palestinian sign of an israeli diplomatic defeat as u.n. overwhelmingly voted to recognize palestine as a sovereign state. and new draft constitution based on islamic law gets the seal of approval from egypt's muslim lawmakers with the opposition calling for mass protests to boycott the charter. of the world's most famous whistleblower join a son who promises more astonishing weeks revelations as he speaks exclusively to our team and they could or it embassy in a lot of them. in the russian capital you're watching r t with me or even josh palestine as 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. will harshly oppose the move calling it counterproductive right after a historic vote my colleague sean thomas spoke to our correspondents in new york and television 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 the u.n. 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 palestine and 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 this good will actually change anything on the ground. gazans obscene jubilant about this result. because. it was and i mean this here in gaza. city was. to receive the change anything on the ground in gaza.

but in the west going with the illegal settlements. project and some of the gazans and palestinians see what they are hoping that the army who were thrown out will be rolled back as a result of these that will increase it legally. that will be affected all of our bodies and our state. friends 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 to 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 a grace the security concerns that the state of israel has he also said that it would push the peace process forward 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 the direct negotiations at the negotiating table between israelis and palestinians and cannot really be any decoration other states are first having these negotiations going through a long lasting peace now we have heard already cold calls for sanctions we certainly have heard earlier this week from the 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 at me as they they sensed that the blood was going to go the direction of the palestinians and we know also that the israelis have been scared of making any kind of statements that could be used against him 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. and reporting there are you're in tel aviv and worried about ninety york with activists harry fear. now despite

israeli and u.s. claims that the. obstacles to peace the palestinian leader insist he's a mr bray's new life into negotiations but israel insists direct talks not the u.n. were the only way for palestine to seek statehood. we called to mahmoud abbas for years to come and return to the table of negotiations and he israel i want to to remind you that israel did everything israel could to proceed to give a chance to this to this process we stopped buildings stopped building in some area for turn months what no government before this government and the end of the of this. of this step of israel nothing happened palestinians didn't get back to the negotiations they did

back very symbolically and it was done in two weeks and it again failed so i think that israel done everything he could to bring back this process but again we have to provide security to israel. while we also spoke to ramsey baroud editor of palestine chronicle dot com who believes israel was using peace talks to stall palestine pass to statehood. when netanyahu comes and says the only way of peace is direct negotiations from the point of view of someone who doesn't really understand what's going on it sounds reasonable enough it sounds logical enough but the problem is israel has done everything in its capacity and its power to undermine any chances and any prospects for that for the so-called peace process to achieve anything since palestinians and israelis have been talking twenty years ago until today look at the reality on the ground the settlements have

doubled the number of settlers have tripled the number of wars that have been launched again launched against palestinians have been so many of them thousands of palestinians have lost their lives what israel have done to give the palestinians any sense of hope that in fact sitting face to face and a negotiating is going to achieve anything as long as the israeli army is roaming palestinian streets arresting people killing people no this is not going to work the reality on the ground is israel is using the peace process to win time in order for them to achieve their colonial project that is didn't own up taking as much of the west bank seizing as much land and building as much settlements and leaving palestinians living in disconnected bantustans like reality in the west bank and besieging gaza as they have for years this is what israel wants going back to the

negotiations table meaning for palestinians to accept the status quo and we refused to do so. now this story prospects for peace are also the topics up for fears debate of the latest edition of crosstalk here's a taste of what's coming your way next hour. that's not the way to run an issue all the people who want to have a homeland you people want to have a home and it's not enough to have that liberation you have to build your nature towards that. romney is completely. clearly not suffering from. but i'm not sure why he's the problem is the post in the us won't negotiate. through go toward to your record the one conclusion you reach. is nothing. it's like the children song the wheels from the bus go round the room and the reason nothing happened is because. let's apply the international law and

resolve the conflict. we reject the international law we're going to the. resolution of the conflict on the terms that. it's islam is dominated constitutional sami has passed a new draft constitution opposition leaders are already calling for mass protests against the charter that's based on shari'a law saying it cracks down on freedom the country's been shaken by over a week of violent turmoil sparked by the president morsi is moving to assume your absolute power and this journalist del true says new constitution is only likely to escalate the rest well this course if you are the cause which are quite contentious and have been discussed today as they were read out while the members of a constituent assembly were voting on them one in particular who for which awards which is the highest islamic authority legislative scrutiny another one is article ten which gives the state the ability to maintain moral behavior and damage quite

unclear in addition military trials are to be. leaders are still being allowed in the constitution this has been an ongoing campaign by revolutionaries to january two thousand and eleven because it's actually illegal under international rule and he said this practice of trying to be in for many judges and they seem to be very on ethical babie on going clashes now directly below us just off the square and this is continuing now on the phone he and my colleague tom boswell was that he is today and he has this report. listed here in the center of cairo the protestors have emerged from around the side of this building in a cycle of to and fro to battles with stones and to gas with the police the police just stood over there and they keep emerging and firing tear gas canisters back at the protest as the protesters all morning have been rocking carson trying to pull the doors off smashing windows and 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 closer 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 protesters dragging back casualties who have been without. choking on the take gas whose head injuries and other injuries from the flying stones all of this set off by muhammad missed his declaration last week once again so sweeping was people in tough races where haven't seen such violent protests there more peaceful on the larger protests 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 measure 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. it was a growing unrest in egypt as well as protests in libya and tunisia manny surge now questioning just how much change the arab spring has brought disease countries and as a guy next to count found out there are fears that instead of a better and brighter future of these nations may actually be sliding towards a grammar fetes. less than two years after the egyptian people i'll suit 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 can challenge his decisions. 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 of grip on power and so actually establish an islamic dictatorship the sense of betrayal and disappointment has not left the spring so. the first country to witness an arab spring uprising unemployment there skyrocketed in the wake of the revolution and is now at eighteen percent of our demands are the same as those that have been made during the revolution but we want the jobs development of the region

for the equitable sharing in the welfare of the family also demand the dismissal of the governor who has done nothing for this region what is comprised the development here here bring 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 the media the u.s. problem could be change with air strikes and arms supplies we've seen polls makers 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 gadhafi only after the tragic attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi and the murder of the american ambassador there come back into a spotlight and the chaos that we see there now flies in the face of that success story narrative protests frequently 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 spring in washington i'm going to check our. party's been inside ecuadorian embassy in london to speak with julian assange. do you think that something is no it just cable kate could ever happen again play next year what's the time next year or early or all that much. in good spirits that we can lease founder says his house the least of his concerns when it comes to go it's. also bradley manning reveals inhumane treatment he says he suffered during the detention saying he thought he was going to die one day out in just a few minutes. a

lovely quiet morning a family gently sleeps in district heights maryland when fifty armed f.b.i. agents stormed the house with guns drawn. despite the family pleading that they were unarmed the law enforcement agents opened fire on a weaponless teenager my asian huli thankfully sholay suffered minor flesh wounds but the key issue is that it remains unknown as to why the house was stormed so here in america for no reason guys in black uniform storm someone's house all loaded some rounds and left with no justification or explanation yes the family still doesn't know why this happened the f.b.i. is remaining silent you know i understand that there are some very bad individuals out there doing some very bad stuff at home but if you don't even really know whose house are storming or why you're storming it then maybe you should lay off the siege for a while you know what take a few minutes to think it over have

a cup of coffee and maybe even do a little google search about the fourth amendment but that's just my opinion. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images group world and seeing from the streets of canada. change corporations rule the day.

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welcome back you're watching are now the world's most famous was a lower join us songes again out of the headlines as a media speculates on the condition of his health artie's laura smith exclusively spoke to him ad they could dorian embassy in london where he has 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 an embassy to talk to judy and i saw he's recently written 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 by 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 rome where we can throw our ideas and communication with writers and books and there exist somewhere out there actually very existence. whoever physically controls the controls the realm of our ideas and communications and whoever is able to sit almost communications channels can intercept entire nations. julian assange 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 long condition but in fact his people are saying that there is no young

conditional that he does have quite a pervasive cough actually looks a bit pale 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 ill would there 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 that he's just read. of the back of a program that he made for me but nevertheless there are concerns about his general health when i asked him whether there could ever be a leak as significant as cable gates of which we've of course just seen 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 impact. play next year. what's the time next year

when you go into it but clearly are all the ways that we should watch out for that you can see my whole interview with judy in ourselves later on in the program well arty's lauriston is there and she just the full interview with julian assange is coming your way later the. europeans have been out of for another collective show anger as doctors from all over the continent have been protesting and portugal workers from spain belgium and other e.u. states have marched to the parliament building analysts been to voice their anger at the looming cuts resulting from a new law for workers' pan-european protests comes as the latest bailout deal for greece which remains at the center of the continent's debt crisis is set to go through the german parliament now there's growing frustration and powerhouse both among politicians and people about the cost the country has to bear for the rest you are just bitter all over reports. the vote in the german parliament on friday

isn't just a vote on greek financial aid it's also been seen very much as a test of. the chancellor the opposition parties in the parliament have said that's what she's going to have to prove to them that this latest round of financial aid is in germany's best interests if there's a vote for it what this latest package essentially means is that for twenty thirty germany is said to lose around seven hundred and thirty million euros to implementing these latest measures the minister was in the city that is enough because we want to see this money ever again. at some point it should be stopped it's high time they were capable of helping themselves now but someday we could also go broke this arlen specter. this is all useless we've already given the so much money and they should start to pay. was my opinion and there's nothing more i can say. it does seem after debate that took place on

thursday that the majority of the the social democrats in the green party will get on board with angle of the proposed aid package for greece most important for and gillum urkel is making sure that her own coalition stay on side and stay all message 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 angela merkel will be looking for if. the chancellor and she's going to need the support of her party under the other parties that make up the coalition so this vote will say i'm a person for grace but especially important wrangler merkel and her hopes of reelection. to some other stories now from around the world u.s.

will say washington is preparing to recognize here is the opposition coalition of the so 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 the full endorsement of the rebels will bring american why with britain france the gulf monarchies spearheading efforts to oust the syrian leader. a much anticipated and wide reaching report into media standards in the u.k. recommends the british press have a tougher form of self-regulation underpinned by legislation prime minister david cameron supports most of the findings saying the relationship between press and politicians needs to be more of transparent the two thousand page document followed an inquiry into phone hacking case against now defunct tabloid newspaper the news of the world. us private bradley manning accused of leaking secret army data has testified during

a pretrial hearing he says that detention conditions may have feel like a doomed caged animal and brought suicidal thoughts robert naiman of just foreign policy says such damning accounts of his detention could impact the case against. part of the. drama was clearly that the government prosecution was fighting with and really being non cooperative with many of the tourney along the way the hope of clearly of manning this attorney is there well. to the idea that he's been punished enough doesn't need to be punished more does 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 intention the more variously united states he international they want

to pressure the u.s. government to make a deal that would involve you know not a whole lot more punishment for bradley. coming out here in r.t. it's our interview with famous whistleblower julian assange stay with us for that. gracefully. it is a way of life traditionally the people are. herders and. they are also highly skilled and organized. depending. on the day we found this particularly camp they were settled near the

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education many say they don't want to trade the modern life. i have returned to the tundra and i actually like it here if you're outside there's fresh air fresh water looks at the site you can see deer it's a joyful sight. sentiment that hopefully ensures that russia's northern reindeer will have caretakers for generations to come. to least be told language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. in trying. to find.