the. president killed in a plane crash last april. but experts say the tragedy. political points. russia is committed to supporting palestine's independence with the capital in east jerusalem dmitri medvedev said during his middle east visit as the russian. israel has been left on the sidelines due to political infighting. in the u.k. as. money. billions in bonuses despite. the

rest of the country. well a very warm welcome to you this is our life from moscow the initial plan for president medvedev. has been trying to help the middle east quartet and try and get the middle east peace process back on track. its commitment to back a palestinian state with a capital in east jerusalem so according to president dmitri medvedev who's been meeting with. but that's years they of the news russia's position stays the same we made a choice at the end of the 1980's we've been back in and we will be back in the rights of the palestinians to create their own state independent united sustainable

with the capital in east jerusalem. or the initial plan for president maybe a dose of middle east tour was to hold talks with israel as well but this was spoiled when its officials went on strike leading to the visits cancellation some say it is more than coincidence as artie's reports. it's russian president dmitri medvedev first visit to palestine but he's not meeting one israeli official because the jewish state's foreign ministry has gone on strike it insists the strike was not planned to coincide with made videos visit and was simply a call for higher wages but it's not the first time israeli internal politics have soured the visits are following delegations last year just before the u.s. vice president joe biden came to israel the israeli prime minister announced the start of settlement building that decision was a blow to be a bomb administration's peacekeeping efforts and cool down israeli american relations and many believe that such political embarrassments are weakening

israel's position in the international arena it is not the government of those countries but drug of the people of those countries in the public opinion of those countries to public opinion israel is definitely unfortunately. doing its of these really foreign ministries the first to admit that made videos cancel visit is a missed opportunity particularly were corrected to. the party. with kath about the corporate remember gripper of the area and for our. larry the. third the third that we don't like at all but whatever the reason as made bit of meets with palestinian president mahmoud abbas and jordanian king abdullah israel will be sitting on the sidelines and watching policy r t jerusalem. and now most of our barghouti the secretary general of the palestinian national initiative party says there's no excuse for israel's cancellation of the

russian president's visit. the issue of the strike at the foreign ministry is not a justification by any means the prime minister of israel could have arranged the visit. the security apparatus is so big in israel this would not be a problem today surely it is that about. a feeling of. unity and is that a feeling of guns and impunity to international law that makes israel behave in such a manner with the leader of one of the most important countries in the world and i think that is the reason here which is a political one way or the israeli government knows that its policy is counterproductive devalue needed many european countries the leadership in most countries of the world devalue needed an american countries. to many people even inside the united states so that also applies but i share which is seeking to have a more active role. of the quartet and israel wants to block that russia is the

only country in the court that has that equal denies the palestinian state back in one thousand eighty eight so there is no reason why russia so they accept to be paralyzed and put on the shelf for more than two years that within the party it's because the united states is monopolizing in the process and the united states' policy is totally subjected to the israeli manipulation and i think things have reached a point where there israeli policy is even here to the american strategic and that's why mr obama tried to make some connection when he spoke about settlements and so on but he failed. you are with r t it's good to have your company today now in just over an hour's time we speak to a top palestinian diplomat who says russia's effort can make a difference to the situation in the middle east after america's failure there. but to try to convince netanyahu to stop further occupation through building new settlements gaza blockade to stop images they're taking in jerusalem the americans

failed to do this they admitted it and now put more pressure on us trying to bring us back to the negotiating table and you know who uses the current government as an excuse saying he cannot make a decision under this government russia recognized the independent palestinian state in one hundred eighty eight with a nine hundred sixty seven borders with its capital in jerusalem and it never denied that decision in other words many things show that russia is serious about its intentions it keeps reminding the world about the decisions that have been made before but enough forgotten. now the family of the late polish president has blamed russia for his death denying the results of the official investigation lech kaczynski his son in all claims the plane crash that killed him was a planned assassination in revenge for kaczynski is anti russian of views and so prevent his reelection. kaczynski the brother of the late president and leader of the polish opposition lore and justice party that has slammed the country's prime

minister for excepting the findings of the official investigation of its reporting clude say reconstruction of the flight's last minutes as recorded by the plane's black boxes it suggests the crash was caused by the errors of an inexperienced polish crew bad weather and pressure from high ranking passengers. to present the recordings of the conversation between the pilots and russian dispatchers at a news conference in warsaw dimitri backed a political analyst from a novice news agency says the claims of the family are just part of a cynical political game. the political aim is to keep war and justice party l. life after the defeat invade actions if it had not been for this investigation of the war and justice party it would have been forgotten action now and your ass off kaczynski and his people for for their reminding people of their disaster and blame

in russia is just a way off but if you call survival its most a struggle for power they want to delay getting mice the seed of the party which is knowing all is just politically very expedient and it has fortunately had a strong reaction inside porter society meantime smaller from the center for international relations and brussels says those in poland who support the accusations are unable to break away from the old stereotype of seeing russia as an enemy in the political side only been bullied go live there is the notion of do a war they are some people who cannot leave without having an enemy and in the polish gone one with germany and one with russia and it is very difficult technologically to some people to adapt to a new situation where you actually tried to change and most of the and i gratian into cooperation and this is what is kompany but if you have

a very young man who is not an elected representative who is just a private person he just happens to be a harvard boat of the daughter of the late president go cheat who is trying to make a name for himself and driving some crazy extravagant. it doesn't have any political significance. now you are with are coming up in just a few minutes time here as people across the u.s. . find out how the name of the civil right to. waterproof. public fury is growing in the u.k. where the biggest banks there are planning to pay out billions of dollars in bonuses to some staff the cash bonanza comes after many banks were bailed out by taxpayers' money and amid severe public sector cuts across the crisis hit economy. it has more . this is. the homeless and needy queue up for

food handouts from charities all over london and the u.k. but just a few miles away it's a different world with different rules prime minister david cameron has shied away from regulating bankers' bonuses they might have to be a bit more open about them but pay because and there will be no windfall tax there was more. i think that needs to be and bankers have taken that to heart u.k. banks including some of those bailed out by taxpayers last year will be paying out eleven billion dollars to their staff. here on the street where the needy live literally from hand to mouth that's going down badly. and he's not the only one complaining last year saw thousands of students out on

the streets demonstrating against austerity cuts about by global crisis triggered by reckless bankers now the right to work campaign is calling for a fresh wave of protests against what they're dumping the government surrender to the bankers and their huge paychecks are basically i think that they're mad about his bonus specially when they're people struggling to even pay their rent to even feed and clothe their children when people are getting three pounds three million pounds bonus is quite frankly excessive just to disgusting amount of money taxpayer lobby groups say they don't care what privately owned banks do but the ones that have been bailed out with taxpayer money have to show some restraint we can't possibly be expected to stomach at a time when the government's making spending cuts to stomach these enormous bonus payouts and to watch all this go on when these banks seem to forget that it was the public's money that saved them but not everyone. sees it that way daniel hoffman

financial services says banks is still vital in supporting economic recovery and they hate the best bankers will move elsewhere it's crucial that the banking sectors around the world i mean. are getting healthier and can support economic growth but house on the streets those who depend on charity to put food in their mouths difficult to stomach with this latest back tracking regulation it seems banks and their governments have learned very little from the financial crisis just a few miles away continue to film and look set to be able to go on. but this time they're doing it with taxpayer money which could have been used to help the needy you are having. governments are still divided on the size of the e.u. bailout fund which was just set up just last year but discussion on whether to boost the facility took place at a summit in brussels the european commission and european central bank want to

widen the fund of struggling eurozone members like spain and portugal need help belgium's finance minister wants the pot doubled to one point five trillion euros however germany the biggest eurozone economy so far ruled out any substantial increase nigel a member of the european parliament and leader of the u.k. independence party says the whole idea of the eurozone was wrong from the very beginning. i think what they're doing here is they're reinforcing failure at the end of the day countries like greece portugal ireland and possibly. should never of joined the euro in the first place trapped inside of economic prison with a whole set of policies that. i think the more we build up. the more in effect we're pouring. i'm this really is a tragedy because these. people. you know. we have mass

demonstrations we have had people actually killed on the streets. if they hold the eurozone together. going to get worse and what it really needs is a frank assessment which is there is an argument. with germany holland and a few countries possibly france as well but there is an optimal. but can work together for the north and south of europe to be stuck inside a union is never ever going to work but nobody inside these institutions wants to face up to that with the e.c.b. buying up its debt and now with this with this agreement in brussels that the stability of doing the same thing you know you begin to ask yourself a year or eighteen months down the track will the european central bank itself actually be. a liquid functioning. all we are doing here we're reinforcing failure decision is quite extraordinary i mean it's rather like

boarding the titanic after it hit the iceberg it is the most incredible. look what you've got here behind this whole european project where we talk about the unit itself although we talk about the current say we have a political class who want this you know even countries like switzerland who very sensibly have stayed outside the union who have. free trade agreements with it even in those countries a majority of politicians would sign them up for all of this stuff so that's the great battle that is going on in europe it's a battle between the political leaders and public opinion which increasingly is. there in the end public opinion is going to win because you can't build a state and that's what we're engaged in here without having the consent of the peoples and that has never been asked for. and as the e.u. continues to come to grips with this financial mayhem china is offering to lend the

trouble to europe block a helping hand in its latest program max keiser looks at just why beijing is doing it the cost report is coming your way in just over two hours time but here's a preview. let me make this following prediction china is buying european bonds. why are they doing this i think it's because at some point they will demand payment in the form of gold you know in the european zone there are about eleven thousand tons of gold which would be the highest concentration of gold in the world higher than even the u.s. is eight thousand tons of gold china moving into europe buying those bonds of course europeans will never be able to pay off those bonds because their economies are in freefall and then china will turn around and say ok you can pay us back in euro's but we'll take the payment in gold. or it will last two years coming to you live from the heart of the russian capital where it's now about sixteen minutes past the hour let's check out some other major headlines from around the world in brief now to news your position ministers have

resigned from a day old unity government a day old unity government intended by the former prime minister are said to be unhappy with the left there was from the old regime it comes amid a fresh wave of violence across the country as angry demonstrators clashed with police over what they called a trail of the revolution the prime minister responded by saying that the ministers and their experience is necessary to make the transition into a free society. suicide blast at an iraqi police compound has killed at least fifty people and left hundreds injured witnesses said the attack was most recruits were queuing to enter the center of the blast was the deadliest since the backed out church siege in october that left some fifty three dead the attacks while common have declined substantially since the u.s. forces began to withdraw from iraq. one has test fired nineteen

surface to air and ahead missiles the drone was the first to be held in full view of the media for almost a decade the country's president who attended the test said he was not satisfied with the results as a quarter of the missiles missed to their intended targets experts say the exercise comes as. response to last week's successful test flight of china's twenty stealth aircraft. three and a half thousand people have fled their homes in southeastern australia with fifty one towns affected by rising flood waters sweeping through victoria officials warn that the waters will reach their peak in the northwest of the state later in the day the warning follows weeks of flooding in the worst affected queensland that killed at least thirty and left twelve people missing. but as the international community invests billions of dollars to help rebuild afghanistan the war torn country is a lagging far behind on its path to development critics say rampant corruption

undermines reconstruction efforts and breeds further instability with afghans disillusioned with the government's ability to restore peace later today he will guide you along the afghanistan trail to find out where the money is really going. repairing a broken. highway construction and humanitarian aid. officials . it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. now when people across the globe join together to on a dr martin luther king on his birthday it showed the legacy of this moral crusade in america race war lives on but as christine discovered some are also taking advantage of his name to gain support for u.s. wars abroad. those are our three.

who are. one day live and have a will not be observed bob called out about them but by the concrete about our our time. it was a dream so powerful it eventually came true its impact so strong it fractured the foundation of a society my fellow americans. i am about to sign into law. the civil rights act one thousand nine hundred sixty. my. right. and so every year on this day to honor the birthday of dr martin luther king jr. people gather to pay tribute. so it is no surprise then that the name of this american hero is often invoked but once in

a while that legacy gets hijacked i come to tell you now that the truth shall set you free. first there was the glenn beck rally on the mall on august twenty eighth the same day at the same location martin luther king jr gave his i have a dream speech ladies and gentlemen the selling a conservative talk show host message was one thing now his name is being used to drum up support for u.s. wars in a speech given last week dr j. johnson attorney at the pentagon said i believe that of dr king were alive today he would recognize that we live in a complicated world and that our nation's military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the american people vulnerable to terrorist attack wait what that's funny because in addition to leading the civil rights movement dr martin luther king was one of the most outspoken critics of the viet. war i think he shot

a misquote. and put him inside of a war that he would have been again there is something strangely in going about a nation in a pretty bad with praise you when you should be. german but will curse and damn you when you say be no. children his lessons are prominent in communities across the country but in particular in shirts like this one in the southwest washington and although there are so many words one thing you seem to hear time and time again martin luther king promoted peace his message was simply this either we return to live together as brothers and sisters on this planet we were terrorist to get this foolish foolish what many people thing of dr king's name being invoked for the wrong reasons i think that became what a march with many of us. from the very beginning. needlessness of us going over

there it wasn't about weapons of mass destruction it was about all let's be real in this city where the struggle for civil rights lives on many gathered here say there is a vast difference between honoring history and revising it. in washington christine for sound r.t. all right now sharon and joins me with the latest from the world. welcome to our business program. russia is interested in buying bonds to be issued by the european financial stability fund next week that's according to finance minister. the e.u. is currently preparing a five year bond between three and five billion euros in order to help protect the euro and sovereign market stability couldn't however dismiss the idea that russia would be interested in buying spanish sovereign bonds. andrew snow has pledged to

invest up to six hundred fifty million dollars into u.k. microchip firm plastic logic the state owned high tech company will initially inject one hundred fifty million dollars for a twenty five percent stake in a cheap plastic microchip maker if the venture becomes financially viable the russian government could take a controlling stake the deal is an effort by russia to diversify into a promising technology while plastic logic hopes to generate one billion dollars in annual sales by two thousand and sixteen. and it goes for russia's entry to the world trade organization could be completed this april so says maksim medvedev koff head of the country's delegation to the talks he also addressed existing doubts that a session will have a positive impact on small business in russia the focus is some companies because its true is its position in the. conditions we were

changed to respect so we influence. market place but it was to prepare for. this new situation is there no going home to bad terms of system for many years and eventually these. the board of dimple com has approved the purchase of telecom assets on by egyptian billionaire now go it so where is for a total of six and a half billion dollars this despite opposition from norwegian shareholder telling or russia second biggest mobile phone operator wants to take over somewhere says italian mobile operator wind telecommunications jani and his fifty one point seven percent stake in egypt's telecom holding this would create the world's sixth largest phone company simple calm signed a new agreement after telling or rejected an earlier six point eight billion dollars proposal. which owns over forty percent of impulse com says it's

disappointed by telling the us position. were disappointed by their ground is still a geisha and some made in their statement. we are the position that. difference in views of business development and shouldn't be upset though to effectively develop into a corner into one of the leading global typical operators. now tell north says it will fight the approval by available call board at the company's shareholder meeting suggesting shareholders will face considerable additional delusion if the acquisition is completed on the current terms telling or warns the deal could make simple com less attractive for investors. and let's have a look at the markets now european stocks rise with banks and mining shares strong pos the board burglaries one of the top gainers on the footsie advance in close to five percent after

a strong third quarter sales report on the downside glaxo smith kline pharmaceuticals fell close to three percent on news that the drug maker will have legal costs of three and a half billion dollars because of a product liability case related to one of its diabetes drugs. and here in moscow the markets are trading down on the day the r.t.s. is down over half a percent and the minus six is down close to one percent this hour. ross enough is the biggest winner so far up one quarter percent on the r.c.s. shares are trading higher after washing up agreed to swap shares with b.p. on tuesday rosneft also said it was selling russia's sokol oil to shell for market loading. and british billionaire and virgin founder richard branson is in talks with russian businessman and media tycoon alexander lebedev to acquire a stake in his low cost carrier redwings that's according to r.b.c. daily the talks are narry with both parties interested in striking some kind of

cooperation in two thousand aged bronze in branson rather claimed he would create a russian airline as a way to enter the country's aviation market however all investment programs were halted during the financial crisis. and mitsui has acquired almost fifteen percent share in kiwi russia's biggest operator of self-service payment terminals the japanese company aims to move into the field of electronic payments which is fast developing in russia kiwi share of the payment service market in russia totals forty five percent with around eighty million users every month. and that's all the news a half of this hour but you can always find more stories on our website that's r t dot com slash business stay with us.