tensions mount as both israeli and palestinian officials criticize president obama's latest proposals for peace between the two and the future of the region as a whole. the u.s. engagement in levy are part of the six day american legal deadline without formal approval but neither president nor congress seem bothered has a van that says the country's military involvement is now only minor. and artie travels to the bottom of the arts to antarctica to discover the region's exotic wine live blooming in the world's hottest temperatures.

and a very warm welcome from all over the last where this is out here with me universal brotherhood thanks for joining us as tensions rise between america and the prime minister binyamin netanyahu his visit to the e.u. as both were israeli and pro palestinian voices have been criticizing president obama's call for a new steps towards peace but as archie's christine preside reports some point to settle is america's a long standing approach is the real problem. it is a scene all too familiar in this region of protest on israel's border that leads. to violence. here it was the may fifteenth protest marking what palestinians called not a catastrophe the creation of the state of israel on this date in one nine hundred forty eight because for israel it was

a matter of security according to dan paula co-director of the zionist organization of america i don't know what any country would do people gather on your border and come across the globe of the lot. for palestinians it is the continuation of the 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 is 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 a stab wish 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 say is all wrong american policy is built on this conceptions a wrong view of the causes of the conflict and a prescription that doesn't stand up to even the most casual scrutiny of the question is not why don't we have a solution at this point but why on earth should we expect to have a solution with this system as it is their use of money you are 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 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 of what obama says or how he sees it and he sees it better than bush but what he does is to say. the costs of peace are high high cost of broadway and home pro israel money 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 the executive branch what 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 we're about to see here 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 that plan to seek united nations recognition of their state despite president obama's warning that such a move would be pointless but political writer william abdullah says tensions are rising between the u.s. and israel despite the lack of american support for the christina state. of the u.s. agenda is not to the agenda of the barak 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 is so you could the basis of the trust relationship between israel and washington is been drastically trial in the us support of these destabilization from egypt tunisia

libya and the entire middle east since the end of a two thousand and ten has created a tremendous sense in israel of insecurity and the stability they thought they had is suddenly looking very very unstable so the. nice words that obama said yesterday are window dressing but content is one of the continued tensions between israel and washington under the guise of so-called peace. when there is political rights and dull talking about deteriorating u.s. israeli relations. president barack obama says the u.s. is no longer leading the military campaign in libya as the sixty day deadline passes requiring congress' approval for further involvement and america's of war powers act has been made to ask the lawmakers to extending patient but as mr reports the fuel capitol hill seemed to have even just. 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 grow block. thinking their power thanks 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 country but it's unclear who or what has control over this one the law or the will of the president

the president and i see cooperation 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 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 taken it seriously and u.s. media it's going to 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 makes a joke at the whole idea of how the laws that you can still go out into the beautiful speeches as the president seems to do and talk about peace in just the same principles. as the clock strike days sixty 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 lauren lyster arche washington d.c. . and political analyst i haven't even says that congress is shying away from

a decision on can sit on the fence and support the war condemn obama control goes horribly wrong. 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 use or patient in the. congressional war making power people want to take credit if it goes well it will praise the president or if it goes well or badly they can criticize him but if you have a vote 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 just like the president take responsibility and well you know we'll be kidded cers 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. and had a trip to the court as a continent in the world. is says i'm sorry thomas i'm coming out party with scores of many different kinds of animals that the sound down here. because i wanted to watch your hair in space while archie has been speaking to a nasa astronaut to find out. thousands of people have been staging demonstrations across georgia demanding president saakashvili it steps down and i report said police opened fire from a television building in the seaside resort of the to me which a crowd trying to storm demanding live coverage of approaches than the capital tbilisi other five thousand have taken to the streets demonstrating against what

they said was in their principle regime protesters said democratic freedoms have been taken away claiming saakashvili has continued presence at the top because the whole region of greece. numbers of policemen have been put on standby as more visitors supporters from outside the capital are expected to reach the city of sunday on sunday meanwhile according to opposition groups thirteen people were injured and several were detained as police raided one of their offices in the middle of the night previously on to government rallies have been violently suppressed and demonstrators detained. russia says nato has reluctance to give legal guarantees that the proposed trying european missile defense system will not threaten the country is a continuing cause of concern for a minister sergey lavrov was speaking after talks with his german and polish counterparts in kaliningrad. which. we would like the issue of european missile defense to be resolved by choosing 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 partner see we don't need to because some people see it's an obvious thing this refusal to answer our request does raise some concerns and we hope that it will be laid to rest in the near future the greens will come to will determine the future of europe continues time it can argue be a common assault or we could end up throwing it back in time to really use. so who else is pushing on with the building of a missile base in the remaining years saying it will help protect from countries like iran and north korea russia wants an equal part in the project but negotiations are progress in slowly they may say intervening is an attempt by the three countries to work together political security energy and they say she's. let's check some other headlines from around the world report from syria's security

forces have shot dead at least three people as a huge anti government protesters killed during the week tens of thousands. of mourners reported it to pass with the civilian death toll from recent violence now over nine hundred according to human rights groups some now believe that the brutal crackdown is leading to political paralysis and a stalemate between the assad regime and its of ponens foreign journalists are battling with local reporters barred from covering the demonstrations. twenty children and adults have been buried by a landslide that hit on the lazy and just south of the capital who are six peoples and of world and were pulled out with serious injuries the bodies of five boys have been recovered or going heavy rainfall was cited as the cause of the slide the tragedy struck during the afternoon when the children were practicing traditional drums in the school grounds. in spain turns with thousands of recasting despite

a bind and mass gatherings ahead of local elections on sunday the demonstrations have been sparked by the highest unemployment rate of any eurozone country with almost half the country's youth without jobs around twenty five thousand out overnight in the dream central square chanting slogans against the government and the country's elite political activities for britain in spain the day before elections are banned the protesters have defied. six months of bloodshed and political stunt of the same water route has been 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 long blog vote refused to hand over power in the battle between their opponents left three thousand people dead and over a million to flee the violence. of thousands have taken to the streets in france to put her to gain next week's g.

eight summit of world leaders in the country organizers of the demonstration included unions and left parties with calls for a society based not solely on money as. the rally leaders claimed was mostly peaceful but some protesters attempted to smash windows as it came to a close the summit will take place in the city of bell on tuesday says or rather and friday. of that meeting the crisis and the growing unrest in the arab world are set to take center stage and our new york resident reporter laurie whole thing is has been asking people on the streets of the big apple what else would leaders should put on the table. 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 artificially focusing on. greening the i mean just

saving the planet and also humanity politics and more people and more communication and more troops do you think the bell do that no not in one hundred years do you think that they'll be looking out for the global best interests or just their country's own interest. most countries come to the table with their own best interests in mind are you hopeful. that those. at least enough to come to some common 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 the 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. believe the world leaders can fix them i don't seem to be trying to fix. the problem so why do they have the stomach.

the problem. lord i just wish people would get along a little bit better together just all the nationalities of the different religions and i think we're better off. maybe the summit should be more like a retreat where they talk about how they can get along and let the economy well the economy's important but the economy got everything else straight no matter what you want the world leaders to solve the bottom line let's just hope they can better say their differences and so they can work collectively for change. well it's a part of the world where winter runs the show all year round surprisingly it's because of antarctica severe climate that it's wide life is booming and our man on the south paul thomas lead the penguins and sea lions but call this a compromising place. down at the bottom of the earth there is

a land of ice and volcanic rock so different from the civilized world that it is hard to imagine that life can be found here. but in fact a closer look reveals it is one of the most interesting ecosystems on the planet. a really unique position on. it for for a long time from as a continent it means that well another half year starting from a tiny creature is up to seals and penguins is unique and 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 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 treasure life is limited to the vegetation and maybe some tiny perverts 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 probably there are tremendous range of seals and four different types of seals you can 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 a most trips we're lucky to see up to six different species that's a lot of life and parts. and fragile some of the main areas of study down here on this continent is the environment to make sure that they can learn how to protect these animals and. we are seeing into the adelie penguins which are the most abundant penguin species in the antarctic and true ice loading species they are declining in the antarctic peninsula seriously and may disappear in 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 but concern. it is what you 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 climate change for us to drug addiction is one of three sides which as the fastest growing increasing in average whether you get winter temperatures days in western siberia alaska i mean it's hard to believe china which is warming five times for us to believe in the plane leaving many to wonder what is to become of the animals that call this place home in antarctica sean thomas archie. i've got a whole mini series of reports coming up from time to get for you and you can also catch them online at home and of course sean thomas has a blog about his experiences on the continent is also on line might 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 what makes antarctica so special but attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is. the fragile. expedition to the bottom of the earth. eighteen zero gravity is a sensation of its own after experience that's why as he sent on 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 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 of training before going off to baikonur to be fired up into space to the international space station and i lucky enough to be here with mike fossum he's been on shuttle missions twice and this is his first rocket mission up to the i

assess and we'll be talking a bit about some of the every day life up on a space shuttle so every day life in an extraordinary setting everything in space is typically harder than it is on earth things as simple as going to the bathroom or on earth gravity helps things go where you want them to go. and they're flushed away with water in space the gravity doesn't work we don't have a shower on board the space station because the water wouldn't know how to find the drain you can wash your hair completely clothed you could get a little soapy water on your hair and then scrub it up and the water didn't fall down on your clothing it just sticks to your head when you must site it gently. 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 and you take out all the little screws well you can't just sort of mana 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 what i look like because it's right around your feet someplace out 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. i don't have my fork 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 and i came floating out from some corner and what about the food is not the challenge of food it's a lot like camping food most of the u.s. food is prescribed so if you add water and let it sit for a bit and it rehydrate and become something you'd recognise like vegetables or rice dictators or from cocktail regular bread as 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 or in your eyes or in the air conditioning filters that so we don't use regular bread much we use tortillas. and there's actually plenty more water life is like on the i says and i was afraid to blow sectioned off to go home and you're wily a guy you may be interested in the least you. can have for that cia agent but it's first met by saying osama bin laden hasn't been killed in a u.s. operation but has actually been dead for five years. on the bands that have the whole world can lead to the t.v. the royal wedding in the u.k. didn't prove as popular as the victory day parade named russia here means business practical and military might it can be live at home or watch it on how you tube. is.

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