eight pm in moscow i'm at très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story thousands of palestinians are marching across the west bank to support their leader's move to win recognition for their state at the u.n. there's an atmosphere of jubilation as government services and schools were closed to allow people out onto the streets and demonstrate our policy or as following the events. it's being high so it's right across the west bank is this to make sure that some twenty thousand people have taken to the streets of ramallah people took off work the schools closed early and many of the businesses shut down i'm standing in all manav which is really the focal point of the myler and in this area the businesses the shops of the restaurants have been opened so that people can really celebrate was almost a clone of the atmosphere now this does kick start three days of peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians and the stance that they will be holding in the run up to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas making their third 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 because he's in qana bills today some similar scenes unfolding in bethlehem and in nablus they wanted to isolated incidents of violence that did change it will have had the potential to modern day one in kalandia checkpoint not far from here it was also a little bit of violence in hebron the 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 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 for the israeli army says he has been preparing for violence for what many say is that almost in this paper ration it's almost encouraging if one can say that the violence to happen is simple month israeli army has been undergoing an operation called operation from the scene and this is all this that these peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians say they will fold could erupt into stained into violence but their ideas not only on

the palestinians the israeli army also has the eye on the rough and tough of 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 now we are hearing initial rumors that some kind of deal has been. struck behind the scenes we did not have confirmation that we did not have the details at the gate but what we do understand is that the palestinian president mahmoud abbas might on friday be still making his bid for statehood but instead of asking for the boat to happen at the same time he might delay that until potentially sometime next year if indeed this is the case it means that america can and is maybe pressure on the palestinians has come to basically to certain extent the showdown over 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

the u.s. promises to veto the move unless palestinians and israelis relaunch peace talks or choose marina portnoy has more from new york. u.s. president barack obama did address the international body and specifically address the issue of palestinian statehood the u.s. leaders said that peace will not come through statements or un resolutions and that the united nations should be encouraging palestine and israel to get back to the negotiation table this is basically a way that he was saying that the united nations no resolution no vote upcoming vote on allison and you and membership will help the situation in any way the united states has said outright that it will veto the palace today and membership to the united nations a campaign that's been going on for quite a while the majority of the u.n. member states hundred ninety three of them a majority of them do support palestine on its u.n. membership and statehood and that includes russia now russian's foreign minister sergei lavrov did address the press say that while it's preferred for palestine and

israel to get back to the negotiation table first the united states should not use its veto to block the aspirations of the palestinians or any other country and as we know the u.s. said that it will do so pallas palestinian leaders are expected to officially submit their request for u.n. membership this friday more heads of state will be addressing the united nations on their vision to bring peace and security to the world but the issue of palestine is one that's going to continue to dominate all the discussions u.s. president barack obama will be meeting one on one with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and shortly after he will be meeting one on one with palestinian president mahmoud abbas so he will be talking to both of them what many believe is that the u.s. is trying really hard to prevent the palestinian campaign for a u.n. membership or at least stall it so the u.s. would not be forced to cast a veto. for some perspective on this let's go to palestinian journalist years on

a neary thank you very much for joining us here on our t. know there are reports suggesting that president abbas has accepted a compromise and a vote could be postponed and the french president has proposed a peace agreement in one year how likely do you think this is. but i i won't believe it until i see it because last year the same thing happened when president obama promised and said that he would like to see a palestinian state a member of the united nations in a year from now from then that was september this year that is supposed to be september this year but nothing has happened and we've seen obama backing down from what he said years ago and and i don't really believe it as until i see it under for let's let's not forget that it will take it quite a few weeks to butt heads even months until the president of course is taken to the security council because i did there will be a lot of that a gracious between the members of the security council merely of course being the

permanent members in order to avoid an american veto as far as far as i see as far as i see it. and the way he thinks i think he's going to look ahead with his decision to submit the the course unless there is a very crystal clear timetable for resumption of negotiations and not only resumption of negotiations because we have seen negotiations for the sake of negotiations but we want talks for the sake of of reaching results and reaching results means a two state solution along the nine hundred sixty seven borders and this is what that isn't a bus needs to hear from president obama and certainly from prime minister netanyahu through obama after they have already met their while ago and i don't know what president obama was dead because in a bus when they meet in about three hours or what i was from now well in reference to that meeting with president obama and prime minister netanyahu many prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the palestinian appeal is a short cut that will not succeed do you think he's been given further guarantees of u.s. support. well i think the

real problem of the past at the scene is the be facing with israeli prime minister netanyahu is dates back to the first to the day when he was when he was when he appeared in the congress and then he delivered his historical speech and the nifty three or four minutes the members of the congress would just stand up and applaud what he said and that was a message from that then you know to obama to show and showing him that who is really the boss in washington and it seems that nothing else since then has been intoxicated with this kind of victory achieved in the congress and there's been a bit and it's been behaving in a very intense into a not listening to the palestinians not listening even to the american envoys who have reached who have come to the reason for so many times on hunt dozens of hours hundreds of hours of meeting them with better seen and israeli officers trying to bridge the gaps but netanyahu never meant any business and this is that the problem this is one of the reasons why a bus has gone through the united nations has been looking for is but there it is

redbook and that they are believed to be the no partner partner up to this moment and that is where it will present a bus it needs to go to the united nations because at the end of the day he wants to undermine the international legitimacy of the palestinian statehood and he wants to underline the international i would say terms of reference for negotiations and he said very clearly in his speech on friday last friday when he said i'm going to the united nations and the day after i come back here i will resume talks with israel is i will be prepared i'm always i thought it was being prepared for negotiations with israel is the problem is the lack of cooperation on the israeli side netanyahu went on with the settlement activities not only in the west bank but also in east jerusalem i'm signing up every chance i always are in it we want to hear it as we have and this is what can we have one more question i'd like to get in before you run out of time we've heard president obama reiterated his support for talks between israelis and palestinians as opposed to a u.n. bid for statehood citing security concerns for israel do you think palestinian sovereignty poses a danger to israel. not at all i think what israel

and it is in the best of is a sufficient interest to have a palestinian state alongside living side by side with israel based on the nine hundred sixty seven borders i think this is the only way to get into israel security and peace otherwise this conflict is going to go on and on and on and nobody knows what will happen in the days after president abbas disappears from the political arena he has been very cautious in terms of. calling on the palestinians to commit themselves only to nonviolent tactics of resistance to this raid is what would happen afterwards if the camp of moderates of moderates among the better singers are also of the arab would find out that this track of moderation visibly negotiations with israel is eroding nothing i bet there be room for move forward hardliners to take over and that would be a very dire prize for all of us palestinians and israelis alike to me and i hope this is not going to be the case in

a couple of months or years from now all right ellie assignee or any palestinian journalist thanks for a perfect. the u.s. is israel's big supporter of the un but its backing for the arab spring threatens to leave its main middle east ally in total isolation america got behind the muslim movement for democracy but the new regime in egypt has left israel picking up the pieces of broken relations our teams are nice and our house more. democracy has a price the people of egypt have spoken. their voices have been heard and egypt will never be the same and the new egypt embraced as a positive example of change in the arab world by the west is not the only one paying for what they did with the evolution bring us you know 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 protection 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 it this situation can get worse for israel not for us who are just starting to get stronger this is not a negative thing for us but a plus for. the protester 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. and coming up behind our republic my shelves emergency omar is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already served freedom and in the region the u.s. is stronger our. basic security threats as this new democracy is stuck in a spiral of uncertainty instability and sometimes chaos. benyamin netanyahu called the incident a near disaster being averted might have a lot more work to do to avoid catastrophe in the future this really should worry about look at what's happening in turkey and egypt two very important states in the area which used to have not only peace but friendship with israel today be at odds with israel and its number one friend seems to be having trouble keeping a balance between comes to promoting arab democracy and protecting israel security

it must occur to netanyahu and others at this point that certainly be americans are holding the v.a. says 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 you know 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 the 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 and he's now a r t cairo. stay with us here on our t.v. plenty more coming your way including the tough life of a junkie in afghanistan a look at how almost every family living in the world the biggest producer of opiates is dealing with the scourge of narcotics. but first 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 the u.s. and the euro zone lawmakers act quickly meanwhile ministers in debt ridden greece are set to discuss how to speed up budget cuts to secure vital i.m.f. and cash without the eight billion euro baloch the country will default next month there's a european commission inspectors plan to plan to return to iraq and to assess the progress in reducing debt financial writer peter build says the actions of europe's banks and a rapidly mounting debt is dragging the whole region down. unless the banks are helped out by their own governments what is called recapitalize in other words given new money or lent new money in order to beef up their capital base then of course there would be serious doubts about the credit worthiness of the banks and vassi is really i think what governments are most worried about because if the

banks of seem to fail and not prepared to learn to each other then we have another we have a repeat of the credit crunch where if banks don't lend to each other they also call lend to businesses and that is what then leads to recession or possibly even deep recession it's very difficult to trace who actually holds that debt for the trade that there are then insurance companies that in a sense have insured the banks against default with of a could actually afford to pay out is another question again again. don't so in the minds of investors in the minds of certainty of bondholders as to whether it's worth going on holding. commentary from financial writer peter build on his assessment of the eurozone debt woes. hundreds have gathered in kabul to mourn the assassination of former afghan president burhanuddin rabbani a key figure in current peace talks with the taliban was killed at 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 a province in the north east the killing was the latest in a string of high profile assassinations including the murder of the former pro president karzai is half brother in july much of the violence has been carried out by the taliban boosted by income from the drug trade which is flourishing afghanistan is the source of the vast majority of the world's heroin and critics say nato is turn a blind eye over the ten years it's been in the country or here were piskun of reports from a bull or drug abuse is rampant. 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 city with the office coming and staring at them and all the insane conditions we still rubbish

being thrown right here where we're standing right now this is just incredible seacat heroin opium marijuana it's all cooked mixed injected or smoked all right i'm on these piles of rubbish the rotten meat and an indescribable a rumor and not one policeman anywhere near but that not all who are told these people don't just come here to do drugs and many of them call the score pakistan and you know you can hear and we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't pay for the war on either the help of a study commissioned by the us state department shows each family has at least one drug user all pits 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 ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan interval cleans the markets global trade turnover has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark russia is one of the worst affected states where around eighty tons of heroin start to a new resettle in the country that i hear those 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 fire. drug production is not that 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 of ghana's stans drug traffic but since nato has no legal right to coordinate the funds are spent with very little positive results while officials

say the multi-billion dollar afghan drug network has the whole world and is a group you've got to skin off r t afghanistan. you can check out archie dot com for more on this and many other stories including this moscow's feral canine to banish to the dog house and a new purge by city hall but activists are baring their teeth find out more at r.t. dot com plus. tea party zombies must die the new video game that gives you the chance to gun down an undead sarah palin and her flesh eating republican cohorts find out more about archie dot com. the u.s. state of georgia has denied a final appeal for clemency for a prisoner on death row on the eve of his execution for the one thousand nine hundred nine murder of an off duty policeman no murder weapon was ever found and no d.n.a. evidence or fingerprints conclusively linked troy davis to the shooting the majority of witnesses have also since changed their testimony more than

a million people worldwide have signed petitions for clemency amnesty international says georgia's discredited the justice system and will execute an innocent man michael stark who's part of a campaign to end the death penalty thinks 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 choice 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 some justice is also a sham it's not justice it's a travesty and a choice favor in the senate with beleaguer 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 d.a. in the case or whether it's georgia 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 it and pushing to make sure that justice is served. russia's federation council the upper house of parliament has elected a new speaker former governor of st petersburg will take up the post valentino matter the ngo was unanimously almost unanimously approved with only one senator abstaining it's the first time in russia's history a woman has held the country's third highest elected office the new speaker had served in st petersburg for eight years the federation council post became vacant in may when speaker sergey moran of and just russia party leader was recalled by the st petersburg legislature. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe violence broke up with police and immigrants fleeing an overcrowded holding center on the italian island of lampedusa officers in riot gear used clubs against detain refugees making a break for freedom the island was overwhelmed by more than forty thousand tunisians and libyans fleeing unrest back home. to american men jailed in iran on

charges of spying have been freed after two years of incarceration with reports saying they have boarded a plane for home before bell was secured shane bauer and josh were tall had both been facing eight years in prison they say they mistakenly crossed into iran while trekking in northern iraq in july two thousand and nine. security forces fired mortars at anti-government protesters in the yemeni capital sanaa killing at least three fighting broke out fretting broke a cease fire agreed 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 a key demand of the demonstrators. yulia is up next with a business update stay with us here on r.t. . hello and

a very warm welcome to the business program while many european countries are struggling to contain the budget deficit russia is set to have a balanced budget this year in addition the finance minister says inflation will be a record low seven percent and in terms of growth alexa couldn't predict 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 riven news returned to pre-crisis levels only in about three years that's following a cutting taxes and low incomes in the energy sector despite toil progress is but we have no doubt that this year the budget will be met for the first time we will not be running a deficit. that's a look at the markets now oil prices a mixed as the market was torn between crowing expectations of more stimulus measures from the us federal. probe provisions lights which is currently trading at around eighty seven dollars per barrel while branches that one hundred twelve

dollars. stocks a little change so far as investors are still awaiting a fed reserve announcement that may signal more stimulus for the world's largest economy and moving on to europe here the markets finished on the right with banks leading the declines investors were cautious after wall street gave up its rally and as the greek debt crisis. traders we're also awaiting the outcome of a u.s. fed reserve meeting later today a heart widely expected to deliver some new stimulus for the u.s. economy. and finally here in russia the markets have slipped into negative territory at the close the r.t.s. was down about one percent while the most of this last point eight percent at the close let's look at some of the individual share its oil majors went down a. the closed door poil was flooded while it was snapped shut one point seven percent on the news the company was discussing the possibility of building

a joint one of the fundamental russia with china sea and. last two percent of the clothes that after a hike in pipeline transportation of gas for independent producers. straight for us. so they were flown. to the everybody is waiting. for the route of decision people generally accept the very attractive of the row over stalks. stokes. nobody is sure about the timing. this stage russia presents a buying opportunity. year to year. what would happen was next three to six months remains on the subject to be consumed. most people might be sitting in cash. for a little. news journalist say p.

plans to invest one billion euros that is business in russia c.i.s. of the next four here is the best software is also planning to revenues in the region to one billion euros by twenty fifteen that's a piece as a strong to catch the wave of an boom in russia spending on technology is expected to increase several fold in coming years. obvious problems in russia have just got little worse the minority shareholders in their companies russian venture to have doubled their compensation claim for me as attempt to form an alliance with all staffed now they want five billion dollars they put this down to a clear understanding of the damage caused by b.p. has failed just hope chest and explore the arctic with all snipped minority shareholders claim take a fee feel lost potential income by being locked out of the deal with russia's biggest draw from the court hearing

a shuttle to happen. that's all we have time for not don't forget for more stories you can head on to a web site r t dot com slash business will join me for another business update so do stay with us.

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eight thirty pm in moscow these here are t. headlines thousands of jubilant palestinians pour into the streets of the west bank in support of a bid for statehood at the u.n. government services and schools were closed so people could participate in the demonstrations. a standoff over palestinian sovereignty grinning at the un general assembly support for palestine could clash with the veto wielding us which is pushing for a relaunch of peace talks between israelis and palestinians. eurozone teeters under its rapidly piling debt with greece trying to speed up cuts before european commission inspectors descend the i.m.f. meanwhile is warning global finances are now more vulnerable than at any point since two thousand and eight. as palestine's bid for statehood at united.