eleven am in moscow i'm at present good to have you with us here on r t our top story israel has offered to hold direct talks with palestinians in new york is tell of even attempts to halt president abbas's ambition to win u.n. recognition the u.s. also opposes the bid and there has been intense diplomacy aimed at of earning a crisis over the move or he's honest i see a church going to reports on the counter efforts that russia is taking to see the palestinian plan go through. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov held an urgent meeting with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton now members of the delegation are telling us that even though this is a closed door meeting the assumption is that lavrov and clinton were negotiating the future of talks on the israeli palestinian relationships a palestinian bid for statehood at the united nations security council is really stealing the show this year we know that palestinian leader mahmoud abbas is

expected to present palestine's bid for recognize statehood to the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon in the next days to come and this is something that we know israel and the united states are really not favoring they have been calling for the whole to negotiations between israel and palestine to kick start again on a bilateral level this is something that palestine is already seems to be tired so it is taking these specific actions to try to get its state recognized within the within the international community so an extremely busy week lies ahead at the united nations of course often the highlights of the week become speeches of world leaders addressing the general assembly hall and this year is promising to be no exception for a look back at some of the more historic moments that have taken place throughout the last two years let's now go to our report if only these walls could talk. tension a pumped up wow factor and center stage drama would be their story every year for

about ten days the united nations becomes a mecca for world leaders from the confrontational to the surprising to the out right the u.n.g.a. pilgrimage never fails to impress what happens right here becomes a mirror image of what i mean gauging game politics can be over a hundred in one thousand members make up the general assembly to get attention leaders have to get creative if you want a lot of the tension you could try to like streak the united nations nobody nobody has come in but naked. with the gold on their back i mean so far none of this has happened but i wouldn't rule it out in the future that's one a few tricks that have not been performed here yet i think the one that i remember the most i mean there was cut off he with who i guess will never be back here again so it becomes memorable becomes it's a collector's item now his long speech in tearing up tearing up the u.n. charter and falling asleep so we have just taken your course you're out of a corner to hide but you are. should not be discouraged the constitution of the

council the record holder for speech length an indian envoy in the fifty's nobody remembers what he said but they remember that he went on for eight and a half hours exhausted the diplomat collapsed at the podium only to return and carry on the un is really owned it's owned by its member states so it's not really anyone's role to you know be kanye west and grabs you know you've got to when they're up there they can go as long as they want they can also see whatever they want and accusations often go flying towards the us yes then i came here. thank you. to be right here and it's made as a sapphire still today and from the us the greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and the media obsessed with creating legends out of these performances people who have firm she could clad carla bruni becoming a headliner for the simple act of showing up to sob yet leader nikita khrushchev

allegedly banging his shoe against the podium a grave for colonial slavery that should be buried deep the better half a century later the story is rumored to be a favorite among tourists visiting the u.n. the soviet leader so on says the episode is a legend as the shoe banging is never captured on video. over the media over the t.v. the. whole. molder put a good number that you can believe in the main thing that never to showcase word as deed officials pull out so-called facts spying accuse asians backed up by wouldn't feel. the need to invade iraq by nonexistent weapons of mass destruction we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence the key players come and go like. it was you have the firm from one side and the other side and

they just do so who are to you or team and. deal with the fierceness clearly not for into this international political stage drama year after year is the number one guest to r.s.v.p. and our two new york. and west bank israeli settlers police and defense forces are gearing up to bear the consequences of the palestinian aspirations for sovereignty as they expect mass marches in support of the move all landmines are even said to be being planted alongside the border artie's parsley or has more. there's a growing sense of isolation among israelis for months they simply named it september and now september is here and with it the ease and uncertainty about what to do when palestinians ask the united nations to recognize they state i think the responsible thing to do from the i.d.f. point of view is to prepare for any eventuality prepare for the worst case scenario

and hope it doesn't happen the worst case scenario is violence there's even talk of a third intifada the israeli army has been preparing for months beefing up security on settlements and planting new land mines along israel's northern borders but many complain these measures go too far now there are going to would mines. maybe it's more come for. the last thing tel aviv once is a repeat of the chaos at its borders three months ago when hundreds of demonstrators stormed the israeli syrian border in a show of sympathy for the palestinians twenty protesters were killed by israeli fire the area is littered with mines and add a danger to those clamoring there the mines are not necessarily very to deal with people who have peaceful intentions but mines are a legitimate form of the fence many countries have mines on their borders for that reason in one of its internal magazines the israeli army said it was planting new

mines in the area as a deterrent against any future demonstrations that might take place crowds are expected to surge forward when palestinians put forward their case at the united nations the army refused our request for an interview the most they gave us was an e-mail response in which they said they were performing ongoing situation assessments and doing everything required in order to ensure that the daily routine and security on israel's northern borders was maintained but it wasn't security that tof the right half of salad bars buddy he lost a leg a hand and an eye when he picked up a mine when he was thirteen years old it was a moment. that changed his life forever. of. what happened with you and sometimes. maybe it was. if he did because. we continue to live he like. he got

a little sympathy from the israeli government that blamed him for being in an area infamous for mines but instead of hate and anger sally wants his misfortune to be a warning to others and is now dreading what will happen if thousands of people surged towards the borders later this week i feel very very very sad because i know or. don't just. make just just. give flowers or a good life for the people it's nine months since the arab spring began and as palestinians lobby the united nations the last of the region's old certainties are being swept away but fears in the region are growing that what happens in new york state the stage for the next middle east crisis. r.t. israel decades of unproductive peace talks with israel are the reason why palestinians are skeptical a new round of negotiations could produce any change that's the opinion of one of

mahmoud abbas's advisors that your shop. you know somebody takes your house and. occupies all of it but says that the only thing i want is the garden and the basement but in the meanwhile i don't buy all your home for two to do so. let's negotiate so you negotiate another of the things you agree he ever implements that's what the israelis are doing we've been negotiating for twenty years after madrid for eighteen years after signing. it was to agreement which required them to do it from every inch of understanding with the exception of jerusalem and sentiments in three years which they didn't do so it is up to dicky this come to to do what. more from not be all shots opinion on the actions of palestinians in new york and plans for

peace with israel coming your way later here on r.t. well stay with us this hour stay tuned for a lukewarm reception greeting. obama's tax plan some say the government is only out to protect itself instead of making sure the people don't suffer what's. fighters about to finish off gadhafi is remaining supporters in libya as the west anticipates cashing in on new business opportunities in the country. but first italy's credit score has taken a knock financial ratings from standard and poor's has downgraded the country by one notch deepening the euro zone's economic woes the agency also gave a gloomy forecast for the country's ability to get itself out of trouble s. and p. said it was prompted by italy's weak economic growth and fears the government won't be able to pay off its huge debt despite recently agreeing to unpopular austerity package downgrade now means it could be more expensive for italy to borrow money to

pay its creditors while in greece athens has been given an ultimatum by e.u. and i.m.f. officials to enforce a deeper budget cuts if it wants to avoid bankruptcy the week's that's after eurozone leaders chose to wait till october before considering releasing the next eight billion euro bailout for more on this now i'm joined by francesco see he's live for us in rome thank you very much for joining us so does this latest downgrade come as a surprise to you and do you think there's any more countries that are set to follow. well no personally i'm not surprised because that actually i think the biggest a liability for retail. to political situation which has not changed. have. there have been maneuvers attempts to fix the situation but these maneuvers. are half botched in a way they are not very successful plus the political situation has not changed i think italy needs some kind of new political settlement

a government of national unity to cope with these extraordinary situation we only in all normal times we had a mixture audience equation but still the italian government is not up to the challenge i am afraid when you think silvio berlusconi and other government members need to do in order to make things better for italy. well i personally think they should call on all other parties to form a coalition of national unity and then to start a program for. privatization of assets these would be a first step to reassure the markets markets need reassurance is confidence that major steps would be taken and then of course a major overhaul italian bureaucratic system is needed but this will take time the first thing is to address the problem of confidence and this is can be done in my

humble opinion only by calling on a government of national unity and starting a major program of privatization that would provide catch and drop. interest and also the. overall debt of the italian. all right well let's move to greece for a second easy when i am officially are sitting on the second ballot for the country that's not going to help athens much is it or what do you think what steps should be taken there well i'm not to expert i think the situation we even treat care because that is a deep key strops said if he hears back and he agree government get these provide. so. we have had all kinds of leaks about right

figures or wrong figures you provided by the greek government these is the biggest problem of. we don't know what is the real situation there so we don't know how much money is necessary and of course this is started a process a process that people are dragging their feet i mean should we move should we not move we name by doing this i mean germany france and other european countries are of course expanding the greek problem so i think here the problem is twofold it would be necessary for the e.u. trusts us exactly the reality of the greek debt and once assessed act very very strongly. one way or another because greek greek greek back to the greek crisis can. golf as the whole of europe and

a whole lot of the whole we're columnist francesco see she thank you very much for joining us thank you. in the u.s. president obama has laid out a plan to cut the deficit and revive the economy with the wealthiest americans expected to pay more he said big earners and corporations must pay higher taxes adding that everyone should have play should pay a fair share outlining roughly some three trillion dollars in savings obama explicitly promised to veto any debt reduction legislation that cuts benefits while failing to add clue to higher taxes on the rich but republicans have described obama's approach as class warfare as a libertarian economist who rockwell thinks the president's plan targets the wrong people. we're getting poorer and it's absolutely true that government connected rich are getting richer so what do we do about that do we punish businessmen who are creating jobs and creating wealth and making things better or do we take some of the stolen goods away from the people in washington away from the oligarchy away

from the ruling class i think that's what we have to concentrate on not let the guys at the top which you know but who obama is working for against soros and then buffett and these kinds of guys not let them try to focus our attention on hating the guts of a guy who owns a bunch of the subway sandwich shops he's not the problem he's the solution it's the bankers and all the people who got rich wall street the military industrial complex big pharma it's these kinds of arms of the corporate state that are getting rich far too rich and you know they need to be cut back come back cut back government that's what we need to do turkeys president is in berlin discussing e.u. membership and issues faced by some three million turks living in germany today the multiculturalism debate comes at a time when the country is marking fifty years since inviting a wave of turkish workers to help boost efforts to build the berlin wall or he's tom barton looks at the changing demographics of one of the world's most ethnically diverse countries. it's the end of school for thirteen year old malik college in

frankfurt germany his grandparents escaped from morocco in the one nine hundred seventy s. joining a largely white german society his mother nadia grew up here and she's seen things change and we had a time where everything was perfect you know we don't feel like that we are immigrant let down there i'd like and since my son was born as a after five here then i feel like something's happened in the politics not just problems are at least partly down to a massive demographic change statistics show that the overall population of young people in germany has fallen by two million in the past decade or so you cannot make a situation also a population. increase so. families decided not to have as much children as we need increasingly wealthy germans see raising children whilst holding down jobs as

a waste of time and money the only parts of the population that are growing immigrant communities the changes in culture and ethnicity are leaving some germans feeling threatened the islamic leaders forty years law make model of society it is very different from the democratic german money we find that islam prevents people from properly integrating into germany for instance if we see ten year old girls being sent to school wearing headscarves we can already predict their development. too late say immigrant communities arguing about immigration now is outdated and may even border on racism here we're still have a discussion about the his that being now we are like the middle age. and with a serious labor shortage looming experts say germany needs all the workers it can get. so you. for demographic problems we need as

a people and see all new people islamic people these teenagers from paul immigrant backgrounds are being welcomed into a new educational program to create start which helps them with money and support towards their final school exams. are they not there my family was discriminated against it was a very difficult time for me now without wanting so much of my own money i can focus on my studies and graduate from school. the demographic future of germany's difficult predict but if programs like this work they could help germany accept these students as part of its multi ethnic feature the changes in germany's population on the debate surrounding them will take many years to play out but life goes on and by the time these teenagers have children of their own it seems likely the face of society here could look rather different tom watson r.t.

minds. remember for more stories blogs video analysis you can always check out our dot com here's what's a click away right now lethal cocktail pilot error and bad weather and investigators find traces of alcohol in one of the crew members of the plane that crashed in northwestern russia in june. while in the us a study finds car crash deaths fall but drug abuse deaths rise find out what's behind this which dot com. turning to libya where anti could often forces claim their crush remaining resistance from the kernel supporters within the next few days but their progress is to in taking three besieged cities is slow with a ground often switching hands several times throughout the day loyalist forces are dug deep in the said to be using civilians as human shields meanwhile libya's new ruling body the national transitional council is having a tough time forming a new cabinet. because of disagreements among its members that after himself has

been on the run for months now his whereabouts are known nato is still bombing the colonel supporters under the pretext of protecting civilians but there are some analysts who think the west maybe all the gunning for its own profit. it's very hard to believe that they are getting involved militarily out of the use of their hearts but of course as we've seen lately there was a paris conference held where very aware business interests were discussed and the whole purpose of that meeting was of course to make the military adventure worthwhile and to discuss business opportunities involving the rebuilding rebuilding of libya with energy companies telecom firms and construction companies from britain and france in a very good position to get very lucrative business deals done for libya the national transitional council has made it clear that it wants to reward the countries who took a lead role in backing of the rebellion but we also have seen resistance from

jihadists movements who have called for the members of the national transitional council to resign and who are making it abundantly clear that they are determined not to lead the west plunder the country's assets. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe activists in yemen say security forces had killed more than fifty people in the last two days during clashes with anti-government protesters across the country in the capital sanaa snipers opened fire from rooftops shooting among others desperate and people filming the violence the crackdown follows reports the country's vice president could sign an initiative arranging a transfer of power something protesters have been calling on for months. a policy that banned open homosexuality among servicemen in the u.s. military has been repealed the laws known as don't ask don't tell was introduced in one thousand nine hundred three during the clinton administration according to it gay people were allowed to serve in the army as long as they keep their sexual

orientation private to gay communities held its scrapping as a historic day for equality. in mexico at least thirty two inmates have broken out of three different jails in the state of veracruz it happened almost simultaneously when prisoners armed with knives overpowered the guards and forced them to open the gates officials say so far fourteen of the fugitives have been recaptured security at mexican prisons is notoriously weak with guards often intimidated or bribed by drug gangs operating both in and out of the jails the region seen a sharp spike in violence after a major drug cartel moved its operations there from a neighboring state. in a few minutes max kaiser takes a look at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines but first the hour's business news with yulia. thanks miles this is business sarsi good to have you with the law school and tehran have agreed to join to develop the world's largest untouched zinc lead deposit in

central iran it will be run by russia's rustic no longer i am the biggest private bank of the run b s i made the project to be worth up to one point two billion dollars however its implementation could be hampered as the iranian binded subject to ground sanctions. the russian ruble continues to retreat again as the main currency than sampson meeting its lowest annual level against the us dollar on monday the central bank says the value of a fully out free floating bruegel will be decided by the market. new very deeply appreciate it actually very seriously so that we know that god gets in the strange way to change the law come in before the supply demand of the most it goes you've. said you told him it was sure you should not believe it so you didn't even know it was a good habit you could be judicious with both george. and i felt something that could be markets oil prices a mix the sound off decision heavy losses on monday escalating fears over the year as a debt crisis continue to stoke concerns over the demand light sweet is currently trading

at eighty five dollars for a while brant at one hundred nine dollars per barrel. asian stocks are mostly at the downgrade of each of these credit rating exacerbated on growing concerns about g.e. solvent that was companies with relatively high exposure to europe are running the main retreated in tokyo with sony and who did so but down around four percent on financial stocks are under pressure in hong kong with industrial and commercial point of china almost one percent of the ground. the russian markets opened on a positive note up to seeing from losses on monday the uk has a point two percent of the bloc while the month is up one point one percent this hour. russian equities may be seeing a bit of profit taking this week but michael stein at a crease here believes the high oil prices will continue to make commodity stocks look promising. given the very high level of uncertainty out there word by using our clients to take advantage of the fact that the world price remains stubbornly

high and also noting that the ruble has weakened a lot we like the world stocks which benefit from the high oil price know one thing and also impact the favorable impact of the weaker ruble another stock that merits attention right now given investors' desire to shelter themselves from the commodity price volatility is a company called old u.k. for this is a power generation company which is trading at attractive valuations it has low cash flow volatility and yesterday the company released a very favorable first half an inch results showing a five percentage point improvement in the profitability of the big dollar bill and also very strong topline growth. russian retail sales for august have seen their highs jump in the years sales of words around eight percent say consumption is recovering fast on high household purchasing power the russian government hopes they currently will accelerate in the second half of the get off to slowing in the first six months. of the russian government has agreed to pump a three and

a half billion dollars into russia railways over the next three years forty percent of that money will be injected by the end of next year the company will invest the money in construction projects for the sochi winter olympics and general modernization. that's all the business news for now have some more stories you can always head to our web site that's called slash business.

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eleven thirty am in moscow these are your headlines israel calls for a resumption of bilateral peace talks with the palestinians seen by many as a last ditch effort to keep them from asking for recognition on the world stage palestinians plan to formally ask for a seat at the united nations. euro zone's third largest economy takes a hit below the belt as its credit ratings downgraded sparking fears of an even deeper financial crisis italy is the latest of six euro zone countries have taken a credit tumble this year. multiculturalism under the microscope turkey's president visits berlin trying to break down a wall of the issues facing immigrants in germany this as some germans say they feel threatened by the ever growing wave of immigration. all this and more coming your way in about thirty minutes first max is back looking at how economies are.