capital you're watching r t she welcome to the program palestinians deserve the right to present 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 bid president abbas is preparing to introduce on friday parties marine important 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 state hood 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 because they're going to get the new people in the middle east quartet will not 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 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. of course is back peddling 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 the story will shift into a much different. reporting from new york and 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 is no question that the obama administration and the democratic and republican party are bringing through congress is exerting immense pressure on the palestinian authority to make 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 has been outspoken in its support of the liberation of muslim states but once that came into force and israel was the first to pay the price of the regime change parties and he's now explains how the us has pushed to 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 did it with the. you know doing good your times there was a bit of security but now there's this security on the streets israel has also been left hanging slow road to stability in neighboring egypt mixed with a massively unpopular israeli foreign policy makes a dangerous cocktail the case for change towards to its 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 rejections. as long as your integrity 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 stopping them at the mission and that's all 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 superhero flagman a wall was then built to protect the embassy but completely destroyed by protesters . with what remains i was out walking but come up behind our report cannot show a movie a law is now moving in force two and egypt suffocating it's already superb freedom and in the region the u.s. is broken down by 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 averted and might have a lot more work to do to avoid catastrophe in the future is wrong should worry about look at what's happening in to get to their inboard and the

states in the area which used to have hope only because both friendship with israel . and also 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 be aces and have all the cards up their sleeve so so i think that the something that must weigh heavily on on israel of this because when it comes down. when 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 change in general the way they're doing things is that it's become too much about interests not about humanity or about anything though 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 will have to clean up and he said no way archie. here on r.t. junkie's dream is the reality and afghanistan find out why the nato coalition is ignoring the booming afghan drug industry which is claiming lives and actually helping fund the taliban. and international team of data inspectors has decided it will return to greece next week to chat 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 debt 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 october 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 italy by standard and poor's financial analyst michael ross believes the constant downgrades are only putting pressure on the world economy. also to take into account that there is a kind of currency war going on especially with continuous downgrades from 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 want to let fail 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. 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. 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 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 is take a look at some other stories from around the world well first to yemen where a much long for ceasefire 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 of arranging the transfer of power something protesters have been calling for for months. to levy an interim prime minister says the country's new governments will be announced within seven to ten days that 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 continues with former rebels claiming they will crush their resistance within the next few days civil war in the 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 nineteen eighty nine murder of an off duty policeman no murder weapon was ever found and no d.n.a. evidence or fingerprints conclusively linking choi davis to the shooting most witnesses have also since changed their testimony more than one million people worldwide have signed petitions for clemency and the state or national said georges discredits 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 the 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 baqubah no real police identified seven of them and

all have criminal backgrounds including extortion home aside and drug trafficking bulk of the rio has become a frequent side of clashes between armed groups as drug related violence grows. what you guys are coming to life from moscow still to come this hour no more rush hour we travel to one place on earth were air pollution is a thing of the past and we commute is a delight. before that afghanistan is mourning the death of a former president who was a key to go she either with the taliban were no dean rabbani 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 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 assessing nations in afghanistan and a second taliban attack in kabul when a week r.t.

was the last channel to interview mr of before his death and he blamed the nato occupation of his country for the ongoing civil war which has claimed thousands of lives. and 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 the people of afghanistan had managed to live for centuries without such in-fighting and you watch more of that interview with the late mr rabbani on our website which is our dot com. well the relentless taliban stepping up its attacks across of ghana stand one of their a main sources of income is in full bloom the country's infamous drug trade kills

thousands of users worldwide each year while helping the insurgents combat the nato occupation but critics say the alliance has made little effort to rout out the deadly business during its ten year along campaign going off reports from kabul. 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 doing drugs right there under this bridge in the center of the seat with the officer coming and staring at them in all these insane conditions that we then rubbish being thrown right here where we're standing right now this is just incredible seacat heroin opium it's all cooked mixed injected or smoked right i'm on these piles of rubbish or rotten meat and an indescribable aroma 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 whole pakistan and you know you can hear we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can pay for the war on either the help of a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each of ghani family has at least one drug user or beards 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 song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started in 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 interval cleans the markets global trade turnover has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected street with around

eighty tons of heroin thought to a newly settle in the country like those it's 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 personally talk. me fighting drug production is not the 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 need to ski enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and 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 ruled in its grip you go to school or to kabul afghanistan. well it seems the drug trade not only provides income but also valuable connections learn more about it on our constantly

updated website r.t.e. dot com. the tory is drug cartels that operate south of the us border have been organizing parties for american officials and to hire and. also online freeview have a masterpiece by the famous painter of march dowell go under the hammer at sotheby's along with other works of russian are more available on our website party dot com. russia's federation council the upper house of the country's parliament has elected a new speaker the former governor of st petersburg. now take up the post war and this let's now crossed our correspondent because he was. secretary of so is this an

unexpected outcome. it's not really a merino course it's not an unexpected outcome because it represented the upper house of the russian parliament and the lower chambre very much supported the candidacy. and all the. presidents and the president and the promise in courage her to take this post and at the very first meeting of the poll session of the federation council approved her candidacy unanimously one hundred four two senators . supported the decision opposed to only one person with no abstentions from the vote a lock for the vote to violence in the month could officially be full to the speaker of the upper house of the russian parliament and at this post to replace the former speaker simply on the fox he was recalled by the legislative assembly of cent but his work in late may over just a short recap of your career your biography was born in ukraine but for more than

for almost fifty years now she had lived in sanford is broken that's the city she considers home city so now that she will have to move here with your family. is actually going to be a very hard step and that she had made to her decision for her husband as well. in two thousand well into the much bianca was even nominated to become a president but she refused to run for presidency and said that instead she would run for the governor of some pittsburgh and in just several years in two thousand we should became the governor and for eighty years she had taken that post well it's worth mentioning that over the past two years your popularity as it happens to many which take one position for such a long time sank in particular over your not always popular decisions and decisions to support several construction projects in cypress brook we know that some put his workers on the you not least of cities and also there were popular jokes about

the way snow the way snow was removed and sun but as per for several winters in a row but of course it's hard to underestimate as a leader your qualities as a manager as a governor and for sure as she is. the person she's the candidate to become the speaker of the upper house of the russian home ok sir and thanks very much indeed for bringing us the details because you are talking to us from moscow federal assembly. 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 i think it's 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 the cars to talk to me are not people. in fact in the world snow than most city being docked tired is a year round phenomenon dogs just where the only means of transportation around 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 a still pulling down way locals 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 norway's longer beyond robert wasn't born here. and he moved in his mid twenties fleeing big city congestion in hope of reconnecting with nature he says who king his jeep behind his barking team and peter mares 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 the tourist then i'm going out training 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 forthright also and every dog lover she like is driving just milking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are known smoking areas why shouldn't there be. driving areas here 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 acappella good tries to attract more tourists some suggest that the care restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around the world reporting increasing traffic fatigue many may be in need of a car free refuge like this russian traveler kolosov and muscovite who endures hours long commutes to work sans the absence of honking horns meet him instantly fall in love with the place the most amazing moment experience your own soul but 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 down here going to dogs is obviously not an option for every city but here

you have to use definitely don't feel like a fifth wheel kind of we got our sea long gibbie and spitzbergen archipelago. well coming up shortly our crossed our guest discuss the changing role of turkey me arab world and before that though we'll take a look what's happening in the world of business with marina. hello and welcome to business here on our tour we start this hour with the russian ruble which continues to retreat against the main currencies its roots the lowest level against the u.s. dollar for ten months now most of us of all account deutsche bank doesn't believe the ruble is riskier than other currencies at the moment but he does advise to diversify if possible. oil prices are still the economy is still very strong. so the doesn't seem to be. urgent need to drastically shift from one currency into the other clearly we're living in

the very unstable period in terms of the dynamics of crime and for markets so what makes sense is diversification what makes sense is to retain some portion of rubles hold some portion in dollars and in euros and if you have further ways of diversifying your savings only for the better. would be the simple approach the best approach i think that one can take in order to be defense of the. markets currently i personally think there is no fundamental reason to avoid the ruble more so the other currencies. let us take a look at the markets now we'll start with the oil prices are flat this hour after seeing some gains on choose they escalate in fears over the euro zone debt crisis still keep concerns over them and why it's wheat is currently trading close to eighty seven dollars a barrel while the bright appliance is at around one hundred ten dollars per barrel

. asian markets are also mixed with investors waiting for the conclusion of a two day u.s. federal reserve policy meeting european sovereign debt woes are weighing on sides and as well exporters are among the main gamers in japan was to ship off point six percent the company said it plans to double its force have to vent and in hong kong banking stocks are under pressure over the h.s.b.c. down a third of a percent. european markets opened in the rabbit with both the footsie and the banks losing around point four percent and let's move on to russia of the markets here are trading in positive territory the r.t.s. is gaining point zero seven percent while the my six is out point four percent this hour the second i've got the index movers. the my sex majors are again in this hour lou call is slightly out of this point of war percent in the black and that's on news the company's discussing the possibility of building a joint oil refinery in russia with tightness in

a pack and food company russian sea is also gaining an ounce despite posting a fourteen million dollars net loss in the first half of the year. the russian energy sector could see a new international investor as one of the rockefeller family farms aims to buy the 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 it's already conducted due diligence and plans to seal the deal by early twenty twelve however analysts say the fund is unlikely to become a significant player in the russian gas market rather it will sell the assets later on for a premium. that's all the business news for now for more stories you can always head to our website r.t. dot com slash business in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with marina.

culture is that so much of it know there's a huge music history on top of the different turkey in the movie geopolitical order of the middle east and the world is an anchor making a big to play the role of the regional hegemon on the back of.

welcome back you're watching our team and here's a look at the top stories russia urges the palestinian bid for statehood to be given for a time in the u.n. that's as washington threatens to use its veto power and danced a unilateral move just a year after president obama promised palestinians a seat of the a sample. 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. greece makes good progress and talks with dead inspectors as athens hopes to get another aid package to stave off the fall of the iron math warrants the global economy is in a perilous state for the u.s. and e.u. close to falling.