banging the drum. thousands of palestinians pour out of the streets of the west bank and supportive of the first space at the united. on can the palestinian city of ramallah where these cuban any punishment on the street as people celebrate this historic occasion join me in a few moments and i'll bring you more. as a standoff at the u.n. general assembly overwhelming support for the palestinians could clash with a veto wielding u.s. . the eurozone teeters on the. deaths with greece trying to speed up the i.m.f. warning a new recession is in the. twenty

four hour news live from moscow this is artsy with me. thousands of palestinians are marching all across the west bank to support their leader's move to win recognition for their state at the u.n. now there's an atmosphere of jubilation as government services and schools were closed down to allow people to head out onto the streets and demonstrate. has been following the events. it's being high so it's right across the west bank is this major that some twenty thousand people have taken to space or but not let people took off work the schools closed early i mean if businesses shut down i'm standing in omaha which is really the focal point of the trial there and in this area the businesses the shops in the restaurants have been opened so that people can really celebrate with almost

a clone of the atmosphere now this does kick start three days of peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians on the spot says they will cease holding in the run up to the toughest in president mahmoud abbas making their bid on friday for statehood at the united nations we've seen some of the such celebrations across the west bank in hebron there were initiated seventeen thousand people taking out parties in qana bills today and some of the scenes unfolding in basically him and in nablus they wanted to isolated incidents of violence that did change it will have these 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 built 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 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 put israeli army says he has been preparing for violence the pope many say is that we must in this picture

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 promise team and this is all this fear that these peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians say they will hold could in fact understand into violence but their eyes not only on the palestinians the israeli army also has the eye on the rough and tough and they me an israeli state is just yesterday there were a number of demonstrations by israeli state says across the west bank in the states as themselves adamant that they will not allow the palestinians to do what they say take over theirs and now we are hearing initial rumors that some kind of deal has been. the kind of scenes we could not have confirmation that we did not have the details yet but we do understand is that the palestinian president mahmoud abbas might on friday be killed making his bid for statehood but instead of asking for the boat to happen at the same time he might today that and still potentially sometime next year if indeed this implicated mean that in there he can and he's

made the pressure on the palestinians has come to basically close certain extent. of his opponent's live reporting for us from the showdown over the palestinian statehood is set to dominate the u.n. general assembly with a majority of the international community including russia ready to support the bid by the u.s. promises to veto the move unless the palestinians and israelis relaunch peace talks let's get some more details on this now is i mean of course live for us in new york marina there's been a lot of talk on the sidelines ahead of the head of the palestinian statehood bid i mean time the u.s. continuing to threat so we'll this vetoing power is it possible this is just posturing is all hot air or will the u.s. actually end up vetoing the moves you think. well i could tell you that the u.s. is working here sleep to avoid being put in that situation and u.s. president barack obama will be meeting with that when that's not here with netanyahu the prime minister of israel and shortly after that he will be meeting

with president. mahmoud abbas in private meetings one on one and what the u.s. is trying to do is get both sides back to the negotiation table but we do know from what is being said and being reported. palestinian campaign for u.n. membership is proceeding and the palestinian president will submit an official letter friday for u.n. membership as paula was just describing there are reports coming out and some saying behind the scenes that what will happen is that the security council will try to stall on voting for up to thirty five days to prevent any kind of veto from being cast but the u.s. did say as early as this morning the u.n. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. that if the time will come and it the u.s. has to it will cast its veto against the palestinian aspirations for you and membership now russia has called on the u.s.

not to do this not to use its veto power to block palestinian aspiration for u.n. membership that this is something that no country should do specifically when you look at this that the majority of the international community the majority of the one hundred ninety three member states of the united nations do support the palestinian bid for u.n. membership and statehood so at this point there's a lot of diplomatic diplomatic offensive going on behind the scenes on the part of the united states they're trying to avoid being put in this position but at the end of the day they will use their veto power as i understand what you're saying members of a stool of a vote that would force a perspire all of the u.s. if indeed it's going to try to wield a veto but for now the burden is up to date today by the u.n. what's happening. well today is the big day today is when all the heads of state begin addressing the international body right now brazil is still speaking that is the first member state that's speaking and right afterwards u.s.

president barack obama will address the general assembly we do remember last year during his speech he said that he hoped when he came back this year palestine would be a member of the united nations and now we see a lot of backpedaling we see what's happening in about face so there are also be speeches from many other heads of states taking place throughout the day and as i mentioned the sidelines there will be talks on palestine but there are also will be consistent talks on libya because we do know that the u.n. is playing a central little role in libya for the next three months and what that role will be is not clear u.s. president barack obama said that nato will continue its mission there but russia has come out and said that nato has exceeded the u.n. mandate in libya so at this point there are separate opinions on how the u.n. should play a role there and those talks will continue today as well. as the issue of palestine and it's a vote for statehood in a seat at the u.n.

but also the issue of nato and libya being discussed united nations report you know many things right now the u.s. is israel's big supporter of the u.n. but its support for the arab spring threatens to leave its main middle east i live in total isolation america the muslim movements for democracy the new regime in egypt so their views were able to pick up the pieces of broken relations and it's an experience. democracy has a price the people of egypt have spoken. their voices have been heard and egypt will never be the same and the new egypt embraced as a positive example of change in the arab world by the west is not the only one paying what is the biggest thing you know. during your time there was a bit of security but now there is less security on the streets israel has also been left hanging a slow road to stability in neighboring egypt mixed with

a massively unpopular israeli foreign policy makes a dangerous cocktail. the pace for change towards those escalation 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 hundred soldiers all egyptian territory by israeli gunfire. taking 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. mission to this situation can get worse for israel not for us which is starting to get stronger this is not a negative thing for us but a plus. that the protesters who took down the israeli flag at the embassy in august was hailed as egypt's new super hero flagman

a well designed built to protect the embassy but completely destroyed by protesters . this is what remains i doubt that but ever met behind all repercussion emergency omega is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already asserted freedom and in the region he was a strong ally in facing security threats as this new democracy is stuck in a spiral of uncertainty instability and sometimes chaos. benjamin netanyahu called the incident a near disaster being averted might have a lot more work to do to avoid catastrophe in the future is really should worry about look at what's happening in to give egypt two very important states in the area would choose to have not only please put friendship with israel . odds with israel and its number one friend seems to be having trouble keeping

a balance construct remoting arab democracy and protecting israel's security it must occur to netanyahu and others at this point but certainly the americans are holding you know he says and have all the cards up their sleeve so so i think that's something that most we have only on israel it was 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 the americans and with the western civilization 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 and when interest is the main driver of things become messy and egypt could become a mass that israel will have to live with he's now a r t cairo however let's get some more details on this are from phyllis bennis director for your buddies it's a u.s. based peace and human rights to see you so do you think that washington is aware of

the impact that its support of the of the arab spring has had on israel and will continue. being aware of the issue in this band for so many you are unable to handle. and i do u.s. military means economic means of reading arab dictators and. then a certain regional world is particularly of course true in egypt and. jordan where very unpopular peace agreements with israel were imposed essentially by the u.s. the only those options are now up for grabs in the world the way the question of what the impasse will be of a u.s. veto of palestinian statehood at the united nations for instance what that impact will be across the arab world is a new consideration for the u.s. they never have to worry very much about popular opinion in the arab world because

arab governments pay no attention. to say that it's very important to come to the upcoming a un vote on palestinian state or israel's main allies in the region tuffy in egypt so that backs on a jewish state and i mean how far could this isolation go if you're saying especially with the upcoming u.s. vote on palestinian statehood it has already gone very far egypt and turkey are no longer great backers of israel that they once were israel is under a mentally isolated in the same way now and has really no friends in the region and internationally it's only reliable and is the united states now in a certain way back in the middle of even the thomas that israel has carried out the policies of continued occupation the policies of the policies at the siege in gaza all of these policies have the legitimized israel in a way that no country is prepared to back in

a longer except for the united states so the united states and so this pos between the strategic interests rebuild the entire. newly emerging governments in the arab world most particularly in egypt as well as in turkey which has a very different role right now than it has in the past both are very close allies of the u.s. but both are saying to the u.s. we are simply not going to have the kind of close relationship with israel that we once did so we are on this thing to sort of talk about what do you think it means for israel and america compared to the rest of the world when you've got over one hundred forty states supporting palestinian statehood with this upcoming vote of united nations america and israel the only two who are standing up and saying we oppose the establishment of a palestinian statehood of how should that be viewed in the eyes of the rest of the world to two opposing what the rest of the world evidently supports. there we hear that this is about how there was

a note yesterday in the guardian because of that aid the population the eighty percent of the world report this palestinian palestinian state would recognize a palestinian state or the opposition represented seventy five percent of the well of the world so we have a situation where robin power particularly in the united states is being used once again as has so often happened in the past to dominate the united nations to prevent the united nations from being what it should be then you for real international diplomacy grabbing them they will lead us down a needed so-called peace process which is failing for twenty years and it is now the u.s. and israel who stand weak really isolated in the region as well they can no longer point to well we have a close allies in egypt we have close allies in jordan we have close allies and these are simply no longer the case the camp david accord with egypt still exists

but the egyptians have been very clear that the letter of that agreement is what they are down tonight. not being spam soon the. definition is they have come to characterize it during market years room looking at an entirely new political scenario in the middle east because of the arab spring and the challenges that that poses for the united states are absolutely enormous what we have is an administration right now that is very very wary about the domestic implications there's an election in this country in fourteen months and there is already fear ironically president obama who has backed israel to the max in this situation is being accused of being not pro israel benno internally quite astonishing. for the. institute for policy studies the u.s. based peace and human rights groups like marching to thank you. plenty more for you

this hour here on r.t. including the tough life of a junkie in afghanistan look at how almost every family living in the world's biggest producer of opiates is dealing with the scourge of narcotics on a daily basis. the international monetary fund has issued a grave warning for the global financial outlook the most severe since two thousand and eight the lending giant is pessimistic over world growth unless u.s. and euro zone lawmakers act quickly meanwhile the ministers in debt rating greece are set to discuss how to speed up budget cuts to secure vital i.m.f. cash without the eight billion euro bailout the country will default next month this comes as european commission inspectors plan to return to athens to assess the progress in reducing debt financial writer peter build says the actions of europe's banks and their rapidly mounting debt is dragging down the whole richer. unless the banks are helped out by their own governments what is called recapitalize in other

words given new money all lent new money in order to beef up their capital and of course there would be serious doubts about the credit worthiness of the banks and that is really i think what governments are most worried about because if the banks all seem to fail for 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 and values what the recession or possibly even the pressure it's very difficult to trace who actually holds. that they're often insurance companies that in a sense have insured the banks against before with a very quick actually afford to pay out is another question again and again put. some minds of investors in the minds of certainly of bondholders as to whether it's worth going on. that was

a financial writer people build with his assessment of the euro zone's ongoing bear . hundreds have gathered in a couple to mourn the assassination of former afghan president one another in a panic but the key figure in current peace talks with the taliban was killed at home by a suicide bomber who had explosives hidden inside his turban a special ceremony will be held at the presidential palace before his body is taken to his home province in the northeast of the country becoming was the latest in a string of high profile assassinations including the murder of president karzai as a half brother in july much of the violence has been carried out by the taliban boosted by income from the drugs trade which continues to flourish afghanistan is the source of the vast majority of the world's heroin and critics say nato was turned a blind eye over the last ten years that it's actually been in the country. pissing off now reports from kabul where drug abuse is rife. the penalty for drinking beer

in kabul is 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 drugs right there polluters a bridge in the center of the seat with all the screaming and steering and all these insane conditions we then rubbish being through here where we're standing right now this is just an incredible secret. here all in all. it's all cooked mixed injected all small to right i'm on these piles of grow bush for rotten meat and indescribable. and no one policeman anywhere near but that's not all we were told these people don't just conduit to drugs i mean you have them call the score pakistan and iran young can here and we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't see for the war for you i don't want to help but study commissioned by the u.s.

state department sure each family has at least one drug user will be found in breast milk. all kids even knew was that morphine your word there's no dope of period plantation song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started and afghanistan i believe that the war was the root cause the forced afghan people to turn to poppy growing around ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced you know get a stack into of all queens the markets global treaty has also passed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected states where their own e.g. turns of heroin to a new resettle in a country that he knows it's tragic that despite the enormous resources natives 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 find this

a bit strange and get a look at a large quarter for any news from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban needle ski enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and you spend billions of dollars to fight afghanistan's drug traffic but since nato has no legal way to coordinate the funds are spent would be little by the result well official see that multi-billion dollar drug network all ruled and it's good you got to screen all forty kabul afghanistan you can check out r.c. dot com for more on that and many other stories we're covering including moscow's canines of balance to the doghouse and a new purge my city hall but activists are burying their teeth and have more power to get out of the car. and party zombies must die in a video game that gives you the chance to gun down several pale and her flesh eating republican friends on our website.

after the federation council got the upper house of parliament has elected a new speaker a former governor of petersburg is now taking up the post valentina was almost unanimously approved with only one senator abstaining but it's the first time in russian history that a woman has held the country's the third highest elected office and the speaker had served in some people's vote for eight years the federation council coaster became vacant in may when it's. free just russia party leader was recalled by the petersburg legislature. started with r.t. live from moscow let's check out the world update now here. but violence broke out between police and immigrants freeing 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 to museums and libyans clear. rest of. the american

men jailed in iran over charges of spying have been freed 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 of on holiday well before bell was secured shane bauer and josh fattal had both been facing eight years in prison they say they mistakenly crossed into iran while trucking in northern iraq in july two thousand and nine. security forces of five mortars antigovernment protesters from the yemeni capital sanaa killing at least three people broke a cease fire agreed upon a overnight after three days of bloodshed almost seventy people have died since sunday when a crackdown on anti regime protests was renewed all this despite reports the vice president is considering a transfer of power that's a key demand from the demonstrators. right he said with us here in r.t.

you know it's. the latest stop. hello and a very warm welcome to the program while many european countries are struggling to contain their deficits russia is set to have a balanced budget this year and addition the finance minister says inflation will be a record low seven percent and in terms of growth let's see projects russia will have fully recovered from the two thousand and eight on a national crisis by the end of this year. russia's g.d.p. will reach pre-crisis levels by the end of this year but state budget ribbon you will return to pre-crash levels only in about three years that's following a cut in texas and low incomes in the energy sector despite toil probably since we have no doubt that this year the budget will be met and for the first time we will not be running a deficit. let's have a quick check on the markets oil prices

a mixed market was torn between growing expectations of more stimulus measures from the u.s. but reserve and gloomy i.m.f. growth from visions lights which is currently trading at around eight to six dollars per barrel while branches that one hundred and eleven dollars. u.s. stocks a little change so far in early trade as investors are awaiting a federal reserve announcement that may signal more stimulus for the world's largest economy. run syrup in markets in the right with banks leading the declines investors a cautious not to wall street gave up its rally and just a quick touch crisis lingers on traders are also awaiting the outcome or us had reserved egypt later today which is widely expected to deliver some new stimulus for the u.s. economy the footsie is losing more than half a percent while the dax is shedding one point two percent. and here in russia the markets have slipped into negative territory garcia says down point eight percent while the my six is losing under a cent let's have

a look at some of the individual share moves in the its oil majors the down the sour the poor that's what the world was left standing one point seven percent on the news the company is discussing the possibility of building a joint oil refinery in russia with china sooner but not a turk is trading lower after a hike and pipeline transportation costs for gas well in terms of use that's. another news journalist s.a.p plans to invest one billion euros in his business in russia and c.i.s. over the next few years the business so. wherefrom is also planning to boost revenues in the region to one billion euros by twenty fifteen as a piece as a striving to catch the wave of an i.t. boom in russia spending on technology is expected to increase several fold in coming here it's. of b.p.'s problems in russia have just got a little worse the minority shareholders in the company's russian venture to double their compensation claim for would be please attempt to form an alliance with

rosneft they now want five billion dollars they put this down to a clear understanding of the damage caused by b.p. has failed bid to support shares and explore the arctic with ross net but minority shareholders claimed kincaid b.p. lost sensual income by being locked out of the deal with russia's biggest world from first quarter fearing a shuttle to help win over. ok that's it for now you're up to date for more stories you can head to our website archelaus counsellors business or join in for another business update in less than one else time so just stay with us.

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