as e's roll rejects president obama's call to go back to its nine hundred sixty seven borders with the palestinians calculus of why washington has continuously failed to mediate peace in a longstanding conflict. the u.s. action in and livia is now formally unconstitutional well after congress leaves a sixty day long campaign to go on without official approval. now the great survivors at home in the harsh climate every particle explore the exotic wildlife at the bottom of the earth.

you're watching our team coming to you live from moscow thanks for joining us now easer al has rejected a u.s. call for a peace deal with the palestinians based on the pre-one nine hundred sixty seven war borders withdrawing from disputed territories of prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is in washington for talks says he's ready to compromise if the proposed borders are indefensible artie's christine for the report says america's decades long approach towards israel that's failing to break the stalemate. it is a scene all too familiar in this region a protest on israel's border that leads. to violence. here in was the may fifteenth protest marking what palestinians called not a 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 hala 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 it in violation of the law. 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 he said 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 established 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 it approaches 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 that it uses money your with the jerusalem project says talk is cheap when the us says it's engaged in the process of a two state solution but is funding and supporting behavior by israel it simultaneously working against it paying somebody bribing somebody to change their behavior

doesn't work when 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 so regardless the water well most say is or how he sees it and he says it better than bush but what he does is to say the costs of peace are high high cost abroad and at 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 what the executive branch gave 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 but about a senior this is the word of

a good with the need to show support for the arab spring and a reconciliation between the two palestinian factions u.s. leaders need the feeling the pressure to make a push yet again christine for south r.t. . a palestinian official says his people are planning to seek you out of recognition of their state despite barack obama's warnings that their efforts will not work and political writer william engle says attention is now also growing between the u.s. and its main ally in the region. the u.s. agenda is not the agenda barack obama claims to be one of peace i think we're in the midst in my opinion of the most profound shift in israeli washington relations since nine hundred forty eight recognition of israeli statehood the basis of the trust relationship between israel and washington is been drastically challenged to by the us support of these destabilization from egypt tunisia libya and the entire

middle east since the end of two thousand and ten has created a tremendous sense in israel of insecurity and the stability they thought they had is suddenly looking very very unstable so the those nice words that obama said yesterday are window dressing the content is one of the continued tension between israel and washington under the guise of peace. about was political writer william and all talking about deteriorating u.s. israeli relations. now nato's campaign in libya rumbles on at two months after it started well the u.s. which led the operation is still highly engaged without official concert from congress according to the constitution america's military action over libya is now illegal but it's artes or the list of reports for you on capitol hill seem concerned. fifty nine.

sixty i said at the outset that this was going to be a matter of days and weeks. the days have turned to months and in libya the battle rages on and in washington time has run out. and this rhetoric is running up against a real growth block here you. think people power things is a war powers a 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 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 a guiding my 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 and meanwhile u.s. drones fly over libya dropping bombs and the laws governing this type of mission seem to have flown out the window too makes a joke at the idea of having laws that you can still go out and do is beautiful speeches as the president seems to do and talk about peace and justice the principles. as the clock strike days sixty in the libyan intervention and the billions of 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 in reality in the nation's capital though no alarm appears to be going on lauren lyster arcane washington d.c. . political analyst i went elan told our team of congress a shying away from

a decision on libya to make obama 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 you're so patient of the. you know 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 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 get blamed by their constituents one way or the other so it's just like the president take responsibility and well 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 the champion of executive power but obama has really gone further in this case the now bush ever went. oh there's plenty more in store for you including a trip to the coldest and driest continent in the world. the world. is moving on their own terms and coming up on our do with more than different turns around the world down here. plus find out how a cord into a u.s. religious group and the world will end today. russia's foreign minister says talks and i propose joint european missile defense system are being stalled by moscow's partners sergey lavrov was speaking following a meeting with his german and polish counterparts well he insisted the joint missile defense system initially proposed by moscow puts the future of the entire continent at stake. much of that was. so obviously concepts and so we

would like the issue of european missile defense to be resolved by taking the interests of all european countries into account we should start why green just really joined european missile defense system at the moment this proves this is moving slowly we would like to see a document stating that the system will not be aimed against any country taking part in it but our partners say we don't need to put some people in d.c. it's an obvious thing and this refusal to answer our request does raise some concerns and we hope it will be laid to rest in the near future the agreement we come to will determine the future of europe continues time it can either be a common for assault or we can end up throwing it back in time in thirty years. well earlier russia said it intends to take action if the u.s. and nato go ahead with their plans without taking moscow's views into account the u.s. is pushing our with the building of a missile base every man here in washington and nato save the shield will protect

the euro from missiles from countries like iran or north korea but russia sees it as a security threat at this insisting on an equal say in the project. well now let's check some other international those making the headlines this hour now these six people killed and over twenty injured after a suicide bomber struck at the main military hospital in kabul an attacker blew himself up inside a tent filled with medical students watch two attackers were believed to be in the hospital one of which detonated the explosives while the other is thought to have probably alive the taliban has claimed responsibility for the assault. to spain now where thousands continue to protest despite a pre-election bad are mass gatherings people camped out overnight in madrid central square cheering and chanting anti-government slogans. the demonstrators gathered to protest high unemployment and government policies the protests began

a week ago and spread across the country. and we timed her transporting fuel to nato forces has been hit by a bomb in northwest pakistan sixteen of people gathering to collect spilled fuel were burned to death when another fire broke out while many others were injured some other vehicles and containers also carrying supplies for nato troops in afghanistan were destroyed in a separate incident nearby. former i.m.f. chief has been released from behind bars after posting a one million dollar bail during the external scandal will go under house arrest in manhattan where he will be guarded around the clock the french politician is charged on seven counts including criminal sexual acts attempted rape and sexual abuse well he denies the allegations. but the crisis in libya and the uprisings in the middle east and north africa will no doubt take center

stage as world leaders prepare for a g. eight meeting in france next week or over resident in new york laurie harf innis asked people on the streets of the big apple what else should be discussed. 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 i mean just saving the planet and also humanity politics and more people and more communication and more truth do you think that they'll 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 i hope all that they set those aside at least enough to come to some kind of mine 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 fast i think multi ability is able to talk about a few issues they're able to talk about i don't know if the able to solve them all in one time or the problems will never go i. don't believe the world leaders can fix them seem to be trying to fix them so. why do they have the stomach. well. fixing the problems by 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'd be much better off then maybe the summit should be more like a retreat where they talk about how they can get along and less about the economy well the economy is important but better the economy would follow if they got everything else straightened out i think you better what you want the world leaders to solve the bottom line and let's just hope they can set aside their differences

so they can work collectively for change. it. there's a place on our planet where winter wears the crown all year round but despite extreme weather conditions life in antarctica is flourishing in fact it's really banks that are subzero temperatures that penguins and sea lions call this unfriendly place oh well our man on the paul shawn thomas got to know some of the region's inhabitants. john at the bottom of the earth there is a land of ice and a 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 long time from as a continent for all another half year starting from tiny creatures up to seals and

penguins is unique it is and you can never find it anywhere else only here. but extreme temperatures and start conditions meaning that you won't find any polar bears down here so we don't have any 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 converts time records and 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 you know has four different types of seals you can expect to see six if you're lucky the penguins to this three of the brushtail penguins you'd expect to see in that incident but a most trips we're lucky and see up to six different species included the wildlife in antarctica. and the frog built one of the main areas of study down here on this

continent is study of the environment to make sure that they can learn how to protect. we are seeing into 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 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 you can see. what you do in the future to prevent such a rapid change in the environment there is a very big message and there's nowhere on the planet for us to try but it is one of three sites which has the fastest growing increase in average whether it be winter temperatures. western siberia alaska and the antarctic peninsula which is warming five terms for us at the end of the plane leaving many to wonder what is to become

of the animals that call this place home in antarctica sean thomas r t. well we've prepared a whole series of reports from antarctica so don't miss them here on our t.v. but in case you do you can always catch them at r.t. dot com plus sean thomas' blog about his several weeks on the peninsula is also on life and make sure you check out. 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 antarctica so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is. on the front the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. now life at zero gravity is a sensation few of us will ever experience that's why our t. son tom burton to meet an american astronaut ahead of his mission to the

international space station next week to find out about the challenges of life in orbit. 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 gets relax 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 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 or 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 fry in the drain you can wash your hair completely close and get a little soapy water on your hair and then scrub it up the water didn't fall down on your clothing it just sticks to your head and you must size it gently you keep massage it with a lot of energy then you have droplets of water in a pattern 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 and you start taking apart can you take out all the little screws well you can't just set him on the other 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. 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 kit i lost my fork on the second day of the mission but. i don't know 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 and i came floating out from some corner and what about the food is that the challenge of food is a lot like camping food most of the u.s. food is produced right so if you add water and let it sit for a bit it rehydrate and become something you'd recognize like rituals or expertise or shrimp cocktail in regular 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 in your nose or in your eyes so in the air conditioning filters and so we don't use regular bread much we use tortillas. follow the preparations on our tea dot com as well as other news stories and videos on our website that i'd like for you right now a conflict from a female perspective read an interview with the iron lady of the middle east from

the front for the liberation of palestine. not like cat and dog we have a few right mom who answered the cry of war to nurse a little called back to health at a siberian soup. at the end of the world is almost here well at least according to one religious group in the us by the calculations of family radio today is judgment day and a huge earthquake is about to destroy the planet artie's kaylin ford met the group to find out what other horrors and wait on may twenty first. have you heard the awesome news watch watch watch the world is ending death destruction that's all you can see. nine months ago eddie and jessica ramos hit the road to tell people just that and away from green that this was the best way. to do what we're supposed to do pointing to what the bible is telling us to do to warn the people

there are three daughters travel with them i homeschooled they were in school for a little bit and then now that it's twice a year we decided to per hour. much as possible jefferson abbey aren't alone theirs is just one of four caravans roaming the country preaching the apocalypse they believe the world 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 may 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. there's never been anything like this before so it's hard to prove this world. the bible promised that everybody all nations will get this message before vote for the first world and everything in between including kerry bombers s.u.v.

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 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 california plate actually sinking into the ocean this is actually depiction of fire and it's talking about how the lord is going to bring down a 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 trap. around the world killing millions but before that happens all the true believers will be called up for the word christ and they want to spiritless and i've been here for five months. sorrell 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 dogshit for those called up to heaven

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