palestine awaits in anxious anticipation the first president to submit a formal request for you where no recognition but so many hope it gives way to anger the determination of the u.s. to veto the bit. of a double dip the global recession intensify in the wake of thursday's huge markets plunge that spared no one all the way from asia to debt ridden europe. along with the embattled euro the e.u. strategy over border free travel is undermined as romania and bulgaria are denied a highly anticipated entry into the schengen zone. and as the u.s. expands its network of drone races in east africa to target al qaeda critics highlighted the civilian cost of the unmanned planes to fight on its star.

is now just after five pm here in moscow this is r.t. with me rory sushi anticipation is building among palestinians ahead of a formal request for u.n. recognition expected to be submitted later on friday first despite a u.s. promise to veto it reports that the security council won't hold a vote on the issue for quite some time. now reports on the emotions and expectations from the west bank. tensions have increased. between israel and ramallah the army is making its way here keyboarder point now for the last few minutes have been flowing in that the army be almost of course on the hit. my.

police the army as well as the general police everybody you can hear in battle and no one's quite sure what's actually going to happen if we go a little bit closer kerry because they don't have a helmet but you know you get a real think of what is happening here there you have the mountain for python can his role of course pulling off a lot of the way thanks very fearful that it will be right in demonstrations wanted a day in the history of palestine now all eyes are on what is happening with the palestinian president later this evening he'll be making next but he'll also be giving a speech in a way to ramallah the crowd are excited and head up what certainly is and historic moment the tensions are running high just a short time ago a youth took to the stage in my mind as you can see we're starting to get stones we're going to move a little bit closer to the white ether we don't actually get it. but i've got a plane if youngster and american flags are not only of the anger here against israel but the anger was also against the americans we center of the conflict of course the whole issue of land the question of this woman with some heart

a million israelis live is very important in trying to understand the conflicts because people on both sides of the border and this is what i did. take a taylor has been farming land deep in the hebron hills for more than twenty years he says this land is his and he has the papers to prove it we are the only people in the world that have got approval you want a document that these. you know. they're going to go by. but not so russia makes the same claim he insists the land has been in his family for some eight hundred years now this is the closest he can get to it and it's eating him up watching jacob. it's a very hard feeling but what can i do. resist with force it's not that the surplus is was it something the army will come immediately and arrest us. the west bank is full of people like jacob and nasser israelis and palestinians both claim claim to

the same piece of land. almost weekly angry scenes like this dominate the landscape and especially now as palestinians head off to the united nations the clashes are becoming more violent it's one thing to declare a state and another to determine where its borders will be and this fence cuts through your calls farm meaning that right now i am standing inside palestine and as i walk through here. i'm now in israel and for as long as the borders remain disputed israel's taking advantage and sending its citizens to settle the west bank so it has a stronger argument not to give it up but it's storing up problems like your one and his wife yell who are now at the center of a major court battle it's not between israelis and palestinians it's a battle between israelis and israelis would never was over the world where both

people are both hopeful. both the unions for. the far and. cried too hard you know. that love the. eleven years ago the israeli government not only gave you her number slanted farm but helped him as much as it could he was the only is really in the area at the time but now the same government wanted him here has given half his farm to new state as it's sending his way and believes his wife ideology is only part of the story i don't believe these are a management problem worse than a little more fear you can almost say that for them it's american only in making money and greed in real estate development etc whatever the reasons israel says it won't recognize a palestinian state declared at the united nations which means even if the un rules that these rocky hills are part of palestine these clashes will in hindsight be a warning of what was to follow policy r.t.

in the headline hills. you can follow twenty four seven here on r.t. r t pollack slinger is following the situation of the palestinian israeli border and is sending the updates on our r.t. twitter feed or having a look at her father's office right now in one of her messages she says the showdown continues at colombia checkpoint of the israeli palestinian forder as police move closer to the gate where palestinian youths are throwing stones i don't follow us or arts he underscored krom constant updates. by to discuss the situation further than i do i live by the to charles cogan from the harvard kennedy school and also a former cia officer serving in the directorate of operations there and also headed the near east and south asia division good to see you today both israel and the u.s. are officially officially supportive of the two state solution as it comes to the palestinian bid for statehood at the u.n. or as much of the world supports it israel and america are fiercely against it why

is that. well it's well known personal opinion the u.s. position on this issue this week is very unfortunate this has become a sort of theater of the absurd the u.s. wants the two parties to go back to the negotiating table when one of the parties keeps grabbing land but is supposed to belong to the territory of the other party that is the palestinians so this is a nonstarter especially as regards the netanyahu government being in power which is not inclined to yield after all netanyahu has twice. floated president obama on the settlements issue and on the borders issue well i mean it's been fairly common knowledge since obama came into office that the relationship between netanyahu and obama has been rather at times that as you were saying you should have a settlements a moment ago it's certainly seems to be stalling the process here what is the

actual intention of the israeli leadership here. well i think a good many people would agree with me that the intention of the israeli leadership is just to continue stalling until eventually. the west bank remains under israeli control with the problem with that with that is that what are they going to do with all these palestinians who remain inside they can't push them over the river into jordan so you're going to eventually have in majority arab population in israel and i think it says it's a tragic lack of strategic vision on the part of the israeli that they don't see this happening or they don't care just as we saw about twenty four hours or so ago the israeli leader benjamin netanyahu addressing the united nations and during his speech a group of u.s. senators stood up in front of all of those at the u.n. and applauded what he had to say how how far can u.s. support go for israel and is there any solution

a situation rather that you can imagine with the u.s. would actually say no. the problem is that in the us congress and we saw that when netanyahu gave a speech there is it all b.s. congressmen and senators there are three of the jewish votes in their constituencies and you know you noticed that almost all of stood up and applauded many many times netanyahu speech in which he rejected the whole idea of. stopping settlements in the west bank it's a very pessimistic situation unless there's sort of overwhelming pressure causes netanyahu to change tack and i don't think that's going to happen the palestinians are likely not to push for the immediate vote of the u.n. on the issue might be delayed for a month so there are some that say by delaying the vote it prevents washington from egypt leave vetoing the pope and how how do you interpret this. well i think the palestinians are anxious not to burn our bridges with us because of congress who

are already talking about cutting off funds to the palestinian authority but i think the meaning of what is happening this week at the u.n. is that the palestinian issue has been removed or is being gradually been moved from the canopy of the u.s. response to ship because it hasn't worked and they've tried to internationalize the problem in a sense they've been clearly successful because they've put this on the world stage of this problem this forty four year old occupation which is very onerous all right i thought and charles koch and there from the harvard kennedy school and a former cia officer many thanks indeed it's a pleasure. we will of course continue our coverage of palestine's bid for independence so do stay with us here on r.t. for all the updates also from artie's paulo she's on the palestinian israeli border as well as the latest from the un general assembly in new york of course you can always get all the developments and analysis on our web site come.

clashes between pro and anti-government forces in yemen have intensified with the death toll from five days of violence now topping one hundred that's the country's president returns to the capital three months after surviving an assassination attempt. who underwent a medical treatment in saudi arabia has called for a cease fire upon his return he says dialogue is the only way to end the bloodshed the country has been plunged into chaos and february when protests demanding an end to subways thirty three year old rule erupted to discuss the situation in yemen and are joined from madrid by dhaka by rami kaila a senior fellow in the middle eastern studies of the international and strategic relations thank you for joining us today the violence rages on in yemen and yet all the focus at the united nations is on libya and syria why is that yemeni situation going on most are noticed. well i think that when it comes to the truth of the ongoing evolution xin the reason we've seen in the recent past some

countries that are the first and countries of course but also some arabic countries wanted to build on what they called the success of the military operations in libya and in this case i would say that they had to try to find the kind of weakest elements of the regional scene on which they could try to build or to come with some further pressure as and in this case i mean obviously we have a very very violent situation in yemen we could also talk about but i mean for example which is also submitted to sirte such a configuration or such a situation but in the same time both countries seem to be protected by one of their regional ally which is so dear a goal of course so in this case i think that the weakest element was to be found in another country which was syria in particular and this is how we've so we see we've seen the pressure has been built on syria and that's by

a lot of means essentially rhetorical means but also legal means we can see that some countries seem to be preparing if not to say a military intervention in syria because i think it's too early to think about it i'm sorry i mean it's just you know when you mention the possibility of a military intervention but moment ago you mentioned saudi arabia is playing a supportive role in this conflict how to saudi arabia back into this. i think the saudi arabia is a very key ally to the united states in the middle east and we know and it's nothing new i mean you could we could you could go back to fifty years ago to see that when it came to the american strategy in the middle east in particular well the saudis had they were to say i mean they were taken into consideration so considering that saudi arabia doesn't want anybody to intervene in the yemeni internal affairs. considering also that rain is an important ally to the united states but sea is also and contrary to interests of saudi arabia is attached in

this context we can see that with the ongoing serious situation in syria we also the violence is there are going on in syria it seems that some countries i would include the united states but also france and the u.k. and so on want to build a pressure further pressure on the syrian regime when you all do you talk and when you talk about western powers are building the pressure on the syrian regime let's address the issue now that if the violence in yemen continues what measures from the international community do you expect that we heard the british prime minister david cameron saying just about twenty four hours ago the united nations that the intervention in libya could serve as a template for other forms of intervention could a libyan style military intervention be on the cards nothing yemen well i think that on the shore. it would be hard to to to assist or to see any kind of military intervention from the western powers and this is why a lot of them are still talking about the u.n. and about the necessity for the u.n.

to come with some hard decisions or harsh sanctions when it comes to some countries are the reason why because i think that all these countries are problematic they don't have enough means i mean financial means to support their new war in the region we shouldn't forget that afghanistan is already mobilizing a lot of their means we should add to that that when it comes to yemen you have a lot of threats that could be very very risky to the western powers had they had to intervene militarily in the in the country and the same of cures in syria where we can see that a lot of countries would be likely would like to see bashar assad fall but the problem with that if they go by themselves and really to rate the leading scenario they will be face to huge problems to communitarian sectarian tensions and so on and this is why i think that they have these official moral principles when they say we want the violence to stop but in the same time we can see the there are not strong enough to read to reach what the curate in libya. mikhail

a senior fellow of the middle eastern issues of the paris based who'd been a national and if you take relations or anything else. thank you try to yemen is also the main subject of discussion on the latest edition of crosstalk with peter labelle program coming your way later in the day but for now it's a quick look of what you can expect. between just compare and contrast libya and yemen yes we would like to see and not fly zone but we don't want any aircraft to be actually. hitting people or you know some sports in the ground simply wrong. key principle here is the people who do the fighting get through the running of the country afterwards we've seen it again and again if it's one hundred first airborne or u.s. a.f. or the arias or the french air force they get to control the country afterwards if the yemenis themselves like the egyptians like the tunisians whatever the political differences amongst them they're the people who get to do the liberating and they're the people who get to run their country afterwards.

right across the office here in little over two hours on r.t. rating agency moody's has downgraded eight greek banks and due to the deteriorating economic situation and the debt ridden country that follows two straight days of bad trading on the global markets something that's about renewed fears of a second wave of economic recession well financial pundit max keiser host of the kaiser report here on our to you says that it's the banks that are to blame for the current financial turmoil. it is very let all anyone can do to solve the global all debt crisis that hit the wall back in two thousand and eight and it's still unwinding it's not a recession in the classic sense of labor and products and manufacturing that's not the case at all this is a balance sheet recession in other words the banks principally their balance sheets are collapsing and it's causing the overall economy to collapse because over the

past ten to fifteen years the real economy is now dominated by the banking industry which controls more than fifty percent of the u.s. a u.k. and global economy depending on how you account for their activities so when the banks' balance sheets collapse or they're doing now it collapses the global balance sheet and a continuation of the global depression anyone asking for a bailout is asking let's say the i.m.f. for a bailout and the i.m.f. is bankrupt the world bank is bankrupt and all they do is float more debt to pay off these local country's debt it's a huge debt polities game it's a huge debt pyramid scheme nobody has the equity to cover the debt the point is that without banking reform without locking up the corrupt bankers there will be no forward progress and this enormous debt burden will continue to cause a wide scale poverty and economic chaos throughout the world and i will have more on the current financial turmoil business person about some of the sky before the retreat with a preview i didn't hear what you have for us today well when the half hour was

still left on the clock for friday's trading session of the russian markets are heading for the worst week since november two thousand and eight with the my sixth analogy is heading in negative territory four to five percent this hour to me too many thanks indeed we will see you in about four or five minutes time. but two youngest members of the european union romania and bulgaria have been denied entry to the border free zone a new interior minister has failed to vote on the issue due to harsh opposition from the netherlands and finland so to speak is already turning better with romania blocking the import of all dutch flowers it's a move described as an old school for blackmail by the netherlands. and in our looks into why the e.u. is reconsidering its core principle of borderless travel. the second zone is a european dream come true a continent without borders freedom to travel live and work across twenty five

countries but attempts by belgariad and rumania to join have been a wake up call some are now convinced it's time to shut up shop organized crime will also enter through through the gates offer him with me here in bulgaria also illegal immigrants through turkey will come to bulgaria and romania and then have free access to the showing in countries which is not good organisation in europe has to protect itself and this is more important than people from bulgaria or romania travelling with a visa and having border control it's a question that's more relevant now than ever france and italy fell out earlier this year when hard pressed italy issued more than twenty thousand refugees from the arab spring with six month residency permits giving them permission to travel anywhere in the e.u. both countries now want internal border controls strengthened and those are just the legal migrants but there's also the question of illegal immigration bulk areas

access should to saying it was delayed when its border with turkey was found to be full of holes if you have countries. who are not doing a lot. of musically protect their borders against and for. the from from the illegal immigrants think of. greece this not only reasonable to put. these contradictions if you want them to be for freedom of danish any peace for all parties who previously voiced concerns about bulk area andrew manias entry into schengen they cite corruption and crime as the main reasons and agree with france and italy that the scheme should be reformed denmark has already introduced border controls i think we just need to be fragged and realize that. it has led to a raise of criminal activity nationally and knowing that the bell admitted in

romania and bulgaria you have to be very naive not to see that this race will be even higher if if the border control was abolished true this country as well although paul kariya and rumania all recognize to have improved border controls and members also want them to work on crime prevention inside their own borders opening them up and not quite apart from the destabilizing effects of yet more mass migration in an unsteady europe maybe in the e.u. one specifically worries about remain and area trying to join the european passport free zone but if the widening of the agreement as a whole in essence it means trusting the. us to make their borders your borders and many wonder if this is wise especially at a time when the rest in the arab countries means thousands of north africa and

middle eastern refugees have already found their way to europe no rabbits are to eat brussels corrado time out here to get involved here in r.t. we are eager to hear what you think about the future of the passport free zone a good article called cast your vote let's have a look at how. the opinions are fairly divided at the moment of bringing up the pie charts in our party almost equal numbers of you are convinced that the borderless zone will grow and that the very idea of a free travel zone will die along with the notion of a united europe almost fifteen percent believe an open and zone within the e.u. is a threat to security and must be abolished and just a little less the same you countries should not be admitted to the schengen zone until the european economy recovers a little snow if you think of r t v dot com. the us is deploying a new drone bases in eastern africa to intensify attacks on al qaeda operatives but while the policy is saving american troops it has already resulted in thousands of

civilian deaths in pakistan artie's guy nature kind reports. the u.s. is aggressively expanding its drone war by setting up more and more bases for those unmanned aerial vehicles or the u.a.e. vs they're armed with laser guided bombs and air to ground missiles and network of those drone bases is unfolding in east africa ethiopia is hosting the fleet of. killers as they call them in the military a similar installation has opened in the seychelles a new base is under construction somewhere near avian flu to enable more flights over yemen and all this is u.s. officials say is being done to target it feel it's in the region drones have become the main weapon of america's undeclared war so it's a new kind of warfare one that the u.s. is waging without sacrificing the lives of their soldiers in a number of countries like pakistan yemen and libya for that matter in pakistan for

example u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and have netted only a handful of actual parries many of the victims' loved ones seek revenge often by joining radical groups so it's like a vicious circle when the u.s. seems to be fighting terror and provoking terror at the same time and the question where whether or not the policies make america safer is very arguable but on top of the human cost and the boomerang effect of those often indiscriminate strikes there's also the price tag of such rapid drone expansion we're talking about billions of dollars of u.s. taxpayers money i did time when the country's on the verge of another recession when fourteen million people are jobless and one in six americans leaves on food stamps and many here do find it outrages that with a gigantic debt problem sluggish economy and with three wars at hand american officials still lavish money on military projects which some experts say may well backfire at their own security

a lot of news is going to go in the business of retreat is next right here on. russia's markets are having yet another bad day heightened fears of a new global recession are hitting the oil price and this is weighing on domestic things for more let's now talk to our correspondent going if he's the stuff of change in central moscow so igor the situation has slightly improved in the past hour. indeed very slightly the markets have clawed back somewhat there's ugly ugly losses but of course they're still down still down to four point three for the day that my six three point seven i don't double the losses which they suffered yesterday. still represents a huge loss over the past two days though i think these figures are very much provisional everyone is waiting for the american markets to open in just a few minutes. i think this is going to decide the fate of this trading day. the

market in russia was very responsive to what was happening in europe at all expected to be very sensitive to what's going to be happening in america as well particularly considering that this latest wave of marketing xyzzy was caused by the american voters i was called by ben bernanke he had his statement so we'll see what happens what will happen as a result of this in terms of the rate of the ruble down something popping sort of days it doesn't seem to be any recovery there there once again the losses aren't. doesn't devaluated hasn't devalued by as much today as it has during the past few days of trading so it's trading at thirty two point sixteen against the dollar at the moment so really waiting for the american markets now and seeing what change that will bring our eyes you're going to do think you so much for that day when we have a few seconds left on the clock no actually we go so this is the conclusion of this edition of business will have all the latest figures for you on analysis next time join us. i.

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