beverly plaza told riviera to tell the truth central hotel because. of the. come us under fire sale russia's help in the paving the path for a palestinian state as moscow hosts the two recently reconciled parties for talks on the middle east peace process. not just a special but essential relations president obama reaffirms close ties with london during his visit to the u.k. but behind all the smiles and friendly handshakes there are strong differences to overcome. plus an international trio of space and voyages land safely on the cusp of bringing with them some rather unusual guests in the form of mutation to fly from the international space station. one of the most highly anticipated i.p.o.

this year has been launched the brightest most important stars and down day raised about one point three billion dollars i.p.o. or in my space. it's just after seven pm here in moscow you without saying welcome to the program she founded a palestinian factions have reaffirmed recently forged ties as both fatah and hamas are in moscow seeking russia's backing for the creation of an independent palestinian state they met with foreign minister sort of a left off the map out their path towards the resolution of the arab israeli conflict and their offer has the latest on this. the delegation consisted of members of hamas and fatah those two organizations decided they were going to work together on the fourth of may they signed an agreement in cairo putting behind them

a sometimes turbulent history between the two groups they said they've now put that behind them completely and a willing to work together in order to achieve a palestinian state and said that they will work together in a state government of a palestinian state they're going to put forward these plans to the u.n. general assembly in september they've met with foreign minister sergey lavrov to tell him all of this and following that meeting the delegation seems happy for what they heard from mr lavrov that russia was ready to give the palestinian state they get a palestinian state their full backing. we're not planning to proclaim independence unilaterally so next september we're going to call on the u.n. to recognize. and foreign minister sergei lavrov because we firmed russia's support for this process we had to hear from mr lavrov all from the foreign ministry though to confirm what was said in that meeting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu

really slammed down those proposals for a return to nine hundred sixty seven borders now the palestinian delegation it's been. a hamas side of that it said that they will never recognize the state of israel the fatah delegates that have been here said that they still view israel as the main stumbling block on the road to peace however both sides just that made up the static ation said that they were happy about mr obama putting forward. a plan that would see a return to nine hundred sixty seven borders however this didn't go far enough for them. it's not the first time the u.s. has made statements on the need to recognize palestine in its nine hundred sixty seven borders in any case this is a positive sign but unfortunately it's not enough because the initiative says nothing about jerusalem. which has been an indispensable part of the palestinian lands occupied in one thousand nine hundred so usa being a key player in the middle east for most observant of the all resolutions made

greater national institutions and above all by the us what the latest us attempts to rekindle the peace process in the middle east seeming to be dead in the water palestinian delegates from hamas and fatah here in moscow to put forward their ideas to bring peace to the region and his people of our reporting right well meantime the israeli prime minister has flatly denied his state would return to the pre nine hundred sixty seven borders with the palestinians that's being the solution that barack obama has been calling for many many netanyahu reaffirmed his position in front of the u.s. pro israeli lobby ahead of his address to congress he said returning to the pre nine hundred sixty seven borders would leave his country indefensible and he blamed the palestinians unwillingness to recognize the jewish state for the deadlock in the conflict a few days ago barack obama called on israel to accept the proposal backed by the un either you and russia israel suggestion with heavy criticism as the deal would mean withdrawing from occupied palestinian territories. because more details on

this are the middle east peace process and cross over live and talk to emily hauser a political writer and blogger so the issue of borders in israelis and palestinians has created an almost unprecedented rift between the u.s. and israel do you think obama will stay firm here and pressure netanyahu into agreeing with his vision. well first of all thanks so much for having me today i have to say i have to start out by taking issue with the concept of an unprecedented rift there is no rift between the two sides the there is absolutely zero chance that the united states either the government or congress will be turning its back on the jewish state any time soon this president like all the presidents before him has stated over and over again that this country support for israel is ironclad and moreover the members of congress who have a lot of say in this are bizarrely often to the right of israel's own parliament in

terms of the things that the resolutions they will pass regarding the israeli palestinian conflict what happened here was the president said out loud what has long been known to be true what has long been stated in peace proposals for twenty years frankly and the president stated it knowing that mr netanyahu knew it so i can only presume that the president knew that mr netanyahu would respond badly but what that did was it revealed mr netanyahu for never having been on board with the peace process to get it so this is not a rift this is simply mr obama standing by what this about his government and government so you see this is this is some some found a political administration now i story is in some sort of political posturing here because you are saying that the relationship between washington d.c. and tell of the. plot in unison yahoo and obama have been known to be not exactly the best of friends ever since obama won the presidency. well these are two very

different things aren't they i mean the fact that the fact is that if mr obama had the kind of power that i wish he had i would have asked him to wave a magic wand and create a two state solution that should have been in place for twenty years these two men don't like each other and they come at this issue from very different directions but our countries exist within the realities of international diplomacy and a very long history together what mr obama is doing is frankly asking the israeli government are you on board or are you not on board with the very thing that you've been saying that you're driving ever since your government was formed but you know you're saying you're saying so. on capitol hill. tend to sway towards the favors over israel that we know we know that washington who sends a lot of funds to israel we know that they give the most of military hardware do you think it's ever going to be a challenge that washington will one day get fed up with catering to israel's every wish. well i think that in

a sense that has begun perhaps not throughout washington but certainly on the administration's part when you call the other person's bluff your saying look i hear you i see you for what you're doing come on let's get real so i think that this president has lost patience and i think that right now he's working from a position of political capital both internationally and domestically. what will come of it i honestly don't know i've been watching the situation for twenty years and i have seen so much of the same political theater over and over again that the past few days has introduced something genuinely new i hope that the president continues to state and act on the sense of urgency that he mentioned at apac over and over again because you know we've been failing for twenty years or if i make my time attention away from obama and away from that i know you just for a moment here as you would put in one of the earlier affair which we had our representatives from hamas and fatah and in moscow i mean russia sort of showing

support for the establishment of a palestinian state but hamas has once again reiterated its position saying that it once recognized israel which doesn't sound much like an inviting premise for negotiations doesn't it. well you know it doesn't you're absolutely right and if there is to be peace everybody's going to have to be willing to sit down at the same table with each other that's absolutely true but again the thing that gets forgotten is that israel made peace with egypt and israel made peace with jordan and these are two countries that were genuinely legitimately dedicated and tried to wipe israel off the face of the earth and there are these two existing priest peace treaties israel has been working with the p.l.o. which formerly was committed to to dismantling israel for two decades it is not it is hardly unheard of for an organization to say i refuse to talk to you and then turn around and allow him to be made and talks to go. so what

my feeling is in terms of should we talk to hamas i agree with the majority of israeli citizens who when polled say yeah you know what maybe we'd better talk to hamas because they're in a position of power and they represent a lot of palestinians but if there will be peace hamas really does have to say yes is israel is right to exist just as israel has to say palestine has a right to exist and when he has a political right thank you. thank you well meantime the american president is in london for the second day of his four nation european trip during his first state visit to the united kingdom obama met with the queen ahead of talks with the prime minister on wednesday however that dialogue between the two sides could be strained following disagreements on key issues such as terrorism foreign policy. and that is covering the events from london. president obama will be staying here at buckingham palace as a guest of the queen while he and prime minister david cameron plan to establish

closer security ties between britain and the u.s. the idea is to create a joint national security strategy board is a unique arrangement in which the u.s. will open up its highly secretive national security council to u.k. officials and it comes at a time when both countries admit they one prepared for the uprisings in the middle east and north africa it might not be easy though u.s. sources are saying britain cutting defense spending could harm its cooperation with the u.s. in the two sides have been divided over libya with the u.s. more reticent about its involvement than britain mice of lights they'll also be talking about afghanistan and the u.s. will be trying to persuade the british army north to pull troops out later this year both countries see two thousand and fifteen as the target date for withdrawing troops terrorism will also be on the agenda with the us asking the u.k. to support its tough line on pakistan harboring terrorists and to bomb it will be

asking cameron to do more to combat british muslim extremism the u.s. will also ask britain to reassure russia about the sizing of the missile defense shield in poland calling all the so-called special relationship between the u.s. and u.k. is far from over whatever that means for the rest of the worlds. reporting from the british capital still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. drug dealers are being left to red faced vigilantes are getting in the face of russia's drug dealers forcing the threat off the streets. and a stick around to find out if a recently returned to space crew came back to earth with some run in usual additions to the. moscow court has reduced the prison sentence of ex oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky from fourteen to thirteen years the court upheld the second conviction of the former you cross-head who was

a found guilty last year of stealing hundreds of tons of oil from his own company and then more during laundering the proceeds of course he was already serving a prison term for investment today that really means that he will remain in prison until two thousand and sixteen is the lawyers say they will go on to appeal the verdict in the european court of human rights. now and nato planes have launched their heaviest air attacks on libya's capital since the start of the coalition's campaign libyan officials say that three people were killed and dozens injured with the main target reported to be going to compound the bombardment it comes as a france announced its decision to deploy helicopters to escalate that strike power moscow says the alliance acting in libya has so far failed to act in accordance with the u.n. resolution russian foreign minister met rebel representatives in moscow with part of attempted peace negotiations are talking about nato is all ramped up aerial campaign in libya political analyst says he sees no end again for the coalition.

political solution to this crisis included a good look. with the libyan government we're going to. use only one way. and we need to use truly. i think the war was good for the peace the book on the state of new book was that good we should listen to our. little is clear but so far we go lookouts official. underground circles this conflict. once and for all the good will be. more conscious of the alliance are political and will blow you know. i don't see how it was all in the will you read it working with one of you. people who lies against me feel the mission now is just drew.

me. in. are far more on the libyan stalemate and the unrest in the arab world just log on to our web site that's articles comma the taste of some of the items that are lined up for you right now and the e.u. issues in greece are fresh ultimatum saying athens needs to step our economic reforms as it's failing to meet its belt obligations. and officials are leaving a moscow dolphinarium to sink or swim for lack of money and a crumbling infrastructure mean disabled children will lose out on a unique form of treatment more that r.t. . well in georgia the opposition is determined to carry on with the rallies aimed at overthrowing president saakashvili thousands have been massing on the streets of tbilisi for several days urging the leader to step down they're pushing for early elections to stop what they say is

a quote criminal regime leading the country into disaster police attempted a comes out on the demonstrations using rubber bullets and tear gas protesters fear that saakashvili may use all means possible to stay at the top of the opposition as stressed as if they will continue their fight. russian authorities are stepping up the war on drugs in the country but for some the speed of progress just isn't enough now vigilante activists are taking the fight into their own hands but their actions are falling foul of the more parties or if the national reports. it said all is fair in love and war and perhaps even more say in the war on drugs drugs that killed two point five million people every year across the globe and almost two hundred fifty men women and youngsters every day in russia and some are fighting their own can converge the battle against the threat pays its customers

they arranged to meet alleged drug dealers and once they have satisfied this suspect is a drug pusher they serve them a black mark and leave them red faced. people have to know their enemies would look like people will be free to go out because next time police maybe they're. all these guys out alone in there and conventional methods of fighting against drugs their colleagues from the drug free city movement happening queues of torturing addicts after they've used handcuffs to face them to kick the habit they've also marks drug dealers houses to shame them in the community who want to do that while it is our uprising against the drug dealers do you think it's better to sit at home and watch how the drug dealers will be killing you we managed to unite our forces and declare war to the drug dealers. sociologists a mob just as occurs when people become disillusioned by official afterwards that the public taking the law into its own hands is an unwelcome trend but i think

there are a lot of enthusiasm for striving to eradicate this horrible evil by any means possible the women actions don't comply with the law the law is against them it's very official we can eradicate this evil but only by legal methods the over five million drug users in northern russia passed amounts of money and blown on reducing drug demand and treating addicts a statistic so just getting more and more gloomy. this is how the moscow activists a try. to stop the madness threaten the country with waterproof dye they mark do as they say will have to hide to the public for at least three weeks some are skeptical about their methods are others even accuse them of hooliganism but the antidrug be driven to argue their form of justice is warthe it if it helps save at least one life. reason ocean r. r. t.

north go well most of the heroin used by addicts here in russia or is trafficked from afghanistan and pakistan caught up with islamic drug chiefs to find out what's being done to stem the flow of narcotics and the deadly lengths dealers will go to . he was getting the heroin. and in france. and then it was then they were cleared and it was stitched into the stomach and credit for this whole operation from the point of her abduction killing all the infant and getting was done including four hours we caught up to her and for the body were starved decayed and that is how he was taking the people and taking the heat i used to have brought in friends jerry fry three months four months. kill them. and then he went into the stomach state and bigotry a life imprisonment of all four hundred of them are going for

a life in prison men oh fifteen twenty years since or another hundred one hundred of them at present when i see the seven percent they're weighing in with. a degree of punishment depending on the crane the seriousness of the crime. i know you can watch the full interview with the head of pakistan's anti drug force in just over an hour's time right here on c.n.n. well let's get to some international news for you in brief this hour and an ash cloud from the erupting icelandic volcano is causing further disruption to travel as it sweeps over europe more than two hundred and fifty delays and cancellations are going to court in parts of scandinavia ireland and scotland while there is a threat hanging over the services in england and follows a saturday's eruption of the country's most active volcano the largest such event in one hundred years last year ash from another icelandic volcano cost over one

hundred thousand flights to be canceled it closed down european airspace for insight week. before egyptian president and his two sons who will be tried over the deaths of anthony government protesters barack was ousted from power. after mass demonstrations demanding an end to his thirty year rule he is now being held at a hospital in the red sea resort town of sharm el sheikh who barack and his wife also faced allegations of illegally wasting public funds. a d.n.a. sample of the former international monetary fund chief has reportedly been found on the shirt of a hotel maid who accuses him of sexual assault at a new york hotel the unconfirmed reports cited sources close to the investigation while police denied the claims you forensic tests from the room where the alleged attack took place are ongoing so many strasser can faces charges including attempted rape and sexual abuse the ex i.m.f. head who is on house arrest in new york denies the allegations if any other

devastating tornado that hit the u.s. city of joplin on sunday has left one hundred seventeen people dead and more than four hundred injured thousands of homes and schools and churches and businesses in the town in the state of missouri was all destroyed forecasts say severe weather could have probably persist and may reach the east coast by the week almost five hundred people have died in u.s. storms and tornadoes this year. but also spending six months in space they've finally come home an american italian and russian cosmonaut have landed safely and kazakstan however the intrepid voyagers it didn't come back alone a lot of their experiments on the international space station they tested the impact of orbit on the fly the scientists hope their work will help to understand how conditions in space affect living organisms. has been following the national correction that's a great change the crew of the i assess that have spent six months there have

safely landed in the step in kazakhstan as we've been watching on the screens here in mission control in moscow the craft module that they came back in departed from the i s s a few hours before it came to land when it started its. sent reentered the earth's atmosphere came in over the caspian sea then opened its parachute and eventually landed safely in the step in kazakhstan and teams of helicopters and planes were ready to receive the crew and to make sure they were all ok after their descent it's the end of the twenty seventh expedition on the i assess this crew have been up there for six months and while they've been up there as well as conducting a lot of experiments both on themselves to see how they responded to the environment of space and also many technical experiments and receiving space vehicles up there they've also seen in some rather interesting and adverse routes the spent the new year up there they sold out multiple times because of the time differences here on earth and they also saw in fifty years since year ago daryn was the first man in

space and they recorded a special video message to thank all those involved and to mark that very special anniversary and they received the last ever u.s. endeavor space shuttle on its mission up there brought some equipment up to the assess and then they waved goodbye to that for the last time and they've been up there for six months they're now back down safe on earth and all the people down there who have just received them in this step in kazakhstan will be trying to make sure that they receive a proper welcome back on earth that is told by the reporting right now of time probably hourly with us up there with you. collins very well welcome to the business of day one of the most highly anticipated i.p.o. as of this year is off and running shares and most popular search engine gunboats have soared forty two percent on their nozick debut and the google of russia as

many call it priced its stock initially at twenty five dollars seventeen times oversubscribed the company's stock raised one point three billion dollars that makes it the biggest internet i.p.o. since google back in two thousand and four well the timing could hardly be better as a growing interest to internet stocks as demonstrated by successful blows by linked in and russian male dogs are you is here. it's time to have a look at how the markets are faring well futures are still fluctuating this hour with light sweet more than ninety nine dollars a barrel but it's have fallen back from some of their previous losses helped by china's energy demand playtimes so again in the u.s. dollars limiting the rebound. let's take a look at how the stock markets in the u.s. office will move the markets here are trading in the quad this hour helped by reports about a seven percent rise in new home sales. three turns to percent of the nasdaq is up

point two percent. european stocks continue their experience with a metal prices supported minus is around point six percent and the clock on the docks point nine percent this hour whether investor sentiment remains fragile one persistent concerns about the euro zone sovereign debt. and here in moscow the markets have closed in compliance with the arch nearly two percent let's take a look at some of the individual show moves here and as you may just war among the main gayness supported by stronger the mortgage crisis gazprom was wrong three percent and prosecute. two and a half percent. banking stocks also on the rise was around two percent in the black . you know i've given up all of again so far this year would be nice i think that now we can really start going back to the gains that the russian market should be

able to have with the would be oil price of oil price is still above one hundred bucks however it really does doesn't really depend on russia or depends on what's happening in europe and i'm afraid they're they've got a lot of structural issues to deal with and i don't think they've forgotten them so i'm afraid we can see the downside. broad national capital there with his analysis on what we see from the markets in the coming week russia still production per six point six percent year on year first quarter to almost twenty three million tons a report from ernst and young suggests production could circle pre-crisis levels this year both said by the manufacturing and energy sectors michael dell outlines the weaknesses and strengths of russian still makers if you think of the raw material substance that ain't you know i've got all the material i can call being an important element in the production of steel was a source of patience because the flip side and probably the disadvantage would be

a lot of the plants are old body some investment needs to go into that and the remote to sort of the creation so you know that all the infrastructure is there to make as efficient a competitive compared to other countries yet again the saving of today's labor labor still relatively cheap compared to some of the other reasons not. that's all we have time for now you are today to get more stores more website are you dot com slash business.

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