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battle of the rich. with the week's top stories here watching from the heart of moscow welcome to the program this week global issues discussed at the un's general assembly have been overshadowed by a provocative speech by the iranian president. lauren lyster explains why some delegates was so offended they stood up and walked out. we've been fair on the streets of new york this week. but no one could miss the spectacle of more than one hundred nineteen board leaders descending upon the united nations for the annual general assembly. stealing the spotlight on the 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 in a job responded with drove the u.s. and european union delegations out of the assembly hall all together he claimed nine eleven was an inside job by america as a middle. of us thought that most people believe that some segments within the u.s. government has traded the attack to reverse the declining u.s. economy and his grip on the middle east. to save the zionist regime augmentin a job may have lost some of his audience inside the halls but he continued the conversation in public when you're smiling the leader started that the government had to have about eleven and what seemed like interviews with almost every network and they had a captive audience on the street boy did they have drawing activists to protest

against his visit almost daily i don't know just. pomp and circumstance aside offered in a job said he may return to the negotiating table if the security council plays nice. 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. prevailing and decide that no that we will struck we must have group 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 spoke of the food that we delivered

through 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. 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 black truffle so we do all make up out of there were black truffle sauce and i will show you 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 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 lauren lyster r.t. new york. as nations gathered in new york for the u.n. general assembly russia announced its ban on the supply of advanced anti aircraft

missile systems to iran the russian foreign minister said it falls under recent u.n. sanctions against tehran and stressed the decision is not a unilateral move. across the sea and look at the table but 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 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 into national laws because they are not direct application documents within countries legislation which are taking the rostrum at the un general assembly many participants talked about mutual obligations of democracy and human rights but some critics say the host nation should take a closer look at domestic abuses before preaching to the rest of the world. as

world leaders gathered at the united nations. are we living up to our mutual responsibility the voice of america took to the podium 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 principle 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 the pakistani born u.s. educated a neuroscientist mother of three and the doctor us mainstream media joe 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 is the captors have never been held to account family spokesperson. for the force to keep these publicized arrests in two thousand and eight the mit graduate was tortured beaten and secretly detained in miniature you spot members 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 a known 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 in the u.s. trying to see if it's legal situation and it just did that but what it did 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 amnesty international headquartered in manhattan for decades was staging a 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 aafia siddiqui who was

imprisoned and try next door in new york city key supporters sara flounders says the so-called high in the years of human rights abroad have blatantly turned away from a horrific problem here at home not to address us on the where people are held and under horrendous conditions torture abuse was 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 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. coming up for you later this hour right here on our struck by. was faith in the government i think it's just a power struggle in washington now. in the big apple here and what people have to say about america's economic situation. flight. to spending an extra day can all be due to an. the space crew. back to work. to come just a little bit later in the. well the polling stations across venezuela have opened as people vote in the parliamentary election after boycotting

the previous poll in two thousand and five the opposition will try to win back seats from the ruling party of president chavez. joins us live capital hello to you so security has been tightened throughout the country ahead of this polling but i'm told we were there any attempts to disrupt the preparations. that's exactly what could be here at the sunrise it's. a very confrontational day tensions here are very high you can even feel it in the air really because as you mentioned there have been a number of preparations under way to ensure that the instability that is played this country does not show up in these elections because unary measures include the military on high alert the boat being a national guard have been set up at the polling stations turns through the instigators did not do anything to cause that instability along with the military forces as an international force election observers coming from governments coming

from countries representing governments both to pay. and against the sabbaths system now there are seventeen million voters registered to vote in this a lot of sense of that number it's predicted that seventy percent will come to the polls today and thirty percent will stay home now depending on how which way this election swings it could so there could be signs of instability tomorrow monday the day following the election it's predicted that the government party could win a majority of those seats but if the opposition sees the election as stolen even with international observers here to ensure transparency there could be some kind of the region tomorrow between both sides i say both sides i mean the opposition forces and the pro-government forces are now caracas as they see contrasts we're standing it's in a residential area a gated community where the citizenry is more wealthy if you will and on the outskirts of this country a majority of us as of the population is is either in poverty or is being supported by the government system now let's take a look at what's at stake here it isn't it

a logical poll i could represent it works versus the poor. 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 eighty eight it happened almost every election and this one is no exception and. it is what has politically mobilized both sides of the class divine it's leading to scenes as distinct as day. and night. what the people of venezuela are calling one of the most important elections this year what at stake here is that in building the national assembly whoever gave the

majority of the national assembly will have the authority to cough. laws in the country and so the words build into the chetry both for and against the chavez system a system we have right now but it's not communism at all and it's working for poor people that's why people love chavez because we kind of study we cannot do any better today we have free education we have a free foot 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 opposition has different views also look at how it truly is not just destroyed venezuela has destroyed latin america has destroyed our values as citizens he has brought out the worst of us if the worst means 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 system the money is going directly to opposition forces united states make whatever they want not around the world and nobody said nothing so they are angry because we are saying something about that saying 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 that's why people don't trust it and they discriminate good luck so

where they are the whites over here the indians over there. i am quite powerful you know no no no from day to night both sides are behind two different messages. one calling for a balance in a parliament dominated by the government's parties and a more capitalist system with 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 the next while a will ultimately follow john huff is r t could act as venezuela. austria's a right wing freedom party is hoping that an anti muslim computer game will help it to win votes in sunday's provincial elections if successful this will be yet another victory for europe's far right after sweden's general elections. greg knapp takes a look at what it's fear to be about the rise of islamophobia in your. car

by most game is a simple as its message they came and shoot down as many roasts as you can out as they rise relentlessly above us cheers alpine skier line. if you're not quick enough the country is islam wise and some of that is something we are defending our rights our traditions by our culture we don't want to be dissolved into islam nor do we want there to be no islamic societies in our country we're going to be released by the right wing freedom party as part of its bid for election into 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 where it's within a week it was banned the computer game may have been just a small part of a political campaign but the reaction has been nothing but the firestorm of outrage there around five hundred thousand muslims in austria together with the greens their community leaders sued the freedom party the emotions in the game and islam

is a reality then if we want to build mosques we will build them anywhere she and i have a vision of the future where every town or city in austria has a mosque with a minaret the people can see from the air it's a can batting with the judicial authorities up hold the complaint and rule that again went beyond acceptable discussion forcing the freedom party to take it down from its website it's intended on the numbers who play the game show that islam is a very important issue of working thanks to ours it was talked about in the first place seen by the judicial system as meddling in politics and stopping a free discussion in place of many say that ban has had the reverse effect there's 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 at the last election now it's expected to triple its vote and put a dent in the ruling coalition of two centrist balti to have a little bit here change in danger a whole system because i have to feeling it's just it's already against these two

factors but they like to just position themselves as like. the resistance of the people which is kind of being suppressed by the by the status quo if the freedom party performs well it will follow the footsteps of recent successes by far right parties in sweden belgium and the netherlands. it appears that no longer can the centrist parties ignore the voices of those alone by islamic immigration or they risk being penalized at the ballot box either arnav r.t. gratz steria. a professor from the department of political science at central european university in budapest says that the far right parties are not only against immigration and islam but also with the european union it's a kind of fashion i mean one success of such a path to promote his success is software as a part does and for instance of a successful say. such right to being part d.

had a clear impact on his successor to speed. of course it has a negative impact the course of those parties are not only against migration or against especially islamic migration they are also empty european all these parties are clearly opobo sink a deepening of european integration and this is a challenge to european consensus that consensus that europe is an unfinished business and european union should go forward towards a deeper federation of european states. it's now twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. and two russian cosmonauts and an american astronauts made it safely back to earth on saturday and it came after a technical glitch in orbit threatened their return the crew are currently in a star city rehabilitation center in the moscow preaching. well for the first time the soyuz spacecraft fail to undock from the international space station on time

and the journey was postponed by a day the problem was fixed on the second attempt to detach did go smoothly a space travelers landed safely in kazakhstan after spending almost six months aboard the i assess three crew members remain at the station ready to welcome the next team who are sure as you will to leave for orbit on october the. well this week the untapped riches of the arctic dominated talks of an international forum here in moscow the objective was to ensure that the competition for the billions of tons of hauling gas wouldn't overheat. if you standalone yukon survive in the arctic that's how russian premier led to market in explained i thought but no country in my shelves can deal with the enormous challenges and pat at the but he promises that what average treasures lie hidden is a layer of ice there will be no fighting over the top of the war we all take me to

secure sustainable management. know anybody who does the stock it was that you have to hear some futuristic forecasts predicting the 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 yes and so that those who make the projections 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 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 wide 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 that no one lives here no one survives here is a place for polar bears and eagles and the reality is that the arctic is a vibrant place with rich natural resources rich human resources where people live and survive daily that love it choose to live here but some of the history's saddest chapters were written on the white pages of these glass years do you. in the cold war it was one of the world's most militarized regions with nuclear missiles placed there the warheads 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 ring 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 your call drudge in the arctic it's all show that we approach the nation a responsible way i don't think anybody come up roads the arctic simply from the point of view of lettuce exploit the resources i think everybody from charlotte shares show responsibility store shelves vitamins on the arctic nations but also to the entire world because if we measure the arctic 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 with preacher rate as it's sometimes known could speed up global warming a quarter of the world's untapped an idjit rissoles it's all six states have become increasingly anxious to save their planes on to the look pretty piece of pie but

russia says they'll be no fighting over the arctic portions and any territorial dispute what will result in just as informal and friendly atmosphere as a big dinner it's in the direction of our team moscow. professor berkman says the scale of this issue makes it impossible to solve in any other way than. 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 russian geographic society is to compliment for their vision initiating a dialog 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 so really

the balance is one of five achieving national interests and common interests not just for the arctic states themselves but for the world as a whole. security in the far east strategic partnership and trade between two shoes countries will top the talks at the table as russian president dmitry medvedev kicks off its three day visit to china the first stop of the three cities it was in formerly known as port arthur dmitri medvedev laid down flowers on put a wreath the memorial to the soviet civilians and soldiers who died in china during both world wars and in the once you know full russo-japanese war later in the day russia's president moves to beijing head of monday's talks with the county's top officials. while u.s. census figures show that america's poverty level is at its highest for one hundred years wars in iraq and afghanistan along with the term all of the financial crisis blame for the grim statistic he's

a resident asks people on the streets of new york how bad they think the situation really is. 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 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 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 just poverty class and the rich class so i 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. those things that we really have and you know we have a lot more than several other countries in this world and it's going 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 i'll be back with the headlines in just a few months. over . the.