it is just after five pm here in moscow this is with me roll receipt showing thousands of palestinians are marching all across the west bank to support their leader's move to win recognition for their state at the united nations there's an atmosphere of jubilation and government services and schools were closed to allow people to go out onto the streets and demonstrate all these policies is there any ramallah for us will be touching base with her in a short while but for now we can talk to a doctor tb 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. 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 gauging to the international community in serious diplomatic collective efforts that we will enhance the recognition of the pedestal of state but also help what is your meaningful peace process with proper international supervision and terms of reference in addition to hopefully making some efforts to converse israel to stop its violations to the rights of the palestinians especially by stopping the expansion of settlements because it has been broken. as the main obstacle for the

peace process as you say this certainly does seem to be a swelling of ground support for the palestinian leadership palestine to have its seat in the united nations we believe that one hundred forty different countries are different states according are 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 saying 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 its responsibilities. to the nature of the rights of freedom for the palestinians but the syrian people believe that we fulfilled our obligations we completed the building off of the situation of office state and we are developing an effective security system and other government agencies and that it's about time for the

palestinians to enjoy statehood independence that's why we're hoping that the majority of the members of the national community will vote for ending the occupation will vote for the independence of palestine at the end of the international community is. on a two state solution we already have one it's about time to have the other one but it's time for as you as you are saying 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 they said you're mentioning 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 grouted statehood what do you expect to see. well israel is threatening all of imposing economic sanctions. other kind of sanctions

but israel must get serious messages from the international community that they cannot have a free hand in exploiting the city and people of their part of syria and occupied territories israel has been enjoying. the fact that they're going to see a community the international community is high the behind the bilateral negotiations and it's truly in these talks mainly in order to continue with the illegal settlement expansion it's about time for the international community to deal more direct and in what effective way with this israeli insistence to continue avoid really think that international law we're not talking about anything beyond what the international legality would get are dear 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 is both illegal and obstacle to peace if we are serious about the achieving peace so it's about time to remove this obstacle the settlement

activity is. now as you were saying earlier here on our certainly the world's eyes are on america on israel and certainly on the u.n. in new york. head of the palestinian government media center live in ramallah thank you very much. all right i will let's get back now to continue with the story here will our cross back live to paula slim who was in ramallah for us in ramallah. excuse me of paula thank you very much for standing by for us are people who are certainly seem to be in high spirits today or how high the hopes that statehood could actually be achieved do you think. not only here in ramallah is being high for right across the way banking if the major bank from twenty thousand people have taken to speak to my left people where the schools closed early and medium businesses shut down i'm standing in hama now because we need to focus point of them i know and in this area the businesses they stopped in the restaurants happiness. and so that people can really celebrate what's almost

a clone of the atmosphere now this does kick start three days of peaceful demonstrations that the palestinians on the spot says they will be holding in the run up to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas making there on friday for statehood at the united nations we've seen some of that such celebrations across the west bank in hebron there were an estimated seventeen thousand people turning out in qana bills today and some of the scenes unfolding in bethlehem and in nablus they wanted to isolated incidents of violence that did change it will have the 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 certainly they 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 the paragraph in response to this stated drive not for months so what's being done as far as you know or. what the israeli army certainly has been preparing for violence but what many say is that you must in this paper ration it's almost encouraging if one can say that the violence has happened simple month israeli army has been undergoing an operation called operation some esteem and this is all they fear that these peaceful demonstrations as a palestinian say they will hold could erupt into stained into violence but their eyes not only on the palestinians the israeli army also has they i have on the russian hasa many an israeli state is just yesterday there were a number of demonstrations by israeli states and across the west bank in the states as themselves adamant that they will not allow the palestinians to do what they say take over their land and next if the states hold potential conflict further down the line. now we are hearing initial rumors that some kind of deal has been struck

the mind of dean we do not have confirmation we do not have the details yet but what we do understand is that the palestinian president mahmoud abbas might on friday the bill making his bid for statehood but instead of asking for the boat to happen at the same time he might delay 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 basically close certainly extend from the start to israel and the united states have been pushing push ups on a fast not to go ahead with the statehood bed until there is some kind of peace talks and negotiations on the table so i think 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 in this and so bit by bit the pressure not only from the united states but sophie also from israel is starting to be felt by the kind of stimulus that certainly here in

palestine itself the mood is jubilant people are very excited people have a real scenes that history is in the making and it pulled as you were saying there were jubilation on the palestinian side of the border with israel but perhaps exactly the opposite emotion on the israeli side of their life in ramallah thank you very much. all right so i well i do stay with us here at our showdown over the palestinian statehood is for the meantime to dominate 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 now watches marina portnoy 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 a u.n. membership and statehood is something that the majority of the general assembly does support but it is something that the united states has been speaking out

against that the u.s. has the right and to use its veto in the security council because no sides palestine or israel are ready to return to the negotiating table but foreign minister lavrov did say that it is within palestinians right to ask for u.n. membership and the united states should not get in the way of aspirations for any country. that the new people in the middle east quartet will 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 negotiating table first. ready for it because there's no agreement between them. to prove the palestinian it ministration of the right to ask the u.n. security council to speak out on each 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 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 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 this story will shift into a much different. it is very important reporting right. 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. at the u.s.

state of georgia ignores pleas from all around the world prepares to execute a death row prisoner convicted on questionable evidence those details coming your way in just a few minutes right here. ministers in debt ridden greece are set to discuss how to speed up the budget cuts to secure vital i.m.f. and 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 meanwhile the i.m.f. is warm the eurozone and the u.s. that they're in danger of a new wave of recession unless lawmakers act quickly financial writer peter building says the actions of europe's banks and 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 in other words given 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 that is really i think what the governments are most worried about because if the banks all seem to fail are not prepared to learn 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 values what then leads to recession or possibly even it's very difficult to trace who actually holds that debt and even if you can trace that there are the insurance companies that in a sense have insured the banks against the. fall weather very quick actually afford to pay out is another question again again put doubts in the minds of investors in the minds of certain bond holders as to whether it's worth going on. and what our financial writer peterbilt with his assessment of the euro zone's our ongoing debt

woes. hundreds have gathered in baltimore the assassination of former afghan president but one of the in that rabbani the key figure in current peace talks with the taliban was killed at his home by a suicide bomber who 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 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 and as the taliban are widen their attacks all across the country one of the 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 now reports from kabul where drug abuse is rife. the

penalty for drinking. 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 all the screaming and staring at them or the insane conditions we rubbish being fewer we're streaming right now this is just incredible to see. here all in all. it's all mixed injected or small on these clothes or grow bush rotten meat and you describe it. and not one policeman anywhere near but that not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs and many of them call this home . game here and we don't have any jobs we don't have any kind of thing to do if you

can't pay for the war or you have a. study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each family has at least one drug user or 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 ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan interval cleans the markets global trade has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected street with around eighty tons of heroin thought to settle in the country. it's tragic that despite the enormous resources nato has put into afghanistan including military force drug production is just phenomenal moreover the head of nato military committee personally told me fighting drug production is

not their goal there 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 nato is key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and spends billions of dollars to fight again 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 that multi-billion dollar drug network has the whole world in its grip you've got this going off r t kabul afghanistan. stories including. several. to the dog house and the new purge by city hall. and party zombies must die the new video game that gives you the chance to gun down

sarah palin. republican friends website so the more. best videos make sure that our you tube channel. twenty minutes past five in the afternoon here. in the u.s. state of georgia has denied a final appeal for clemency for a prisoner on death row this coming on the eve of his execution for the one nine hundred eighty nine murder. no murder weapon was ever found no d.n.a.

evidence or fingerprints conclusively linked troy davis to the shooting the majority of witnesses also changed their testimony now more than one million people worldwide have signed. the international said george discredited the justice system and will execute an innocent man michael starke who is part of the campaign to the death penalty says the execution will be a crime in itself 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 just a. that somehow is going on in georgia is that. justice is is also a sham it's not justice it's a travesty choice favor the senate leader of the democratic party in the senate called for actual resistance among the staff to the execution along with this other insider 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 george board of pardons who actually has the power to reconsider their horrible decision so that 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 is served. you well it's just a few minutes away now from the business with yulia but now rushers federation council the upper house of parliament has elected a new speaker a former governor office in petersburg is now taking up the post valentino was almost unanimously approved with only one senate abstaining it's the first time in russian history that a woman has held the country's third highest elected office the new speaker. of the federation council post became vacant in may when speaking. just russia party leader was recalled by the st petersburg legislature. are in a such

a how the world up to now here are naughty some of the headlines from around the world. broke out 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 the island 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 the release of the men had been postponed because a judge required to sign the release forms was on. only days before bale were secured shane bauer and josh fattal had both been facing eight years in prison 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 it's now headed towards the

fukushima nuclear plant which was of course of the center of a 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 nine hundred 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 sort of 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 welcome to the united nations. all right now here with the best. thanks rory 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 and in addition the finance minister says inflation will be a record low seven percent and in terms of growth and execute predicts russia will have fully recovered from the two thousand and eight financial crisis by the end of the year. russia's g.d.p. will reach pre-crisis levels by the end of this year but state budget revenues will return to pre-crisis levels only in about three years that's following a cut in taxes and low incomes in the energy sector despite high oil prices 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 us dollar but your sloppiness of all of deutsche 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. bank is not spending those

reserves so what 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 preventions may actually. shooting later on giving. giving away too. to appreciation. 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 us federal reserve found gloomy i am math growth provision sleights which is currently trading at around eighty six dollars per barrel while branches that one hundred ten dollars. and european markets are in the right with banks leading to clients investors are cautious of to wall street gave

up its rally and as the greek debt crisis lingers on traders are also awaiting the outcome of the u.s. federal reserve 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. point eight percent while the my six is losing a quarter of a percent let's not have a look at some of the individual share moves in the my six majors the down the oil is losing just a notch point four percent while rosneft shedding almost one percent that's on the news the company is discussing the possibility of building a joint oil refinery in russia with china seen another took a strange one over for the high cost of transportation of natural gas for independent gas producers. in other news german is saying he plans to unveil. one billion euros and as business in russia and c.i.s.

all the next four years the business software firm there's also planning to boost revenues in the region to one billion dollars by two thousand to fifteen that's a piece as it's trying to catch the wave of a boom in russia as spending on technology is expected to increase several fold in coming years. on a big problems in russia have just gotten a little worse the minority shareholders in the companies russian venture to be have doubled their compensation claim for b.p. as attempt to form an alliance with or snapped they now want five billion dollars they put down to a clear understanding of the damage caused by b.p. has failed just sport shares and explore the arctic with all snapped in minority shareholders claimed to be a lost potential income by being locked out of a deal with russia's biggest oil from the first court hearing or shuttle to happen in early october that's it for now if you're up to date.

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are in the russian capital he without. the top stories thousands of. the streets of the west bank in support of a bid for statehood at the united nations government services and schools were closed so people could participate in the demonstrations. the standoff over palestinian sovereignty brewing at the un general assembly support for palestine clashed with a veto wielding us which is pushing for a relaunch of peace talks between israel's israelis and palestinians. deaths with greece trying to speed up cuts before european commission inspectors descend. warning globe.