the u.s. and israel fallout over palestine as prime minister benjamin netanyahu rejects president obama's path to peace in the middle east. illegal bombs at the white house sidelines the us constitution by skipping the third like to keep its forces in action over libya without approval from congress. the house will take the cash but rather from terra cotta for the environment the brunt of climate change.

that's twelve noon here in the russian capital this is our team welcome to the program our top story now israel has rejected the us call for it to retreat behind the nine hundred sixty seven war borders draw from the occupied palestinian territories prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is in washington for talks says it's a concession he will not make peace christine for example explains why america's efforts have for decades failed to bring peace to the middle east. it is a scene all too familiar in this region of protests on israel's border that leads. to violence i hear it was the may fifteenth protests marking what palestinians called not for catastrophe the creation of the state of israel on this date in one nine hundred forty eight like for israel it was a matter of security according to dan paula. director of the zionist organization

of america i don't know what any country would do when people gather on your border and come across in violation of the law. why for palestinians it is the continuation of a seemingly endless fight for an independent palestinian state a fight in which u.s. leaders try time and time again to play a chief negotiator from president carter to reagan to george h.w. bush to president clinton george w. bush and now the obama administration. we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the nine hundred sixty seven lines with mutually agreed swaps so that secure and recognized borders are a stab wish for both states an unusually blunt indorsement of an end to israeli occupation of arab land by u.s. transit the idea was immediately rejected by prime minister benjamin netanyahu israel argues peace cannot come at the cost of its security with continued

palestinian rocket attacks there is one thing both sides actually agree on when it comes to the u.s. role as mediator it approaches a fact is all wrong american policy is built on misconceptions a wrong view of the causes of the conflict and a prescription that doesn't stand up to even the most casual scrutiny of the question is not why don't we have a solution at this point but why on earth should we expect to have a solution with this system as it is that use of money your with the jerusalem project says talk is cheap when the us says it's in gage's in the process of a two state solution but is funding and supporting behavior by israel that simultaneously working against it paying somebody bribing somebody to change their behavior doesn't work when you spoil them rotten a recent example in november the us offered so. avril billion dollars in military assistance to israel if it put off

the construction of jewish settlements for three months the regardless of what obama say is or how he sees it and he sees it better than bush but what he does is to say the costs of peace are high high cost of broad and home pro israel money accounting for between one quarter and one third of all donations to the major political parties a concern for many including former u.s. congresswoman cynthia mckinney they want the executive branch they the legislative branch pro israel campaign contributors totaled nearly twelve million dollars in two thousand and ten far higher than other major donors making increasing the pressure on israel a politically daunting prospect especially the collections eighteen months away we're about to see here this is over there but with the need to show support for the arab spring and a reconciliation between the two palestinian factions u.s.

leaders may be feeling the pressure to make a push. again christine for south r.t. . former american bastard at least charles freeman jr says while washington is quick to act to protect civilians in libya there's been no action to stop israeli atrocities against its neighbors. well the president made a very strong case but we should not tolerate civilians being. part of their rulers he made a strong case earlier that we needed proof so far zone over libya but we do nothing when i mean it really is do all these things for the palestinians but. just a few days ago. we were. still close number of them and we say enough so i think the cost of oil will still pretty far up the road credibility.

well to begin with and they campaigned against colonel gadhafi rumbles on some months off. the u.s. which led the operation is still being gauged we got sufficient consent from congress according to the constitution and their military action that it is not legal that's all it's easier in this to reports you're on top of the hill some concerns. fifty nine. sixty i said at the outset that this was going to be a matter of days and not weeks. and days have turned to months and in libya the battle rages on but in washington time has run out. and this rhetoric is running up against a real pro block thing here you don't think they're power think there's a war powers act the war powers act a resolution that says sixty days marks the deadline for an american president pull

u.s. forces from hostilities or get congress's approval for a formal declaration of war yet neither appear to be happening and according to the president publicly time seems to be the enemy only for someone else now time is working against gadhafi. he does not have control over his country but it's unclear who or what has control over this one the law or the will of the president. president did not seek in a war begin with. nor really has there been much discussion of the war powers act nor does it seem there will be when pressed by the majority of congress not with leaders of the senate foreign relations committee saying there are no plans for action and top lawmakers like john mccain saying quote he's never recognized the constitutionality of the war powers act nor has any president which is only sort of true according to legal and political experts every president has expressed some

concerns about its constitutionality but interestingly not a single president has questioned the sixty day rule hathaway says if obama does this would set a new precedent for combat by a president who campaigned on ending u.s. wars and abiding by constitutional law. still when it comes to war powers there's enough blame to go around absolutely congress doesn't take it seriously and president seven taken it seriously and u.s. media don't take it seriously meanwhile u.s. drones fly over libya dropping bombs and the laws governing this type of mission seem to have flown out the window to it makes a joke of the whole idea of how the laws but you can still go out and give you the full speeches as the president seems to do and talk about peace and justice and principles. as the clock strikes the six feet in the libyan

intervention and the billions of reported three quarters of a billion dollars in the u.s. is third war with no congressional oversight or end in sight time is working against rhetoric and the rule of law and theory in reality and the nation's capital though no alarm appears to be going on lauren lyster r.t.e. washington d.c. . well with all analyst ivan eland told r.t. that congress has sawing away from a decision on the so-called bomb of the scapegoat for any possible failure. yes it's illegal and unconstitutional and it's not the first president to do to have done it but it's clearly a move in the direction of more executive power and more executive your soup ation the. congressional war making power people they want to take credit if it goes well the praise the president or if it goes well badly they can criticize them but if you have a vote on a declaration of war or anything or

a sort of authorization for that they have to go on record as either opposing it or supporting it and therefore you know they can get blamed by their constituents one way or the other so just like the president take responsibility and we'll you know we'll be kibitzers on the side and say he did a great job or he didn't do a good job george bush for all his failings he did get congressional authorization for afghanistan and iraq and he was a champion of executive power but obama has really gone further in this case the now bush ever went. and you're watching i'll tell you there's a lot more stories lined up for you this hour including a living in the southernmost of the earth the animals on top of this really watching that disappear. the end of the world is coming to the day that doesn't doomsday if you don't get that six pm.

well two months since the intervention in libya the u.k. government has still no timeline of its on its involvement well it's nice that's who contributes it thinks events else with attention dampen criticism. the british press has been busy with various scandals beautiful scandals and what an exciting week for them. i'm not sure it's negatives child and divorce the british and the devil lords and his part two of expenses scandal there is also energy and climate change secretary cruise hugh with his daughter speeding tickets and most important of all the i.m.f. chief accused of sex. meanwhile the situation in libya is becoming more and more complicated the british defense secretary leon forks was forced to declare that there would be no time limit on the nato operation in libya. with the u.k.'s commitment of one billion pounds to this mission the scandals have been very timely

to draw the attention of british people away from the real problem. but why has the u.k. forgotten how to fight wars. sometime in taters believe it's because of the rock of effective leadership. experiment is that where and current one devotee cameron started at oxford most of them missed the important must read for the future political world war by colorful it's two hundred years ago. he declared that no one in their clear mind should start a war without be absolutely sure what they want to achieve and how they want to do it two months into the intervention and nobody in downing street knows why the u.k. is in libya. other world news for you this hour tens of thousands of spanish protesters divided government nationwide demonstrations poster head of local

elections people camped out overnight in madrid central square chanting of the government's leaders and protests began six days ago when swinish the streets were straitened by a graduate unemployment rate of five percent. has been some twenty four thousand in the camp and spread to cities across the country. and later oil tanker has exploded in northwest pakistan killing at least sixteen people a truck transporting fuel through pakistan to nato forces in afghanistan was hit by a small bomb some locals gathering to collect spilled fuel were burnt to death from another fire broke out many others were injured. syrian human rights groups have security forces and killed at least thirty people being pro-democracy rallies across the country. came a day after brick obama called. for more stuff right in response the syrian

government accused the us president of incitement eight hundred fifty people thought died during. the now former head of the international monetary fund is being released from behind bars after posting a one million dollars bail on extracts carmel the house arrest in what happened where he will be kept under twenty four hour god the french politician denies charges attempting to rape or made your point. searching for a french fried eggs restaurant dirtbag among the early candidates. but world leaders are gearing up for a g. eight meeting in france next week the situation in libya and the uprisings in the middle east and north africa will be center of attention but artie's laura halfassed also there is no resident asked people on the streets of new york what else they think the world leaders should be talking about.

as world leaders gather at the g eight summit what do you think they should be focusing on solving collectively this week let's talk about that i think they should be focusing on. greening the i mean just saving the planet and also humanity politics and more people and more communication and more trees do you think the bill do that no not in a hundred years do you think that they'll be looking out for the global best interest or just their country's own interest suspect most countries come to the table with their own best interests in mind are you hopeful that they can but those aside at least enough to come to some compromise i'm hopeful that my retirement savings is worse something when i retire would it be better if they just chose one to work on and fix that first i think multi ability is able to talk about a few issues they're able to talk about i don't have the able to solve the more

than one third of the problems will never go away i don't believe the world leaders can fix them seem to be trying to fix the effects of the problem so why do they have the stomach. well. lord i just wish people would get along a little bit better together just all the nationalities all the different religions and i think we better off then maybe this time it should be more like a retreat where they talk about how they can get along. the economy. the economy. the economy. everything else. no matter what you want the world to the bottom line let's just hope. they can work. for a. special series of reports from. tough weather conditions in subzero temperatures all around

. hardy animals. reports may have become. john at the bottom of the earth there is a land of ice and volcanic rock so different from the civilized world that it is hard to imagine that life can be found here. but in fact a closer look reveals it is one of the most interesting ecosystems on the planet. a really unique position on terror related for for a very long as a continent that means that probably has a half year starting from tiny creatures up to seals i'm penguins is unique and you can never find it anywhere else only here. but extreme temperatures and start conditions mean that you won't find any polar bears down here so we don't have any

trustable animals like polar bears or nothing like that occurs down here we only have marine mammals and marine birds that come ashore to breed and the only trust your life is limited to the vegetation and maybe some in birds twenty crickets that's about it and if you want to experience some of this exotic wildlife the antarctic peninsula is a good place to start well as everything here in this part we've got a tremendous range of seals and it's true different type to see what you can expect to see six if you're lucky and the penguins two or three of the presto pain which you'd expect to see in the financially but a most if we're lucky and see up to six different species including the wildlife in antarctica is. an affront built one of the main areas of study down here on this continent is the environment to make sure that they can learn how. we are seeing into the adelie penguins which are the most abundant penguin species in the antarctic and a true ice loving species they are declining in the antarctic peninsula seriously

and may disappear from the peninsula in the next fifty years because of the warming and the loss of sea ice which is just part of their habitat with scientists witnessing such dramatic changes in such a short period of time. the concern is what to do in the future to prevent such a rapid change in the environment there's a very big message in there's no way on the planet changing faster the antarctic peninsula is one of three sites which as the fastest growing are increasing in average whether to create winter temperatures. western siberia alaska i mean it's hard to believe china which is warming five times faster than anywhere in the play leaving many to wonder what is to become of the animals they call this place home in antarctica sean thomas r.t. that we've got more from. throughout the week.

more than a month. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes special detracted from the wildlife in antarctica. and the fragile. expeditions of the bottom of the earth. going to be a tough saturday according to one religious group in the u.s. calculations of finally break it today is judgment day at the end of the world let's ask a fourth on that mission to spread the doomsday prophecy. have you heard the awesome news watch watch watch what the world is venting death destruction that's all you can see. nine months ago id and jessica ramos hit the road to tell people just back away from her and this was the best way. to do what we're supposed

to do according to what the bible is telling us to do so warn the people there are three daughters travel with them i homeschooled they were in school for a little bit and then now it's twenty and we decided to support our kids much as possible jessica abby aren't alone there is just one of four caravans roaming the country preaching the apocalypse they believe the world is ending may twenty first and that it's their duty to warn the people here old camping eighty nine year old founder of family radio the series of biblical calculations to arrive at may twenty first two thousand and eleven camping did predict the end once before in september one thousand nine hundred four kevin's prediction has since been branded on buses billboards t. shirts this is the greatest the biggest average duration campaign in the world. there's never been anything like this before she is going through this world. the bible promised that everybody all nations will get this message before

a great story first world and everything in between including gary bombers s.u.v. and she drives every day to his job at the department of homeland security this is a vehicle i had wrapped it was about two years ago i actually had to work on it and it's pronounced in the lord's work of judgment day we actually have a depiction here this is actually the picture of the california plate actually sinking into the ocean this is actually a depiction of fire. it's talking about how the lord is going to bring down fire and brimstone upon the earth and the dead destruction according to camping the day of destruction will begin with a giant rolling earthquake at the international date line and travel around the world killing millions before that happens all the true believers will be caught up to be with christ and they want to experience what's going to happen here for five months. of sorrow suffering and meanwhile those who know they'll be left behind like these atheists are already making plans of their own offering to buy on

craigslist raptured people's possessions and dogs it for those called to have it the listeners of family radio see it's impossible the world won't end but for now we'll have to see with tomorrow brings you in for an artsy washington d.c. . watching space shuttles and rockets blasting off for all this has become almost commonplace but actually making it into space something for the few parties tom barton better off with his mission to the international space station next week to find out what it's really like. we're here in the countryside part of star city because we're not training center north of moscow and we've managed to catch a rare moment where the cosmonauts and astronauts get to relax after all their exams of training before going north to baikonur to be fired up into space to the international space station and i lucky enough to be here with mike fossum he's been on the shuttle missions twice and this is his first rocket mission to the i

assess and we'll be talking a bit about some of the every day life up on a space shuttle so every day life in an extraordinary setting everything in space is typically harder than it is on earth things as simple as going to the bathroom where on earth gravity helps things go where you want them to go and they're flushed away with water but in space the gravity doesn't work we don't have a shower on board space station because the water wouldn't know how to fry and the brain you can wash your hair completely close but computer little soapy water on your here and then scrub it out in the water didn't carbon under your clothing it just sticks to your head in the you must gently you keep massage it with a lot of energy then you have droplets of water in a pig pattern that spring around your head and what happens if some of those things break how do you cope with that when you're working on equipment when you start picking it apart and you take out all the little screws well you can't just throw

them on the workbench to float away so you have to hold them down in some way and that ends up being probably the most frustrating thing easy to lose to on earth when you're working on something and you drop it a little you know where to look because it's right around your feet someplace up there it can go in any direction my first space shuttle mission i lost my fork we are eating i lost my four probably the second day of the mission. i don't have my fork so i ate with a spoon and a knife for the rest of the flight as we were packing up to come home. two weeks later. came floating out from some corner and what about the food is not a challenge food it's a lot like camping food most of the u.s. food is pretty dry so if you add water and let it sit for a bit and it rehydrate and become something you'd recognise like vegetables or mashed potatoes or shrimp cocktail regular bread has crumbs you finish eating a sandwich on earth and on your plate you have these problems in space they don't

go to the plate they go into the air and so they're there in your nose or in your eyes or in the air conditioning filters so we don't use regular bread much we use tortillas. where you can follow the preparations on party to come to some new stores and on our website and create a conflict from a female perspective we need to be unmade the old at least on the front of the liberation of palestine. and not like cats and dogs it's the feline. cry wolf so this will come back to health and some pins. but a few moments i will have

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