palestinian triumph at israeli diplomatic defeat as the u.n. overwhelmingly votes to recognize palestine as a sovereign state. egypt faces more street riots as opposition activists called for boycotting a new draft constitution now this same poses as long as vision brads down freedom. and the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange promises more astonishing with these revelations as he speaks exclusively tortilla with the word embassy. in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie palestine is one long

awaited recognition at the u.n. after more than two thirds of member states voted in favor of upgrading its status the decision came as a blow to israel and the u.s. who harshly opposed the move calling it counterproductive right after the historic vote my colleague john thomas spoke to our correspondent in new york and tel aviv as well as an activist in gaza. one hundred thirty eight countries including russia voted in support of the draft resolution that now elevates palestine status to non member observer state palestine will be able to join the international criminal court this would allow palestine to press for investigations into israel's practices in the occupied territories it would also be able to join agencies forty one countries abstained from voting on the resolution and nine countries voted no that includes the u.s. u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice addressed the general assembly calling palestine's un bid of provocative

action and also encouraged how assign an israel to resume direct negotiations clearly this changes the dynamic very much so within the u.n. general assembly while palestine is not considered does not have full membership at the united nations having this member of server status is extremely symbolic and does show at the end of the day where the international community does stand on this issue all right now harry you are in gaza as we speak what's the mood there on the ground at the moment and do you see this good will actually change anything on the ground. gazans jubilant about this result. because nothing to do with us and i mean this here in gaza. city was. to receive those which means everything on the grounds.

that in the west going with the illegal settlements. project was an innocent palestinian city it was ok i don't think that the army who were thrown out will be rolled back as a result of these increased illegal. that will be affected by this some. things now paula how has israel taken the news of this vote so far. well when the israeli ambassador to the united nations one poser put forward his address to the united nations general assembly he was essentially with the same thing what has been and continues to be the israeli point of view he said that the palestinian leadership made a mistake in making this but in the first place he said that the resolution was one sided and then it did not in any way address the security concerns that the state of israel has he also said that it would push the peace process for further backwards rather than move it forward and this is

a view that we've heard repeatedly from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he says that the only way forward for a two state solution is direct negotiations at the negotiating table between israelis and palestinians are never going to be any decoration of the state's first having these negotiations going toward a long lasting peace now we have heard already cold calls for sanctions we certainly have heard earlier this week from being israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman who says that he needs to be an extreme reaction to the palestinians if indeed they go ahead with this but so of me in the recent days and in the recent now was there has been a toned down israeli reaction so if we as they they sensed that the blood was going to go the direction of the palestinians we know also that the israelis have been scared of making any kind of statements that could be used against them in the future but at the moment in his role the reaction was muted it was very much expected that the blood would go in this direction. reporting there are possibly

you're in tel aviv. york and activists here in fear of gaza all now despite israeli and u.s. claims that the u.n. vote creates obstacles to peace the palestinian leader has assured is a must to breathe new life into negotiations and russia's ambassador to the u.n. is interview with r.t. said he agrees the u.n. vote my just leave. needed to get talks back on track today is an important day it's sixty five years ago that the resolution was adopted by the general assembly about dividing palestine and creating two states only one of them has been created israel now we believe it's high time to move towards. setting up the other state the palestinian state and this appear and opinion obviously is shared by those countries who voted for this resolution the international community is fed up with the conflict countries in the united nations believe that dramatic steps need to be taken in order to have this conflict resolved so you do have the talks move

in a way which would have been the preference of most including russia through bilateral channels between the israelis and the palestinians within that it would be very wrong if this vote the word to turn or somebody were to try to turn it into further confrontation between the israelis and the palestinians while the u.n. vote could be seen as a failure of israeli diplomacy it also calls into question america's policy in the middle east u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has called that recognition of palestine unfortunate saying it damages hopes of peace but such rather it is only damaging washington as ramzy baroud at her at palestine chronicle dot com. what hillary clinton has actually said can only be understood within the old context the us is an evil to get out of the rot it's political rot of many years partly the united states its is stuck in its own foreign policy of all it is incapable of

adapting to a new middle east to the so-called arab spring to the new realities that are emerging from the region it is still trying to side with the israeli lobby is trying to back right or wrong along with you either that or trying to basically exist within within the american political sphere it's embarrassing day for american foreign policy today yet they persist and they refuse to depart and leave that all started school politics today was this this amazing historic chance for the rest of the international community to challenge the u.s. and israel and their addicted hearts and to say in one or more years voice that we do support in principle the establishment of a palestinian state. now this story vote and prospects for peace are also the topics up for a fierce debate in the latest edition of crossfire here's

a taste of what's coming your way layer on today. that's not the way to run an issue of the people who want to have a loophole and if people want to have a homeland it's not enough to have declaration you have to build your nation towards that i do think romney has completely lucidity of mind is clearly not suffering from outside but i'm not sure why he's the problem is the power stimulus won't negotiate really throughout the year record the one conclusion you reach the out there and the conclusion is nothing happened it's like the children song the wheels on the bus go round and round and the. nothing is because the. let's applaud the international norm resolve the conflict and. we reject the international law we're going to this resolution become flipped on the terms that suit us. egyptian opposition

leaders are calling for more mass protests across the country against a new draft constitution but together by the country's muslim lawmakers rights activists say the charter reflects an islamist view and restricts basic freedoms the country's already been shaken by the violent turmoil in recent days sparked by president morsi is move to assume near absolute power and the new constitution is only likely to ask later on breast journalist. well this course if you are the cause which are quite contentious now being discussed today as they were read out whilst the members of a constituent assembly were voting on them one in particular who for which awards the isle which is the highest islamic authority legislative scrutiny another one is article ten which gives the state the ability to maintain moral behavior and ganesh quite unclear in addition military trials for civilians are still being allowed in the constitution this is been an ongoing campaign by revolutionaries since january

two thousand and eleven because it's actually illegal under international law and he said this practice of trying to be in from the military judges and be seen to be very ethical there be on going questions now directly below us just off the square as you continue now on the cornice and my colleague tom elliott today and he has this report. in the center of. a protest as have emerged from around the side of this building in this cycle to unfriend bucholz with. gas with the police the police just stood over there and they keep emerging and firing tear gas coming. this back at the protest as the protest is all morning have been rocking cars in china poll of polls off smashing windows throwing stones they've also been picking up the take aspirin age of the police and throwing them back at the police some of the stones lining a bit close now that the police come back and this has been going on for about two

days now and back and forth buckle last night they set fire to buildings on the police and the protest is dragging back casualties who have been with always watching and choking on the take gas and boost head injuries and other injuries from the flying stones all of this set off by muhammad missed his declaration last week to themselves sweeping fire as people in tough race where haven't seen such violent protests there then will peaceful i'm allowed to protest as well they want to send the message rescind this rescind this announcement rescind these powers you've given yourself they're supporting largely the country's top judges to be on strike and they the judges say that they will not allow this mission despite mohamed morsi trying to say he is trying to find a compromise very much focused on trying to get back on track egypt's push to him

fully get further towards democracy and away from the violence that we see around us tom are reporting there now with the growing unrest in egypt as well as protest in libya and tunisia manny analysts are now questioning just how much change the arab spring has brought to these countries and is gonna she count found out there are fears and instead of a better and brighter future these nations may actually be sliding towards a greater fate. less than two years after the egyptian people ousted the all powerful hosni mubarak mohamed morsi granted himself even more power than his predecessor head to the special the kray president morsi make sure that no court in challenges decisions thank you. that the president's power grab brought hundreds of thousands of egyptians onto the street with a shared says that their aspirations were being betrayed. unfortunately were replaced the corrupt regime of mubarak with a regime that is more strict and violent the draft version of egypt's new

constitution inserts new islamic references into the country's system of government and keeps in place an article defining the principles of shari'a as the main source of legislation when they're not in power there are moderates. in the united states and washington the various islamic organizations that dominate in the us but when they come into power they put a lot grip on power it is socially establish an islamic dictatorship the sense of betrayal and disappointment has not left the screen so tunisia the first country to witness an arab spring uprising unemployment there skyrocketed in the wake of the revolution and is now at eighteen percent. our demands are the same as those that have been made during the revolution we want jobs development in the region and the equitable sharing of wealth we also demand the dismissal of the governor who has done nothing for this region but is comprised of development here as the arab spring unfolded less than two years ago the obama administration jumped on the

bandwagon of the revolutions hoping to forge better alliances with the new leaders . in revia the us prompted the change with airstrikes and arms supplies were seen policymakers here in washington trying very hard to present the arab spring as a success story up until september washington had the revolution in libya check as a foreign policy victory for president obama after all the u.s. provided most of the firepower which led to the capture and the killing of moammar qaddafi only after the tragic attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi and the murder of the american ambassador there did leave you come back into a spotlight and the chaos that we see there now flies in the face of that success story narrative protests frequent. disrupt operations at the main oil refinery in western libya while the new government in libya has little or no control over the numerous militia groups the civil war has left the country shredded to pieces with radical islamic taking advantage of the chaos so many in the post-revolutionary north african countries despair and violence have replaced the hopes of the arab

spring in washington i'm going to check out. and news just in the new egyptian draft constitution has been approved after voting in the islamist dominated a sample the draft must now be passed in a nationwide referendum which the president said would be held soon the document has already been met with calls for protests as we've been reporting and we'll of course speak keeping you keeping a close eye on the developments keeping you up to date and the crisis torn in ship bringing you the very latest here. all right more news this hour including the man charged with the greatest data leak and u.s. history speaks for the first time since his arrest bradley manning reveals an inhumane treatment he suffered during the tantrum saying it's thought he was going to die in war and that in just a few minutes. the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange is the gann of the headlines as a media speculates on the condition of his health artist laura smith exclusively

spoke to him at the door and embassy in london were he's been holed up for almost six months. as any journalist working in london now is i'm pretty familiar with standing outside the ecuadorian embassy waiting for julian assange is to come out and talk from the balcony just to my right here but this evening i've been inside that resort embassy to talk to judy and i saw he's recently written a book a book called cypherpunks freedom and the future of the internet and that's what he really wants to talk about at the moment and we did talk about that we talked about how he sees this increase in state surveillance is hugely damaging for the entire fabric of society how companies and governments can minute the internet for data that is placed there willingly but unwittingly boy citizens all over the world let's just listen into a little bit of what he said about that we all think of. some kind of public realm

where we can throw ideas and communication with writers and books and exist somewhere out there actually very exist. who are physically controls that controls the realm of our ideas and communications and whoever is able to sit on those communications channels can intercept entire nations. joining us all as has been cooped up in the embassy behind me for more than five months now and you may have heard reports in the media in the last couple of days that he's developed a lung condition but in fact his people are saying that there is no young conditional that he does have quite a pervasive cough actually pale and quite thin but he seems to be in high spirits but the possibility the specter of a serious illness has raised questions about what the government of this country would do if he was still with their loud medical help to go into the embassy would if he had to get out to go to hospital would they use that as an excuse to arrest

him he at this current moment doesn't want to talk about his personal situation he's much more interested in talking about the book you just read. off the back of the program that he made but nevertheless there are concerns about his general held when i asked him whether they could ever be as bleak as significant as cables gates of which means of course just in the two year anniversary he said that we should watch this space do you think that something has lowered just cable kate could ever happen again i would have a similar. play next year. but what's in the time next year when you go into it but. we should watch out for that you can see my whole interview with judy later on in the program. i was writing laura smith there and she just said the full interview with julian sanchez coming your way later today at six thirty am g.m.t. . europeans have united for and now there are

a collective show of anger as doctors from all over the continent have been protesting and portugal workers from spain belgium and other east eight march to the parliament building in lisbon to voice their anger at the looming cuts exulting from a new law court workers' pan-european protest comes as the latest bailout deal for brinks which remains the center of the continent's debt crisis is set to go through the german parliament there's growing frustration in the powerhouse both among politicians and the people about the costs the country has to bear for the rescue are just peed all over reports. the vote in the german parliament on friday isn't just a vote on greek financial aid it's also being seen very much as a test of anglo merkel's off already chancellor though the opposition parties in the parliament have said that she's going to have to prove to them that this latest round of financial aid is in germany's best interests if they're to vote for it what this latest package essentially means is that for twenty thirteen germany is

set to lose around seven hundred and thirty million euros jus to implementing these latest measures then this was an image that is enough because we won't see this money ever again. at some point it should be stopped it's high time they were capable of helping themselves they're ok for now but someday we could also go broke there's arlen specter. this is all used to look we've already given the so much money and they should start to pay a lot. of is my opinion and there's nothing more i can say and. it does seem to debate that took place on thursday that the majority of the the social democrats in the green party will get on board with an. proposed aid package for greece most important for until a merkel is making sure that her own coalition stay on site and stay. in a test vote on this issue that took place earlier in the week we saw ten members of

anglo merkel's own party vote against her we're going to see a general election here in germany between september and october of twenty thirty where anglo american will be looking for. the chancellor and she's going to need the support of her party under of the other parties that make up the coalition so this vote they say on important for greece but especially important for angela merkel and her hopes of reelection. hard has been all over is keeping an eye on the upcoming crucial vote in the german parliament so follow his twitter feed for all the latest developments. in the. us private bradley manning accused of leaking secret army data has testified during a pretrial hearing he says that detention conditions made him feel like

a doomed caged animal and brought suicidal thoughts robert naiman just foreign policy says such damning accounts of his attention could impact the case against him and part of the. drama was clearly that the government the prosecution was fighting with. and really being not cooperated. with attorney along the way the hope of clearly of men going to his attorney is that it will add to the idea that he's been punished enough doesn't need to be punished or doesn't need to be punished much more. and also that the defense has some leverage over the government since the more details come out about his treatment tension the more embarrassed the united states will be internationally. they want to pressure the u.s.

government to make a deal that would involve you know not a lot more punishment for bradley. more news for you online including qatar's one down on free speech we've got the story of one qatari poet receiving a life prison sentence for writing a piece that's considered insulting to local leaders had to r.t. dot com for more details. plus in solving the past dutch harlem prepares to scrap of blasphemy law seen as a longer relevant in the twenty first century. i hate tribunals verdict clearing casillas former prime minister of war crimes has

been met with outrage in serbia amid claims the court was biased. could now return to politics with many serbs protesting on the cost of a border against his acquittal hardin and she was accused of the murder and torture of serbs during the brutal year slavia war at the end of the nine hundred ninety s. international criminal defense lawyer michael carneal says the hague support system appears on balanced. i think by and large this tribe you know was set up more or less the private service they had trying some on muslims bosniaks from bottles of rum bosnich of all the not color watts in of course when it came to color civil very very few i don't think it should be that surviving i think there is a political element to these international trials you know who gets charged what they charge with on how the how they will be caught tried and the sentences that they will ultimately receive and i think when you look at the history on my legacy

of this tribunals you'll see that the surge of water cognitive more than any of the other moves and that's why i think it's one of the phase of this particular tribunals. because it does show that there is a political element to it. now a look at some other stories from around the world u.s. officials say washington is preparing recognize syria's new opposition coalition as the sole legitimate voice of the syrian people paving the way for greater support for rebels fighting president that's despite criticism that the foreign based unity blog doesn't have enough support within syria as well as control over competence on the ground before endorsement of the rebels would bring in they are aligned with britain france and the gulf monarchies spearheading efforts to oust the syrian leader. a much anticipated and wide reaching report into media standards in the u.k. the british press have a tougher form of self-regulation underpinned by legislation prime minister cameron

has concerns this could restrict free speech although agreed that context tweens politicians and media executives should be made public the two thousand page document following firing into phone hacking case against now defunct employed these papers the news of the world. the french court has overturned a manslaughter verdict against khan the airlines the company which was blamed for the concorde crash in two thousand and twelve years ago one of the supersonic jets crashed in france killing one hundred thirteen people a piece of debris which fell from another continental plane onto the runway critically damaged the concorde take off the iconic plane was retired in the two thousand and three by british and french airlines well it's all for me for the moment coming up after a short break its capital accounts lauren lyster stay with us.

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else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. of. your new super secret lover touring the two mccurdy was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only on the dog. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for thursday november twenty ninth two thousand and twelve in washington not all deadlines are as pressing as those in the fiscal cliff the

date for the final draft of the volcker rule has been pushed out according to the m.p.c. from the end of year to possibly the first quarter of two thousand and thirteen does this simply leave more time for bank lobbying wins like the one scored from the treasury treasury over foreign exchange swaps during this transition out for timothy geithner bob english is here to talk about it all from the south beach plus third quarter g.d.p. growth was revised up to two point seven percent up from the two percent gain previously reported by the commerce department and just short of expectations now reports are that this gain could reverse but more important than that should we put stock in g.d.p. as a measure of the economy's health at all we'll discuss and earlier this week we asked financial commentator peter schiff about his hyper inflation calls. you know that you're saying you can't predict when this is going to happen but why haven't we seen that happen well you know i still say there.