tensions mom doesn't bother to israeli and palestinian officials criticize president obama's latest proposals for peace between the suit and the future of the region as a whole. the u.s. engagement in libya plus the sixty day american legal deadline downstairs and look for a vote but neither president nor congress seem bothered as obama says the country's military involvement is not only minor. he travels to the bottom of the antarctica to discover the regents exams of wildlife remain in the world's conscious temperature it's.

news to russia and around the world this is all see with me you thanks for joining us as tensions rise between america and israel during prime minister binyamin netanyahu his visit to the garage but it's pro and pro israeli and pro palestinians voices have been criticizing president obama's call for new steps towards peace but as our christian friends our report sun points and it's believe america is a long standing approach is the real problem. 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 nakba 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 paula 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 the coalition of the world. one for palestinians it is the continuation of a seemingly endless fight for an independent palestinian state a fight in which us 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 that 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 and 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 face is all wrong american policy is built. on this conception is a wrong view of the causes of the conflict and a prescription that doesn't stand up to even the most casual scrutiny of the question is not why don't we have a solution at this point but why on earth should we expect to have a solution. with with the system as it is their 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 that simultaneously working against it paying somebody bribing somebody to change their behavior

doesn't work when you've spoiled them rotten a recent example in november the us offered several billion dollars in military assistance to israel if it put off the construction of jewish settlements for three months so regardless of what obama says or how he uses it and uses suburban bush quote 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 they 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 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 palestinian officials have announced they will soon go through with their plan to seek united nations recognition of their state that president obama's warning that such a rule would be pointless of political writer william and doubts as tensions are rising between the u.s. and israel 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 israeli statehood 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 the 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 tensions between israel and washington or the guise of so-called peace let us and this congress have william and out talking about the terror ratings us israeli relations. president barack obama says the u.s. is no longer leading the neutrik campaign in libya as the sixty day deadline passes requiring congress' approval for fighting government america's it was now time has been made to ask for lawmakers to extend the challenge but is also has a lower list of reports if you're on capitol hill seem to have even.

fifty eight. fifty nine. sixty i said at the outset that this was going to be a matter of days and not 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 the real growth block anything here you said you don't think more power things there's a war powers a war powers act a resolution that says sixty days marks the deadline for an american president pull u.s. forces from hostilities or get congress's approval for a formal declaration of war yet neither appear to be happening and according to the president publicly time seems to be the enemy only for someone else now time is working against gadhafi. he does not have control over his conference but it's unclear who or what has control over this one the law or the will of the president

the president and i seek a ration of 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. and still when it comes to work hours

there's enough blame to go around absolutely congress doesn't take it seriously and presidents haven't taken it seriously and us media outlets don't take it seriously and meanwhile u.s. drones fly over libya dropping bombs and the laws governing this type of mission seem to have flown out the window to it makes a joke of the whole idea of having laws that you can still go out in cuba's beautiful speeches as existence seems to do in peace and justice and principles. as the clock strikes the basic fee 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. going on loren lester r. t. washington d.c.

. even says that congress is shying away from the decision of the events on the fence and support the war. in iraq. 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 years soup ation of 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 any through 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 you did

a great job or you didn't do a good job george bush brought 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. a trip to the coldest continent in the world. who. is a bustling i'm so it's almost been coming on board to we it's for the many different kinds of the animals but this is seldom here just so long to do our best to discover you the prediction that the world is about to and bombs any tree. thousands of people have been staging demonstrations across georgia demanding president saakashvili it steps down early reports police opened fire from a television building in the seaside resort of that to me which required try to storm demanding live coverage of approaches than in the capital tbilisi over five

thousand have taken to the streets demonstrating against the base so as an oppressive regime protesters said democratic freedoms have been taken away claiming such release continued presence at the top because the whole region at risk some protesters have to stay throughout the night and continue their demonstration large numbers of policemen have been put on standby a small opposition supreme just from outside the capital are expected to reach the city on sunday previously anti-government rallies have been violently surprised until last trade has detained. russia says nato has reluctance to give legal guarantees that the proposed joint european missile defense system will not threaten the country is a continuing cause of concern and foreign minister sergei lavrov was speaking after talks with these german and polish counterparts and cleaning. that was so and 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 to create

a joint european missile defense system it would be good 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 this on paper ago and they say it's an obvious thing with this refusal to answer our request does raise some concerns and we hope that they will be laid to rest in the near future when the agreement we come to will determine the future of europe in ten years time as it can either be a common home for us all you got him or we could end up throwing it back in time some thirty years. the u.s. is pushing up 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 of the project but negotiations are progress and slowly the meeting including bride is an attempt by the three thousand trees to work together over political security energy and these that is. let's

check some other headlines from around the world now at least six people have been dozens injured in a suicide bomb attack on a military hospital in the alkan capital kabul that type of display that he's brought inside a tent filled with medical students at the lunch hour tigers were believed to be at the hospital with one blowing herself up while the other it's thought to have escaped the taliban has claimed responsibility for the bombing. is paying tens of thousands are protesting despite a ban on mass gatherings or have local elections on sunday the demonstrations have been sparked by the highest unemployment rate of any eurozone country with almost all the country's youth without jobs around twenty five thousand count and overnight in retreat central square chanting slogans against the government and the country's elite political activities have been strained the day before elections are banned the protesters have defied. twenty children

adults have been buried by a landslide that has a lazy and established just south of the capital called a little group of six peoples and the world and pulled apart with series injuries the borders of five boys have so far been recovered heavy rainfall was cited as because of the landslide tragedy struck during the afternoon when the truth of the world practicing traditional molé drones in the school grounds. after six months of bloodshed and political standoff on the same watch iran has been sworn in as the president of ivory crowds more than twenty heads of state attended the ceremony what's rather one last november's election but this former leader oh. and overpower the battle between the oak potence 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 and our own president in new york laurie hart and

it's also 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 if they should be focusing on. greening i mean just saving the planet and also humanity politics and more people and more communication and more trees do you think 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 i suspect most countries come to the table with their own best interests knowing i hope all that and that those as fide at least enough to come to some common mind 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 or the problems will never go i. don't believe the world leaders can fix them seem to be trying. so why do they have the stomach. well. fixing the problem. 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 the summit should be more like a retreat where they talk about how they can get along and less about the economy well the economy is important but other the economy all over figure out everything else straightened out i think you got to 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.

it's a part of the world where winter runs the snow all year round the show rather all we have around surprisingly it's because of antartica severe climate that is why life is booming and our man on the south pole sean thomas but the penguins and sea lions that call these uncompromising place hard. journey at the bottom of the earth there is a land of ice in 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 lated for for a long time as a continent. for another two a half year starting from tiny creatures up to seals and then is unique and you can

never find it anywhere else only. but extreme temperatures and start conditions meaning that you won't find any polar bears down here so we don't have any trust 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 the vegetation and maybe some impervious 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 and it is for different types of seals you could expect to see six if you're lucky the penguins to have a history of the brushtail penguin to expect to see in the peninsula but a most trips we're lucky to see up to six different species. life in antarctica. and a fresh tilt one of the main areas of study down here on this continent. 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 the concern 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 has the the for. forest is growing increase in average weather to get winter temperatures. west in siberia last year i mean antarctic village which is will be five times for us to be remembered that way leaving many to wonder what is to become of the animals that call this place home in antarctica sean thomas r t. we have

a whole mini series of reports coming out from time to feed and you can also catch them on vine as well at see dot com and sean thomas' blog about his experiences on the continent is also online and i show you check it out. for them on. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and george adults and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers five makes antarctica so special of the destructive for many the wildlife in antarctica is ablaze if you live in the flood zone. expedition to the bottom of the earth. now easing in zero gravity is a sensation few overs will ever experience that's why aussies son tom basant amaze 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 the cosmonaut 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 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 the shuttle missions twice and this is his first rocket mission up to the i assess would 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 close with computer little soapy water on

your hair and then screwed up the water didn't then underclothing it just sticks to your head and you must gently if you'd massage it with a lot of energy then you have droplets of water in a pig pattern spring around your head and what happens if some of those things break how do you cope with that when you're working on equipment when you start taking it apart when you take out all the little screws well you can't just set them 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 and my first space shuttle mission i lost my for we have our kit i lost my pork 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 but i came floating out from some corner and what about the food is not 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 recognise like vegetables or mashed potatoes or shrimp cocktail regular bread has crohn's you finished eating a sandwich on earth and on your plate you have these crumbs and space they don't go to the plate to go into the air and so they're in your nose then 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 rise as in our space blog section on tito home and while he may be interested in these games in the lead cia agent precedes the web site say there's some i've been a lot of things being killed in the last operation but i was on

a trip i'm glad for the i did something. bad and the balance of how the whole world to the t.v. to be a royal wedding in the u.k. didn't quite as popular as the victory day parade here in russia is going to miss this particular military might you can really live at altitude on home collection of charm. you're sure you can join. me on.

the. street. and it seems the much proclaimed end of the world hasn't occurred as far as i can tell from central moscow now where we are also in a rant in case you hadn't heard an american religious group and recent days warning the world was going to end in for lanes on may twenty fifth the has by the calculations of harold camping the eighty nine year old founder of the group a huge ass quake was to start. six pm local time all over the world well it's past six pm here in moscow and the only i have the movement to have heard it's from some roadworks outside but to be absolutely sure let's wait till it's six pm in california and if nothing happens than we can relax well at least until december

twentieth wow that's when the end of the world will come according to the ancient mayan calendar. and i think so talk about how europe will respond to the influx influx of immigrants escaping unrest in the arab regions in our spotlight program that's not a short break and the recap for top stories. it

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