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but how did you treat. each began a journey. where did it take. i don't believe that anyone with a shred of cultures can reject the replication feature of. palestinian leader mahmoud a basket to standing ovation while addressing the un general assembly shortly after submitting the period for full statehood to the un chief. lucia kerry showing no signs of letting up its night fall but will be change and on running high we bring you the latest from the israeli palestinian port where chaos shows no sign of easing tonight with one palestinian already shot dead during clashes with israeli soldiers and got the latest. news the yemen president returned back to his country months after surviving an assassination attempt props fears of more violence now as five days of fighting between pro and anti regime forces leaves dozens dead. and
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fears of a double dip global recession intensify in the wake of thursday's markets plunge that spared no one from debt ridden europe to the u.s. with stocks heading for the worst weekly losses in three years. or welcome you watching our team from moscow with me kevin oh into night it's eleven pm here now in our top story the palestinian and israeli leaders took center stage as they address the u.n. general assembly while tensions continued on the palestinian israeli border parties paulus lee joins us she's got more now from one of those checkpoints. i'm here at the kalandia checkpoint between jerusalem and ramallah and the situation is as want to tell and dangerous as it has been most up to date every so often is
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a sporadic outburst of violence the soldiers that are surrounding me right now and they're all dressed in full riot gear they surged forward and then the protesters behind me they respond by firing and throwing stones they didn't surge forward and they told us respond with tear gas now they have been tires burning throughout the course of the day there have been flayed going up in the sky and numerous ambulances driving past and picking up injured people this certainly is not a scene that either the palestinians all these raids would have wanted the palestinians are afraid that these waves will use that example of violence and any excuse to lobby international support not to support a palestinian bid for statehood the palestinians also concerned that these raids will intensify they places across the west bank and indeed we are hearing reports of israeli army doing precisely that but these clashes are not limited only to ramallah they have spread throughout the west bank as well as in jerusalem we are now hearing reports that there were clashes in east jerusalem between israeli army
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and palestinian protesters and five palestinians have been arrested there we have heard reports of one palestinian who has been killed in a village not far from the palestinian city of nablus and if it incident a fourteen year old palestinian boy was badly injured when and he's waiting numberplate a vehicle drove over him and that was in east in hebron one of the line that is happening against the backdrop of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and his stories of race to the united nations so the inside of my city which is us so far distance behind me tens of thousands of palestinians have turned out to listen to that a great way to meet at a place with thunderous applause they were welcoming this historic moment in palestinian history but that doesn't change the specs on the ground and those facts are that there are very real fears that the violence in iraq to the west bank not only here in my left could is. including into harder. i mean he's correspondent paula slayer the speech of the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas to the u.n. has been received with a standing ovation just
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a little earlier on the seedling of following that then the israeli prime minister took to the floor to criticize the palestinian bid for statehood a middle east quartet meeting at this moment with their statement regarding the peace talks expected very shortly we'll bring it to you when we get it out he's going to port now has been following events she joins us in new york again but a busy evening one of the two leaders there said recap it for us and how was it received. well as you mentioned and the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas he was received with a standing ovation among many delegations when he walked into the general assembly hall applause continued for longer than a minute many arab states stood up to welcome him and throughout his speech he was interrupted several times with applause there was a defeat a feeling among many delegates and diplomats in the room of support and so he spoke about the need for palestinian independence for statehood and for u.n.
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membership he said the time is comes and our people of the world are or want their independence that has been seen with the so-called arab spring and he said it's time for a palestinian spring independent palestine before he began to reach your vision is needed now for the future for palestinian statehood and you a member ship to the un secretary-general ban ki moon we have been told that at this point the secretary general has passed that application over to the president of the security council now after president abbas's speech as you mentioned israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu i dress the general assembly he said that at the top he wants peace israel wants peace but peace cannot come through statements or un resolutions peace has to come through negotiations and he said israel will not support an independent palestine if israel safety is not secure and so far he says
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israel safety has not insecure clearly these two leaders are remain divided very much divided in the meantime diplomats have been working fiercely all week behind closed doors to try to resolve this issue the united states has publicly said that it will veto in the security council a palestinian bid for st. this despite that the majority of u.n. member states there's one hundred ninety three of them the majority of them do support palestine's aspirations for statehood un membership so right now both palestine israel it's dressed the international body the u.s. has said that it would use its veto power if it needs to and as you mentioned you know the people are still talking and diplomats are still working behind the scene here the u.n. . sort of the big east peace quartet as of course russia us the the e.u. the u.n.
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they're meeting right now expressing his most rinses from within the. i know you're bringing us the details but what are the consequences of these two speeches the both of the floor we've heard what they have to say what's going to next that's the crucial bit. right right right that is the crucial but what we also should mention that this this meeting of the mideast quartet it came out of nowhere it wasn't scheduled it wasn't planned and from what we are being told they have reached an agreement on a statement that aims to bring israel and the palestinians to the negotiation table but in terms of what happens next with the palestinian bid for un membership and statehood it goes to the security council and the security council alternately is supposed to vote on it when that vote will happen it's not clear it needs the support of nine security council members and no vetoes of russia avital wilting members said that would support a policy for u.n. membership but the u.s.
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said it would be to which it could veto is it the palestinians can go to the general assembly and they will most likely get the support they all they need is two thirds of the general assembly to support them at that point them out the palestinians they wouldn't receive full membership they would become nonmember observer state but it would be historic as the crucial very volatile mass that's the crucial to the words there is already there is world the majority of the world's. yeah absolutely it is a crucial bit it is and it would show that the majority of the international community supports them and it really would put the united states in a very compromising position because it would show that it has sole veto of the us is what's blocking the aspirations the palestinians by the majority of the world is supporting them and then it makes many question well how can the u.s. be a fair and just mediator if it's you know wielding a veto while the majority of the world's it is international munni is supporting
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the palestinians. to bring your subsidy from new york because you've got to cool the course of the evening. well i'm going to go to ramallah to discuss these latest developments i hope we've got the line there was there earlier on the let's try and talk to. a palestinian political activist and feminist hello very good evening could you hear us. oh great my name is kevin owen thanks for being on the program is much appreciated what i'm sure you saw as well the very emotional scenes today in ramallah as people cheered president of brasses speech at the u.n. there's a lot of hope there tonight but will this big be able to change anything on the ground at the end of the day. absolutely. it's a historical moment for the police senior and people not only from a law in old elko by police in a territory all saw. everywhere.
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this is the momentum you know in our struggle that we give back the fight of the belief in ian calls to the united nation after eight. months in. negotiation process which means no more operation. more station alpha. more division of the list only i'm sad today to be the man for the story where they live to be a felon you know you continue to be killing. men building. up in go all day goes to involving. what is going on there in that palestinian territory. you know pathetic thing with the international law so this is the time to look at the whole war it's their
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responsibility to in israeli official we've already seen violence today on the border we've seen stones against tear gas and now there are fears of a third intifada those fears justified a war against israel do you think that will happen. actually the whole speech of mr w. and then is you know. constructing and focusing on that palestinian political will to achieve a just you're a bill peace and you know right foot be skinny and to the skies cleared right for the resistance the popular resistance and this is you know a good day this you know if an airboat the only war again to meet israel and make pressure on israel to be accountable to the international
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soul you know as abu mazan said you know that the root of the conflict between the israel israel and palestine you know started in and by nineteen forty eight and there we will see an exit control minds to build our independence in a state owned when the two girls and of historical palestine so we accepted in one nine hundred eighty eight when we declared they didn't then you know or care declaration for it to accept you know to build the business side by side with israel but all that of nine hundred sixty seven talks are history of the palo uncertain future but this is the look of the problem this is the root of the conflict thaw we even we can't resolve the conflict with the israelis without that we could be nation of israel to that root of the conflict the right of the village in a review according to a u.n. resolution for. love is really the only you know hysterical where you know
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in events it's the core the essential issues of days really despite all of course of course all the time is now sorry about because. everything you're sorry were course the israeli prime minister things differently he says his country wants peace but upraise won't be reached through un resolutions what do you think of. we really do believe where you know that the development in the whole region what is going on in the other countries and you know. at the time that united states administration talk about its support to enhanced democracy in the region and to enhance peace in the region and i think this is the time you know the public united states and the quartet and the whole world in different of their you know responsibility to give the palestinians people their basic right as nation to have
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built in a determination in business to have been independent state so this is the message of indian people a you know we will let me go. and unfortunately united stated ministration itself in a compromising situation and the critical situation that it can't be you know a transparent fair mediator in that upcoming peace process or other palestinian political activism fabulous thank you joining us now live from ramallah tonight pressure. dr charles cogan a former cia officer who served in the directorate of operations they also headed the near east and south asia division says israel's policy towards negotiations with palestinians will ultimately backfire. 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
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settlements issue and on the borders issue the intention of the israeli leadership is just to continue stalling until eventually the west bank we named and israeli control but the problem 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 a majority arab population in israel and i think that says it's a tragic lack of strategic vision on the part of the israelis that they don't see this happening or they don't care. but so we've got our eyes on the mideast peace quartet meeting right now are expected to get a state and from them a bit later maybe within the hour as we get those details we'll bring them to you as our coverage continues of palestine's bid for independence so you can stay with us the take from marty's policy as well the country seething on the palestinian israeli border as well as the latest from the u.n. general assembly in new york and of course for updates developments analysis also
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available online on our web site at r.t. dot com. clashes between pro and anti-government forces in yemen have intensified with the death toll now from five days of violence reaching one hundred perhaps as the country's president returns to the capital three months after surviving an assassination attempt. a wonder when medical treatment in saudi arabia is now calling for a cease fire he says dialogue is the only way to end the bloodshed because we've been plunged into chaos ever since february when protesters rather going into sunday's thirty three year old rule erupted looked. for the european think tank for global actions called freedom thinks it's unlikely that yemen will see a repeat of either the libyan or syrian scenarios thanks to the countries our allies in the arab world. but we've seen in the recent past some countries a lot of western 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
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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 pressures and in this case i mean obviously we have a very frayed zeidan very violent situation in yemen we could also talk about bahrain for example which is also submitted to. such a configuration or such a situation but in the same time both countries seem to be protected by one of their original lie which is so dear a go when it came to the american strategy in the middle east in particular well the so it is had they were to say i mean they were taken into consideration so considering that. doesn't want anybody to intervene in the yemeni internal affairs considering also that rain is an important ally to the united states but c. is also and contrary to which interests the saudi arabia is it that just in this
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context we can see there. the ongoing serious situation in syria was also the violence is that going on in syria it seems that some countries i would include the united states because of france and the u.k. and so on once have builds a pressure further pressure on the syrian regime and if we follow this story with interest still that what i know may be that yemen is also the subject of the latest edition of crosstalk in this couple of really so the full program coming your way they've this hour in about ten minutes here's a quick preview for you. because a school there in contrast libya and yemen yes would like to see and not fly zone but we don't want any aircraft to be actually in the hitting people or hit it you know some sports in the ground simply wrong and that is. the key principle here is the people who do the fighting get to do the running of the country afterwards we've seen it again and again it's one hundred first airborne or
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u.s. a.f. or the aria or the french air force they get to control the country afterwards if the yemenis themselves likely objections like the tunisians whatever the political differences amongst them there the people who get to do the liberating and they're the people look at the run their country afterwards. fiza rising over a second wave of worldwide economic recession and asian and european markets have ended their worst week since two thousand and eight and the u.s. is heading in the same direction financial pundit max kaiser host of the show the kaiser report on this channel blames the banks he says that are blamed for the current financial turmoil. 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
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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 there needs to be a global concerted effort to balance everyone's books to write off all the bad debt that will never be paid to recalibrate currencies and to restart the global economy because there's no political will for that however because the bankers would lose and the bankers control the agenda of the politicians 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 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. i will have
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more of the current financial turmoil also its impact on the russian markets from a business case would have me to. the r.t.s. over the week last sixteen and a half percent the my sex more than twelve percent so this is the worst week since november two thousand they will have more details on that in around ten hours time . three people have reportedly been killed by an unmanned u.s. aircraft in pakistan the latest victims of the american drone policy the military strategies are really resulted in thousands of civilian deaths over the u.s. considers the attack so affected that it's building a number of new drone bases in east africa is going to teach you can report. the u.s. is aggressively expanding its drone war 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 and ethiopia is hosting the fleet of
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hundred killers as they call them in the military a similar installation has opened in the seychelles a new base is under construction. to enable more flights over yemen and all this is u.s. officials say it's being done to target al qaeda affiliates in the region drones have become the main weapon of america's undeclared wars 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 leave it for that matter in pakistan for example u.s. drone strikes have killed thousands of civilians and have netted only a handful of actual terrorists 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 of 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
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there's also the price tag of such rapid drone expansion we're talking about billions of dollars of u.s. taxpayers money at a 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 who find it outrageous that with gigantic debt problems 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. correspondent going. to a top story to find over the future spoken at the u.n. world. continues to do the talking on the policy issues really border. is falling real unrest for us now the mood here is showing no signs of letting up at nightfall but still be tensions are running high now the israeli soldiers have been surging forward and back with almost a game of cat and mouse
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a celebration that are taking place alongside a palestinian prison mahmoud abbas's addresses the united nations are much further down inside ramallah city we have no way of getting there at the moment i continued the mood incredibly tense there's just school radek firing constantly there are stones coming our direction from protesters down the road and the front line is age we keep shifting forwards backwards forwards backwards you get into the soldiers actually don't know what to do and they huddle together they talk in a surge forward and then they come back with this really is the worst case annoyer night of the israelis nor the palestinians wanted to see does happen this kind of violence and holding on the middle east landscape and it's not happening only here in ramallah we are hearing about clashes across the west bank so certainly the stage is being hit at something for good intifada policy r.t. in ramallah rather than later but if it were the world markets to in the
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business news coming up next to me three tells us so that's all fear and. clone welcome to business see russia's markets soar second consecutive session of steep losses on friday heightened fears of a new global recession we're using world prices and this was weighing on the master things correspondent ego gordon wraps up the day. it's been another dismal day of the for the russian markets there is no question about this today the my sex has declined by four point five percent by five point two zero but it's not just today it's of course the trend for the entire week over the whole week the audience has lost starting sixteen percent and in my six twelve point five so this is perhaps one of the worst weeks that we've had since the peak of the financial crisis in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine everybody has been saying that because of this not inside russia that this is a response to this policy suggestions which have been produced in the us by ben
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bernanke you by the federal reserve on both at the same time russia has been affected worse than the other markets did follow the trends in europe but that has seemed particularly vulnerable over the next few weeks we'll see whether this is a blip and a correction is soon to follow or whether this is the predictor of a deeper crisis call for a fuller picture let's say from the composer closing figures for the russian markets and d.v.r. to us so sharp losses five point two percent in the red myself four and a half percent if we look at the main movers on the mice these are the oil majors a rosneft a new core shedding four point nine and three point six percent respectively and the most liquid blue chip on the russian market burbank fell another five percent after declining almost ten percent on first day. coupled with the drop in the stock markets the ruble is reached its lowest level versus the u.s. dollar in two years but. believes that what happens this time russia will be better
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prepared than in two thousand. i wouldn't except shown that in the rush or the mess that was driven the instability of the financial system was on the rise wait before the crisis three four five months before the crisis actually or after starting from april and that march of two thousand and eight in the current supply of our way that shows that yes we've seen some spike of instability back in june but july august we see. the stable situation as a composite index of course we still have seen what we see in the markets on the in the currency. market in particular but on the other hand that's not all of the financial system moral what i want to see here is that comparing to the station three years ago the russian economy and russian financial market is much better prepared in the sense that we see much more flexibility in the crisis or it we see much more flexibility in central bank or so we see
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a more flexibility environment crystal's so the hope is that even given the rising global pressures russia in the russian economy is better prepared to sustain this pressure than it was three years ago and that's what i'll end it shows. and so from the business desk for now kind of x. seeing the headline statements if you can't.
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