just go on and on saturday the biggest secret in russian politics was finally exposed it's now certain that prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency in two thousand and twelve speaking at the ruling united russia party convention current president to be preventive made that announcement while agreeing to head the party in parliamentary elections he also said he's ready to lead the government if they win that he's in this in our witness the historic speeches first . the wait is over but i believe it would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of applied to me or putin and the presidential election. in the. this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience it under thirty putin has. the issue here is. to say something else because

there's been a split within our town i can see that this is a well thought through and decision. putin is running for president was good as. i like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor a golden age is. what you are but i think that 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 dmitri you know that was. not the issue you. was going to be just what i'm convinced to become prime minister continue to thoroughly modernize our society. the 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. tender as you say they sent a political message to the russians as a result of the best of the world that it. is not our debate it is not absolute this is our. construction which can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement even the delegates there were really taken aback when the you know. of course everybody expected it but it must count as one of the best kept secrets really in recent political history the west has already started emphasizing how much the moon lacks surprise i'm sure that some of the opposition political commentators who mentions are you proud to say is of course the risk of political stagnation and after all these country members very well the euro of the

seventy's in the eighty's especially one the communist party leadership didn't really change that and they all stayed there until the way to 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 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 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 all and control these populations you know 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 life in russia lower 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 a ready under way new faces transparency less corruption and more growth are all part of a platform from the 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 still the west russia has a right to its own style democracy and he's now i r t moscow. let's get some more thoughts about these developments go live now to austria. he's professor of political science and university professor thanks for being on our two international how do you think the foreign policy of russia will change that if putin does become the president again. individual changes need. not be a. little

little. mind. it sure. i prefer so i'm terribly sorry but we've got an awful lot in there we couldn't hear a word you say but thank you. professor of political science for at least trying to get through your thought so it's an artsy international try to get back to later and get a better lied so i am to cut that interview a bit short ok the wonders of modern technology are now at r.t. dot com just let me tell you we're asking you what you think will happen if president medvedev and prime minister putin do switching jobs is what it's telling

you so far it seems almost a half of you believe the reshuffle tandem will be a success because you think it will give people what they want twenty six percent of your vote this is great the further you say it was what would anger voters strength of the opposition instead of a quarter of you believe it will attract foreign investment to russia you know there's some stability on the cards but not much else will change otherwise log on the website r.t. dot com tell us what you think. history was made this week at the un this president mahmoud abbas deliver the palestinian bid for statehood and received a standing ovation as he addressed the general assembly cheering crowds gathered in ramallah to give him a hero's welcome as he arrived from new york dressing the rally declared the beginning of the palestinian spring when he spoke to the un assembly on friday jubilant scenes played out across the palestinian territories but words quickly turned to violence on the west bank border culminating in clashes between police and palestinians artie's poor picks up the story. and historic moment after decades

of struggle tens of thousands celebrated just palestine after president mahmoud abbas said it's a good place to be i hasten to recognize a palestinian state but as feared it wasn't orci is alongside the city abrasions violence clashes have erupted across the west bank as fears grow of a third intifada we're here in ramallah where there is a standoff between the israeli army and palestinian protesters just a short distance down the road there are tires burning everywhere the army as i say using a new sound device known as the scream which unbearable sound now the situation here is very very tense because the freight across the west bank is one kind of thing and has been killed now what we understand happened is that country one hundred israeli fake it 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 mc. four 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 pointing land mines on israel's northern borders to prevent the columbia 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 defense many countries have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are trying to mines. it maybe it's more comfort for. ripping them at the heart of the clashes are israeli settlers and palestinians both main claim to the same piece of land jacob taylor has been farming deep in the hebron hills 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 these national information though it is advertised they call it the bible 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 it's a very hard feeling but what can i do nothing or even if we don't resist with force it's enough that the surplus as we said stop the army will come immediately and arrest us this fence cuts through farm meaning that white 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 politically r t. so no to social or political analyst. joining us from ramallah mr robert thanks for

being on r.t. speaking to jubilant crowd of polly's arrival home. put out the beginning of the palestinian spring of course but it is likely to be vetoed by the us what is next for palestine in reality that. well i do believe that the palestinians have regained quite a lot of things that they have lost in the past few months which is primarily an increase and intensification of their national identity this now realize that the peace process the negotiations with israel have been futile and they felt it was time to take things in our own hands and that's what precisely did by going to be united nations and by saying by stating clearly to the world that israel is not the really is not willing to have peace with the palestinians so we'll do it in our own way and we go to the international legitimacy for that more that's the political side of it but of course the politics plays out so does the trouble as well i mean

the day that was presented we saw clashes a lot of trouble on the border is that it was presented now if it is vetoed a lot of people are afraid the earth third intifada could begin is that a likely scenario do you think. it is possible but i think for the short term it will not be so the palestinians are willing and are saying and clearly stating that yes we are willing to sacrifice assistance from the u.s. because it is our dignity it's our right to have peace even if that right implies that we will have less and less economic assistance from the americans who are willing. to sacrifice for that and maybe in the long term if this becomes very hard on them we might see an intensification of education and hence perhaps another intifada but i don't foresee it in the short term go back to the politics of middle east peace quartets calling for peace talks. how will the bit affect the process do

you think and well i think the palestinians are for peace the majority of palestinians support a peace settlement but with the current israeli government the majority of palestinians believe that it is not a good peace partner they are not willing for peace and they are not supportive of peace and that makes them quite anguished and quite. suspicious of the intentions of the israeli government and as such they don't put high hopes on the what the quartet the same because the court it is precisely sent exactly what palestinians have been going through in the past twenty odd years if it did all work out if palestine did get the statehood how are those big problems on the border going to be solve those big issues of whether people living on disputed ground what's going to happen to them. well i think that is quite problematic and if a palestinian state does place then it is because it would become the international

responsibility responsibility of around the world to make a settlement a final settlement for borders because if that doesn't happen then we are going to see further and further escalation in violence and further destabilization of the region and that could reflect fully on the rest of the world i think ok live from from ramallah thanks for bringing us your thoughts political and the socialists on r.t. thank you very much. now we're going to go back to our top story may recall if you were there or just with us about fifty minutes ago we were trying to talk to. professor professor of political science or universe to talk more about the big political news we had yesterday prime minister putin says he's going to run for president in the twenty twelve elections as try and catch up with professor van got together so we professor good to see if we can hear last time i know it is quite a long answer but i'll repeat it again let's do this all again if we may how do you

think the foreign policy of russia will change if putin does become president. i do not think that it will change substantially maybe not in essence. relations. of the presidency relations very strained he was quite aggressive. in the drive to continue. with the initiatives will effect however a very big question mark is who is going to win elections in the united states. it is the case that. related. to exactly how he did i didn't expect relations. for his part dmitri medvedev still president of course very much for the last for the last rest of his term he's been trying to leave russia on a path to modernization all through his presidency what was kind of his initiatives

now when he becomes the pm. well if it becomes a crime yes well both could in. that they do share a common use for a future the divorce accord the process of modernization i do think i do have a complete completely different understanding of what modernization means mr putin is no doubt asked to take the lead role in modernization and more than his asian forest who didn't shit for chris only coral. media whenever he thinks that morning station needs to know how the support of all of society not just and it has to go beyond modernization and including the liberalization of the critical system and more freedom for the media and law and i do not think. corporations between the two given these differences in what they think about modernization.

what about putin is going to pick up if he does become president where he left off or you think there will be some change we just put a bit more meat on the bones of. what i think there needs to be a substantial change and what we will not see is. i would. reconsider because the situation in russia is much different problem of the year two thousand was first elected president russian economic situation is not russia's economy is growing again but quite moderately so only about four percent. of the budget deficit is is going to lie despite substantial really strong. exports it's because our the any increase is being planned and are being implemented russia is running. in about two years from now and then the energy sector can of him or longer sustain economic growth which is unnecessary for mr putin's regime to good. so printing

needs to steer a different course. and financial. well he needs a professional political team and that's why government are so i. would rather people like the liberal government he had. his first and his performance will be much more has to be much different from why not. just just briefly before you go i mean they didn't run against each other there was a lot of speculation that they might maybe even of the party would be formed so that that could happen it also prized by by today by yesterday's announcement. actually was not. expected to. obviously have to do. the. you know. announced.

change in the leadership now they cannot speak to must not. sure need and that's not what rush can afford to. run against each other and election of course would have meant an all out war between the clouds behind these two and one of the clients would have lost. both clients when the keeps for. those two. particular interests very good to get your thoughts on the program professor of political science of import university glad we moved to catch up with you a loss there thank you. but the big story for the week a finnish priest has been temporarily defrocked first speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorist of pastor you are moderate and. center website which he believes acts as a mouthpiece for deadly campaign for the right side with your but says the authorities a shelter of militants by protecting the websites activity. actually your home or

is only repeating what is said about the activities of all of this terrorist organization by united nations by the usa by russia by the international media so actually you are morally cannot repeat the same information in finland which is said in the international media about these terrorist organizations the person who is responsible of the website it is me he has organized some migration off militants from turkey to finland and now he is facing charges he's prosecuted in finland over the same time he has a very strong support on the highest level of the finnish. and also in the finnish government for example the minister of development of finland had hoped always very close partner to make i was told so the situation is really strange finland ease actually protecting these militants and they are all going to

i think their activities on the territory of finland. go a lot more a web site r.t. dot com of course including you are mulattos blog on the controversial website and its activity claims that the center's already written some two hundred insulting articles about them if you want to furnish yourself with more details of this ongoing story it is on our website tonight. libya's transitional government forces have stepped up an offensive on one of gadhafi is last strongholds of sirte that's after saturday's attack failed to defeat the colonel's loyalists meanwhile some western leaders are facing accusations at home over the legality of the military intervention r.t. don't you bush will examine the reasons behind the claims you may find some images coming up in this report disturbing. for injects foreign 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 join the comal first libya's deposed

leader is in hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin ladin 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 sarkozy faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the president 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. 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 seeing president sarkozy for crimes against humanity nato first denied bombing this

residence where 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 toys and cultural moves and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack. is why for a child the grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately waging a campaign of terror. bombings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly nato bombs 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 chickadee it will prove once and for all that

western justice really used run by politicians not the rule of law the new bush or r.t. paris talked about a website just now worth mentioning though you keep up to date as well with all the latest on how the situation is unfolding in iran libya also online from us tonight on. these stories get a lot of clicks to from you this sort of rushes heading back to mars after a twenty year pause a scientific probe is blasting off to the red vallon again find out about the mission more details that are t. dot com. just britney spears kicks off her world tour here in russia we speak exclusively to the american pop diva of find out why she sees herself as an underground star dot com. talks of a possible greek default grew louder this week league reports suggested some of the eurozone finance ministers already regard the country's economy as a lost cause the i.m.f. has reportedly given e.u. countries six weeks to build up a financial fire wall to protect themselves from the shock wave of the greek

default it comes amid rising fears of a double dip recession of the world's markets or their worst week since two thousand and eight patrick and the executive director of an investment advisory firm says the pay to the global financial crisis looks inevitable now at this stage . let's look at it in the united states of america growth is basically any match in europe group of these very low or it's going backwards in all of them if you're economies and also we've got this terrible terrible north sideslip beach issue with the likes of greece and if we look at somewhere like china which has been a huge engine of the global economy well they had some pretty bad manufacturing numbers come on and that too is leading to a big fear that maybe china is finally heading the buffers at least for the time being it's had a huge credit expansion in the last two years that looks really rather like europe and 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 two thousand and twelve. well the greek debt crisis over bad it might turn out likely to favor russia's economy at least that's the view of russian finance minister elect you to watch an exclusive interview with him in a few minutes time. if the debt crisis does spread used it does not affect us too much at least directly because our banks do not hold any of the. french and german banks on the other hand will suffer greatly because they were not bombs on their hands that would not be true. this 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. very interesting chat coming out with him in just a moment's time in fact a couple of minutes it's now coming up to eight thirty pm it's eight twenty seven

in fact here in moscow my name's kevin oh and thanks for being with us about the sport as well in fifteen minutes after that interview kate reveals tonight how russia sports minister thinks the bears for lions at the rugby world cup more than shortly thanks for being with our international.

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live from moscow you're watching the weekly artie's news review of the week in our top stories top job intrigue president would better have been prime minister putin could swap jobs in the twenty twelve presidential election pledging that tandem will continue to work for russia. emotions running high as palestinians bid for statehood at the u.n. with a standing ovation in new york but clashes at the border in the west bank. the finnish priest speaking out against the chechen terrorist website finds himself defrocked in disgrace with his plight ignored by the mainstream media. and greek default is inevitable and the e.u. top officials know it leaked reports reveal the recession could go even deeper than first believed it. was staying with the subject of the economy next to r.t. spoke to russia's finance minister. who discussed the country's.