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hello this is our see live from moscow this saturday evening it's eleven pm here now and kevin i went to the top story and israel's rejected a us call for peace with the palestinians based on the pre nine hundred sixty seven war borders the deal with maine the jewish state's withdrawal from discreated territories prime minister binyamin netanyahu who is in washington for talks described the proposed boundaries as indefensible but it's not his christine for azhar reports next it's america's decades long approach towards israel that is failing to break the stalemate now. it is a scene all too familiar in this region a protest on israel's border that leads. to violence. here in with the may fifteenth protest marking what palestinians called not 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 van 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 a violation of the law the one 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 and 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 right i don't know 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 any use of 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 and simultaneously working against it paying somebody bribing somebody to change their

behavior doesn't work when you world the ron 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 bomb o.c. is or how he sees it and he says it better than borscht 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 a concern for many including former u.s. congresswoman cynthia mckinney they call it the executive branch state but 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.

this is the water there but 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. . meanwhile a palestinian official says his people are planning to seek u.n. recognition of this state despite warnings that their efforts will fail and political writer will amend all spoke to says there's no tension splitting between the u.s. and its main ally in the region israel as well the u.s. agenda is not the agenda the 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 israel speak with the basis of the trust relationship between israel and washington is been drastically challenge 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 the nice words that obama said yesterday are window dressing but content is one of the continued tension between israel and washington under the guise of a so-called peace. that was a political writer with talking about the two writing us is ready relations to us but earlier on. nato's campaign in libya iran was on two months off or it started the u.s. which led the operation is still highly engaged without official consent from congress according to the constitution america's military action over libya is now illegal results is lorna's to reports few on capitol hill seem concerned. fifty eight. fifty nine. sixty i said

at the outset that this was one to be a matter of days and weeks. and days to turn two months in libya the battle rages on in washington time has run out. this rhetoric is running up against a real broke lock in the carry. on thinking for power things 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 president did not seek in a war begin with. nor really has there been much discussion of the war powers act nor does it seem there will be when pressed by the majority of congress not with leaders of the senate foreign relations committee saying there are no plans for action and top lawmakers like john mccain saying quote he's never recognized the constitutionality of the war powers act nor has any president which is only sort of true according to legal and political experts every president has expressed some concerns about its constitutionality but interestingly not a single president has questioned the sixty day rule hathaway says if obama does this would set a new precedent for combat by a president who campaigned on ending u.s. wars and abiding by constitutional law. still when it comes to work powers there's enough blame to go around absolutely congress doesn't take it seriously and

president seven taken it seriously and us it's 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 at the idea of having laws that you can still go out and give it a full speeches as the president seems to do in peace and justice in principle. as the clock strikes basically 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 of amber rule of law in theory in reality in the nation's capital though no alarm appears to be going on lauren lyster r.t.e. washington d.c. . list of an island told r.t. this congress a 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 done it but it's clearly a move in the direction of more executive power and more executive years in the. congressional war making power people they want to take credit if it goes well the praise the president or if it goes well badly they can criticize him but if you have a vote on a declaration of war or anything or a sort of authorization for that they have to go on record as either opposing it or supporting it and therefore you know they can get blamed by their constituents one way or the other so just 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. head of the program a trip to the coldest confidence in the world. is fascinating i'm sorry. for the many different kinds of merrill's to be found down here. plus we do our best to discover if the predictions of the world are set to end the day holds any truth. first though thousands of people staging demonstrations across georgia to mali president saakashvili steps earlier unconfirmed reports that police had opened fire on protesters in the seaside resort of her to me in the capital tbilisi over five thousand people across the world will open its eyes to what's happening in georgia they say the current regime's take it away people telling credit freed of claiming relief continued presence at the top puts the whole region rich in the capital large numbers of police will have been

put on standby previously opposition rallies have been violently suppress the demonstrators detain. russia says the proposed european missile defense system is a test for the future of europe speaking after a meeting with his german polish counterpart foreign minister sergey lavrov expressed concerns that the process is being stalled by moscow's partners. much of that was over to. the concepts and it's obviously we would like to be sure of european missile defense to be resolved by taking the interests of all european countries into account we should start by green 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 grow our partners say we don't need to put this on paper and they say 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 can either be a common hold for assault or we could end up throwing it back in time and this and thirty years look. on what has been concerned over the alliance's failure to guarantee that a project were not threatened russia's security the u.s. is pushing on with the building of a missile base in romania saying you know help protect europe from countries like iran and north korea russia wants an equal part in the project where there's very little progress so far in reaching a compromise. also around the world slide at least six people have been killed and over twenty injured after a suicide bomber struck from a hospital in kabul the attackers blew himself up inside a tent filled with medical students eating their lunch it was a military hospital two attackers were believed to be in there one of which detonated explosives while the other is thought to have got away alive the taliban has claimed responsibility for the bombing. in spain thousands continue to protest

against the pre-election ban on mass gatherings of 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 the protests began a week ago and spread across the country. twenty children and four adults have been buried by a landslide that have been lazy and often is just south of the capital kuala lumpur six pupils in a warden will fold out with serious injuries but the bodies of five boys have so far been recovered from going heavy rain for was cited as the cause of the landslide the tragedy struck during the afternoon when the children were practicing traditional molay drums in the school grounds. after six months of bloodshed and political standoff father son would sworn in as the president of ivory coast more than twenty heads of state attended the ceremony last november's election but the former leader laurent gbagbo refused to hand over power a battle between the opponents left three thousand dead and forced over

a million to flee the violence. the crisis in libya and the uprisings in the middle east north africa will no doubt take center stage as world leaders prepare for a g. eight summit in france next week our own resident in new york laurie half an assassin people on the streets of the big apple what else they think 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 birth i mean just saving the planet and also humanity list politics and more people and more communication and more trees 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. most countries come to the table

with their own best interests in mind are you hopeful that they care and that those aside at least enough to come to some common i'm hopeful that my retirement savings is worse something when i retire would it be better if they just chose one to work on and fix that first i think multi ability is able to talk about a few issues they're able to talk about i don't have the able to solve them all in one time of the problems will never go away i don't believe the world leaders can fix them seem to be drawing love to fix them so i can see it fixing the problem so why do they have the stomach. well. fixing the problem. and i just wish people would get along a little bit better together just the nationalities of the different religions and i think we'd be much better off so 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 got everything else straightened out i think you better what you want the world leaders to 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 all year round surprised because of a climate that is wildlife is booming and i'm out of the south pole thomas the penguins and sea lions i call 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 on terror related for for

a long. time it seems that for all of that we have here starting from tiny creatures up to seal them. is unique and you can never find it anywhere else only here. but extreme temperatures and stark conditions meaning 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 treasure life is limited to the vegetation and maybe some. progress 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 privacy as 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 to see up to six different species. of life in antarctica

is close and fragile three 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 dramatic changes in such a short period of time. it is what you do in the future to prevent such a rapid change in the environment there is a very big mess which it is no where on the planet changing for us to enter the picture is one of three sites which has the the fastest growing increase in average whether it be winter temperatures there is western siberia alaska and we entered typically in china which is warming five times faster than the in the leaving many

to wonder what is to become of the animals that call this place home in antarctica sean thomas r.t. . over a whole mini series of reports coming out from on top of the curve for you that was the second of them you can catch them online as well about seed or coleman sean thomas is. constantly updated about his experiences on the continents online make sure you can check it out if you get a minute. 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 and sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special that attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is a boat and fragile. expedition to the bottom of the earth artsy. cold war experiences now this time auto racing in

zero gravity is a sensation i guess that very few of us will ever experience that's why acting sometimes bugs i 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 of the training center north of moscow and we've managed to catch a rare moment where the cosmonauts and astronauts get to relax after all their exams of training before going 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

where 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 close could get a little soapy water on your hair and then scrub it out in the water didn't fall down on your clothing you just sticks to your head when you must start it gently massage it with a lot of energy then you have droplets of water in a big pattern spring around your head 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 just sort of money 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. you know what i look for 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. 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 is that the challenge of food is a lot 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'd recognise like the troubles are potatoes or shrimp cocktail in 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 and you know soon your eyes are in the air conditioning filters and so we don't use regular bread much we use tortillas. now rules are a nice piece of toast so i guess now there's more from my for some on line tonight

and more stories about the i assessed master of the russian soyuz craft to play there for space from a part of our team dot com while you're there you may be interested in the story of a former cia agent puts his foot in it by saying osama bin ladin hasn't been killed in a u.s. operation but it actually died five years ago we got more not stories generating a lot of interest i'm sure you can see why it's about si dot com tonight also the events that are the whole world is glued to the t.v. the war a wedding in the u.k. didn't prove as popular as the victory day parade here in russia if you missed this but the military might then you can relive it our single column for the want to go to you tube channel. he.

be official r t how to change your body phone or i pod touch from the. on the go. video on. mine old girls. or a sense for you know in the palm of your. com . when ecstasy was there your much proclaimed end of the world still hasn't occurred at least we're still broadcasting here from my son for moscow on our team hope you're all there too if you want to want to talking about aids because may the twenty first was declared to be doomsday by one religious group in the u.s. but the calculations are one as to harold camping the eighty nine year old. founder of the group was that

a huge earthquake was due to start at six pm local time all over the world well it's thirty past six pm here in moscow and to be absolutely sure i guess we should wait until six in the evening in california if nothing happens then i guess we can move on and relax until the next big date when it's not your ass well it's december twenty knots christmas that's not the end of the world will come according to the ancient mayan calendar. as cautiously look ahead than to see what see or not see in the next hour shall we talk about how europe will respond to the influx of immigrants escaping unrest a manner of regions in a later spotlight show that's off for a short break to recover our top stories what is kevin i mean this is artsy international from moscow.

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