one am in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story palestine's bid for recognition is taking center stage at the u.n. general assembly in new york more than one hundred thirty countries including russia have already said they would support the move for statehood this despite repeated warning from the u.s. that it would veto any such attempt or he's marina portnoy has the latest. at this moment the palestinians are still moving forward with their campaign for a u.n. membership now this is despite the speech that was given by u.s. president barack obama obama addressed the international community saying that 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 veto 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 on 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 saving face but as of now a lot of people are working around the clock to see how the story will develop while palestinian leaders are battling for u.n. recognition at the u.n. thousands of palestinians have poured onto the streets across the west bank in support schools businesses and government offices all shut down during the day marked by this fear of celebration or his pulse leader has the latest from ramallah . at this tomato that some twenty thousand people have taken to the space of my life people took off work the schools closed earlier many of the businesses shut down on standing and all manav which is really the focal point of them i live and in this area the businesses the shops and the restaurants have opened so that people can really celebrate what's almost

a clone of the atmosphere now this doesn't kick start three days of peaceful demonstrations of the palestinians on the spot says 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 as celebrations across the west bank in hebron there were an estimated seventeen thousand people turning out for parties in qana bills and 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 able to control the israeli army so he has been painful violence but what many say is that almost in this paper ration it's almost encouraging if one can say that the violence has happened the simple montes maybe army has been undergoing an operation called operation from the scene and this is all this shit that these people 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 i have

a 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 theirs and. us president has already said palestinians do deserve a state but this would only come through direct talks with israel the palestinian journalist oh yes he says the jewish state's influence stretches far into capitol hill. the real problem of the palace 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 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 envoy 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 robot not far from this up to this moment the problem is the lack of cooperation of these reside new video went on with the settlement activity not only in the west bank but also in east jerusalem blowing up every chance of reaching an agreement with a pet a scene is and this is the what could. the u.s. is israel's main supporter at the u.n. but it's backing for the arab spring friends to leave its main ally in the middle east in isolation and u.s. got behind the muslim movement for democracy but the new regime in egypt has left israel picking up pieces of its broken relations arteries and he said now explains . 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 revolution bring us you know i feel doing good there are 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 ball wasn't built to protect the embassy but completely destroyed by protesters. this is what remains i doubt that but f.m.'s behind our report conch shells emergency law is now being enforced here in egypt suffocating it's already sir good 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 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 look at egypt two very important states in the area which used to have not only peace but friendship with israel today be at odds with is and it's number one friend seems to be having trouble keeping a balance 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 at 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 the 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 humanity or about

anything else it's really become about interests and when interest is the main driver of things become messy and egypt could become a mess that israel will have to live with and he's now a r.t. cairo. plenty more coming your way this hour 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. 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 u.s. and eurozone lawmakers act fast meanwhile a greek official has announced his countries are ramping up budget cuts and pledging to send more civil servants to secure vital i.m.f. and e.u. cash without the eight billion euro bailout the country will default next month this as the european commission inspectors plan to return to athens to assess

progress in reducing debt investment advisor patrick young fix the greek economy maybe going down the drain. greece is now in such a debt spiral that it's really well it's like one of those world war one if the asian films that we've all seen where when they get the tail of the fighter suddenly he goes down in flames firing into the ground and 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 dog 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 and we're on the verge of seeing and 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 noise after two hundred fifty years of basically being at the absolute peak of

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paroles has denied really to troy davis that sending a man to death under such doubt about his guilt is just an out ready just now and it would say 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. plenty more stories online at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now sporting hero and st unanimous donations of an ice hockey player who died alongside his teammates in the recent russian plane crash revealed by the war on our website plus. more predators in russian waters as fishermen catch

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tunisians and libyans fleeing on a rest back home. to americans jailed in iran on charges of spying have been freed after two years of incarceration and are on a plane headed to the arab state of oman on route to the u.s. before bell was secured shane bauer and josh fattal had both been facing eight years in prison they'd mistakenly cross the they say they mistakenly crossed into iran while trekking in northern iraq in july of two thousand and nine. security forces have fired mortars at anti-government protesters in yemen's capital sanaa killing at least three fighting broke a cease fire agreed on tuesday after three days of bloodshed almost seventy five people have died since sunday when a crackdown an entire regime protest was renewed all this despite reports the vice president is considering a transfer of power a key demand from demonstrators. and a powerful typhoon has hit japan pounding the tokyo area with heavy rain leaving at

least thirteen people dead or missing but also plowed through the area around the fukushima nuclear plant that was the center of a radiation catastrophe after a tsunami in march across japan more than a million people words to flee their homes that are at risk of flooding and landslides earlier this month another storm devastated the island leaving some ninety people dead or missing. 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 his home by a suicide bomber who had explosives hidden in his turban a special ceremony will be held at the presidential palace before the body is brought to its home province in the northeast the killing was the latest in a string of high profile assassinations including the murder of president karzai as half brother in july much of the violence had been carried out by the taliban boosted by income from the drug trade which is flourishing afghanistan is the source of the majority of the world's heroin by far and critics say nato has turned

a blind eye over the ten years it's been in the country or he's ever a piskun of reports from kabul where drug abuse is rampant. the penalty for drinking. sixty whips on the bank publicly it is a very traditional muslim society where he is that the road goes a little if not more for doing drugs right there under this bridge in the center of the city with little peace coming and so. hearing that. 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 home

pakistan and. we don't have any jobs we don't have any kind of thing to do if you can 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 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 state with around eighty tons of heroin thought to a new resettle in the country that i hear those words it's tragic that despite the enormous resources nato has put into afghanistan including military force drug

production is just phenomenal moreover the head of nato military committee personally told me fighting drug production is not their goal there was no such directive that. 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 dry. traffic but since nato has no legal way to coordinate the funds are spent with very little positive results while officials see the multi-billion dollar drug network as the whole world and it's a group you go to school or kabul afghanistan. there is news up next as palestine's bid for statehood at the u.n. looms closer the world's eyes turn to israel r.t. he spoke to the former head of the israeli secret services ami ayalon who thinks solutions to peace in the region do exist his insights up next.

no. let me i have been 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 star action i'm not sure i think that. what would be the scenario

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

will happen tomorrow in jordan or is there anything of real substance for the palestinians in the u.n. appeal or is it more other public relations effort it will change the perception of the international community probably it will be translated to sanctions economic diplomatic sanctions but it will change the perception of people is a region of the stimulants muslim arabs. in our neighboring countries. a 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 that.

i see that. 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 the gifted who does not know where you want to say there is no wind on earth would dream of 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 soon as that in all of two create this reality of two states in the future we should have to bring most of the surplus. to is that. we have to agree on sixty seven borders with is swap equal swap based on

parameters of demography security and contiguity. we have to draw a very very clear red line. for jews shall return only to the future state of palestine and jews should return only to the to the state of israel why has the israeli international campaign against the un but failed especially when it was just a few months ago when israel seemed internationally to win the fight against stopping the second fertility tend to break the blockade on gaza i sings that most israelis do not understand. the war that we are fighting to assume that we are acting we are behaving as if we are fighting a conventional war we do not understand that the are fighting our symmetry of war which is totally different and what we are doing we are winning every bottle and we

are losing the war what can bring peace to the region. will not come with. no hope. if people will not believe that it is achievable. they will not achieve it 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. culture is that so much different and there's a huge music to share the power to find those the friends turkey in the

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a hotel retreat. one thirty am in moscow the zero. 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 brewing at the un general assembly support for palestine could with the veto holding us which is pushing for a relaunch of peace talks between israelis and palestinians. the eurozone teeters under 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 now more vulnerable at any point since two thousand.