and the tar or oil reserve in africa is what the national transitional council are being supported for in order that they should promote western oil companies western financial interests in libya and the people will just have to be without the people have already been killed a little variable of genocide has taken place as we've seen in iraq so in a way the same pattern is repeated over and over again that we are there's a double standard they say that they are promoting democracy but what they are basically doing is promoting the financial and geopolitical interests of the global power elite embedded inside the united states britain the european union and israel . a spokesman for british civilians for peace in libya subconscious don says the national transitional council is failing to unite the country. the gadhafi regime could control the whole of libya could find peace amongst all the tribes the new regime cannot even control something in one town or one area i mean they turn libya into a war and of the hunting of black skins they have this selling off the oil and natural

resources and so over to nato and now the thieves that is the rebels that will falling out with each other so really this is freedom and democracy by nato it's all become very clear people of syria and the people of lebanon and the people of the global south have to see what's happening in libya is coming to them if they're not able to defend themselves and stop this ruling western aggression against of the countries of the global south now is take a look at some other stories from around the world islamic party which won the most seats in the egyptian parliament the muslim brotherhood has promised it will work with all political parties it also added it's going to cooperate with the country's ruling military council despite repeated calls from activists that power should be handed over to the civilian government islamic parties have captured an overwhelming majority in egypt first post mubarak parliamentary elections. yemen's president ali abdullah saleh has left the country after giving a farewell speech where he apologized for mistakes during his thirty three year old thirty three year long rather rule he's planning to have and that whole treatment

in the u.s. and this comes a day after the parliament approved immunity from prosecution for selling part of the deal under which he would relinquish power seller has become the latest leader to be toppled by the wave of arab spring uprisings. here in president goodluck jonathan has visited the side of a series of recent suicide bombings in the north of the country and in death toll from friday's bloodshed and qana now stands at over one hundred seventy radical islam a sect of all her wrong claimed responsibility for the attacks which were aimed at freeing group members held by the authorities violence has plagued northern nigeria since december and one solution to joblessness in the u.s. is a scheme where giant corporations create workplaces for local communities and they are even had a government money to that end but somehow jobs still get outsourced to a cheaper foreign workforce as great or not reports this allows big businesses to prosper while small towns suffer. in one of america's most economically depressed

cities resides the world's largest producer of home appliances roku corp is headquartered in benton harbor michigan where sixty percent are unemployed ninety percent live in poverty and per capita income is roughly ten thousand dollars the citizens of benton harbor are living from one day to the night they're very poor and they're very disheartened i mean there's been very little effort on the part of the whirlpool that runs everything to try to. involve the community in two thousand and nine whirlpool received a nineteen point three million dollars grant from the federal government in part to create jobs and i think our u.s. workforce certainly. factory workforce if you will is a is the best among the world so we're very confident in the future of u.s. manufacturing for our kind of products one year later the corporation received

nearly twenty million dollars from the state of michigan to expand its facility which now serves as a gateway into benton harbor it's good for the community good for the state and good for your business as well there's a real art to that but as the u.s. based corporation has grown globally you know your last three more jobs have been outsourced to countries demanding less wages today the former blue collar community of benton harbor remains a victim of america's deindustrialization and growing poor population pool has seventy one thousand employees around the globe but no longer manufactures home products in its hometown it still remains a recipient of u.s. state and federal stimulus funding. whirlpool just closed the factory and that hurt my business my little bit. in this i lost a lot of clients this is their home base and it always has been and in the

beginning of the large development they promised us that they would always be due to the recession the corporate but he meant of home appliances hasn't paid us income tax since two thousand and eight by two thousand and ten nearly ninety nine percent of benton harbor residents were receiving food stamps while. approximately eighteen billion dollars in annual sales. that think of purchased my last whirlpool appliance i don't even think i'll call for we care because too often in for too long those that have gotten rich has forgotten who's helped them to get there and they're willing to step. in that just doesn't sit we'll with my soul a soul living in one of america's poorest cities in poverty and accessorize in corporate success arena porton thirty. nine brings up today here in our look what's

happening in business with kareena. is twenty three past ten am here in moscow welcome to business european leaders are meeting monday to discuss the long term plan to tackle the region's debt crisis some analysts say the massive debt write down for greece that could put the eurozone back on its feet peter weston from out on believes that the markets have already priced in the traders and likely to hire. well everybody's going to await a sort of. some kind of agreement between greece and its creditors that's going to be the key event to some extent it was last week. again what we saw last week was that any delay negative news didn't really impact the markets i think we are in a very positive backdrop for russia in general we do have the valuation we do have the under-performance of russia if people are adding to risk the emerging markets

should do well and in that context russia should be having possibly more support in other markets. but the central bank injected around six hundred million dollars in early january to the market to support the ruble its head alex says that the banking the ruble within the floating band and intervenes only to cut. you look ahead then from the european department of the i.m.f. the ports the free float achieved by the central back good thing. russia right now is that. treasury is flexible so it's determined by market forces and the central bank has been in the situation quite well. as with all flexibly generation rates forecasts are very difficult and we are not in the forecasting game but we would like the ruble to continue to respond to market forces and intervention to be avoided. oil is dropping for the fourth day new york investors speculate that

sanctions against iranian oil may take effect only in six months despite that brant blend is staying afloat and is gaining almost a quarter of a dollar about this hour. an hour into equities asian stocks are mixed with japanese stocks higher australian shares slipped as investors and holiday markets await outcomes and greece's ongoing negotiations with the private sector where it is and hong kong is closed for a public holiday here in russia markets start of the trading week next my sex life for a second day retreating point two percent the artist is is higher so our. goal is trading at one thousand six hundred sixty nine dollars per ounce up point point fourteen percent on monday has already gained more than six percent since the beginning of the year business analyst they think oh looks at the prospects for the precious metal. is gold on track to become the investment choice of the year now

with sovereign debt problems still looming in europe it could be just the right thing the precious metal as seen their remarkable performance over the past decade circular cryptographic since two thousand and one the trend has been perfectly positive the peak price was reached last year when gold hit nineteen hundred and twenty dollars an ounce but then we saw a nosedive of twenty percent in just a few sessions as the u.s. credit rating was downgraded a lack of liquidity deep plaited the bullion bubble somewhat since banks desperately required cash they sold whatever they could and it's at that point that the tables turn for the met so and from a safe haven asset gold shifted into risk appetite choices going in correlation not with t. bills but shares nevertheless gold still gained eleven percent last year take a look at that nosedive that we saw in september last year here it is but the trend is changing we are seeing gold already gave me more than six percent since. at the

beginning of the year it's outstripping most assets and we did see a slight drop during the previous week when jobless claims in the us came in with a decline now why are we seeing gold on the up over here is it going to continue climbing there's a number of factors to bear in mind which makes it quite likely we've got the debt crisis in the e.u. we've got instability in currencies we've got rising demand from china and the upcoming wedding season in india when families offer gold as a traditional gift to the newlyweds if there's no quick resolution to the euro problems and it doesn't seem like there's one on the horizon yet we may just see new highs with a precious metal even maybe close to two thousand dollars an ounce some day well that's it for now but remember you can always find more stories. on our website r.t. that cause last person standing next. we

have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark and because what the poor props we do not want anymore nor do most. a core system it's just there was a does more experience and i'm just just appalled that that's allowed to go on where. we are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling therefore to be used like

a board to experiment be used as guinea. we have more questions than we have had three guards. like. welcome back here with r.t. here's a look at the top stories i need to do is for the syrian leadership the arab league of mans the creation of a national unity government and step some calls for president awesome to step down something the regime has allegedly rejected. grey shops to join the european union after a national referendum marked by glad. poller eyes opinion and a disappointing turn out. russia's policy on internal migration falls into the

focus of pm and presidential run or whatever putin as he presents another set of plans as part of his election program. the u.s. often calls for democratic change in the middle east but remains reluctant to admit the rights of palestinians for self-determination to get the latest on palestine's bid for statehood first hand from the president of the palestinian national authority mahmoud abbas our exclusive interview is coming right up. visit is the final stop on your european tour. still waiting for a resolution to the statehood issue what do you expect from russia's leadership at this stage when the issue of palestinians legal rights is being decided according to international law. the russian federation as well as the soviet union before it has been regarded as one of the key and principal hopes for the palestinian people

since the nine hundred seventy s. when the late palestinian president yasser arafat visited moscow our nations have enjoyed good relations it's not only the result of the role that russia plays in the region but also due to the fact that russia was a great power a member of the united nations security council and a member of the quartet of middle east mediators this is why we focused so much on strengthening our relations and why we expect russia to play a positive role recently the quartet took a number of steps calling for negotiations without doubt we coordinate our position with russia and several other countries to get an understanding of where palestine stands what it should do and what it shouldn't be this is why we visited the u.k. germany and have now come to russia we hope that the talks with israel currently underway in jordan will result in a positive outcome but if they fail we would need to have a list of further steps to be taken and in putting together the action list we want to listen to the opinions of the countries i mentioned earlier and russia in

particular. by the mr president. some time ago you said the board was leaning towards israel and the talks was sixteen months. old exploratory talks with israel in amman talks that revealed many contradictions several areas of the peace process talks that apparently failed to yield any balls. results. yes that's true these meetings revealed a lot of contradictions in our positions those were talks just for the sake of talking unfortunately but we don't want to miss a single opportunity we've never stopped negotiating with israel even with george mitchell as the u.s. envoy we continued an exchange of opinions at the meetings held within exploratory or indirect talks which we have never shown and mutual contacts to be honest we've never broken off negotiations with israel. well i think.

there were no grounds for negotiations because of israel the basis for negotiations is the acceptance of the nine hundred sixty seven borders or any other positions agreed by both parties that's not a unilateral stance it's the position of the international community of course it's closely linked with the issue of security which is a huge problem for us and we don't accept the israeli concept of security it will be another forty years of occupation of our legitimate territory on this concepts name is further occupation. often criticised for saying there's no point in continuing the twenty year long negotiations that has you under pressure from the u.s. and israel however you have repeatedly accusations saying that there is no alternative to peace talks why. there is no alternative to peace talks at the moment we are assessing are testing

the ground for future talks to comply with the quartet's demands. of the negotiations are just a way to gain time they say the talking games will not bring about solutions or agreement which will make time for those who know how to use that zionists know how to use it stands behind that statement. means they want to preserve the status quo something we completely reject all illegal settlements all illegal buildings must be torn down and removed from palestinian territories perhaps the israelis have a different vision although in the past they have left their illegal settlements on the sinai peninsula and sharm el sheikh and returned back to their borders we have the same situation in lebanon and believe some of the settlements there even with that they want to preserve the existing situation of the palestinian territories and seek to convince the international community to accept that they want to make

us accept this vision and that we will never accept it or. they would. come in and netanyahu said that he gave you a twenty one point detailing the israeli position what i doing so he refused to meet in ramallah despite. the document all about. i met him three times in september two thousand and ten the first time in washington on an invitation from president obama and the second time in sharm el sheikh out of the third time we met was on the twenty fifth of september at his house in jerusalem where we talked for four hours and discussed all the issues at the talks ended with no positive results no discontinuation little development of the occupied territories no changes to security policies the israeli way they intend to occupy the west bank and it's for another forty years. this is colonial policy and colonialist a lodging at this is not the logic of

a person interested in constructive talks and peaceful coexistence with his neighbors i don't refuse to make but i need to have a good reason now i guess twenty one point proposal and what are these twenty one. are they just some headlines or indeed a list of twenty one issues that need to be addressed by our people and as of today we only need to discuss and solve two issues borders. why would we want to add more issues to the agenda did he think it was some sort of a secret but it's no news and it's not of any practical use either but it is not appropriate for a prime minister to submit this way the document that simply enumerates some issues such as borders security the jewish state etc with no clear indication of what is actually expected of the other party. do you think the current events in the arab world could strengthen your position in the peace talks and how the palestinian issue internationally. there's

still no clear position common to all arab countries yes there are revolutionary changes taking place but it will take time to figure out what results they brought about the countries we want to work with in order to strengthen our position will need time to get back on their feet and build their states under the new conditions however the general arab stance on the palestinian issue has not changed and that the people who lead these revolutions are the same people who supported the palestinians in their pursuit of in the end and these people have not changed what has changed is that attitude towards their leaders and their governments but that is their internal matter and we don't get involved the arab stance on the palestinian issue has remained the same. mr president. that you wouldn't take any action at international level until

january the twenty sixth but if the top still thing according to an ideal charlie is you have to mount unprecedented diplomatic pressure on israel to make it feel completely isolated rather like south africa when the international community condemned the party it has that. we want to live together to co-exist with israel but at the same time we want to stop its illegal settlements on the land that does . and belong to it we want to tell the world that israel's policy is unlawful or their occupation of our land is illegal yes but we're not saying that israel as a state doesn't have a legal right to exist so the diplomatic campaign that's underway is illegal and we have already been recognized by one hundred thirty states and i'm sure that in the near future the list will grow to include a hundred fifty hundred sixty countries. to continue this work what is going to happen after germany the twenty six at the beginning of february the arab peace initiative follow up committee will hold a meeting where we'll present

a full report on what has been done and what still needs to be done now as well as our vision of the future of the peace process will work out of the final positions waste on the committee's decision but we don't want to tie up all of our plans so there needs to be a certain order in. torture. and what the hey there is the president if your address to the u.n. general assembly was very emotional truly big old and historic event but as it turned out a deal wasn't enough to convince nine members of the u.n. security council the sight of iran the palestinian authority of this state as a full u.n. membership would it be possible to continue with the talk if you agreed to the state as a member observe a state. in the united nations security council we received eight votes that we need nine still may not upset everyone is pressured to vote against our membership today we refuse the idea of being

a nonmember observer state everything is possible i'm not saying that it can't be everything is possible if you ask me about the official position of the palestinian state on this issue i'll give you the answer we seek full membership or we will apply for a second or third time etc until we get our bid approved. in a number of arab countries people are now at this. with the idea of overthrowing existing regimes while palestine has embarked on the reconciliation mr president why did they attempt to create a national unity government and in failure. what has been achieved in terms of social and political reforms. but first of all our attempts didn't and we don't wish to create a national unity government but my personal suggestion was to create a neutral transitional technocratic government a non aligned government or comprised of experts that would work until the election

that's not a national unity government and its creation is already underway we have achieved agreement on many issues and i sensed some significant political improvement during the dogs in cairo when hamas delivered an agreement there was an abyss between us earlier but now they've agreed to switch to a nonviolent standoff mode with no more bloodshed they agreed with the requirement of a stablish in the nine hundred sixty seven border line to run in the election in may this year and that means we can talk about progress here our committees are working hard to implement these plans as soon as possible and reforms are underway and the government will be a transitional. every thank you very much for being with us to the every possible success in the implementation of political reward and creation of a palestinian state.

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hello and welcome to sport an artsy come and see a live from the russian capital with me or i'm on cost of let's take a quick look at the headlines. the last two standing the new york giants and the new england patriots win their respective conference titles to set up a super bowl showdown next month. the giants killer rush as you guys said you know mike caro adds siri to williams to her list of big name victims at this year's australian open. gunning for the playoffs the most prolific land and in the n.h.l. history sundays also when she speaks about k h l prospects this year. the new england patriots and the new york giants will compete for this year's super bowl in indianapolis after winning the very specter of conference titles in the

late n.f.c. match the giants down the san francisco forty nine er's by a single field goal lawrence science is the man who booted the new yorkers to their second super bowl appearance in five seasons in sudden death overtime the giants will now face the needle in patriots at the super bowl in indianapolis next month just as they did when they won back in two thousand and eight and by the way four years ago it was this same man lawrence science to kick the game winning field goal in overtime in the n.f.c. title game that put the giants into the super bowl. meanwhile in the a.f.c. the new england patriots were the first to book their place after beating the stunned baltimore ravens twenty three twenty some brady scored the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter with this one yard dive bringing the patriots from behind this was the patriots' seventh a.f.c. championship title so once again their final match against the giants set for the fifth all for.