one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshua welcome to the program palestinians are cheering on their leaders attempts to win membership to the un general assembly with massive rallies across the west bank. you're looking at live pictures now from ramallah just a day before president abbas presents the plan before the international body moscow has backed the bad saying palestinians deserve a right to put their case that's as the u.s. tries to hold that presentation. to move unless palestinians and israelis launch talks are these were in a fortnight 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 at the 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

palestine or israel are ready to return to the negotiating table but foreign minister lavrov did say that it is within palestinians right to ask for u.n. membership and the united states should not get in the way of aspirations for any country because they're going to get the new plan in the middle east quartet will not meet in the near future with a 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 with both sides are not 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 twelve months later the u.s. of course is backpedaling 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 palestinian bid for u.n. membership but if this meeting does take place who knows maybe the story will shift into a much different. 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 halt 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 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 postilion see a new possibility at the u.n. for recognition of palestinian statehood. while the u.s. might be to fanning israel's interest in the u.n. critics accuse washington of the exact opposite you are in the recent arab spring america has been outspoken in support of the liberation of muslim states but once that came into force navy ship israel was the first to pay the price of the regime change parties in the tsunami 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 a slow road to stability in neighboring egypt mixed with a massively unpopular israeli foreign policy makes a dangerous cocktail the base for change towards those disputation 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 hours three demonstrators were killed and over a thousand injured often in the medical mission and that's what 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 our wall but ever come up behind our report from our show emotion is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already 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 the verdict and might have a lot more work to do to avoid catastrophe in the future is really should worry about look at what's happening in egypt two very important states in the area would choose to have not only peace 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 israel of this because when it comes down to it the u.s. tends to protect one thing in the end the basic problem you know i think with 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 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 cairo. on the way here on r t a life of junk is the reality in afghanistan find out why the nato coalition is ignoring the only afghan drug industry which is claiming lives that actually. helping fund the taliban. an international team of debt 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 debt inspectors that 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 the imam warned you were 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 the world on i mean. you have to take into account that there is a ground of currency war going on. from the united states from the rating. but. it's. not. in my opinion because.

it's. and rising a significant number of european banks are insolvent the e.c.b. has the buy all of that sovereign debt and take it off their balance sheet that is the final answer greece will default if that means somebody has to take the paying 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 to get some of the stories from around the world first to yemen where a much longed for cease fire has come into effect in the capital of 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 arranging the transfer of power is something protesters have been calling for for months. one of her last remaining strongholds the city is now fully controlled by the national transitional council but fighting continues in the cities of bani walid and maybe as interim prime minister says a new government will be in place within seven to ten days where the nation's new leaders already welcome to the united nations. 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 more than nine hundred eighty nine murder of an off duty policeman no murder weapon was ever found and no d.n.a. evidence or fingerprints conclusively linked troy davis to the shooting most witnesses have also since changed their testimony and more than one million people worldwide have signed petitions for clemency amnesty international said georges discredited the justice system and will executed in. man davis is due to face death by lethal injection on wednesday. to mexico now where gunmen have dumped the bodies of thirty five people in a row way you 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 real police identified seven of them and all have criminal backgrounds including stores in home aside in drug trafficking while

the rio has become a frequent site of clashes between armed groups as drug related violence grows. russia's federation council the upper house of the country's parliament has elected and new speaker the former governor of st petersburg. will now take up the post are you going to china has the details. one hundred forty one senators that's over eighty five percent of the federation council supported the candidacy of a young kid today no one opposed the decision and one person abstained from the vote so from now on willing to let the young kids officially the new speaker of the opera house of the russian parliament this position became vacant in may this year after x. speakers gave it all up was recalled by the legislative assembly of some pittsburgh not willing to let the young people have to move from something as work to mosco which is going to be somewhat of a hard decision to make as she herself but mates because for almost fifty years she

and her family have lived in some pages and from two thousand and three she had been the governor of russia's northern capital and her popularity sank over the past few years because of your own popular support of several construction projects and the way the new simple services operate it in the city but their qualities as a manager as a leader are very hard to andras to maybe we look for example at the city budget of some pittsburgh of two thousand and three when she only took up the job it stood at some two billion dollars and today that she leaves her position her post as the governor of some pittsburgh the city budget is over ten billion dollars that's a tall reporting there well still a come this hour here on our t.v. no more rush hour we travel to one place on earth where air pollution is a thing of the past and daily commute is a delight. to get to stand mourning the death of its for a president who was a key to go shader with the taliban for howard dean rabbani was killed by

a suicide bomber areas 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 second taliban attack on kabul in a week. he was the last channel to interview mr of for his death blamed the mayor 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 watch more of that interview with the late mr body on our website r.t.e. dot com. where there are landless taliban stepping up its attacks across afghanistan one of their main sources of income is in full bloom the country's infamous drug trade kills thousands of abusers worldwide 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 tanny or a long campaign r.t.c. war 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 doing what's right there under this bridge in the center of the seat with all the screaming and staring at them and all these insane conditions we still rubbish

being formed right here where we're standing right now this is just incredible seek and heroin. it's all cooked mixed injected or smoked right i'm on these piles of rubbish the 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 called pakistan and you're on your game here and we don't have any job we don't have any kind of thing to do if you can 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 will be found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine in their blood there's no doubt that the area of contagion 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. percent of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan into a ball cleans the markets global trade has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark but russia is one of the worst affected street with around eighty tons of heroin thought to settle in the country. so 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 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 spends billions of dollars to find it 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 drug network has the whole ruled in its grip you go to school of kabul afghanistan. dollars more on the problems with drugs in ghana stan are constantly updated website r.t. dot com to check out one of our latest picture gallery shot and one of the most notorious hangouts for drug addicts in kabul. also on line for you the opposition in belarus famous for so-called silent protest is coming back with a vengeance after a brief hiatus. modern say while others 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 on a boy who traveled to the isle of spitzbergen 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 don't go on vacation once the snow melts. the cars to talk to people who are. in fact in the world snow than most city being docked time is a year round phenomenon all clad just where the only means of transportation around the archipelago until the mid one nine hundred sixty s. and while by now cars and snowmen built have replaced them in many parts of the north here and sprays were going on skis are still pulling that way who can say it's not only more environmentally friendly but also. safer you can always rely on the way to deal with the cold while dogs will never live. like most of the residents of norway's longer beyond robert wasn't born here. and then in his mid twenty's fleeing big city congestion in hope of reconnecting with nature he

says who king his jeep behind his barking see maybe tomorrow is the major change in his life 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 going out training with my car some two thousand residents along here 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 with more restrictions to come. the law being forced behind a partial car ban is buried borthwick also an avid dog lover she like it is driving to smoking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are known smoking areas why shouldn't there be no 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 acapella tries to attract more tourists some suggest that the care restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around it won't reporting increasing traffic fatigue many may be in need of a car free refuge like this russian traveler couldn't call us of and most provide who endures hours long commutes to work sans the absence of hunger. horn's me instantly fall in love with the place the most amazing moment i experienced 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 dogs is obviously not an option for every city but here has definitely don't feel like a real kind of we got along good b. and. now we have this hour's headlines in just a few moments before that they'll take a look what's happening in business with arena. hello and welcome to business here on artsy russia's two major bourses the my sex and the r.t.s. 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 lore and it 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 you when you're talking about joining together and index the trades mostly in equities and currencies and another index that trades mostly in derivatives and that on different technical platforms a nineteen person board has already been appointed from the banking 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 hope to create a single technological entry point to boost 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 continue searching against the main currencies it's reached the lowest level against the us dollar for ten months the us solace of all of our daughter bank doesn't believe the ruble is riskier than other currencies at the moment but he does a device to diversify if possible. well prices are still high 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 and films of the dynamics of crime and from markets so

what makes sense is diversification what makes sense to. hold some portion and dollars and 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 morse code other currencies. that's like a look at the markets now oil prices are mixed this hour after seeing some gains on tuesday as guiding fears over the euro zone that crisis still keep concerns over the land light sweet is currently trading below eighty seven dollars per barrel while bryant is action towards one hundred eleven dollars per barrel. and european markets are in the red with banks leaving that the clients investors are cautious

after wall street gave up its rally and as the greek debt crisis lingers on the footsie is in the news in point five percent this hour while the dax is losing over one percent. and here in russia the markets have slipped into negative territory the r.t.s. is down two point six percent while the my sax is losing point three percent this hour let's take a look at some of the movers on the my sax all majors are again in this hour lou call is slightly up above ross that is losing eight point eight percent that's one news the company is the scotsman the possibility of building a joint oil refinery in russia with china as a center pack and food company russian c. is up and that. despite posting a fourteen million dollars net loss in the first half of the year. b.p.'s problems in russia have just gotten a little worse the majority the minority shareholders in the companies are rushing ventured seem to be have doubled their compensation claim for b.p.'s attempt to

form an alliance with us that they now want five billion dollars they put this down to a clear understanding of the damage caused by b.p.'s failed bits of swap shares and explore that with that of the minority shareholders claimed. potential income by being locked out of the deal with russia's biggest oil firm the first court hearing is scheduled to happen. that's how business looks this hour by.

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watching r t live from moscow 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 them play on the world despite u.s. opposition. 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 in talks with debt inspectors and athens hopes to get another aid package to stave off default but the i.m.f. warns a global economy is in a perilous state with the u.s. and e.u. close to falling back into recession. and that's the first part of a special report on.