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 two thousand and twelve speaking at 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 is ready to lead the government if they win out 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 lighting mayor putin and the presidential election i . know that. this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under thirty putin has. i guess last night with underlay to say something else about it despite rumors that there's been

a split within our times when i can see that this is a well thought through decision. putin is running for president was. i like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor of good will meet you. at your but it's been embarrassed and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask all russian citizens to support the united russia party with dmitri medvedev no that was. not the issue here you know i was late but i was just but i'm convinced to become prime minister mahmoud continued to thoroughly modernize our society i the tandem now running on a platform of taking russia through the next decade promising more growth and stability with their party united russia in december's parliamentary elections and next year's presidential run both putin and medvedev have their work cut out united

russia's popularity has been falling in recent years by making such a. tender as you say they send a political message to the russians as a result of the best of the world that it. is not outdated it is not absolute this is why balkan struck. which can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement even the delegates though were seriously taken aback when the you know. of course everybody expected it but it must count as one of the best kept secrets really in recent political history the west has already started emphasizing how much the move lacks surprise i'm sure that some of the opposition political commentators have mentions are you proud to say is of course the risk of political stagnation and after 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 that and they all stayed there until the way to five years old now i would rather disagree with those who predict stagnation in russian politics for one simple fact. and this is a healthy meaning a so-called western style democracy might not be the way for russia something we are seeing the u.s. especially push for across one of the world's most unstable regions i think it's really disgusting how the u.s. is use the arab spring to try to use it to put in their new dictators their new friends and their fictitious democracies to be able to control all and control these populations you know countries like russia just want stability and stability is something russia knows this dynamic duo can deliver at least so far russian g.d.p. has almost doubled the level of life in russia 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 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. ability towards further development and so the west has a right to its own style democracy and he's now artsy moscow. because a young political analyst 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 restarting the economy there i

don't think he needs to change at 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 president 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. is 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 that's the individual they want in office. well as the big story there we go to know what you think about it r.t. dot com that's did the question we're asking what do you think will happen if president medvedev and prime minister putin do switch jobs good or bad well so far this is what you're telling us almost half of you believe the reshuffle tandem will be a success because it will give people what they want just over a quarter of a game thinking the swap is going to wangle voters the strength of the opposition as a result and the number of roughly twenty five percent you could say will you think back feel of the fact foreign investment to russia but not much will change

otherwise we're going through our sights our three dot com to tell us what you think. 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 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 sings played out across the palestinian territories but words quickly to the violence on the west bank for the culminating in clashes between police and palestinians at his policy stop the story. and historic movement after decades of struggle tens of thousands seeing appointed post hands going after place along with the price of the sea the place to the 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 is a standoff between the israeli army and palestinian protesters just a short distance down the road there are tie is burning everywhere the army is also using a new found device known as the scream which unbearable sound now b. situation here is very very tense be clashes afraid across the west bank one kind of thing and has been killed now what we understand happened is that country nine hundred israeli fitness started burning the trees belonging to pay. lifting into the village the army was called in and the result was one palestinian shot and killed in the mix. for months the israeli army has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians what we 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 planting land mines on israel's northern

borders to prevent the kalandia checkpoint scenes from unfolding here the mines are not necessarily there to deal with people who have peaceful intentions but mines are a legitimate form of defense. trees have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are trying to work mines it can be maybe it's more comfort for. ripping them at the heart of the clashes are israeli settlers and palestinians both plain claim to the same piece of land jacob taylor has been farming deep in the hebron hills for more than twenty years he says this land is his and he has the papers to prove it we are the only people in the world that have got approved document a document that these in the national and international. advertised they call it the bible but not so what makes the same claim he insists the land has been in his family for some eight hundred years but now this is the closest he can get to

it and it's eating him up watching jacob farm it it's a very hard feeling but what can i do nothing or even if we don't resist with force it's enough that the surplus as we said stop the army will come immediately and arrest us this fence cuts through farm meaning that 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 on t.v. ramona political activists no day told us they are to the despite the impending veto palestinians regard the plate 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 our very next for 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 souter

of those very disappointing years of the so-called peace process the political leadership and the popular popular public opinion are in line there and one 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. but the city officials accused the u.s. of putting pressure on members of the un security council to keep them from voting in favor of a free palestine to say that washington's came to be spared the embarrassment of having to veto the bid which would be disastrous for its credibility as a peacemaker of his word important that's out of the story. it was

a week long gathering of the world's most politically powerful people part of the united nations. the pursuit of peace. imperfect world america's nobel prize winning president set an ideal tone as the sixty six session of the un general assembly hope it yet at the heart of almost all diplomatic dialogue. demonstrations and media attention was the palestinian pursuit of official u.n. membership well if you look then you are at a time when the arab peoples are through with what a monk received the arab spring the time is now for the palestinian spring 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 vowed to block with a security council veto this will not come through statements and resolutions at the united nations if it were that easy it would have been accomplished by the 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 holy cost after sixty cade's as the excuse to pay 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 mahmoud 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 us the 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 deal. the difficult issues around the table in a negotiation the u.n. general assembly was this week's biggest political show 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 u.n. membership as the quest for peace goes on divisions over how to achieve it remain firmly in place. 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 brutal intervention in libya got the story. out a booming drug industry destroys afghan lives and fuels terrorism but little begun

to stop it either we got a report coming up too from kabul. next though. the finish priest has been temporarily defrocked for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorist maarouf pasta you have denounced the center web site which he believes is a mouthpiece for tomorrow's deadly campaign for the human rights activist you on backwards has the authority to sheltering militants by protecting the websites activity. actually your home or is only repeating what is said about the activities of all of this terrorist organization by united nations by the usa by russia by the international media so actually you are morally cannot repeat the same information in finland which is said in the international media about these terrorist organizations the person who is responsible of the website it is me he has organized some migration off militants from turkey to finland and now he is

facing charges he's prosecuted in finland over the same time he has a very strong support on the highest level of the finnish. and also in the finnish government for example the minister of development of finland had hoped always very close partner to. solve the situation is really a strange film of the east actually protecting these militants and they are all going i think their activities on the territory of finland. what were the story in a website as well as take a look at it and in fact it r.t. dot com including your malarious blog on the controversial website and its activity and he claims that the care center for reading has already written some two hundred seventy articles about it if you want to get a load it's on our website. libya's transitional government forces have stepped up an offensive on one of gadhafi the last strongholds of sirte after

saturday's attack failed to defeat the colonel's loyalists meantime western leaders are facing accusations at home over the legality of their military intervention daniel bush should examine the reasons behind the claims there are some upsetting pictures coming in his report as well. friend jiggs foreign minister roland jamal says he's ready to defend gadhafi in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but nato will have to point the colonel first libya's deposed leader is in hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin ladin some states are now claiming the right to kill against all international law. images like these are moving fridge 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 this lawyer calls the libyan war renew vietnam with the us sprayed tens of millions of liters

of toxins on crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth defects to this day. so they're using missiles with depleted uranium which causes cancer in tripoli i saw people crippled by nato attacks office workers who have nothing to do with the fighting that's why we're soon president sarkozy for crimes against humanity nato first denied bombing this residence where thirteen civilians including four children died it then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed books videos spiderman had toys and cultural and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack these wife a child the grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of

deliberately waging a campaign of terror. bombings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly nato bombs and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders a poised for their first big legal challenge over libya if they stop the cases coming to court all together as chickadee it will prove once and for all that western justice really used by 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 and 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 pours a scientific approach blasting off to the red planet by that about the mission. on our team dot com that is britney spears kicks off a world tour in russia we speak exclusively to the american pop diva find out why

she sees herself as an underground or the article. talks of a possible greek default 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 they are math reportedly given e.u. countries six weeks now to build up a financial fire wall to protect themselves from the shock wave of the greek default it comes amid rising fears of a double dip recession after the world's markets sold their worst week since two thousand and eight executive director of an investment advisory firm says the repeat of the global financial crisis looks inevitable he thinks at this stage. 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 in all of them if you're economies and also we've got this terrible terrible north sideslip beach issue with the likes of greece and if we look at somewhere like china which has been a huge engine of the global economy well they had some pretty bad manufacturing

numbers come on and that too is leading to a big fear that maybe china is finally hitting the buffers at least for the time being it's had a huge credit expansion in the last two years that looks really rather like europe and us looked in sort of two thousand and five two thousand and six two thousand and seven and i really fear that i mean if we see that happening in china then ultimately all overall the world economy is in for a very very difficult year in two thousand and twelve. well the greek debt crisis however bad it might turn out some likely to affect russia's economy that's the view of the russian fires mystery and you can watch an exclusive interview with him in a few minutes the. debt crisis do spread it does not affect us too much at least directly because our banks do not hold any of the greek debt is jibberish french and german banks on the other hand will suffer greatly because they will not bombs on their hands that would not be cleared this will cause problems within these banks

problems with these banks credit some overall problems on these markets because banks are after all the leading players. and other high profile killings shook afghanistan this last week the country's former president an advocate of peace talks with the taliban was assassinated on tuesday in a suicide attack burhanuddin rabbani was killed by a militant who hidden the explosive device in his turban claiming to be a taliban envoy about who had 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 the bombing 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 pissed them off found 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 all of this bridge in the center of the city with the wall just coming and staring at them all these insane conditions we still rubbish being through great fear where we're standing right now this is just an incredible secret. here all in all. it's all cooked mixed injected or small to write more on these piles of rubbish and no one policeman anywhere near. but that's not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs and many of them call this home pakistan and. we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't pay for the war on. the help of

a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each family has at least one drug user all bits are now found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine in their blood there's no doubt that the area of plantation song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started 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 interval cleans the markets global trade turnover has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark a russia is one of the worst affected states with around eighty tons of heroin thought to a new settle in the country that. 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. 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 nato is key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and spends billions of dollars to fight again it stands drug traffic but since nato has no legal right to coordinate the funds are spent with very little positive results while officials say that multi-billion dollar afghan drug network has the whole world in its grip you've got this kind of r t kabul afghanistan. elsewhere around the world tonight four explosions of rocked the city of karbala in southern iraq at least nine people have been killed and about one hundred injured to the explosions happened there a government office that issues id cards to reckon citizens so far no one's claimed responsibility for the attacks. nineteen of died in a plane crash in the poll that was carried tourists to mount everest when it went down killing all but one passenger instantly and that surviving victim then died

later in hospital eyewitnesses 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 sport said few in just over fifteen minutes time to real so russia's sports minister thinks the bears for the world cup all that surely than here on r.t. international.

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review the news stories of the past week is called these were the headlines told intrigue president medvedev and prime minister putin could swap jobs after twenty close presidential elections and the world continues to work for russia it was our big story. of the week emotions running high as palestinians bid for statehood at the u.n. with standing ovations in new york. at the border west bank. finished speaking out against terrorist websites. graced with the plight ignored by the mainstream media. and a greek default is inevitable and the e.u. top officials know it for four revealed the recession could go even deeper first feared. to say that story next be a corner.