entirely true with those who tell me it's not your real it's a good international to achieve every green the were killed in. russia urges the palestinian bid for statehood to be given for time at the u.n. security council as washington threatens to use its veto power against a unilateral move. the u.s. is accused of encouraging the arab spring to achieve its own interest even though it sacrificed the position of its closest ally israel leaving it isolated. and the international team of data inspectors sees progress and talks with greece while the i.m.f. warns the global economy is in a perilous state. watching

ninety coming to you live from moscow standing out here on marina joshing welcome to the program palestinians deserve a ride to their case for recognition in front of the u.n. security council despite u.s. threats to veto the move that's moscow's stand on the state who bit president abbas is preparing to introduce on friday. as 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 but still sure that the new blood in the middle east will not meet in the near future with the recent meeting with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has shown that the u.s. would like to see the palestinian question raised at the u.n. we think that it would be preferable to sit at the negotiating table first. ready for it because there's no agreement between them we think deprive the palestinian administrator of the rights to ask the u.n. security council to speak to the good that 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 twelve months later the u.s. of course is back pedaling and threatening to veto the aspirations of palestine

also we're 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 policy and for u.n. membership but if this meeting does take place one knows maybe this story will shift into a much different. i mean if we're not reporting there from new york grind that are a prominent advocate of rallies against the war on terror told r.t. diplomatic pressure is just one of the means the u.s. is using to hold palestinian aspirations. there's no question that the obama administration and the democratic and republican party are really through congress is exerting pressure on the palestinian authority made made clear that the palestinian authority will be cut off will be deprived of the funds necessary to pay of palestinian authority employees as has already happened much of the money

was already cut in july 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. they suffered both in the west bank and gaza and the growing international support that makes the palestinians see a new possibility at the un for recognition of palestinian statehood while the us might be defending israel's interests in the un critics accuse washington to be exact opposite during the recent arab spring america's been outspoken in its support of the liberation of muslim states but once that came into force in egypt israel was the first to pay the price of the regime change or he's a nice now explains how the us has pushed tel aviv into isolation. 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 the arab world by the west is not the only one paying

what they did which was the biggest. piece to do in your time there was a bit of security but now there's this as you can see on the streets israel has also been left hanging low road just below the neighboring egypt mixed with the massively unpopular israeli front policy makes a dangerous cocktail peace for change towards those this patient was very slow so you had a lot of frustration on one side and then you had a lot of anger. exacerbated after the killing of the five injections will. there's always a contender for you by israeli gunfire. shaking up the situation even further the recent attack on the israeli embassy in cairo protesters threw stones and straw in the building as military police stood by and watched for hours three demonstrators were killed and over a thousand injured on the map

a mission that's this situation can get worse for israel not for us we're just starting to get stronger this is not a negative thing for us but a plus. for protester who took down the israeli flag at the embassy in august was held egypt's new superhero flagman a wall was then built to protect the embassy but completely destroyed by protesters . because what remains. behind all repercussions of a movie well is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already sued for freedom and in the region the u.s. is strongest ally facing 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 averted and might have a lot more work to do to avoid catastrophe in the future was wrong about look at

what's happening and to give the due to very important states in the area which used to have not only these but friendship with israel they be 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 was the kurds and then you have and others at this point that certainly the americans are holding the gates isn't have all the cards up their sleeve so so i think that's something that must weigh heavily on on israel of this because when it comes down. you chance to protect one thing being the basic problem you are i think with americans and with the western civilization in general the way the thing is that it's become too much about interests not. about humanity or about anything else it's really become about interests and. when interests as the mean dr drew

things become messier and egypt could become a match that israel will have to. peace in our way archie. on the way here on our team here junkies dream as their reality in afghanistan find out why the need for wishing is ignoring the looming afghan drug industry which is finding wives and actually helping fund the taliban. an international team of dad inspectors has decided to will return to greece next week the chapter on the country's progress and 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 strict 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 told the i.m.f. war in europe and the united states risk falling back into recession unless

lawmakers act quickly also underscoring the region's difficulties was a credit rating downgrade of a bully by standard and poor's ranch royalist michael ross believes the constant downgrades are only putting pressure on the world economy. have also to take into account that there is a kind of currency war going on. continuous down from united states from the rating agencies here in europe i mean what does it really matter one. social up psychologically it's really very very hard and in terms of currency war you have to see that i want to let. the euro in order to keep the dollar and at the end of the day this equation will not be true grove currencies fail in my opinion because europe and united states have known the same problem if you take a closer look to most western countries there are all failing go all over the

situation at the moment it is psychologically very under big pressure so it doesn't have any of us if the i.m.f. says such things economist michael cantor says the e.u. crisis will have far reaching consequences for the global economy personally i mean eight plus they 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 and first yemen and we're much law enforcement why has come into effect in the capital sanaa after three days of violence which killed sixty two people more than a 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 to arranging the transfer of power something protesters have been calling for for months. believing in interim prime minister says the country's new government will be announced within seven to ten days the news came during a press conference hosted by g eight foreign ministers and called a welcome of leave us new leadership to the united nations meanwhile fighting girlhood out his remaining strongholds continue as before rebels claiming they will crush the resistance within the next few days civil war and media started in february and has reportedly claimed tens of thousands of lives.

the u.s. state of georgia has denied a final appeal for clemency for a prisoner on death row on the eve of his execution for the one hundred eighty nine murder of an off duty policeman the murder weapon was ever found and no d.n.a. evidence of or fingerprints conclusively linked to the shooting most witnesses have also since changed their testimony more than one million people worldwide have signed petitions were clemency and a senior national said george is this brother to the justice system and war innocent man davis is due to face death by lethal injection on wednesday. to mexico now were gunmen have dumped the bodies of thirty five people on a roadway during rush hour in the gulf state of veracruz the victims were found in two trucks left near a shopping mall in the sea of baka real police identified seven of them and all have criminal backgrounds including store she and her. drug trafficking boca del

rio has become a frequent side of clashes between armed groups as drug related violence grows. also the calm here on r.t. no more rush hour travel to one place on earth were air pollution is a thing of the past and they we commute is a delight. and before that afghanistan's mourning the death of its former president who was appealing though she were with the taliban were no dean he was killed by a suicide bomber at his home in the capital kabul on tuesday it's believed the explosives were hidden in the attackers turban body 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 profiles us nations and the second tower about attack on kabul and we our team was the last hour to interview mr rabbani before his death he blamed

the nato occupation of his country for the young going civil war which has claimed thousands of lives. of the people of afghanistan do not want foreign troops to stay here we don't want a nation 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 chiefly and can watch the full interview with the late mr rabbani on our website r t dot com. now with the relentless taliban stepping up its attacks across afghanistan one of their main sources of income is of gloom the country's infamous drug tree kills thousands of users worldwide each year while helping the insurgents combat the neo occupation but critics say the alliance has made little efforts to

rout out the deadly business during its ten year wrong campaign. going off reports from kabul. the penalty for drinking beer in kabul is 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 the was coming and staring at them. in same conditions ways rubbish being thrown weight here where we're standing right now this is just incredible seacat heroin. it's all cooked mixed injected or small to right arm on these piles of rubbish rotten meat and an indescribable aroma and not one policeman again we're near what that not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs and many of

them call the score pakistan and you can hear we don't have any job we don't have any i think you do if you can pay for the war by either. a study commissioned by the us state department shills each of gali family has at least one drug user all kids are now found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine their word there's no doubt the theory of plantation song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started. i believe that the war was the root cause that forced afghan people to turn to poppy growing their own ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan interpol cleans the markets global trade has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected states where around eighty tons of heroin got to a new resettle in the country. it's absolutely tragic that despite the enormous resources

nato has put into afghanistan including military force drug production is just phenomenal moreover the head of nato military committee admiral de power. and he told me fighting drug production is not my goal there was no such directive i mean the 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 needles key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and spends billions of dollars to fight afghanistan's 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 ruled and its group you got this kind of orgy kabul afghanistan. seems the drug trade only proviso income but also valuable connections learn more about it and are constantly updated website r.t. . the tortillas drug cartels that operates out of the us border have been

organizing parties for american officials and hired. also online for you and masterpiece by the famous painter march of god will go on earth to hammer at sotheby's along with other works of russian art at our web site are a more. 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 artists on a boy who traveled to the island of spitsbergen 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. or two. cars to talk about your car. in fact in the world's northernmost city being doctor is a year round phenomenon dog fragments were the only means of transportation around archipelago until the mid ninety's and while by now carson cohen will probably place them in many parts of the north here in prison bergen a way. it's not only more environment for a problem but also safer because i always rely on. real would be called wild dogs will never live. but most of the residents of norway's long years beyond robert wasn't born here. he moved in in his mid twenty's spleen big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature he says who king his jeep behind his barking

theme every two months is the major change of his life plus it gives the dogs fit the story beats. the exercise every day so. yeah when it's in periods with less interest i'm going out training the dogs in 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 on no last trick the local authorities have already closed some of the archipelagos routes to motorised traffic that's more restrictions to come. below being forced behind a partial car ban is very for think also and every dog lover she like is driving just milking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are no smoking areas why shouldn't there be. driving areas here small boats are contro in norway and

many other places also here in the north. and i think today we are living in big tones we need the silent room where we can leave all of what's wrong in our normal days we need to rest our brain as the iraqi girl who tries to attract more tourists some suggest that the her restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around the world reporting increasing traffic pretty neatly be in need of a car free refuge like the session traveler kolosov and muscovite who endures hours long commutes to work says the absence of honking horns and meet him instantly fall in love with it raise the most amazing moment i experience is 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 the favor of dogs it's an absolutely great great idea and this would probably attract more and more tourists here going

to dance is obviously not an option for every cd but here you have to use definitely don't feel like a fifth wheel kind of like the long view of b. and. i would later will be hearing how peace in the middle east could be achieved and that's when we hear from the former head of the israeli secret services before that it will take a look at happening in the world of business arena. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. we start with russia's two major bourses the my sex and the r.t.s. as they're putting the finishing touches to their five billion dollar merger the new brand of a combined stock exchange for the percent of the early next year and then you had to be sold to the public for an i.p.o. or to sell for plan for twenty thirteen i think is laura and that has all the details for us. there are no new legal obstacles to the merger between the r.t.s.

my statics exchanges the mergers being approved by the federal monopoly service and it's now on to technical details which are not you when you're talking about joining together an index that trades mostly in equities and currencies and another index that trades mostly in derivatives and that's on a different technical platforms and one thousand person has already been appointed from the franking community and from the brokerage community and now from here until the end of december it's 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 hate to create a single technological entry point to prove indices they'll also have to make sure of course that the service they offer is interrupted that there's 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 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 overarching 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 consumer survey truth against the main currencies it's reached the lowest level against the us dollar in can lights but give us a list of all that a voyage of access 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 will come to terms with it. is probably has gone too far in terms of.

weakness so my sense is that this approach of the central bank words limiting limiting its preventions may actually. you know. giving. giving way to. appreciation. right now let's take a look at the markets now almost start with oil prices are mixed this hour after seeing some gains on tuesday escalating fears of a euro zone that prices are still keeping concerns over them and the light sweet discovery trading at around eighty six dollars per barrel while different plan this out around one hundred ten dollars and fifty one cents per barrel. in asian markets are also met with investors waiting for the conclusion of it sue their u.s. federal reserve policy meeting here p. and suffering that weighed on sentiment there as well exporters are among the main

gainers in japan with social point six percent the company said it plans to double its first half dividends and banking stocks are under pressure in hong kong with h.s.b.c. there a third of a percent. and here in russia the markets just opened on a horse it's of the r.t.s. is just a not sharp all the my sex is again employed four percent. but here so from i have seen national says investors are waiting for news from the fed meeting in the us later in the day and anything from the euro zone. everyone is waiting for the new measures from bernanke you but you we understand that there is a lack of bernanke you can use for supporting situation in u.s.c. the same thing happens there with the euro zone brainstem good reason through rates and italy is not their last name gets you from europe and looks like

most of the investors are sitting in the cash. the russian energy sector could see a new international investor as one of the rockefeller family farms aims to buy gas assets off the country's biggest diamond producer or roast up the british empire special situations fund is interested in wine to gas producers in the north of russia for and that's the latest prices at least one billion dollars it's already hold in the diligence and plans to seal the deal by early twenty twelve but analysts say the fun could hardly become a significant player in the russian gas market and sell the assets with a premium later on. but also business like the south will more stores you can always head to our sites are to dot com slash business but in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines of marina by for the.

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