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the top stories of today and over this week you're watching live from the russian capital now this week the global issues discussed at the un general assembly may have been overshadowed by a provocative speech from the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad. explains why some delegates were so offended they stood up and walked out. 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. 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 of 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 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 in the middle east in order to save the zionist regime. in a job may have lost some of his audience inside the halls but he continued the conversation in public when you're smiling you believe or started that the government had a head about how to live and in what seemed like interviews with almost every network and you had a captive audience on the streets already have a joint activist to protest against his visit almost daily how do. you pomp and circumstance aside ahmed 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 the forces used against iran i believe this would be the shortest way to the radicals in the room. through very early and decided that no that we will struck we must get up 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 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 did more or less they're. still 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 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 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 r t b. and coming your way next hour here on the arts he should host nation of the u.n. general assembly take a closer look at domestic abuses before preaching to the rest of the world. with three miles south for barack obama's lecture on moral principles one woman

languishing in this federal jail behind me stripped many say of all her dignity allegedly hands of u.s. officials. 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 because there 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 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

tehran 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. middle east peace talks are under threat as an israeli moratorium on settlement construction expires on sunday the palestinians said a restart of settlement construction by israelis could cause them to quit negotiations meanwhile israel's prime minister is calling on west bank settlers to show restraint as israeli restrictions on supplement work comes to an end settlers are planning a rally later sunday to symbolically resume construction a move that could threaten the mideast peace talks. but we have lots more coming away this hour including a neo nazi in norway after a month on the run from a psychiatric unit a russian cage fighter turned extremist is detained in also after demanding

political asylum. last call for venezuelans the country is voting in a highly contested national election which is being billed as a battle of the rich versus the poor. austria's right wing freedom party is hoping and he muslim computer game will help it wouldn't vote since sunday's provincial elections if successful this will be yet another victory for europe's far right after sweden's recent general elections. takes a look at what is fit to be the rise of islamophobia across europe. was the by by most game is as simple as its message they came and shoot down as many of you must as you can as they rise relentlessly above asters alpine skier lied if you're not quick enough what the country is islam ised enough that it's on we're defending our rights our traditions our culture we don't

want to be dissolved into islam nor do we want there to be power islamic societies in our country have 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 banned 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 and emotions in the game. is a reality if we want to build mosques we will build the many within 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 can that in which the judicial authorities uphold the complaint and rule that again went beyond except the whole

discussion forcing the freedom party to take it down from its website it's in that all the numbers who played the game show that islam is a very important issue again thanks to us it was talked about in the first place again but the judicial system is meddling in politics and stopping a free discussion in place 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 at the last 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 changing the whole system because i have to feeling it's just it's already against. what they like to just position themselves as like the resistance of the true origin people which is kind of been suppressed 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 you. see gratz steria danish m.p. michael jensen thinks european politicians and the media shouldn't just ignore right wing parties and that last week's swedish general election was undemocratic we have an example right now where none of the established parties and none of these fabulous media in sweden like to discuss it because they feel it's like you know it's not political correct and it's like a prank it drawn all over. this media on all those released establishment so this should be a wake up call to all the all parties seen in that light that this reagan democrats were not allowed to take part in the debates on public t.v. the last debate and they weren't even allowed to run their commercial ads on private televisions as all the other parties were in that regard i don't believe

that the elections were fair and therefore have actively decided that i'll take the issue up in the council of europe where both denmark and sweden are founding members to try to discuss it and see how we can make sure that the election since we can also not only free but also fair in the future. a russian neo nazi former martial arts fighter who escaped psychiatric hospital has surrendered to immigration officials in norway and demanded political asylum this week. who turned up armed at the immigration offices is known for his violent past. he ran it decided he could no longer hide to stay for a month until the state will psychiatric care in st petersburg of its third think his immersed in norway where he's asking your thirty's to grant him political asylum. wearing a t. shirt with a swastika and carrying

a loaded gun he turned himself in that sick is now under arrest. this is a breach of the weapon more we have found a weapon and confiscated other interesting items which gives these cases priority the investigation is now under way he used to be best known for his aggressive fighting style within the ring now is his imprisonment escape and his ties with the band's nationalists russian party the slavic union that's grabbing the attention. when he called me several hours before that video was made and said he was going to turn himself in i replied that it was up to him he thanked me for supporting him made of threats assault and robbery and an alleged psychotic breakdown got sick placed in high security psychiatric can but after he transferred to a low security facility he made light work of escaping whipping up a wire fence with his hands he simply walked away the doctors

a dissing him too intimidated to intervene it's raising serious questions as to how exactly a dangerous psychiatric patient managed to escape and make it out of russia without being caught but the reason it's funny they tell us that he's totally insane and all he does a scream and yell in reply to any question however he managed to cross two borders and he brought his weapon along i know one member of the slav again who originally came from his back a stone he asked for political asylum and was granted a residence visa i'm not sure what will happen with datsik but anything is possible . that the foreigner fighters fate now hangs on whether he'll be extradited back to russia or granted political asylum and sara fair. mask a. norwegian t.v. reporter out star in accra explains our datsik managed to cross into norway and while authorities will apply extreme caution when considering his bid for asylum.

of course a lot a lot of illegal immigrants come to norway every single day it's not that hard to get into norway has such a high profile person videos of him are on youtube and internet in the pictures of him and he likes the attention just like of course when he stood up and made the nazi salute to all the journalists it was there and he wanted the court to be open and he argued for that there were a court proceedings should remain open obviously he does get a lot of attention here from the public i think most people. the general public cares would like him to be sent back to russia as soon as possible and there is of course a fear that the right extremist environment in norway will grow up again we've had some very very bad incidents in the past with murders and church burnings and so on and nobody wants to return to that state we are coming to you live from moscow this

is r.t. and we have a lot more coming up for you in the program including love young indians face threats of violence and even death outside of. this week 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 oil and gas wouldn't overheat. if you stand alone you can survive in the arctic that's how russian premie have led him or putin explained that no country by itself can deal with the enormous challenges i had at the world but he promised that what average treasures lie hidden under the greek layer of ice will be no fighting over the top of the world the arctic needs secure sustainable management no vision about what does to stop it with that we have to 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 that no one lives here no one survives here is a place for polar bears enablers 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 who love it choose to live here but some of the history's 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 often your call drudge in the arctic it's all show that we approach

there's another responsible way i don't think anybody come up rhodes the arctic simply from the point of view of letters exploit the resources i think everybody from charlotte show responsibility store shelves. 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 chanter rhetorical 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 what will result in just as informal and friendly atmosphere as

a big dinner it's in the direction of our t.v. moscow. polling stations across venezuela have opened as people are voting 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 . has the latest from the capital caracas. the sun rises here in caracas venezuela two a very confrontational day tension terror very high you can even feel it in the air really there have been a number of preparations under way to ensure that the instability that has plagued this country does not show up in these elections that's one cautionary measures include the military on high alert to bowl a billion national guard have been set up at the polling stations to ensure the instigators did not do anything to cause that instability along with the military forces as an international force of election observers coming from cover governments coming from countries representing governments both supported and

against the chavez system now there are seventeen million voters registered to vote in this a lot of some 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 show 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 the international observers here to ensure transparency there could be some kind of 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 says that now let's take a look at what's at stake here it isn't it illogical poll that could represent the

brics purses 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 happens 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 for the fifth. and that is. what the people of venezuela are calling one of the most important election this year what's at stake here is that in building the national assembly whoever gains the majority of the national assembly will have the authority to pass the laws in

this country and so the birds build into the shade tree 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 we can 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 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 has brought out the worst of us it's 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 sustain the money is going directly to opposition forces united states make whatever they want to run the world and nobody said nothing but they are angry because we are saying something about that. however the opposition. who refuses to acknowledge there's a link between dollars pouring into this country and their campaigns 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 has hurt. 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 that they discriminate the lights over there the whites of the year the indians over there i am white powerful you oh 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 governments parties and a more capitalist system. the other praising the political structure currently in place one with a socialist agenda because depending on which way the pendulum swings in this election the governing system of venezuela will ultimately follow john huff is our tea could arcus venezuela. getting married without permission can be very dangerous for some young people in northern india they face threats of violence and even death row angry relatives and village councils a group of volunteers called the love commandos are now taking up the battle against the oppression of those who marry outside their caste council reports. but your life's in danger your girlfriend's been captive welcome to the love

commandos a newly formed help taking calls from distraught couples who have dared to marry against their family's wishes john because that. is whenever we get a call that a couple is being threatened if we can't talk talk 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 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 other young couple in love who ran away from. their families against their marriage they had nowhere else. that we need five complaints to the

police but no one to count when i heard of the helpline i felt some who helped us right away and were staying in there see if. they're having a sound with. me know they have sort of like that about it the help playing started following the recent upsurge in honor killings in northern india in some villages local councils that sentences against couples formatting outside the cost or with the same plan i did your parents parents yesterday after got to were young at some point they were also attracted to people and trying to fall in love with you and it's not always successful of course you see what i think to take their frustration out on today's youngsters. one. anonymous a priority for the volunteers who have been targeted by angry relatives and the village councils they have. from secret locations in the capital and visitor.

screen. we do have to do with. our address we don't just give it to. the public. check to see whether he's a troublemaker who only wants to assure that he needs help then we take him. 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 . r.t. . we are coming to you live from the russian capital this is r t it's good to have your company today and let's check out some other stories making headlines around the world two people have been killed and three houses destroyed after an explosion in brussels local authorities say one person is still missing and seventeen are injured windows of neighboring homes are nearby cost was shattered by the force of the blast officials are still trying to determine the cause of the explosion. in

north korea's workers party is preparing for its largest political congress since the one nine hundred eighty thousands of delegates from all over the country are arriving in pyongyang ahead of tuesday's key meeting many experts believe that this assembly will pick the next leader back in one thousand nine hundred kim jong il became the heir apparent his son kim jong un is expected to take. australian climate activists paralyzed work at the world's largest coal port dozens of protesters stormed the facility to occupy a coal stockpile while nine people chained themselves to machinery inside the terminals they claim that australia as the world's biggest coal exporter is the number one contributor to climate change over forty activists have been arrested now and could face fines of up to one hundred thousand dollars. and i'll be back with headlines in just a few moments.