it's not an artsy top job intrigue and president medvedev and prime minister putin could swap jobs after the twenty's called presidential election pledging the tally there will continue to work for russia. emotions running high as palestinians bid for statehood at the u.n. we're standing ovations in new york but clashes at the border in the west bank. a finnish priest speaking out against the chechen terrorists website finds himself defrocked in disgrace with his plight ignored by the mainstream. and the greek default is inevitable and even top officials know it leaked reports reveal the recession could go even deeper than first.

meets midnight here in moscow i'm kevin owen and this is our review of the new stories of the week on saturday the biggest secret in russian politics was exposed it's now certain that prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency in twenty twelve speaking a ruling united russia party convention current president dmitri medvedev made the announcement while agreeing to head the party in parliamentary elections he also said he's ready to lead the government if they win he's innocent witness the historic speeches first. yes the wait is over. i believe it would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of life in your piece in a new presidential election. and

its applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under thirty. years. you should just get off i'm going to say something else. there's been a split within our tongues and i can see this is a well thought through decision tree who is running for president with. the pleasure i'd like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor of whom a chief. if you but i could pick up steam question about it and with the parliamentary elections coming in i'd like to ask all russian citizens to support the united russia party with me. now that. you. know you may be just what i'm convinced to become prime minister mahmoud continued 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 how their work cut out united russia's popularity has been falling in recent years by making such a move. or tandem as you say they sent a political message to the russians as well to the best of the world that it. is not outdated it is not absolute this is a lie. construction which can work for years you see it describe effective and so was the announcement even the delegates though were really taken aback when you know. of course everybody expected it but it must count as one of the best kept secrets really in recent political history the last has already started

emphasizing how much the movie lacks surprise i'm sure that some of the opposition political commentators have mentions are you proud to say he's of course the risk of political stagnation and also all these country members very well the euro of the seventy's in the eighty's especially one of the communist party leadership didn't really change them 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 healthier 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 or 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 life in russia alone russia not only the capitals hasn't but putin and maybe if you want to take it to the next step the reshuffle in united russia already 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 so that while russia has a right to its own style democracy and he's now are to see moscow. because a young political analyst of the voice of russia radio station in washington told me putin is a figure that russia needs right now during these uneasy times lattimer 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 at least got a start the russian economic engine. going again reset the economy there i don't think he needs to change this point he has been very consistent as showing himself as a very strong decisive leader and he certainly has turned out the same with his protege obviously president of the year 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 when you have a leader who has a vision and a strength that people can see that's that's the individual they want in office. well that's the big story there we go to know what you think about it r.t. dot com us did a question we're asking what do you think would happen if president but haven't probably disputed to switch jobs good or bad well so far this is what you're

telling us almost half of you believe the reshuffle tell them will be a success because it will give people what they want over a quarter of you can think of the swap and wangle voters the strength of your position as a result and another roughly twenty five percent for the same leaving back feel of the track to foreign investment to russia but not much will change otherwise we're going through our sights our treat or come tell us what you think. history was made this week at the u.n. as president mahmoud abbas delivered the palestinian plead 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 to see ride from new york addressing 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 the violence on the west bank for the culminating in clashes between police and palestinians call the sleep spot the story. and historic movement after decades

of struggle tens of thousands celebrated his palestine after president mahmoud abbas this is the place to be united nations to recognize a palestinian state but as feared it wasn't all cheers alongside the celebrations violence clashes have erupted across the west bank as fears grow of a third intifada we're here in ramallah where there's a standoff between israeli army and palestinian protesters just a short distance down the road they are tired burning everywhere the army is not using a new round of fights known at the screen which i'm variable found now the kitchen here is very very tame beat catches a great across the white fang one kind of thing and has been killed how what we understand happened if a country one hundred israeli hitler started burning the trees belonging to palestinians in a village the army was called in and the result was one palestinian shot and killed in the mic. for 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 counting 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 religious in the form of the sense mini countries have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are going to work to mines it. maybe it's not been for for. them at the heart of the clashes are israeli citizen and palestinians both main claim to the same piece of land jacob taylor has been farming decon the hip on heels 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 their vote approve a document

a document that is in. the measure though it be advertised. but not so why should i make the same claim he insists the land has been in his family for some eight hundred years now this is the closest he can get to it and it's watching jacob farm it cannot it's a very hard feeling but what can i do nothing or even if we resist with force it's enough for persepolis as we said some of the army will come immediately and restless this fence cuts through your calls farm meaning that white now i'm 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. ramallah and it allowed to restore told of starting the 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 that the toll is most likely coming very much the other really makes no difference but there is a very high sense of national at cheeseman 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 and 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's leader really committing to international law clearly committing to its obligations according to international law and relevant un resolutions that it's purely pointless. but the city officials accused the u.s. of putting pressure on members of the u.n.

security council to keep them from voting in favor of a free palestine to say that washington's going to be spared the embarrassment of having to veto the bid which would be disastrous for its credibility as a peacemaker of his report that's the story from you. it was a week long gathering of the world's most politically powerful people part of the united nations. pursuit of peace in imperfect world america's nobel prize winning president set an ideal tone as the sixty sixth session of the un general assembly open yet at the heart of almost all diplomatic dialogue. demonstrations and media attention was the palestinian pursuit of official he won membership. i just don't want the arab peoples affirm they wish for democracy in the arab spring the time is now for the palestinians the time for independence. supported by the majority of u.n.

member states president mahmoud abbas submitted an application for statehood a historical bit the us a staunch ally of israel now to block with a security council veto these will not come through statements and resolutions at the united nations if it were that easy it would have been accomplished by now as diplomats worked around the clock to bring israel and the palestinians back together at the negotiating table. delegations for thirty countries abandon the iranian president during his speech to the general assembly. if some european countries still use the whole acosta after sixty k. it's because the excuse to pay a fine or ransom to the zionists should it not be an obligation upon the slave masters or colonial powers to pay reparations to the affected nations mood ahmadinejad's annual attack against the west and israel was a reminder that peace is hard but we know that it is possible a possibility for the palestinians and israelis to resume negotiations was put

forth by the middle east quartet friday russia the u.s. european union and the un presented both sides with a twelve month timetable to solve this sixty plus year dispute within three months of the negotiation beginning resent comprehensive proposals on borders and security that is the only way in the end we do. with the difficult issues around the table indication the u.n. general assembly was this week's biggest political shot a spectacular display of pride for the palestinians a quote theater of the absurd for the israeli prime minister the security council needs monday to discuss the palestinian bid for you when membership as the quest for peace goes on divisions over how to achieve it remain firmly in place in upper nile r.t. new york coming up on this channel who will be the first to face charges of

a crime against humanity the embattled colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy who now faces possible legal action over the military intervention in libya got the story. out a booming drug industry destroys afghan lives and fuels terrorism but little begun to stop it either got a report coming up too from kabul. next though. the finish priest has been temporarily defrocked for speaking out against the world's most wanted terrorist or kumar of pasta you have denounced the website which he believes is a mouthpiece for tomorrow's campaign british human rights activist yawn back winces the authorities are sheltering militants who are protecting the websites activity. actually you are more it's 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 even international media of these terrorist organizations the person who is responsible of the website is that. he has organized the mass 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. fishel duma and also the finnish government for example the minister of development of finland hope always very close partner. so the 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 thought more of the story in a website as well as take a look at it and fact it r.t. dot com including your malar is a blog on a controversial website and its activity now he claims that the cavs care center

for reading has already written some two hundred something articles about it if you don't get a load it's on our website. libya's transitional government forces have stepped up an offensive on one of the batteries last strongholds of sirte after saturday's attack failed to defeat the colonel's loyalists meantime some western leaders are facing accusations at home over the legality of a military intervention and will push it examine the reasons behind the claims there are similar pictures coming in this report as well. friendship's foreign minister roland jamal's is he's ready to defend gadhafi in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but later will have to. first libya's deposed leaders and hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like the model some states are now claiming the right to kill against all international law. images

like these are moving fridge lawyers to turn against big 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 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 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 did noid bombing this residence with thirteen civilians including four children died it then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed. videos

spider-man had toys and cultural moves and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack is wife or child the grown children were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately waging a campaign of terror. warnings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly need of ones and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders a poised for their first big legal challenge over libya if they stop the cases coming to court all together as chicle the it will prove once and for all that western justice really used politicians not the rule of law the new bush or r.t. paris why should a website just now imagine again out all the latest updates as well on how the situations unfolding around libya are available online for us twenty four seven. body of their story to this sort of rush is heading back to bars after

a twenty year pause a scientific probe blasted off the red planet by that where the mission details on our team got caught that is britney spears kicks off a world tour in russia we speak exclusively to the american pop diva find a wife sees herself as an undergrad. or the artsy. talks of a possible breakthrough fall grew louder this last week leaked reports suggested that some of the eurozone finance ministers already regard the country's economy as a lost cause the i.m.f. reportedly given e.u. country six weeks now the build up of financial fire wall to protect themselves from the shock wave of the greek thought it comes amid rising fears of a double dip recession after the world's markets saw their worst week since two thousand and eight the executive director of an investment advisory firm says the repeat of the global financial crisis looks inevitable he thinks this. let's look at it in the united states of america growth is basically any match in europe

a group of these very low or it's going backwards and all of them injure economies and also we've got this terrible terrible north sideslip binge 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've had some pretty bad manufacturing numbers come on and that too is leading to a big theory that maybe china is finally heading the barbers 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 role the world economy is in for a very very difficult year in two thousand and twelve. well greek debt crisis whatever but it might turn out so likely to affect russia's economy that's the view of the russian fires mr riggs he could read you can watch an exclusive interview with him in a few minutes. that prices do spread it does not affect us too much these directly

because our banks do not hold any of the greek debt issues with the french and german banks and your heart will suffer greatly because they were not on their hands all good not to be good with this will cause problems with him these banks problems with these credit some overall problems on these markets because banks are after all the leading players. and have a high profile killing shook afghanistan this last week the country's former president an advocate of peace talks with the taliban was assassinated on tuesday and a suicide attack her dinner but it was killed by militants who hidden the explosive device in his turban claiming to be a taliban envoy about who would lead 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 the funeral but when followed a string of high profile targeted killings including the murder of the current

president's half brother in july the taliban stepping up its attacks in afghanistan one of the main sources of income is in full bloom right now but nato isn't doing anything about that as artie's eagle piss them off found that. that penalty for drinking beer in kabul a sixty whips on the back publically 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 all this coming and staring at them and all these insane conditions waste their rubbish being thrown right here where we're standing right now this is just incredible to see. heroin opium it's all cocked mixed injected or small to write come 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 any of them call this home pakistan and then here we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't pay for the war or that i don't want to be. a study commissioned by the us state department shills each family has at least one drug user all are found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine on their blood there's no doubt the period can taste and some with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started in 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 you know get a stack into of all cleans the markets global trade turnover has a long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected states where around eighty tons of heroin a new settle in a 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 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 afghanistan's drug traffic but since nato has no legal right to coordinate the funds are spent with very little by their results while officials say that multi-billion dollar afghan drug network that's the whole world and it's a group. of forty kabul afghanistan. elsewhere around the world tonight four explosions rocked the city of karbala in southern iraqi beast nine people have been killed and about one hundred injured to the explosions happening or government

office divisions id cards to reckon citizens so far no one's claimed responsibility for the attacks. nineteen of those in a plane crash in the poll that was carried to the wrists of mount everest when it went down killing all but one passenger instantly and that surviving victim then died later at hospital i witnessed his report the aircraft clipped one of the houses in a local village before it crashed no casualties reported on the ground. it's midnight twenty six here in moscow i'm kevin zero in sports said for you just over fifteen minutes time to kate real so russia's sports minister thinks the bears for the lions and robie world cup will that show even here on out to the international .

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