of them a. top job intrigue and president medvedev and prime minister putin good small jobs are the point of twelve presidential election pledging that time and i will continue to what. emotions are running high as palestinians because they would be rotten with standing ovations in new york but clashes over the border in the west bank and. also finished greece speaking out against international terrorist website finds himself defrocked and disgraced with his plight in order by the mainstream media. to reach before his inevitable reality t.v. talk of the full snow is complete reports reveal the recession could go even deeper than us to be.

had welcome to our seas weekly review and was startled with the biggest news of russia's political spectrum prince admitted that it has revealed he won't seek reelection trying to twelve and prime minister putin will step into the race and start his decision while speaking out begin ruling united russia party convention on saturday mr putin on his part has suggested the president leads his party in parliamentary elections and has the government as prime minister should it win and he said now it was of the band likely to have forged big shape of russia's politics for years to come. the wait is over. i believe it would be right for the convention to support their candidacy of lighting mayor putin and the presidential election was among

. this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience i'm the thora to putin. he sure has gotten under going to see something else despite rumors there's been a split within our tandem i can see that this is a well thought through decision. putin 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 to meet you. if you. didn't get it and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask all russian citizens to support the united russia party with dmitri to help. you. i'm convinced to become prime minister continue to thera we 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 party lardy has been falling in recent years by making such a move. as you say they sent a political message to the russians as well to the best of the world that. it is not our beat it is not absolute this is a rabble construction which can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement and even the delegates there 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 west has all. readies started emphasizing how much the move lacks surprise i'm sure that some of the opposition political commentators who mentions a year for today is of course the risk of political stagnation and also all these country members very well the era of the seventy's in the eighty's especially when the communist party leadership didn't really change there and they all stayed there until the age of five years old now i would rather disagree with those who predict stagnation in russian politics one simple fact. and this is the healthiest years 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 really disgusting how the 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 all control these populations countries like russia just want stability and stability is something russia knows this dynamic duo can deliver at least so far russian g.d.p. has almost doubled the level of loss in russia all or russia not only the capitals has improved but putin and medvedev want to take it to the next step with the reshuffling united russia already under way new faces transparency less corruption and more growth are all part of a platform for the entry is dead and now the real work begins united russia has to convince the country they are the party to move past stability towards further development and so whilst russia has a right to its own style democracy and he's now artsy in moscow. then recant a young political analyst at the voice of russia radio station washington says peter is a figure that russia needs to lead it through the economic uncertainty now. putin

will have. his hands full once a year 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 gold you've got a story of the russian economic engine. going again restart. me there i don't think you need to change or sell this point here's going very consistent showing themselves as a very strong decisive leader and he certainly has done the same with his protege obviously your prism of good years and this is the kind of political intelligence this is the kind of smarts but i think people respect whether the russia or the u.s. has 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 a strength that people can see that's the that's the individual they want to office . and it's also your call we're asking what you think will happen to president medvedev and prime minister putin dissuades jobs so far almost all of you believe

these are shuffled times and will be a success because it enjoys it why it had popular support you say twenty eight percent think this was all anger voters and strengthen the opposition and the remaining horses be able to change will have little or no facts at all so please no one tell by sight alcohol tell us was here. a moment in history this week at the united nations as president mahmoud abbas delivered the palestinian bid for statehood receiving a standing ovation addressing the general assembly thousands of cheering people gathered in ramallah to give him a hero's welcome home as he returned from new york addressing the rally compared his campaign to the arab spring saying that an independent palestinian state is the nuggets of all his speech to the u.n. general assembly on friday it was greeted with jubilant scenes across the political territories i don't the water with a zero instead of joy but was violence and was his policy has the story. and

historic moment after decades of struggle tens of thousands will avoid across palestine after president mahmoud abbas submitted requests 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 are here in ramallah where there is a standoff between the israeli army and palestinian protesters just a short distance down the road there are tires burning everywhere the army is often using a new round of ice known as the scream of which to make an bearable sound now the situation here is very very tense a clash of right across the west bank one palestinian has been killed now what we understand happened is that country one hundred israeli take it 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 mc. for months the israeli army

has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians worry to levy 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 haunting land mines on israel's northern borders to prevent the kalandia checkpoint scenes from unfolding here the mines are not necessarily of a to do with people who have peaceful intentions but mines are a legitimate form of the sense any countries have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are going to work. maybe it's not going forward we will. bring 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 deep in the head on heels for more than twenty years he says this land is his and he has the papers to. we are the only people in the world

that have got approved a document a document that these national and international know it be severed. but not so what makes 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 eating too much watching jacob farm it it's a very hard feeling but what can i do nothing in the resistance forces or not that the services with. the army will come immediately and arrest us this fence cuts through your calls farm meaning there right now i am standing inside palestine and as i walk through here. and now in israel it's one thing to declare a state and another to determine where its borders will be policy r.t. or manner. procrustean activist knew all that told me that despite the likelihood

the u.s. will the united states had bid at the security council but it syrians to regard this unit of the as a major breakthrough as palestinians we have a very heightened sense of national pride at this moment that even though we know the veto is most likely coming there it's next week or the other really makes no difference but there is a very high sense of national at cheeseman at this point because for one softer those very disappointing years of the so-called peace process the political leadership and the popular popular public opinion are in line very much 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. this is an r.c.

and coming up later this hour who will be there to praise charlie's over crimes against humanity and battle colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy who now faces possible legal action i would a military intervention media. and a building drug industry destroys our good lives and fuels terrorism crime little was done to stop that report from kabul. i finished lutheran pastor has been suspended by his church for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorists more of that church and is being sought for a series of deadly terrorist attacks on russian soil over the last decade past your heart mollari canals the center website which he believes acts as a mouthpiece for whom are british men right actually it's your home about the authorities are sheltering militants by protecting their websites activity. actually you are more is only repeating what he said about the activities of all of

this terrorist organization by united nations by the usa by russia by the international media so actually you are morally cannot repeat the same information in finland which is said in the international media about these terrorist organizations the person who is responsible of the website it is me he has organized some migration all of the militants from k. 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 in the finnish government for example the minister of development of finland had hoped always very close partner to me so the situation is really strange finland east actually protecting these militants and they are all denies in their

activities on the territory of finland. and you can find a lot more of this story on our website r.t. dot com read your honey larry's lovely controversial website and effectivity claims that they can present a has already written from three hundred defamatory and insulting articles about him to find out more as our hero. later in the program a barking way of fighting pollution from car. is a way local if not only more environmentally friendly but. you can't always rely on we called the all what they called wild dogs will never let. the speculation that greece is on the way see inevitable default gathered pace this week it follows reports suggesting some of the euro zone's finance ministers have

already given up on the possibility the country's economy can recover at the i.m.f. it's preparing to praise the wires and reportedly urged the e.u. countries to build our national well with six weeks to be able to withstand a shock wave of the greek default this week also turns out as the worst for the world's markets as to thousands in days further adding to fears and dreams and need a way of a new economic foundation a think tank in london said the president of the euro is integrating is already under way the cat is out of the bag and to be quite honest the statement is quite close to simple statements of the facts greece cannot supposedly repay their loans or under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far too big and it's simply no earthly way it's going to be repaying this on any causal time scale certainly not by twenty twelve which was the original call of hope of the other european nations the divisions that are in place right the way across europe now with countries completely unable really to agree in any kind of way forward absolutes most of those in the essentially troy is untested and tried and failed

methods they pop century is give a bit of a bailout to certain countries or impose austerity measures we certainly i think in the early stages of disintegration of europe the deep rooted structural problems inside the euro system imbalances that built up for the last ten years so i'd be surprised to see the euro continuing in its present form given the situation we're in at the moment. and you can read more on the ongoing to national financial woes at r.t. dot com including some believe that wall street could become the scene but what they're calling the american version of the arab spring. and this also russia is heading back to mars upset a twenty year old summer that scientific progress of the red planet and hoping to bring about something rather special find out more about them raising mission on r.t. dot com. government forces have reported

the end of colonel gadhafi is home tired of sirte supported by nato been barman's they've also intensified their sold on the city of bani walid and while he would rise activists who question the legality of western intervention in the country are taking legal action as artie's daniel bushell explains in the report with some images you know find disturbing. the french explorer minister says he's ready to defend. 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 it hiding for good reason. if he finds him will 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 sarkozy faces lawsuits over the death of ordinary people in libya lawyers here are frauds accuse the prisons of committing crimes against humanity this

lawyer calls the libyan war a new 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 are. 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 bombing this residence where thirteen civilians including four children died then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed books videos spiderman had toys and cultural and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack is wife and child and grandchildren were reportedly killed in

their home nato is accused of deliberately with campaign of terror. warnings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly need it was 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 chicle the 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. and that a high profile collection of afghanistan this week is ex-president getting out i knew i wasn't fascinated less than a year. peace talks with the taliban of any was killed at his home in kabul with a suicide bomber gaining entry by claiming to bad taliban and boy it's an all ceremony took place at the presidential palace friday with thousands of mourners gathering in the afghan capital to pay respects a bombing followed

a string of high profile targeted killings including the murder of current president karzai is hard brother in july and as a taliban continues its attacks in afghanistan one of them a source of income is in full bloom at his eagle is going off reports from the country the draft trade is still rampant as i began five dollars and actually get a call 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 human rights right there under this bridge in the center of the sea with all the water is coming and staring at them all these insane conditions we used in rubbish bins three and right here where we're standing right now this is just incredible secret heroin all be in it's all cooked mixed injected or small to write more on these piles of rubbish or not one policeman

anywhere near. but that not all or it's all these people don't just come here to do drugs i mean of them call this call pakistan and you can hear we don't have any we don't have any and i think you do if you can it's a part of war headed to. a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shores each family has at least one drug user. found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine. there's no doubt the theory of countries and some with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started. 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 war cleans the markets global trade turnover has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark russia is one of the worst affected states where around eighty

tons of heroin a newly settle in the country. 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 and needles key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and spends billions of dollars to fight of the drug traffic but since nato has no legal way 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 is going off our tea cup ball again is there. and now a brief look at some other news from around the world a plane carrying tourists new mount everest has crashed killing nineteen people on

board one person who survived later died in hospital because hastert but it failed to learn that happened to all dance hall i would miss may have been hard to click to house and nearby a village before crashing but no casualties or put it on the ground. women in saudi arabia are to be granted the right to god and run in municipal elections and the future king abdullah announced on sunday it's a major change for the conservative muslim kingdom that can force a district version of islam a school and has one hundred women from taking part in pools of politics before the king also ruled that women had been appointed to the current all male consult steve shura council for the first time saudi arabia was only its second ever national why nationwide local elections are thursday but women will only be allowed to vote in the next ones chettle for twenty fifteen. in last shred you will find in spain's northeastern region of catalonia has ended

in clashes between fines and an untenable five campaign this stuff falls broke out in a region in barcelona after matadors of the killing soared into bones marking the end of the. bitterly as parliament bondable fighting in july trying to transform the petition complaint by animal rights activists that's many outlands still see it all fighting as part of their heritage and don't want it to become a relic of the past. four hundred case in one remote town the world doesn't stop once the snow has melted in a bid to reduce the number of cars on the road and the pollution they cause the island of spitsbergen has introduced and regional concept all these acts on the boycott traveled north to find out more. that's what it really means to the shade richard it will contrary to popular opinion housekeepers don't go on vacation when . the snow melts. for two and a half from cars to talk about your car. in fact in the world snowden will see

being doctor is a year round phenomenon. where the only means of transportation around archipelago . and while by now cars and growing will place them in many parts of the north koreans present organ is a still way who can say it's not only more environmentally friendly but also thanks for always rely on when called to grill with a cold while dogs will never live. like most of the residents have no wrestling gear beyond robert wasn't born here. he moved in in his mid twenty's fleeing big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature he says who keep his jeep behind his barking theme every two months is the major change of his life plus it gives the dogs fit the story beats they know. this

exercise every day so if. when it improves with interest i'm going out training in my car some two thousand residents along here and beyond is little more than a white place in the road they may not be any traffic police but the rules of the road on no last trick the local authorities have already closed some of the archipelagos routes to motorised traffic that's more restrictions to come. the law being forced behind a partial car ban is very poor think also and average go up lover she like is driving just milking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are known smoking areas why shouldn't there be no new driving areas here small boats are country in norway and many other places also here in the north. i think they we're leaving in big tones we need the silent from where we can leave all of

what's around us in our normal days we need to rest our brain as they actually go into tries to attract more tourists some suggest the big her restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around it won't reporting increasing traffic critique may be in need of a car free refuge but be some russian traveller kolosov and muscovite who endures hours long commutes to work says the absence of honking horns made him instantly fall in love with a phrase the most amazing moment i experience here on soul that is of course the traffic the lack of traffic even early on january first in moscow you cannot find that few cars like you see here to ban cars in the 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 haski is definitely don't feel like

a fifth wheel travelling along here be an spitzbergen archipelago. and that's how the news lives this hour and this week in a few minutes a special report for you about the death of america's car building heartland statement coming to life. this was a city. of about one hundred ninety thousand people and we had eighty thousand

people working for general motors. or a job that depended on general motors. general motors is if it's not relations you it might be your neighbor or somebody you knew so it's kind of family run business you know myself i'm third generation my father was working there and you have a lot of two three and four generation families they were there first let's understand that it is this is a little more. than he should not it is gone toward a man's a work. i think for a long time this notion in america that bigger was better was simply an undisputed fact in the twenty first century smarter you can get better general motors simply became too large for their own good and so many brands.