you know we're now pay for the decision with the loss of nearly a quarter of its funding or he's going to come on explains. there certainly was a lot of jubilation in paris cheers went up in the assembly hall where the final tally was announced but the vote comes at a price welcoming palestine to the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization means saying goodbye to as much as twenty two percent of the organization's budget washington as being the agency's biggest contributor so far and the state department has confirmed that they will stop sponsoring the organization on what grounds a u.s. law passed the nineteen ninety obliges washington to cut off funding to unesco if it is made palestine but nonetheless this u.n. body facing huge budget cuts voted one hundred seven four and fourteen nations against the admission of palestine a very sensitive and jubilant moment for the palestinians and a sour point for these release and for the united states it seems they've been

doing everything possible to do rail the vote but to no avail although the u.n. body in question deals with science education and culture the vote is being seen as very much political as a first step as a reminder of the popularity of the palestinian bid for full u.n. membership. application is now pending before the u.n. security council where the united states is threatening to use its veto power most of the international community is for palestine becoming a full member of the u.n. and the u.s. position on this is considered to be very much biased anti palestinian basically although washington says they want two state solution. virtually blocking all attempts of the international community to help the two sides come to such a solution washington says israelis and palestinians should be able to deal with the problem on their own but that proved impossible because one side is too strong the other is too weak they can't even start bilateral talks these days peace talks

were supposed to resume but mutual strikes in the last couple of days and people killed on both sides and after that the start of the talks again were stalled. you can hear in dr who is an advisor to the palestinian president told me earlier that he thinks the recognition at unesco puts increasingly more international pressure on the u.s. and its allies to follow suit the battle of history has been asked of now and the battle of geography goes on and the battle of the geography will have to be called minute in the world that are cognizant of the full rights of the palestinians so of determination and independence of the state of police fire and indorsed by the security council and the so this is a big moral boost for palestinians at large and this is putting an end to basically two palestinian to the arab israeli conflict being a palestinian affair this is now becoming more of an international affair and this is a celebration for our friends who have supported us such as russia and other countries

that have indorsed of our peckish a little bit and i think it's a call for reconsideration especially for the united states of america and those who voted against the motion to reconsider their position and look to the future and see is this occupation sustainable is the problem vision off going to be over the palestinians are sustainable in the world or i think not and i think it is fine but the u.n. calls upon the united states of america to reconsider their position. syria's president has told russian television the forces fighting his regime are armed and dangerous and putting civilians at risk by shot al assad also said he's ready to work with the opposition parties that have emerged during the months of uprising against his government. reports. strong words coming from syrian president bashar al assad to where the conflict this country's been going on for almost eight months now in that interview to the russian channel he did say that any attempt to destabilize the country will result in what he called an earthquake that will reverberate not just in the region but will have

a global implications he also stressed that syria is most definitely not libya it's a different situation altogether and he did voice out what he at his government think is a real cause of the conflict in his country. today we have hundreds of soldiers police and security forces among the dead how were they killed during peaceful demonstrations because some slogans being shown no they were shot and this means we're dealing with people we don't know whether the weapons reach syria from israel or in you know the state that possesses such weapons but there is evidence of millions and grenades that were put in place is packed with civilians this led to casualties in a number of cases the information obtained. of terrorists. going to syria from neighboring states become pain was funded from abroad and we have a list of those who are responsible for the government has tried to put forth some reforms and the president had said that they're planning parliamentary elections in february there are opposition voices such as the national coronation council which

the tries to bring together the different closing forces in syria they're saying that while they're very critical of the reforms they've put forth by the government saying it's not enough they're also wary of calling or door saying a so-called no fly zone because they do see this could just result in more bloodshed they don't want to see that in their country now the arab league of course has had been actively trying to find a solution as well trying to us speak with syrian officials they put forth a plan to president assad he said that he will be a willing to talk to all of the opposition voices including those formed during the conflict however these are words for now they want to see actual go shushan table and that's not to say that i mean external pressure is increasing that even if there's a lot of hesitation to. any form of foreign intervention words coming from the western leaders as well as china and russia who as we know had that un resolution calling for sanctions on syria all of them are calling for a dialogue for real results to see that the violence really stop and that's really

the main focus right now of the pressure coming from the outside they just want the violence to stop will course says any attempt to intervene in syria using force could have a devastating effect on the entire region it would have potential to reverberate throughout the entire region which is very unstable right now iraq is not stable americans are due to pull out within two months they're looking at relocating forces into kuwait so they can still maintain some sort of. clout in the area. turkey has launched incursions into northern iraq the kurdish factions minority inside syria as well i mean israel's on the border if you've got all kinds of things there now which would be very difficult to go in there and turn that into a less than volatile situation in other words no one's got any second thoughts about whether nato could force their way in but if you do fight your way in they're going to find are going to be fighting an insurgency for some time to come the occupy wall street movement shows no signs of slowing in the u.s. as it enters its seventh week scores of activists have been arrested across america

for refusing to pack up their camps and russia has voiced concerns over the crackdown on the treatment of protesters by the u.s. authorities. the way the occupy wall street protest is handled is an ample illustration of double standards quite a number of our counterparts from western countries. we will never put up with a situation when our western partners who have the right to ask questions refused to discuss their problems which there are plenty and which keep growing. state comes in response to growing criticism from some western countries as russia moves towards its presidential election meanwhile authorities in the us of trying to enforce various curfews that we can to prevent demonstrations from escalating further than seventy protest is calling for political and economic changes have been arrested in the state of texas oregon and california police in denver used pepper spray to disperse the crowd protest as the saying they are ready to withstand the pressure the state attorney been fond of the free and equal elections

foundation of us as the demonstrations should be targeting. well those anti-union pro tears there's anti-corporate just protests i feel and what we really need to have is anti politicians protests here in the united states again whether it's wildest dreams in the you know union corporatist the real problem is these people in our office once we address that issue and we kick them all out of asses and then we will the people will see you know more of the origins of the constitution which i feel as taxpayers left and right across the political spectrum really why why i think this protest is the beginning of a bigger movement i don't know or foresee occupy wall street being that bigger movement some argue that it's temporarily a distraction but then others argue that it's the party was a g.o.p. group when it's back to really just a lot of grassroots people and it was taken over by other entities could be sort of the same for our occupy wall street but i do see that some of the positive people

that want to truly make a difference latching on to something pure and that is something again and movement for lack toral reform here in the united states and the cross the world. so a busy week in the united states with multiple arrests and clashes between police and activists for start of their camps these new company has been at the heart of the protests since they began bringing the latest developments and we can see there she's tweeting away and she tweets the police arrived at the camp of occupy wall street protesters in richmond virginia started to detain people so far around ten arrests have been made where you can follow her twitter page for all the latest information that's on time. by the way while you're online you can check out our web site is www dot com where we have the latest updates on the occupy wall street movement and what footage from the most violent clash between occupy activists and police so far it happened in denver as the authorities attempted to dismantle

a protest camp also at the moment. find out how the level of radioactive contamination around japan's crippled fukushima nuclear power plant could be an astonishing five times greater than authorities claim those stories and plenty of other features and news at r.t. dot com. the russian billionaire owner of chelsea football club has been before a london court it's in connection with a five and a half billion dollar lawsuit being pursued by russian businessman. the tycoon but he claims his former associate illegally forced him to hand over the money and now he wants it back or he's either bennett reports or one of the most expensive disputes in history. well this is actually the first time that mr abbott has

actually given evidence and spoken in this hearing despite it already going on for four weeks that's just to give you an idea of how long winded this whole process is and today was no different however it was fascinating. to hear him speak and to see this going on because he's a man who's one of the richest in the world with an estimated fourteen personal fortune of over ten billion pounds it he very rarely speak to the media if at all and yet today all of that intrigue and mystery suddenly evaporated as he was put on the spot and reduced to being just an ordinary member of the public basically he was visibly nervous he was shy shaking a little bit solemn as words and there's a lot at stake here he's being sued by mr berezovsky for three point five billion pounds a third of his personal wealth mr berezovsky and him with the co-founders of the all companies sit next to mr berezovsky alleges that he was blackmailed into selling his shares in that company for a fraction of their true value now in this cross-examination today that's just started lawyers were focusing on details to really discredit mr abbott movies think

we've heard allegations that he was involved in the arms business also allegations that he lied about his education so these details might not be key to the actual case it's an attempt by the result of his lawyers to discredit mr abramovich both of them concealed behind this curtain of money and and mystery and this hearing has really been the peek behind that both men turn up to court in very shiny cars mr bures or skewer mr b. is the bodyguards call him turning up in my bar mr a mr every move it's in in the sadie's they're all both flanked by bodyguards translators lawyers they each got a team of about fifteen now mr berezovsky is playing with based on their close relationship form a close relationship and on speaking terms now he says they were very close friends he was his mentor and they were they were business partners yet today. released a statement denying that part of the problem. actually establishing what exactly

the deals were between these men because none of it was actually written down and this is a fact that doesn't seem to surprise or shock these men they take it as fact obviously and they say well that's just the way it was because this was after all ninety's russia well still ahead this hour looking for a specious new home charge it's way up many times options for exploring other planets in cultivating a new life away from the seven billion people on earth. let's check some other international news in brief and elvis are in our world operates a suicide bombing in the southern afghan city of kandahar is claimed at least four lives a truck laden with explosives was detonated near a u.n. aid agency checkpoint several people were wounded in the blast and ensuring gunfight between insurgents and the afghan security forces the taliban has claimed responsibility. nato official wrapped up its mission over libya marking the end of its military intervention the responsibility for national security will be handed

to the country's interim government now faces the difficult task of collecting countless weapons and firearms from civilians weapons use became widespread during the eight months of civil war that ended with the violent death of libya's former leader a month ago. in yemen huge blast rocked an airbase outside the capital sanaa prompting authorities to shut the city's international airport officials say that explosive devices were planted inside twelve fighter jets it's not yet clear how insurgents managed to get access to the heavily guarded area yemen's capital has seen months of anti-government rallies the protests demanding an end to decades of president salih. the new york trial of it to boot the russian businessman accused of international arms trafficking and some plying weapons to terrorists is close to a conclusion he was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after a sting operation by the u.s. and flown to new york to face trial a correspondent and started checking or is following developments in new york. he was arrested in a sting operation conducted by the united states drug enforcement agency where

special agents were posing as members of this group and trying to lure him into a business deal with them so that they could promptly arrest him now the prosecution says that should face from twenty five years to a life sentence behind bars whereas his lawyers say that the only thing he was doing was trying to sell two old cargo planes to these people and according to groups lawyer was perfectly aware that he was not exactly dealing with members of the group and we're expected to hear the verdict in the hours to come and this is something that could potentially make a great picture booch we have to remember that earlier in september in a similar case or another russian businessman was sentenced to twenty years behind bars basically the hunt for victor boot has been going on for roughly a decade before his arrest in thailand in two thousand and eight we know that u.s. agents have spent tens of millions of dollars in attempts to build this operation

to arrest victor boot while he was peacefully living in moscow actually and then catching him in thailand and bringing him over to the united states and what really seemed like a hollywood movie they snatched him away in the middle of the night from thailand where technically his legal documents still remains we have to remember that type courts found not guilty twice but still he was taken to the united states where he has been facing a trial for the last three weeks and the controversy started really a long time ago because this man was dubbed the merchant of death in the united states way before he was even taken here with even a hollywood film made about this man and the judge was even forced to make the jury sign a pledge that they would not look this man up on the internet because unfortunately for boots in the court of public opinion in the united states he's most likely already lost this case. on the final day of october it's been revealed the world's population has reached

a whopping seven billion raising concerns over the potential overcrowding of our planet and experts warn in a few decades the problem could become manageable with dark environmental consequences but the news is inspiring some to seek a new home somewhere far far away ortiz peter oliver has more. so when next mercury too hot. too cold mars that's will do nicely as the population of earth passes the seven billion mark some of suggested the red planet as a replacement for our current blue warm however in these times of tightening purse strings the cost of going to mars could be a problem in the months of a one man expedition to mars and back would cost it is safe to say over three billion dollars preparing for these flights would cost about thirty or fifty times more than a two way ticket in other words we're talking about colossal expenses regardless of the price those who have been into space say the time is right for mankind to yet

again boat lee go where no one has gone before everybody realizes that it's time to reach out and explore the universe beyond low earth orbit we have for many years just. for ten years at least we have been on the international space station in lower earth orbit very close and we haven't been somewhere else or with people since the lunar landings which ended back in one nine hundred seventy two there's no shortage of take is to be the first to set foot on mars and potential red planet trailblazers have started their training young surrogate is still just a teenager but he's putting in the hard yards in the hope that he can help create a potential new home for humanity millions of kilometers away no martin i want to be the first to travel to mars and to other planets as well to the moons of jupiter saturn v. so you can leave there in future we're still a long way from science fiction becoming science fact with human setting up home on

the surface of mars even if we put the huge cost of a martian settlement to one side there are some serious hurdles to be overcome not least we have no idea if life existed there previously and if it is. whether whatever killed it off could be dangerous to us why should we even think about finding a new home if. earth's resources are finite therefore we will eventually have to either restrain population and production growth risking losing both or we find a foothold on other planets no matter how much it cost us with the retirement of nasa space shuttle the only way for people to get into space at the minute is the russian soyuz rocket currently with the science available our chances of a global relocation anytime soon a pretty much zero however it took to weigh in central moscow the mars five hundred project is simulating the effects a mission to mars would have on

a crew in search of a new home sure but it. there is one obvious reason why the experiment has been so popular the world is still a place for dreamers who dream of exciting projects that unite people international projects. is not old enough as it stands we might have to learn to deal with the soaring global population but young surrogate will keep on training hard and the hope that he can do it for the dream is peace to all of the arctic. loving back with a recap of our top stories in about ten minutes from now so stay with us for that here was going to mean time as u.s. troops prepare to withdraw from iraq in december they leave behind a campaign that's cost the american taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars when next we talk to a middle east expert who says the u.s. is wasting time and money trying to build democracy in the region that interview coming up next.

lou the little. i. were sitting down with peter van buren state department foreign service officer who a few years ago had it anyway rocky reconstruction team then it came back home and wrote a book titled we meant well how i helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the iraqi people and now he says the say department wanting fired because of the book what what's in the book that they don't like so much of i'm sure when you throw pies the clowns they sometimes get angry the state department is

a lot like the mafia you don't talk about the family outside the family and the state department was i think bothered by the fact that i told the true story of what happened in iraq which contradicts what they've been putting out through the media for almost eight years now tell me a little bit more about the projects that you were involved in as part of this nation building a team that in the sponsored by the united states why do you think those projects failed around two thousand and seven a number of state department people were sent to iraq to spend a lot of money to rebuild the country and hopefully create a nation that was going to be our ally and friend and a happy spot in the middle east. it didn't work out that way. instead what happened was that we were sent over there with almost unlimited funds but no vision we had lots of time and lots of people but no one in charge we lacked many things including adult supervision so instead of the long term cool word unaided efforts

that real development work requires we got short term efforts that were thrown together not guided by any broader philosophy and almost were required to fail the very first thing that happened to me was i was presented by my team mates with a fraudulent receipt to sign they had over spent three thousand dollars on snacks for a conference and wanted me to sign off on a priest a receipt for printing to make it all right they then tried to talk me into spending twenty five thousand dollars to buy a few sheep to give away to a few widows and that was are going to be our contribution to democracy in the war effort the more i was a fraud it was as close to we were going to buy some sheep from a guy who was going to give them to his relatives who were going to raise them and put the rest in his pocket you could buy a toyota for what we were going to pay for sheep in iraq. the problem was that these were not isolated incidents what i thought might have been just a really bad first day at work turned out to be evocative of the entire year of our

people so there was like a systematic squandering of resources there absolutely the squandering of resources occurred at very small levels of thousand dollars a couple thousand dollars here and there and zoomed all the way up into hundreds of millions of dollars that were spent on hospitals that never opened or prisons that never took any prisoners in the united states lacked a plan constantly being forced into short term solutions you're constantly being asked to produce publicity stills and have something ready by next thursday for the photographers to show up c.n.n. is coming over the weekend better get something ready none of these things were part of the long term the slowed work of development that really is necessary if you're serious about rebuilding a country i want to read something to make him believe here is some news i write the government watch stocks have raised the alarm about billions of dollars of war zone waste and fraud are falling silent or are missing in action this. item is

actually about the commission on wartime contracting and that charter that they were working under it has expired and has not been renewed i'm just going to tell our viewers that this commission on wartime contracting claimed waste and fraud may have siphoned off up to sixty billion dollars from contracts in iraq and afghanistan now this watchdog could be out of business are you surprised who might be interested in it i'm actually ashamed that the commission on wartime contracting is going out of business and there's actually more to it than even the story that you just shared with your viewers first of all the state department has attempted to exempt itself from the scrutiny of the committee that you refer to the state department has claimed that it was not part of wartime contracting that it was involved in diplomacy. and therefore not controlled by that organization and they didn't want them to peek into what the state department was doing even worse the

committee as it's dissolved has sealed all of its records and no one will be allowed to see any of the results of its work except what's already been published until two thousand and thirty one so the things that the committee on wartime contracting uncover the incredible amounts of waste fraud and mismanagement that they documented in the limited public documents that they do produce all of that is being swept away i don't know how old i'm going to be in two thousand and thirty one i'm going to be a lot older than i am now but it's shameful shameful that we will not be able to see that information why aren't they are allowed to publish that before the eat official version is that there may be classified information in some of their reports that needs to remain undercover for that long i think most intelligent people realize that the reporting from the committee is so horrific it needs to be put away to avoid embarrassing the government even further thank you very much for the senate thank you very much i.

culture is that so much of me is going to make me a lot of people a stereotype but look it is the world populated as the world reaches still another population benchmark the debate continues as to whether the planning. wealthy british style. sometimes the type of. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on. the phone.

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palestine which is achieved its first full. ship the u.n. agency recognition comes at a price with unesco losing nearly a quarter of its funding which the u.s. cut in response. following back syria's president claims a protest campaign against the regime is being funded from abroad and the west not to get involved and the head of nato is ruled out imposing a no fly zone over syria which some demonstrators in the country have been calling for. clash of the russian tycoons to the world's wealthiest men or a man of the moment should. take their bitter dispute to a london court and spend no money on the fight. accuses. him of five and a half billion dollars wants it back. we're coming off. a remote set of russian islands where a population of just seven people live cheek by jowl with two hundred pairs documentary the chandeleur islands braving the storm is right now and i'll be back with more news for you in half an hour from now.