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news from russia under around the world this is a scene with me thanks for joining us as tensions rise between america and israel during prime minister binyamin netanyahu his visit to the us both pro israeli and pro palestinian voices have been criticizing president obama's calls the new steps towards peace but as christine preside reports some point to say analysts believe america's 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 called not for catastrophe the creation of the state of israel on this date in. nine hundred forty

eight because for israel it was a matter of security according to dan 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 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 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 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 but there is one thing both sides actually agree on when it comes to the u.s. role as mediator it approaches they say is all wrong american policy is built on misconceptions a wrong view of the causes of the conflict and a prescription that doesn't stand up to even the most casual 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 today use of money your with a 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 it simultaneously working against it paying somebody bribing somebody to change their behavior. it

doesn't work when you've spoiled the rotten a recent example in november the u.s. offered several billion dollars in military assistance to israel if it put off the construction of jewish settlements for three months regardless award obama says or how he sees it and he sees it better than bush but what he does is the same 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 the what the executive branch they 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 you're going to see here this is the one 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 despite president obama's warning that such a move would be pointless political writer william angelus 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 the 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 actually the basis of the trust relationship between israel and washington has been drastically challenged to by the us support of these destabilization from egypt tunisia libya

and the entire middle east since the end of two thousand and ten has created a tremendous sense in israel of insecurity and the stability they thought they had is suddenly looking very very unstable so the the nice words that obama said yesterday are window dressing the content was one of the continued tension between israel and washington under the guise of so-called peace. so there is political writer william and out talking about deteriorating u.s. israeli relations. president barack obama says the u.s. is no longer easing the military campaign in libya as the sixty day deadline passes requiring congress' approval for further involvement and america's a war powers act now attempt has been made to ask for lawmakers to extend things but as a list of reports few 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 pro bloc thing gary you said you don't think more power things as a war powers act war powers act a resolution that says sixty days marks the deadline for an american president pull u.s. forces from hostilities or get congress's approval for a formal declaration of war yet neither appear to be happening and according to the president publicly time seems to be the enemy only for someone else now time is working against gadhafi. he does not have control over his conference but it's unclear who or what has control over this one the law or the will of the president

the president did not seek a ration of war begin with. nor really has there been much discussion of the war powers act nor does it seem there will be when pressed by the majority of congress not with leaders of the senate foreign relations committee saying there are no plans for action and top lawmakers like john mccain saying quote he's never recognized the constitutionality of the war powers act nor has any president which is only sort of true according to legal and political experts every president has expressed some concerns about its constitutionality but interestingly not a single president has questioned the sixty day rule hathaway 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

is enough blame to go around absolutely congress doesn't take it seriously impressed in seven taking it seriously and us media 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 idea of having laws that you can still go out into the beautiful speeches as the president seems to do and talk about peace and justice same principles. as the clock strikes the basic theme in the libyan intervention and the billions of 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 right direction and the rule of law in theory in reality in the nation's capital though no alarm appears to. going on laura mr r. t. washington d.c.

police car a list i haven't even says that congress is shying away from the only bad side is can sit on their friends for support or content obama if. he will 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 so patient 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 them but if you have a vote 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 kits or is 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. this is. for you a trip to the coldest continent in the world. is going son thomas and coming on board to witness who are the really different tones on the walls of the cell down here. plus ever wondered how to wash your hair in space well actually has been speaking to a nasa astronaut to find out if. thousands of people have been staging demonstrations across georgia demanding president saakashvili it starts down early reports police opened fire from a television building in this seaside resort of the to me but your crowd tried to storm demanding live coverage or approaches that in the capital tbilisi over five thousand have taken to the streets demonstrating against what they said was an

oppressive regime protest the democratic freedoms have been taken away claiming saakashvili has continued presence at the top of the whole region at risk large numbers of policemen have been put on standby as more opposition supporters from outside the capital are expected to reach the city 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 anti-government rallies have been violently suppressed and demonstrators 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 his german and polish counterparts in cleaning. richard. we would like the issue of european missile defense to be resolved by taking the interests of all european countries and your count we should start by dream 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 but our partners see we don't need to put this on people b.c. it's an obvious thing and this refusal to answer our request does raise some concerns and we hope it will be leecher rest in the near future the greens we come to will determine the future of europe into news time it can either be a common heels or a sword or we could end up throwing it back in time some thirty years. or so the us is pushing the building of a missile base in romania sale help protect europe from countries like iran and north korea russia wants an equal part of the project to go so far as are progressing slowly but meeting in kaliningrad is an attempt by the three clone trees to work together over political security and military and these are issues. but let's have a look at some other headlines from around the world for its one syrian security

forces have shot dead at least three people at a huge free iraq war on to government protesters killed during the week tens of thousands of mourners reportedly took part would be civilian death toll from recent violence are over nine hundred according to a searing human rights group some now believe that the brutal crackdown is leading to political paralysis and stalemate between the afghan regime and its opponents foreign journalists led by and with local porters blocked from covering the demonstrations. twenty children and adults have been buried by landslides that hated malays in an orphanage just south of the capital quarreling six peoples and a warden who were pulled out with serious injuries the bodies of five boys are so far been recovered all girly heavy rainfall was cited as the cause of. landslide the tragedy struck during the afternoon when the children were practicing flu shot the late runs in the school. in spain tens of thousands are protesting

despite a ban on mouse gatherings ahead of local elections on sunday. were sparked by the highest unemployment rate of any euro zone country with almost all the country's youth without jobs around twenty five thousand to count out overnight in the central square chanting slogans against the government and the country's elite. and after six months of bloodshed and political stunt of the same water rod has been sworn in as the president of ivory quotes more than twenty heads of state attended the ceremony what or rather one last november's election but the former leader of the wrong bug both refused to hand over power a battle between their opponents left three thousand people dead and forced over a million to leave the violence. thousands have taken to the streets in france to protest against next week's g. eight summit of world leaders in the country organizers of the demonstration included unions and left a wee little parties with calls for society based not solely on money as

a rally leaders claimed the march was mostly peaceful but some protesters attempted to smash the bank windows as it came to a close the summit will take place in the city of doorbell on thursday and friday and out that meeting believing crisis and the ongoing unrest in the arab world are set to take center stage and our new york resident reporter laurie harvest has been asking people on the streets of the big waterholes world 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 either they should be focusing on. greening just saving the planet and also humanity politics and more people and more communication and more truth do you think they'll do that no not in a hundred years do you think that they'll be looking out for the global best

interests or just their country's own interests and i suspect most countries come to the table with their own best interests in mind i hope all that and that those aside at least enough to come to some compromise 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 the multi ability is able to talk about a few issues they're able to talk about i don't know if the able to solve them all in one time of the problems will never go i. don't believe the world leaders can fix them seem to be trying to fix them so i can see in fixing the problem so why do they have the stomach. fixing the problem by lord i just wish people would get along a little bit better together just all the nationalities all the different religions and i think we'd be much better off so maybe the summit should be more like

a retreat where they talk about how they can get along and less about the economy well the economy's important but that other thing the economy they've got everything else straightened out i think the better what you want the world leaders to solve the bottom line and let's just hope they can set aside their differences so they can work collectively for change. that's a part of all the world where winter rather thing show all year round surprisingly it's because of antarctica climate that's why i'm. down on the south pole sean thomas of the penguins and sea lions that correlates 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 and. waited for for a long time from as a continent and it means that if you're starting from tiny creatures 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 tricycle animals like polar bears or nothing like that occurs down here we only have marine mammals and marine birds that come ashore to breed and the only trust your life is limited to vegetation and maybe some converts twenty thirty that's about it and if you want to experience some of this exotic wildlife the antarctic peninsula is a good place to start well as everything here in this part we've got a tremendous range of seals in those four different types of seals you can expect

to see six if you're lucky the penguins to three of the brushed ok would you expect to see in the financially but the most trips we're lucky and see up to six different species the wildlife in antarctica is. one of the main areas of study down here on this continent. 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 try. i sloping 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 their 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 nowhere on the planet for us to antarctica is one of three sites which as the fastest growing increases in average weather

particularly winter temperatures basin western siberia alaska i mean antarctica leachman which is warming five times far superior in the leaving many to wonder what is to become of the animals they call this place home in antarctica sean thomas r.t. if i have a whole mini series of articles coming out from a toxic if you can also catch them online i'll see dot com thomas was glowing as well about his experiences on the continent is also online make sure you check out . more than a month. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes sense arctic is so special that attractive for many wildlife in antarctica is. in the flood zone.

expeditions of the bottom of the earth. a senior at sea is a sensation a few of us will ever experience that's why i'll see some time boston to meet the american astronaut ahead of his mission to the international space station next week to find out about the challenges of driving all that. 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 the 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 for things as simple as going to the bathroom or it 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 it get a little soapy water on your hair and then scrub it out the water didn't fall down on your clothing it's just sticks to your head and you must charge it gently if you've. got a lot of energy then you have droplets of water in a big pattern spring around your head but what happens if some of those things break how do you cope with that when you're working on equipment and you start picking it apart and you take out all the little screws well you can't just set him 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 my first space shuttle mission i lost my for we each have our own 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 four came floating out from some corner i'm not about the food is not a challenge food is a lot like camping food most of the u.s. food is pretty dry so if you add water and let it sit for a bit and it rehydrate and become something you'd recognise like vegetables or fresh and taters or shrimp cocktail and 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 in your nose or in your eyes in the air conditioning filters and so we don't use regular bread much we use for

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