the. soldier wintry ganz president made very different prime minister putin could swarm of that for the twenty twelve presidential election pledging that turns out will continue to work for russia. the palestinian bid for statehood is closed with the united nations welcomed by standing with standing ovations at the general assembly new york but violent clashes with israeli forces at the border in the was. also finished lutheran pastor is suspended from his ministry object he speaks out against a website he says is a mouthpiece for russia's most wanted terrorist. and concerned about the possible breach before the people's again as leaks reports suggest that some here result by those ministers no longer believe the country's economy because.

i don't welcome to our she's a weekly review and we start off with the biggest news on russia's political spectrum president medvedev has revealed he won't seek reelection twenty twelve and prime minister putin will step into the race instead and his decision while speaking of the ruling united russia party convention on saturday mr bush on his part or suggested has suggested the president leads his party in parliamentary elections and has the government as prime minister should it when all she is and is now was at the event likely to have forces 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 a candidate to see apply fingerprints in a new presidential election i.

know that. this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under thirty and as. he sure has got off lightly i'm going to say something else despite rumors that there's been a split within our times and i can say that this is a well thought through decision tree putin is running for president. i like to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor i've got to meet you. at your back if that gets to the numbers and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask all russian citizens to support and you know i think russia party but the minute you know that was. not the issue here you. know you

just what i'm convinced to become prime minister 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 but 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 move they do. tender as you say they send a political message to the russians as well to the best of their wealth that it. is not outdated it is not absolute this is a lie. construction which can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement even me and her delegates were really taken aback

when you know. of course everybody expected it and it must count as one of the best kept secrets really in recent political history the last has already started emphasizing how much the lobster prize i'm sure that some of the opposition political commentators have mentioned to you throughout the day is of course the risk of political stagnation and after all these crimes remember very well the iraq 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 weight 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. 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 the oil and control these populations. countries like russia just want stability and stability is something russia knows this dynamic duo can deliver at least so far russian g.d.p. has almost doubled the level of life in russia lower russia not only the capitals has improved but routine in madrid you'd 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 the 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 so the west has a right to its own style democracy and he's now artsy moscow. and he

can't a young political analyst said the voice of russia radio station in washington says is that figure that russia needs to beat it through they cannot make concessions you know gripping the. lever 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 at the start of the russian economic engine. going again reset the button on the economy there i don't think he needs to change it so at this point here's been very consistent as showing himself as a very strong decisive leader and he certainly has turned 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 the russian 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 in office

. we're asking what you think will happen if president medvedev and prime minister putin do so each jobs so far almost half of you believe the reshuffled time zone will be a success because it enjoys wide popular support you say twenty eight percent saying the swap would anger voters and strengthen the opposition and the remaining courtship feel the change will have little or no effect at all so log on to our website r.t. the home for tell us what you think. a moment in history this week at the united nations us president mahmoud abbas delivered be 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 he 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 seek things across the palestinian territories but on the border with israel instead of joy there was

violence all this he heard the story. and historic movement after decades of struggle tens of thousands celebrated the palestine after president mahmoud abbas to the place to be i hasten 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 up 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 town device known as the scream at which in mecca and bearable sound now the situation here is very very tense he catches the freight across the point thanks to my kind of thing and has been killed now what we understand happened is that country one hundred israelis started then being the treat belonging to palestinians in the village the army was called in and the result was one palestinian shot and

killed in the mic. for months the israeli army has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians worry to levy will now use these clashes as an excuse to beef up its only 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 pointing land mines on israel's northern border is to prevent a can one do you 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 the saints. have mines on their borders for that reason but no calls are outraged now they are trying to work. it maybe it's more consorts sort of. thing that at the heart of the clashes are israeli citizens and palestinians both main claim to the same piece of land jacob taylor has been farming decon 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. but not so was and makes the same plane as 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 what good can i do nothing in the resistance forces to not put the surpluses was beyond me will come immediately and arrest us this fence cuts through your calls 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 r.t. . and pro politician activists in order told r.t.

that despite the likelihood the u.s. will veto that statehood bid at the security council but a senior still regarded seeing at the u.n. 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 more likely coming very much for the other really makes no difference but there is a very high sense of national actually of many at this point because for one for after 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 thought i'd of the political debate if you will going back to negotiations is not something palestinians are posed 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 police early committing to international law clearly committing to its

obligations according to international law and relevant un resolutions then it's purely pointless. this is r.c. and coming out who will be the first to face charges of crimes against humanity in battles colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy in a race this possible legal action i would in military intervention in libya. and a booming drug industry destroys our good lives and fuels terrorism but little is done to stop it will or from coming. to finish this one pastor has been suspended by his church for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorists of the church and is being sought for the series of deadly terrorist attacks on russian soil over the last decades past your heart mona reid announced the center website which he believes acts as a mouthpiece for as a mouthpiece for viro of finnish human rights activists you're one bachmann says the authorities are sheltering militants by protecting their websites activity.

actually you homologous 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 week he has organized the mass migration off militants from turkey to finland and now he is facing charges he's prosecuted in finland over the same time he has a very strong support on the highest level of the finnish. fishel doman also in the finnish government for example the minister of development of finland had a hopeful is very close partner told me so the situation is really strange finland east 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 of this story on our website r.t. dot com they read your money on a raised blog on the controversial web site and it's exhibiting and he claims that they can cost center has already written some two hundred different a tree and insulting articles about him find out more at r.t. dot com. and later in the program a barking way of fighting pollution from calf you. really bergen is calling the way we're going to break if not only more environmentally friendly but they've got always rely on we called deal with they called wild dogs will never live through our. 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 urged the e.u. countries to build our financial firewall within six weeks to be able to withstand the shock wave of agree default this week also turns out as the worst for the world's knock it since two thousand and eight for adding to fears and james made way of the new konami foundation a think tank in london says the process of the euro is integrating is already underway. because it is out of the bargain to be quite honest the statement is quite close to simple statements of the facts greece cannot be plausibly repay their loans or under current circumstances the growth isn't bad the debt is far too big simply no earthly way is going to be repaid this year on any plausible timescale 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 on any kind of

a way forward out of this mess other than the essentially troy's interested in troy failed methods the part from last year which essentially. is give a bit of a bailout to certain countries and then impose austerity measures we are certainly i think in the early stages of disintegration europe the deep rooted structural problems inside the euro system imbalances that built up the last ten years so don't 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 international financial woes that are you know calling pleasing. some believe that wall street could become this scene for what they're calling them american bashing of the arab spring. and also this is also russia is heading back to mars upset a twenty year pause with a scientific probe blasting up to the red planet and hoping to bring back something rather special find out more about their mazing mission on how to. leave

government forces have reportedly ended kind of its hometown of sirte supported by nato bombardment they have also intensifiers their soldier on the city of bani walid and while human rights activists who questions the legality of western intervention in the country are taking legal action as daniel bush explains in the report with some images you may find disturbing. fridge explorer minister roland jamal says you've really been. in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but later will have to follow him because the first libya's deposed leader is it haunted him for good reason. if he finds him they'll kill him like bill martin 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 sarkozy faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the presidents of committing

crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war reduce 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. 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 then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed. videos spider-man toys and cultural and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack over weeds wife or child and grandchildren were reportedly killed in

their home nato is accused of deliberately with 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 are poised for their first big legal challenge of libya if they stop the cases coming to court together as chickadee it will prove once and for all that western justice really used politicians not giving all of the law the noble shorty powers. and other high profile collection of afghanistan this week the country's ex-president read any was assassinated less than a year after meeting peace to. talks with the taliban but when he was killed at his home in kabul with a side bomb a gating entry by claiming to be a taliban and boy it's 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 target killings including the murder of current president karzai as have brother in july the taliban continues its attacks in afghanistan one of the main sources of income is in full bloom and is not easy going to skin off of course from the country the trials trade is still rampant despite billions of dollars spent every year to combat it. 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 but it is a bridge in the center of the street with all this coming and staring at them it will be insane conditions we still rubbish being thrown way here where we're standing right now this is just incredible to see. heroin.

kicked mixed injected or small to write more on these piles of rubbish and not one policeman anywhere near. but that not all we were told these people don't just come here to do drugs i mean your them call this home pakistan and you know candy and we don't have any we don't have any and i think you do if you can pay for the war i did. a study commissioned by the u.s. state department shows each family has at least one drug user sorry are found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine in their blood there's no doubt that the area of can taste in some with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities tartan afghanistan i believe the war was the root cause that forced afghan people to turn to poppy growing around ninety percent of all the opiates in the world are produced you know get a stack into of all claims that markets global trade turnover has long surpassed the five hundred billion dollar mark or russia is one of the worst affected states

with around eighty tons of heroin thought to a newly settle in the country like. 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 that many experts find is a bit strange given the fact that a large part of 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 right to coordinate the funds are spent with very little by the resorts well officials say that multi-billion dollar afghan drug network has the whole world in its grip you've got us going off forty couple of ghana's there. and right now

a brief look at some other news from around the world the french left has won enough seats to be in the control of the senate that's according to early results from sunday's elections gains mean that the socialists along with their green and communist allies will now have a majority in the upper house it's a global french president nicolas sarkozy and his conservative government losing control just seven months before a presidential election where he hopes for a second term the first time in more than fifty years that the right in france has lost power to the left in the senate. women in saudi arabia are to be granted the right to vote and run in musical elections in the future relinking a dollar announced on sunday it's a major change for the conservative muslim kingdom that enforces a strict version of islamist law and has banned women from taking part in paul's political 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 white local elections on thursday but women will only

be allowed to vote in the next ones change of the twenty fifty. police in colombia have seized a submarine capable of carrying ten tons of cocaine off the pacific coast near the city of i'm going to read authorities say the crown belonged to the fog. and believed it was about to be used for the first time to deliver drugs the vessel which cost around two million dollars to travel for almost one thousand kilometers about refuting submarines are used by drugs in colombia the center of the world's cocaine trade and over seventy submarines have been seized by police in the past twenty. the huskies in one remote town they were once the snow has melted and a bit to reduce the number of cars on the road and the pollution they cause they on and spitzbergen has introduced an original concept aussies that's on a point traveled north to find out. that's what it really means to the shoulder to

the will contrary to popular opinion huskies don't go on vacation once the snow melts. cars. are. in fact in the world snowden will see the new doctor is a year round phenomenon dogs were the only means of transportation around archipelago until the nine hundred sixty s. and why why now cars and snowmobiles had replaced them in many parts of the north here in greensburg and confidence will linger way for a it's not only more environmentally friendly but also face you can always rely on we called the element because while dogs will never let her down. but most of the residents have no race longer beyond robert wasn't born here. he moved in his mid twenty's spleen big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature he

says who keep his jeep behind he's barking female peter mares is the major change in his life plus it gives the dogs. its. exercise every day so. yeah when it improves with the. training. some two thousand residents along here beyond is little more than a workplace and the road they made will be any traffic police but the rules of the road are no less st the local authorities have already closed some of the archipelago routes to motorised traffic with more restrictions to come. the lobbying force behind a partial car ban is very supportive it also an ampeg jealous lover she like is driving to smoking invasive and damaging to the environment if there are no smoking areas why shouldn't there be driving areas here small but those are country in

norway many other places also here in the north. and i think today we are living in big tones we need the silent truth where we can leave all around us in our normal days we need to rest our brain or the acapella who tries to attract more tourists some suggest that they were restrictions may have a commercial appeal with people around the world reporting increase in traffic pretty good many may be in need of a car free refuge like beast russian traveller couldn't call us of and mostly white or injurious hours long commutes to work sans the absence of honking horns meet here instantly fall in love with race the most amazing moment experience 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 crazy great idea and this would probably attract more and more

tourists here going to the dogs is obviously not an option for every steve but here has definitely don't feel like a kid feel. like a or c. longer b. and spitsbergen archipelago. and that's how the news knows the sound on the back of the headlines in a couple of minutes. the .

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