live from the russian capital this is our top stories now at half past the hour here in moscow russia. jumps into the presidential race get on. the running for russia's top job next march the country's third wealthiest person into the political stage earlier this year when he headed up the right course political party only to quit over disagreements with other party members. the center of moscow again but this time it's the supporters of the victorious united russia party that follows mass opposition rallies amid claims the results of

the parliamentary vote were rigged. rescue package amid skepticism over the efficiency of the emergency measure that's also has cracks within the e.u. widen with britain earlier vetoing the german plans to create a common fiscal. occupy protesters take their rallies to a new level as they shut down of america's west coast ports from san diego to anchorage demonstration. new york where our correspondent reports that police have already started mass arrests. but with another update in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime 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 he's been speaking to influential palestinian politician most of us about what happens next as our special into beef we now.

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. what palestinian 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 french ward in new mexico 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 guards patrolling many many world leaders because of the hypocrisy of wisdom 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 in 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. 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 failure big failure of an american president who failed to respect his own words he himself promised that palestine should become a member of the you 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 that they speak about in terms of the principles of respecting human rights and some of the mission 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 administration 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. for 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 we really have to move 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 has already 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 not any. 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 our water this group 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 state which means they have to respect a situation where they 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 york homes more aggressive. unfortunately this economy we can this is that are going to drive in some people in the united states towards very dangerous

military adventures like attacking iran for instance because they think of the control or completely they would control energy and this with the 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 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 at home this

is one possibility and i think that any on but our guard but i think to divert attention from the internal social problems from their internal divisions by creating a war maybe with iran or by mobilizing the united states to conduct a war on it that's their game each time you speak to them about the palestinian issue of the stop speaking about iran do you think israel would attack iran i think they are 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 the policy that was declared back in one thousand nine hundred ninety one the dual containment of iraq and iran 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 super 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. is 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 then pured 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 region turkey and iran and then then there neutralized egypt to come david accords 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 region of the situation but there is one obstacle which prevents this vision the main obstacle that is the palestinians. i am sure the vast majority of people would but just as much as the vast majority of egyptians and model cars and tunisia what happened when they were on was very important it short on the t.v. that the arab spring and the usual excuse me good luck to make the palestinians for a modulus on the contrary it is still in the same total for the for the future of the stability of the season of peace and this illusion of economy development and cooperation stephen is the deleted the 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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russian billionaire playboy jumps into the presidential race. formally announce he'll be running for russia's top job next march the country's third wealthiest person entered the political stage earlier this year when he headed up the right political party only to quit over disagreements with other party members. the center of moscow again but this time it's the supporters of the victorious united russia party that follows mass opposition rallies staged to make claims the results of the parliamentary vote. greece's second multibillion euro rescue package amid skepticism over the efficiency of the emergency measure. within the e.u. with britain earlier vetoing the german plans to create

a common fiscal you can. take their rallies to a new level as they plan to shut down of america's west coast ports from san diego to anchorage demonstrations also gather pace in new york where our correspondent reports that police have already started mass arrests. so a news bulletin in full is only fifteen minutes away from before that kate is next with the latest sports. hello welcome to the boys' update the other. road to recovery like i want to be aristotle's hockey team to take to the ice for their first game since the september plane crash killed their entire squad. while the battle of some to bridge chelsea his league leaders match the city looking to keep alive the hopes of winning the

title how to bring a chance for a strike that nicolas anelka to china. back in training fresh from saturday's el tasco victory over rail madrid barcelona start their preparations for the fifo club world cup in japan. but we begin with ice hockey as lokomotiv yaroslavl have started their first competitive game just three months after the plane crash which one times their entire school forty three people died after their plane burst into flames as it crashed into the banks of the volga river new jaroslav all on september the seventh and among the thirty six players and coaching staff from local latif says the tragedy other teams have donated players to the club to help it stay in existence and then now only i guess in a home game against if janick in front of a sellout crowd the match is a video and counter division below the top two k h l after the club took the decision to drop down a level where their new team time to gel. while in the k h

l on sunday night at land ended a two game losing streak with a three to shootout going to out of sorts to stop atlanta went ahead through edward leavened of speed after fourteen minutes patrick zachary's them then doubled their lead in the second period but the game was far from over so i started getting one back denise caution and a fine tooth on the mention caution to the wind by taking off to keep it for an extra attack and gamble paid off said they showed up of grow up to equalize and two minutes left to send it into overtime well no goals followed in the extra period which meant penalties were needed with a chance to go south off aluminum targets the wind kept out ground force in the western conference world has that losing streak a stretch to five games. football now and england has monday night fifth 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 leaders manchester city the blues will line up with that strike

a nickel and elka there's a creature during chinese super league club shanghai shine one on me while a win for city would put them five points clear at the top and thirteen above chelsea person watching the side remain the only other big three minutes so far one of seventeen games unbeaten run meanwhile though they turned down a bit by ac milan to take strike a carlos tevez on loan with a view to signing him permanently in the summer for twenty million euros the city to sell him in january. well martin o'neill made a winning start of sunderland manager as his side snatched a late to one home win over fellow strugglers blackburn all time the manager harry redknapp was left fearing after his side lost two one in a controversial game at stoke first to the stadium of light where simon rovers ahead after seventeen minutes to get their three hundred sixteen away fans something to cheer about however with six minutes to go david vaughan wonder strike and sebastian lost its injury time winner gave o'neill a debut victory and lose the black cats out of the drop zone while the britannia stadium matthew addington is first tough race against his former club was enough to

see stars go eight with victory over ten thousand tottenham and their eleven game unbeaten run emmanuel out of iowa for the second half penalty back for spurs before eunice couple were sent off late on a decision which i did read now you also thought tottenham should have had two more spot kicks and had a goal unfairly disallowed for offside. go i would offer you could use a break to break all the law in. to your zone so it will be nice you know going to balls. just so we can why we don't you know we were poor first goal of an old wind up we didn't play well with judge of joy and second of back to them and unfortunately a couple of decisions have been completely and utterly wrong with us if you watched the real joy you'll see. oh meanwhile just two days after beating arch rivals real madrid three one in our class to go european champions barcelona are preparing for the semifinal of the fee for club world cup in japan boss as i think that she is

against qatari club on thursday but they didn't waste any time in getting their first taste of the local training ground in yokohama meanwhile coach pat gaudio wants his players to relax and then regain focus ahead of the game against the asian champions say he'll take his charges on a tour around the city before pushing through their paces once again possibly one of the year and into it back in two thousand and nine and anything but retaining the title would be considered as a big blow. the match against real madrid was a good one we were very satisfied with the quality of that game but we are always looking ahead to the future he said of looking back at the past to come into this competitive we've had a very tough time and we would like to make the best of the super tutti and rise to the top. any time father of cup winning coach rafael benitez has been linked with free spending russian side andre reports suggest the former liverpool and into milan manager has entered talks with a dagestan club the fifty one year old spaniard led in city of club world cup

victory just last year a tournament in which now and she star striker samuel eto was named best player such trying to get a good year in september. golf now and while the other one luke donald says it feels amazing to be the first man to top both the p.g.a. and europe into a money list in one year after the englishman finished third at the season ending dubai world championship the englishman was three shots adrift of winner about it kills the spaniard ended with a long eagle part of the last hole right around. two shots per second and spoke for more and more rory mcilroy was the only man who could have finished ahead of donald on the european missed. night while donald carty a second successive sixty six to take third spot and his place in history feels amazing you know it's something i've thought about quite a lot i don't think it's quite so i'm going to. look back at this years it's been

my greatest year for sure hopefully i can continue to improve like i have a lot to achieve in this game but this is something i'll never forget now russians liking team got to show have reached an agreement to sign one of the country's best road riders than this mention of the thirty three year old is expected to put pen to paper on wednesday but he's already joined the team for a training camp in italy to prepare for competition next season is a double spanish well to champion the all round cyclist also won the jittered italia in two thousand and nine and came third overall at last year's tour de france because asia also signed a three time former world champion oscar for their spain in october. and finally to two wheels of the motiva writing russia will host its first ever stage of the world superbike championships next summer and with the track just outside moscow almost finished the designer hopes it will be a challenging addition to them i just bought calendar because i didn't get up off reports. after winning the right to host a stage of the formula one calendar in the black sea resort of sochi in twenty

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 motor 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 adam until king who has produced numerous formula one circuits well we have a lot of personalities in this industry hurricane and so if you have the start and finish line and then going downhill this path is a downhill car as 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 war than one time we go up and down ups and downs and that makes a dimension that is very. very good next year the superbike world championship will

celebrate its twenty fifth season the serious has a great history and a determination to expand due to economic crises in europe and it seems like the sports 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 while 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 first like a very very special no remembers may sound fair some would say rare historic. plays where from is a great way to be here of course is in my mind the places to visit i didn't expect . to visit and they're here for the race there's a lot a lot to that. just everything yeah everything is very very different. very very

excited when we were in that and all of us next to alexander is a russian interpreter from the financial sector and i don't know if the sports team who moved into the sport following the interest of his wife mandy 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 a sports team right up i do want to go on a bus 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 can on the crisis but that russia will become

a regular stop on the maps of the biggest motor sporting events in the near future . and. i think.

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