now with the palm of your. question. the guessing game is over a president who had been prime minister of jobs after the twenty twelve presidential election pledging to continue the path of modernization and economic stability in a way. israeli army's on the move jubilation over the palestinian u.n. bid quickly turns to violence in the west bank amid worries that israel may withhold taxes punishment. and europe's top financial figures plan for an average of all greek default that's according to report that all sliding markets and spreading fears of a double dip recession. watching

our teaser here the past seven days and a look at today's top stories we're begin with saturday's big announcement that prime minister well the report will run for presidency in two thousand and twelve but he was came at a ruling united russia party convention current president dmitry medvedev will head the party in parliamentary elections and is ready to leave the government if they win any so now we heard the historic speeches first hand. the wait is over. i believe the right for congress to support to come to see. a new presidential election. this so don't have to explain what kind of experience. the. yes i'm going to say something else. there's been

a split within our town and i can see this is a well thought through decision. putin is running for president was. i like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor of the ages. that you're going to see the numbers and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask all russian citizens to support the united russia party with the. medium and i believe you. know you may be just what i'm convinced to become prime minister and will continue to thera we modernize our society. but tandem now running on a platform of taking russia through the next decade promising more growth and stability with their party united russia in december's parliamentary elections and

next year's presidential run both putin and medvedev have their work cut out united russia's popularity has been falling in recent years by making such a move. or tender as you say they send a political message to the russians as are all the wealth that. is not our beat it is not absolute this is a rival construction which. can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement even the delegates were absolutely taken aback when you know we only confirmed of course everybody expected it but it must come as one of the best kept secrets really in recent political history the last has already started emphasizing how much the move lacks surprise i'm sure that some of the opposition political commentators and mentions are you proud to say he's of course the. political stagnation and also all these cons remember very well the

iraq of the seventy's in the eighty's especially one the communist party leadership didn't see the change then they all stayed there until the age of five years old now i would rather disagree with those who predict stagnation in russian politics for one simple fact. and this is a healthy sphere meaning a so-called western style democracy might not be the way for russia something we are seeing the us especially push for across one of the world's most unstable regions i think it's it's really disgusting of us is use the arab spring and try to use it to put in their new dictators their new friends and their fictitious democracies to be able to control the oil and control the populations. countries like russia just want stability and stability is something russia knows this dynamic duo can deliver at least so far russian g.d.p.

has almost doubled the level of loss and russia lower russia not only the capitals has improved but putin and medvedev want to take it to the next step with a reshuffle in united russia ready under way new faces transparency less corruption and more growth are all part of the platform the intrigue is dead and now the real work begins united russia have to convince the country they are the party to move past stability towards further development and so the west russia has a right to its own style democracy and he's now an artsy moscow journalist bad we're of the christian science monitor says that for the international community the prospect of bloody reporting becoming president is a sign of stability. people become more certain that there is one. type of system of power in russia and it's here to stay i think that's what this is the message for the world is not it's not a bad message i don't think. despite some of the troubles of the putin you know

between west and east. option was seen as kind of soul it reliable predictable. partner he advanced russian interests very assertively you know that may not see what they'd like to see in the united states but it works for them it's they know him he's a known quantity he is predictable he cannot capricious or excessive in any way so i think that people will just settle down to the idea that we could put in for at least six more years if not twelve. then build relations with russia on that basis. what an elevator have been working side by side more than a decade and saturday's announcement has shown their partnership is likely to continue are they getting richer looks at a background of a tandem at the top of russian politics wolf hail from sam that is burke had the political hound for ten years now i too have proved that

a double headed eagle on the russian flag is not only an emblem in the two thousand presidential vote after brazil's left office and putin was named his successor it was dimiter integrated who managed his complain but the world would first hear about five years later when he became first deputy prime minister the senior and implant show business magazine in russia would name him the man of the year overseeing national priority projects but they've painted his vision for years to come away from a resource economy modernize the country get rid of corruption all these would later be put together in his manifesto goal russia in december two thousand and seven cheering a similar united russia convention was in poorly in the worst as a candidate for the country's top job and this time it was putin who delivered his successor as successful campaign he's a poor student in that its popularity over seventy percent of the vote and in march

two thousand and eight and it was elected president why he regarded as more liberal than his predecessor his term would be remembered for reforms in the digital system and law enforcement investment in new technology and strengthening civil society he also approved major changes to the constitution by extending the presidential term so if i didn't put in makes it to the kremlin in march twenty twelve it will serve six not four years to get a signature goal russia transformed into. both models brought the house down it wasn't simply a press. and passing the bus on to a new candidate instead the two most powerful man in russia simply swapped seats thus proving don't worry about us competing in the upcoming boat as you surf will reach an agreement between us long before that it's in a good chill but our team moscow. or the global economy struggling to recover the

had of russia's media bank says news of putin taking part in the twenty twelve elections will encourage foreign investment. oh this isn't good news for the national that's the music but you know the very very tired of being so. very what's on the investors now can see these the blue tooth or the full force is to believe that the no one force. supports in particular on the line the need for speed economic growth to mention the rate of the role of the most successful seventy feet as one of the main targets for. the growth of the people in the next two years is also some way the numbers keep working even though he seemed like one of the zeeshan like improvement on the structure many on the ready for them for you so we can see or know you took the program before seems. to be leaves you with the economic force one has to use it would be

a crime in the same thing for the exciting the season so these numbers. and we've got more reaction on the twenty top presidential election and portumna to be out of town tonight our website arche dot com but there's plenty still ahead in the program including. who will be the first to face charges or humanity crimes in battle colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy who is now suffering lawsuits over the military intervention in libya. yet another high profile taliban assassination underlines the ongoing instability in afghanistan as a country appears to be losing its battle with militants and failing to cut off their main source of income. palestinian officials have accused the u.s. of putting pressure on members of the un security council to keep them from voting in favor of a free palestine analysts say that washington is keen to be spared the embarrassment of having to veto the bid which would be disastrous for its credibility as a peacemaker are just more important i ask more on the political complexities of

the case. it was a week long gathering of the world's most politically powerful people but the heart of the united nations. the pursuit of peace in the imperfect world america's nobel prize winning president set an ideal tone as the sixty sixth session of the un general assembly oh picked yet at the heart of almost all diplomatic dialogue. demonstrations and media attention was the palestinian pursuit of official u.n. membership. i just don't want the arab peoples or through for democracy in the arab spring the exam is now over the palestinians the time for independence supported by the majority of u.n. member states president mahmoud abbas submitted an application for statehood i historical bid the us a staunch ally of israel now to block with a security council veto these will not come through statements of the resolutions

of the united nations if it were that easy it would have been accomplished by them yet following eighteen years of failed negotiations on borders and security both parties see the path to peace in the middle east quite differently and we will know that the road for compromise and. when they start taking israel's security requirements seriously and when to stop the norinco restore connection to our internal moment as diplomats work around the clock to bring israel and the palestinians back together at the negotiating table. delegations for thirty countries abandon the iranian president during his speech to the general assembly. some european countries still use the holy cost after sixty cade's as the excuse to pay for a ransom to the zionists should it not be an obligation upon the slave masters or colonial powers to pay reparations to be affected nations mahmoud ahmadinejad's

annual attack against the west in israel was a reminder that this is hard but we know that it is possible a possibility for the palestinians and israelis to resume negotiations was put forth by the middle east quartet freitag russia the us the european union and the un presented both sides with a twelve month timetable to solve this sixty plus year dispute within three months of the negotiation beginning to present comprehensive proposals on borders and security that is the only way in the end we deal with the difficult issues around the table in a negotiation at the un general assembly was this week's biggest political show a spectacular display of pride for the palestinians a quote theater of the absurd for the israeli prime minister the security council meets monday to discuss the palestinian bid for u.n. membership as the quest for peace goes on divisions over how to achieve it remain

firmly in place. r.t. new york barack obama's personal vowed to veto any resolution recognizing a free and independent palestinian state wasn't much of a surprise given america's unconditional support for israel but the stance may actually be harming u.s. interests in the middle east according to a devotee director of the clash heiress fund. growing isolation of israel because of the turkish moves the gypsy moves jordan the israeli government's . difficult rhetoric and its refusal to acknowledge or apologize for. the marmara incident a year ago with turkey that killed nine turks all these tensions harm american interests in the middle east and in the region as a whole the u.s. wants to turn the page on the past decade of tensions having these new security related issues pop up like in egypt and with turkey these are not good for long

term american interest in the region. from a standing ovation at the u.n. to euphoria on the streets of the west bank there was a real sense of joy among so many of the statehood bid but on the border with israel the agile quickly turned to violence culminating in clashes between police and palestinians artie's policy or takes up the story. and historic moment after decades of struggle tens of thousands celebrated his palestine after president mahmoud abbas said it's a request to the united nations to recognize a palestinian state but as feared it wasn't all cheers and on side the celebrations violence a choice and here on the israeli palestinian border tens of never a day have been numerous ambulances picking up injured people i was standing just a short distance from a soldier who was wounded like to be early in the hit by a stone in a fit but incident i was standing next to photographer who was badly injured by stones up with thrown into his leg and i too had a few stones thrown at me and i continued they are very thought when they hit shoot

now this is exactly to both the israelis and palestinians we're trying to avoid. for months the israeli army has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians what we tell of it will now use these clashes as an excuse to beef up its army presence in the west bank and possibly even punish palestinians by withholding tax money it collects on their behalf for weeks the army has been counting land mines on israel's northern borders to prevent the columbia checkpoint scenes from unfolding here. this is a really a very to do with people who have peaceful intentions but minds are a legitimate form of the sense many countries have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are throwing mines. maybe it's more come forth. at the heart of the clashes eyes release it as and palestinians both lane claim to the same piece of land jacob

taylor has been farming deep in the. on heels 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 they have got approved a document a document that. in their measure no it. did not 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 farm it it's a very hard feeling but what can i do nothing in the resistance forces and after the service or as was said something the army will come immediately and arrest us this fence cuts through your calls farm meaning that right now i am standing inside palestine and as i walk through here. and now in israel it's one thing to declare a state and another to determine where its borders will be policy r.t.

ramallah. and as a follow from a palestinian bid spreads across the middle east israel's and purely from international law may be coming to an area that's according to her advisor to the. israel i was very confortable with the thought of all over the speech of president mahmoud our birth israel has enjoyed a culture of impunity as a person of our birth said yesterday israel has been asked of all of the law in that something that not the international community should not feel very proud of we are talking about forty four you want to solutions violated by use for all this time what is israel going to do and they've been threatening in through the media that they are going to take some action against the palestinians what else can be difficult it's why if israel stalled my apple my apples the west bank and gaza and then they tell me they want to negotiate with you over this up and while at the same time eating my own up all but the most important here again let's not

misunderstand the concepts we don't have to show our credentials but we are good enough to be free if we have shown very good credentials the most important is the overview right of the palace to give people sort of the only nation we've been waiting for sixty four years that we have the largest refugee group in the world we have all this military occupation what are history that something has to start. and as we continue our coverage of the events unfolding around the palestinian video you can catch out on anything you my i've missed on our website but there's also plenty more little energy dot com here's what else you find here. alarming statistics show one in five british youngsters leave school without basic literacy and are struggling to find jobs as a result. of snooze on the move a russian unveils his dream design called the sleep lots of peaceful shelter from airport hustle and bustle. leaked reports suggest some of the eurozone finance ministers already regard the greek economy as

a lost cause they say the country is doomed to default on its debt around three hundred fifty billion euro the i.m.f. has reportedly given e.u. countries six weeks to build up a financial firewall to protect themselves from the shock wave of the greek default the new one hundred fifty billion euro bailout package and you have told there is now just seen as a means to buy the euro zone some time to prepare this comes after the markets in europe and the u.s. saw the trading week since two thousand and eight prompting widespread fears of a looming double dip recession as a rival is inevitable whatever the i.m.f. plans to do that's according to patrick young executive director of the investment advisory firm dva advisors. let's look at it in the united states of america growth these peaceably. in europe groups it's very low or it's going backwards and all of them are economies and also we've got this terrible terrible north sideslip beach issue with the lights increase and if we look at somewhere like china which has

been a huge engine of the global economy well they had some pretty good numbers coming out of the small banks and that too is leading to a big fear that maybe china is finally heading the ball first at least for the time being it's had a huge credit expansion in the last two years it looks really rather like europe and us looked in sort of two thousand and. past two thousand and six two thousand and seven i really fear that i mean we see that happening in china then ultimately all over all the world economy is in for a very very difficult year in twenty four hours. and in ten minutes you can watch an exclusive interview with russia's finance minister for his opinion on how the current crisis will pan out. libya's transitional government forces have renewed fighting with loyalists of the ousted leader colonel gadhafi in one of his last strongholds syrup meanwhile some western leaders are facing charges at home over the legacy of their own military intervention argues day or bush will examine the

reasons for claims and with find some of these images disturbing. for ejects foreign minister jamal says he's ready to defy. the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his wrist but later will have to form the comal first libya's deposed leader is it hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like a martyr and some states are now claiming the right to kill against all international law. images like these are moving french lawyers to turn against the government because he faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here are frauds accuse the prisons of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war renew vietnam with the us sprayed tens of millions of liters of toxins on crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth defects to this day are. they using missiles with

depleted uranium which causes cancer in tripoli i saw people crippled by nato attacks office workers who have nothing to do with the fighting that's why we're soon president sarkozy for crimes against humanity. first denied bombing this residence where thirteen civilians including four children died then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed. videos spider-man had toys and cultural and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack is wife or child and grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately wage a campaign of terror. warnings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of the bombs and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting

the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders a ploy for their first big legal challenge over libya if they stop the cases coming to court all together as chicle the it will prove once and for all that western justice really use run by politicians not the rule of law the noble shorty paris. thousands of whiners gathered in a afghan capital kabul on friday for the funeral of a country's former president. he was assassinated on tuesday by. my suicide bomber who had hidden a device in his turban and claimed to be a taliban and boy providing had led the country in the nine hundred ninety s. was a key figure in current peace talks with the militants this is taft followed a string of high profile targeted killings including the murder of the current president's half brother in july dallas hilton so i political analyst and former afghan m.p. says we're buying was trying to maintain stability and believes he's lost me fact the alignment forces in the country. he was

a very moderate figure he was. very important influence in bringing moderation. and stability in there and the politics of the country and then mr karzai and others will miss that so those are the problems that we are facing are monumental problems so three years is not very much time for the problems that afghanistan is facing and i don't think. figures like that and the absence of those kinds of figures do not render themselves for stability and do not help stability the radicals are winning this. well the taliban stepping up its attacks across afghanistan one of their main sources of income is a fall below the country's infamous drug trade kills tens of thousands of users worldwide here and new criticism of a blind eye turned by nato to the deadly problem despite its ten year long presence in a country that up in court uncouple. the penalty for drinking beer in kabul

is sixty whips on the back publicly it is a very traditional muslim society or is it there are dozens of people if not more for doing what's right there under this bridge in the center of the seat with his coming and staring up at all these insane conditions we then rubbish being fooled wait here where we're standing right now this is just incredible sikh arrow in all . it's all cocked mixed injected or small to right arm on these piles of rubbish or rotten meat and an indescribable room and not one policeman anywhere near but that's not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs i mean on them call the score pakistan and get on your game here and we don't have any jobs we don't have any kind of thing to do if you can say for the war for us i don't you tell us a study commissioned by the us state department chills each family has at least one

drug user all kids are now found in breast milk and all kids even newborns that morphine. there's no doubt a period of transition some with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started. 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 treaty has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollars mark. a russia is one of the worst affected states with around eighty tons of heroin thought to a newly settled in the country that a.q. 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. many experts find this

a bit strange given the fact that a large part of the revenues from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban needles key enemy in the median meanwhile the international community annually spends billions of dollars to fight of the alistair's drug traffic but since nato has no legal way to coordinate the funds are spent with very little positive results while officials say the multi-billion dollar afghan drug network has the whole world and its grip we were just going off kabul afghanistan our engineer and us boards are just i had before that i'll be back with airlines a bass. line

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