the show support for their leaders bid to win you when recognition right now you're looking at live pictures from ramallah while president mahmoud abbas prepares to introduce the move on friday moscow has backed the bed saying palestinians deserve the right to present their case that's despite u.s. threats to veto the move is more 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 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 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. that the new people in the middle east quartet will meet in the near future with a recent meeting with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton because 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 that deprives the kind of standing an administration 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. it's very important reporting from new york brian becker a prominent advocate of rallies against the war in 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 operating 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 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 u.s. might be defending israel's interest in the u.n. critics accuse washington of the exact opposite during the reason arab spring america's been outspoken in support of the liberation of muslim states but once that came into force in egyptian israel was the first to pay the price of the regime change parties and he's 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 they did it shows the revolution 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 that. exacerbated after the killing of the five protection soldiers 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 hour worse three demonstrators were killed and over a thousand injured stopping them at the mission and that's why 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. this is what remains on the wall but everyone behind our report shows a movement is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already freedom and in the region the u.s. is stronger now i give you some 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 diverted 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 which used to have not only because but 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 citizen have all the cards up their sleeve so so i think that is something that must weigh heavily on on israel at this point 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 the 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 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 mess that israel will have to clean up and he's in our way archie. on the way here in r.t.l. live junk is there when ya lady in afghanistan find out why the nato calling that norrin the booming afghan drug industry which is claiming lives and actually helping fund. the taliban. an international team of dead inspectors has decided it will return to greece next week to check on the country's progress and reaching its budget goals evans hopes this will help win their release of the latest emergency loans greek authorities want to convince the debt inspectors they could meet strict budget targets as the country desperately needs the next eight billion euro bailout package without the money the country could default with in the weeks however no decision will be made until october the i.m.f. warned you are and the united states risk falling back into recession unless

lawmakers act quickly also underscoring the region's difficulties was a credit rating downgraded by standard and poor's financial analyst michael ross believes that 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 continuous down 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 at the end of the day this equation will not be true bove 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 psychologically very under big pressure so it doesn't have any of us if the i.m.f. says such things. economist 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 look at some of the stories from around the world first to yemen where a much long for cease fire 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. and maybe an interim prime minister says the country's new government will be announced within seven to ten days the newseum during a press conference hosted by foreign ministers and followed a welcome of libya's new leadership to the united nations meanwhile fighting in colonel gadhafi is remaining strongholds continues with former rebels claiming the old crush the resistance within the next few days civil war in libya started in february 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 that 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 troika even to the shooting most witnesses have also says change their testimony more than one million people worldwide have signed petitions for clemency amnesty international said georgia's discredited the justice system animal execute an innocent man they've us 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 the city of baku a real police identified seven of them and all have criminal backgrounds including extortion home inside and drug trafficking. well the rio has become

a frequent side of clashes between armed groups and drug related violence grows. russia's federation council the upper house of the country's parliament has elected a new speaker the former governor of st petersburg go along now take up a post a close ally of prime minister what he reported it was almost unanimously approved with only one senator opposing it president retributive has congratulated the ngo wishing her success the new speaker had served at his birth governor for eight years. watching r.t. live from moscow still look on the sour belmore rush hour we travel for one place on earth where we're air pollution is a thing of the past and daily commute is a delight. of ghana stans mourning the death of its former president who was a key negotiator with the taliban dean rabbani who was killed by

a suicide bomber as at his home in the capital kabul on tuesday it's believed the explosives were hidden in the attackers turban rabbani 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 assassinations in afghanistan and the second taliban attack on kabul in a week r t was a last chance to interview mr rabbani before his death he blamed the nato occupation as country for the young going civil war which has claimed thousands of lives. so 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 more of that interview with the late mr rabbani on our website our t. dot com. weather relentless taliban stepping up its attacks across afghanistan while their main sources of income is full bloom the country's infamous drug trade kills thousands of abusers worldwide here 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 tanny or a long campaign is 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 you in drugs right there under this bridge in the center of the seat with the

wall if you see coming and staring at your feet in same conditions we still rubbish being fooled wait here where we're standing right now this is just incredible secret at heroin. 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 many of them call this call pakistan and iran we all came here and we don't have any job 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 help us a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each 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 contagion someone with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started 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 a russia is one of the worst affected street with around eighty tons of heroin to settle in the country. 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 told me fighting drug production is not their goal there is 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 again it stands drug traffic but since nato has no way 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. well there is more on the problems with drugs and pianist and are constantly have data website which is our dot com so check out one of our latest picture galleries shaadi one of the most notorious hangouts for drug addicts a couple. also online for you the opposition and valorous famous for so-called silent protest is coming back with a vengeance after a brief hiatus. modern city dwellers are all too familiar with constant traffic jams 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 artichokes 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 to one of the cars to talk to people who are. in fact in the world snow than most city being doctor is a year round phenomenon dogs just weren't 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 pulling the way locals say it's not only more environmentally friendly but also safer you can always rely on recalls to deal with the cold while dogs will never live. like most of the residents of no race longer

beyond roberts wasn't born here. he moved in his mid twenty's fleeing big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature he says who king his jeep behind his barking team impeachments is the major changes he's learned plus it gives the dogs fit. the story beats they know 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 are no last trick the local authorities have already closed some of the archipelagos routes to motorised traffic with more restrictions to come. the law being force behind a partial car ban is very authentic also an avid dog lover she like it is driving

to smoking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are no smoking areas why shouldn't there be no new 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 occupant of the tries to attract more tourists some suggest that the care restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around the world to reporting increasing traffic pretty many may be in need of a car free refuge like this russian traveler policy 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 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 has definitely don't feel like a fifth wheel kind of way to artsy along give spitzbergen archipelago. while bring here the recap of today's top stories in just a few moments before that they will take a look at what's happening in business with marina. 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. which are putting the finishing touches to their five billion dollar merger the new brand of a combined stock exchange will be presented early next year with plans for an i.p.o. in twenty thirteen and artie's laura matt has the details. 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 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 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 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 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 now reached the lowest level against the us dollar in ten minutes but the it ourselves list of all the banks is minimal intervention by the central bank could push the ruble back up. oil 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 it. is probably has

gone too far in terms of. weakness so my sense is that this approach of the central bank towards limiting limits of preventions may actually. you know overshooting way of giving. giving way to. appreciation. let's take a look at the markets now we'll start with oil prices are mixed this hour after seen some gains on she's day escalating fears over the eurozone debt crisis are still keeping concerns over demand light sweet that's currently trading close to eighty seven dollars per barrel while the brant blind is agents who was one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel. in asian markets closed the mix as investors waited for the conclusion over to the u.s. federal reserve policy meeting. that blows our way on sentiment exporters were

among the main gainers in japan its point six percent the company said it plans to double its first half of dividends and banking stocks were under pressure in hong kong with h.s.b.c. down a third of a percent that's more into europe markets there are in the red with banks leading to the kleins investors are cautious after wall street gave up its rally and i disagree that price is a lingers on the footsies news in point two percent while the dax is down point five. and here in russia the markets have slipped into negative territory the r.t.s. is down why percent while the my six is losing also point one let's take a look at the movers on the my sex well majors are gaining this hour lou call is slightly up while ross nafta is the. point two percent on news the company is discussing the possibility of building a joint or refinery in russia with china said the pac and food company russian c.

is percentage despite posting a fourteen million dollars that loss in the first half of the year and looking ahead marks in fear so from i have seen metropole says optimistic investors should bet on banking and metal stocks in the long term. i would prefer to be cautious and. to keep some cash. to be fully invested because two of the markets one predictable and where there is no new trading week for those investors who believe there is and there is only positive future in the me two or more long term whatever it's worth. but the stalks something. to be some mental company mitchell. services. 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 all rossa the british empire

special situations fund is interested in buying gas producers in the north of russia for an estimated price of at least one billion dollars it's already conducted in 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 pretty. but also business news for now the headlines are next to the marina.

welcome to the future the weapons grade plutonium is turned into a vital new resources nuclear waste becomes a fuel friendly to the environment and energy outposts in light of the ends of the earth russian scientists lead the way in making these innovations a reality the engine of future free from fears of nuclear bunker lives the peaceful revolution to tomic energy on technology obsolete we've got the future covered cultures that so much going to give each musician the courage and honor to go to the front turkey in the maybe geopolitical order of the middle east and the arab world is ankara making a bid to play the role of the regional hegemon on the back of.

a. problematic you're watching r t and these are the top stories palestinians are taking to the streets of the west bank to show support for the early years bid to win u.n. recognition that's as russia tries to help the planet for the world despite u.s. opposition. the u.s. is accused of encouraging the arab spring to achieve it. so interested even though it sacrificed the position of its closest ally israel leaving it i slate of. greece makes good progress in talks with debt inspectors as athens hopes to get another aid package to stave off the fall 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. as palestine's bid for state.