yes and twenty minutes. worldwide news live from moscow city center this is our role research palestinians are cheering on their leaders attempts to win membership of the un general assembly with massive rallies all across the west bank today and moscow has backed the bit of saying palestinians deserve a right to put their case but the u.s. is doing all it can to halt that presentation claiming it will veto the move unless palestinians and israelis launch new talks we can all cross live to watching closely in the area for us in ramallah paula hello to you the protests looking to appear peaceful huge display of over support that what are the people hoping to achieve. while celebrations really have kickstarted here in palestine i mean the west bank city of ramallah where for several hours now thousands of people have

taken to the streets is mainly almost comical atmosphere here which is if the united nations bid is a done deal there were 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 will be recognized by the international community now they will flags everywhere in the posters of the film a palestinian leader yasser arafat as well as the current palestinian president mahmoud abbas on just about every building cars are going up and down the road shooting the schools have closed down the building the the government buildings have shut really and this really marks must all be at least three days of the still protest celebrations and commemorations across the west bank all culminating in that you were in on friday. paula as we know the united states and israel have both been putting out blockades here to try and store the. stop the palestinian bid at

the un to have their movements here being governed any success on their side. 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 was seven months not has 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 conducting an extensive diplomatic campaign to try and save it and build support in 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 some the scenes this is now an operation that looks at specifically dealing with any kind of violence will sort out from the palestinians but not spend time in the israeli settlements and they stations have been preparing themselves and be 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 clashes just yesterday they were marching on palestinian cities in a show of support on their side because this thing until there is side holding peaceful demonstrations they are very angry at the united states which has been cutting back 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 of a great through and we understand that if this is true there was some kind of deal on the clause that would see the palestinian president mahmoud abbas presenting the palestinian but the statehood on friday but not pushing for a vote on the same day and that so might even be delayed until sometime next to now we are hearing a photo if indeed this is true that the united nations chief banky moon will not place for a vote in the security council until next year and we also have a student from kind of approach that's later today who the french president was it doesn't address people make amends. all of this great for about

a little bit on her at the moment the fracking. process that both the united states and never have been forcing on the palestinians they of course want to see some kind of this deal 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. stage two of the middle east quartet will not meet in the near future is 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 at the negotiating table first but both sides are not ready for it because there's no agreement between them we think that one mustn't deprive the palestinian of ministration of the right to ask the u.n. security council to speak out on it statehood bid. but this really is an

historic moment and certainly walking around the streets of ramallah if you get a same sex people here feel that the world's newest nation is being born. right policy there live from amman i thank you very much. while the u.s. might be defending israel's interests 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 and the tsunami now explains how the u.s. 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 for what. the revolution bring us you know i think doing

good your time there was a bit of security but now there's less security on the streets israel has also been left hanging a slow road to stability in neighboring egypt mixed with the massively unpopular israeli foreign policy makes a dangerous cocktail that pace 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 rejections 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 michel that's all 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 about war but ever come up behind our report card shows emergency alert is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already so good for 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 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 egypt two very important states in the area which

used 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's security it must occur to netanyahu and others at this point that certainly be americans are holding the b b s's and 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 here i think with 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 mass that israel well how. to live with. and use now a r t.

just now turning ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital on the way for you here on a life 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 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 as the country desperately needs the next eight billion euro bailout without the money the country could default with in no decision will be made until october 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 or so underscoring the region's difficulties

was a credit rating downgrade of italy by standard and poor's financial analyst michael moore believes the cost and downgrades are only putting pressure on the entire world. and have also to take into account that there is a kind of currency war going on especially with continuous downgrades from the united states from the rating agencies here in europe i mean what does it really matter one notch up or down psychologically it's really very very hard and in terms of currency war you have to see the to fear 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 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 to most western countries they are all failing go all over the situation at the moment it is psychologically very under big pressure so it doesn't

hurt any of us if the i.m.f. says such things. economist michael says the e.u. crisis will have far reaching consequences for the global economy personally i mean a plus to a i mean is anybody really believe that italy deserves an eight rating their debt to g.d.p. is one hundred twenty percent and rising a significant number of european banks are insolvent the e.c.b. has to buy all of that sovereign debt and take it off their balance sheet that is the final answer greece will default and that means somebody has to take the pain and it's going to be either the banks for it's going to be this central bank creating inflation and then everybody suffers get ready for a protracted and significant increase in inflation both in europe in japan in the united states this is all to you it's good to have you with us today now it's time

for the world update here and it 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 work taken to hospitals from gun fire and the crackdown that came with despite reports the country's vice president could sign an initiative arranging the transfer of power something the protesters are being called in for four months. one of colonel gadhafi last remaining strongholds the city over is now fully controlled by the national transitional council but fighting continues in the cities of bani walid and so it may be as 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 the united nations. the 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 of an off duty policeman no murder weapon was found and no d.n.a. evidence so fingerprints conclusively linked troy davis to the shooting most witnesses have already since then changed the testimony and now more than one million people worldwide have signed a petition in support of the state of clemency to international georgia's discredit to the justice system execute an innocent michael stock and become pain to end the death penalty offers his insight into the case with less than twenty four hours before davis will to die. this idea that somehow we can get the death penalty right whether it's in texas or florida or in georgia where george troy davis is is a complete complete sham and the idea that somehow that this is justice that somehow is going on in georgia is amounts to justice is also a sham it's not justice it's a travesty choice favor the senate whip beleaguer of the democratic party in the senate called for actual resistance among the 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 d.a. in the case or whether it's georgia a 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 we're going to keep pressing and pushing to make sure that justice was served. all right now a quarter past the hour here in moscow still to come for you in the program no more rush hour trouble to one place on earth where air pollution is a thing of the past and the daily commute is a delight. russia's federation council the upper house of the country's parliament has elected a new speaker the former governor of some petersburg valentino will now take up the post. over details. one hundred forty one senators that's over

eighty five percent of the federation council supported the candidacy of the younger today no one opposed the decision and one person abstained from the books so from now on willing to look the young kids officially the new speaker of the upper house of the russian parliament this position became bayfront in may this year after x. speakers said give it all up was recalled by the legislative assembly of sun it is now willing to let the young people have to move from somebody to moscow which is going to be somewhat of a hard decision to make as she herself but meets because for almost fifty years she and her family have lived in some pittsburgh 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 way we need support services operated in the city but there are 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 the city budget is over ten billion dollars. reporting right now afghanistan is mourning the death of its former president who was a key negotiator with the taliban but he 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 the killing is the latest in a string of high profile assassinations in. the second taliban attack in kabul in just about we were the last shuttle to interview mr rabbani before his death he told us that he blamed the nato occupation of his country for the ongoing civil war which has now 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 ghana stand had managed to live for centuries without such in-fighting and you can watch on more of the interview with mr rabbani on our web site of course that is a dot com. now with the relentless taliban stepping up attacks all across afghanistan one of the main sources of income is in full bloom the country turn from us drug trade kills thousands of abuse as well why 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 you go to prison off now reports from couple. 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 drugs right there under this bridge in the center of the seat with the officer coming and staring at them all these insane conditions we then rubbish being thrown weight here where we're standing right now this is just incredible seek and heroin. it's all cooked mixed injected or small to write on these piles of rubbish or rotten meat and an indescribable room and not one policeman anywhere near but that's not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs and many of them call the score pakistan and get on your game

here and we don't have any jobs we don't have any kind of thing to do if you can say for the war i don't want to be held was a study commissioned by the us state department shows each family has at least one drug user all beers 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 and afghanistan i believe that the war was the root cause that forced afghan people to turn to poppy growing their own name three percent of all the opiates in the world are produced you never get a step into a ball. gleams the markets global treaty. the five hundred billion dollar mark russia is one of the worst affected street with around eighty tons of heroin to a new resettle in the country. it's tragic that despite the enormous resources nature 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 needles key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and spends billions of dollars to fight drug traffic but since nato has no way to coordinate the funds are spent with very little positive results well officials say the multi-billion dollar drug network has the whole world in its group you go to school or t.v. kabul afghanistan. more news stories and videos are waiting for you are constantly updated website of course. of the items are waiting for that right now the opposition groups famous for the so-called silent protests are coming back with a vengeance. and lengthy hiatus. jaws

returns to russia's far east after finishing with a hole in a to long up a shark it happened right near a children's holiday camp it was caught in an area where one of the for orphans is thought of developed a taste for human flesh. and with our just a moment here with the business but for now modern city dwellers are all too familiar with constant traffic jams and air pollution are 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 dogs are pulling over to one of the cars to talk to me

on the car. in fact in the world snow than most city being doctor is a year round phenomenon dog flagellates where the only means of transportation around the archipelago until the mid one nine hundred sixty s. and while by now cars and snowmobiles have replaced them in many parts of the north here in prison bergen is a still pulling the 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 wild dogs will never let you down. like most of the residents of norway's longer beyond robert wasn't born here. 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 every two months is the major change in his life plus it keeps 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 in 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 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 authentic also and every dog lover she like is driving just milking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are no smoking areas why shouldn't there be. normal driving areas are small but docs are 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 who tries to attract more tourists some suggest that the terrorists trick sions may have a commercial appeal with people around the world to reporting increasing traffic for to many may be in need of a car free refuge like this russian traveler carlos 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 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 fifth wheel kind of we got our sea long gibbie and spitzbergen archipelago.

of the business news with more. hello and welcome to business here on our team rushes to major bourses the my socks and the r.t.s. are now 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 i was his lawyer and that 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 few 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. 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 booth indices they'll also have to make sure of course that the service they offer is interrupted that there's no loss of quality and also to integrate all those technological details the ambition is to have a full set of financial instruments a full package of operations to be one of the global exchanges and in the next couple of years to be in the top ten in terms of revenue first priority integration second priority to around about two thousand and thirteen obviously the overall goal of this is to make moscow into a global financial center and the c.e.o.'s of the r.t.s. and my sex who were here in london on tuesday say this is not the only thing that

needs to be done to create a global financial center in moscow but it's certainly a big step in the right direction. to look at the markets they're all prices are mixed this hour as escalating fears of the eurozone that crisis still keep concerns over demand let's take a look at what's happening in europe markets there are in the red with banks leaving at the clients and lessers are cautious after wall street gave up its rally and as the greek debt crisis lingers on here in russia the markets have slid into. negative territory of the arts yes is that one point eight percent of all the my sex is news and forty four let's take a look at what's happening as the index movers on the my stocks oil majors are down the sour look cool is losing just the not small rolls enough to shut in almost half a percent and that sort of news the company is discussing the possibility of building their joints all over finally involved with trying to stand up and food company russian city is up despite posting

a fourteen million dollars that lost in the first half of the year. and that's how business looks the sour the headlines are next. culture is that so much given to each musician on top to try to keep in the movie geopolitical order in the middle east and the arab world is an anchor making a big to play the role of the regional hegemon on the back of the.

book about who would want to block from moscow i'm sure the headlines now palestinians are taking to the streets from across the west bank to show support for their leaders bid to win recognition. tries to help the plan through despite opposition from the u.s. and israel. the united states is accused of encouraging the arab spring to achieve its own interests even though it sacrificed the position of his closest ally and that of israel leaving it in a state of isolation. greece makes some good progress in talks with debt and specter was athens hoping to get another aid package to stave off default but the i.m.f. warns the global economy is in a perilous state in the u.s. and eat you close to falling back into recession.