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 statehood bit president abbas is preparing to introduce on friday. as more from new york. 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 the right and to use its veto in the security council because no sides policy 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. that the new people in the middle east quartet will meet in the near

future 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 we think deprive the palestinian at ministration of the right to ask the u.n. security council to speak out on it statehood bid was just this time last year that u.s. president barack obama addressed the international body saying that when he comes 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 backpedaling and threatening to veto the aspirations of palestine also reports coming out that he was 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 the story will shift into a much different. great important reporting there from new york brian becker 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 bringing through congress is exerting immense pressure on the palestinian authority made make clear that the palestinian authority will be cut off will be deprived of the funds necessary to pay the palestinian authority employees as has already happened much of that 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. 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 while the u.s. might be defending israel's interest in the u.n. critics accuse washington of the 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 our 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 in the arab world by the west is not the only one paying what did it with the evolution bring us you know 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 low road to stability in neighboring egypt mixed with a massively unpopular israeli foreign policy makes a dangerous cocktail the case 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. exacerbated after the killing of the five rejections who were. years on egyptian territory by israeli gunfire. shaking 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 stop on the map 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 current tester 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 . and what remains i doubt was but i've come up behind all repercussions of a movie a law is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already superb freedom and in the region the u.s. is stroking my basic security threats as this new democracy is stuck in a spiral of uncertainty instability and sometimes chaos benjamin netanyahu called the incident a near disaster being the bird it might have a lot more work to do to avoid catastrophe in the future is wrong should worry about look at what's happening and to get egypt to then important states in the area which used to have not only because but friendship with israel

today to 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 must occur didn't you who and others at this point that certainly be americans are holding the at the be a citizen have all the cards up their sleeve so so i think that is something that must weigh heavily on on israel of this because when it comes down. the u.s. tends to protect one thing india and the basic problem you know i think with americans and with the western civilization change in general the way they're doing things is that it's become too much about interests not not really 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 mass that israel took. these in our way archie.

on the way here on our team here junkies dream is their reality and afghanistan find out why the nato coalition is ignoring the blooming afghan drug industry which is claiming lives and actually helping fund the taliban. an international team of 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 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 tolbert the i.m.f. warned 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 way by standard and poor's that actually analyst michael ross believes the

constant downgrades are only putting pressure on the world economy. but have also to take into account that there is a kind of currency war going on especially continuous down from the united states from the rating agencies here in europe i mean what does it really matter one notch up or down the social up psychologically it's really very very hard and in terms of currency war you have to see that to let's. the euro in order to keep the dollar and at the end of the day this equation will not be true at the end both currencies fail in my opinion because europe and united states 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 it is psychologically very under a big pressure so it doesn't have any of us if the i.m.f.

says such things economists michael pancho says the e.u. crisis will have far reaching consequences for the global economy personally i mean a plus to a 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 for 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 longed for ceasefire has come into effect in the capital sanaa 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 it ranging the transfer of power something protesters have been calling for for months. to levy an 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 followed the welcome of libya's new leadership to the united nations meanwhile fighting colonel gadhafi is remaining strongholds continue as before rebels claiming they will crush the resistance within the next few days civil war in libya started 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 nine hundred eighty

nine murder of an off duty policeman no murder weapon was ever found and no d.n.a. evidence of or fingerprints conclusively linking tori david's to the shooting most witnesses have also since changed their testimony more than one million people worldwide have signed petitions for clemency amnesty international said georgia's 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 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 city of baku the real police identified seven of them and all have criminal backgrounds including extortion who. messiah and drug trafficking boca del rio has become a frequent side of clashes between armed groups as drug related violence grows.

well still to come here on r.t. no more rush hour travel to one place on earth where air pollution is a thing of the past and daily commute is a delight. and before that afghanistan's mourning the death of its former president he was a key negotiator with the taliban but i know dean bonnie 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 her 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 profile assess nations in afghanistan and the second taliban attack on kabul in a week r t was the last chance to interview mr rabbani before his death he blamed the nato occupation of his country for the ongoing civil war which has claimed thousands of lives. 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 the people of afghanistan had managed to live for centuries without such in-fighting and you can watch the full interview with the late mr rabbani on our website r t v dot com. now whether a landless taliban stepping up attacks across afghanistan while they are main sources of income is in full bloom the country's infamous drug trade kills thousands of abusers worldwide cheer while helping the insurgents combat the nato occupation but critics say the alliance has made a little effort to rout out the deadly business during its ten year on campaign corpus going 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 doing drugs right there under this bridge in the center of the seat with all the screaming and staring at them and all the insane conditions we still rubbish being thrown wait here where we're standing right now this is just incredible to see. heroin opium it's all cooked mixed injected or smoked all right i'm on these piles of rubbish or 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 know you can hear we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't pay

for the war or you have a bunch of help us 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 town taishan some with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started and afghanistan 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 into. cleans the markets global trade has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected streets with around eighty tons of heroin to settle 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 to 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 and spends billions of dollars to fight again it stands drug traffic but since nato has no legal way to coordinate the funds are spent with very little positive results while officials say that multi-billion dollar drug network has the whole world in its grip you've got this kind of kabul afghanistan. the drug trade ali provides income but also valuable connections learn more about it and are a constant way of data web site r.t. . the tortillas drug cartels that operate south of the u.s. border have been organizing parties for american officials and hire. also online for a year and met still plays by the famous painter marc chagall will go on tour of

the hammer at sotheby's along with other works of russian are at her website 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 dogs are pulling over to one off from cars to talk to me are not people who are. in fact in the

world snow than most city being doctor is a year round phenomenon. 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 hoskings a still pulling down way who will say it's not only more environmentally friendly but also safer you can always rely on the way to deal with the cold wild dogs will never let you down. 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 who king his jeep behind his barking seem to mind is the major change in his life plus it gives the dogs fit the story beats they know when they need the. exercise every day so.

yeah when it improves with tourism then 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 less strict the local authorities have already closed some of the archipelagos routes to motorised traffic with more restrictions to come. the low being forced behind a partial car ban is very both rick 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. normally driving areas or small boat docks our culture 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 truth where we can leave all

what's around us in our normal days we need to rest our brain as the occupant of the tries to attract more tourists some suggest that the terrorists trick sions may have a commercial appeal with people around the world to reporting increasing traffic pretty good many may be in need of a car free refuge like this russian traveler could 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 small boat 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 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

why would later we'll 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 what's happening in the world of business with marina. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. we start with russia's two major bourses the my sex every r.t.s. as they're putting the finishing touches to their five billion dollars merger the new brand of a combined stock exchange for the present early next year and the new entity will be sold to the public through an i.p.o. which so far plans for twenty thirteen r.t.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 being approved by the federal monopoly service and it's now on to the technical details which are not few 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 on a 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 industries 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 it's reached the lowest level against the u.s. dollar in ten months but the us a list of all look at deutsche bank says minimal intervention by the central bank could push the ruble back up. well prices are still very high reserves are still very high. bank is not spending those reserves so with time when markets see that situation they will come to terms with. is probably has gone too far in terms of. weakness so my sense is that this approach of the central bank

towards limiting limiting its interventions may actually. you know some always shooting we're giving. giving away to. appreciation of the. bargain let's take a look at the markets now almost started with oil prices are mixed this hour after seeing some gains on tuesday escalating fears of a euro zone debt crisis are still keeping concerns over the man's light sweet discovery trading at around eighty six dollars per barrel while the brant planned this at around one hundred ten dollars and fifty one cents per barrel. in asian markets are also mates with investors waiting for the conclusion of a today u.s. federal reserve policy meeting european sovereign debt weighed on sentiment there as well exporters are among the main gainers in japan with so she 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. down a third of a percent. and here in russia the markets just opened all in the halls of the r.t.s. is just a notch up all the my six is again in point four percent. bucks if you're so from i have symmetrical 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 new measures from bernanke here but we understand that there is a lack of tools bernanke you can use for supporting the situation in the u.s. see the same thing happens the euro zone when standard recent rates and italy is not the last negative news from europe and it 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 of the country's biggest diamond producer. the british empire special situations fund is interested in buying two gas producers in the north of russia for an estimated price of at least one billion dollars that's already holding the due diligence and plans to seal the deal by early twentieth twelve boats and the us say the following could hardly become a significant player in the russian gas market and could sell the assets with a premium later on. the us how business works the salvador stories you can always had several websites r.t. dot com slash business but in the meantime searching for the headlines of the marina by for now.

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welcome back to what you are to 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 sam. the u.s. is accused of encouraging the arab spring to achieve its own interest even though it's sacrificed the position of its closest ally israel leaving it isolated. greece makes good progress in talks with debt inspectors as athens hopes to get another aid package to stave off default but 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.