we've been packin and we will be back in the rights of the palestinians to create their own state russia is committed to supporting independence of the palestinian state with the capital in east jerusalem dimitri medvedev said during his middle east visit as the russian leader meets with his palestinian counterpart israel is being left on the sidelines due to political infighting. and blames russian air traffic controllers for the plane crash that killed the polish president in april despite the findings of the official investigation that cited pilot error and bad weather this causes the accident plus. there much about this plane still seem especially when the people stopping to pay their rent the d.v.d. player that show anger boiling over in the u.k. banks taxpayer money plan to hand out billions in bonuses despite sturdy cuts in

the rest of the country. with news from russia and from around the world this is r.t. in moscow twenty four hours a day dmitri medvedev has reiterated russia's commitment to back a palestinian state with the capital in east jerusalem during his middle east tool the initial plan for the talk was to hold talks with israel as well but this was spoiled when its officials went on strike leading to the visits cancellation has more now from jericho. the palestinian officials have already described it as he story first and foremost because it allows russia to make a political statement make sure me that it is not the first russian leaders to visit in deposited in territories pushing the us here back in two thousand and five

but even if it is the first ever russian leader to come to the west bank bypassing israel and he read to rated strands this fact during his news conference rich received a very very loud applause from the palestinian officials and journalists present here now medvedev also said that the russian position on the palestinian cause hasn't changed the soviet union was one of the first countries end of world to recognize the state of palestine in the within the nine hundred sixty seven borders with a capital in is jerusalem and medvedev said that russia is still committed to making everything possible to bring these scenario about here's exactly what he said on the issue. russia's position stays the same we made a choice at the end of the 1980's we've been back 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 ever since these really palestinian talks broke down

back in fall of two thousand and ten mahmoud abbas has been working behind the scene to drum up international support for the recognition of the palestinian statehood and most recently he secured the support from several latin american countries including brazil and argentina and it is expected that the palestinian authority will bring up this issue for a vote at either the u.n. general assembly of the u.n. security council later on this year or so. president medvedev president of russia rich holds power in the security council making such statements in the palestinian territories is extremely important and extremely supportive for the palestinian cause the most recent. ever since i would say the early ninety's ninety's mosco was trying to play it both ways and was trying to maintain workable relations with both israel and the palestinian authority and initially the middle eastern trip was.

expected to bring president medvedev both to israel and the policy issues but he's too polished in church officials say but he's israeli was canceled at the very last moment because of the strike at the israeli foreign ministry and it needs to be sad that both countries tried to. play any harm that may have been caused by these consolation in fact the israeli minister and israeli president shimon peres sad the president will be expected them to welcome in israel at any time once the strike is over and he also agreed to meet and hold negotiations with president medvedev later on this year at the international economic forum in davos so both both countries try to downplay any harm that may have been caused and present it again said that he is looking forward to making these trips to israel some time later.

reporting there a political commentator for a newspaper. says the strike that prevented me from his meetings is not a tragedy but israel stance on settlements can ruin peace efforts. i don't want to make too much story. of a that the strike of his or other diplomats which prevented president from for a moment may can. reason to israel but what can isolate israel if stubborn position on jewish settlement construction of course israeli position can and should be respected but at the same time if israel isa genuinely it here into the middle east the peace settlement it should realize that. it should also give some concessions to the palestinian side and to understand better how things stand at present while continuing constructions it would be impossible to reach me. a long lasting solution move with polystyrene outside. poland's internal ministry says

a russian air traffic controllers were involved in the plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski the full report in the tragedy is due to be presented in february and he said now he has more now on the latest developments. these are the first stabs and statements from polish officials in their investigation into the plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski is just too weak it has to be said after the interstate aviation committee presented their final report which found that an inexperienced polish crew bad weather and also pressure from high ranking officials on board ultimately led to the tragedy poland found this on its sceptical that's despite it internationally being deemed as accurate and thorough now it looks like the polish side is going to try to prove that russian air traffic controllers were to blame that's going to be a difficult task for them because according to international aviation law first of all any decision on a final landing lies with the pilot and his crew but also air traffic controllers can only advise they can't deny all landing fact of the. we have not found any

evidence that the air traffic controllers were pressured the supervisor of the landing zone gave information about the plane's location as it was indicated on the radar monitor they were allowed to go down to the heights of one hundred meters they were not given permission to land on one of them now in response to this news from poland the interstate aviation committee announced that they would make public the cockpit recordings in full obviously they believe that there's proof there that the air traffic controllers aren't to blame at the family of the late polish president first of all deny the findings of the interstate aviation committee but also pretty much blatantly blames russia for the death of president kaczynski in fact his son in law it said that the plane crash was a planned assassination in revenge against putin skeet and to russian rhetoric and also to prevent him from being reelected but we've been speaking to international experts and analysts some who say that anyone in poland that supports these kind of

accusations hasn't been able to break with past stereotypes. in the political. life that is in those who are they also people. you cannot leave without having an enemy in the polish one with germany and one with russia and it is very difficult technologically people to adapt to a new situation where you actually try to change the most or to aggression into cooperation and this is what this company the polish side has to present its final report by time yury so it could be quite a while before this case really does come to any kind of close. well still to come for you this. is people across the us are paying tribute to martin luther king on his birthday you can find out how using the name of the civil rights icon to excuse america's wars abroad plus. looking into the future if you want to find out

what awaits you in two thousand and eleven join us for a traditional russian fortune telling session on our team in just a couple of minutes. public fury is growing in the u.k. where the biggest banks there are planning to pay out billions of pounds in bonuses to some stuff the cash bonanza comes after many banks were bailed out by taxpayers' money and amid severe public sector cancer cross the crisis hit economy nor and it has now moved from london. this is all staring. 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. 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 this year here on the street where the needy live literally from hand to mouth that's going down badly but you know it's a disgrace i think you should america. british do that and he's not the only one complaining last year saw thousands of students out on the streets demonstrating against austerity cuts thought about by a global crisis triggered by reckless bankers now the right to work campaign is calling for a fresh wave of protests against what they're dubbing the government surrender to the bankers and their huge paychecks but basically i think that the bear market is going to see obscene especially when there are people struggling to even pay their rent to even feed and clothe their children when people are getting three pounds three million pounds bonuses quite frankly excessive interest and disgusting amount

of money taxpayer lobby group 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 and can't possibly be expected to stomach at a time when the government 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 ever. one sees it that way daniel hoffman from financial services says banks is still vital in supporting economic recovery and if bonuses are paid 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 street those who depend on charity to put food in their mouths find that difficult to stomach with this latest backtracking on this regulation it seems banks and governments have learned very little from the

financial crisis just a few miles away bankers continue to fill their pockets 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. governments are still divided on the size of the e.u. bailout fund which was set up last year the discussion on whether to boost the facility took place at a two day summit in brussels the european commission and european central bank want to widen the fund if struggling eurozone members like spain and portugal need help finance minister wants the pot to double to one point five trillion euros however germany the biggest eurozone economy has so far ruled out any substantial increase . your member of the european parliament and leader of the u.k. independence party says the whole idea of the euro zone 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 and portugal and possibly. should never of joined the euro in the first place trapped inside of economic growth with a whole set of policies that don't suit their circumstances and i think the more we build up. the more in effect we're pouring. and this really is a tragedy because these people. you know we have mass demonstrations we have. we've had legal actually killed on the streets. if they hold the eurozone together. in those countries are frankly going to get worse and what it really needs is a frank assessment which is there is an argument. with germany and luxembourg and holland and a few countries possibly france as well but there is an optimal. can work together for the north and south of europe to be stuck inside a monetary union is never ever going to work but nobody inside these institutions

wants to face up to the e.c.b. buying up its debt and now with this with this half agreement in brussels that the stability fund should start 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 organization 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 decision look what you've got here behind this whole european project where we talk about the union 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 the. 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 the battle between the political

leaders and public opinion which increasingly is saying we don't want this now in the end public opinion is going to win because you can't build a state and that's what you've been here without having the consent of the people in that consent has never been asked for and it's never been given. the e.u. gets to grips with its financial chaos china is offering to lend the troubled euro bloc a helping hand one of these ladies program. i look at just why looks at just why beijing is doing it because the report is coming your way in fifteen minutes from now here in r.t. . 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. has 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 and gold. time now for a brief look at some of the major headlines from around the world the prime minister and the interim president of tunisia one day old unity government of both resigned from the former ruling party comes off the food opposition and says quit over that i'm happy for maybe from the regime and you had a government said experience ministers were needed for two years here to make the transition into a free society becomes in a fresh wave of violence across the country as angry demonstrators clashed with police over what they call a betrayal of the revolution. a suicide attack on a police recruitment center in iraq has killed up to sixty people and left some one hundred fifty injured in the blast occurred in the city of the cleat hometown of

the late dictator saddam hussein witnesses said the bomber blew himself up in a crowd of people queuing to apply for jobs with the police officials believe al qaeda is behind the attack insurgents have intensified assaults on the iraqi police since u.s. forces ended combat operations there last august. for the whole 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 worst affected queensland killed at least thirty and left twelve people missing. when people across the globe joined together to honor dr martin luther king on his birthday it showed the legacy of his of this moral crusader in america's race war lives on but as artie's christine presented discovered some also taking advantage of his name to gain support for us was a broad. those are our three.

who are. one bear live in america on the web a while not being heard by a crowd of about them but by the prime credit backed her car at one hundred. was it was a dream so powerful it eventually came true its impact so strong it fractured the foundation of the society my fellow americans. i am about to sign into law. the civil rights act one thousand nine hundred sixty. odd. and so every year on this day to honor the birthday of dr martin luther king jr. people gather to pay tribute to him. 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 of 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 against bear something strange made in going about a nation on a pretty bad would praise you when you said being on balance jam a car but will curse and damn you when you say be no. vietnamese children his lessons are prominent in communities across the country but in particular and churches like this one in the southwest washington and although there are so many others one thing you need to hear time and time again martin luther king promoted peace his message was simply this either we've learned to live together as brothers and sisters on this planet we work there is to get this foolish foolish what many people thing of dr king's name being invoked for the wrong reasons i think that it came with a march with many of us. from the very beginning on the needlessness of 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 south r t. the troll thought of christmas of the orthodox calendar as being renowned since ancient russian times for fortune telling and even though it is considered a sin by the church this tradition is still alive and well in russian villages not even a town and not because i visited one to learn some mystical tips and also to get a look into the future. but you all know that journalists are incredibly curious people well at least this is an excuse i'm using for myself today to join this traditional session of fortune telling it's usually done on the last day of. which last for two weeks after that warthogs christmas traditionally women gather around the table and perform different kinds of fortune telling procedures to find out what waits for them during the year whether they will meet their fiancée or simply

to make a wish. the easiest way to tell your fortune is about making your wish come true if you take a handful of beans and count. or even just what you want or even your wish will come true the next one is the most mysterious one what i have to do is to take the scandal to spill the axe in the water let it cool down and see what shapes it takes and try to understand what could mean potentially for me in the next year. you have a ring which means that in a year to come you have a new soulmate well i didn't see that coming but apparently this is what all girls wished for when they do fortune telling on the last day of southgate so i guess i'm lucky. well show me my own production now and that is. next with the business news .

welcome to our business program i'm sure. negotiations for russia's entry to the world trade organization could be completed this april so says maksim advent called head of the country's delegation to the talks he also addressed existing doubt that a session will have a positive impact on small business in russia. there could be trouble as always some companies. because it's true as computer. conditions through a cherished respectfully through influence marketplace but it's. to prepare for. this new a situation that is in no going home to but for many years for the time gives us. and 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 size between three and five billion euros in order to help protect the euro and soften market stability khujand however dismissed the idea that russia would be interested in buying spanish sovereign bonds. and the board of impled com has approved the purchase of telecom assets owned by egyptian billionaire now so we're is for a total of six point five billion dollars this despite opposition from norwegian shareholder tele norm russia second biggest mobile phone operator wants to take over so we are says a tie in mobile company when telecommuting cut cod and his fifty one point seven percent stake in egypt 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 alsono which owns over forty percent of impled com says it's disappointed by telling the us position. were disappointed by their groaning this

silly gay chanson made in their statement. we are the position that. difference in views on business development shouldn't be an obstacle to effective or develop. into one of the leading global to the corporators. telling or says it will fight the approval by verbal comm board at the company's shareholder meeting just the shareholders will face considerable additional dilution if the acquisition is completed on the current terms telling the warrens the deal could make simple less attractive for investors. and worse no no 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 the cheap plastic micro chip 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 let's take a look at the markets in the u.s. the markets are trading up wall street attempts to shake off pressure from citi group and apple with dal industrials in the lead apple stock spare losses as shares of the consumer electronics giant recover some as investors divest just news about steve jobs upcoming leave of absence meanwhile boeing aircraft is up over three percent despite news of its delay delivery date of the first seven eighty seven dreamliner for the third quarter reflecting the impact of an in-flight incident during testing last november the dreamliner has been postponed for the seventh time

. 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 political narry with both parties interested in striking some kind of cooperation in two thousand and eight branson claimed he would create a russian airline as a way to enter. the countries aviation market however all investment programs were halted during the financial crisis. and mitsui has acquired an almost fifteen percent share and q.e. russia's biggest operator of self-service payment charles the japanese company aims to move into the field of electronic payments which is fast developing and 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 business news for this

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