from the streets of canada. china cooperation the day. tonight on our top job in three president medvedev and prime minister putin could swap jobs after twenty twelve presidential election pledging that tandem will continue to work for russia. emotions running high meantime the palestinians pay for statehood at the u.n. with standing ovations in new york but clashes at the border in the west bank. a finish priest speaking out against the chechen terrorists website finds himself defrocked and disgraced with his plight ignored by the mainstream media. the greek default is inevitable ending top officials know it they support for a view of the recession put go even deeper than first feel.

welcome it's eleven pm sunday night here in moscow my name is kevin owen and this is our review of the main news stories of the past week the biggest one on saturday yesterday the biggest secret in russian politics was exposed at last to the prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency it twenty twelve speaking at a ruling united russia party convention current president dmitri medvedev made the announcement by the green to head the party in parliamentary elections he also said he is ready to lead the government if they win i think it is now a witness the historic speech is the first time. the wait is over. i believe it would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of my senior putin in the presidential election.

this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under thirty putin has. usually yes because i'm going to say something else despite rumors that there's been a split within our towns and i can see this is a well thought through decision. who is running for president would. like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor to meet you. if you're going to. be intimate and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask all russian citizens to support the united russia party with dimitri. and i believe we do you. know that but i am convinced to become prime minister and

we continue to theri modernize our society. the tandem now running on a platform of taking russia through the next decade promising more growth and stability but their party united russia in december's parliamentary elections and next year's presidential run both putin and medvedev have their work cut out and united russia's popularity has been falling in recent years and 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 that if he. is not our beat it is not absolute this is a reliable construction which can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement even the. silly 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 emotions here for all its. and he's of course the risk of political stagnation and also all these clowns remembers very well the era of the seventy's in the eighty's especially when the communist party leadership didn't see the change there and they all stay there and see all the way to five years old now i would rather disagree with those who predict stagnation even in russian politics for one simple fact. and this is healthy so yes we need 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 really disgusting of us use the arab spring to try to use it to put in their new dictators their new friends and their fictitious democracies to

be able to control 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 allies from russia alone russia not only the capitals has improved but putin and medvedev want to take it to the next step with a 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 democracy and he's now i r t moscow just last hour spoke to carter young he's a political analyst of the voice of russia radio station in washington he told me putin is a figure that russia needs during the time but are putin will have his hands full

once again soon as 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 you've got to start at the right. economic engine going again reset the economy there i don't think you need some changes to this point 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 your present. 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. be 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 that you have a leader who has a vision and a strength that people can see that's that that's the individual they want to office biggest story of the week we will know what you think about it artsy dot com were asking what you think will happen if president did better than promise to putin do end up switching jobs this is what you're telling us so far again if you

believe in the reshuffle tandem will be a success there's been a change in the last because you think it'll give people what they want it over a quarter of you think this what's going to anger voters and strengthen the opposition and another quarter of the twenty five percent think they look track for divestment to russia because the ability to. use it was going to happen and not much will change otherwise log on to our web site r t v dot com tell us what. history was made this week at the u.n. as president mahmoud abbas delivered 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 back from new york addressing the rally he declared the beginning of the palestinian spring when he spoke to the u.n. assembly on friday jubilant scenes played out across the palestinian territories the words quickly turned to violence on the west bank border culminating in clashes between police and palestinians i think paul asleep as the story. and historic

moment after decades of struggle tens of thousands of weight across palestine after president mahmoud abbas submits a request to the united nations to recognize a palestinian state but as feared it wasn't all cheers and on side celebrations violence clashes have erupted across the west bank as fears grow of 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 screamer which and bearable found now be the question here is very very tense a clash of spread across the west bank one palestinian has been killed now what we understand happened is that country one hundred israeli settlers 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 nick. months the israeli army has

been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians worry tell of a 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 the fence many countries have mines on their borders for that reason but the locals are outraged now they are trying to would. if there can be. more comfort for. ripping them at the heart of the clashes are israeli citizens and palestinians both lame claim 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

there to have got a document a document that the. internet you know it. took not so much on 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 it's a very hard feeling but what can i do i think in the drug resistant force it's in africa surpluses with. the army will come immediately and restless this means cuts through your course 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 its borders will be policy r.t. . political activists normal day told us that r.t.

that despite the impending veto regard the bid is a major breakthrough as palestinians we have a very high concerns of national pride at this moment and even though we know their veto is most likely coming out what very next week or the other really makes no difference but there is a very high sense of national actually of meant at this point because for one souter of those very disappointing years of the so-called peace process the political leadership and the popular popular public opinion are in line they're in an on one side of the political debate if you will going back to negotiations is not something palestinians oppose 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. coming up on our team the first to face

charges of crimes against humanity embattled them gadhafi or president sarkozy who's now facing possible legal action will be intervention in libya to come. also ahead a booming drug industry destroys afghan lively fuel for terrorism but done to stop it you could report from car bomb. a finnish priest has been temporarily defrocked for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorist aku maher of past that you have not to read denounce the camp website which he believes that this is a mouthpiece for a march deadly campaign rights activist john blackman says the authorities the shell trickle it and protecting web sites 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. he has organized the migration all of the 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 finish. 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 film and he's actually protecting these militants and they are all going to i think their activities on the territory of finland. long story to have following a website if you want to follow it to r.t. dot com is the place to be with her is blogs they're all about the controversial

website executive itif it came to the. already written some two hundred insulting articles about him again the r.t. dot com is the place for more that story tonight. talks of a possible greek default grew louder this last week league 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 just six weeks now to build up was financially viable over protect themselves from the shock wave of the greek default comes amid rising fears of a double dip recession after the world's markets or their worst week since two thousand and eight that figure is executive director of an investment advisory firm he says as he sees it there are a peek at the global financial crisis looks in over double now. let's look at it in the united states of america growth is peaceably any match in europe group is very low or it's going backwards in all of them look at your economies and also we've

got this terrible terrible north sideslip beach issue with the lights and profits 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 coming in and out to this leading to a big theory that maybe china is finally heading the ball 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. the greek debt crisis soever bad it might turn out is unlikely to affect russia's economy that's the view of the russian finance minister legs uncoded you can watch an exclusive interview with him next hour. if the debt crisis does spread it does not affect us too much at least

directly because our banks do not hold any of that with the 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 credits and overall problems on these markets because bikes are after all the leading players. 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 think because of all the loyalists meantime some western leaders are facing accusations at home over the legality of military intervention i didn't know bush examined the reasons behind the claims you may find some of the pictures coming up in his report upsetting. french explorer minister roland jamal says he's ready to defend good they're free in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but later will have to join the comal first libya's

deposed leader as it hired him for good reason. if they find him bill kill him like bill martin 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 in france accuse the presence of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war renew vietnam where 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 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 soon president sarkozy for crimes against humanity. first

denied 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. videos spider-man had toys and cultural moves and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack is wife or child or grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home was accused of deliberately campaign of terror. their warnings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly needle ones and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders are poised for their first big legal challenge over libya if they stop the cases coming to court all together as to call the it will prove once and for all that western justice really used drug war politicians not the rule of law the new bush or r.t.

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 attack. perna dinner he was killed by a militant in a hidden the explosive device and is plainly a taliban envoy who led the country in the one nine hundred ninety s. was the key figure in current peace talks with the militants thousands of mourners gathered in the afghan capital kabul on friday for his funeral the bombing followed a string of high profile targeted killings including the murder of the current president's half brother back in july with the taliban stepping up its attacks now in afghanistan one of the main sources of income is in full bloom but nato isn't doing anything about that as r.t.d. got pissed off. 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 under this bridge in the center of the city with the office coming and staring at them in all these insane conditions we still rubbish being strong wait here where we're standing right now this is just incredible to see. heroin. it's all cooked mixed injected or smallpox right i'm on these piles of rubbish not one policeman anywhere near. but that's not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs any of them called us home pakistan and india and we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't pay for their war or that i didn't bother to leave. a study commissioned by the u.s. state department sure each family has at least one drug user all bits are now found in breast milk and all kids even newborns that morphine. there's no doubt that the

earlier country song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started the afghanistan i believe that 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 into a ball cleans the markets global trade has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark russia is one of the worst affected states where around eighty tons of heroin 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 there is no such directive. many experts find this a bit strange given the fact that a large part of the revenues from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban needles key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community spends billions of

dollars to fight of the alistair's drug traffic but since nato has no legal way to coordinate the funds are spent with very little by the resort while official say the multi-billion dollar afghan drug network has the whole world in its grip and what was going off forty kabul afghanistan. also around the world tonight for explosions have rocked the city of karbala in southern iraq at least nine people have been killed there about hundred one. injured to the explosions have no government office which refuse identity cards to iraqi citizens no one so far claimed responsibility for that attack. ninety plane crash in the hall it was carrying tourists to mount everest killing all but one passenger instantly the surviving victim then something like a god in hospital eyewitnesses report the aircraft put one of the houses in a local village. o'connell to report on the ground. for huskies in one

remote arctic town the work doesn't stop what's the snows melted in a bid to reduce the number of cars on the road of the pollution they cause the other to spitzbergen was introduced in the original concept of his example he could travel north find out a bit more. that's what it really means stick with the shoulder today will contrary to popular opinion huskies don't go on vacation once the snow melts. cars. are. in fact in the world snowdon more cd being jock trying is a year round phenomenon dog clad years where the only means of transportation around the archipelago until the nine hundred sixty s. and while by now cars and snowmen girls have replaced them in many parts of the north here in prison bergen is pulling their weight who can't play it's not only more environmentally friendly but also pay for it can't always rely on we called to deal with because while dogs will never live. like most of the residents of no race

longer beyond rabbit wasn't born here. he moved in his mid twenty's to lean big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature he says who king his jeep behind his barking teammate peter mares is the major change in his life plus if the dog spit. beats they know they need. exercise it. every day. when it's in periods with tourism then i'm going out. in my car some two thousand residents along here and beyond is little more than a white place in the road they may not 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 logging force behind

a partial car ban is very weak also an avid dog lover she like it is driving just milking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are nonsmoking areas why shouldn't there be no new driving areas here small both. in norway and many other places also here in the north. and i think today we are living in big tones we need the silent room where we can leave all of what's wrong in our normal days we need to rest our brain as the acapella tries to attract more tourists some suggest the big her restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around the world reporting increasing traffic fatigue many may be in need of a car free refuge like this russian child. kolosov and muscovite dearest always long commutes to work sans the absence of honking horns to meet him instantly fall in love with the place the most amazing moment i experienced is 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 favor of dogs it's an absolutely crazy great idea and this would probably attract more and more tourists here going to dogs is obviously not an option for every city but here has he's definitely don't feel like a deer for real. or see long bergen archipelago. well those dogs certainly got some strength and the amazing scene in putting that land rover there it's twenty six minutes past eleven here in moscow thanks for being with us tonight rob you're watching around the world coming up shortly our talk show lights not all going off it is gas look at what's ahead for russia or if this reshuffle time the bulls take the helm going up short of the i'm kevin what made the headlines for you before the.

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