hundreds of repercussions from this. banging the drum for sovereignty thousands of palestinians poor onto the streets of the west bank in support of a bid for statehood at the united nations. there is a standoff brewing at the un general assembly where overwhelming support for the palestinians could clash with the veto being wilted by the united states. and the eurozone teeters under its rapidly piling debts with greece trying to speed up cuts and the i.m.f. warning that a new recession is on the horizon. and business while europe was struggling to avoid sliding back into recession russia finance minister saying that russia will

have fully recovered from the two thousand and eight financial crisis by the end of the year and more in twenty minutes. just after five pm here in moscow this is see with me rule reception thousands of palestinians are marching all across the west bank to support their leaders move to win recognition for their state the united nations has an atmosphere of jubilation and government services and schools were closed to allow people to go out onto the streets and demonstrate that it is policy is there in ramallah for us will be touching base with her in a short while but for now we can talk to a. head of the palestinian government media center joining us now live from ramallah good to see you so there are reports suggesting that president abbas has accepted a compromise and the vote could actually be postponed how likely is this what do

you know. this is not likely at all we didn't hear that we don't think that this is. possible. but in all cases. the essence of our move is not about procedures or about mainly voting it is about involving the international community in serious collective effective efforts to try to help solving the conflict to try to help ending the israeli occupation and we already succeeded in engaging the national community in serious diplomatic corrective efforts that we who will enhance the recognition of the kind of syrian state but also help resuming a meaningful peace process with proper out international supervision and terms of reference in addition to hopefully making some efforts to convince israel to stop

its violations to the rights of the palestinians especially by stopping the expansion of settlements because it has been victimized as the main obstacle for the peace process as you said it certainly does seem to be a swelling of ground support for the palestinian leadership palestine to have its seat in the united nations or we believe that one hundred forty different countries are different states are calling out showing their support for this but if the vote does take place what do you think the outcome is unlikely to be we understand you just think israel is the main opponent of this but if the vote is a success what's the outcome. when the ambition of the palestinian people is that the national community will. meet its obligations and take its responsibilities. to the nature of rights of freedom for the palestinians president people believe that we fulfilled our obligations we completed the building off of the institutions off

a state. we are developing an effective security system and other government agencies and that it's about time for the palestinians to enjoy statehood independence and that's why we're hoping that the majority of the members of the international community will root for ending the occupation will vote for the independence of palestine at the end of the international community is in consensus on the two state solution we already have run israel it's about time to have the other one but it's time for as you as you are saying that there is a massive amount of global support here for the establishment of palestinian statehood here as we were mentioning a short while ago one hundred forty states showing their support but let's talk about this as you mentioned washington american israel america threatening to veto the vote israel showing of opposition to this how is israel likely to react if indeed palestinians all crowded stated what do you expect to see. well

israel is threatening all of imposing economic sanctions and other kind of sanctions but israel must get serious messages from the international community that they cannot have a free hand in exploiting the palestinian people as a palestinian occupied territories israel has been enjoying. the fact that they're going to see a community the international community is hiding behind the bilateral negotiations and it's truly these talks mainly in order to continue with the illegal settlement expansion it's about time for the international community to deal in more direct and in what effective way with the israeli insistence to continue violating the international law we're not talking about anything beyond what the international legality would guarantee to us it is part of the foreign policy of every single country in the world that the jewish settlement expansion in the occupied

territories. israel's. obstacle to peace if we have serious about the achieving peace so it's about time to do all of this all these settlements activities that all eyes were saying earlier here and suddenly the world's eyes are on america on israel and certainly on the u.n. in new york i think head of the palestinian government media center live in ramada thank you very much. carter well that's a good back now to continue with the story here we'll of course like live through all of these of paula who was in ramallah for us in ramallah. screws me up with thank you very much for standing by for us are people who are certainly seem to be in high spirits today or how high are the hopes that statehood could actually be achieved do you think. what that might throw at the not only here in ramallah are you seeing high spirits right across the way bank of this tomato that some twenty thousand people have taken to the streets of rome i let people talk of were the

schools closed early and medium businesses shut down i'm standing in on an hour which is really deep toklas point of the myler and in this area the businesses the shops and the restaurants have been opened so that people can really celebrate with almost a carnival atmosphere now this does kick start three days of peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians understand that they will be holding in the run up to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas making their bid on friday for statehood at the united nations we've seen going to such celebrations across the west bank in hebron there weren't is to make it seven hundred thousand people tweeting out for parties in carnivals today and a similar scene unfolding in bethlehem and in nablus they wanted to isolated incidents of violence that did change it will have these have a potential to modern day one in kalandia checkpoint not far from here it was also a little bit of violence in hebron both of those have been brought under control and the people i've been talking to say that not only do they have a commitment to holding peaceful demonstrations but sophie to have

a commitment to making sure that this historic moment on the world stage is seen and felt by everyone in the international community why do people are saying i want to come to the international community and its view on israel israel is known for using a heavy handed response when he deals with palestinians in the west bank and gaza israel has been preparing the violence in response to this stated drive off for months so what's being done as far as you know are. what the israeli army says he has been paying for violence but what many say is that one. in this paper ration it's almost encouraging if one can say that the violence of the ten simple months is maybe army has been undergoing an operation called operation on the scene and this is all they fear that these peaceful demonstrations as a palestinian say they will hold could erupt into stage into violence but their eyes not only on the palestinians the israeli army also has the highest i'll meet rush in half a million israelis states's just yesterday there were a number of demonstrations by israeli state says across the west bank on the fifth

as themselves are adamant that they will not allow the palestinians to do what they say take over their land and that if the states hold potential conflict further down the line now we are hearing initial rumors that some kind of deal has been struck some kind of scene we do not have confirmation and we do not have the details yet but what we do understand is that the kind of student president mahmoud abbas might on friday the hill making his bid for statehood but instead of asking for the boat to happen at the same time he might today that until potentially some time next year if indeed this is the case it means that american and israeli pressure on the palestinians has come to base which has certainly extends from the start israel and the united states have been pushing pushing on a fast not to go ahead with the states with food and till there was some sign of peace talks and negotiations on the table so things we've seen from the united states side that they've been putting pressure on donors that they give money to those donors who support the palestinian cause as they've started cutting back on

this and so that i've put the pressure not only from the united states but certainly also from israel is starting to be felt by the kind of stimulus but certainly here in palestine itself a new day is jubilant people are very excited people have a real sense that history is in the making and it pulled as you were saying there were jubilation on the a palestinian side of the border with israel but perhaps exactly the opposite emotion but on the israeli side what is for the street a large robot i thank you very much. well i do stay with us here on our show down over the palestinian statehood is for the meantime government aid the u.n. general assembly with a majority of the players including russia are ready to support the bid the u.s. promises to veto the move unless palestinians and israelis relaunch the peace talks . has details on this 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 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 threatened 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 stooge going to the people in the middle east which it will not meet in the near future the recent meeting with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has showed that the u.s. would not like to see the palestinian question raised at the u.n. we think that it would be preferable to sit to the negotiation table first group both sides are not ready for it because there's no agreement between them we think that one must improve the palestinian it ministration of the rights to ask the u.n.

security council to speak on each state who 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 called months later the u.s. of course is back pedaling 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 to this point of course that the u.s. so against the palestinian bid for you when membership but if this meeting does take place well knows maybe this story will shift and. much different here. that is more important reporting right there were plenty more to come this hour here on r.t. including the tough life of a junkie in afghanistan

a look at how almost every family living in the world's biggest producer of opiates is dealing with the daily beast scourge of narcotics. by the u.s. state of georgia ignores pleas from all around the world prepares to execute a death row prisoner convicted on questionable evidence by those details coming your way in just a few minutes right here. ministers in debt ridden greece are said to discuss how to speed up the budget cuts to secure vital i ever knew cash without that money the country will default next month this comes as the european commission inspectors plan to return to athens to assess the progress in reducing debt if they decide that greece can meet its targets they would then give the green light for the country's next tranche of an eight billion euro bailout of the i.m.f. is one the eurozone and the u.s. that they're in danger of a new wave of recession unless lawmakers act quickly financial writer peter bill

says the actions of europe's banks rapidly piling up debt is a bringing the whole region down unless the banks are helped out by their own governments what is called recapitalize never would give a new money. new money in order to beef up their capital and of course there would be serious doubts about the credit worthiness of the banks unflashy is really i think what the governments are most worried about because of banks all seem to fail are not prepared to loan to each other and we have another we have a repeat of the credit crunch where if banks don't lend to each other they also can't lend to businesses and values what then needs to recession or possibly even depression it's very difficult to trace who actually holds that destiny even if you can trace that were other insurance companies but in a sense. have insured the banks against of default with a very quick actually afford to pay out is another question again and again. some

unknowns are investors in the minds of certainly of bondholders as to whether it's worth going on the. earth with a financial writer peter bill with his assessment of the euro zone's ongoing. hundreds have gathered in kabul to mourn the assassination of former afghan president got handle being rabbani a key figure in current peace talks with the taliban who was killed at his home by a suicide bomber and had explosives hidden in his turban a special ceremony will be held at the presidential palace before his body is taken to his home province so that is in the northeast of the country the killing was the latest in a string of high profile assassinations and the second taliban attack on car ball in just a week but as the taliban why don't their attacks all across the country main sources of income continues to flourish the country's infamous drug trade funds the insurgency while at the same time causes narcotics related deaths all across the

world and critics say nato has over the ten year campaign in afghanistan turned a blind eye. going off about reports from kabul where drug abuse is right. the penalty for drinking beer in kabul sixty whips on the back part of the clique 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 the sun bridge in the center of the sea with the office coming against doing these insane conditions we then rubbish before you were steaming right now this is just incredible to see. here all in all. it's all mixed injected or small to go right on these piles of rubbish. a rotten meat and an indescribable aroma and not one policeman anywhere near that at all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs i mean you have them

call this home pakistan and iran can hear middle of energy you don't have any editing to do if you can save part of your body i did a. study commissioned by the u.s. state department chills each family has at least one drug user. found in breast milk and all kids even knew was that morphine or blood was not out of the area of contagion song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started . 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 into a war cleans the markets global trade has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark russia is one of the worst affected streets with around eighty tons of heroin a new settle in the country like. 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 for him this is a bit strange given the fact that a large part of the revenues from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban needle ski enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and spends 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 positive results while official see the multi-billion dollar afghan drug network as the whole world in its grip we were just kind of forty kabul afghanistan. i want to check out our t.v. dot com for more on that and many other stories including. a feral canines are banished to the doghouse and new purge by city hall but activists are baring their

teeth and showing front of mortality dot com. granted tea party zombies must die in a new video game that gives you the chance to gun down sarah pailin and her flesh eating republican friends my website sells you more of course for all of our best videos make sure our you tube channel. is. all right on our twenty minutes past five in the afternoon here in australia without say the u.s. state of georgia has denied a final appeal for clemency for

a prisoner on death row that's coming on the eve of his execution the nine hundred eighty nine murder of off duty police right now murder weapon was ever found no d.n.a. evidence or fingerprints conclusively linked troy davis to the shooting. the majority of witnesses also since then changed their testimony now more than one million people worldwide have signed. international said george discredited the justice system and will execute an innocent man michael stock is part of the campaign to end the death penalty says the execution will be a crime in itself this idea that somehow we can get the death toll to right whether it's in texas or florida or in georgia words we're 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 that. justice is also a sham it's not just it's a travesty who enjoys favor in the senate leader of the democratic party in the senate called for actual resistance among the correction 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 we're going to keep pressing and pushing to make sure that justices are. just a few minutes away now from the business with junia but no rushers federation council the upper house of parliament has elected a new speaker former governor over some people's budgets now are taking up the post of valentino was almost unanimously approved with only one senator saying it's the first time in russian history that a woman has held the country's third highest elected office when you speak. in petersburg for eight years the federation council became vacant in may when it's

because sort of just russia party leader who was recalled by the state st petersburg and they just. started such other world up you know hero ne and other headlines from around the world this hour. between police and immigrants fleeing an overcrowded holding center on the italian island of lampedusa officers in riot gear use clubs against detained refugees making a break for freedom but the other has been overwhelmed by more than forty thousand libyans fleeing unrest back at home. two american men jailed in iran of charges of spying have been a free after a million dollar bail was approved by the courts but the release of the men had been postponed because a judge required to sign the release forms was on holiday before bail was secured shane bauer and josh fattal had both been facing eight years in prison and they say they mistakenly crossed into iran while trekking in northern iraq back in july of

two thousand and nine. a powerful typhoon has struck japan pounding the tokyo area with heavy rain leaving at least five dead is now headed towards the fukushima nuclear plant which is of course at the center of the radiation disaster following the tsunami in march across japan more than a million people were urged to flee their homes which are at risk of flooding and landslides just earlier this month another storm devastated japan leaving some one thousand dead or missing. one of colonel gadhafi the last remaining strongholds the city is now fully controlled by the national transitional council but fighting does continue in the cities of bani walid and sirte libya's interim prime minister now says that a government will be in place within seven to ten days with the nation's new leaders already welcomed the united nations. right now here.

thanks story very well welcome to the business update while many european countries are struggling to contain their deficits russia is said to have a balanced budget this year in addition the foreigners minister says inflation will be a record low seven percent and in terms of growth and its accoutrement critics russia will have fully recovered from the two thousand and eight financial crisis by b. end of the year. russia's g.d.p. will reach pre-crisis levels by the end of this year but the state budget riven years will return to pre-crisis levels only in about three years that's following a cut in texas and low incomes in the energy sector despite total process but we have no doubt that this year the budget will be met for the first time we will not be running a deficit. despite russia's apparently healthy budget position the ruble has been falling sharply it's currently at a ten month low against the u.s. dollar but u.s.

lifeless of all a good daughter bank says minimal interventional by the central bank could push the rule back up. well prices are still very high reserves are still very high the central bank is not spending those reserves so what time markets see that situation they will come to terms with. is probably has gone too far in terms of. weakness so my sense is that this approach of the central bank towards limiting limiting its own for vengeance may actually. shooting will go on giving. giving way to. appreciation and. let's have a look at the markets now while a struggling to gain ground of the market will storm between growing expectations of more stimulus measures from the u.s. federal reserve and gloomy i.m.f. growth provisions sleights which is currently trading at around eighty six dollars

per barrel while branches that one hundred ten dollars. european markets are in the right with banks leading to clients investors are cautious after wall street gave up with rally and as the greek debt crisis lingers on traders are also awaiting the outcome of the u.s. better is a meeting later today widely expected to deliver some new stimulus for the u.s. economy losing more than half a percent while the dax the shedding one percent. and here in russia the markets have slipped into negative territory the r.t.s. is down point eight percent while the my six is losing a quarter of such let's now have a look at some of the individual share moves in the my it's all the majors the down the oil is losing just a notch point four percent while the us and after sharing almost one percent that's on the news the companies discussing the possibility of building a joint all refinery in russia with china see nope i am not a tech aspersion i will fall in the high current cost of transportation of natural

gas for independent gas producers. in other news german is safe he plans to invade . one billion euros and its business in russia and c.i.s. over the next four years a business software firm is also planning to boost revenues in the region to one billion dollars by twenty fifteen that's a piece as it's trying to catch the wave of in russia as spending on technology is expected to increase several fold in coming years. problems in russia have just gotten a little worse the minority shareholders in the company's russian venture t.m.t. b.p. have doubled the compensation claim for b.p. as attempts to form an alliance of all snapped they now want five billion dollars they put down to a clear understanding of the damage caused by b.p. has failed to support shares and explore the article for snaps in minority shareholders claim to be a lost potential income by being walked out of the deal with russia's biggest oil from the files to court hearing

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