live pictures right here on. the palestinians are taking to the streets from all across the west bank to show their support for their leaders. recognition. the u.s. is accused of the arab spring to achieve its own interests even though it sacrificed the physician of its closest ally of israel leaving it in a state of isolation. an international team of inspectors sees progress with greece warns the global economy is in a perilous state. plus in business process two main bourses are close

to finalizing their billion dollars merger and we'll have more on that in business in twenty minutes. worldwide news live from moscow city center this is r.t. . the palestinians are cheering on their leaders attempts to win membership of the un general assembly with massive rallies all across the west bank and moscow has backed the bid saying palestinians deserve a right to put their case but the u.s. is doing all it can to halt presentation veto the move unless palestinians and israelis launch a new talks. in the area for us in ramallah paula hello to you the protests looking to appear peaceful. display of over support that what the people hoping to

achieve. all celebrations really have kickstarted here in palestine and in the west bank city of ramallah which civil hours now thousands of people have taken to the streets is really almost comical atmosphere here which is if the united nations but it is a done deal there was some of the celebrations happening in hebron and in bethlehem and in a number of other cities across the palestine talking to people here they say that dictates a palestinian struggle has not resulted in palestine fully recognized by the international community now there are flags everywhere it up posters of the former palestinian leader yasser arafat is what is the current palestinian president mahmoud abbas on just about every building cars are going up and down the roads hitting the schools have closed down the buildings the the government buildings have shut early and this really marks not the be at least we danes are peaceful protests celebrations and commemorations across the west bank all culminating in

that he lay in bed on friday. paul as we know the united states and israel have both been putting up blockades here to try and store the thought stop the palestinian bid at the u.n. how the movement here being governed any success on their side. or talking to palestinians on the ground here there's a lot of anger being expressed naturally against israel but also the united states because both israel and the united states the several months on have been putting pressure on the palestinians and on particular the shoulders of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas to try and stop this palestinian bid for statehood for several months the israelis have been going back and extensive diplomatic campaign to try and i mean favor and build support from the international community so that countries do not indorse this vote come friday at the same time the israeli army has conducted what it calls operation summer scenes this is now an operation that looks at specifically dealing with any kind of violence will fall out from the status. being in both class in time any israeli says moments and they say his has

been preparing themselves and the receiving training from the i.d.f. they've been receiving non-lethal weapons such as tear gas and they are really preparing for some kind of classes just yesterday they were marching on palestinian cities in a show us of course on their side the palestinians for various sides are holding peaceful demonstrations they're very angry at the united states which has been harassing bath on giving money to those organizations that supply money to various palestinian n.g.o.s and various palestinian organizations now we fast been hearing rumors are a great fruit and we understand that if this is true there is some kind of deal on the cards that would see the kindest in president mahmoud abbas presenting the palestinian bid for statehood on friday but not pushing for a vote on the same day and that so might even be delayed until sometime next to where we are here of course if indeed this is true with the united nations team banking move will not place for

a vote in the security council and certainly it still was. the phrase person who was a person of great people make of this breakthrough or about a little bit unfair at the moment but sadly it does point to the kind of process that both the united states and israel have been putting on the palestinians they of course want to see some kind of still on the cards before palestine is declared russia from the beginning has maintained the position that they needs to be an international support for the recognition of palestine me russian foreign minister sergey lavrov had this to say. the middle east quartet will not meet in the near future the reason beaching 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 but both sides and not ready for it because there's no agreement between them says we think that when muslims deprive the palestinian ministration of the right to ask the u.n.

security council to speak out on make statehood bid. this really is an historic moment and certainly walking around the streets of ramallah you get a same sex people here feel that the world's newest nation is being born. right policy in their life from i want to thank you very much. the u.s. might be defending israel's interest in the u.n. critics accuse a washington of the exact opposite during the recent arab spring america has been outspoken in 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 parties and it's now in our explains how the us has pushed to tell a brief 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 for what they did of interest to us. you know. doing good your time there was a bit of security but now there's this is the truth on the streets israel has also been left hanging and slow road to stability in neighboring egypt mixed with a massively unpopular israeli foreign policy makes a dangerous cocktail that pays for change towards those as 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 egyptian soldiers on egyptian territory by israeli gunfire. taking out the situation even further in 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 michel that's how this situation can get worse for. israel not for us we're just starting to get stronger this is not a negative thing for us but a plus. the protester who took down the israeli flag at the embassy in august was hailed as egypt's new super hero flagman a wall designed built to protect the embassy but completely destroyed by protesters this is what remains are. behind all repercussions of american feel that is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already served freedom and in the region the u.s. is strongest ally basic security threats as this new democracy is stuck in a spiral of certainty instability and sometimes chaos benyamin netanyahu called the incident a near disaster being averted and might have a lot more work to do to avoid catastrophe in the future israel should worry about

look at what's happening in turkey and egypt two very important states in the area which have not only peace but friendship with israel they are 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's security it must occur to me and you and others at this point that certainly the americans are holding the b.s. isn't have all the cards up their sleeves so so i think that something that must weigh heavily on israel 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 can in general 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 mass that israel. have to live with it. and he said now we are t. kyra. just outside in ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital on the way for you here are a lot of junk being the reality star find out why the nato coalition is ignoring the booming drug industry which is claiming lives actually helping to fund with 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 to win the release of the latest emergency loans greek authorities want to convince the debt inspectors they could meet strict budget targets that's because desperately needs the next eight billion euro bailout without the money the country could default within its decision and will be made in

tobar the i.m.f. want europe and the united states that the risk of falling back into recession is a reality unless lawmakers act quickly also underscoring the region's difficulties with a credit rating downgrade of italy by standard and poor's financial analyst michael ross believes the cost and downgrades are only putting pressure on the entire world . but have also to take into account that there is a kind of currency war going on specially with continuous downgrades from the united states from the rating agencies here in europe i mean what does it really matter. it's really very very hard and in terms of currency war you have to see them to want to fear let fail the euro in order to keep the dollar at the end of the day this equation will not be true at the end goal of currencies will fail in my opinion because europe and united states have

more or less the same problem if you take a closer look 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 hurt any of us if the i.m.f. says such things. economist michael the e.u. crisis will have far reaching consequences for the global economy personally i mean a plus day i mean is anybody really believe that italy deserves an a rating their debt to g.d.p. the hunger in 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 this is art so you it's good to have you with us today now it's time for the world update here and i will start with yemen where a much longer ceasefire has come into effect in the capital of sanaa this after three days of violence which killed at least sixty two more than one hundred works like the hospitals from gunfire and the crackdown that came with despite reports the country's vice president could sign an initiative arranging the transfer of power that's something the protesters have been calling for for months. one of colonel gadhafi last remaining strongholds the city of us is now fully controlled by the national transitional council but five continues in the cities of bani walid and sirte and it is interim prime minister says a new government will be in place within seven to ten days with the nation's new leaders already being welcomed by the united nations.

u.s. state of georgia has denied a final appeal for clemency for a person on death row this coming on the eve of his execution for the one hundred eighty nine motor 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 already since then changed their testimony now more than one million people worldwide have signed a petition for the state of clemency to international said george was discrediting the justice system execute an innocent michael star who's part of the campaign to end the death penalty was his insight into the case with less than twenty four hours before davis shuttle to die. this idea that somehow we can get the death penalty right whether it's in texas or florida or in georgia wordsworth troy davis says it is a complete complete sham and the idea that somehow that this is justice that somehow it's going on in georgia is. justice is also a sham it's not justice it's

a travesty in choice favor of the senate with ability of the democratic party in the senate called for actual resistance among the corrections staff to the execution along with the southern center for human rights a prestigious law firm in georgia you know the voices of choice supporters keep growing there are a whole range of decision makers in this case whether it's the numerous courts that have the power to intervene whether it's the da in the case or whether it's your board of pardons who actually has the power to reconsider their horrible decision so the chain always breaks at the weakest link i can't predict where it is but as activists are going to keep pressing and pushing to make sure that justice was served. you are now a quarter past the hour here in moscow so we come for you on the program no more rush hour we travel to one place on earth where air pollution is a thing of the past and the daily commute is. russia's federation council the upper house of the country's parliament has elected

a new speaker the former governor of st petersburg but will not take up the pushed things are going to. one hundred forty one senators that's over eighty five percent of the federation council supported the candidacy of the young kids today no one opposed the decision and one person abstained from the books and so from now on going to limit the young trees officially the use paper of the upper house of the russian parliament this position became vacant in may this year after x. speakers said given all that was reported by the legislative assembly of scientists but not willing to move beyond the will have to move from somebody to moscow which is going to be somewhat of a hard decision to make as she herself but meets it goes for almost fifty years she and her family had lived in some places 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 unpopular support of several construction projects

and the wave releasable services operated in the city but their qualities as a manager as a leader are very hard to underestimate if we look for example at the city budgets of some pittsburgh of two thousand and three when she only took up the job its students 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. everything retro reporting right now afghanistan is mourning the death of its former president he was a key negotiator with the taliban but hadn't ronnie was killed by a suicide bomber at his home in the capital kabul on tuesday it's believed the explosives were hidden inside the attackers turban rabbani had led peace talks with the insurgents over the last year and was considered one of the most influential figures in the country becoming is the latest in a string of high profile assassinations in afghanistan and the second taliban of type in kabul in just about we were the last channel to interview mr rabbani before

his death he told us that he claimed that nato occupation of his country and the ongoing civil war which is now claimed thousands of lives. the people of afghanistan do not want foreign troops are still here we don't want to unleash and security to depend on a four year old troop presence it's simply unacceptable however considering the critical security situation in our country the lack of stability ill interior clashes forced to tolerate the presence of nato but there would never have been a civil war in afghanistan and no problems with the telegram if we hadn't been invaded by foreign forces the people of ghana still had managed to live for centuries without actually fighting and you can watch more of the interview with mr rabbani on our website of course that is our dot com. with the relentless taliban stepping up its attacks all across the canister on one of the 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 root out the deadly business during its ten year long campaign season you go to this one off and i reports from a couple. 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 city with the wall is coming and staring at them. in same conditions we rubbish being thrown right here where we're standing right now this is just incredible seacat heroin. it's all cocked and mixed injected or small to right arm on these piles of rubbish 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 the score. candy and we don't have any jobs we don't have any kind of think you do if you can't pay for the war i don't. have a study commission where the u.s. state department shows each family has at least one drug user all beards are now found in breast milk and all kids even knew was that morphine their blood there's no doubt the period of plantation song 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 around ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan interpol cleans the markets global treaty has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected states where around eighty tons of heroin

thought to a new essential in a country like you will 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. i mean the experts find this a bit strange given the fact that a large quarter of revenues from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban needle ski enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and we spend billions of dollars to fight afghanistan's drug traffic but since nato has no legal way to coordinate the funds are spent with very little private resorts while official see the multi-billion dollar drug network as the whole world and it's a group you go to school for tea kabul afghanistan there's more news stories and videos are waiting for you on our constantly updated website of course coming here

because of the items are waiting for you right now the opposition groups famous for the so-called silent protests and are back with a vengeance after a lengthy hiatus. and jaws returns to russia's far east after a fisherman holding a to meet certain long a shark it happened right near a children's holiday camp it was caught in an area where one of the ferocious mammals is thought of developed a taste for human flesh. with r.t.i. just a moment i we're in is here with the business but for the 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. travel 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. worth one mile from the cars to your car. in fact in the world snowden most c.t. being doctor is a year round phenomenon. where the only means of transportation around are. not in sync and while by now cars and no one built planes in many parts of the north koreans were going on skis pulling their weight who can say it's not only more environmentally friendly but also safer you can always rely on recalls deal with because while dogs will never let you down. like most of the residents of no race longer pm robert wasn't born here. he moved in his mid twenties fleeing big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature he says

who came his jeep behind his barking female peter morris is the major change of his life plus if the dog spit. beats no. exercise every day so. yeah when it improves with. going out for it in my car some two thousand presidents along here and beyond is little more than a white place in the road they mean will be any traffic police but the rules of the road are no less treat the local authorities have already closed some of the archipelagos routes to motorised traffic with more restrictions to cram. the loping force behind a partial car ban is very authentic also and every dog lover she like is driving just milking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are no smoking areas where shouldn't there be. the driving areas here are small but both. in norway and

many other places also here in the north. and i think today we are leaving in big tones we need the silent room where we can leave all us in our normal days we need to rest our brain as the happy palaver tries to attract more tourists some suggest the big her restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around you watch reporting increasing traffic fatigue many may be in need of a car free refuge babysit russian child over whom cost of and lost quite well in jurist hours long commutes to work sans the absence of funky horns need to instantly fall in love with it place the most amazing moment experience here on 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 crazy great idea and this would probably attract

more and more tourists here going to dance is obviously not an option for every speedy but here has he's definitely don't feel like a real kind of my guy or c. long he'll be out. of the business with my. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. russia's two major ports system my sights n.p.r. ts are now putting the finishing touches to their five billion dollars merger the new brand of a combined stock exchange hope a present and early next year with plans for an i.p.o. in twenty thirteen and out is our and it has 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 into riveted and backed on different technical platforms and 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 hate to create a single technological entry point to both indices 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 blue pill exchanges and in the next couple of years to be in the top ten in terms of revenue first priority integration second priority to around about two thousand and thirteen obviously the overarching

goal of this is to make moscow into a global financial center and the c.e.o.'s of the r.c.s. and my sect 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. let's take a look at the markets all prices are mixed this hour as escalating fears over the eurozone debt crisis still keep concerns over let's have a look at what's happening in europe markets there are in the red with banks leaving at the clients investors are cautious after wall street gave up its rally and as the greek debt crisis lingers on and here in russia the markets have slid into. negative territory of the arts yes is down point eight percent although my service is news and forty four that's a lot of what's happening as the index numbers on the my sex oil majors are down the sour look call as those in just the not small drops enough to set in almost half a percent and that's the news the company is discussing the possibility of building

a joint or a refinery in the us so try this in the back and food company russian see is up the spine posting a fourteen million dollar that lost in the first half of the year. the sour the headlines are next. issue is that so much of an a.b.c. news.