at of that vote in new york artie said down with palestinian politician. she believes that getting full member status will finally allow israel to be held accountable for crimes against the palestinian people and what she says is the occupation of their land. i. i. r g sitting down with award winning scholar and internationally recognized politician executive committee member of the palestine liberation organization dr hanan ashrawi thank you so much for joining us today thank you and smile pleasure dr shah let's start with one of the most highlighted issues this year's united nations general assembly gathering of course palestine's bid for recognized statehood we know that palestine is already recognized by over one hundred twenty countries why does this u.n. vote matter it's very important because this is a turning point and sort of palestinian history and in the history of peacemaking in the region we do have as you said bilateral recognitions from different

countries we have right now one hundred twenty seven but at the same time we are we have been engaged in a peace process that has taken on over two decades of prolongation and stalling with creating facts on the ground building settlements in the latterly acting from a position of power as an occupier and undermining the chances of peace and the objectives of the two state solution and song so we are trying now to say that this is a new phase a new era let's say we are going to the international community to say that the palestinian question and the palestinian people have that i deserve the combination and should be placed within this international context as the essence of multilateralism as the source of international global legislation and the palestinian question must be dissolved in accordance with international law now the united states has made it more than clear that a veto is really it's only possible reaction to a resolution of the security council so are there really there are plans reported

that palestine may consider going through just through the general assembly is that really in the works well we have many different options and alternatives and restarted all of them and we're keeping all our options open frankly. speaking we cause if we go through the security council directly that means we want different objectives and we certainly don't want to have a confrontation with the us but they're the ones who are choosing a confrontation over something that is actually part of their own policies and that on the lead principles we could also go to the journalist family and ask for upgrading of us that this score grated recognition and then ask for support for our bit to go to the security council so what we're saying is we can go straight to the security council and deal with the consequences and if the us wants to isolate itself on the downside of the law it could be it's choice or we could go in that

actually to the security council also fortified by positive solution and that's an assembly and then again the present out but as i said that many many options and we're keeping them all up open unlike going through the security council going through the general assembly would mean a nonmember state status for palestine why would that be important that's very important because although we are now we have observer status as the p.l.o. and we want to have. a nonmember state status which means there would be a recognition of statehood but it's our membership that is an observer membership but that opens the doors for us to become a member of all you and organizations institutions agencies and so on it would empower the palestinians it would also declare our territory as occupied territory not disputed territory and therefore up for grabs it would declare it is true

salaam as occupied not as the eternally unified capital of is a forever and ever and it would lay the foundations of any new solution based on international law so it's very important and we can also hold israel accountable which is something. that is the having is the u.s. absolutely insane when talking about accountability because they don't want any kind of accountability whether through you and human rights organizations like the un council on human rights or whether the international criminal court the international court of justice they just want to ensure that israel continues to act outside the number of the law you have mentioned access to you want to situations if we look for example at the international criminal court access to that what kind of really impact would that have for palestine ballad have a tremendous impact because that means that the international criminal court can act in accordance with their own convention and their own statute describes settlement activities as they walk around because when you violate the fourth

geneva convention when you move populations of your own into occupied territory and you take other people's lands this is a war crime and collective crime against the palestinian people so automatically we can start a suit and law cases against not just the government but against even all the settlers and the settlers will be seen as being part of this war crime and that's why quite worried about the palestinians becoming a state or getting access to the instruments of accountability particularly the international criminal court well in an interview with r t we had aired previously post palestinian politician a bill shot said to us that is released must be changed to be taken to paradise assuming. on their way to peace who is strong enough do you think to forge a chain like that look i think. it's a modern power more than anything else. seems to me that if you can use your

powers of persuasion and humanity for the israelis to understand that a land grab their greed for the land for control for subjugating and other people is really a strategic liability for its. russian political legal human decision you have to think about the consequences of your actions that you cannot ever claim to be above the law and claim to be exempt from any accountability and claim real impunity and preferential treatment that there is a time in which all these things will end then you will be held accountable like any other country and you cannot continue and enslaving people whatever and getting away with it so it's a question of persuasion and looking clearly at the reality and understanding that given also the context of the arab spring given the context of regional and even global changes and transformations has a unique chance to make peace quickly with the palestinians and to be accepted in

the region rather than continue with its unilateral dangerous adventurous policies of of control and oppression. of land and so on and then delay the inevitable which is going to be further confrontations violence and extremism now if we look a little bit at united states involvement in all of this we know that last year barack obama spoke at the general assembly saying that hopefully by this year two thousand and eleven palestine will be recognized as a member within the united nations now his administration is clearly opposed to this do you see this is a stab in the back i see this as a source of commander sled down real disappointment because he theys the expectations and there were right of ways starting with ending all settlement activities to acting decisively in peacemaking to basing all peacemaking on international law and multilateralism to building the palestinian state in the sixty seven months so having it in that dawn on most all these things that he has

created a sense of let down among the palestinians the arabs even the world people of good conscience who expected obama to live up to his promises and to whose values and principle. other than to not of self-interest right now. if you see him as doing israel's bidding and trying to justify the occupation and trying to justify israeli policies and actually putting pressure on everybody starting with the palestinians who are of course the weaker party because we do not have any kind of power or weapons or anything so he'll be seen as sort of not just bullying the palestinians but he'll be seen as weighing in on the side of an illegal and unjust situation and he'll be undermining the standing and credibility and interests of the u.s. in the region and throughout the world other brokers russia the european union the united nations they have really

a place in the place what they're trying to do is very dangerous because the u.s. in many ways has changed its policy to accommodate this most extreme government and not only that but it was trying to put pressure on the quartet accept this position on the you and self negate by saying palestinians should go to the u.n. on the e.u. by asking them to change longstanding policy on the two state solution and so on and jerusalem and the legality of settlements and of course that has taken a very clear stance on the basis of international law and palestinian diets including that at the terminus so by adopting the israeli position and then trying to salvage the throat of the quartet the u.s. is really distorting the legal system as well as political system as well as the human and better of achieving a just peace what do you think americans and some european countries have been

willing to welcome the arab spring and yet palestine's self determination is seen as something pretty much an acceptable by the united states in particular it is ironic this that will stand that look at that ups plane as a way of of vindication. i have towards democracy and freedom and human rights and human dignity and yet when it comes to the palestinians we are decontextualized removed this is very selective this actually because i think out occupier is read. as a domestic issue in the us and has enormous influence on their careers and the fates of many politicians through elections through access to the media through the campaign funds and so on. and of course there's a strategic alliance that we talked about so it is not treated like any other country is that has constantly been examined also because of the part of the holocaust that history and western guilt over what the jews in

a sense this has shaped a certain bubble in which was given demanded what i described earlier as a sense of exceptionalism and then tighten moment and unity and of course it has acted with impunity so the palestinians were deprived of the protection of the law and israel was given this exceptional treatment but equally because it has a powerful lobby also and the us there is a growing movement of solidarity with the palestinians and i hope that that would hold that own. countries accountable or systems of government and this is part of the arab spring where the arab spring has moved and elation to these is the to the social media and these global principles that do not apply just to that world or to palestine or to the west that like to humanity as a whole and therefore the exemption of the palestinians from these values and the

exemption from accountability for violating these values will no longer be tolerated and. the americans may succeed and having that on either side and. but on values and principles but not for long because they too will be held accountable by their own people dr hanan ashrawi thank you for your time with us today thank you very much and it's nice to meet you i.

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a cut off his remaining troops hold out against government forces and nato air strikes in libya the french president faces a legal battle at home over his country's intervention in the war boyer's claimed nicolas sarkozy should be held to account for crimes against humanity committed during the bombing of libya. international efforts stepped up to calm border tension in kosovo where neither locals nor serbs are willing to back down after recent bloodshed he was mulling a proposal to end the deadlock sparked by the violent seizure of two border post by close of business in july. and a statehood showdown at the un as the general assembly gets ready to vote on the status of palestine with deep divisions preparing to crack the surface the u.s. and israel remain vehemently opposed to giving palestinians a seat at the world body. sports is next stay with us here on our city.

hello welcome to the sports news and here are the top stories. chapmans go tear down is late grace helps lead go top officer peter specs i come from two goals down to try to three to it with being in the russian premier league. a lot better essentials australian born adam dunn is the sec to start the engine that gave up both misses out his russian very best quarter to choose days world cup game against italy a. big day for little england some little boost his claims for europe into a card with a one stroke victory at the russian challenge cup. but first a football and in the russian premier league a leg brace from dummy helps the need to go top of the st petersburg side came from two goals down to try to straighten out in the home side went ahead after five minutes thanks to a retaking. that much of the israel midfielder making no fuss about the second spot

kick them to race through the first half is a nice and russian goalkeeper just after a few years left rolling in paying off their trash on saturday to seize the moment to blast time or been second from long range on a favored later substitute says but within five minutes the man showed off often launched and then it's come back the midfielder finishing off a tanker last of its free kick and within eighteen seconds of minutes down the street tries to snatch the ring from his knees and gets an a to point at the summit and the persian gulf helped along in the build up to the match winning goal three thirty two the chance for that is met. how about earlier tapes got missed the chance to take a speed point lead it isn't that all men have to fight back taking one one to know your stuff from the home side ahead after just five minutes when it's free to decide did finally managed. seven an hour later the league's top scorer say doodoo be at top of the high sponsor one full defending despite his side's blushes one all

it finished the result uncertainties got to set. and informed allen last night made good use of tesco slip up to go second with a senior found one over on top just as he done week before the plane strike that he thought on en route to the outlet to just ten minutes in twenty four hour news that he would cross the go some shelf made it to nearest fifteen minutes after the interval. having my side chick completed the drubbing with a head down so minutes from time to leave the provided unless one. was bought a spare trance visiting clearly a set of three know him a farewell much of their former term as manic captain in that article enough now the lions midfielder they we desire scored his first goal for the red once after only three minutes. fortunately for us was in the sake of it and just inches wide i think would have been his last hurrah then ireland star aiden mcgeady not his first since his return from injury just before the hoff our model. because by that. time

the pitch to a standing ovation for the first half. then with ten minutes ago summer signing emmanuel and medicare wrapped up the scoring with the second goal in as many games are on its nose and starts to see this one in three. while another game is the least the should call five time two first half penalties as lokomotiv one four nil asked her back and court struck after fourteen minutes to give command a one nil win over the big spending angie. while i bring the english premier league wayne rooney scored his ninth goal of the season as manchester united won three want to chelsea two points to the top of the table for also striker emmanuel added by all struck a second half brace are talking and one for alex i am two nine i'm live a full on charlie adam and martin special sent off never schoolmaster one will follow him scored twice in the second half to come back from two goals down to draw

two two and launched the city and sunderland hit all their goals within the first fifty eight minutes as they thrashed four nil. now two thousand and seven motor g.p. champion casey stoner has led a repsol honda one to you at the arrogant grand prix in spain to claim his eights win of the year and extend his lead at the top of the season standings well crashes came thick and fast in our again but the leaders steered clear star in that had started from pole and never relinquished the lead to gain at the end of the first laugh teammate dani pedrosa came in second with the defending champion for valor and the spaniard is now forty four points adrift of stone overall with just four races left in the calendar. every new zealand world cup day returns russia have announced their squad for their second game against italy in nelson launches day and the bell starting lineup includes australia and the coaching staff of made for

changes to the team that lost thirteen six to the united states in their open up on thursday griselda. impressed after coming on as a substitute in that game will start at number eight which and the thirty eight year old better start that shelf the oldest player in the tournament moves to blindside find out what interest and asked and said go top off but it's dropped to the bench one rave reviews for his performance against the americans i coached before now do she explains why the loosehead prop isn't in the next starting fifteen. push a little more he's got a minor injury so we've decided to assume as we still have to be games to play it off to lead to the match that's why we opted to keep him out of the for one but he won't even be on the bench. with under eszterhas still out australian born adam burns will win his first full count for the russians as a car has been hampered by injuries since the team arrived in new zealand over sale could play a part in those remaining two games and burns whose mother hails from russia was

delighted to start for his adopted nation. play international rugby playing in a more cup it's been a lifelong dream. last week often feel that we're coming off a binge. this recall game or. godlike to help russia as much as i can and play to my potential so with russia's next pool match kicking off against italy on cheese day the polis were given the first day off since arriving in new zealand two weeks ago and which of them poor feet took the chance to join some of the squad on a fishing trip. it's been a hard slog for russia's players so far at the rugby world cup training session followed by training session coach ride followed by coach ride however the squad was given a rare treat a day off to enjoy some of the wonderful soit but the picture it's region of which lies a top of the side file and passed off. a number of the players took up the opportunity to go on a fishing trip and the props a gaping hole of excelled against the united states last time outs it was just

a relief to get out of a hotel environment. well it's already annoying having to steam the hotel for long periods if you like dead cargo you look on live t.v. there is no entertainment in the hotel and it's nice to fish and to calm nerves adam burns russia's law who qualified to play for the bad for his grandmother who was russian was more successful than most unlike his colleague in the packs a game he couldn't have been happier being out in the great outdoors i was like you go but apparently it's called a merry chase never seen one before obviously a new zealand fish. got out of your design well apparently we're having for lunch now in the buggy so we'll see what the qualities are of its of its flesh and will you know i say. so your question of where you do it you gotta love it. it's a passion that with. we share and. love being on the water and generally fishing

is one thing that comes naturally to me. but food was a welcome change for the players had been used to the same diet for the last three months while the squad members even got to eat some of the fish bait colts none burns could have quite a promising career as a fisherman if he ever decides to give up rugby or when he retires the local crew were on hand to teach both players who were less than comfortable with a rod in my hands however. he needed no introduction just the post i like to fish but i do not often get the chance even when i have free time i'm fishing there was to be one last treat for the play is it afraid of catching their own dinner was not enough the mob or sounds is home to a large part of dolphins you seem to take great interest in the russian boats much to the players delight. well they've been varying degrees assess amongst the players in terms of how many fish they have managed to catch but most important

thing has been a wonderful relaxation break for players as it takes their minds off for a world cup one of those scenic parts of new zealand but nevertheless potential now turn that chooses much against italy where the team will start training in earnest on monday richman pool fleet r.t. picton new zealand. and finally to golf where the russian state of the european challenge tour came to an end with english and some little wrapping up its third tour victory after a tight battle consenting but off reports. some little had made a big move up the leaderboard on the third day of the russian challenge cup as the englishman climbed sixteen places to take a share all believe with a sweep bel-air medical and austria's florian pregnant the thirty six year old was in search of a third challenge to a win on the final day which would secure him a place in the all important top twenty and a card to return to the european tour and the londoner mixed five birdies in two bodies on the front nine to extend his leave meanwhile lils compared to

a down to johnston who was fourth before the final round there to put some pressure on the leader with a needle on the fifteenth in the long bury bite on the eighteenth challenge to our johnston was trailing to a little break just a stroke. and little had to make at least fly on the last hole to secure a victory but he made no mistake and two points finished the closing round with a sixty eight to collected check for forty thousand euros extremely happy are played really well this weekend. i really enjoy myself some fantastic venue. to come back again and i fear maybe it will be a main european tour event it's a fantastic place and delighted to win sam played well. for under for today's not bad and a shock for on the surface plater or well despite a poor performance on the final day if only it would still manage to increase his

overall lead at the top of the rankings with five events still to go and top twenty finish is still up for grabs for those old boarding cards on the european tour complain but out of our team. and that's all sports news i think.

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has heard of his remaining troops hold out against government forces and nato air strikes in libya the french president faces a legal battle at home over his country's intervention in the conflict. a statehood showdown at the un general assembly gets ready to vote on the status of palestine with deep divisions. international efforts. where neither locals are willing to back down after recent bloodshed. our top story in libya government forces are turning up the heat on colonel gadhafi as remaining supporters defiant loyalists are making a last stand in three key cities so.