on retail sales and home prices presented a mixed picture of the outlook for the world's largest economy in general motors the road after at least the seven pounds including j.p. morgan and morgan stanley initiated coverage of the automaker with a positive view of all disney and boeing looks at least half a cent a lead to clients on the dow jones. european stocks are slightly higher as markets attempted to buy a spot from losses in the prior session with again is led by the banks and all stocks the german dax is trading flat to negative carmakers are still the top losers with balls by going on man down two point six and zero point eight percent respectively that puts a remains closed for a public holiday. and in russia the stock markets are trading in the black this hour with the r.t.s. up about a quarter of a percent and that my six and gaining trust in the. wow that was a business update this hour join us for nor in about twenty minutes time.

six thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on r t these are your headlines russia slams the e.u. and us for attempting to influence the trial of. the former oil tycoons awaiting sentence after being found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars. passenger frustration grows of moscow's ice cover to airports struggling to cope with the flow of holiday travelers officials say they're doing their best to ensure flights take off on schedule. and two years after israel launches a large scale assault on gaza killing more than one thousand palestinians those who survived say they're still living in a cage the strip remains of blocked off by israel with tight control over

everything going in and coming out. russia's deputy foreign minister has recently gotten back from a visit to the middle east he sits down with r.t. to tell them how it's time for the world community to take to step up and get the peace process moving between israelis and palestinians. mr sultan of you recently visited syria and lebanon where you met the leaders of these two countries you also met how it must show in damascus where you said that israel settlement policy in the occupied arab lands was a main stumbling point to the resumption of palestinian israeli talks does russia have a clear vision of how to get out of a situation like. this. it's true that israel's settlement policy in the occupied outer blonds has become an obstacle to the resumption of direct palestinian israeli talks i should say that the present

situation has shown the need for the international community to step up its participation and assistance in the solution of the palestinian problem it has become obvious that the way this problem used to be solved until recently and the means in the methods that we have turned out to be insufficient that is why russia is calling for a more active international effort or does it all about it's about increasing collective contribution to the peace process first and foremost it's necessary to increase the significance and raise the effectiveness of the international quartet of peace brokers that's exactly why we've called for the earliest convocation of a new ministerial meeting of the international quartet with the aim of not only discussing the start of school but also for pondering jointly i'm profoundly involved should do to prevent the peace process from entering a critical stage we should see how we can make the quartet are more effectively in

what ways and to what means. so as to overcome the arising obstacles and prevent the settlement from being frustrated i think this meets the interests of all sides of israel and the palestinians in particular in the long run we're talking about the final settlement a settlement that would lead to the creation of an independent palestinian state naturally the security of israel and all the other countries in the region should be provided but time is required in this type of mobilization process if the aspirations of the palestinian people are to come true. ok mr sultan of russia has recently proposed convening a meeting of the international quartet do you think it's really going to take place or are you expecting any problems that you think the plane. which. as we can see from our contacts with special envoys who are members of this quartet

everybody is determined to hold such a meeting and have a serious discussion at the moment our task is to set the date and choose the venue for this gathering. russia seems to be greatly concerned with this problem do you think that the quartet should play a more profound role in the settlement in fact this means that weakening of the u.s. stance after the latter refused to exert pressure on israel and make it stop its policy of building new settlements in the arab territories do you think that the quartet will be able to find a way out of the situation. to go to the whole situation is proving that the sole efforts by the united states are not enough to make progress russia's permanent approach in fact is that it's easier to find a solution to complex international problems through a collective approach who should be unbiased and should take account of the interests of all the parties involved and very sort of conflict.

do you think that the united states of america has exhausted its done a potential. when you know we don't think the united states has exhausted its potential simply speaking i have already said that the us possibilities should be complete with the possibilities of other key players outside the middle east region such as russia the united nations and the european union these should be combined in coordinated steps but we should think how to work the whole thing out and what kind of proposals we should make. that i think you know how effective and you have you have been the recent calls of the russian leadership on the international community so you know actually recognize a palestinian state within the boundaries of nine hundred sixty seven. but who would that that would agree first of all the main objection of the middle east settlement is to create an independent palestinian state within the boundaries of

one nine hundred sixty seven with possible territorial swaps this is a solution a formula which is accepted by the entire international community the fact that calls for the recognition of such a state have recently become more active is on the one hand indicative that a number of countries are dissatisfied with the current situation. on the other hand it underscores the inevitability of this ultimate goal of achieving peace and resuming the negotiating process. as you know shortly after the palestinians are names the creation of a palestinian state russia recognize the fact of this announcement and the palestinian state itself. the embassy of the state of palestine is located in moscow the russian embassy operates in the palestinian territories this makes it evident that russia and the palestinian side of a common view of the fight the palestinian people should have their own state which

should be recognized by the international community. but. israeli prime minister netanyahu issued instructions to all israeli diplomatic missions to exert pressure on all countries that are planning to recognize the palestinian state do you think that this will further aggravate the situation the nation with the. you know every state has a sovereign right to make its own decisions of a country to say still recognize a palestinian state it's a reality that should be reckoned with. that's the question that as far as i know president medvedev is planning to visit israel and the palestinian territories in the near future many think it's going to be a historic visit to the palestinian lands will the russian president make any proposals to the middle east region. but if they should visit definitely he will dimitri medvedev his forthcoming visit to palestine israel and jordan is

a major political event. it will have great importance both for the region and for producing a positive impact on the current extremely complex situation in the middle east and certainly it will be important for our relations with palestine israel and jordan with each one of the visits main goals is undoubtedly to contribute to the creation of favorable conditions for the resumption of movement towards peace a comprehensive peace in the middle east and an atmosphere that would make this peace process irreversible the second vital aspect of this visit will naturally consist in strengthening our bilateral relations. russia has formed and developed friendly relations with the palestinians the israelis and the jordanians. cooperation in various fears is developing and we hope that the visit will give new impetus to this project. but going back to the quarter

i would like to ask you about tony blair's role in the quartet the latest wiki leaks publications and avoid him do you think he should be replaced. i think that as the quartet special envoy he's carrying out a very important mission which primarily concerns assistance in finding a solution to the economic and social aspects of the situation in the palestinian territories well i think we should assess the effectiveness of his mission by the final result that is active it is in the aforesaid directions and the assessment should be made by all the parties in the quartet that either take part in it or have a direct interest in the quartet's work. that. is the sort of the united states and the european union have recently adopted a new pact of sanctions against iran do you think that iran is in fact taking steps to bring the position closer to the u.s. special envoy george mitchell has recently made

a trip to the region the members of the quartet and russia in particular i don't form the americans about the latest progress in the region george mitchell managed to achieve anything during his trip but. unfortunately we still don't know anything and by the results of mitchell's last trip we hope that our american colleagues will brief us in greater detail on the trip and its outcome and yet the company mr sultan of my last question to you is anything going to change in the middle east in russia's view. good out and i just don't get it but as the saying goes hope dies last we should have an objective view of the situation we shouldn't fall into despair but we shouldn't be too optimistic the most important thing is to take a scrutinizing book of the problems encountered by the peace process and work together including the parties concerned i.e. israel and the tips towards the solution of these problems with an aim of achieving

our common goal which is i repeat a comprehensive palestinian israeli settlement. thank you very much for your interview. coming to the. big splash in the world of high tech business. science and products to understand. he's got the following russian innovators to each of meters and broad and their big breakthrough. spotlight on on technology update here on. the future coverage.

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hello and thank you for joining me for the sports news and here are the headlines. these on the fire chelsea suffered their first english premier league defeat against also for two years as the gunners go second for the three one win at the emirates. while a shootout defeat to that my moscow are beaten by top for the second time this season and missed the chance to go second in the k h l standings. russia's star cruiserweight dennis levitt f suffers a stunning first career defeat after a split decision against marco. let's start with football and also have ended their poor run against chelsea and boosted their own title credentials after winning three wanted home to the blues to go second in the english premier league just two points behind leaders manchester united. alex song five began as ahead on the

stroke of half time lead off to fifty one minutes the overall cost to excess probably guessed to make it to milk following a mistake by michael leslie and alice just two minutes later it was three nil floral believe it was courting possession and fabregas said i will call it but it's not evanovich quickly headed in a d.d.a. drugs or free kick to give chelsea hope but also held on for an impressive when all caught on trial offside now picks up just six points for the last eight games and stay for six points off the top spots. meanwhile here in russia looks a lot of moscow have started their pre-season early with new coach. saying reinforcements are needed for the next primary campaign the forty seven year old has replaced judy sherman who was signed to be end of last season after going in the realm way meant to fifth spot on the right then the place to expound to sixth place in the last campaign has been costing his eye over his new squad. most of the

foreign stars including first choice strike at the eighty six for ups and that has made it clear he wants to bring in some new faces. with without question the team needs some reinforcements so they can come from the outside as well as from the inside and the internal selection is the main thing we're focused on right now as well as getting players physically ready for the training camp. moving to the ice and i was going to have failed to go second in the kontinental hockey league after losing three two in a shootout that run vesper was home saw get the winning shot for the host the muscovite side had also just one no two thoughts in the previous games in other matches a locomotive had no problems in that picture at seven thousand and five goals to one in the moscow region dobby a double in size in the top down to test the y.c. three nil. to american football now where the green bay packers have stayed on track for the n.f.l.

playoffs after thrashing the struggling new york giants forty five seventeen at home let's go straight to the second pool to where the giants tied the game at fourteen all with manning through and eighty five yards touchdown pass to mario manningham but it all turned around in the next two quarters aaron rodgers back from a concussion in one yard touchdown pass to donnelly to extend the packers leach to thirty one seventy five minutes left in the third period and was just sealed the way in the five yard t.v. party drunk you threw a through the fourth to make it thirty eight seventeen to the home side green bay eventually went on to try forty five seventeen to meet a giants clinging to fading high off hopes. there was a now about a game in chicago between the bears and the new york jets with the home side themselves in contention for a playoff by then she will end to end game thirty eight points to thirty four

chicago would lead to ten mil at the end of the first quarter but squandered their advantage to trail twenty one ten for the close of the second however the bears forth back and were in front thirty eight thirty one at the end of the third period and they held on to edge their opponents in the seventh grade in eight games despite the loss the jets did concede that playoff place to jacksonville north to washington. i would about see now where dennis negatives recent loss to reigning champion hockey still causing shock waves after russia's biggest hope for the cruiserweight division suffered his first ever defeat cision rabbits that one young reports. last moments of brown belt w b o cruiserweight belt at stake branding champion marco huck versus russia's big open division in east l.a. would not stepping back limit if he's sure the title is in his hands not to want to force the issue but how did the title but the judge just sleep next to me

controversial decision the general feeling was that libya had clearly done more i. suppose but i think of w b o experts will consider the video of the hold back to see what and early in the new year they will make a decision concerning a possible rematch between labor given hug plus they will look to get explanations from the supervisor and all three judges of the badges in written form vision but it's. a major disappointment his professional record is now twenty one wins and one loss however the thirty one year old useful software what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. frankly speaking overestimated hug right up to the end i expected him to push forward in iraq and that's why i just held myself back trying to save energy that's why i didn't hang on the ropes after the end of the fight i was still fit i wasn't exhausted at all. i was knocking at the door and the

door open but i didn't come it is just not this fight was all about her me i could have finished of several times but i didn't go for it it was my mistake so i'm far from blaming anybody it's all up to me i was thinking over this about a lot i hope it made me stronger and more experienced i've learned much from this fight and i will do my best to become tougher it will different be. next time. got better than you might be so the fact is that according to the world boxing rankings after winning this battle marco hawk who had been number one became number two while dennis lebedev who lost still moved upwards in the rankings dennis is going to be true popularity since the fight we've already received one hundred seventy six letters just from germans who were totally bewildered at the judge's decision and wonder when they will see levodopa fight again today. according to lebanese manager but he may not be nice may soon take part in a so-called super six tournament competition between the top boxers cruiserweight

division including market hard and there or anywhere else rematch between these two is a matter of time. worth more than your r t. now the dakar rally the most prestigious and probably toughest driving insurance race in the world will start on january the first one is aries and russia's six time when i read him a check and that is the czar of dhaka is one of the favorites consenting but that possible it's. well everybody will be recovering in new years the best cross-country drivers will be starting a sixteen day journey from boy in a circus however the commerce muster team is facing some problems before they have even started due to extreme weather conditions they're playing question while winning in moscow they had a prayer race press conference. he went near the summer while landing in a moscow airport the plane had hardly touched the runway but it was so slippery that we slid into

a field theaters thankfully no one was injured and everyone was very happy when we finally reached the ground much an emotional. however this incident hasn't affected the team's determination to win the dakar rally for the tenth time this is the thirty third edition of the legendary all for old willie and the third successive time it has been held in south america with a number of participants increasing dramatically over the past three years. and in the area of hardy competitors who tried to see the prolific way the russian team this year the route has been changed in a big corrugated. desert on the outcome of desert country with one accord with the famous everything desert where they used to take place here before only the two of them us team has now added one more crew this so-called team for missing twenty six year old driver did what they call a behind the wheel. go at it and i don't honestly believe it but it is my first of all i need not break the truck and go the distance and get to the finish line safe

and sound i have a lot to learn so i'll be keeping my eyes wide open it's my first driver's tie carollo dash and the first from my mechanic is where there's going to be extremely hard work at the same time basheer interesting to look at a new generation of do i was busily tour a troll in the corner and herring in junior team is a new step for the good that has me in participating in the rally for eighteen years. frankly we've never had any competition within our own team we have one i am for the team we must perform well with as many trucks to gain as many medals in the muscle if we fight each other we could allow other teams to win our tactic is to win as a team and we help each other to achieve this is the tactic we've been using through the years and will keep on doing it will be due in twenty tears the commerce team won the prestigious race for the ninth time in the top dog and his colleagues are determined to make it a tail between this here and same but out of. one finally there's some good

news for russia. around professional after sports most of the talent announced at around one point four billion u.s. dollars were spent on sport across the country next door. the trick is that only a youngster would have had a state budget for twenty eleven forty three billion rubles will be spent on sport in general of course the bulk of it will be out of profession. sport so it was almost a third of that money will be spent on them it's a sport for that right now we have around twenty five million in russia people who do support on a regular basis is always the main goal is to increase this figure out to twenty eight million. digits and that's a list of this policy by. download the official antti application to your i phone or my pod touch from the i.q. zaps to. one jollity life on the go.

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