financial headlines to report. the guessing game is over president he had been prime minister of jobs after the twenty presidential election pledging to continue the pass a lot of his asian economic stability if they wish. palestine's un statehood bid euphoria degenerate into clashes this crowd in the west bank find himself battling have only armed israeli riot squads. to europe stop a national figures plan for an inevitable default that's according to leaked for. markets spreading fears of a double dip recession. you're

watching our history here the past seven days and today's top stories and we begin with saturday's big announcement that prime minister was a report and will run for presidency in two thousand and twelve the news came at a ruling it out of russia party convention current president dmitry medvedev will have a party in parliamentary elections and is ready to lead the government if they win are his 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 means i don't have to explain what kind of experience.

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 that 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 it will make you think you're going to. learn about it 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 you. know you but i am 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 with their party united russia in december as 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 they do. condemn as you say they send a political message to the russians as well to the world that if we do is not our beat it is not absolute this is a reliable construction which can work for years and you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement even the delegates were really taken aback when you know we are linked in terms 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 i mentioned say you throw out. i say he's

of course the risk of political stagnation and also all these crimes remember very well the iraq of the seventy's in the eighty's especially when the communist party leadership didn't really change that and they all stayed there until the weight of five years old which no i would rather disagree with those who predict stagnation in russian 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 u.s. especially push for across one of the world's most unstable regions i think it's it's really disgusting how the u.s. is 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 the oil and control these 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 law rushnell to only capitals as in force 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 i r t moscow. trapping microdrive is crucial for developing russia's economy at me and perhaps a professor of politics at the university of kansas one believes it becomes president he should make this a priority. i think for the best would only be forthcoming in much greater scope when corruption and the rule of law you know are changed there's too much rampant

corruption and too little rule of law. i think it has the authority to do something about that i think after. two presence he needs to strengthen those institutions and he needs a government that can implement with presidents beautiful haps becoming prime minister that might be possible but it's not just changing personnel you need to also change policy you need to implement across the country we can minister capacities around russia. fortunately still around if you must consider vibrant cities you cannot solve the case for the region so we need much greater determination and implementation to get up to the ruling town and to. put i am a very good working side by side for more than a decade and saturday's announcement has shown their partnership is likely to continue are to travel looks at the bad route of the tandem at the top of russian politics move heal from stamp it is the political hound for ten years now but to

have proved it a double headed eagle on the russian flag is not only an emblem in the two thousand presidential world after brazil's left office and putin was named his successor it was going to try to manage his complain but the world would hear about five 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 the good of painted his vision for years to come away from a resource economy modernize the country. against all these would later be put together in his manifesto the goal russia in december two thousand and seven jury in a similar united russia convention mitigated. normally indorsed as a candidate for the country's top job and these time it was delivered his successor in a successful campaign. that its popularity to over seventy percent of the vote and

in march two thousand and eight he did 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 makes standing the presidential term so if i didn't put in makes it to the kremlin in march two thousand and twelve he will serve six not four years with a bit of signature goal russia transformed into. both lot of those brought the house style it wasn't simply a president passing the buck to a new candidate's inserts the two most powerful man in russia simply swapped seats thus proving don't worry about us competing in the upcoming vote as we will reach an agreement between us long before that it's immigrant children r t.

and it already dakar we are asking what do you think will happen if president prime minister putin do switch jobs so far almost half of you say the reshuffle tanna will be a success because all bring people what they want twenty nine percent think their plan swap will anger voters and boost support for the opposition twenty five percent feel it will boost for investment in russia but not much will change otherwise why volunteer website or to com to tell us what you think. palestinian officials have accused the us of putting pressure on members of the un security council to keep them from voting in favor of a free palestine alice say that washington is keen to be spared the embarrassment of having to veto the bid which would be disastrous for its cry out ability as a peacemaker are his reward now asked more on the political complexities of the case. it was a weeklong gathering of the world's most politically powerful people but the heart

of the united nations. 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 u.n. general assembly open it yet at the heart of almost all diplomatic dialogue. demonstrations and media attention was the palestinian pursuit of official u.n. membership. into tone with the arab peoples affirm their quest for democracy in the arab spring the time is now for the spring time for independence supported by the majority of u.n. member states president mahmoud abbas submitted an application for statehood historical bit the us a staunch ally of israel now to block with a security council veto these will not come through statements and resolutions up united nations if it were that easy it would have been accomplished by that 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. if some european countries still use the whole 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 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 u.s. european union and the u.n. 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 do. with the difficult issues around the table in a negotiation 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 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 during uproar in iowa r.t. new york dr charles cullen a former cia officer who served in the directorate of operations there and also head of the new year east and 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 the two parties to back to the negotiating table and one of the priorities 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 part which is not inclined to yield after all netanyahu has twice. president obama how much settlements issue and on the borders issue the intention of the israeli leadership is just to continue stalling until eventually the. the west bank remains on the israeli control with a problem with the head is not going to going to do a goalie's chemistry needed to remain inside they can't push them over the river into jordan so you're going to eventually have in majority arab population in israel and i think bitches it's a tragic lack of strategic good 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 korea on the streets of the west bank there was a real sense of joy among so many at the statehood bid but out of war with israel their joint quickly turned to violence culminating in clashes between police and palestinians artist costlier takes up the story. and historic moment after decades of struggle tens of thousands of weight across palestine after president mahmoud abbas admits a request to the united nations to recognize a palestinian state but as feared it wasn't or cheers and on side celebrations violence clashes have erupted across the west bank as he is grow up 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 found device known as the scream at which unbearable sound now be to ation

here is very very tense be clashes the freight across the west bank one palestinian has been killed now what we understand happened is that country one hundred israeli fake it started burning the trees along to palestinians in the village the army was called in and the result was one palestinian shot and killed in the nick. 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 pointing land mines on israel's northern borders to prevent the columbia checkpoint scenes from unfolding here the mines are not this is a really very to deal with people who have peaceful intentions of mines or a legitimate form of the sense any countries have mines on their borders for that reason but the locals are outraged now they are going to would.

maybe it's more come for. at the heart of the clashes i was really sick has and palestinians both claim claim to the same piece of land jacob taylor has been farming deep in the headline hills for more than twenty years he says there's the land is his and he has the papers to prove it and we are the only people in the world there have got a group of document a document that the. international law it is advertised. but not so what makes 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 is a very hard feeling but what can i do and i think even if we don't resist and forces in africa surpluses will send something the army will come immediately and arrest us and this means 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 artie muller. more news and analysis on the situation in the west bank and a palestinian bid for an appearance on our web site r.t. dot com but there's plenty still have the program including who will be the first to face charges over humanity crimes of battle current gadhafi or president sarkozy was now suffering losses 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. leaked reports suggest some of the euro zone's finance minister is 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 euros 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 a greek default the new one hundred fifty billion euro bailout package due in a tour is now just seen as a means to buy a euro zone some time to prepare this comes after the markets in europe and the us saw their own worst rating weeks in two thousand and eight prompting widespread fears of the looming double dip recession the root of the u.s. problem is the fact that the single currency has been a political project from the very start that's the view of british and. gloom what is the most frightening thing but most terrifying thing is almost nobody here really understands the sort of danger the global economy is now in it's extremely frightening we heard of bankrupt country is we have a european central bank which is underwriting junk. with taxpayers' money and this

is exactly the sort of problems we had in two thousand and eight with lehmann brothers portugal's broke greece is broke all those groups be broke. the french are talking a good story but if you look at the numbers before and three no better position it's afraid of currency project currency is a fall you're. the world i'm a little bit surprised it's taken so long. for italian bonds to be downgraded and i tell you something else if i may this is been a political project from the beginning and i would have the people responsible incarcerated in jail at this very moment the euro has been about politics since the very beginning the c.p.s. of was no lender of last resort except the taxpayer and the taxpayer is already rappelling they simply can't go warm this project has no political democratic mandate it is doomed to ended in tears it's just a question of exactly when before christmas or after christmas. the greek debt crisis however a bad may turn out is unlikely to affect russia's economy that's the view of

russian finance minister i would say quadrant they watch an exclusive interview with him next hour but here is a preview. there were a few things for the rupee and powers of enough resources to save greece and so we are hoping they will shoulder with us to do that and i've got stop the spread of this contagion look at. these risks remain at the same time if the debt crisis does spread it's not affecting these directly because our banks do not hold any of this year but food about french and german banks on your heart will suffer greatly because they will who own their homes that would not be cleared here could use will cause problems within these banks problems with these banks credit some overall problems on these markets because banks are after all the leading players of this in turn may. have circumstance and in fact some of the would like to stress that we would respond just like during the latest crisis give her this time the crisis will have a much smaller effect. b.b.'s

transitional government forces have renewed fighting with loyalists of the ousted leader colonel gadhafi in a lot of his last stronghold the town of syria meanwhile so western leaders are facing charges a hold over the legacy of their military intervention artie's they are bushell examine their reasons for planes you will find some of these images disturbing. fridge explorer minister roland jamal says he's ready to defend me in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but later will have to follow in the comal first libya's deposed leader is that 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 sarkozy faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here are frauds accuse the presence of crits in 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. 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. videos spider-man had toys and cultural moves and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack he's wife and child and grandchildren were reportedly killed in

their home nato is accused of deliberately campaign of terror. warnings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders a 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 politicians not the rule of law the new bush or r.t. paris as we continue our coverage of events unfolding in libya you can catch up on anything and i had this in our website but there's also plenty more available. elsewhere there. alarming statistics show while five british youngsters leave school with. basic literacy can are struggling to find jobs as a result. and it's news on the move

a russian firm unveils its dream design cold the sleeve box at peaceful shelter from airport hustle and bustle. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corp's room today. thousands of mourners gathered in the afghan capital kabul on friday for the funeral how the country's former president ronald dean rabbani was assassinated on tuesday by a suicide bomber who had hidden the device and his turban and claimed to be a taliban and boy rabbani who had led the country in the one hundred ninety s. was a key figure in current peace talks with the militants this is taxol of a 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 peace as providing was trying to maintain stability and believes his loss may 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 some of the problems that we are facing are monumental problems so three years is not very much time for the problems that are going to sayas 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 time. well that's how one stepping up its attacks across afghanistan one of their main sources of income isn't 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 a country i does it work is going 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 what's right there under this bridge in the center of the city with all the screaming and staring at them these insane conditions we rubbish being through here where we're standing right now this is just incredible secret. heroin. it's all mixed injected or small to write on more on these piles of rubbish rotten meat and an indescribable. one policeman anywhere near but that's not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs and many of them all

this is on the game here and we don't have any job we don't have any kind of thing to do if you can see for the reward for that either by the police as well as a study commissioned by the. make sure that each family has at least one drug user or are found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine their word 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 of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan interval cleans the markets global trade has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark russia is one of the worst affected state with around eighty tons of heroin 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 is no such directive. many experts find this a bit strange given the fact that a large part of revenues from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban needles key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community spends billions of dollars to fight drug traffic but since nato has no legal way to coordinate the funds are spent with very little by the resort well officials say the multi-billion dollar afghan drug network has the whole world in its grip you've got this kind of . again a step. and a few minutes still miss our technology update about the future of green algae before that i'll be back with the top stories.