and welcome to aussies weekly review and we start off with the biggest news in russia's political spectrum president medvedev has revealed he won't seek reelection in twenty twelve and prime minister person will step into the race instead he announced his decision while speaking at the rooty 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 when all he is an isa now it was that was at the event likely to have forced the shape of russia's politics for years to come. the wait is over but 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. he sure has got off to say something else with it despite rumors that there's been a split within our town i can see that this is a well thought through decision. putin is running for president i was going to. i like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor of golden ages. that you are 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 dimitri. that was. not the issue here you. but i was just what i'm convinced to become prime minister mahmoud continue 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 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 sent 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 is not outdated it is not absolute this is our. construction which can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement even the delegates there were certainly 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 emotions are you proud to say is of course the risk of political stagnation and after all these country members very well the euro of the seventy's in the eighty's especially one 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 for one simple fact. and this is a healthy skier's 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 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 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 stability towards further development and still the west russia has a right to its own style democracy and he's now artsy moscow. recount a young political analysts said the voice of russia radio station in washington says person is a figure that russia needs to beat it through the economic uncertainty now gripping the world 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 a change of style at this point she 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. 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 the people can see that's that that's the individual they want in office. and where asking what you think will happen and if president medvedev and prime minister putin do switch jobs down so far on the stock market you believe the reshuffled tunder will be a success because it enjoys wide popular support you say twenty nine percent think

the saw and go vote is and strengthen the opposition and the remaining call to kill the change will have little or no effect at all so the whole entire website all to home to tell us what you think. let me know in an hour 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 a return from new york addressing the rally compared his campaign to the arab spring saying that independent palestinian state is inevitable and he speech to the u.n. general assembly on friday was greeted with jubilant scenes across the palestinian territories but on the border with israel 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 admits of

a quest to the united nations to recognize a palestinian state but as feared it wasn't orci is 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 going to using a new found device known as the scream which unbearable found now be situation here is very very tense be clashes have spread across the west bank one kind of thing and has been killed now what we understand happened is that country one hundred israeli 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. four months the israeli army has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians were retail 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 pounding land mines on israel's northern borders to prevent the columbia checkpoint scenes from unfolding here the mines are not necessarily there to deal with people who have peaceful intentions but mines are a legitimate form of descents many countries have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are trying to work mines. it maybe it's more can for. them at the heart of the clashes are israeli settlers and palestinians both lame 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 their vote approved a document a document that these in. the measure know it advertized they call

it the bible but not so wise and 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 your calls farm meaning that why 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 artie muller. and prefer to see if there is no order told r.t. that despite their livelihood the us will veto the statehood bid at the security council but astin is still regarded pursuing it at the un as a major breakthrough. as palestinians we have

a very heightened sense of national pride at this moment then 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 un resolutions then it's purely point. palestinian officials have accused the u.s. of pushing pressure on members of the u.n.

security council to prevent them from voting for an independent state for potus time say that washington is king to be spent the embarrassment of having to veto the bit which should be disastrous for its credibility as a middle east peace maker. it was a week long gathering of the world's most polluted 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 opened yet at the heart of almost all diplomatic dialogue. demonstrations and media attention was the palestinian pursuit of official u.n. membership well then it's a time when the arab peoples are thrown back wistfully democracy in 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 bid the u.s. 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 that 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 accost 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 be 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 to resent comprehensive proposals on borders and security that is the only way in the end we deal. the difficult issues around the table in the negotiation at 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 this is a c.

and coming up later who will be the last to face charges of the crimes against humanity embattled colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy who now faces possible legal action over the military intervention in libya. and a booming drug industry destroys our good lives and fuels terrorism but little is done to stop it the report from kabul. a finnish lutheran pastor has been suspended by his church for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorists. that is being sought for a series of deadly terrorist attacks on russian soil over the last decades past military denounce the center website which he believes acts as a mosque mouthpiece for morrow finish and rise activist in your hunt bachmann says 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 using their activities on the territory of finland. and of course you can find

a lot more on this story on our website or ask dot com and they can read your humble ari's blog on the controversial web site and has it and its activity and he claims that the captors center has already written some two hundred define a tree and insulting articles about him find out more at altitude. speculation of greece is on the way to inevitable default gathered pace this week it follows reports suggesting some of the eurozone finance ministers have already given up on the possibility the country's economy can recover the i.m.f. is preparing to face the worst and reportedly edge the e.u. countries to build up a financial fire wall within six weeks to be able to withstand the shock wave of a degree default this week also turned out as the worst for the world's markets since two thousand didn't days further adding to fears and james made away all the new economic foundation think tank in london says the proceeds of the year are 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 under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far too big not simply no earthly way is going to be able to repay this debt on any 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 out of this mess other than the essentially troi them tested in troy failed methods they've happened last year which essentially is give a bit of a bailout to certain countries impose austerity measures we certainly are saying to the early stages of disintegration europe 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. the greek debt crisis however bad it may turn out is unlikely to affect russia's economy that's divya russia finance minister. and you

can watch an exclusive interview in several minutes but here's a quick preview. the debt crisis does spread it does not affect us too much at least directly because our banks do not hold any of the greek debt issues with french and german banks on the other hand will suffer greatly because they will not bombs on their homes 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. libya's transitional government forces have reportedly ended colonel gadhafi is hometown of sirte supported by nato bombardments they've held there they've also intensified their sold on the city of bani walid meanwhile human rights activists the question of a legality a western intervention in the country have taken legal action as his day of bush the explains in the report with some images you might find disturbing. for objects

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 later will have to form because first libya's deposed leader is it hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin laden some states are now claiming the right to kill but 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 president 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 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 it then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed books videos spiderman toys and cultural moves and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack how did we do is wife a child and grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato's 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. powers. another high profit killing should have got the start of this week the country's ex-president we don't know dean was assassinated less than a year after meeting peace. talks with the taliban rabbani was killed at his home in kabul with a suicide bomb that gaining entry by claiming to be a 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 half brother in july and as the taliban continues its attacks in afghanistan one of their main sources of income is in full bloom as the corpus clean off reports from the country the drugs trade is still around france just five

billions of dollars spent 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 city with all this coming and staring at them and all these insane conditions we still rubbish being thrown weight here where we're standing right now this is just incredible to see. heroin opium marijuana it's all cooked mixed injected or smoked all right i'm on these piles of rubbish and not one policeman anywhere near. but that's not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs many of them told us pakistan and you're on your game here and we don't have any jobs we don't have any kind of thing to do if you can pay for the war or that either defund the

police help us a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each family has at least one drug user all buttes arlie are found in breast milk and all kids even newborns that 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 look for stuff down people to turn to put. around ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced in afghanistan interval cleans the markets global trade 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 settle in the country that i know 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 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 and is a group you've got the skin of our t. afghanistan. and right now briefly look at some other news from around the world a plane carrying tourists a few mount everest has crashed killing nineteen people on board one person who survived later died in hospital the catastrophe occurred as the pilot failed to land at kathmandu airport in dense fog eye witnesses claim the aircraft clipped a house in a nearby village before crashing but no casualties were reported on the ground.

women in saudi arabia are to be granted the right to vote and run in municipal elections and future voting king abdullah announced on sunday it's a major change for a conservative muslim kingdom that in force is a strict version of islamic law and has banned women from taking part in paul's or 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 the second day of a nationwide local elections are thursday but women of all have be allowed to vote in the next one for twenty fifteen. so the last change will bullfighter spain's northeastern region of catalonia air has ended in clashes between fines and people fired campaign is scuffles broke out near and arena in barcelona after matadors drove the killing sword into balls marking the end of the can read a show that alone has parliament banned bullfighting in july twenty ten following

a petition campaign by animal rights activists but many catalans still see bullfighting as part of their heritage and don't want to it to become a relic of the past. you're up to date but i'll be back with the headlines in just a couple of moments.

very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but sentimental came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or non jews. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a combat soldier in the occupied territories was to do with deterrents doing what we call making our presence felt to go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner invade another house religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed if you want to bomb gaza and kill. a thousand four hundred people in a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect until a feat you have to be either extremely naive or extremely stupid you need to come

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and again this is on sandy's of the week's top stories to present a bit of that of the speculation about russia still drawn by proposing prime minister vladimir putin to run for office in the trying to twelve elections that that if in turn promises to continue his mobilization agenda as prime minister if he successfully leads the united russia party to victory in parliamentary elections in december. the palestinian bid for statehood is launched with the united nations welcomed with standing ovations at the general assembly new york violent clashes with israeli forces at the border that was. also finished priest is speaking out against the chechen terrorist website finds himself defrocked on just graze with his client ignored by the mainstream media. on a greek default is inevitable and do you top officials now.