market. why not what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our deep. ties at all to see alienating allies israel and the us stumble over palestine as prime minister netanyahu rejects president obama's proposals on the middle east is indefensible and realistic. the u.s. action in libya passes its sixty day deadline that congressional approval from washington doesn't seem to care too much for the military campaign is now officially illegal. but it's not a problem for them to live in the walls harshest temperatures are to trouble trying to get by the nature of the region's unique was a lot of. cricket

even for moscow it's nine pm here now this is r t with me kevin how and first israel's rejected a us 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 promised abandonment of yahoos in washington for talks described the proposed boundaries is indefensible but that is christine for reports next it's 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 it was the may fifteenth protest marking what palestinians called not or catastrophe the creation of the state of israel on this date in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 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 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 endorsement 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 but 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 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 their use of money your with the jerusalem project says talk is cheap when the us says it's in gauged in the process of a two state solution but is funding and supporting behavior by israel it simultaneously working against it somebody bribing somebody to change their behavior doesn't work when you spoil 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 a water bomber say is or how he sees it and he says it better than bush but what he does is say the costs of peace are high high cost of broad and at home pro israel many 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 they call 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 you're about to see 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 yet again christine for south r.t. . meanwhile the palestinian official says his people are planning to seek u.n. recognition of their status by barack obama's warnings that their efforts will fail but all right so one of my girls or two of. the u.s. agenda is not the agenda that barack obama claims it 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 challenge 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 a so-called peace political rights they were talking about that erasing us israeli relations. campaign in libya rumbles on to balance our friends started the u.s. which led the operation still highly engaged without official consent from congress according to the constitution america's military action of libya is now illegal but as it is there are listed reports for you on capitol hill seem concerned. fifty eight. fifty nine. sixty i said 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 growth bloc think gary you said you don't think in her power think there's 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 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's 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 president seven taking it seriously and u.s. media don't take it seriously need while 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 that you can still go out in putin's beautiful speeches as the president seems to do and talk about peace and justice and principles. as the clock strikes the basic theme in the libyan intervention and the bill hits a 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 rhetoric and the rule of law in theory in reality in the nation's capital though no alarm appears to be going on or lister r.t. washington d.c. . list over now i'm sold out saying that congress is showing 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 it 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. congressional war making power people 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 anything 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 it's just like the president take responsibility and well you know we'll be kid it serves 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 those sort of i've been a little ahead on the program

a trip to the coast and driest continent in the world. wildlife. is i'm sorry thomas i'm coming up on our seaweeds who are the many different kinds of merrill's that this town down here. plus we do our best to discover if the prediction that the world will end today helps any truth. thousands of people are staging demonstrations across georgia demanding president saakashvili steps down earlier unconfirmed reports said police opened fire on protesters in the seaside resort of but to me in the capital tbilisi of five thousand one of the world welcome signs to what's happening in georgia right now they say the current regime is taking away people's democratic freedoms claiming the second signal presence at the top of the whole region it really going to help them because you've. previously opposition rallies have been violently some. yes the demonstrators detect. russia says a proposed joint european missile defense system is

a test for the future of europe speaking after meeting with his german polish counterparts foreign minister sergei lavrov expressed concerns that the process is being stored by moscow's partners. which was over. and services 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 greentech really 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 but our partners see we don't need to put as some people are they see it's an obvious thing and this refusal to answer our request does raise some concerns and we hope that they'll be laid to rest in the near future with the agreements we come to will determine the future of europe in ten years time or you wouldn't it can either be a common hold for assault or we could end up throwing it back in time some thirty years look. what moscow has been concerned over the alliance's failure to guarantee

that the project will not threaten russian security the u.s. is pushing on with the building of a missile base in romania saying it will help protect europe from countries like iran and north korea russia wants an equal part in the project but there's been little progress so far in reaching a compromise. thirty minutes past nine moscow time and we take this means national news in brief at least six people being killed and twenty injured or pursue side bomber struck the main military hospital in kabul that attack a bloom staff inside a tent filled with medical students eating your lunch two attackers were believed to be in the hospital one of them detonated the explosives at the time the others still to go to where. the taliban has claimed responsibility for bring. in more world news from the our t.v. news channel in spain thousands continue to protest despite a pre-election ban on mass gatherings people camped out overnight in madrid central square cheering and chanting anti-government slogans demonstrators gathered to

protest high unemployment and government economic policy the protests began a week ago and spread across the country. twenty children and four adults have been buried by a landslide that hit in the mazy an orphanage just south of the capital kuala lumpur six pupils in a war that were pulled out with serious injuries the bodies of five boys and so far being recovered ongoing heavy rain was cited as the cause of the rainfall tragedy as the cause of the landslide rather the tragedy struck during the afternoon and the children were practicing fishel malaysia problems in the school grounds. after six months of bloodshed and political standoff tyro has been sworn in as the president of ivory coast's more than twenty heads of state attended the ceremony which are won last november's election but the former leader laurent gbagbo refused to hand over power a battle between your opponents left three thousand people dead and forced 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 in this next asked people on the streets of the big apple what else should be discussed. as world leaders gather at the key eight summit what do you think they should be focusing on solving collectively this week let's talk about that artificial be focusing on. greening me to 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 i suspect most countries come to the table with their own best interests in mind are you hopeful

that they set those aside or at least enough to come to some kind of mine and 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 know if the able to solve them all in one time or the problems will never go away you don't believe the world leaders can fix them seem to be trying to fix them so i can see it fixing the problem so why do they have the stomach. 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 so 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's important but others the economy all over think about everything

else straightened out i think the 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. as a part of the world where winter runs the show surprisingly because of antarctica's climate the wildlife is booming out of the south pole the penguins and seeing lions like this uncompromising place. 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. for for a long time as

a continent if. you're starting from tiny creatures up to seals and then when you need me you can never find it anywhere else only here. but extreme temperatures and starts conditions mean that you won't find any polar bears down here so we don't have any tricycle 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 time circuits 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 in those four different types see if you can expect to see six if you're lucky the penguins to three of the brush coping with you expect to see in the peninsula but a most trips we're lucky and see up to six different species. of life and parts.

and fragile so 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 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. it is what to do in the future to prevent such a rapid change in the environment there's a very big message i mean there's no way on the planet changing for us to talk about it is one of three sites which is that the fastest growing increase in average weather kicking winter temperatures bays western siberia by last year i mean start to pull in china which is warming five times for civility 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. we hope to join our mini series of reports from antarctica you can also catch them online as well as artsy dot com and sean's blog blog going to pose experiences on the continent it's all online check it out if you get a minute. or 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 from nearly all wildlife in antarctica is a boat and the. expedition to the bottom of the earth on our civil. war adventures ating in zero gravity is a sensation few of us will ever experience that's why r.t.

ascents time botham to meet an american astronaut ahead of his mission to the international space station next week thought at all about the challenges of life in orbit. we're here in the countryside part of star city the cosmonaut 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 the shuttle missions twice and this is his first rocket mission up to the i assess and will 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 in

there 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 closed and get a little soapy water on your hair and then scrub it up in the water didn't then under your clothing it just sticks to your head and you must size it gently if you've massage it with a lot of energy then you have droplets of water in a pig pattern that 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 when you start taking it apart and you take out all the little screws well you can't just said i'm on the on the workbench 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 four 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 and as we were packing up to come home two weeks later by and came floating out from some corner and what about the food these days that's a challenge food is a lot like camping food most of the u.s. food is pretty dry so you add water and let it sit for a bit and it rehydrate and become something you'd recognize like vegetables or ration taters or shrimp cocktail 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 to go into the air and so they're there in your nose searing your eyes they're in the air conditioning filters and so we don't use regular bread much we use tortillas. and you know think about this more from the american astronaut michael for some of his observations on life in space oddity don't call me also goes on to talk more about how the simple things we take for granted here on earth

become a challenge when there's no gravity to govern what goes on around us but what you are not as well you may be interested to find out about these stories as well we've got for you tonight as some of the laws may be dead but islamophobia in the u.s. is very much alive we try to find out who is behind the host of the tease online tonight. i am from russia with love a blacksmith from the urals was so impressed by the wedding in the u.k. he has made the newlyweds a special gift by that what is it artsy dot com a reminder that you can catch all of our best videos on you tube channel to.

the official. hong kong called touch from the top story. on the. palm of your. com. well it seems the much proclaimed end of the world still hasn't occurred at least i'm still sitting in the studio here in moscow we're all still here may the twenty first was declared to day by one religious group in the us by the calculations of mr howell camping being to nine year old founder of the group a huge earthquake should have started six pm local time all over the world every local time all over the world well i can say here is well past six pm in moscow

it's twenty five now and thankfully all is still well and you can because we think that you may recall judgment day once before back in september one thousand nine hundred four for guess for now if they wait until the next bit of doom is forecast twenty twelve when the end of the world will come according to the ancient mayan calendar not the aztec calendar as we talk. about it not at. so fingers crossed all is well then the usual cautiously look ahead of what's to come over the next thirty minutes said r.t. if it was safe to do that and we explore in the program how corrupt business has created one of the world's worst manmade ecological disasters in the u.s. state of louisiana coming up a really interesting program if you're not seeing that before from us it's here in a few minutes of recap top top stories for you my name is kevin o. and it is coming up no two or nine twenty seven pm moscow time this saturday night between the first of may.

didn't start all of a sudden. it's a long story of destroying the living there how much out. there are constant or something leaks out here when they get done like that it's just if you took every fisherman out of the water and do something about that water and have

attacked protecting the habitat the fisheries it's going to collapse nature's steps making way for the chalk's adjuster to see look around museum and see the solar it's obviously there are a lot of humans well off income that's because road systems great number that's true. and yet billions of dollars oil and gas stays. real maybe drill. one needs from there to cross and so on one type of pressure will consider potential areas for development in south atlantic and the gulf of mexico. and. look.

if. russia would be so much brighter than the moon about sun from phones to impressions. for instance on t.v. don't come. nearer than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and large adults and people.