today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operations through. the u.s. and israel fallout over palestine as prime minister benjamin netanyahu rejects president obama's part of the peace in the middle east. illegal problems the white house sidelined the u.s. constitution by skipping the deadline its forces action of libya without approval from congress. last through taking to the hospital project on terror front but the environment is bearing the brunt of carnage trades.

are you watching r t we're live from moscow welcome to the program israel has rejected the u.s. call for its retreat behind the nine hundred sixty seven war borders and withdraw from the occupied palestinian territories prime minister benjamin netanyahu who's in washington for talks says it's a concession he will not make. christine for explains why america's efforts have decades those who bring peace to the middle east. it is a scene all too familiar in this region. on israel's border that leads. to violence. here in was the may fifteenth protest marking what palestinians called nakba or catastrophe the creation of the state of israel on this date in one nine hundred forty eight because for israel it was a matter of security according to dan pollack co-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 the violation of the law. for palestinians it is the continuation of a seemingly endless fight for an independent palestinian state a fight in which us 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 spared wish for both states an unusually blunt indorsement of an end to israeli occupation of arab land by u.s. president 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 its approach they say 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 with this system as it is their use of money your with the jerusalem project says talk is cheap really us says it's engaged in the process of a two state solution but is funding and supporting behavior by israel that simultaneously looking against it paying somebody bribing somebody to change their behavior doesn't work where you've spoiled them rotten a recent example in november the us offered several billion dollars in military assistance to israel if it put

off the construction of jewish settlements for three months the regardless a water bottle mostly is or how he says it and he says it better than bush but what he does is to say the costs of peace are high high cost of broad and at home pro israel money accounting for between one quarter and one third of all donations to the major political parties concerned for many including former u.s. congresswoman cynthia mckinney they were at the executive branch they were what 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 with elections eighteen months away we're about to see you know 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 point that again christine for south r.t. . former american ambassador in the middle east 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 that we should not tolerate civilians. by their rulers he made a strong case earlier that we needed from both parties over libya but we knew nothing of them really israelis do all these things from. strangers. just a few days ago. so quite a number of them. so i think the cross the you are pretty hard proof of our credibility. where the nato led

bombing campaign against gadhafi rumbles on two months after it began the u.s. which now the operation is still engaged without official consent from congress according to the constitution and reaction over there is now illegal there's artie's learn this the reports few on capitol hill seem concerned. fifty eight. fifty nine. sixty eight i said at the outset that this was going to be a matter of days and weeks. and days have turned to months in libya the battle rages on but in washington time has run out. and this rhetoric is running up against a real broke lock thing gary. thinking their power thinks is 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 conference but it's unclear who or what has control over this one the law or the will of the president the. president did not seek a ration of 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 work powers there's enough blame to go around congress doesn't take it seriously and president seven taking it seriously and us media it's 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 having laws that you can still go out and you get a full speeches kristen seems to do and are cannot be seen just the same principles . as the clock strike days six feet in the libyan intervention

and the bill hits a reported three quarters of a billion dollars in the u.s. this third war with no congressional oversight or end in sight time is working against the rhetoric and the rule of law in theory and reality in the nation's capitol though no alarm appears to be going on or in leicester arcane washington d.c. . political analyst i've been here that told r.t. that congress has signed away from a decision on that to make a 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 years are patient in the. congressional war making power people want to take credit if it goes well though praise the president or if it goes well badly they

can criticize him but if you have a vote on a declaration of war and he threw 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 let 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 brought his failings he did get congressional authorization for afghanistan and iraq and he was the champion of executive power but obama has really gone further in this case than bush ever won. in watching us he would have a lot more stories not got to this hour including living in the southern tip of the earth he needs the animals and. the snow and watching that disappear. so it's national headlines for you down south a suicide bomber. main minutes last minute in central kabul closed nice

embassy. there and defense minister says at least three people were killed and many others wounded two attackers made it inside the hospital one of the explosives or another is going away. tens of thousands of spanish protesters have defied a government brand of nationwide demonstrations opposed to help regional local elections people camped out overnight in madrid central square cheering and chanting i think government slogans protests began six days ago and started to the streets for a straight gradual unemployment rate of forty five percent. that's grown to some twenty five thousand in the capital and spread to cities across the country. and nato well tiger has exploded in northwest pakistan killing at least sixteen people a truck transporting few through pakistan to nato forces in afghanistan was hit by a small but some locals government to collect spilled fuel would lead to death and

other foreign count while many others were injured. the now former head of the international monetary fund has been released from behind bars on posting a one million dollars bail dominic strauss kahn will be under house arrest and not happy where he'll be kept under twenty four hour god french politicians and noise charges of attempted to rape are made new york tell ya meth is now searching for a new leader for the french finance minister and among the early candidates. but world leaders are gearing up for a g eight meeting in france next week situation in libya and uprisings in the middle east and north africa will be center of attention. oftenest also known as the resistance asks 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 after they should be focusing on. greening the i mean just saving the planet and also humanity list politics and more people more communication and more truth 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 interests or just their country's own interest i suspect most countries come to the table with their own best interests are you hopeful that they can get those aside or at least enough to come to some compromise i'm hopeful that my retirement savings is worth 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 them all in one time or the problems will never go away i don't believe the world leaders can

fix them seem to be throwing love to fix. the problem so why do they have the stomach. well. i just wish people would get along a little bit better together just all the nationalities of the different religions and i think we'd be much better off then maybe this time it should be more like a retreat where they talk about how they can get along in. the economy. the economy is important but the economy. everything else. no matter what you want. the bottom line let's just hope. they can work. reports from antartica tough weather conditions in subzero temperatures around.

the animals. reports. 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 antarctica waited for for a long time from other continents it means a fall as a half year starting from tiny creatures are concealed on 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 trust here all animals like polar bears are 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 verse 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 tremendous range of seals and it is for a different type to see what you could expect to see six if you're lucky the penguins to three of the brushtail playing which you'd expect to see in the financially but a most trips we're lucky to see up to six different species including right in antarctica. and fragile one of the main areas of study down here on this continent is stubbornly environment to make sure that they can learn how to handle the we are seeing it of the adelie penguins which are the most abundant penguin species in the antarctic and true ice loving species they are declining in the antarctic peninsula

seriously and may disappear in 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. time concern is what to do in the future to prevent such a rapid change in the environment there's a very big message that there's no way on the planet changing for us to antarctica is one of three sites which are the fastest growing increases in the average weather take the winter temperatures in western siberia alaska to china which is warming shrive terms for us to believe in the leaving many to wonder what is to become of the animals they call this place home in antarctica sean thomas r.t. . throughout the week people. 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. discovers what makes antarctica so special that attractive from. the front of the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. it's going to be a tough saturday according to one religious group in the u.s. our calculations of family radio today is a judgment day and the world is caring for one of them on their mission to spread the doomsday prophesy. have you heard the awesome news watch watch watch what the world is sending death destruction that's all you can see. nine months ago eddie and jessica ramos hit the road to tell people just that but we know if agreed that this was the best way. to do what we're supposed to do according to what the bible

is telling us to do to warn the people their three daughters travel with them i homeschooled when they were in school for a little bit and then now that it's towards the end we decided to pull down as much as possible yes we can abby aren't alone theirs 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 the eighty nine year old founder of family radio used a series of biblical calculations to arrive at me twenty first two thousand and eleven camping did predict the end once before in september one thousand nine hundred four campaigns prediction has since been branded on buses billboards t. shirts this is the greatest and the biggest advertising campaign in the world. there's never been anything like this before since god proved this world. the bible promised that everybody all nations will use this message for great for the

first world and everything in between including harry will most s.u.v. which he drives every day to his job at the department of homeland security this is a vehicle i had read it was about two years ago i actually got the work done on it and it's pronounced in the lord's work of judgement day we actually have a depiction here this is actually depiction of the california plate actually sinking into the ocean this is actually a depiction of fire and it's talking about how the lord is going to bring down fire and brimstone upon the earth and the day of 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 but before that happens all the true believers will be called up to be with christ and they want to experience what's going to happen here for five months. sorrow suffering and pain 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 for those called up to heaven the

listeners of family radio it's the it's impossible the world won't end but for now we'll have to see what tomorrow brings you in for an artsy washington d.c. nobody.

was watching the space shuttles and rockets blasting off over it has become almost commonplace but actually making it into space is still something as a friend if you want some he's told gotten better american astronauts ahead of 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 training center north of moscow and we've managed to catch a rare moment where the cosmonauts and astronauts gets relaxed after all their exams of training before going off to baikonur to be fired up into space to the

international space station and i'm 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 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 we're on earth gravity helps things go where you want them to go and they're flushed away with water in space the gravity doesn't work we don't have a shower on board the space station because the water wouldn't know how to find the grain you can wash your hair completely close could get a little soapy water on your here and then scrub it up in the water didn't pour then on your clothing you just sticks to your head and you must gently massage it with a lot of energy then you have droplets of water in a big pattern spring around your head but what happens if some of those things

break how do you cope with that when you're working on equipment and you start taking it apart and you take out all the little screws well you can't decide i'm on the other workbench to float away so you have to hold them down in some way and that into being probably the most frustrating thing easy to lose to on earth when you're working on something like dropping. 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 for we each have our eating kit i lost my fork on the second day of the mission but. i don't have my fork and 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 when i came floating out from some corner and what about the food these days that's a challenge food is not like camping food most of the u.s. food is pretty dry so if you add water and let it sit for a bit then it rehydrate and become something you'd recognise like vegetables or

freshly taters or shrimp cocktail irregular bread crumbs you finish eating a sandwich on earth and on your plate you have these crumbs in space they don't go to the plate they go into the air and so they're there in your nose and your eyes are in the air conditioning filters and so we don't use regular bread much we use tortillas. they can apply to all the preparations on our t. dot com. he was always thinking on our website conflicts from a female perspective interview with you on the radio at least from the front to the liberation of palestine. and not like cats and dogs the life of the crying wolf. back to help society.

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what had been. began a journey. where did it take. the official. we can now cross live to russia's kaliningrad region where foreign minister sergei lavrov is holding a joint news conference with his german polish counterparts. consciously it would literally. pulling a schoolmistress would not be she's going to have talks on a number of projects and willing. projects to develop the kaliningrad region we probably have held a meeting today with the governor of the regions were discussing. also areas of cooperation regarding the development of the cleaning crew l.h.'s from the abuse and general mood of the story our country by united by. an intensive young man.

a bizarre trade notion of munich asian command interest connections with the educational and economic military trace and of course all three countries. of the french. common history of what we call the home still plane issues are outstanding demand require. of persons to propose work on the part of historians. germany has been very active she's the world's politics recently and great progress has been made with an area of polish russian relationships there's a lot of the government and all straight countries and tragically within international and regional organizations. and maintain dialogue on issues regarding your through the relationships between russia and the e.u. and russia and nato with what you can with was the most over in your guitar player

and say to you findings of those commonly exceptional parameters of security architecture in europe. got on the missile defenses years. and people in the mission. control in conventional weapons would missions in europe the head of course cooperation of all european states most of the international issues. that are were common interest today we have discussed in the world the progress of preparations of the new framework agreements between russia and the european union . is going to share the european union. from the first of july this year and in this connection we have discussed with. the negotiations. towards moving. to face a free regimes and certain progress progress has been made within that area as well with three of our countries on these issues and many other issues.