the guessing game is over a president to be had about prime minister gordon could swap jobs after the twenty twelve presidential election pledging to continue the path of modernization and economic stability if they went. out signs none statehood bid euphoria degenerate into clashes of crowds in the west bank find self battling cavalry armed israeli riot squads. and europe's top financial figures plan for an inevitable greek default that's according to reports that follow sliding markets and spreading fears of a double dip recession. it

is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching archie and here's our review of the past seven days and a look at today's top stories we begin with saturday's big announcement that prime minister vladimir putin will run for presidency in two thousand and twelve the news came at a ruling united russia party convention current president dmitry need to get it will have the party in parliamentary elections and is ready to lead the government if they win arches any so now we heard a historic speech as first hand. the wait is over but i believe it would be right for congress to support the candidacy of lighting we are considering a new presidential election and i. know that. this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under

thirty five putin has. he sure has gotten it i'm going to say something else with his speech rumors that there's been a split within our towns and i can see that this is a well thought through decision. hootin is running for president. i like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor a good woman a chief. sure but if it gets to the numbers and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask citizens to support a united russia party with the need to know better and don't. need them i'm not really sure if you. like it but i just i'm convinced who become prime minister who continue to throw really not nizar society. the tandem now running on a platform of taking russia through the next decade promising more growth and

stability but their party united russia in december parliamentary elections and next year's presidential run both putin and meds very dear of how their work cut out united russia's popularity has been falling in recent years by making such a move they do. tender as you say they send a political message to the russians as well to the best of the world that it. is not outdated it is not absolute this is why. construction which can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement evenly delegates were really taken aback when you know. of course everybody expected it and it must count 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 have mentioned so you

say he's of course the risk of political stagnation and after all these country members very well the iraq of the seventy's in the eighty's especially one the communist party leadership didn't see the change there and 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 weenie a so-called western style democracy might not be the way for russia something we are seeing the u.s. especially push for across one of the world's most unstable regions i think it's really disgusting how the us has used the arab spring to try to use it to put in their new dictators their new friends and their fictitious democracies to be able to control all control these populations. 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 life in russia all or russia not only the capitals has improved but you know medvedev wants to take it to the next step with a reshuffle in united russia already under way new faces transparency less corruption and more growth are all part of the platform intrigue is dead and now the real work begins united russia has to convince the country they are the party. to move past stability towards further development and so the west has a right to its own style democracy and he's in our hearts we must go and tracking money problem is crucial for developing russia's economy added in pubs a professor of paul the university of canned in england believes if one becomes president you should make this a priority i think for the best it will only be forthcoming in much greater scope when corruption and the rule of law you know are changed it is too much rampant

corruption and too little rule of law. i think growing pressure has the authority to do something about that and i think after. presence he needs to strengthen those institutions and he needs a government that can implement with president medvedev perhaps becoming prime minister that might be possible but it's not just changing now you need to also change policy and you need to implement across the country we could minister capacities around russia. fortunately the reality in moscow and st petersburg a vibrant city was put out not the case for the region so you really need much greater determination and implementation it's up to the ruling turn to make that happen. put in abbottabad have been working side by side for more than a decade and saturday's announcement has shown their partnership is likely to continue our dedicated air travel looks at the background of a tan down at the top of russian politics wolf hailed from san burke at the

political hound for ten years now the two have proved that a double headed eagle on the russian flag is not only an emblem in the two thousand presidential vote at a group seals and left office and putin was named his successor it was determined that it who managed his complain but the world would first hear about it five years later when he became deputy prime minister this senior and influential business magazine in russia would name him the man of the year overseeing national priority projects they believe painted his vision for years to come away from a resource economy modernize the country caracas all these would later be put together in his manifesto go russia in december two thousand and seven jury in a similar united russia convention we did it was informally indorsed as a candidate for the country's top job and these time it was delivered his successor

became a successful compay his support boosted that its popularity tolbert seventy percent of the vote and in march two thousand and eight and it was elected president why do you regard it as more liberal than his predecessor his term would be remembered for reforms in the judicial 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 with its signature goal russia transformed into. both models brought the house down it wasn't simply. the president posturing the bus and so on you counter that instance the two most powerful man in russia simply swapped seats thus proving don't worry about competing in the upcoming vote as it will reach an agreement between us long before

but it seemed a good party. and energy dot com we're asking what you think will happen if president of united and prime minister putin do switch jobs so far we have four years say the reshuffle tandem will be a success because it will bring people what they want twenty seven percent think the switch will anger voters and blue support for the opposition and twenty five percent feel it will boost foreign investment in russia but not much will change otherwise you can have your say on the issue by logging on to our website r.t. dot com. 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 alice a there washington is keen to be spared the embarrassment of having to veto the bid which would be disastrous for its credibility as a peacemaker arc is more important as more on the political complexities of the

case. it was a week long gathering of the world's most polluted please powerful people but the part of the united nations. pursuit of peace in an imperfect world america's nobel prize winning president set an ideal tone as the sixty sixth session of the un general assembly opened yet at the heart of almost all diplomatic dialogue. chemistry sions and media attention was the palestinian pursuit of official here when membership well if you want them to understand what the arab peoples of. the arab spring the time is now for 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 pig the us a staunch ally of israel vowed to block with a security council veto these will not come through statements of resolutions at

the united nations if it were that easy it would have been accomplished by the yes following eighteen years of failed negotiations on borders and security both parties see the path to peace in the middle east quite different right and we will know that they're ready for compromise and peace when they start taking israel's security requirements seriously. and we did not go restore connection to our internet moment as diplomats worked 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 constant 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 regions mahmoud ahmadinejad's

annual attack against the west and israel was a reminder that he's as hard but we know that it is possible the possibility for the palestinians and israelis to resume negotiations was put forth by the middle east quartet frighted 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 the u.n. 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 needs 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 dr charles cogan a former cia officer who served in the director of operations there and also head of the near east and south asia division says israel's policy towards the negotiations with palestinians well alternately backfire. 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 back to the negotiating table when one of the parties keeps grabbing land that is a bill to be law until a 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 tissue and on the borders issue the intention of the

israeli leadership is just to continue stalling until eventually the. the west bank remains under israeli control but the problem with that with that is that what are they going to do with all these palestinians who remain inside we can't push them over the river into into jordan so you're going to eventually have in majority arab population in israel and i think that says it's a tragic lack of strategic clear vision on the part of the israelis that they didn't see this happening or they don't care. from a standing ovation at the u.n. and here for you on the streets of the west bank there was a real sense of joy in on so many at the state hood. but on the border with israel their joy quickly turn to violence culminating in clashes between police and palestinians are his parsley or takes up the story. and historic movement after decades of struggle tens of thousands to liberate across palestine after president

mahmoud abbas admits a request to the united nations to recognize a palestinian state but as feared it wasn't all cheers and on side the situation's violence clashes have erupted across the west bank as fears grow of a third intifada we are here in ramallah where there is a scandal between the israeli army and palestinian protesters just a short distance down the road there are tires burning everywhere the army is also using a new sound device known as the screamer which can make an bearable sound now the situation here is very very tense he catches the freight across the west bank one kind of thing and has been killed now what we understand happened is that country one hundred israelis started burning the trees belonging to palestinians in the village the army was called in and the result was one palestinian shot and killed in the nick. months the israeli army has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians what we tell everyone 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 haunting land mines on israel's northern borders to prevent the columbia chick point scenes from unfolding here the mines are not necessarily there to deal with people who have these the intentions of mines or a legitimate form of the sense any countries have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are going through would. be worth it maybe it's more controlled forward for. for a program at the heart of the clashes are israeli settlers and palestinians both lame claim to the same piece of land jacob taylor has been farming deep in the head 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 these in their. version know it be. but

not so was or 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 is a very hard feeling but what can i do nothing in the resistance forces and after the service as was said something beyond me will come immediately and arrest us this fence cuts through our course farm meaning that right now i am standing inside palestine and as i walk through here. i'm now in israel it's one thing to declare a state and another to determine where its borders will be policy r.t. women are. and we've got more news and analysis on the situation the west bank and a palestinian bid for independence on our website or t.v. dot com but there is plenty still ahead in the program including who will be the

first to face charges over humanity crimes and battle colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy who is now suffering lawsuits over the military intervention in libya. yet another high profile taliban assess a nation on the lines of 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. 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 of around three hundred fifty billion euros the imam has reportedly given easy you countries six weeks to build up a financial fire wall to protect themselves from the shock wave of the greek default the new one hundred fifty billion euro bailout package due in a cold war is now just seen as a means to buy the eurozone some time to prepare this comes after the markets in europe and the us saw their worst rating week since two thousand and eight prompting widespread fears of

a looming double dip recession james midway senior economist at the new comics foundation think tank believes we are seeing the beginning of the euro spain because he's out of the bargain to be quite so and it's the statement he's quite close to a simple statement of the facts greece cannot plausibly stay under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far too big and it's simply no worse the way it's going to be able to repay the loan any pools will timescale certainly not twenty twelve which was the original part of who the european nations the divisions that are in place right the way across europe with countries completely unable really to agree on any kind of way forward out of this mess other than the essentially trade and tested in troy and failed methods they taught us in century is give a bit of a bailout it's. some countries impose austerity measures we certainly are seen to be early stages of disintegration but you're right that deep rooted structural problems inside the euro system the imbalances that built up for the last ten years

so i'd be surprised to see the euro continuing in its present form given the situation we're in at the moment we're going to have crisis however a bad may turn out is unlikely to affect russia's economy and that's the view of a russian finance minister i see cauldron there watch an exclusive interview with him next hour but here's a preview. we were you see the first the rupee and powers of enough resources to save greece and so we are hoping they will shoulder with us through that i'm going to stop the spread of this contagion look at. these risks remain at the same time if the debt crisis do spread it's not affect us through march and please to retreat because our banks do not hold any position with food with french and german banks on your ground will suffer greatly because they were the ones on their homes that would not be cleared of us would cause problems with him these banks problems with these bonds have some overall problems on these markets because banks are after all the leading players with this internal rule. of circumstance and the facts of

would like to stress the. point during the latest crisis give the word this time the crisis will hold much smaller thanks. maybe a stern dish and government forces have renewed fighting with loyalists of the ousted leader colonel gadhafi in a one of is the last stronghold the town of seared meanwhile some western leaders are facing charges a whole over the legacy of their military intervention art is there no bush will examine the reasons for claims if i had some of these images disturbing. fringe explorer minister roland jamal says he's ready to defend gadhafi in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but nato will have to find the colonel first libya's deposed leader is it hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin laden some states are now claiming the right to kill against all international

law. images like these are moving frige lawyers to turn against the government because sarkozy faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the presidents of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war renew vietnam with the u.s. sprayed tens of millions of liters of toxins old crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth defects to this day. so they're 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 the crimes against humanity. first did noid bombing this residence with thirteen civilians including four children died it then called the place

a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed books videos spiderman bad toys and cultural moves and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack these wife and child and grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately waging a campaign of terror. warnings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly needle bombs and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders are poised 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 used drug war politicians not the rule of law the new bush or r.t. paris. and as we continue our coverage of events unfolding in libya you can catch up on anything and might have missed on our website but there's also plenty more

available. dot com here's where else you'll find their. alarming statistics show one in five british youngsters leave school without basic literacy and are struggling to find jobs as a result. on the move the russian firm unveils his dream design called the sleeve box a peaceful shelter from the airport hustle and bustle. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images of. the streets of canada. showing corporations are. thousands of mourners gathered in our capital kabul on friday for the funeral of

the country's former president burhanuddin rabbani was assassinated on tuesday by a suicide bomber who had hidden that advice in his turban and claimed to be a taliban boy rabbani who had led the country in the one nine hundred ninety s. was the key figure in current peace talks with the militants this attack following a string of high profile targeted killings and calling the murder of the current president's half brother in july daoud sultanzoy political analyst and former afghan and peace has provided he was trying to maintain stability and believes he's lost me affect the alignment of forces in the country. he was a very moderate figure he was. very important influence in bringing moderation. and stability and the politics of the country and mr karzai and others will miss that the president of the problems that we are facing are monumental problems so three years is not very much time for the problems of afghanistan was facing and i

don't think. figures like that and the. the absence of those kinds of figures do not render themselves first ability and do not help stability the radicals are winning this time. when the taliban stepping up its attacks across a gas data while there may be sources of income is in full bloom countries income as drug trade kills tens of thousands of users worldwide here it's prompted for new criticism of the blind eye turned by nato to the deadly problem despite its ten year long presence in the country are using or is cut off reports from kabul. 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 drugs right there under this bridge in the center of the seat with all these coming and staring at them. in same conditions we still rubbish being thrown

weight here where we're standing right now this is just incredible secret. heroin. it's all cooked mixed injected or small to write them on these piles of rubbish rotten meat and an indescribable room and no one policeman anywhere near but that's not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs many of them told us call pakistan and iran you can hear we don't have any jobs we don't have any i think you do if you can save for the war or you have a bunch of these. a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each family has at least one drug user all kids are found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine in their blood there's no doubt the period of plantation song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities tartan afghanistan i believe that the war was the root cause that forced afghan people to turn to poppy growing their own ninety percent. all

the opiates in the world are produced in of year to stack interval cleans the markets global trade has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark a russia is one of the worst affected states with around eighty tons of heroin thought to a newly settle in the country like those 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 is 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 region meanwhile the international community annually spends billions of dollars to fight afghanistan'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 have been drug network as the whole world and as a group you were just going off r t kabul afghanistan and a couple minutes from now we're travelling back in time to the archaeological utopia of baghdad and russia's far east but the headlights are next. thanks. to the faraway land. where human life is room by nature. the distant past of planet earth is carefully preserved by the.