country house holiday is the. times to remember the family that used to feel the accuser to the world the ruben's herself. the guessing game is over president and prime minister of jordan could swap jobs after the twenty twelve presidential election pledging to continue the path of modernization and economic stability if they would. palestine's un statehood bid euphoria degenerate into clashes this crowd in the west bank find themselves battling heavily armed israeli riot squads. and europe's top financial figures plan for an inevitable greek default that's according to a leaked report that follows sliding markets and spreading fears of a double dip recession.

what you know if you live from moscow and here's a review of the past seven days and a look at today's top stories we're beginning with saturday's big announcement that prime minister about the report and will run for presidency in two thousand and twelve the news came out a ruling united russia party convention current president will have a party in parliamentary elections and is ready to lead the government if they win are his and he said now we heard a historic speech first hand. the wait is over but i believe the right for congress to support the kind that they see. in the presidential election. that this is so i don't have to explain what kind of experience i'm just story too . he sure has gotten it i'm going to say something else

despite rumors that there's been a split within our tandem i can see this is a well thought through decision. putin 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 of golden ages thank you but if the national 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. media manipulation if you. like it but i just i'm convinced who become prime minister who continue to thoroughly modernize our society. the tandem now running on a platform of taking russia to the next decade promising more growth and stability but their party united russia in december's parliamentary elections and next year's

presidential run both putin and medvedev have their work cut out and united russia's popularity has been falling in recent years by making such a move they do. condemn as you say they send a political message to the russians as well to the best of the world that if we do it is not our beat it is not absolute this is a rebel construction which can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement even the delegates there were only taken aback when the you know what was confirmed of course everybody expected it and it must count as one of the best kept secrets really in recent political history the west has already started emphasizing how much the move lacks surprise i'm sure that some of the opposition political commentators have mentioned so you. throw to say he's

of course the risk of political stagnation and after all these clowns remembers very well the era of the seventy's in the eighty's especially when the communist party leadership didn't really change them they all stay there until the wage of five years old no i would rather disagree with those who predict stagnation in international politics for one simple fact. and this is the healthiest year 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 obvious that it's really disgusting of us use 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 a little russia not only the capitals has improved but putin and medvedev want to take it to the next step with the reshuffle in united russia already under way new faces transparency less corruption and more growth are all part of the platform the entry 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 until the last russia has a right to its own style democracy and he's now a party moscow journalist proud we are of the christian science monitor says that for the international community the prospect of light important becoming president is a sign of stability. people become more certain that there is war. type of system of power in russia and it's here to stay think that's what this the message of the world is but it's not

a bad message i don't think. it's quite some of the troubles of the continue you know between the west to east. and was seen as kind of so reliable predictable. partner the advance russian interests are very assertively. that we 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 and he is predictable. appreciate or excessive in any way so i think that people will just settle down to the idea that we've gotten for at least six more years if not twelve then go build relations with russia on that basis. i put in am a very of have been working side by side for more than a decade and saturday's announcement has shown their partnership is likely to continue our discussion being a child all looks at the background of a tandem at the top of russian politics look ale from sample his group will have the political house for ten years now the two have proved that

a double had it eagle on the russian flag is not only an emblem in the two thousand presidential vote out of brazil's office and putin was named his successor it was going to trinidad who managed his compatriot but the one first hear about me that if the years later when he became first deputy prime minister the senior and influential business magazine in russia would name him the man of the year overseeing national priority projects with very painted his vision for years to come and move away from a resource economy quarter nies the country get rid of caracas only these would later be put together in his manifesto the russian in december two thousand and seven during a similar united russia convention. he did it was informally indorsed as a candidate for the country's top job and these time it was cheney who delivered his successor as successful campaign that he supported that its popularity tolbert

seventy percent of the vote and in march two thousand and eight bill bennett was elected president widely regarded 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 makes standing the presidential term so if not him or putin makes it to the ground in march twenty twelfth he will serve six not four years we did a signature goal russia transformed it into goal posts in both motos brought the house skull and it was simply a president pos in the buff center and you counted it instead but you lost powerful man in russia simply swapped seats thus proving don't worry about us competing in the upcoming vote as we've said it will reach an agreement between us long before that it's in other children r t moscow. what

a global economy struggling to recover the head of russia's we could be banks as news put in taking part in their twenty twelve elections or encourage foreign investment. as if it's good news for the nationalism community particular now in the very start doing so. very what are the same investors now can see these the blue suit with very little force is to be the thing that would force. them to go on the line we need for speed economic growth to mention the rate of growth of the both six seven percent of g.d.p. as one of the mean targets for. the growth in the for me for the next two years until some of the numbers you want to do what we can use to like more than the zeeshan like improving the infrastructure maybe all the money for them to use we sure you swore no into the program or seem. to be concedes you will be coming for

someone else to them because it would be a crime in the same thing for the siting decisions on these numbers. and energy dot com we're asking what do you think will happen if president to be out of and prime minister putin do switch jobs. well so far almost half of our viewers say they were shuffle tan down will be a success because it will bring people what they want twenty nine percent think the plan swap will anger voters and boost support for the opposition twenty five percent feel that all those foreign investment in russia but not much change otherwise so you can have your say on the issue by a logging onto our web site r.t. dot com. now 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 arc is more important as more on the political complexities of the cakes. it was a weeklong gathering of the world's most politically powerful people but the heart of the united nations. the pursuit of peace in an imperfect world america's nobel prize winning president said in an ideal tone as the sixty sixth session of the un general assembly opened yet at the heart of almost all diplomatic dialogue. demonstrations and media attention was the palestinian pursuit of official u.n. membership than its own with the arab peoples affirm the quest for democracy in the arab spring term is known for the. time for independence. supported by the majority of u.n. member states president mahmoud abbas submitted an application for statehood i historical bit the us a staunch ally of israel now to block with

a security council veto this will not come through statements of resolutions at the united nations if it were that easy it would have been accomplished by that 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. if some european countries still use the whole cost of after sixty caves and as the excuse to pay a fine or ransom to the zionists should it be an obligation upon the slave masters or colonial powers to pay reparations to the affected nations mahmoud ahmadinejad's annual attack against the west and israel was a reminder that peace 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 friday russia the us 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 resent comprehensive opposes on borders and security that is the only way in the end we deal. the difficult issues around the table in the at 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 meets monday to discuss the palestinian bid for u.n. membership as the quest for peace goes on to visions over how to achieve it remain firmly in place. r.t. new york now to charles cohen a former cia officer who served in the directorate of operations there and also had an ear used in south asia division says israel's policy towards negotiations with

palestinians will ultimately 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 two parties to back to the negotiating table when one of the parties keeps grabbing land that 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 the intention of the israeli leadership is just to continue stalling until eventually. the west bank remains under israeli control but the problem with that is that what are they going to do with all these palestinian to remain inside they 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 vision on the part of the israelis that they don't see this happening or they don't care. from a standing our nation at the u.n. to a four year on the streets of the west bank there was a whale sounds of joy among so many of the statehood bid but on the border with israel their joy quitter into 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 celebrate across palestine after president mahmoud abbas submits a request to the united nations to recognize a palestinian state but as feared it wasn't all cheers alongside the celebrations violence clashes have erupted across the west bank as fears grow of a third intifada we're here in ramallah where there's a standoff between israeli army and palestinian protesters just

a short distance down the road there are tires burning everywhere the army is also using a new town device known as the screamer which and variable sound now the question here is very very tense beat the freight across the width bank one palestinian has been killed now what we understand happened is that some two hundred israeli settlers started burning the trees along the two palestinians in the village the army was called in and the result was one palestinian shot and killed in the mc. four months the israeli army has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians worry televisual 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 kalandia checkpoint scenes from unfolding here the mines are not necessarily there to deal with people who have

peaceful intentions but mines are a legitimate form of the since many countries have mines on their borders for that reason but the locals are outraged now they are going to work to mines. maybe it's not. at the heart of the clashes i was really sitters and palestinians both lame claim to the same piece of land jacob taylor has been farming deep in the hip 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 have got approved a document a document that is in. the measure no. average it go go go go but not so why should i make the same claim he insists the land has been in his family for some eight hundred years but 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 and i think even if a dog resist with force it's enough of a surplus 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 we've got more news and analysis on the situation in the west bank and the palestinian bid for independence on our web site r.t. dot com but there's plenty still ahead of the program including who will be the first to face charges over humanity crimes in battle colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy who is now suffering lawsuits over 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. leaked reports suggest some of the eurozone finance ministers already regard to greek economy as a lost cause they say the country is due to default on its debt of around three hundred fifty billion euro and i'm asked 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 due in october is now just seen as a means to buy eurozone some time to prepare this comes after the markets in europe and the us start their worst trading week since two thousand and eight prompting widespread fears of a looming recession and its arrival 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. in the united states of america group these

peaceably and you match in europe groups it's very low or it's going backwards and all of the problems you said also we've got this terrible terrible north side should be an issue with the lights. and so if we look at somewhere like china which has been a huge engine of the global economy well they've had some pretty good numbers coming out of the small banks and the two leading to the big fear is that maybe china is finally. at least for the time being it's how the huge credit expansion in the last two years looks really rather like europe of us looked in sort of two thousand and five two thousand and six two thousand and seven and i really fear that i mean if 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're watching exclusive interview with russia's finance minister alexei kudrin for his opinion on how the current crisis well pan out. leaving is transitional government forces have

renewed fighting with loyalists of the ousted leader colonel gadhafi in a lot of his the last stronghold the town of syria meanwhile some western leaders are facing charges at home over the legacy of their military intervention artie's daniel bushell examine the reasons for claims and you may find some of these images disturbing. french explorer minister rowland jumar says he's ready to defend me 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 in hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bill maher 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 he faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here

in france accuse the prisons of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war a new vietnam where the u.s. sprayed tens of millions of liters of talk seems on crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth defects to this day. 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 for crimes against humanity. first denied 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. video spider-man had ties and cultural and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack these wife or child or grandchildren were reportedly killed in their

home nato is accused of deliberately campaign of terror on their warnings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly needle ones and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. was delayed as a ploy for their first legal charlie dr livio if they stop because he's coming to pool together. it will prove once and for. politicians not the rule of law. see piracy. and as we continue our coverage of the events unfolding in libya you can catch up on anything you might have missed on our website there's also on a more available or to talk on here's what else you'll find there. alarming statistics show one in five british youngsters leave school without basic literacy and are struggling to find jobs as

a result. and snooze on the move the russian for a man builds a dream design called the sleeve box a peaceful shelter from airport hustle and bustle. is today once again flared up. these are the images the world isn't seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations. thousands of mourners gathered in the afghan capital kabul on friday for the funeral of the country's former president rouhani dean rabbani was assassinated on tuesday by a suicide bomber who had hidden the device in his turban and claimed to be a taliban envoy provider you have led the country in the nine hundred ninety s. was a key figure in current peace talks with the militants this attack follow the string

of high profile targeted killings including the murder of the current president's half brother in july daoud sultanzoy political analyst and former afghan m.p. says rabbani was trying to maintain stability and believes his loss may have hurt the alignment of forces in the country. he was a very moderate figure and he was. very important influence in bringing moderation . and stability and the politics of the country and mr karzai and others will miss that as are the problems that we are facing are monumental problems so three years is not very much time for the problems that are 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. war the taliban stepping out its attacks across afghanistan while their main sources of income is in full bloom the country's infamous drug trade kills tens of thousands of users

worldwide each year it's prompted renewed criticism of a blind eye turned by nato to the deadly problem despite its ten year long presence in the country going after ports from kabul. the penalty for drinking beer in kabul a 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 sea with the screaming and staring at them these insane conditions we still rubbish the room wait here where we're standing right now this is just incredible seek and heroin. it's all mixed injected or small to write on these piles of rubbish or rotten meat and indescribable. and no one policeman anywhere near but that's not all

we were told these people don't just continue to do drugs i mean of them called pakistan and came here and we don't have any jobs we don't have any kind of thing to do if you can save for the war for us i don't want. to study committee. the u.s. state department shores each family has at least one drug user all found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine or word there's no doubt that the area of contagion song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started on afghanistan i believe 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 you never get a step into a ball queens the markets global trade during war has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected states where the road eighty tons of heroin thought to a new resettle in the country you know 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 region meanwhile the international community and you use spends billions of dollars to fight afghanistan's drug traffic but since nato has no legal right to coordinate the funds are spent with very little positive results while officials say the multi-billion dollar i'm going drug network as the whole world and as a group you are just going off or gee kabul afghanistan our interview and a sport a just a had but before that i'll be back with headlines today that's. all

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