marget. find out what's really happening to the global economy in this report. to the breaking news for you this hour. he's running in the presidential election next march one of the world's. the country's political stage. when he headed up the. political. disagreements with. the center of moscow again this time it's the supporters of the victorious united russia party who have taken to the streets to defend choice and. the

results of the parliamentary vote. skepticism over the. cracks within the. protesters excuse me. to the next level shutdown of america's west coast ports from san diego all the way to reach the move follows a series of police raids the result. of israeli airstrikes on gaza a palestinian bid for statehood and an arab spring in the background the middle east peace process is facing more challenges than ever so we spoke to influential palestinian politician. about what happens next.

with me i have dr mustafa barghouti the president of the palestinian national initiative and a member of the palestinian parliament dr thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. will palestinians still push ahead in the statehood bid despite the fact that it seems a two thirds majority in support of it is highly unlikely there can be no vote in the security council now because the united states already obstructed that by. denying of a committee that are it to ask for what has american pressure paid off yes more from one side i mean many companies are doing what the united states and israel want. but at the same time i think many of them feel shameful about it we've seen an example of that of the fringe ward in new mexico of france is that will opportune in the security council voted for us and. many companies like spain and

france. and belgium and others have the people on our side their governments cannot go against the will of their own people but if the people are with the palestinians why then is it so difficult to get a two thirds majority in the security council because the united states still has the power of pressuring many countries because the israeli lobby is playing its cards pressuring many many world leaders because of the hypocrisy of western politics you know this speak about freedom of the syrian people respect of human rights in libya but their field sort of knows that this is also needed for palestine once you have membership in the general assembly you'll have access to the international criminal court how do you plan to use this and do you think the israelis are concerned by it they are totally concerned about this this is maybe one of them and reasons why they are trying to obstruct our membership in the united nations. why because they know they have committed war crimes why because

they know that many of their leaders and officers me. generals have committed crimes against humanity and i think we will do everything we can to give these guys one due to the court to the international court of justice when president obama came to power they were high hopes that the united states would play a positive role in the israeli palestinian conflict do you see his opposition to the statehood bid as a stab in the back totally we see it as a stubborn about but also we see it as a great feel you big failure of an american president who failed to respect his own words he himself promised that palestine should become a member of the e.u. and by november two thousand and eleven and how now he's leading not only not voting for us but he's leading a war against our membership what the american administration is doing and what the

american congress is doing is in total contradiction with everything they speak about in terms of the principles of respecting human rights and of the nation and the principles of freedom you see the palestinian issue has become in a way. some kind of and raiment or some kind of a method to explore the very oppositions of each comes to the cost of what mr obama did and his and ministration has done has been that the united states has lost its position as a mediator in the middle east process and just how difficult is it to go back to negotiations against the backdrop of the u.n. statehood bid it's not difficult to go to negotiations it's impossible. as long as allowed to continue to build settlements as long as government is the government we have there would be no negotiations and that's why i feel sorry for the waste of money. spending so much taxpayers' money on travelling and moving and coming and

going without a new visa as long as the people in the corporate governments and the courts that as long as they don't decide to pressure israel seriously to stop settlement activities we will see more progress just how much of a mandate does the palestinian president mahmoud abbas have to negotiate on behalf of the palestinian people or has his position in the statehood bid been weakened his speech in the united nations gave him a lot of support but did not give similar support to his political movement people gave him support because they thought he to preserve palestinian dignity and palestinian resilience he can continue to do that if he really at least moves in the direction of motion of a conciliation and national unity is how mass ready for national unity yes i think most of the people in hamas and fatah have it what they need to see is

a courage of their leaders what they need to see is dating taken by their leaders where they would put. what they can put the palestinian national interests above their own factional. and parties and interests in a conversation with obama the french president nicolas sarkozy court the israeli premier netanyahu elia do you think that there is disappointment with as well among its allies and what options does this leave israel with. moving very wrong about the problem in israel is that. it's not just an opinion. shift to the right among the israeli public because you have an explanation that up to now the israeli public opinion till now the israeli public benefit in from occupation is benefiting from the apartheid system is benefiting from confiscating. ninety percent of all what it is called for is created by them with the passage of. the

creation of every new settlement block israel is killing the very last opportunity of two state solution which means they will have to deal with one final left solution and that is one state. which means they can never dream of something called the true state which means they have to respect a situation where there might not be even a majority and one democratic state that is the price that israel is paying. if they continue this path will israel suffer if economic problems continue to mount in the united states i believe i believe so because united states is becoming weaker with the passage of. unfortunately make some forces in the united states like new homes more aggressive. unfortunately this economy weakness is dragging out the driving some people in the united states towards very dangerous military

adventures like attacking iran for instance because they think of the control of oil completely they would control energy and this with we can control the economy of russia and china many other countries in this world with israel's isolation growing are you concerned that it could take an even more aggressive stance against the palestinians i think they are already aggressive enough. and there are acts of war crimes that took place and go beyond the scope of their policy and okupe right that it's result of a system of apartheid that is much worse than the apartheid system that prevailed in south africa at one point of time is shameful. if i was an israeli i would feel very shameful what about internal problems that the israeli government is facing particularly visa vi the social protests is the search for an external enemy whether it be palestine a way to divert attention away from the problems the government faces that this is

one possibility and i think that put me on but i've got to try to divert attention from the internal social problems from their internal divisions by creating a war or maybe with iran or by mobilizing the united states to conduct a war on iran that's their game and each time we speak to them about the palestinian issue of the stop speaking about iran do you think israel would attack iran i think they're looking for an opportunity to do that and probably the first scenario is that the united states attacks iran first and then to contribute or to the attack iran first and then that are going to states into a war with iran and what israel is doing here is a continuation of their policy that was declared back in one thousand nine hundred ninety one the dual containment of iraq and they finished with that arc now they want to continue and i think they are going to proceed with that because they want to have the possibility of becoming. regional power.

i don't think we would succeed do you think there's a chance that turkey might one day replace israel as the u.s. says the main ally in this region if you look for example at it hosting the nato made all at it's turning its back on iran and syria it certainly seems as if turkey is wanting to play a greater role in the region there if you are was was an american ally it's not new it was always a member of nato. but i think i see the changes in turkey in a more positive way i think turkey you see in the seventy's israel had two big allies in the division turkey and iran and then then there neutralized egypt to come divide the courts so they were in heaven then they lost it or now they've lost it and egypt i see all these things as positive changes i don't see the rule as a negative one i think the change is ted key and egypt can practically change the

whole regional situation but there is one obstacle which prevents this vision the main obstacle that is the palestinians. i am sure that the vast majority of turkish people would buy the stuff as much as the vast majority of egyptians and motoko and tunisia what happened to you and was very important it short on the degree that the arab spring and the usual. good luck to make the palestinian issue a much closer on the contrary it is still in the same total for the soul for the future of the stability of the reason of peace and this illusion of economy and development and cooperation reason is the deleted diet a key to solving the palestinian national and i would palestinians to be free from occupation and having the right for freedom as well dr mustafa barghouti thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. thank you.

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you. breaking news this hour. russian billionaire. has formally announced he's running in the presidential election next month one of the world's wealthiest people he entered the country's political stage this year when he headed up the right cool political party only to quit over disagreements with other parties. thousands flooded the center of moscow again but this time it's the supporters of the victorious united russia party who have taken to the streets to defend their choice it follows months opposition. to the results of the parliamentary vote. talks resume only greece is

a second multibillion dollar rescue package skepticism over the efficiency of the emergency measure that's also as cracks within the e.u. with britain vetoing the franco german plan to create a common fiscal union. and occupy protesters to take their rallies to the next level as they plan a shutdown of america's west coast ports from san diego all the way to encourage the move follows a series of police raids that resulted in a picture of. time now for the sports with kate. hello welcome to the latest poll this monday afternoon here in moscow and here's what's coming up the road to recovery lucky not to be aristotle ice hockey team prepare for their first game since the september plane crash which killed their entire squad. plus we were old harry redknapp blames the referee has taught them

lose its job martin o'neill makes a winning start at sunderland. on backing training fresh from the elder classical victory over around madrid last night in a stop at preparations for the club world cup in japan. but we begin though with the i saw he is. getting ready to play in their first competitive game this monday night just three months after the plane crash which wiped out their entire scored forty three people died after their plane burst into flames as it crashed into the banks of the river volga new yacht us level on september the sevens among them were thirty six players and coaching staff from locke want to leave since the tragedy other teams have donated players to help the club continue and they will take to the ice for their first match this monday evening it's a home game against net janick and will be in front of a sell out crowd although also be the d.h.l. only division below the top to make

a shell after the club took the decision to drop down a level and allow their new team time to gel. while in the k h l n sunday night at the end of a two game losing streak they three two shootout with home to out of so they spoke at length went to head. off to fourteen minutes. patrick zucker son than doubled their lead in the second period again live up at. least partially. young men through fortune to the wind taking off their kids extra time in the gamble paid off set gay shit off of grabbing equaliser just two minutes left to send it into overtime well those followed an extra period of time penalties needed. to get the south off. the targets they went to atlanta for the western conference a test as musing straight stretch to five games football that and in england martin

o'neill made a winning start of sunderland manager as his side snatched a late two one high whenever blackburn while tottenham manager harry redknapp was left fuming off to his side lost to war in a controversial game at stoke not the stadium of light on the right is ahead after seventeen minutes to give their three hundred sixteen away fans something to cheer about however with six minutes to go david boies one of the strikes and sebastian lawson's injury time winner if any of the day the victory means the black cats out of the drop zone one of the britannia stadium matthew washington's first tough race against his former club is enough to sixty eight with victory as a ten month old and then eleven game unbeaten run emmanuel out of my all for the second half and also back for forgiveness for both sent off late on decisions which angered redknapp who also saw tottenham should have two more spot kicks and how to go any disallowed offsite. go read off a good. ball down the law in. boilers to your zone so i will you know when the

balls play to him. just so we can why we don't think we were poor first go off and all mind up we didn't play well we judge of joy and second of back to them and i'm faltering. a couple of decisions have been completely and utterly wrong with you as you watch t.v. until you see it. well meanwhile as monday night fist place chelsea will look to bridge the ten point gap to the top and keep their title hopes alive with a win at home to lead as manchester city the blues will line up with that strike anika and elka who's agreed to join the chinese super league club shanghai when the city with them five points clear at the top and meanwhile they've turned down a bit by ac milan to take strike because ted is on live with a view to signing in the summer the twenty million euros a city to sell him in january. well meanwhile just two days after beating arch rivals real madrid straight wanted el classico european champions bosler opera pairing for the semifinal of the fifa twelve world cup in japan boss i imagine if

you go to home on thursday but they didn't waste time getting their first taste of the local training grounds coach but once his players to relax and regain focus ahead of the game will take his charges on a tour around the city for her to answer that paces once again boss alona won the year ending tournament back in two thousand and nine and anything but reclaimed it's like it will be considered as a big blow. and i got the match against real madrid was a good one we were very satisfied with the quality of that game but we're always looking ahead to the future of looking back at the past to come into this computer with had a very tough time and we would like to make the best of the super tuesday and rise to the top. secret upwell stunning vasile on his way first will be to tarrie side as sawed off with a beach to his name to have a spat also to won the african champion started well but conceded a breakaway cult ten minutes before half time and into his scoring side and after

the break they doubled their advantage thanks to defending from the two losing side of the one and bade the second esperance pushed hard to get back into the game and did score that audi on the hour that two one was how it ended. played bossa on thursday. well the other semifinal japanese side they saw taken up by look at the daughters when a son tossed we had a buy in to the last four along with barcelona however wants to get past mexican monterey that game went to penalties after doing despite the japanese side with cancelled out by in that force was a i. that saw goalkeeper second already so again become the hero vital save to send us through. one of the men's club world cup winning coach rafael benitez has been linked with

free spending russian side unachieved reports suggest the former little pool and into milan manager has entered told the dagestan club the fifty one year old spaniard led in search of club world cup victory just last year a tournament in which now under east ask michael samuel eto is the best player in such a trainer in september. that's a goal for luke donald says it feels amazing to be the first man to tell both the p.g.a. and european tour money list after the englishman finished third season that he did buy well championship which is won by. ended with a long eagle putts at the last hole nation one thousand nine hundred four to shut down the race and said well we mark was the only person who could have done it on the european money list that he finished ninth while donal's carded a second successive sixty six to third place his place in history.

and finally russia will host its first ever stage of the world superbike championships next summer and with the track just outside moscow nearing completion it's design a hopes it will be a challenging addition to the motorsport calendar but up off the thoughts. after winning the right to host a stage of the formula one calendar in the black sea resort of sochi in two thousand and fourteen russia has gained the chance to see one of the most fascinating racing events in the world of motor sports as a stage of the superbike world championship will come to moscow next august marking the first time ever world scale more sports competition will take place in russia the construction of the moscow raceway circuit is entering the home stretch and should be finished by july the track was designed by the famous german architect harum until king who has produced numerous formula one circuits well we have a lot of structure that is in this district if i can them so if you have to start and finish line and then going downhill this part is a downhill corners

a very fast car not liking in the car not to to have to make this slower going uphill and this makes it very interesting because we go more than one time we go up and down upside down that makes a dimension that is very. very good next year the superbike world championship will celebrate each twenty fifth season. the sirius has a great history and it determination to expand due to economic crisis in europe and it seems like this board stop stars are excited to discover a new venue in a new country while champion catalyst checa arrived in the capital hoping his bike will soon be running on a russian track well thousands of fans are expected to flock to the outskirts of moscow for one of the most exciting events in the racing world arrive in moscow in this condition of course i created a very special no remembers me some fans some boards a way of story. plays where for me is

a great way to hear how force is in my mind places to visit i didn't expect. to visit and to be here for the race there's a lot a lot to that. just everything yeah everything is very very different. very very excited for when we are ten in an office next to alexander is a russian to preserve from the financial sector and i don't know if the more a sports team who moved into the sport following the interest of his wife mandia and enthusiastic more bike racer. signed a ten year deal to organize and host the russian superbike stage however it's going to be a challenge not only for the organizers with the track still under construction but also for a newly signed young sport team rider i do know one of the last mission but eilis i've already seen the track and it looks very challenging and interesting for the riders as well as for the spectators who will be able to witness even more because of the difference levels as for me i'm really looking forward to racing at the

circuit next summer despite the whole pressure finally along with formula one world class motorsport championships are coming to russia with fans hoping the superbike stage one be a one off due to they cannot make prices but that russia will become a regular stop on the maps of the biggest more to sporting events in the near future his name out of liberty. that's. a. good.

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