nine pm in moscow i match reza 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. it's an atmosphere of jubilation is government services and schools were closed to allow people out onto the streets and demonstrate artie's policy or has more. 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 space of a much less people took off work the schools closed early and many of the businesses shut down on standing in all minot which is really the focal point of the milo and in this area the businesses the shops and restaurants have been opened so that people can really celebrate what is most accountable atmosphere now this does kickstart three days of peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians and the sponsors they will be folding 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 the such celebrations across the west bank in hebron there were an estimated seventeen thousand people turning out for parties and connell's today some similar 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 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 but what many say is that we must 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 some esteem and this is all this shit that these peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians say they will fold could erupt into stained into violence but there i is not only

on the palestinians the israeli army also has the eye on the rough economy and it is wavy so it is just yesterday there were a number of demonstrations by israelis pitches across the west bank in the fifty's 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 do not have confirmation that we do not have the details of the date but what we do understand is that the palestinian president mahmoud abbas might on the fine day 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 waiting on the palestinians has come to basically to just certain extend. the showdown over palestinian statehood set to dominate the u.n. general assembly with a majority of the international community including russia are ready to support the bid however the u.s.

says a palestinian state can only be achieved through talks with israel or 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 a new 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 the 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 u.n. membership or at least stall it so the u.s. would not be forced to cast a veto. self-respect of on this we're joined by journalist and author option so you

live in london thanks for being with us so the french president has proposed a timetable for israeli palestinian peace within a year meanwhile there have been rumors suggesting that president abbas has accepted a compromise to postpone the vote what do you think will happen tomorrow. well president about as for me in folding very easily we know from the palestine papers how he folded so easily during negotiations but the really disgraceful acting here is the united states at least statehood would mean that. the state a part of your take israel to the i.c.c. for war for what that's worth so do you think the us support for israel at the u.n. makes it a good choice as a mediator in the priest in the peace process i'm guessing you don't but go ahead and a lot aren't exactly the answers in that question the bombers disgraced himself at the u.n. today by saying that the u.n. the peace doesn't come through things at the u.n. through resolutions of the u.n. probably not for america usually it's war that comes through resolutions of united

states proposes at the u.n. when he when george mitchell his peace old boy resigned and he sent susan rice to veto a resolution on israeli settlements we know where obama's money comes from the government does go there's a back and bombers proved himself and the united states now it will be hated right across the arab world and i do hope the american government realizes quite what the consequences for the united states personnel united states people all around will be for what they're doing right now regardless of whether about folds of oil well if the vote does happen what do you think the fallout will be. well back in the forty's the soviet union used to veto veto things and the united states where the unilateral decision to say we will not veto applications or join the united nations so they will be broken that rule already some say of course palestine. it satisfied

the montevideo accords of water is that this peace process so-called peace process we know is you know wants and we know what the united states wants out of it it wants well it's government it's congressman they want to get paid by zionist zionist organizations but as i said the consequence is dreadful for u.s. interests and for the european union i mean they don't seem to even have a good solution at least a gay lobby in russia seems to be saying the u.s. should not use its veto what president sarkozy said the talks were doomed to failure of side set preconditions for each other what do you think about that i think president sarkozy's position on these matters again very much on that side it doesn't bode very well for all these attempts that joining the arab spring whether it's for his petrol companies to french companies we don't know but it is interesting that the arab spring all those people those pro-democracy protesters

protesting the dictatorship backed by the west of course the united states will be watching all of this very closely the average person in the street in the west bank or in gaza or in ramallah will be watching obama's speech about peace not coming through the u.n. very carefully and you see a return to peace talks between the israelis and palestinians at some point as obama ends are cozier are urging. i think one would hope that a more unified palestinian opposition will emerge out of this with hamas and the palestinian authority coming together as they have been they've been having talks and let's not forget the egyptian government now not just a complete patsy of the united states power roles are changing now in any peace talks that happen israel is seeing itself more and more and more isolated right journalist and author option thanks for your perspective. the u.s. is a big supporter of israel at the u.n.

but its backing from the arab spring friends to leave its main middle east ally in isolation the u.s. got behind the muslim movement for democracy but the new regime in egypt has left israel picking up the pieces of broken relations are nice and our way has more from cairo. 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. 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 the ship intended to be 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. was then built to protect the embassy but completely destroyed by protesters. this is. what remains i doubt that but ever come up behind our report card shelves emergency all is now being enforced

here in egypt suffocating it's already served freedom and in the region the u.s. is strongest ally facing 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 israel should worry about look at what's happening in to give 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 the 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 here i think with americans and with the western civilization kennington or all the way they're handling things is that it's become too much about interests not not really about 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 an afghan junkie a look at how almost every living in the world's 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 its most serious since two thousand and eight the lending giant is pessimistic over world growth unless the

u.s. and euro zone lawmakers act quickly meanwhile a greek official has announced the country ramping up budget cuts and planning to suspend a more civil servants if the vital i in that end with to secure vital i.m.f. and without the eight billion euro bailout the country will default next month this is european commission inspectors plan to return to athens to assess the progress in reducing the debt financial writer peter build says the actions of europe's banks at a rapidly mounting debt may be dragging down the whole region. unless the banks are helped out by their own governments what is called recapitalized in other words given new money or lent new money in order to beef up their capital base and 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 way banks don't lend to each other they also call

lend to businesses and that is what then leads to recession or possibly even deeper it's very difficult to trace who actually holds that debt relief and if you can trace that there of an insurance companies that in a sense have insured the banks against the full width of a could actually afford to pay out is another question again again. don't some of the minds of investors in the minds of certainly of bondholders as to whether it's worth going on holding. commentary from financial writer peter build on his assessment of the euro zone's debt crisis. hundreds have gathered in kabal to mourn the assassination of former afghan president of bernadine 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 brought to his home and province in the northeast the killing was the latest in

a string of high profile assassinations including the murder of president karzai his half brother in july much of the violence has been carried out by the taliban who stood by income from the drug trade which is flourishing in the country afghanistan is the source of the vast majority of the world's heroin critics say nato has turned a blind eye over ten years it's been in the country artist there are piskun of reports from kabul where drug abuse is rampant. the penalty for drinking beer in kabul is sixty whips on the back publicly it is a very traditional muslim society or is it there are dozens of people if not more for doing drugs right there under this bridge in the center of the city with little bits coming and staring at them in all these insane conditions we still rubbish being through me right here where we're standing right now this is just incredible to see. heroin marijuana it's all cooked mixed injected or small

to write a mole on these piles of rubbish rotten meat and an indescribable room and not one policeman anywhere near look that's not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs many of them told us. and we don't have any we don't have any kind of thing to do and you can't say for the war going to have any bombs to help out a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each family has at least one drug user will. they are 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 in 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 state with around eighty tons of heroin thought to a newly settle in the country that i know 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 find this a bit strange given the fact that a large part of 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 afghan drug network has the whole world in its grip

you've got to skin off r t kabul afghanistan. plenty more stories for you to choose from on our website r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now sporting hero and saying to be anonymous donations of hockey player yvonne to cut go tragic victims of the recent russian plane crash that wiped out an international ice hockey team find out more on our website plus. more predators in our water those fishermen catch a two meter shark near a children's holiday camp in russia's far east all that and more at our team dot com. the u.s. state of georgia is preparing to execute a death row inmate using lethal injection for the one thousand nine hundred nine murder of an off duty policeman the state has denied a final appeal for clemency for troy davis on the eve of his execution no murder weapon was ever found and no d.n.a. evidence or fingerprints conclusively linked to davis to the shooting the majority of witnesses have also since since changed their testimony more than a million people worldwide have signed petitions for clemency and amnesty

international says georgia has discredited the justice system and will end the life of an innocent man michael stark part of a campaign to end the death penalty he says the execution itself will be a crime. 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 the senate with beleaguer of the democratic party in the senate called for actual resistance among the corrections 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 the job valentino mad viendo was almost unanimously to go in the end senator abstain 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 federation council post became bake it in may when speaker sergey mironov adjust 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 out between east and immigrants fleeing an overcrowded holding center on the italian island of lampedusa officers in riot gear used clubs against detain refugees who made a break for freedom the island has been overwhelmed by more than forty thousand tunisians and libyans fleeing on a rest back home. eighty two american men jailed in iran on charges of spying have

been freed after two years behind bars the release of the men had been postponed because a judge required to sign the release forms was on holiday before bell was secured shane bauer and josh fatah had both been facing years in prison they say they mistakenly crossed into iran while trekking in northern iraq in july of two thousand and nine. here you forces fired mortars at anti-government protesters in the yemeni capital sanaa killing at least three fighting broke a cease fire agreed overnight after three days of bloodshed almost seventy have died since sunday when a crackdown on anti-rejection protests was renewed all this despite reports the violence reports the vice president is considering a transfer of power which is a key demand of the protesters. be back with the headlines in a few minutes after the business update with yulia stay with us. hello and

a very warm welcome time to delve into the world of business and while many european countries are struggling to contain that 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 could run projects russia will have fully recovered from the two thousand and eight financial 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 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 procedures but we have no doubt that this year the budget will be met for the first time we will not be running a deficit. let's have a look at the markets now oil prices a mix does the market was torn between early expectations of more stimulus measures from the us federal reserve and gloomy i.m.f. growth provisions why it's we're just currently credit at eighty seven dollars

a barrel while branches at one hundred twelve dollars a barrel stocks a little change so far as investors are still awaiting a federal reserve announcement that may signal more stimulus for the world's largest economy. and if we turn to europe the markets finished in the road with banks leading the decline it's investors were cautious after wall street gave up its rally and as the credit debt crisis lingers on traders we're also awaiting the outcome of a u.s. fed reserve meeting later today as you've heard it is widely expected to deliver some new stimulus for the u.s. economy. and finally here in rushed the markets slipped into negative territory at the close the r.t.s. was down zero point eight percent about one percent while the my six slipped into red point eight percent at the close last. look at some of the individual share moves on the my six oil majors were down at the close gas from last one percent

across net chat about two percent on the news the company is discussing the possibility of building a joint world refining where in russia with china soon not part of a tech trading lower offshore hike and pipeline transportation costs but gas for independent gas producers not the same fashion coffee. tray for us. will do they were flat. today everybody is. waiting for for the rule of the people generally the very attractive but the row over stalks circus. folks. nobody is sure about the timing. of this stage russia presents the buying opportunity longer to move through the year to year. what would happen over the next three to six months remains the subject to be consumed. most people might be sitting on cash. for

a little. time in the news journalist safety plans to invest one billion euro's and its business in russia and c.i.s. so the next four years the business software forum is also planning to boost revenues from the region to one billion euros by twenty fifteen as he says it's trying to catch the wave of an i.t. boom in russia spending uptick knology is expected to increase several fold in coming here. maybe as problems in russia have just gotten a little worse the minority shareholders in the company's russian venture and cave b.p. have doubled their compensation claim for the attempt to form an alliance with or snapped 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 send explore the arctic of course that minority shareholders claim to. b.p. lost potential income by being locked out of the deal with russia's biggest oil from the first court hearing a shuttle to happen. so we have time for now for more stories you can log onto our

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nine thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlight thousands of jubilant palestinians pour into the west bank streets 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 brewing at the un general assembly support for palestine could clash with a veto holding us that's pushing for a relaunch of peace talks between israelis and palestinians. and the eurozone teeters under its rapidly piling debts with greece trying to speed up cuts before european commission inspectors descend the i.m.f. meanwhile is warning global finances are more vulnerable at any point since two thousand and eight. next madness in the motor city in a ghost town the first part.