the boss is preparing to introduce on friday. night has more from new york. the issue that remains at center stage for those attending the united nations general assembly is the issue of the palestinian campaign for a u.n. membership and statehood is something that the majority of the general assembly does support but it is something that the united states has been speaking out against that the u.s. has threatened to use its veto in the security council because no sides palestine or israel are ready to return to the negotiating table but foreign minister lavrov did say that it is within palestinians right to ask for u.n. membership and the united states should not get in the way of aspirations for any country because of that the new plan the middle east quartet will not meet in the near future but the recent meeting with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has showed that the u.s.

would not like to see the palestinian question raised at the u.n. we think that it would be preferable to sit to the negotiating table first. ready for it because there's no agreement between them and we think that deprives the palestinian at ministration of the right to ask the u.n. security council to speak out on each statehood bid mr newman it was just this time last year that u.s. president barack obama addressed the international body saying that when he comes back to the united nations in two thousand and eleven he hopes that palestine will be a member of the united nations and now told months later the u.s. is backpedaling and threatening to veto the aspirations of palestine also reports coming out that u.s. president barack obama will be meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas this was a meeting that was not scheduled up to this point of course with the u.s. so against the palestinian bid for u.n. membership but if this meeting does take place who knows maybe this story will

shift into a much different. and while the palestinians are campaigning for statehood at the u.n. some believe washington is using its economic influence to hold such efforts from going through but there's no question that the obama administration and the democratic and republican party operating through congress is exerting immense pressure on the palestinian authority making it clear that the palestinian authority will be cut off will be deprived of the funds necessary to pay palestinian authority employees as has already happened much of that money was already cut in july this is pressure mounting on the palestinians to make them pull back from their right to go forward in the general assembly and ask for recognition of a palestinian state it's a lot of pressure on the palestinians but the palestinians are likewise pressured by their own people who have seen no remedy to the suffering that they suffered

both in the west bank and gaza and the growing international support that makes the palestinians see a new possibility at the u.n. for recognition of palestinian statehood. the aspirations of freedom have taken over the arab world giving birth to liberated and tunisia as well as pushing israel further into isolation tel aviv seems to be the worst affected by the changes encouraged by its closest ally and democracy advocate the us or do anything now explains. democracy has a price the people of egypt have spoken. their voices have been heard and egypt will never be the same and the new egypt embraced as a positive example of change in the arab world by the west is not the only one paying what they did of interest the revolution bring us you know i think doing good your time there was a bit of security but now there's this security on the streets israel has also been

left hanging a slow road to stability in neighboring egypt mixed with the massively unpopular israeli foreign policy makes a dangerous cocktail that pays for change towards those us beautician was very slow so you had a lot of frustration on one side and then you had a lot of anger that. exacerbated after the killing of the five predictions soldiers on egyptian territory by israeli gunfire. taking up the situation even further the recent attack on the israeli embassy in cairo protesters threw stones and stormed the building as military police stood by and watched for hours three demonstrators were killed and over a thousand injured stopping them at the mission of the for this situation can get worse for israel not for us who are just starting to get stronger this is not a negative thing for us but a plus. the protester who took down the israeli flag at the embassy in august

was held as egypt's new super hero flagman a wall was then built to protect the embassy but completely destroyed by protesters . that were. remain. behind our report shows a movement we all know is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already freedom and in the region you want the strongest ally in the security threats as this new democracy is stuck in a spiral of certainty instability and sometimes chaos benjamin netanyahu called the incident a near disaster being the verdict and might have a lot more work to do to avoid catastrophe in the future is really should worry about look at what's happening in egypt two very important states in the area would choose to have no new friendship with israel. at odds with israel and its number one friend seems to be having trouble keeping

a balance when it comes to promoting arab democracy and protecting israel security it must occur to netanyahu and others at this point that certainly be americans are holding the at the have all the cards up their sleeve so so i think that something that must weigh heavily on israel of this because when it comes down to it the u.s. tends to protect one thing in the end the basic problem you know i think with americans and with the western civilization kennington or all the way they're handling things is that it's become too much about interests not about humanity or about anything else it's really become about interests and when interest is the main driver of things become messy and egypt could become a mess that israel will have to clean up and he's in our way archie. on the way a junkie his dream is the reality in afghanistan find out why the nato coalition

isn't nor in the bumi afghan drug industry which is claiming lives and actually helping fund the taliban. and international. dad inspectors has decided it will return to greece next week to check on the country's progress in reaching its budget goals athens hopes this will help win the release of the latest emergency loans greek authorities want to convince the dead inspectors they could meet straight budget targets as a country desperately needs the next eight billion euro bailout package without the money the country could default within weeks however no decision will be made until the i.m.f. warned europe and the united states risk falling back into a recession unless lawmakers act quickly also underscoring the region's difficulties was a credit rating downgrade of italy by standard and poor's financial analyst michael ross believes the constant down greater only putting pressure on the world economy . to take into account that there is

a kind of currency war going on especially. from the united states from the rating agencies here in europe i mean what does it really matter. psychologically it's really very very hard and in terms of currency war you have to see that to fail the euro in order to keep the dollar and at the end of the day this equation will not be true both currencies will fail in my opinion because europe have more or less the same problem if you take a closer look to most western countries they are all failing go all over the situation at the moment is. a very big pressure so it doesn't have any of us if the i.m.f. says such things. economists michael pandal says the e.u. crisis will have far reaching consequences for the global economy. personally i

mean a plus day i mean is anybody really believe that italy deserves an a rating their debt to g.d.p. is one hundred twenty percent and rising a significant number of european banks are insolvent the e.c.b. has to buy all of that sovereign debt and take it off their balance sheet that is the final answer greece will default and that means somebody has to take the pain and it's going to be either the banks or it's going to be this central bank creating inflation and then everybody suffers get ready for a protracted and significant increase in inflation both in europe in japan in the united states. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world first again they were a much longer for ceasefire has come into effect in the capital of sana'a after three days of violence which killed sixty two people more than one hundred were taken to hospitals with wounds from gunfire and shelling the crackdown came despite

reports the country's vice president could sign an initiative arranging the transfer of power something protesters have been calling for for months. meanwhile in syria security forces have killed seven people on tuesday during raids near the capital and in homes province about twenty seven hundred have reportedly been killed across the country in six months of protests calling for the ad of president bashar al assad's regime western countries have demanded an increase in pressure on i said to stop the crackdown by russia insists only peaceful dialogue can resolve the conflict. the u.s. state of georgia has the not a final appeal for clemency for a prisoner on death row on the eve of his execution for the nine hundred eighty nine murder of an off duty policeman no murder weapon was ever found and no d.n.a. evidence of fingerprints conclusively linking troy davis to the shooting most

witnesses have also since changed their testimony and more than one million people worldwide have signed petitions for clemency amnesty international said georges discredited the justice system and will execute an innocent man davis is due to face death by lethal injection on wednesday. to mexico now where gunmen have dumped the bodies of thirty five people in a roadway during rush hour in the gulf state of veracruz the victims were found in two trucks left near a shopping mall in a sea of. police identified seven of them and all have criminal backgrounds including extortion home inside and drug trafficking walking the rio has become a frequent side of. between armed groups as drug related violence grows. now somewhat on the sour here on our t.v. our rush hour we travel to one place on earth where air pollution is a thing of the past and the daily commute is

a delight. afghanistan's mourning the death of its former president who was a key to go she had her with the taliban bernadine rabani was killed by a suicide bomber and is home in the capital kabul on tuesday it's believed the explosives were hidden in the attackers turban rabbani had led peace talks with the insurgents over the last year and was considered one of the most influential figures in the country the killings the latest in a string of high profile assassinations in afghanistan and the second taliban a tap and kabul in a week r t was the last channel to interview mr rabbani before his death and he blamed the nato occupation of his country for the ongoing civil war which has claimed thousands of lives. the moment the people of afghanistan do not want foreign troops to stay here we don't want our nation's security to depend on a foreign military presence it's simply unacceptable however considering the

critical security situation in our country the lack of stability and the continuing armed clashes were forced to tolerate the presence of nato but there would never have been a civil war in afghanistan and no problems with the taliban if we hadn't been invaded by foreign forces people in afghanistan had managed to live for centuries without such in-fighting. and you can watch the full interview with mr rabbani on our website r.t. dot com. where there are landless taliban stepping up its attacks across afghanistan one of their main sources of income is in full bloom the country's infamous drug trade kills thousands of abusers worldwide here while helping the insurgents combat in a occupation but critics say the alliance has made a low effort to root out the deadly business during its ten year along campaign artie's igor piskun off reports from kabul. the penalty for drinking beer in kabul a sixty whips on the back publicly it is

a very traditional muslim society or is it there are dozens of people if not more for human rights right there under this bridge in the center of the city with all the screaming and staring at them and all the insane conditions we still rubbish being formed right here where we're standing right now this is just incredible to see. heroin. it's all cooked mixed injected or smoked right i'm on these piles of rubbish rotten meat and an indescribable room and not one policeman anywhere near but that's not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs and many of them call this call pakistan and you're on your game here and we don't have any jobs we don't have any kind of thing to do if you can't pay for the war or you have a bunch of you have a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each of gandhi family has at least one drug user all bits

are now found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine in their blood there's no doubt that the area of plantation some with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started. i believe that the war was the root cause the. for stuff to people to turn to poppy growing their own ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan into a ball cleans the markets global trade has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark russia is one of the worst affected street with around eighty tons of heroin to settle in the country. it's absolutely tragic that despite the enormous resources nature has put into afghanistan including military force drug production is just phenomenal moreover the head of nato military committee admiral de power personally told me fighting drug production is not their goal there was no such directive many experts find this a bit strange given the fact that

a large part of the revenues from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban nato is key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community spends billions of dollars to fight stands drug traffic but since nato has no legal right to coordinate the funds are spent with very little positive results while officials say the multi-billion dollar afghan drug network has the whole world in its grip you've got the skin of kabul afghanistan. and all of our stories and news and latest videos are available on our website r.t. dot com twenty four hours a day here's what we have online for you today tori has brought her tales that operates out of the u.s. border have been organizing parties for american officials and to hire. a masterpiece five famous painting of martian go under the hammer during an option and it speculation l. break all records find more about this on our website.

modern city dwellers are all too familiar with constant traffic jams and air pollution rising their stress levels and causing health problems but one remote place in the arctic has adopted a different approach to the concept of commuting arctics on a boy who traveled to the spitzbergen archipelago to discover what the fuss was all about. that's what it really means to put the shoulder to the will contrary to popular opinion huskies don't go on vacation once the snow melts the dogs are pulling more to one mile from the cars to talk to me are the people who are. in fact in the world snow than most city being docked time is

a year round phenomenon dog gladys where the only means of transportation around the archipelago until the mid one nine hundred sixty s. and while by now cars and snowmobiles have replaced them in many parts of the north here in prison bergen is still cooling the way who can say it's not only more environmentally friendly but also safer you can always rely on the way to deal with the cold while dogs will never live. like most of the residents of no race longer beyond robert wasn't born here. and he moved in in his mid twenty's fleeing big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature he says hooping his jeep behind his barking team impeachments is the major change in his life plus it keeps the dogs fit the story beats they know they need the exercise every day so. yeah when it's with the list to resume then i'm

going out training the dog with my car some two thousand residents along here and beyond is little more than a white place in the road they may not be any traffic police but the rules of the road and no less strict local authorities have already closed some of the on. two motorised traffic with more restrictions to come. the law being forced behind a partial car ban is buried borthwick also an avid dog lover she like it is driving to smoking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are known smoking areas why shouldn't there be normal driving areas here small boat docks our culture in norway many other places also here in the north. and i think today we are living in big tones we need the silent truth where we can leave all what's wrong in our normal days we need to rest our brain as the occupant of the tries to attract more

tourists some suggest that the care restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around you won't reporting increasing traffic fatigue many may be in need of a car free refuge like this russian traveler couldn't call us of and muscovite who endures hours long commutes to work says the absence of honking horns made him instantly fall in love with the place the most amazing moment i experience here on soul but it's of course the traffic the lack of traffic even early on january first in moscow you cannot find that if you cross like you see here to ban cars in favor of dogs it's an absolutely great great idea and this would probably attract more and more tourists down here going to the dogs is obviously not an option for every city but here has definitely don't feel like a fifth wheel kind of we got our sea long gibbie and spitzbergen archipelago.

brings us up to date here on our time now take a look what's happening the world of business marinas here. hello and welcome to business here on our t.v. russia's two main bourses the my sex and the r.t.s. are putting the finishing touches to a five billion dollar merger the new brand of a combined stock exchange will be presented early next year and the new entity will be sold to the public through an i.p.o. which is so far planned for twenty thirteen and artie's lore and that has all the details for us. there are now new legal obstacles to the merger between the r.t.s. the my sex exchanges the mergers been approved by the federal monopoly service and it's now on to the technical details which are not for you when you're talking about joining together and index the trades mostly in equities and currencies and another index that trades mostly in derivatives and that on the different technical platforms. has already been appointed from the banking community and from the

brokerage community and now from here until the end of december. that the legal merger between the two indexes will be completed and also the merger of some of the markets during that time they'll be testing the systems they'll be synchronizing the indices in terms of data and also they hope to create a single technological entry point to both indices they'll also have to make sure of course that the service they offer is interrupted that there is no loss of quality and also to integrate all those technological details the ambition is to have a full set of financial instruments a full package of operations to be one of the global exchanges and in the next couple of years to be in the top ten in terms of revenue first priority integration second priority to around about two thousand and thirteen obviously the overall goal of this is to make moscow into a global financial center and the c.e.o.'s of the r.t.s. and my sex who were here in london on tuesday say this is not the only thing that

needs to be done to create a global financial center in moscow but it's certainly a big step in the right direction the russian ruble continues to retreat against the main currencies and it's reached the lowest level against the us dollar in ten months but the list of all the banks is minimal intervention by the central bank could push the ruble back up. well prices are still very high reserves are still very high the central bank is not spending those reserves so with time when markets see that situation they will come to terms with. probably has gone too far in terms of. weakness so my sense is that this approach of the central bank towards limiting limits and it's going from may actually. you know overshooting we're giving. giving away to.

appreciation of the. us take a look at the markets now we'll start with oil prices there are flat the sour after seen some gains and she say escalating fears over the euro zone that prices are still keeping concerns over demand light so it's currently trading close to eighty seven dollars per barrel while brant as had one hundred ten dollars and fifty five cents per barrel that's what markets are mixed there as well the south of investors waiting for the conclusion over today u.s. federal reserve policy meeting european sovereign that way nonsense and as well exporters are among the main gainers in japan with social point six percent the company said it plans to double its first have dividends and banking stocks are under pressure in hong kong with h.s.b.c. a third of a percent. and here the russian markets will start trading in the around two hours time they closed in the black on shoes they tracking gains overseas the r.t.s.

rose point six percent although my sex went up by almost two percent. from what i've seen measurable says investors are waiting for news from the fed meeting in the us which will be later in the day and anything from the euro zone. everyone is waiting for new measures from bernanke here but we understand that there is a lack of tools bernanke you can use for supporting the situation in usa the same thing happens. when stand to reason through rates and people it is not their last negative news from europe bend it looks like most things in the cash. business looks the safra more so as you can always had our website. but in the meantime for the headlines with.

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welcome back you're watching our team live from moscow these are the top stories russia urges the palestinian bid for statehood to be given floor time at the u.n. and that's as washington threatens to use its veto power against the unilateral move just a year after president obama promised a seat at the sample. you want to see is accused of encouraging the arab spring to achieve its own interest even though it's the position of its closest ally israel leaving it isolated. and makes good progress in talks with debt inspectors athens hopes to get another aid package to stave off default by the i.m.f. warns the global economy is in a perilous state with the u.s. and e.u. close to falling back into recession.