you. can chill is monitored by israeli and palestinian officials criticize president obama's latest proposals for peace between you and the future of the region the whole. b. two s. and agents and levy a possible six day american legal deadline without the will approval but neither president nor color is seen by all that as a brother says the country's military involvement is not only my dad. he travels to the bottom all the time time to get to discover the region's exotic wildlife booming in the world's largest temperature it's.

news from russia under around the world this is all see with me hala thanks for joining us as tensions rise between america and israel during prime minister binyamin netanyahu his visit to the us of both pros really inappropriate skin voices have been criticizing president obama's call for new steps towards peace but as always christine for example pour some policy analysts believe america's longstanding 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 nakba 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 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 in violation of the law. but for palestinians it is the continuation of a seemingly endless fight for an independent palestinian state of 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 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 an unusually blunt endorsement 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 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 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 world the run a recent example in november the u.s.

offered several billion dollars in military assistance to israel if it put all of 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 to say the costs of peace are high high cost of broad and at home pro israel many 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 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 political to see here this is already there but with the need to show support for

the arab spring and the 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 but political writer william aunt alice says 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 oracle banner 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 to really speak on the basis of the trust relationship between israel and. washington is being harassed because by the us support of. destabilization from egypt tunisia libya and

the entire middle east since the end of the for the two thousand and ten has created 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 the content is one of the continued tensions between israel and washington under the guise of so-called peace. of the trust but it's co-writer william and talking about deteriorating u.s. israeli relations. president barack obama says the u.s. is no longer leading the military campaign in the media as the sixty day deadline passes requiring congress' approval for further involvement and america's war powers act now its hand has been made to ask for lawmakers to stand being patient but is also has the list of reports a few 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 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 rope block anything here you don't think 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 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 but still when it comes to work powers

there's enough blame to go around absolutely congress doesn't take it seriously and presidents haven't taken it seriously and u.s. media outlets 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 at the idea of having laws that you can still go out and give speeches as the president seems to do and talk about peace and justice and principles. as the clock strike days sixty in the libyan intervention and the bill hits a reported three quarters of a billion dollars and 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.

. current political analyst i haven't even says that congress is shying away from the decision on the south of the france in its support of the war welcome to them obama goes horribly wrong on 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 of haitian of the. congressional war making power people want to take credit if it goes well both praise the president or if it goes well badly they can criticize him 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 kibitzers on the side and say he did

a great job or he didn't do a good job george bush 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 the now bush ever went. this is r.c. and ahead of you a trip to the coldest continent in the world. isn't science isn't swords armisen coming on board to you it's for the money that was on the walls that is still down here. plus ever wondered how to alter the way in space well he has been speaking to a nasa astronaut to find out. thousands of people have been staging demonstrations across georgia demanding president saakashvili steps down early reports of police opened fire from a television building in these seaside resort of but to me we should try to storm demanding live coverage of approaches that into account are told to be nice and

over five thousand have taken to the streets demonstrating against kobe said it was an oppressive regime protesters said democratic freedoms have been taken away claiming saakashvili has continued presence at the top was the whole region at risk large numbers of policeman have been put on standby as more of additional supporters from outside the capital are expected to reach the city on sunday then while according to opposition groups the thirteen people were injured and several were detained as police raided one of their offices in the middle of the night previously to government rallies have been violent as the protest demonstrations detained. but he says nato has reluctance to give legal guarantees that the proposed joint european missile defense system will not threaten become tree is a continuing cause of concern foreign minister sergei lavrov was speaking after talks with his german and polish counterparts in cleaning. much of the said was a world 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 greens u.p.d. joint european missile defense system with the goods 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 who go on the street it's an obvious thing this refusal to answer our wish list does raise some concerns and we hope that they will be laid to rest in the near future as the greens we come to will determine the future of europe continues time goes on it can either be a common theme for a song or we could end up throwing it back in time since thirty years. the us is pushing on with the building of a missile base in very many years saying it will help protect the european countries like iran and north korea russia wants an equal part in the project but negotiations are progressing slowly the meeting kaliningrad is returned by the three countries to work together a political security energy and. check some other headlines

from around the world reports from you it's a security forces have shot dead at least three people at a huge thing or one to government protesters killed during the week tens of thousands of mourners are reported to part with the civilian death toll from the recent violence now 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 asaad regime and its opponents foreign journalists and where local reporters barred from covering the demonstrations. sixteen people almost of them children have been killed by a landslide which struck a lady in alternation just south of the capital carluke now and others with serious injuries were rescued from the aftermath heavy rainfall has been blamed for triggering the desired. the tragedy struck during the afternoon while the children were practicing traditional late runs in the school grounds. in spain turns

of thousands are protesting despite a bind of the mass gatherings ahead of local elections on sunday which illustrations were sponsored by the highest unemployment rate any eurozone country would always hold the country's youth without jobs around twenty five thousand camped out overnight in madrid central square chanting slogans against the government and the country's elite. islands' was actually will cain no started erupting just over a year after a different one brought travel chaos to european skies the icelandic aviation control agency has a way to declare a two hundred twenty kilometer no fly radius around the mountain scientists have been anticipating the latest eruption but say this one isn't likely to cause the same chaos as last year is around ten million air travelers were stranded on april twenty ten when planes from across the world worked round.

with thousands have taken to the truth in france to protest against next week's g. eight summit of world leaders in the country where eyes of the demonstration included unions and left wing political parties with calls for a society based not solely on money as the leaders claimed the launch was mostly peaceful but some protest is attempted just smashed by a queen just as it came to a close the side that will take place in the city of doorbell on thursday and friday. of that meeting the crisis and the ongoing aggressor in the arab world are set to take center stage and our new york resident reporter laurie hoffman is has been asking people on the streets of the big powerful what else world leaders would put put on their 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 i think they

should be focusing on. greening the earth i mean just saving the planet and also humanity list politics and more people and more communication and more truth do you think the fell 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 interest in knowing are you hopeful that they care and that those aside at least enough to come to some compromise i'm hopeful that my retirement savings is worse something when i retire will 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 or the problems will never go away i don't believe the world leaders can fix them seem to be drawing to fix them so i can see it fixing the problem so why do they have the stomach. well. 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're better off so maybe this time it should be more like a retreat where they talk about how they can get along and let the bad economy well the economy's important but that other the economy they got everything else straightened out the better what you want the world leaders to solve the bottom line let's just hope they can set aside their differences so they can work collectively for change. well it's a part of the world where winter runs the show surprisingly it's because of antarctica severe climate wildlife is. right on the south pole trying thomas the penguins and sea lions but all this uncompromising place.

john at the bottom of the earth there is a land of ice and a 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 i. waited for for a long time from a continent but i mean that as it were half you're starting from tiny creatures are concealed on 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 trust real 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 a life is limited to the vegetation and maybe some. pervert's 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 and this tremendous range of seals and for different purposes you can expect to see six if you're lucky the penguins to have these 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 in antarctica. and fragile it's 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 it 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 dramatic changes in such

a short pier. time concern is what you do in the future to prevent such a rapid change in the environment there's a very big message in there's no way on the planet changing for us to try to make is one of three sides which as the forest is growing increasing in average whether it came winter temperatures basin western siberia alaska on the antarctic peninsula which is warming five times for us to believe the plane leaving many to wonder what is to become of the animals that call this place home in antarctica sean thomas archie. bunker how the whole mini series of reports coming out from antarctica and you can also catch them online at r.t. dot com and sean thomas has blogged about his experiences on the continent is also a lie awake show you check it out. for them of. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and large adults and

people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special that attractive for many live in antarctica is. in the flood zone. expedition to the bottom of the earth. easing in zero gravity is a sensation a few of us will ever experience that's why our son tom boston to make 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'm lucky enough to be here with mike fossum he's

been on shuttle missions twice and this is his first rocket mission up so that i assess we'll be talking a bit about some of the everyday life upon 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 washed away with water but 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 find the brain you can wash your hair completely clothed it could get a little soapy water on your hair and then scrub it up in the water didn't fall down under your clothing it just sticks to your head in the much size you gently you keep massage it with a lot of energy then you have droplets of water in a pig pattern spring around your head and what happens is 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 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. know you know what 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 each have our eating i lost my for prom the second day of the mission. i don't have my fourth and so i ate with a spoon in a knife for the rest of the flight as we were packing up to come home. two weeks later. came floating out from some corner and what about the food these days that's a challenge at best food it's 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 vegetables or mashed potatoes or treat cocktail regular bread has clemence finish eating

a sandwich on earth and on your plate you have these problems 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 so we don't use regular bread much we use tortillas. all right and as i shared plenty more water life is likely to be a life personality sprays dog section at home while you are that you may be interested in these two. little the full length cia agent put his head by saying the sale of the lot and up in st kilda in the last operation the production of a dead from a. little early that it was hard the whole world in there today to be a royal wedding in the u.k. it didn't prove as popular as the victory day parade in russia atrium is a basic principle of military might have been a pretty live it i don't see the whole long beach you know.

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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 sean thomas discovers fox makes on chart because so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is the closest you lived.