general assembly. but stealing the spotlight on the world stage a face off between iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad and u.s. president barack obama obama defended u.n. sanctions the u.s. has spearheaded over iran's nuclear program though he called for dialogue on the

door remains open to diplomacy should iran choose to walk through the dialogue awkward dinner job responded with drove the u.s. and european union delegations out of the assembly hall altogether he claimed nine eleven was an inside job by america as a middle. most people believe that some segments within the u.s. government has traded the attack to reverse the decline in the u.s. economy and his grip on the middle east in order to save the zionist regime. may have lost some of his audience inside the halls but he continued the conversation in public where you're smiling you believe it started that the government had to have about eleven and what seemed like interviews with almost every network and you had a captive audience on the street all of it to have on just saw drawing activists to protest against his visit almost daily how do. you pomp and

circumstance aside ahmadinejad said he may return to the negotiating table if the security council plays nice will iran has always be ready for a dialing based on respect and justice and the international community warned of where an escalation in the conflict could lead and the forces used against iran i believe this would be the shortest way to the radicals in their own. truly and decided that now that we will struck we must have nuclear weapons. when it comes to matters of war and peace it seems like visions for a resolution to conflict a peace must be made by israelis and palestinians but each of us has a responsibility to do our part as well. may have fallen on deaf ears and the use of sanctions as a method by individual countries was criticized we are convinced that such practices contradict the efforts to achieve the m d g's a must be brought to an end

and talk of m d g's or millennium development goals of fighting hunger and poverty amidst a global recession countries were more measured in making pledges for too long we've measured our efforts by the dollars we spend on the food that we deliver to the conference concluded with deep concern that the un is falling far short of conquering problems such as world poverty and malnutrition it appeared no country yesterday we see more arrests. fell short of conquering their hunger with the finest cuisine new york has to offer but this time of the year you have the fresh french fry truffle so we do all make up out of there were black truffle sauce and i will shave the truffle staple sides and after a week of traffic truffles and talk the press is already packing up despite debates continuing next week as global problems persist bua n.j. remains a convenient place for leaders to share their opinions and ideas if people hope

that they care even if nothing changes after this week as to whether any of the rhetoric becomes reality or that we're just going to have to wait and see next year or in leicester artie's. on wednesday russia banned sales of its advanced anti-aircraft missile system to iran its side of the fact of founder recent un sanctions imposed on toronto russia's foreign minister has stressed the decision is not a unilateral move. because russia simply documented in the presidential decree what is required from russia and all the other states in relation to iran after the adoption of the un security council's new resolutions russia refused to deliver the as three hundred surface to air missile systems to iran in support of this resolution and russia remains opposed to any unilateral sanctions against iran resolutions adopted by the un security council a binding they need to be turned into national laws because they are not direct application documents within countries legislation. taking the rostrum of the un

general assembly the participants talked a lot about mutual obligations but as artie's maria port now reports critics say countries should keep their own promises before preaching to others. as world leaders gathered at the united nations today we must ask are we living up to our mutual responsibilities the voice of america took to the podium in the universal declaration of human rights. we recognize the inherent dignity and rights of every individual yet three miles south for barack obama's lecture on moral principles one woman languishes in this federal jail behind me stripped many say of all her dignity allegedly at the hands of u.s. officials after. pakistani born u.s. educated a neuroscientist mother of three and the doctor u.s.

mainstream media tout levy. as so-called terrorist never charged with committing an act of terror i mean i think all of his story is really just a symbol of a broader problem which has largely unnoticed which is that there are you know hundreds and if not thousands of people who have been disappeared at the hands of. you know. either the bush administration or we don't know perhaps it continues into the obama administration and have never there the captors have never been held to account family spokesperson. forster says before city's publicized arrest in two thousand and eight the mit graduate was tortured beaten and secretly detained in the notorious prison she was kidnapped in pakistan with her three children in march of two thousand and three no one knows where they are for a period of five years until of course the united states government announces that

she is in custody in afghanistan and forster says he is among the countless faces illegally swept up by a unknown forces fighting this so-called global war on terror we believe that the u.s. government had a role in her disappearance and imprisonment for the missing five years. overseas siddiqi has become known as the daughter of pakistan. thousands have stormed the streets. proclaiming her a victim of america's post nine eleven justice system a system creating more enemies than friends this was never about yet this was about us trying to see if it's being something i think you should when you just did that but what do you do in that in in the process was that it smashed it's one thing that it stood for and that was the power of justice and it has just lost that and that is in front of the will was amnesty international headquartered in manhattan

for decades was staging noisey worldwide campaigns to free people they say are political prisoners often as far as burma or north korea but not in the case of. who was imprisoned and tried next door in new york city key supporters sara flounders says the so-called pioneers of human rights abroad have blatantly turned a. way from a horrific problem here at home not to address us where people are held under horrendous conditions tortured abused held in solitary confinement the first obligation is always to address the issues and the conduct of your own government thursday morning after he was sentenced to eighty six years in prison her crime attempted assault against a u.s. soldier yet the alleged crimes against her never investigated it's been absolutely

horrifying to see that obama who ran for president as the anti bush and who was so adamantly opposed to the perversion of the united states constitution to see him now be the continuation of all of these policies that he has adopted from the bush administration has been absolutely outrageous thank you very much. marina portnoy party new york. that was artie's marina for now reporting pramod york and later this hour all right hard was also out and about in the big apple people's thoughts on the economic situation. just so you think that the middle class is kind of disappearing in this country i think it's definitely it's definitely. not so much disappearing but it's definitely not as big as it used to be i mean you know growing up my parents always

said that the middle class was a lot bigger times were a lot easier. and there's one number young lovers in india can call when they need saving from the are outraged parents and honor killings. and after making inroads in sweden europe's far right parties are focusing their efforts on austria for sunday's provincial elections the country's free of art he's hoping to win votes through a controversial and a muslim campaign which sparked outrage among manny. reports. was the buy by mosque game is as simple as its message they came and shoot down as many new mosques as you can as they rise relentlessly above asters alpine skyline if you're not quick enough the country is islamicized some of that is on your we are defending our rights our traditions our culture we don't want to be dissolved into islam nor do we want there to be parallel islamic

societies in our country we released by the right wing freedom party as part of its bid for election and the regional government in styria austria second largest province the game has hit the wrong nerve within twenty four hours it received more than two hundred thousand web hits within a week it was bam the computer game may have been just a small part of a political campaign but the reaction has been nothing but a firestorm of outrage there around five hundred thousand muslims in austria together with the greens their community leaders sued the freedom party emotions in the game and islam is a reality if we want to build mosques we will build the many with i have a vision of the future where every town and city in austria has a mosque with a minaret that people can see from the outside in. the judicial authorities up hold the complaint and ruled it again went beyond the perceptible discussion forcing the freedom party to take it down from its website in that one of the numbers who

played the game show that islam is a very important issue thanks to us it was talked about in the first place but the judicial system is meddling in politics and stopping a free discussion base of many say the ban has had the reverse effect there's not even a single minaret in styria and less than two percent of the population of muslim. the freedom party failed to get a single seat a below last election now it's expected to triple its vote and put a dent in the ruling coalition of two centrist party to him little video changing the whole system. to feeling it's already they can do what they like to just position themselves as like the resistance of the true jim people which is kind of being suppressed by the status quo if the freedom party performs well it will follow the footsteps of recent successes by far i'd parties in sweden belgium and the netherlands. it appears that no longer can the centrist parties ignore the

voices of those alone by an immigration or they risk being penalized at the ballot box either grodner party gratz steria. professor from the department of political science at the central european university in budapest says the surgeon far right parties is a dangerous trend for europe. it's a kind of fashion i mean one success so such a path to promote his success is so if he also part does and for instance of a success so say. such right to be had to clear impact on the success of his speech . of course it is and they got the fame pick because those parties are not only against migration or against especially islamic migration they're also empty european all these parties. deepening of european integration and peace is a challenge to say european consensus the consensus that europe is an unfinished

business and it's a european union should go forwards towards deeper federation of european states. and coming up in the next hour here in our team extremist whose views would startle even the right wing parties just heard about a mixed martial artist turn to extremist from a psychiatric facility in russia has given himself up in norway seeking political asylum. it may be one of the world's most inhospitable places but it's also among the most keenly sought after and that's why several nations including russia canada and the united states are staking their claims for the billions of tons of oil and gas which lie beneath the arctic and this week leaders and scientists from those countries gathered in moscow to ensure that the competition won't lead to clash. reports. if you stand

alone you can survive in the arctic that's all russian prime you have led to more putin explained but no country by itself can deal with the enormous challenges i had at the north pole he promised that what average treasures lie hidden under the peak layer of ice will be no fighting over the top of the world the op tic needs secure sustainable management and if there's anybody who doesn't stop with that we often hear some futuristic forecasts predicting a battle for the arctic are responsible analysis shows the majority of the frightening scenarios on the future of the arctic have no grounds whatsoever their goal is to provoke clashes among the arctic states and so that those who make the predictions can fish for something in the murky waters but i am absolutely sure that all the existing problems including the ones over the continental shelf can be resolved in a manner of partnership and according to the law the five know the neighbors who fish in these dark cold waters are russia canada the us norway and denmark

at stake now are massive amounts of untapped oil and gas estimated to be over twenty percent of what the planet has to offer but many fear that a territorial crisis over the arctic which for millenia has been a vast quiet block of ice could suddenly start to boil and for the people who call this tranquil place home an invasion of industrialization is on the horizon for many years people thought the arctic was this frozen wasteland. no one lives here no one survives here it's a place for polar bears and it goes and the reality is that the arctic is a vibrant place with rich natural resources rich human resources where people live and survive daily at the love it choose to live here but some of the histories saddest chapters were written on the white pages of these glass years during the. cold war it was one of the world's most militarized regions with nuclear missiles

placed there the war has may have gone but oil and gas drills i likely to replace them environmentalist question just how safe big struction technology will be in this stuff to retain especially with the gulf of mexico disaster and its lingering legacy so fresh in people's minds it's not just a question of often you'll call drudge in the arctic it's all show that we approach those in a responsible way i don't think anybody can approach the arctic simply from their point of view but let us exploit the resources i think everybody from. show responsibility not just for show your vitamins on the arctic nations but also to the entire world because if we measure the off to the northern part of the world the consequences will be felt in asia and africa latin america the rest of europe in the united states and elsewhere apart from an

a chanter of turold claims concerns were again raised that pumping for fuel in the world's the refrigerator as it's sometimes known could speed up global warming a quarter of the world's untapped manager resources altered states have become increasingly anxious to seek their claims on to the look pretty piece of pie but russia says they'll be no fighting over the arctic fortunes and any territorial dispute what will result in just as informal and friendly atmosphere as a visitor exhibit actual our team must go. ever faster arthur berkman says the scale of the issue makes it impossible to solve in any other way than dialogue. it's impossible to envision any magic bullet that suddenly appears instantaneously and solves the problem once and forever so the solutions really are dialogues and the russian geographic society is to compliment the for their vision and issue a dialogue that will. that will support the type of for operation avoidance of

conflict that is necessary to make the arctic a region that is used to the interests of all mankind so at the same time there are expressions of national interest there are expressions of common interest and so really the balance is one of of achieving national interests and common interests and not just for the current state of the selves but for the world as a whole. two russian cosmonauts and an american astronaut made it safely back to earth on saturday after a technical glitch in orbit threaten their return for the first time the so you spacecraft failed to undock from the international space station and their journey was postponed by a day the problem was fixed and the second attempt to unhitch went soon clean up the space travelers landed safely in kazakhstan after spending almost six months aboard the ice s three crewmembers remain at the station ready to welcome the next members scheduled to leave for orbit a lot of the eggs. that will be staying with all things technical next hour on our

team when we explore advanced ways of saving the environment and that's in our program technology update so stay with us for that. every month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we'll get there and want to more bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for direct knowledge updates on our g. who or what is to blame for the growing level of poverty in america which is at its highest in one hundred years or harvest our very own new york resident has been assessing people's views on the current economic situation in the us. the u.s. census bureau released a report indicating that about forty four million americans or one in seven live below the poverty level that's the highest it's been in over half

a century what or who's to blame for this this week let's talk about that is that the prising not consider in obama's policy you know the thing he's to blame for where we're at right now well he's partially to blame he's put the whole country and so how are we going to get out of it. get rid of obama i mean we are fighting two wars and i think they are costing a lot of money so obviously that's having a significant effect on the economy and obama inherited these wars so i don't think we can blame him i've lost faith in the government i think it's just a power struggle in washington now that's what i think it's kind of like everyone saying what they're supposed to be paying for their party but no one's concerned about doing anything that's one way of putting it i suppose i would say the mortgage mortgage dilemma. loaning money that we don't have to people that can afford it to begin with and i think that was the beginning of it do you think it's going to turn around any time soon are we going to just see more. i hope i hope it

turns around i think it's i think it's on the upswing there would be no middle class just poverty class and the rich class that would agree to it so you think that the middle class is kind of disappearing in this country i think it's definitely it's definitely. not so much disappearing but it's definitely not as big as it used to be i mean you know growing up my parents always said that the middle class was a lot bigger and times were a lot easier like a lot of people tend to react and take a lot of things for granted. well those things that we really have and you know we have a lot more than several other countries in this world i'm just trying to get complacent that things were going to maybe we should focus on what we do have instead of what we don't have a now so. the bottom line is that no matter. who or what if to blame for this high level of poverty let's just hope someone or something can do something about it. and a call that may save your life volunteers in india are hoping they found

a way to combat the practice of honor killings and family persecution in india couples to marry without their parents' blessing can now get help from a secret group called commandos if they feel their lives are in danger current explains. your life's in danger your girlfriend's been kept captive welcome to the love commandos a newly formed helpline taking calls from distraught couples who have dared to marry against their family's wishes because. whenever we get a call that a couple is being threatened we contact our commandos and tell them to go there immediately to help them if they face any problem we inform the police our team of lawyers also reach there so that the couple is not attacked threatened or mistreated. the love commandos include lawyers and social activists and claims to have attracted one hundred forty thousand volunteers across india

they have helped rescue many couples from death by forcing police to intervene. sunday and not the young couple in love who ran away from their families against them at age they had nowhere else. we need five complains to the police but no one to count when i heard of the helpline i felt some who he hopes his rights away and we're seeing in there see if. they're having a sense with them he may not have survived. the hell plane started following the recent upsurge in honor killings in northern india in some villages local councils death sentences against couples formatting outside the cost or with the same plan i did your parents today have forgotten they too were young at some point they were also attracted to people and tried to fall in love not all were

successful of course i think if we take their frustration out on today's youngsters . one. anonymous means a priority for the volunteers who have been targeted by angry relatives and the village councils the help lane operates from five secret locations in the capital and visitors are carefully screened. the work we do we have to do it quietly if anyone asks us our address we don't just give it to us we first ask him to reach a public spot near our center we check to see whether he's a trouble maker who only wants we're sure that he needs help then we take him with us. love can sometimes be a dangerous thing in india especially in rural communities but with the love commandos just a phone call away there's at last a glimmer of hope for the many couples endangered by their feelings for each other . hardy new delhi one that brings us up to date here ninety four more remember i

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