the job in three heads president veteran prime minister putin could swap jobs after the twenty twelve presidential election time that will continue to work for russia . also emotions running high as palestinians bid for statehood at the u.n. with standing ovations in new york and clashes at the border in the west bank. a finnish priest speaking out against a chechen terrorist website finds himself defrocked and disgraced with his plight ignored by the mainstream media. and greek default inevitable and top officials know it leaked reports reveal the recession could go even deeper than first feared .

welcome it's nine pm sunday night here in moscow i'm kevin owen and this is our review of the main news stories of the past week but yesterday saturday the biggest secret in russian politics has exposed it's no certain the prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency in two thousand and twelve speaking at a ruling united russia party convention current president to be to a good bed of made the announcement while agreeing to head the party in parliamentary elections he also said he's ready to lead the government if a when he's innocent witness the historic speeches first. the wait is over. i believe it would be right for the convention to support the counter to save life in your platoon and the presidential election.

this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under thirty putin has. he sure has got four hundred votes and say something else with it because spite 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'd like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor of the whole nature. thank you but if you look at 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 here you. play it but i'm just i'm convinced to become prime minister cameron 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 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. as you say they send a political message to the russians as well to the best of the wealth that. it is not outdated it is not absolute this is a lie. construction which can work for years you see you describe effect and so what is the announcement even 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 west has already started

emphasizing how much the move lacks surprise i'm sure that some of the opposition political commentators have mentions when you say he's of course the risk of political stagnation and also all these country members very well the era of the seventy's in the eighty's especially one the communist party leadership didn't really 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. 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. 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 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 alone russia not only the capitals has improved but putin and medvedev want to take it to the next step but the research for the united russia already under way new faces transparency less corruption and more growth are all part of the platform from 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 and so the west has a right to its own style democracy and he's now artsy moscow. good's professor of political science at innsbruck university told me putin is likely to continue but of course sort of pragmatic stuff. both.

for russia's future the divorce accord the process of thought and isolation. requests really little effect however a very big question mark is what is going to win the elections in the united states . if it is the case that. the election. from the republican party takes a really how do we expect our relations materially now that they can't believe that's really been the great extent it's really and it's not the brush can afford. oh reality dot com or ask you know i want you think will happen if present a very different prime minister putin doing their switching jobs this is what you're telling me so far seems obvious the half of you still believe the reshuffle tandem will be a success has gone by one percent since last because you think it will give people what they want twenty six percent again right about the same as last time

a third of you. think the us what would anger voters and strengthen the opposition of support of your calls and another quarter of you twenty five percent feel attract foreign investment of russia but not change much otherwise but so what you think still plenty of time to do it. history was made this week at the un as president mahmoud abbas to live with the palestinian bid for statehood and received a standing ovation is the address the general assembly cheering crowds gathered in ramallah to give him a hero's welcome as he arrived from new york ever since the rally he 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 there is this story. and historic movement after tickets of struggle tens of thousands seeing if we dispensed by after placing the price of the

police to the united nations to recognize the state but as feared it wasn't all true it is a non-scientist abrasions violence clashes have erupted across the west bank as fears grow of the food into florida we are here in ramallah which is a scandal between israeli army and palestinian poach it is just a short distance down the road there are tires burning everywhere the army is i think using a new town device known as the scream at which to make an bearable found now be it you mention here is very very painful be trashing the freight i thank my kind of thing and has been killed by what we understand happened is that thank you hundred israeli people it started. then i mean the trees belonging to palestinians in the village the army was called in and the result was one hell of a man shot and killed in the next. two months the israeli army has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians one retailer we 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 a neighbor half 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 very to deal with people who have peaceful intentions but mines are a legitimate form of percents many countries have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are trying to would. bring them at the heart of the clashes are israeli citizens and palestinians both lane came to the same piece of land jacob taylor has been farming decon 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 what a group a document a document that these. children in the measure know it nice everet that they call

it the bible but not so large and 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 nothing in the dog resist with force it's enough of a surplus as we said some of the army will come immediately and arrest us this pains 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 it's always will be policy r.t. ramallah. political activists noro day told me that despite the impending veto palestinians regard the bill as a major breakthrough. as palestinians we have a very high confirms of national pride at this moment that even though we know that

veto is most likely coming out the next week or the other it really makes no difference but there is a very high sense of national like she's meant at this point because for one thousand two of those are very disappointing years of the so-called peace process the political leadership and the popular popular public opinion are in line and they're in an on one side of the political debate if you will going back to negotiations is not something palestinians are posed on principle but if we go back to negotiations with our occupiers and that's what israel is without any terms of reference without israel clearly committing to international law clearly committing to its obligations according to international law and relevant u.n. resolutions then it's purely pointless. we've got more news analysis on the situation the west bank and the palestinian bid for independence on a website or t. dot com there's plenty still ahead here as well in the program we are school be

first to face charges of crimes against humanity and battled colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy who now faces possible legal action over the military intervention in libya. also a booming drug industry destroys lives and fool's terrorism but little is done to stop it we report later from kabul. next a finnish priest has been temporarily defrocked for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorist maarouf pasta you while a very denounced the center website which he believes axis of mouthpiece for a bar of deadly campaign finnish human rights activist your back when it says the authorities are sheltering militants are protecting their websites activity. actually you know how melodious only repeating what he 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. he has organized the mass migration off militants from it to finland and now he is facing charges he's prosecuted in finland but at the same time he has a very strong support on the highest level of the finnish or fishel duma and also in the finnish government for example the minister of development of finland had a hotel is very close partner to. solve a situation is really strange film and he's actually protecting these militants and they are all going i think their activities on the territory of finland. a lot more on this story on our website as well as com including your military blog of the controversial web site of this activity claims that have care centers already

written some two hundred insulting articles about it if you want to find out more and to r.t. the can. talk of a possible greek default group of this week leaked reports suggest some of the eurozone finance ministers already regard the country's economy as a lost cause the most reportedly given e.u. countries six weeks notable the financial firewater 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 saw their worst week since two thousand and eight patrick young's executive director of the investment advisory firm he told us the repeat of the global financial crisis is it looks inevitable now at this stage. but let's look at it in the united states of america growth these peace achille only match in europe were 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 binge issue with the light some problems and if we look at summerland 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 period maybe china is finally hitting the bottle 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 the role that the world economy is in for a very very difficult year in twenty twelve the greek debt crisis however bad it might turn out though is unlikely to affect russia's economy that's the view of russia's finance minister lex he could have got an exclusive interview there next hour is a quick. if the debt crisis will spread loose it does not affect us too much these directly because our banks do not hold any of the greek debt is she with french and german banks on the other hand will suffer greatly because they will not want on their hands that would not be cleared in the us will cause problems with him these

banks problems with these banks credit some overall problems on these markets because banks are after all the leading players. libya's transitional government forces have stepped up an offensive on one of the graphics last strongholds of sirte that's after saturday's attack failed to defeat the colonel's loyalists meantime some western leaders are facing accusations at home over the legality of their military intervention bushell examined the reasons behind the claims in the week you may find some of these images coming up in this report disturbing. french explorer minister roland jamal says he's ready to defend . in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but later will have to join the coble first libya's deposed leader is it hiding for good reason. if it finds him will kill him like a model some states are now claiming the right to kill but 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 presence of committing crimes against humanity his lawyer calls the libyan war renew vietnam with the u.s. raid 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 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 suing president sarkozy for crimes against humanity. first did noid bombing this residence where thirteen civilians including four children died then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed books

videos. toys and cultural things nothing nothing literally in another attack a weed these wife a child a grown children were reportedly killed in their home was accused of deliberately campaign of terror. warnings 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 tickled me it will prove once and for all that western justice really used by politicians not the rule of law and shorty paris. but of a high profile killing shoka afghanistan this week the country's former president an advocate of peace talks with the taliban was assassinated on choose day or so

sad. attack for her living room but he was killed by militants who had an explosive device and turban claiming to be a taliban envoy revalued led the country in the one nine hundred ninety s. was a key figure in current peace talks with the militants thousands of mourners gathered in the afghan capital kabul on friday for his funeral a bombing followed a string of high profile targeted killings including the murder of the current president's half brother in july but the taliban stepping up its attacks in afghanistan one of their main sources of income is in full bloom right now but nato isn't doing anything about that as artie's it appears could not find that. 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 either there's a bridge in the center of the seat with the obvious coming and staring at them all these insane conditions we still rubbish being wrong wait here where we're standing

right now this is just incredible to see. heroin. it's all cooked mixed injected or small to the right i'm on these piles of rubbish and no one policeman anywhere near. that not all or to all these people don't just come here to do drugs i mean you have them call the score pakistan and you can hear we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can say fog of war had there been. a study commissioned by the us state department chills each family has at least one drug user all peers arlie are found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine their blood is not open area of plantation song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started an afghanistan i believe the war was the root cause that forced afghan people to turn to poppy

growing around ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan interpol cleans the markets global trade turnover has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark russia is one of the worst affected states where around eighty tons of heroin thought to any resettle in the country like 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. i mean the experts find this a bit strange given the fact that a large part of revenues from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban needle's key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community spends billions of dollars to fight again it stands drug traffic but since nato has no legal way to coordinate the funds are spent with very little part of the results while officials

say that multi-billion dollar drug network as the whole world and is a group has gone off party kabul afghanistan. elsewhere around the world tonight four explosions of the city of karbala in southern iraq at least nine people have been killed and over a hundred have been injured two of the explosions happened near a government office which issues identity cards to iraqi citizens no one so far as tender sponsibility for the attacks. nineteen people died in a plane crash in nepal that was carried through is to mount everest and it failed to land killing all one passenger instantly in the surviving victim then later died in hospital eyewitnesses report the aircraft clipped one of the houses in a local village before crashing and casualties reported on the ground. huskies in one remote arctic town the work doesn't stop once the snow has melted in a bid to reduce the number of cars on the road and pollution they cause the island of spitsbergen to introduce a new original concept of his exam the boy could travel north to find out

a bit more. that's what it really means to put the shoulder into their will contrary to popular opinion huskies don't go on vacation once the snow melts. or two. cars to the top of your car. in fact in the world snowden will see the doctor is a year round phenomenon. where the only means of transportation around archipelago until the mid ninety's and while by now cars and no one will have replaced them in many parts of the north here in prison bergen is pulling the way. it's not only more environmental of crime rate but also safer you can always rely on recalls to deal with the cold while dogs will never live for down. like most of the residents of no wrestling european robert wasn't born here. in

his mid twenty's fleeing big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature he says who king his g.p. friend he's barking female peter mares is the major change of his life plus it gives the dogs the story beats no. exercise every day so. when it improves with. going out training in my car some two thousand residents along here and beyond is little more than a white place in the road they meet will be any traffic police but the rules of the road are no less treat the local authorities have already closed some of the archipelagos routes to motorised traffic with more restrictions to come. the loading force behind a partial car ban is very poor think also and every dog lover she like is driving just milking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are no smoking areas

why shouldn't there be. norm driving areas here small boats are country in norway and many other places also here in the north. and i think they we're living in big towns we need the silent room where we can leave all what's around us in our normal days we need to rest our brain as the acapella tries to attract more to wrist some suggest that big her restrictions may have a commercial appeal because people around the world reporting increasing traffic pity me may be in need of a car free refuge beast russian traveler queen cost of and moscow by point jurors always want to needs towards the absence of honking horns leads you instantly fall in love with it wait the most amazing moment i experience here on soul but it's of course the traffic the lack of traffic even early on january first in moscow you cannot find that if you cross like you see here to ban cars in the favor of dogs

it's an absolutely great great idea and this would probably attract more and more tourists down here going to dance is obviously not an option for every speedy but here has he's definitely don't feel like a real. artsy long bergen archipelago. beautiful the world is and i will continue traveling as well in just a couple of minutes tonight here on our teaser take in the far east in a special report coming up in a couple of minutes it's now just in laughter twenty six minutes past nine pm moscow time i'm kevin i know love you about with a recap of the week's top stories here in just a minute or two of them here in r.t. international.

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