i'll tell you tonight top job in three games president little better than prime minister putin could swap jobs out of the twenty twelve presidential election pledging the tandem will continue to work for russia. emotions running high as palestinians bid for statehood at the u.n. with standing ovations in new york but clashes at the border in the west bank. a finnish priest speaking out against a child shouldn't terrorist web site finds himself before opting disgraced but his plight ignored by the mainstream. and greek default is inevitable and even top officials know it leaked reports reveal the recession could go even deeper than first.

welcome it's ten pm sunday night here in moscow money kevin zero in this is our review of the main news stories of the past week and the big one yesterday saturday the biggest secret in russian politics was exposed it's now certain that prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency in two thousand and twelve speaking at a ruling united russia party convention current president dmitri medvedev made the announcement well agreeing to head the party in parliamentary elections he also said he's ready to lead the government if they win he said this is now a witness the historic speeches. the wait is over. i believe it would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of live near putin in a presidential election i

. know that. this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience i'm to thora tea party or putin has. i usually ask us off when 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'd like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor. if you're going to. and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask all russian citizens to support the united russia party with. you. i'm convinced to become prime minister and we 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. or tandem as you say sent a political message to the russians as a role to the best of the world with their visa it is not our big it is not absolute this is a reliable construction which can work for years you see it is quite effective and so what is the announcement even the delegates there were absolutely taken aback when you know it was only 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 i mentioned to you throughout say he's of course the risk of political stagnation and after all these kinds remembers very well the iraq of the seventy's in the eighty's especially one the communist party leadership didn't. the change then they all stay there until the waves are five years old now i would rather disagree with those who predict stagnation in in russian politics for one simple fact. and this is healthier 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 it's really disgusting our us has used the arab spring to try to use it to put in their new dictators their new friends and their fictitious

democracies to be able to control the oil we 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 lower russia not only the capitals has improved but putin imagery if 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 intrigue is dead and now the real work begins united russia has to convince the country they are the party to move past stability towards further development and so the west has a right to its own style of democracy and he's now r t moscow the carter years of political analyst to the voice of russia radio station in washington ricardo very good evening chief thanks very much artie international so that what you think about putin running for the top job again what's the response was your response was

more broadly the response in the u.s. . well actually kevin there's been no official response as of yet another going to state department i think the white house of course this is certainly an internal matter right now for russia but as again as your reporter mentioned this is really no surprise so i was talking to a moscow based correspondent yesterday on the voice of russia radio and we were chatting about how strong a candidate a lot of her putin is and i said is or anyone else out there that they could have looked at it his answer was really not know he's just he's that strong of a candidate and consider this to be a putin at the end of his let's say second term and a second time around as president of the russian federation he'll be in office in power for almost twenty years now i think what your reporter was saying earlier was actually correct i think the issue of him becoming president and an advantage of course becoming prime minister swapping these positions it does show there was

political stability in russia and again maybe the west doesn't see it that way they would like maybe a breath of fresh air and they are a new candidate but at this point it really isn't any candidate as strong as putin was about sort of course about the big push the reset button early on that were made but of took over we've seen a lot of that talk about the reset of relations between what's going on washington is that trade you think going to continue if putin does get back into office is the president. but i think it will have to simply because with the global economic crisis being what it is russia has to be a player in this i just had a chat with a economists here in the u.s. and she attended the meeting of the i.m.f. this weekend in washington and said that russia must be a bigger player in the economic situation globally the eurozone debt crisis is something that could could be is contagious it could affect democracies and countries all over the world and that putin will have his hands full when so you

assume is the office of the presidency simply because he's got to start creating jobs just like other presidents other prime ministers have to do across the globe he's got to start the russian economic engine going again reset the economy there and as you know russia's finance minister alexey couldn't is not terribly happy with this arrangement and he says he's not going to join the new government after the march elections so again there are those who say no big surprise here but what you saw there on its minister not too happy he recalled it talking about president facing problems of course that president obama facing horrendous problems your side of the problems add those elections in the u.s. to if the republicans got in if they headed the administration what would the implications be then do you think for relations with russia with mr putin if he was president. i don't think much will change simply because political relations are one thing but economic relations are something else i mean economic relations right now that is the number one issue across the world how are the economies of the

world working together are they working well together are they borrowing money are they spending money the whole economic web that is now this global economy that's the big issue so i do believe as i could be much of a change in relation to the u.s. and russia simply because economically everything is so tied together how do you put it out there earlier because there are an awful lot changed in the last couple of years that the world changed a lot since putin was last in the presidents chair do you think he will change his style. i don't think he needs to change his style disappoint he has been very consistent as showing himself as a very strong decisive leader and he certainly has done the same with his protege obviously president good years and this is the kind of political intelligence this is the kind of smarts that i think people respect whether they're in russia or the u.s. he's shown to be very decisive very strong and has a vision for russia and i think that whether it's the u.s. or russia or any other country where you have a leader who has

a vision and the strength of the people can see that's that's the individual they want to use recut a young political analyst reports of russian radio station in washington thanks ever so much in the program much appreciated. thanks to our course we're asking you what you think about this story on our web site what you think will happen if present a vote of and promise to putin do switch jobs well this is what you've been telling his thanks for voting if you have almost half of you still say you believe the reshuffled time there will be a success is going to get this out because it will give people what they want is the purple cent from last just over a quarter of you think this one is going to anger voters that's the strength of the opposition and again on the spin again about a quarter of you twenty five cents the little attract foreign investment from russia but not much of the was going to twenty forty five pretty smart for the past few hours still trying to have your say look into out of this what you think. history was made this week at the u.n. as president mahmoud abbas the live of 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 addressing the rally clear the beginning of the palestinian spring now when he spoke to the u.n. assembly on friday jubilant things played out across the palestinian territories but words quickly turned to violence on the west bank all of it culminated in clashes between police and palestinians. correspondents picks up the story. and historic moment after decades of struggle tens of thousands celebrate across palestine after president mahmoud abbas said let's request to the night of nations to recognize a palestinian state that has feared it wasn't all cheers and on side for celebrations violence clashes have erupted across the west bank as fears grow of a third intifada we are here in ramallah with is 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 round of fights known as the screamer which to make an bearable sound now b. the question here is very very change the clashes. great across the right bank one palestinian has been killed what we understand happened is that country one hundred israeli settlers started burning the trees belonging to palestinians in a village the army was holding and the result was one palestinian shot and killed in the mic. two months the israeli army has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians what we tell of able 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 landmines on israel's northern borders to prevent the kalandia 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 the fence many countries have mines on their borders for that

reason but locals are outraged now they are throwing people were. ripping them at the heart of the clashes are israeli citizen and palestinians both lame 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 low that have quote approved a document a document that the national and international know it everett that they're going to go by 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 you 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 a dog resist with force it's enough that the surpluses with. the army will come

immediately and arrest us this fence cuts through jaquez farm meaning that right now i am standing inside palestine. and as i walk through here. i'm now in israel it's one thing to declare a state and another to determine where it's gorgeous would be cool to see on t.v. ramona political activist told r.t. that despite the impending veto palestinians regard it as a major breakthrough as palestinians we have a very heightened sense of national pride at this moment and even though we know the veto is most likely coming out with their its next week or the other really makes no difference but there is a very high sense of national and she's meant at this point because for one softer of those 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 police early committing to international law clearly committing to its obligations according to international law and relevant un resolutions then it's purely pointless. coming up be the first to face charges of crimes against humanity embattled colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy who now faces possible legal action over the military intervention in libya and more that ahead. of the booming drug industry destroys afghan lives and fuels terrorism what it was done to stop it because special report card to. finish priest has been temporarily defrocked for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorist stockholm are of past. denounced rather the website which he believes acts as

a mouthpiece for the campaign finish human rights activist your blackman says the authorities are sheltering militants by protecting websites activity actually do you harm 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 the set of international media these terrorist organizations the person who is responsible of the website. he has organized some migration off militants from turkey to finland and now he is facing the charges he's prosecuted in finland over the same time he has a very strong support on the highest level of the finnish official duma and

also in the finnish government for example the minister of development of finland head of hope always very close partner to torture so the situation is really strange finland east actually protecting these militants and they are all going i think their activities on the territory of finland. as off a lot more on this story as well in our website r.t. dot com including your malaria blog a controversial web site is like typically it claims that the kind of care center is already written some two hundred salting articles about every couple of r.t. . talks of a possible greek default grew louder this last week leaked reports suggest some of the eurozone finance ministers already regard the country's economy as a lost cause the i.m.f. reportedly given e.u. countries six weeks now to build up a financial fire wall to protect themselves from the shock wave of a potential greek default now that comes amid rising fears of a double dip recession of the world's markets all the worst week since two thousand

and eight patrick young is executive director of the investment advisory firm he told us that a repeat of the global financial crisis is now as he sees it looks inevitable at this stage. but let's look at it in the united states of america growth is decently any match in europe group is very low or it's going backwards in all of them pure economies and also we've got this terrible terrible north sideslip beach issue with the lights 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 it may be china is finally hitting the buffers at least for the time being it's had a huge credit expansion and the last two years it looks really rather like europe and the 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 two thousand and twelve. the greek debt crisis however bad it might turn out one likely to affect russia's economy that's the view of the russian finance minister lex he could read we've got exclusive interview coming up with him all about that in several minutes. with the debt crisis still spread loose it does not affect us to not please to retreat because our banks do not hold any of the greek with woodward french and german banks on the other hand will suffer greatly because they were the ones on their hands and would not be cleared because of this will cause problems within these banks problems with these credit some 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 after saturday's attack failed to defeat the colonel's loyalists meantime some western leaders are facing accusations of hope

now over the galatea of their military intervention bushell examined the reasons behind the claims in the week you may find some of the pictures coming in this report upsetting. french explorer minister roland jamal says he's ready to defend gadhafi in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but nato will have to find the colonel first libya's deposed leader is in hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin laden some states are now claiming the right to kill against all international law. images like these are moving frige lawyers to turn against the government because look at the 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 renew vietnam with the u.s. sprayed tens of millions of liters of toxins on crops in the sixty's and seventy's

causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth the fix 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 had nothing to do with the fighting that's why we're seeing 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 by the bad toys 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 bombings

targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly nato wants and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime it was they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders are poised for their first big legal challenge over libya if they stop the cases coming to court all together as chickadee it will prove once and for all that western justice really used politicians not the rule of law the new bush shortie paris. and other high profile killing shook afghanistan this week the country's former president an advocate of peace talks with the taliban was assassinated on tuesday in a suicide. tak were to dinner and he was killed by a militant who couldn't be explosive device and his claim to be a taliban envoy rabbani who led the country in the one nine hundred ninety s. was a key figure in current peace talks with militants thousands of mourners gathered in the afghan capital kabul on friday for his funeral the bombing follows a string of high profile targeted killings including the murder of the current

president's half brother back in july the taliban stepping up its attacks in afghanistan one of the main sources of income is in full bloom meanwhile but nato isn't doing anything about that as art is a go has been often that. the penalty for drinking beer in kabul is sixty whips on the back public which is a very traditional muslim society or is it there are dozens of people if not more for doing drugs right there under this bridge in the center of the seat with the office coming and staring at them all these insane conditions we still rubbish being strong wait here where we're standing right now this is just incredible secret. heroin. it's all cooked mixed injected or small scale right on more on these piles of rubbish and not one policeman anywhere near.

but that not all who are told these people don't just come here to do drugs and many of them call the score is done and you can hear we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't pay for the war on your head a bunch. of a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shores each family has at least one drug user all kids are now found in breast milk and all kids even newborns that morphine their word there's no dope of period plantation song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started and 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 treaty has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected state with around eighty tons of heroin thought to a new resettle in the country like those it's tragic that despite the enormous

resources nato has put into afghanistan including military force drug production is just phenomenal moreover the head of nato military committee personally told me fighting drug production is not their goal it is no such directive that many experts find is 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 spends billions of dollars to fight of the alistair's drug traffic but since nato has no legal right to coordinate the funds are spent with very little by their results while official say that multi-billion dollar afghan drug network has the whole world and its grip what is going off for tea kabul afghanistan. also around the world tonight four explosions have rocked the city of karbala in southern iraq at least nine people killed about one hundred injured two explosions happening

a government office that issues identity cards for iraqi citizens no one so far twenty sponsibility for the types of people across the story for you. nineteen people died in a plane crash in nepal it was carrying tourist mt everest and it failed a man killing all but one passenger instantly and yes surviving victim died later when all spittle eye witnesses report me across one of the houses in the local finished before crushing no casualties reported on the ground. coming up to a time thirty pm is in fact ten twenty six here in moscow my name's kevin i would sports head through fifty minutes tonight kate reveals a russian sports minister thinks there's four lines of the rugby world cup more up for you shortly thanks for watching r.t. international.

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