midnight in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the shout of the showdown over palestinian statehood set to dominate the un general assembly with a majority of the international community including russia ready to support the bid but the u.s. says a palestinian state can only be achieved through talks with israel artie's maria port now has more from new york. at this moment the palestinians are still moving forward with their campaign for a un membership now this is despite the speech that was given by u.s. president barack obama obama addressed the international community saying that peace in the middle east can only come from direct negotiations between the palestinians and the israelis and the kind of statements or resolutions from the united nations would help a peace agreement obama encouraged all members of the general assembly to talk to the palestinians and the israelis and convince them to get back to the negotiation

table the majority u.n. members do support the palestinian bid for u.n. membership and statehood but the u.s. has publicly said it would be to go this move if it had to would cast a veto and that would the palestinians from becoming members of the united nations now russian foreign minister sergei lavrov did speak with the press saying that of course direct negotiations is what is wanted but the u.s. should not use its veto to block the aspirations of the palestinians or thousand of any other country so at this point the u.s. by casting a veto risks losing support and credibility among the arab world because remember president obama supported the tunisians the egyptians the libyans during the arab spring he has spoken out in support of those that are are demonstrating against the leaders of syria and he also mentioned last year that he supports an independent

and sovereign palestine so now to turn around and do something different and not stand by his words he's actually facing a quite a conundrum the u.s. president did meet privately with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and he will be meeting with the palestinian president president mahmoud abbas and from what we are being told there are plans in place to prevent any kind of diplomatic train wreck and that plan would be for the palestinian president to. officially submit a letter to the security council asking for u.n. membership but the security council wouldn't vote on it right away this would allow a little leverage it would allow time for the mideast quartet which is the european union russia the u.s. and the u.n. to try to convince israel and palestine to get back to the negotiation table and this way it doesn't put anybody in a bad position because if there's a vote in the general assembly israel will likely be isolated if the u.s. casts a veto it will face heavy criticism and among the arab world but if the president

of palestine backs away from this campaign he could face heavy criticism from all the palestinians and all of the states around the world that are supporting his campaign for u.n. membership so right now there are talks about how everyone can get out of this seething face but as of now people are working round the clock to see how the story will develop thousands of palestinians have been marching across the west bank to support their leader's move to win recognition for their state at the u.n. there's been an atmosphere of jubilation as government services and schools were allowed to it were closed to allow people to go out onto the streets and demonstrate his pulse leader has more. is this a major that some twenty thousand people have taken to the speech of my life people took off work the schools closed early and many of the businesses shut down on standing in all manaul 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 what most economists atmosphere now this does to kickstart

three days of peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians and the spots that they will be folding in the run up to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas making their bid 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 for the parties and carnivals 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 a little bit of violence in hebron both of those are people trying to control the israeli army certainly has been preparing for violence but what many say is that the most in this case the ration it's almost encouraging if one can say that the violence has happened the simple montes way the army has been undergoing an operation called operation from the scene and this is all this fear that these peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians say they will hold could erupt into standing to violence but their eyes not only on the palestinians the israeli army also has the i meet roughly half a million israeli citizens there were

a number of demonstrations by israeli state says 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. last week palestinian president mahmoud abbas said he would sit down at the negotiating table with the israelis once he had posted his statehood bid to the u.n. but palestinian journalist al yes an air he says it's impossible to negotiate with a partner that he thinks doesn't follow through on its promises. the real problem of the palace at the scene is a be facing with israeli prime minister in it and you know 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 nearly three or four minutes the members of the congress would just stand up and applaud what he said and that was the message from that then you know to obama to show and showing him that who is the really the boss in washington and it seems that the you know since then has been intoxicated with this kind of big to be 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 invoiced who have reached who have come to the region for so many times on dozens of i would say this is one of the reasons why i was going to the united nations will be looking for his thought that in his red book and at the you know believed to be the noble. up to this moment the problem is the lack of co-producer of this resides new video went on with the settlement activity not only in the west bank but also in these two islam blowing up every chance of reaching an agreement with a pet a scene is and this is they would. the u.s. is israel's main supporter at the u.n. but it's backing from the arab spring threatens to leave its main middle east ally in isolation the u.s. got behind the muslim movements for democracy but the new regime in egypt has left israel picking up the pieces of broken relations artie's and he said now it 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 for what they did the revolution bring us you know i feel doing good here times 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 wall was then built to protect the embassy but completely destroyed by protesters . this is what remains i doubt that but everything that behind all repercussion of emergency law is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already asserted freedom and in the region the u.s. is strongest ally facing security threats as this new democracy is stuck in a spiral. certainty instability and sometimes chaos. benyamin netanyahu

called the incident a near disaster being the birded might have a lot more work to do to avoid catastrophe in the future this is really shouldn't be 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 to be at odds with. and its number one friend seems to be having trouble keeping a balance comes to promoting arab democracy and protecting israel's security it must occur to netanyahu and others at this point that certainly be americans are holding the 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 chaining general the way they're handling things is that it's become too much about interests not 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 wants to live with and he's now a r t cairo. stay with us plenty more coming your way this hour 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 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. in euro zone lawmakers act fast meanwhile a greek official has announced the countries are ramping up budget cuts and planning to suspend more civil servants to secure vital i.m.f. and cash without the aid. euro bailout the country will default next month this is here a p and commission inspectors plan to return to athens to assess the progress in

reducing debt investment advisor patrick young thinks the greek economy may be going down the drain. greece is not in such a debt spiral that it's really well it's like one of those world war one aviation films that we've all seen where when they get the tail of the fighter suddenly he goes down the flee and spiraling into the ground unfortunately there's nothing the greeks can do at the moment until they've had a really really gruesome economic shock if they're going to maintain themselves in the euro and i personally don't know that they really can maintain themselves in the euro because i don't think the greek people are prepared for the fall in their cost of everything in the overall standard of living because it's absolutely horrific we are on the verge of seeing an witnessing in our lifetime the death of the west as a prosperous economic entity they've been in the ascendant for five hundred years and knowing after two hundred fifty years old basically being at the absolute peak

of their powers we see a situation where it really is crashing and burning it to has no tangible political leadership silvio berlusconi unfortunately has ended up looking like a liability in office and the people are rest of they're not willing to take the touts that they need to balance the budget the u.s. state of georgia is preparing to execute a death row inmate with lethal injection for the 1980's and murder of an off duty policeman the state has denied a final appeal for clemency for a tray davis on the eve of his execution no murder weapon was found and no d.n.a. evidence or fingerprints conclusively link him to the shooting the majority of witnesses have also since changed their testimony more than a million people worldwide have signed petitions for clemency clemency amnesty international said georgia has discredited the justice system and may end the life of an innocent man journalist and human rights activist deborah dupré thinks the. execution will be in itself a crime. this is unconscionable that the georgia board of pardons and paroles has

denied relief to troy davis that sending a man to death under such doubt about his guilt is just an out ready just man it puts every american at risk if this can happen to troy davis it could happen to anybody and the fact that he's been tortured for twenty years and that's what being in solitary confinement is just another violation that the united states is committing we have one hundred thousand people on death row that's big business for the prison industry one hundred thousand people are being tortured daily by being in solitary confinement and then the final execution it is just an atrocity that this country should be leading the world in showing that we do not do this. but in more stories on our web site r t dot com here's what's a click away right now. sporting hero and saint unanimous donations of an ice hockey player who died alongside his teammates in the recent russian plane crash

all revealed i don't more on our website and. more predators in russian waters especially in catch a two metre long shot of near at children's holiday camp in russia's far east all this and more a click away at r.t. dot com. russia's federation council the upper house of parliament has elected a new speaker a former governor of st petersburg is taking up the job valentino mad viendo was 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 sergei moran of a just russia party leader was recalled by the st petersburg legislature. that turning out of some other stories making headlines across the globe violence broke out between police and immigrants fleeing an overcrowded holding holding center on the italian island of lampedusa officers in riot gear used clubs against detain

need detain refugees making a break for freedom the island was overwhelmed by more than forty thousand tunisians and libyans fleeing unrest back home. two americans jailed in iran on charges of spying have been freed after two years of incarceration and are on a plane headed pretty arab state of oman before bell was secured shane bauer and josh fatah had both been facing eight years behind bars they say they mistakenly crossed into iran while trekking in northern iraq in july of two thousand and nine. security 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 people have died since sunday when a crackdown an anti regime protest was renewed all this despite reports the vice president may be considering a transfer of power which is a key demand of demonstrators. a powerful typhoon struck japan pounding the

tokyo area with heavy rain leaving at least thirteen people dead or missing and also plowed through the area around the fukushima nuclear plant which was at the center of a radiation disaster following a march tsunami across japan more than a million people were urged to flee their homes that are at risk of flooding and landslides earlier this month another storm devastated japan leaving some ninety people dead or missing. hundreds have gathered in kabul to mark the assassin to mourn the assassination of former afghan president burhanuddin rabbani a key figure in the current pull the 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 brought to his home province in the northeast the killing was the latest in a string of home high profile assassinations including the murder of president karzai half brother in july much of the violence was 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 has turned a blind eye over the ten years it's been in the country or he has more from kabul where 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 seat with the officer coming and staring at them and all these 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 room 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 whole pakistan and you know you can hear we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't pay for the war on other people to help us a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each family has at least one drug user all bits 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 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 or russia is one of the worst affected streets 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 fine. 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 revenues from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban. in the region meanwhile the international community spends billions of dollars to fight of ghana's stands drug traffic but since nato has no way to coordinate the funds are spent with very little positive results while officials say the. drug network has the whole world in its group you go to school. afghanistan. palestine's bid for a stated at the united nations the closer the world's eyes turn to israel r.t. spoke with a former head of the israeli secret service. who thinks solutions to peace in the

region do exist his insights coming up next in our it. what we now have i mean i am on an israeli politician and the former head of the bit the israeli secret service thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. for several years now you've advocated a two state solution between israelis and palestinians do you see the palestinian bid at the united nations as a stick in the statics and i'm not sure i think that. what would be the scenario

that we should see the next future there is the scenario immediately after a cry you know for public admission. probably is international community will create such a pressure for the breed of these sides to negotiate on peace the probably it would be a step on the road to two to two state solution why don't israelis embrace what some see as a real opportunity for peace when the palestinians do the clear they state most israelis to do does not feel secure as they look around and they see instability. threat. insecurity this is a where we from sleep we understand are what we see around us in the middle east whether it is what we see in iran or in syria or egypt or in your i don't know.

what will happen tomorrow in jordan or in saudi arabia is there anything of real substance for the palestinians in the u.n. appeal or is it more of their public relations effort it will change the perception of the international community probably lead to. economic diplomatic sanctions but it may change the perception of people use the region palestinians muslim arabs. in our neighboring countries. seeing that we have practically to understand that the daily will be totally different and how will israel react a day later. i have no idea first of all. most israelis will see in your secret.

we shall have to see what will happen and. what will be the palestinian reaction to the vote is seen by many not only as a vote of sympathy with the palestinians but also as a barometer of discontent with the israeli government in your opinion what should the israeli government do with the roughly half a million israelis that live in settlements for the gifted who does not know where you want to say there is no wind on earth that would bring give them it is true not only of. so i think that we have to jump ahead. to try to describe the idea of two states. practically a seems that in order to create this reality of two states in the future we should have to bring most of the surplus. to israel. we have to agree on sixty seven borders with is swap equal swap based on

parameters of demography security and and contiguity. we have to draw a very very clear red line but it's still an era for jews shall return only to the future state of palestine and jews sure return only to the to the state of israel what can bring peace to the region beasts will not come. with. no hope. if people will not believe that it is achievable. is there another two bit so the question should be what should be do what should be do or what can we do in order to create top mr i mean i alone thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you very much. this

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twelve thirty. in moscow these are your r.t. headlines thousands of jubilant palestinians for onto the streets of the west bank in support of a bid for statehood at the u.n. the government services and schools 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 the veto wielding u.s. which is pushing for a relaunch of peace talks between israelis and palestinians. and the eurozone teeters under its rapidly piling deads with greece trying to speed up the 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.