russia's political spectrum to me that it has revealed he won't seek re-election twenty twelve a prime minister patient will step into the race instead he announced his decision while speaking at the ruling united russia party convention on saturday mr push on his part has suggested the president leads his party in parliamentary elections and has the government as prime minister should win all his and he said now it was at the event likely to have forged the shape of russia's politics for years to come. the wait is over. i believe it would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of logic. in the presidential election. thank you. this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under thirty putin has. i'm going to say

something else despite rumors that there's been a split within our tandem i can see that this is a well thought through decision. putin is running for president. i'd like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor. that you're but i think that the numbers 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 at the helm. but i'm convinced to become prime minister and we continue to thoroughly modernize our society. the tandem now running on a platform of taking russia through the next decade promising more growth and stability with their party united russia in december'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 move that do. you say they sent a political message to the russians as a result of the best of the wealth that. is not outdated it is not absolute this is a liable construction which. can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement even the delegates there were really taken aback when they are not only 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 have mentioned so you throw it as a 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 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 skiers meaning a so-called western style democracy might not be the way for russia something we are seeing the us especially push for across one of the world's most unstable regions i think it's it's really disgusting how the us 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 loss in russia alone russia not only the capitals has improved but putin and medvedev want to take it to the next step with the reshuffle in united russia already under way new faces transparency less corruption and more growth are all part of a 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 still the west russia has a right to its own style of democracy and he's now r.t. moscow. recount a young political analyst said the voice of russia radio station in washington says person is a figure that russia needs to lead it through the economic uncertainty now gripping the. 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 east got a start the russian economic engine. going again restarted 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 done the same with his protege obviously president. and this is the kind of political intelligence this is the kind of smarts but 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 when you have a leader who has a vision and a strength that people can see that's the that's the individual they want in office . and where asking what he is saying or have been of president medvedev and prime minister putin dissuades jobs so far almost all of you believe these were shuffled tandem will be a success because it enjoys a wide wide popular support you say twenty eight percent think this war will anger voters and strengthen the opposition and the remaining quarter feel the change will

have little or no effect at all so please the one time website article to tell us all to. a moment in history this week at the united nations as president mahmoud abbas delivered the palestinian bid for statehood receiving a standing of asia and dressing 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 inevitable his speech to the u.n. general assembly on friday was greeted with jubilant scenes across the palestinian territories but on the border with a zero instead of joy there was violence. as the story. and historic moment after decades of struggle tens of thousands celebrate across palestine after president mahmoud abbas of lots of 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'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 tires burning everywhere the army is also using a new found device known as the screamer which unbearable sound now the situation here is very very tense the clashes have 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. what 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 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

planting land mines on israel's northern borders to prevent the kalandia checkpoint scenes from unfolding here the mines are not necessarily very to deal with people who have peaceful intentions but mines are a legitimate form of defense many countries have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are trying to work mines that the can be able to more come for we will. bring them at the heart of the clashes are israeli settlers and palestinians both claim 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 and we are the only people in the world that have got approved a document a document that these in. the measure know it these advertised the core of 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 even if we don't resist with force it's enough that the surplus as we said something the army will come immediately and arrest us this fence cuts through your course farm meaning that white 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 or r.t. ramallah. procrustean an activist new author told me that despite the likelihood the u.s. will veto the statehood bid at the security council that is stimulus to recant pursuing it of the un 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 very next week or the other really makes no

difference but there is a very high sense of national achievement at this point because for one so after 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 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 coming up later this hour who will be there to face charges over crimes against humanity and battle colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy who now bases possible legal action i with a military intervention d.b.f.

. and a building drug industry destroys our good lives and fuels terrorism but little was done to stop it reports from kabul. a finnish lutheran pastor has been suspended by his church for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorists 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 denounce the center website which he believes acts as a mouthpiece for you tomorrow for tishman rights activists your heard about the authorities are sheltering militants by protecting their 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 this. 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 or fishel dome 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 finland ease actually protecting these militants and they are all going to i think their activities on the territory of finland. and you can find a lot more on this story on our website r.t. dot com they read your humble diaries blog on the controversial web site and i think city it claims that they can center has already written some two hundred to

find the tree and insulting articles about him so find out more. later in the program a barking way of fighting pollution from coal if you. are still pulling their way who can say it's not only more environmentally friendly but also pay for your god always rely on we called the oil would be called wild dogs will never live through our. speculation that greece is on the way to 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 the i.m.f. is preparing to phrase the wires stand reportedly to e.u. countries to build up a financial well with six weeks to be able to withstand the shock wave of agreeing to hold this week also turned out as the worst for the world's markets since two

thousand and eight further adding to fears and dreams and me the way of the new economic foundation a think tank in london says the process of the euro disintegrating is already underway the cat is out of the bargain to be quite honest the statement is quite close to a simple statement of the facts greece cannot possibly repay its debt under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far too big not simply no earthly way it's going to be repaying the only plausible time scale certainly not by twenty twelve which was the original call of hope of the european nations the divisions that are in place right the way across europe now with countries completely unable really to agree on any kind of way forward absolutes most of those in the essentially troi been tested and tried and failed methods the part which essentially is give a bit of a. certain countries impose austerity measures we are certainly i think at the early stages of disintegration the euro the deep rooted structural problems inside

the euro system the 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 normally on going to national financial was at r.t. dot com including some believe that all street could become the scene but what they're calling that american version of the arab spring. and this also russia is heading back to mars after a twenty year force where that scientific probe lasting up to the red planet and hoping to bring back something rather special find out more about them raising mission on r.t. dot com. libya's transitional government forces have reported the end of colonel gadhafi his hometown of sirte supported by nato been barman's they've also intensified their sold on the city of bani walid and while human rights activists have questioned the legality of western intervention in the country are taking legal action as artie's daniel bush for explains in the report

with some images you may find disturbing. projects 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 follow in the colonel's first libya's deposed leader is in hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin laden some states are now claiming the right to kill against all international law. images like these are moving french lawyers to turn against the government because sarkozy faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the prisons of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war a new vietnam where the u.s. sprayed tens of millions of liters of talks ins 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 seeing president sarkozy for crimes against humanity nato 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 moves and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack. wife a child and grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately waging a campaign of terror. their 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 use run by politicians not the rule of law the new bush or r.t. paris. another high profile killing shook afghanistan this week the country's ex-president but. how wasn't assassinated less than a year. these talks with the taliban rabbani was killed at his home in kabul with a suicide bomber gaining entry by claiming to bad taliban envoy his funeral ceremony took place at the presidential palace friday with thousands of mourners gathering in the afghan capital to pay respects the bombing followed a string of high profile targeted killings including the murder of current president karzai is hard drive in july and as they taliban continues its attacks in afghanistan one of the main sources of income is in full bloom that is equal to spin off reports from the country the drug trade is still rampant as i've been

hands of dollars and every year to combat. 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 seat with the officer coming and staring at them in all these insane conditions we used in the rubbish bin floor right here where we're standing right now this is just incredible to see act heroin all be on it's all cooked mixed injected or smoked all right i'm on these piles of rubbish here not one policeman anywhere near. but that not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs and many of them call this home. game here and we don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't pay for the war. help us

a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each family has at least one drug user or beards 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 and afghanistan i believe that the war was the root cause that forced afghan people to turn to poppy growing their own ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan interval cleans the markets global trade turnover has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected street with around eighty tons of heroin to a new resettle 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 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. and now a brief look at some other news from around the world a plane carrying tourists in human hunt everest has crashed killing nineteen people on board one person who survived later died in hospital the qataris are fair about it fail to learn that happened to that poor dance hall i would miss out quick to house and nearby village before crashing but no casualties or reported on the

ground. women in saudi arabia are to be granted the right to vote and run in municipal elections and for the future burning king abdullah announced on sunday it's a major change for the conservative muslim kingdom that are forces a strict version of islam. as a bond woman from taking part in polls of politics before the king also ruled that women can be appointed to the currently all male consultative shura council for the first time saudi arabia holds only its second ever national why nationwide local elections on thursday but women will only be allowed to vote in the next ones tried to put twenty fifty. in last bullfight in spain's northeastern region of content only here has ended in clashes between funds and i'm to pull from that comparing this scuffles broke out in a region in barcelona after matadors for of the killing soared into bones marking the end of the. battle only is parliament bondable fighting in july twenty tanf

ordering a petition campaign by animal rights activists that's many countermands still see both fighting as part of their heritage and don't want it to become a relic of the past. for hostages 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 an original concept on a boy who traveled north to find out. that's what it really means to put the shoulder to the will contrary to popular opinion don't go on vacation when. as the snow melts dogs are pulling over twenty. cars to talk to people who are. in fact in the world snow than most city being docked time is a year round phenomenon dog flagellates where the only means of transportation around the archipelago until the mid one nine hundred sixty s.

and while by now cars and snowmobiles have replaced them in many parts of the north here and prison bergen are still pulling their way who can say it's not only more environmentally friendly but also safer you can always rely on when to deal with cold wild dogs will never let you down. like most of the residents of no race longer beyond robert wasn't born here. he moved in his mid twenty's fleeing big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature. he says who king his jeep behind his barking see maybe tomorrow is the major change in his life plus it gives the dogs fit the story beats they know they need the exercise every day so. yeah when it improves with less to respond then i going out training the bugs in my car some two thousand residents along here 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 with more restrictions to come. the law being forced behind a partial car ban is buried borthwick also an avid dog lover she like it is driving to smoking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are known smoking areas why shouldn't there be known driving areas here small but those are culture 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 true where we can leave or what's around us in our normal days we need to rest our brain as the occupant of the tries to attract more tourists some suggest that the her restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around you won't reporting increasing traffic

fatigue many may be in need of a car free refuge like this russian traveler couldn't call us of and muscovite who endures hours long commutes to work says the absence of honking horns made him instantly fall in love with the place the most amazing moment i experience here on small boat 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 the favor of dogs it's an absolutely great great idea and this would probably attract more and more tourists down here going to dogs is obviously not an option for every city but here have to is definitely don't feel like a fifth wheel kind of way to artsy along gibbie and spitzbergen archipelago. and that's how the news looks this out and this week in a few minutes a special report for you about the death of america's convoluting heartland statement coming to life.

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a 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 are there first let's understand that. this is a man doesn't want. it is gong. to 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 better general motors simply became too large for their own good and so many brands that they couldn't even keep up with. who became a dinosaur. and

the says these are that we can headline. present and that if and they speculation about russia's job by proposing prime minister vladimir putin to run for office in between twelve elections that are better than ten promises to continue his juana zation agenda as prime minister if they successfully lead the united russia party to victory in parliamentary elections next month. palestinian bid for statehood is launched with the united nations and welcome to it standing ovations at the general assembly in new york but violent crime for the israeli forces at the border and the west bank. a finnish priest is speaking out against terrorist website defrocked and disgraced with his plight ignored by the mainstream media. and great default is inevitable and to eat.