the global financial headlines. board on march. eighteenth ally israel and the us stumble over palestine as prime minister netanyahu rejects president obama's proposals of the middle east as indefensible and red lipstick. b.s. our actual immediate cause is the sixty day deadline with our congressional approval but washington doesn't seem to care too much that its military campaign is now officially illegal. and then the sort of problem for the gun to live in the world's largest temperatures on sea camels are tough to go to get back to nature but the regions of the unique wildlife.

welcome to our teacher in trolley news line from moscow i'm going to ship arlo to our main story now as tensions rise between america and prime minister binyamin netanyahu his visit to the us both pro israeli and pro printing invoices have been criticizing president obama's call for new steps towards peace but as our she is christian for as our report some point to believe america's long standing approach is the real problem. it is a scene own too familiar in this region of protests on israel's border that lead. to violence. here it was the may fifteenth protest marking what palestinians call nakba or catastrophe the creation of the state of israel on this date in one

thousand nine hundred because for israel it was a matter of security according to dan call a co-director of the zionist organization of america i don't know what any country will do when people gather on your border and come across it in violation of the law. but 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 has 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 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 in the u.s. says it's in gauged in the process of a two state solution but is funding and supporting behavior by israel that simultaneously working against. 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 israel if it put off the construction of jewish settlements for three months regardless of water well most areas or how serious it. had been bush but what he does is to say the costs of peace are high high cost of broad and 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 that 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 for south r.t. . you know our political officials have an hours they will soon go through with their plan to seek united nations recognition of their state despite president obama's warning that century would be pointless political writer william says tensions are rising between the u.s. any zero despite the lack of american support for the palestinian state. 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 israel he stated the basis of the trust relationship between israel and washington has been drastically

challenged good 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 the content is one of the continued tension between israel and washington under the guise of the so-called peace. efforts political advisor william and without talking about the t.v. ratings us israeli relations. president barack obama says the u.s. is no longer leaving the military campaign in libya the sixty day deadline passes requiring congress' approval thought fobbing government and america's a war powers act no tenet has been made to ask for lawmakers to extend their engagement but is also he's on the list of reports here on capitol hill seem to

have even noticed. 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 broke lock thing here you said the don't think they are power think there's a war powers 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 began 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 u.s. media don't take it seriously meanwhile u.s. drones fly over libya dropping bombs and the laws governing this type of mission seem to have flown out the window to it makes a joke of the whole idea of having laws but you can still go out and give you the whole speeches as the president seems to do and talk about peace and justice the principles. as the clock strike these six feet in the libyan intervention and the bill has 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 rudder right and the rule of law in theory in reality in the nation's capital though no longer appears to. going on lauren lyster r.t.e. washington d.c.

. political analyst i haven't read and says that congress is shying away from a decision on media so you can sit on the fence and support the war or. if you. don't 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 sort of haitian 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 goat on a declaration of war and he threw sort of authorization for that they have to go on record as either opposing it or supporting it and therefore you know they can get blamed by their constituents one way or the other so it just let the president take responsibility and we'll you know we'll be kidded 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. to figure out a trip to the cold it's continents and that was. the right part of this is it is i'm sorry listen coming up on our to we explore the many different parts of the animals that this sound down here it's so. let's do our best to this cafe's the prediction that the world is about to end up already. thousands of people have been staging demonstrations across georgia demanding presence like russian roulette steps down early reports police opened fire from a television building in the seaside resort of but to me which required try to storm demanding live coverage approaches that in the capital tbilisi over five

thousand have taken to the streets demonstrating against the base there was an oppressive regime protester said there are classic freedoms have been taken away claiming sacrifice really is continued presence at the top of the whole region at risk so protesters have vowed to stay put out the night and continue their demonstration large numbers of policemen have been put on standby as nor positions supporters from outside the capital are expected to reach the city on sunday previously anti-government rallies have been violent this surprised and the last traitors to take. russia says nato is reluctance to give legal guarantees that the proposed join and trying to european missile defense system will not threaten the country is there a continuing cause of concern for a minister sergey lavrov was speaking after talks with his german and polish counterparts and playing grab. the most noticeable so earlier 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 green depleted 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 say we don't need to put some people in the street it's an obvious thing that this refusal to answer our wish list does raise some concerns and we hope to build a lead to rest in the near future as the greens we come to will determine the future of europe continues time goes on you can either be a comma. or we're going to end up throwing your back in time since the early years . so the u.s. is pushing or would be building a missile base and romania saying it will help from countries like iran and north korea russia wants an equal part of the project but negotiations are progressing slowly the meeting coming granted is an attempt by the three countries to work together political security energy and these agencies. and on to some other

headlines from around the world at least six people have been killed and dozens injured in a suicide bomb attack on a military hospital in there i've been capital kabul that time because it's a major he's gone inside a tent filled with medical students at lunch the tigers were believed to be at the hospital with one blowing himself up to help the others still to have escaped the taliban has claimed responsibility for the bombing. to ensure children and four adults have been buried by a landslide that hit and the lazy and also it's just hours of the cattle call and the six peoples and a routine were pulled out with serious injuries the bodies of five boys have so far been recovered ongoing heavy rainfall has cited as because of the landslide tragedy that struck during the afternoon when the triggered world practiced inclusion at the late trans in the school grounds. after months of bloodshed and political standoff understated what iran has when soon as the

president of ivory coast's lot more than twenty heads of state attended the ceremony to our one last november's election but before leading the wrong but both refused to hand over power a battle between the opponents three thousand people dead and forced over a million to leave the violence that's. the crisis in libya and the uprisings in the middle east and north africa are well no doubt take center stage as world leaders prepare for g eight meeting in france next week and our own president in new york laurie horton is to ask people on the streets of the big apple mortals 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

less politics and more people and more communication and more truth do you think that bill 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 care and that those as that at least enough to come to some compromise and i'm hopeful that my retirement savings is were 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 the more than one type of the problems will never go i. don't believe the world leaders can fix them seem to be drawing enough to fix them so ok so you fix the problem so why do they have the stomach. well.

lord i just wish people would get along a little bit better together just all the nationalities all the different religions and i think. maybe the summit should be more like a retreat where they talk about how they can get along in. the economy well the economy is important but the economy we've 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 feticide their differences so they can work collectively for change. now it's a part of the world where winter runs the show. surprisingly it's because of antarctica climate that's why life is booming on the south pole thomas the penguins and sea lions that call this uncompromising place heart.

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 turkey later to follow for a long as a continent that means that the fall now that we have here starting from a tiny creature is up to seals and penguins is unique and you can never find it anywhere else. but extreme temperatures and starts conditions mean that you won't find any polar bears down here so we don't have any tourist real 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 treasure life is limited to vegetation and maybe some converts tiny targets 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 were a tremendous range of seals in those four different types of seals you could expect to see six if you're lucky the penguins to three of the brushtail penguins you'd expect to see in the peninsula but to most trips we're lucky to see up to six different species that the wildlife in antarctica. and the frog built the main areas of study down here on this continent is the environment to make sure that they can learn. we are seeing of the adelie penguins which are the most abundant penguin species in the antarctic and true ice loving species they are declining in the antarctic peninsula seriously and may disappear 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. time the concern is what to do in the future to prevent such a rapid change in the environment there's a very big mess which i mean there's no way on the planet changing for us to argue that it is one of three sides which as far as his growing are increasing in average weather kicking in winter temperatures days in western siberia last year i mean antarctica in china which is warming five times for us to believe in the plane leaving many to wonder what is to become of the animals they call this place home in antarctica sean thomas archie. and we'll have a whole mini series of reports coming up from one targeted planet but also cashed in on the line as well as i don't see dot com and sean thomas says the goal about his experiences on the continent is also online make show you check it out. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge

it up and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers flight makes antarctica so special but attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is. in the flood zone. expedition to the bottom of the earth. easing in zero gravity is a sensation few of us will ever experience that's why aussies sent tom boston 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 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 space station because the water wouldn't know how to fly into the brain you can wash your hair completely close but could get a little soapy water on your hair and then scrub it out in the water didn't fall down on your clothing it just sticks to your head when you must start it gently if you massage it with a lot of energy then you have droplets of water in a big pattern spreading around your head and 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 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 like rocket. but you know what i look at it's right around your feet someplace up there it can go in any direction my first space shuttle mission i lost my fork we each have our kit i lost my fork on the second day of the mission but. i don't have my fork and so i ate with a spoon and a knife for the rest of the flight as we were packing up to come home two weeks later when i came floating out from some corner and what about the food these days that's a challenge of food it's a lot like camping food most of the u.s. food is freeze dried so if you add water and let it sit for a bit it rehydrate and become something you'd recognise like vegetables or potatoes or shrimp cocktail a 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 there in the air conditioning filters it so we don't use regular bread much we use tortillas. and there's actually plenty more what life is like on the r.s.s. and alice pays a lot section as auntie dot com and what we know about you may be interested in leads to a way to an agent quick hits a person into saying a solid in-law that hasn't been killed in a u.s. operation but the launch of the instead of something. into the environment that had the whole world glued to the t.v. if you are reading in the u.k. didn't serve as a pin up as a victory day parade named russia and if your myspace article of military might have been written like that at all so you don't home to watch it on you tube channel. it.

is easy. to. see. the official geo location giong phone. from the. video. she mine. on the call she just called. and it seems the much proclaimed and of the world hasn't occurred as far as we can tell from central moscow here to assay where we're

all still around in case you hadn't heard an american religious group has spent recent days aware warning the world was going to end in flames and may the twenty first so i think calculations of how old counting the eight hundred nine year old of founder of the group a huge earthquake was to start at six pm local time all over the world well it's past six pm here in moscow and the only movement we've heard is from some roadworks outside but to be absolutely sure let's wait till it's six pm in california and if for nothing happens then we can relax well at least until december twentieth wow that's when the end of the world will well come according to the ancient mayan calendar so let's wait and see. right here up to date out the back of the headlines followed by a program with a lot of entry. if

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solar system obviously everybody here must be well lost income it's because road systems bigger number that's true. and yet billions of dollars oil and gas state. real baby drill. one needs funding to close some sun and one my frustration to consider potential areas for development in south atlantic and the gulf of mexico. and. well to british scientists sometimes that's right. hi fred.