top job in trade guns president admitted that event prime minister putin could swap jobs at the twenty twelve presidential election that tons and will continue to work for russia. to listen in because statehood is launched with the united nations and welcomed with standing ovations at the trail assembly new york but violent clashes with israeli forces at the border in the west bank. also finished a lutheran pastor is suspended from his ministry after he speaks out against a website he says is a not peaceful russia's most wanted terrorist. and concerned about a possible greek default deepens again as leaked reports suggest that some of eurozone finance ministers no longer believe the country's economy recover.

and welcome to alter his weekly review and we start with the biggest news of russia's political spectrum presence but that it has revealed he won't seek reelection twenty twelve and prime minister putin will step into the race instead and oust his decision while speaking at the ruling united russia party convention on saturday mr pollution of his part has suggested the president leads his party in parliamentary elections and heads the government as prime minister should it when he is and he says now it was at the bank likely to have 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 candidate she would like to near future in the presidential election.

this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience under thirty putin is. the issue here because all of my i'm going to say something else because there's been a split within our towns and i can see this is a well thought through decision. putin is running for president with. the political 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're going to look at 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 the new. medium and i believe you. know you i'm convinced to become prime minister continue

to throw really 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. tender as you say they send 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 reliable construction which again it can work for years you see it is quite effective and so was the announcement and even the delegates there were simply taken aback with you know and of course everybody expected it but it must count as

one of the best kept secret. it's really in recent political history the last has already started emphasizing how much the move lacks surprise i'm sure that some of the opposition political commentators have mentioned so you say he's 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 of the communist party leadership didn't really change that and they all stayed there until the wage of five years old you know i would rather disagree with those who predict stagnation in russian politics for one simple fact. and this is the healthiest year 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. 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 the control of these populations. countries like russia who 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 reshuffling united russia already under way new faces transparency less corruption and more growth are all part of the platform 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 the west russia has a right to its own style of democracy and he's now artsy in moscow. and ricardo young political analyst said the voice of russia radio station in washington is a figure that russia needs to lead it through the economic uncertainty now.

whatever 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 you've got to start the russian economic engine. going again restart the economy there i don't think he needs to change or so at this point he has been very consistent as showing himself as a very strong decisive leader and he certainly has done the same with his protege obviously your personal ideas and this is the kind of political intelligence this is the kind of smarts but i think people respect whether the rush or the us he's 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 and that's how i see dark hole where asking what you think will happen if presidents made their own prime minister person to switch jobs so far all of the

stuff you believe the shuffled turns out will be a success because it enjoys the lie of popular support you say twenty eight percent think this war and of this and strengthen the opposition and the remaining four said there will be change will have little effect at all so they'll go to our web site hopefully the home and tell us what. 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 has returned from new york addressing the rally he compared his campaign to the arab spring at an independent palestinian state is inevitable his speech to the u.n. general assembly on friday was greeted with tributes seen as the cause the police to be in territories but on the border with israel instead of joy there was violence as he's called is clear has the story. and historic moment after decades

of struggle tens of thousands celebrate across palestine after president mahmoud abbas admits a request 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 up a third intifada we are here in ramallah where there is a standoff between israeli army and palestinian protesters just a short distance down the road there are tires burning everywhere the army is also using a new round of fights known as the sgrena which in an bearable found now the equation here is very very tense be clashes have right across the west bank one palestinian has been killed now what we understand happened is that thank you hundred israeli take it started burning the trees along the palestinians in the village the army was called in and the result was one palestinian shot and killed in the nick. four months the israeli army has been preparing for these exact scenes and palestinians

what we tell of a will now use these clashes as an excuse to beef up its army presence in the west bank and possibly even punish palestinians by withholding tax money it collects on their behalf for weeks the army has been planting land mines on israel's northern borders to prevent the columbia checkpoint scenes from unfolding here the mines are not necessarily very to do with people who have peaceful intentions but mines are a legitimate form of the fence many countries have mines on their borders for that reason but locals are outraged now they are trying to work mines. maybe it's not been for. ripping them at the heart of the clashes are as we sit as 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

there approve a document a document that is in. the measure well it is advertised. the bird book but not so large 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 is a very hard feeling but what can i do and i think even if we don't resist with force it's enough of a surplus as was said something the army 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. reminder. and proclaim it soon actually this new order told r.t. that despite the likelihood the u.s. will veto that statehood bid at the security council but it's unions still regard

this unit of the un as a major breakthrough as palestinians we have a very heightened sense of national pride at this moment don't even though we know the veto is most likely coming out whether it's next week or the other really makes no difference but there is a very high sense of national achievement at this point because for oneself two of those very disappointing years of the so-called peace process the political leadership and the popular popular public opinion are in line very much i mean 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's leader early 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 our chance coming out who will be

the first to face charges crimes against humanity bassos colonel gadhafi or president sarkozy without basis also a legal action over the military intervention in libya. and moving drug industry destroyers are going lives and fuels terrorism but little is done to stop it reports. that finnish minister and pastor has been suspended by his church for speaking out against one of the world's most wanted terrorists of the children is being sought for a series of deadly terrorist attacks on russian soil over the last decades past monnerie denounce the center website which he believes acts as a mouthpiece for you maher than it she was an activist you're. also a she's actually treat militants by protecting the websites activity. actually you have more 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 over this. he has organized the migration all of the militants from turkey to finland and now he is facing charges he's prosecuted in finland over the same time and he has a very strong support on the highest level of the finnish or fishel duma and also the finnish government for example the minister of development of finland here hope always very close partner to me so the situation is really strange finland east actually protecting these militants and they are all been i think their activities on the territory of finland and you can find out more on this story on

our website that's our home and value reading malaria's blog on a controversial website if it's anything it means that we can track center has already written found hundreds of planetary and insulting articles about find out why. made saying the program a barking way of fighting pollution from can you. hear is really very good is still pulling the way. if not only more environmentally friendly but on the paper always rely on we can deal with because while god will never live the. speculation of greece is on the way of inevitable to inevitable default gathered pace this week it follows reports of just six out of the eurozone finance ministers have already given up on the possibility the country's economy can recover. its preparing to pay the bills and. to build up

a. firewall within six weeks. short way. this week also turns out as the worst in the world market first it wasn't days. it is from james in the u.k. on extermination think. the crisis of the disintegrating. cats is out of the bag and to be quite honest this statement is quite close to simple statements of the facts greece cannot plausibly repay its debt under under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far too big in the simply no earthly way it's going to be repaying this step on any causal timescale certainly not by twenty twelve which was the original kind of hope the other european nations of 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 troy's intensive them tried and failed methods the hard last year which essentially is give a bit of a bailout to certain countries then impose austerity measures we are certainly i

think in the early stages of disintegration of the euro the deep rooted structural problems inside the euro system the imbalances that built up 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 international financial woes that r.t. dot com including some believe that wall street could become the scene for what they're calling them american version of the arab spring. also this autumn russia is heading back to mars after a twenty year old with that scientific probe last thing up to the red planet and hoping to bring back something rather special find out more about the amazing mission on out. biggest in the government forces have reported the end of his hometown of sirte supported by nato bombardments they have also intensified their sort of the city of burning walid and while human rights activists question

the legality of western intervention in the country are taking legal action daniel bushell explains in the report with some images you might 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 later will have to. first libya's deposed leader is it hiding for good reason. if he finds 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 fridge lawyers to turn against the government because sarkozy faces lawsuits over the death of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the presence of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war renew vietnam where 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 suing president sarkozy for crimes against humanity. first denied 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. video spider-man had toys and cultural and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack. is wife and child the grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately wage a campaign of terror. their bombings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly new ones 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 of 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 politicians not the rule of law the new bush or r.t. paris. and other high profile collection of afghanistan this week the country's president. was assassinated after meeting peace talks with. time to ban the bunny was killed at his home in kabul with its a side bomb a gating entry by claiming to be at tyburn envoy his funeral ceremony took place at the presidential palace on friday with thousands of mourners gathering in the arab in capital to pay respects the bombing followed a string of high profile targeted killings including the murder of current president karzai as have brother in july and as the taliban continues its attacks

in afghanistan one of them a main source of income is in full there as are his equal skin off reports from the country the trust trade is still rampant despite billions of dollars spent every get a car but it's. the penalty for drinking beer in kabul a 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 what's right there on a desert bridge in the center of the seat with all this coming and staring at them and all these insane conditions we used to rubbish been through in the wake here where we're standing right now this is just incredible to see act carolyn and it's all cooked next injected or small to write on these piles of rubbish and not one policeman anywhere near. but that not all or it's all these people don't just come here to do drugs and any of them call this home pakistan and you can hear we

don't have any job we don't have any editing to do if you can't pay for the war there was. a study commissioned by the us state department chills each family has at least one drug user all beers are found in breast milk and all kids even newborns have morphine in their blood there's no doubt the theory of contagion song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started in afghanistan i believe that the war was the root cause that forced afghan people to try to poppy growing their own 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 with around eighty tons of heroin thought to any we 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 revenues from drug money is used to sponsor the taliban needles key enemy in the region meanwhile the international community and spends billions of dollars to fight again it sounds drug traffic but since nato has no legal right to coordinate the funds are spent with very little by the results well officials say that multi-billion dollar afghan drug network has the whole world and its grip just going off party kabul afghanistan. and right now very few get some other news from around the world the french left one enough seats to gain the control of the senate that's according to early results from sunday's elections gains mean that the socialists among with the communist allies will now have

a majority in the upper house it's a blow for french president nicolas sarkozy and his conservative government losing control just seven months before presidential election where he hopes for a second term is the first time in more than fifty years that the rise in france has lost power to the left in the senate. women in saudi arabia are to be granted the right to vote and granted municipal elections in the future king abdullah now instead sunday it's a major change for the conservative muslim kingdom that enforces a strict rational 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 current all male consultative shura council for the first time saudi arabia holds only its second nationwide local elections on thursday but women will always be allowed to vote in the next ones which went to fifty. police in colombia have seized a submarine capable of carrying ten tons of could contain all of the pacific coast near the city of going to ventura authorities say they probably belong to the

father really believe it was about the to be used for the first time to deliver trunks a vessel which cost around two million dollars to travel for almost three thousand kilometers without refueling seven marines are used by drug scandals in colombia the son told the world mccain trade and over seventy schools have been so seized by police in the past twenty. four hoskins in one remote arctic town the world doesn't stop once the snow has melted and in a bid to reduce the number of cars on the road and the pollution because the island program has introduced an original concept on trees at some point i traveled north to find out more. that's what it really means to put the shoulder to the will contrary. opinion huskies don't go on vacation once the snow melts. cars are. in fact in the world snow than most city being doctor

is a year round phenomenon dr gray the only means of transportation around archipelago until the mid one nine hundred sixty s. and while by now carson cohen will have replaced in many parts of the north koreans gergen a full calling the way local say it's not only more environmentally friendly but also famed for you can't always rely on recalls to grill with a cold while dogs will never let you down. but most of the residents of norway's longer beyond robert wasn't born here. in his mid twenty's spleen big city congestion in hopes of reconnecting with nature he says who king his g.p. find his barking team and peter morris is the major change in his life plus it gives the dogs the story beats they know they need the exercise every day so. yeah when it improves with tourism

going out for eating in my car some two thousand residents along here and beyond is little more than a white place on the road they may not be any traffic police but the rules of the road on no less treat the local authorities have already closed some of the archipelago routes to motorised traffic with more restrictions to come. the loping force behind a partial car ban is very forthright also an avid go it 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 no need driving in areas here are small but both countries are in norway many others. it is also here in the north. and i think today we are living in big tones we need the silent true where we can leave all what's around us in our normal days we need to rest our brain as the

archipelago tries church original tourists some suggest that the here restrictions may have a commercial appeal but people around the world reporting increase in traffic pretty good many may be in need of a car free refuge but the session traveler kolosov and muscovite who endures hours long commutes to work says the absence of honking horns made him instantly fall in love with a place the most amazing moment i experience here on struggled 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 i'm going to dance is obviously not an option for every cd but here you have to use definitely don't feel like a kid feel. the longer be an bergen archipelago.

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