tensions of the u.n. general assembly reached a pitch iranian president with u.s. officials with a noisy record. the recent success. 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 russia but more cooperation.

we are running down the top stories of today and all of this week here on r.t. welcome to the program. well this week's united nations general assembly has seen another war of words between the u.s. and iran president mahmoud ahmadinejad told the global gathering that he believes america was behind the nine eleven terror attacks the claims led to a walkout by u.s. and western nations drew the wrath of barack obama. 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 the policy 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 an adult. 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 in 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 do you believe or started that the government had a head about eleven and what seemed like interviews with almost every network and he had a captive audience on the street or did they have going activist 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 if force is used against iran. i believe this would be the shortest way to the radicals in the room. truly and deciding 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 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

in 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 spoke of the food that we delivered at 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 did the timor leste they. 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 that what a black truffle sauce and i will show you the truffle stable side and after a week of traffic truffles and talk the price is already packing up despite debates continuing next week as global problems persist the u.n.g.a. 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 at leicester r t v. and on wednesday russia of band sales of its advanced missile system to iran it cited the fact it fell under recent un sanctions and posed on tyrone russia's foreign minister has stressed that the decision is not a unilateral move. of course me and the good will is 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 resolution russia refused to deliver the s. 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 but they need to be turned international laws because they are not direct application documents within countries legislation which are taking

a rostrum at the un general assembly of participants talked a lot about mutual obligations but as r.t. as maria portnoy reports critics say countries should keep their own promises before preaching to others. as world leaders gathered at the united nations today we must. be living up to our mutual responsibility 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 from 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. pakistani born u.s. educated a neuroscientist mother of three and a doctor u.s. mainstream media jobbed levy. a so-called terrorist never charged with committing

an act of terror i mean i think his story is really just a symbol of a broader problem which has gone 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. says before publicized arrest in two thousand and eight the mit graduate was tortured 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 foster says he is among the countless faces illegally swept up by an unknown forces fighting this so-called global war on terror we believe that the u.s. cover. a man 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 counting and this was about to be very us trying to see if it's being something that you should you can you just did that but what did 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 noisy worldwide campaigns to free people they say are political prisoners often as far as burma or north korea but not in the case of a city 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 away from a horrific problem here at home not to address us on the world people are held in under horrendous conditions torture abuse held in solitary confinement the first obligation 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. now 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. was. reporting from the big apple and later this hour laurie is also about in the big city gauging people. so you think that the middle class is kind of disappearing in this country and 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. than stake in this election is the national assembly ever party gains two thirds of the vote will have the authority to write and pass the laws in this country. is in venezuela to find out how the campaign is shaping up in the country ahead of the upcoming general election. well after making inroads in sweden europe's a far right party is focusing their efforts on austria for sunday's provincial elections the country's freedom party is hoping to win votes through a controversial anti muslim campaign which has sparked outrage among many. reports . the bye-bye 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 with its own 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 them anyway 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 upheld

the complaint and ruled it again went beyond except the whole discussion forcing the freedom party to take it down from its website in 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 of many say the ban has had the reverse effect because not even a single minute in styria and less than two percent of the population of muslim. the freedom party failed to get a single seat a below asked election now it's expected to triple its vote and put a dent in the ruling coalition of two centrist party to have a little bit here change endangered whole system because i have to feeling it's just it's already against. the resistance of the true 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. r.t. gratz steria. our professors. from the department of political science at central european university in budapest says that the search in a far right parties is a dangerous trend for europe it's a kind of fashion i mean one success of such a party promote the successes of the answer parties and for instance of a successful say. dutch right between party had a clear impact on the success of speed. of course it has a negative impact because those parties are not only against migration or against especially islamic migration they are also empty european all these parties are

clearly own post deepening of european integration and this is a challenge to european consensus consensus that europe is an unfinished business and a european union should go forward towards a deeper federation of european states. quarter past the hour here in the russian capital this is good to have your company today and bear in mind there are always many more stories on our website that is r.t. dot com and you can find just about anything there from top rated videos to blogs and travel guides let's have a look now at what's in store for you online on our to. the urban jungle after seven years of heated debates. set to enjoy greater rights. you don't want to miss takes a trip around the capital's most unusual residence those.

it may be one of the world's most inhospitable places but it's also among the most keenly sought after that's why several nations including russia canada and the u.s. staking their claims for the billions of tons of oil and gas which live beneath the arctic this week leaders and scientists from those countries gathered here in moscow to ensure that the competition won't lead to a clash. if you stand alone you can survive in the arctic that's how russian premier have led him or 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 and to be calais or buys will be no fighting over the top of the world the arctic needs secure sustainable management and if

there's anybody who has to 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 a glimpse and the reality is that the arctic is a vibrant place with rich natural resources rich human resources where people live and survive daily and 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 warheads may have gun 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 off a new york gold rush in the arctic it's all show that we approach those in our responsible way i don't think anybody can approach the arctic simply from the point of view of lettuce exploit the resources i think everybody from charlotte shares your responsibility not your store shelves vitamins on the arctic nations but also to the entire world because if we measure the arctic and 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 anna chan territorial claims concerns were again raised that pumping for fuel in the world's refrigerator as it's sometimes known could speed up global warming a quarter of the world's untapped an idjit resources altered states have become increasingly anxious just take 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 but will result in just as informal and friendly atmosphere as a big dinner exhibit at the actual art t.v. moscow. or professor author buckman 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 the dialogues and the russian geographic society has to be complemented for their vision initiating a dialogue that will. that will support the type of cooperation and 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 five achieving national interests and common and it's

not just for the current state selves but for the world as a whole. two russian cosmonauts and an american astronauts have made it now safely back to earth after a technical glitch in orbit threatened their return for the first time the soyuz spacecraft failed to undock from the international space station and their journey was postponed by a day a problem that once fixed and the second attempt through the next twenty the space travelers who landed safely in kazakhstan after spending almost six months on board the i assess. three crew members remain at the station ready to welcome the next members who are scheduled to leave for bit on october the eighth. but we'll be staying with all things technical on odyssey when later we explore advanced ways of saving the environment that's in our program technology update do stay with us for that. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we get there and want to bring the best in science and technology

from across russia and around the world to join us for technology update on our g. venezuela is heading for a general election which is being seen as a test for president chavez the ruling party after boycotting the poll in two thousand and five the opposition is determined to win back seats in the national assembly if you don't have his reports from caracas. it's an outstanding view from the top of one of the finest hotels in caracas venezuela. but on the ground there is a different reality a class war between the wealthy and the poor a battle that has been playing out here in venezuela since president chavez came to power in one thousand nine hundred eight it happened in almost every election and this one is no exception. it is what has politically mobilized both sides of the class divides leading to scenes as distinct as day.

six. and that is. what the people of venezuela are calling one of the most important election this year what they care is that building the national assembly whoever gave the majority of the national assembly will have the authority to pass the laws in this country. and so the words build into the streets both for and against the chavez system the system we have right now but it's not coming. it's working for poor people that's why people love chavez because we can't go to the neighborhood today we have free education we have preferred before chavez came to power the poor were marginalized in venezuela according to statistics from the venezuelan national statistics office poverty in this country has dropped by seventy percent in only fourteen years that's a bit us women before chavez it was like

a long night the poor were excluded from the country's wealth this represents our aspirations for freedom and emancipation because chavez sees people as human beings he fights for us but the opposite. has different views also look at how it truly is not just destroyed venezuela he has destroyed latin america has destroyed our values as citizens he has brought out the worst of us if the worst means of foreign money to help their cause it's not sitting well with most of the venezuelan people and government newspapers articles exposing hefty figures from u.s. government funded n.g.o.s are causing venezuelans to cry foul in this election and sustain the money is going directly to opposition forces united states make whatever they want now around the world and nobody said nothing they are angry because we are saying something about that. however the opposition refuses to acknowledge there is a link between dollars pouring into this country and their campaigns these are going to get rid of chavez through votes in the market that's why we're going to vote on september twenty sixth against chavez

a socialist communist project twenty first century socialism hasn't helped us it is her favorite pro chavez elements also insist the opposition is composed of the wealthy elite with a prejudice towards majority poor. i hate discrimination and that is what the opposition does that's why people don't trust them they discriminate good like they were there the whites of the year the indians over there i am white so i am more prevalent powerful than you oh no no no. from day to night signs are behind two different messages. one calling for a balance in a parliament dominated by the governments parties and a more capitalist system. the other praising the political structure currently in place one with the socialist agenda because depending on which way the pendulum swings in this election the governing system of venice while a will ultimately follow john huff is r t could out because venezuela. who or what is to blame for the growing level of poverty in america which is at its

highest in one hundred years lower half in a style very own a new york resident has been assessing people's views on the current economic situation in the united states. 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 of that jury 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 pinky is 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 saying 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 that'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 and just poverty class and the rich class that wouldn't be too good 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. the thing is that we really haven't you know we

have a lot more than several other countries on this world i'm just going to get complacent take things for granted maybe we should focus and what we do have instead of what we don't have a now exactly the bottom line is that no matter who or what if to blame for the high level of poverty let's just hope someone or something can do something about it. i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments stay with us. more

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