an. on outings tonight in alienating allies israel and the us stumble over a pile of problems that rejects president obama's proposals on the middle east is indefensible and unrealistic. the u.s. arsenal libya passes its sixty day deadline without congressional approval washington doesn't seem prepared to do much with its military campaign is now officially illegal. and it's not a problem for them to live in the world's harshest temperatures to travel from one part to put back the think region unique.

this is r.t. live from moscow and suddenly evening eight pm here now i'm karen o. in with the top story for you and israel's project of a u.s. call for peace with the palestinians based on the pre nine hundred sixty seven war borders the deal would mean the jewish state's withdrawal from disputed territories probably mr benjamin netanyahu who is in washington for talks described the proposed boundaries as indefensible results is christine for zero reports of america's decades long approach towards israel but 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 it was the may fifteenth protest marking what palestinians call 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 van hollen 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 a violation of the law. but for palestinians it is the continuation of the sea. analysts 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 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 this system as it is that it uses 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 it simultaneously working against it paying somebody bribing somebody to change their

behavior doesn't work when you've world the run 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 award obama says or how he sees it and he says it better than bush but what he does. 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 the executive branch state. 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 if elections eighteen months away. this

is a lot of them 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 yet again christine freeze out r t. a palestinian official says his people are planning to seek u.n. recognition of their state despite barack obama's warnings that their efforts will not work but political writer william amdo spoke to us and says tension is now also growing between the u.s. and its main ally in the region israel to the u.s. agenda is not to the agenda of the barak obama claims or 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 israel and the basis of the trust relationship between israel and washington is being drastically challenge by the us support of these destabilization from egypt tunisia libya and the entire

middle east since the end of a 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. one of the continued tensions between israel and washington under the guise of the so-called peace those political writer would go talking about the us israeli relations right now. now it has campaign in libya rumbles on two months after it started with the us which led the operation is still highly engaged without official consent from congress according to the constitution america's military action over libya is no legal result is literalist the reports few on capitol hill seem concerned. fifty eight. fifty nine. sixty seven at the outset that this was going to be

a matter of days and 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 broke lock me here you don't think the world powers this is a war powers act 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 united states that the president did not seek or decoration 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 as 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. but still when it comes to war powers there's enough blame to go around absolutely congress doesn't take it seriously and kristen seven taken 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 too makes a joke at the idea of having laws that you can still go out in putin's beautiful speeches as the president seems to do an arc about peace and justice and principles . as the clock strike days 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 the right direction and the rule of law in theory in reality in the nation's capital though no alarm appears to. going on lauren lyster r. t. washington d.c. political analyst. saying that congress is shying away from a decision on libya 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 you're so patient in the. progression of war making power people they'd 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 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 let the president take responsibility and we'll you know will 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 than bush ever went. this is our see from moscow

still ahead for you a trip to the coldest and driest continent in the world. is fascinating i'm sorry sir listen coming out party with for the many different kinds of parallels that can be found down here. and we do our best to discover if the prediction of the world will end today holds any truth. next though police in georgia have reportedly opened fire on antigovernment protesters in the seaside resort of but to me after they try to enter a local t.v. building some two thousand people have gathered to demand the president saakashvili steps down in the capital tbilisi itself for the five thousand people a pool the world will open its eyes to is happening in georgia right now they say the current regime is taking away people's democratic freedoms in this continued presence of the stuff. in the capital large numbers of policemen have been put on standby previously opposition rallies have been violently suppressed and

demonstrators detained. russia says the proposed joint european missile defense system is a test for the future of europe speaking after meeting with his german and polish counterparts the foreign minister sergey lavrov expressed concerns that the process has been stalled by moscow's partners. much of that was over so obviously concepts and it's obviously 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 by agreeing to create a joint european missile defense system at the moment this process 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 the good our partners say we don't need to put this on paper they see it's an obvious thing but this refusal to answer our request does raise some concerns and we hope that they will be laid to rest in the near future with the agreement we come to will determine the future of europe continues time where you

are and it can either be a common hold for assault or we could end up throwing it back in time some thirty years look. what has been concerned that the alliances failure to guarantee a good project will not threaten russia's security the u.s. is pushing meantime on with the building of a missile base in romania so it will help protect you of countries like iran and north korea russia one compartment project what has been little progress so far in reaching a compromise. and check out some other world news now briefly at least six people killed in a beautiful city start from a struck the main the christmas spirit in kabul an attack approved inside a tent that was filled with medical students eating lunch two attackers were believed to be in the hospital at the time one of them detonated explosives while the other states of the where life taliban claimed responsibility for them. in spain thousands continue to protest despite a large election ban on 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 economic policies approaches become a week ago and spread across the country. thirty children four adults have been buried by a landslide that hit them a lazy an orphanage just south of the capital kuala lumpur six pupils in a war and we're told there were serious injuries the bodies of five boys so far being recovered ongoing heavy rainfall was cited as the cause of the landslide tragedy struck during the afternoon the children were practicing provisional lay drums in the school. after six months of bloodshed and political standoff follows some of tyra's being sworn in as the president of ivory coast more than twenty heads of state attended the ceremony but tahrir won last november's election but the former leader long refused to hand over power a battle between the opponents left three thousand people dead and forth over a million to flee the violence. 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 our own resident in new york laurie half an assassin 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 as a bishop be focusing on. greening for me just saving the planet and also humanity politics and more people and more communication and more truth do you think they'll do that no not in one 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 set those aside at least enough to come to some compromise and i'm

hopeful that my retirement savings were something when i retire would it be better if they just chose one to work on and fix that first i think the 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 of the problems will never go i. don't believe the world leaders can fix them now they don't seem to be drawing love to fix them so if you're the problem why do they have the stomach. well. fixing the problems. 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 and maybe this time it should be more like a retreat where they talk about how they can get along and less about the economy. the economy is important but better the economy would follow if they got everything else straightened out i think remember 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. on our part of the world where winter runs the show all the surprise and it's because of antarctica's climate these wildlife is booming our man there on the south pole sean thomas paine wins and seeing lions the call this uncompromising place. down 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. the continent

to follow now that we have here starting from a tiny creatures are concealed and. you can never find it anywhere else only here. but extreme temperatures and stark conditions mean 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 and the only trust your life is limited to the vegetation and maybe some of its tiny turds 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 in a different type of sea if you could it's hard to see six if you're lucky the penguins to three of the brushtail playing with you it's hard to see in the peninsula but a most trips we're lucky to see up to six different species. of life and parts. and

fragile through one of the main areas of study down here on this continent is the environment to make sure that they can learn. 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 a dramatic changes in such a short period of time the concern is. what you 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 for us to start but it is one of three sites which has the fastest growing increase in average weather to create winter temperatures bays western siberia alaska and the antarctic peninsula which is warming five times faster believe in the plane leaving many to wonder what

is to become of the animals that call this place home in antarctica sean thomas r t but like you know we've got a whole mini series of reports coming up for you from antarctica you can also catch them online as well on our side dot com i'm showing thomas' blog to about his experiences on the continent also online for you whenever you want to check it out . more than a month. in 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 for it makes sense arctic is so special that detracted from many wildlife in antarctica it is. and the fragile. expedition to the bottom of the earth. well for sure and soon the now it's twenty past eight here in moscow and it seems the much proclaimed end of the

world still hasn't occurred at least i think i'm still here still in the streets of moscow and maybe twenty first was declared to be doomsday by one religious group in the us but calculations of harold camping the eighty nine year old founder of the group were that huge earthquake would start at six pm traveling around the world though it's a bit unclear which six pm was local time central european time any other time manjoo camping also predicted you may recall this one the judgment day once before back in september one thousand nine hundred four ok so i guess we'll have to wait till twelve that's when the end of the world will according to the ancient tech talent. would like kurds know what you think about that subject other thing else you see on our channel. on our website a place where you can have your say and always stories about so you got caught we can check out we also got lined up with you there as well about teen girl can't

even live maybe dead but the islamophobia in the u.s. and very much alive we try to find out who is behind the hostilities there these days that's on lines like a moment. for russia with love a blacksmith from the urals and so impressed by their already made the newlyweds a special gift find out exactly what that is if you'd started r.t. dot com be sure to catch all of our best videos in all you tube travel to. the official on. your i phone on called touch.

on the. video. of your. eating in zero gravity is a sensation few of us will ever experience that's why artsy sent tom barton to meet american astronauts 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 and 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 so 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 find the drain you can wash your hair completely closed and get a little soapy water on your hair and then scrub it up the water didn't fall down on your clothing you just sticks to your head when you must start it gently. 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 you start picking apart and you take out all the little screws well you can't just set him on the 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. you know where to look because it's right around your feet someplace up there it can go in any direction on my first space shuttle mission and i lost my fork we have our eating kit i lost my fork on the second day of the mission. 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 pre-strike so if you add water and let it sit for a bit and it rehydrate and become something you recognise like vegetables or ration taters or shrimp cocktail and regular bread has 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 so in your eyes so in the air conditioning filters and so we don't use regular bread much we use tortillas. fifty things you never knew perils of life or the gravity or the perils of spending so much coming up martin andrews discovers on r t that he can shop the drops in a few minutes so on this channel and also the sport coming up to big fight night here in moscow we got coverage and previews of that coming up shortly some of that stuff that in fact i want to see this saturday night the twenty first of may.

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collapse nature's steps back making way for the chunks of goats or as you look around the museum and see all in all the solar it's obviously above you must be well off income since the road systems bigger number. it's true. and yet billions of dollars oil and gas stay. real baby drill. one names under the costumes and one high blood pressure will consider potential areas for development in south atlantic and the gulf of mexico. and.

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