embattled whistleblower julian assange gives an un presidential speech to the un general assembly r.t. beams his words directly to the high level gathering from his london ecuadorian embassy hideout. wide we're looking at live pictures now of the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas is seeking speaking at the u.n. general assembly basically more independence for the occupied lands while israel is set to respond to iranian criticism. and

spain's wealthiest regional got the lonny approves an independent referendum as a disintegrating economy and a fresh round of austerity leave spain in despair. it's not a crime here in moscow you're watching r t with me to say the world's top whistleblower julian a son just found a way to make his own address at the u.n. general assembly from his shelter in the ecuadorian embassy in london he used a video link provided by our teachers speak to the world leaders gathered in new york r.t. self-worth has the details of this unprecedented statement. it's a story this demanded to be heard incessantly r.t. have refused to ignore it having followed every detail of julian assange just case

from the very beginning we last night the un listened as the wiki leaks founder delivered his impassioned appeal to see the un to the people who were gathered there calling on the u.s. to end its persecution of wiki leaks and of the man himself now he spoke via satellite link from the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's being for more than three months now as he fights his extradition he just the u.n. assembly in the great gather there are t. were exclusively in the embassy behind the scenes and exclusively broadcasting as julian assange has delivered his message to the world leaders who are gathered there he spoke for about fifteen minutes and the main point that he made was the criticism of the u.s. and of president obama criticizing them for defending freedom of speech of being very outspoken about defending freedom of speech but then converse lipase keating whistle blows and people he try and tell the cheese and he spoke certainly of his

vassal wiki leaks possibile so the wider implications of the route that the u.s. is now taking ministration is in trying to recruit. a national regime of secrecy a national regime discussion regime we need government employees reviewing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death life imprisonment or espionage now everything us the classified documents it's been found that julian assange and wiki leaks are officially enemies of the state and that anyone who works with them could be potentially persecuted now he spoke not only of his own ongoing battle but also the wider implications for whistleblowers if the u.s. continues along this course. as mentioned do we were exclusively broadcasting a sundress address live there you can watch the full version on our website.

which i want to tell you the american story julian assange just breaks through the message exclusively on our t.v. dot com. another day of strong opinion is expected at the u.n. general assembly on thursday as israeli and palestinian leaders address the chamber mahmoud abbas who caused a furor at the u.n. with his failed bid for palestinian statehood this time pursues a more modest goal to gain nonmember observer status artie's marina but neither is keeping across developments in new york she joins us live from there good to see you there marina mark would is addressing the u.n. general assembly as we speak what is the expectations today. well the expectations as you mentioned is that the palestinian president the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas will be requesting for a nonmember observer state status by the end of twenty eight twelve last year when

the palestinian leader submitted a bid for full member status that failed many say but that was only because the u.s. . for the security council of the security council never got a chance to vote on it now this nonmember observer observer state status would improve the palestinians chances of joining us agencies and other international criminal courts such as the international criminal court some see it as a a step towards full statehood many others call it the observer status. symbol because at the end of the day the most important thing for the palestinians is for there to be an alternate decision on that in the middle east for there to be an independent palestine and an independent israel during president obama's speech he said continuing construction of settlements and expanding occupations is a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the palestinians he also called on the

international community to remind israel to conform and be responsible to the geneva conventions. the crack between the white house and the israeli leadership is starting to show how soon benjamin netanyahu is pushing washington to draw a red line over iran a line beyond which lies war but president obama is not banding so let me be clear america wants to resolve this issue through diplomacy and we believe that there is still time and space to do so even though the obama administration's stated policy is not to let iran have a nuclear weapon for benjamin netanyahu that's not enough if you're determined to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons it means you will act before they get nuclear weapons acting before could mean attacking tomorrow even though according to a u.s. intelligence assessment iranian leaders haven't even decided on whether to build the bomb or not america's top military officials made it clear at tacking the rand

would be a bad idea should israel decide to go it alone the head of the u.s. army said quote i don't want to be complicit and of quote player soon they can say iran back a couple of years and then go back and do it again and again that's just idiotic because once you start using force everything changes colonel lawrence wilkerson has joined a host of other former and serving government officials who put forward an expert analysis paper on what military action against iran would entail the paper states we believe that a u.s. attack on iran would increase iran's motivation to build a bomb. it would take iran a year or more to build a military grade weapon once the decision was made to do so at least two years or more would be required to create a nuclear warhead that is reliably deliverable die a missile as this room pushes ahead with war talk and red lines the obama administration is trying to relieve the pressure any pressure that i feel is simply

to do what's right for the american people and i am going to block out any noise that's out there when the president referred to israeli war rhetoric as noise maybe asked whether the relations between the white house and tell of it have hit a new low all you have to do in this town is say the word israel and everyone supposed to shrink away everyone is supposed to leave the argument because if israel's security is in peril then you are an anti-semite or worse if you say i'm opposite opinion americans have made it clear they don't have the stomach for another war in the middle east especially a war based on some phony red blinds president obama knows that benjamin netanyahu probably knows that too hence the question is these three leadership really serious when pushing the u.s. to the brink of what would be a devastating war or is it some kind of a good cop bad cop diplomatic game that the u.s. and israel are playing whatever it is the escalating war talk is drowning out the

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artsy thanks for being with us at tanking economy rampant unemployment and a fall public mood may not be the worst of spain's troubles got the lonia the country's riches and most prosperous region is on a collision causal with madrid after voting to go through with a referendum on independence something the government says they calling do without the blessing of the rest of spain jacob green's a looks at what the rush is about. the regional elections being held in catalonia will be seen as a de facto referendum on independence from madrid and from essential lies government and that's largely down to who's running on the ballot paper we have present are still mass regional heads and he's been calling for greater independence if he proves popular on the day of voting or then that could really reflect on how popular the issue of independence is has always been the simmering sentiment when it comes to this national debate between highlighted somewhat given

the current economic conditions and economic plight in spain catalonians feel that they've been hard done too that they give more to madrid in terms of the budget about twelve billion euros more on an annual basis when they ever receive back also catalonia as a regional sort of contributes about twenty percent of spain's annual g.d.p. is still part with its own destiny struggling to reduce that deficit in catalonia about forty billion euros but here they say they've made deeper and tougher cuts than anywhere else in spain this issue actually earlier this month or so about a million people onto the streets in barcelona is a call for independence away from madrid that comes at a very tough time for spain as a whole particularly for the government of prime minister rudd oid as one m.p.'s dubbed it is a crisis on top of a crisis as they're facing their own problems of deficit reduction and people coming out to the streets in their tens of thousands to protest against how the

government is handling austerity measures we've just seen this week protests turned violent the occupy congress movement which started peacefully aim to get a message of and just stared through to him peace and ended in violence of police pushing back the protesters were being hit by battens having a bullet fired in their direction and it's also about sixty people were injured in proceedings about thirty people being detained as a worrying sign for some of these demonstrations turned more violent after as they continue. city officials off from other spanish military have apparently it threatened separate is with court martials making clear the army's stance but. the professor of economics at the university of bus alarmist says madrid a wouldn't day involve the military though she would welcome assurances catalonia is a people with a long history of language and identity and it has been struggling for the last

thirty years to be recognized and to develop its own policies in many many different aspects within the spanish system received just fine use them our see our so called democracy and it hasn't been popped in by because of the economic relationship within the spanish estate has been very very discriminatory towards catalonia spain belongs to the european union the european union want. the spanish state to act violently against democratic movements such as the catalan meant anyway it would be nice to hear the head of the armed forces which the king kong rushed to say something along to eat and to declare that they are not going to use violence that the big house. catch up on the clashes in madrid over the paused two days you can find the full video all clive it r t dot com we've come

a school day two days of the message is made up of tens of thousands we've got video one of. these flashes that some critics say way interviewed by the authorities themselves all that and much more at all to. us presidential candidate mitt romney has raised eyebrows by releasing his twenty eleven tax returns after pressure from the coaches turns out of the republican who is a very vocal in his anymore city towards moscow has launched investments into two of russia's biggest corporations wall has more from washington republican presidential nominee mitt romney finally released his much anticipated two thousand and eleven tax returns the three hundred seventy nine page return shows he paid a tax rate of over fourteen percent so there's debate over how that number was calculated his tax return also reveals ties to his cayman island investments and

the performance of his goldman sachs funds but perhaps the most important yet overlooked item on his two thousand and eleven tax return is romney's foreign investments and mitt romney family trust return shows romney purchased shares in two giant russian companies romney invested in russian energy firm gazprom and russian internet firm yandex the largest search engine in the country the records show romney invested over a thousand shares and both countries tax records also show romney sold both shares at a loss last september right before the presidential election season kicked off but what's puzzling is that the presidential hopeful took interest and invested in a country he recently bashed. to russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe they fight every cause for their. worst actors that's right drama invested in a country he apparently views as america's number one enemy in fact romney's

rhetoric on russia is consistently hawkish so if you want to run for the highest office in the united states and virtually attack a foreign country you may want to keep your investments close to home and washington liz wall r.t. . right let's join katie for the latest market katie good to see you again what's happening now in the markets to have them to get started with wall street that if i make is that still trading for the day and really spain has been the biggest news event going on after the deputy prime minister said that the nation's twenty thirteen budget would focus on spending cuts and tax hikes use the size of a soft recession in twenty thirty and said the g.d.p. will shrink by not point five percent so that is filtering on to the markets in the states who look at the european markets will be able to see that they rose and that was speculation that china may announce new stimulus measures as well helping to bolster the economy the sentiment the euro remains flat the russian ruble finished

up against the boss get a car is the same could be said for the equity market as well it was a finished close in most days that's how the markets look back in about fifteen minutes with more updates more markets and more business news next time thanks for that update we'll see in the next hour or so and now let's cross over to washington and the latest edition of capital account with lower enlisted. download the official application to cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time and.

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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for wednesday september twenty sixth two thousand and twelve just when you thought the eurozone crisis was getting a little boring same old news what do you know riot police clashing with protesters in front of greek parliament in the first major general strike we've seen under the new greek government now we've seen these protests before let's be honest so is it any different this time and in spain catalonia the country's most economically important region one out catalonia and a growing drive to secede it announces elections tapped as a referendum on independence oh snap take that madrid but madrid battling problems of its own without catalonia look at this barricades outside parliament to keep out the protesters what impact will all of this apparently growing dissent have plus

we've talked about bank capital flight in europe but what about human capital flight not just within the euro zone but from other countries and continents which have faced. well of their own will discuss the impact of this immigration on the eurozone crisis and all things europe related with matina status of the dow jones and wall street journal from brussels let's get to today's capital account. for those of you who have euro zone crisis and i have to tell you i'm guilty of it time to wake up.