they fought for decades to be recognized as a nation state, and their leader, mahmoud abbas, has now applied for full membership of the united nations. >> translator: the support of the countries of the world for our endeavor is a victory for truth, freedom, justice, law, and international legitimacy, and it provides tremendous support for the peace option and enhances the chances of success of the negotiations. [ applause ] >> abbas handed the membership application to u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon on friday. ban will pass it to the chairman of the u.n. security council. the u.s. government says it will veto the application in the security council. >> peace cannot be imposed on the parties, it has to be negotiated. actions in the united nations will achieve neither statehood nor determination for the palestinians. >> israeli prime minister has criticized the palestinian move. >> the palestinians should first make peace with israel and then get their state. >> meanwhile, in palestine friday, tens of thousands of people in the west bank celebrated as abbas applied for full members

>> the state, there are defer nations of say state. they have to be in control of the areaeathey have to have a functioning government. they do not have that, particularly with hamas controlling one end of the palestinians. >> only one state can declare another state to be a -- >> yes, but the issue here is not who declares it. the united nations would confer a certain amount of legitimacy to the palestinian state as they would like it to be, and they feel that that is what they want to have without doing the negotiations with the israelis. >> what is the bottom line of this move? >> the bottom line of this move in my judgment, it will go nowhere and make it much more difficult for agreement to come out of it. because they're not just asking for a state, they're asking to end that resolution, to have several key issues about the state resolved in that thing. >> one more question, what is obama's position? >> well, i'm not quite sure what his position is because i think his position as evolved. >> the position is that he approves of wha

a nation state and it wasn't this wasn't pearl harbor although of course roosevelt at that time they say did know that was going to happen this is what an act of war was a criminal act led by someone who was from a family were very close to the bush family and i think many people now see it as blowback for years and decades and arguably centuries of american power and i suppose it signals the beginning of the end of american empire what was the u.s. so completely on able to prevent this from happening do you think. i think institutional structures even in a country as advanced as the sole superpower on earth were at fault for many people of the institutional and bureaucratic procedures didn't allow them to shoot down those planes before they hit the world trade center and so forth but perhaps a bigger malays here is that all systems seem to have failed the media the courts the police forces the intelligence agencies government it's as if this happens when empires start to fold these structures calcify. and arguably they were they can't stop asymmetric attacks anyway i mean it is it i

this is not a traditional nation state against nation state war.invisible enemy that doesn't call any nation state home. it's got something they train in but we're up against an asymmetric threat and that threat can rise up in afghanistan and pakistan and the philippines. we have to have a presence around the world that allows us to go after them and knock them down wherever they show themselves. >> are you more in the revenge business then? >> no, i'm in the keep america safe business. >> you said wherever they attack you, you go and take them out. >> no, that's not revenge. that's keeping america safe. it's time to bring people home. it is time to focus on our core in this country. we cannot do it with our eye taken off the ball. of course we're going to have security challenges with these subsidiaries that have formed all over the world. it is a counterterror effort. we have to rise to the occasion, we have to be prepared to wage that kind of war. it is a much different approach. it isn't heavy boots on the ground but it is more special forces a

becomes impose itself is a really how how much worth does the united nations pose how much power does it pose when the united states and the united kingdom my own country when they wanted to go to war in iraq when they felt that it couldn't be done through the united nations security council because of a veto from france and and other countries they just went it alone and they bypassed the united nations and the nations could do nothing whatsoever so it may be a talk shop and it may be a tool shop where certain small countries can feel their work for that particular five or ten minutes that their leader speaks but in reality in terms of influence and power they have none whatsoever when you think about that thomas when you the great powers have no use for the world body they just say well we'll go on our own leaders good and we can do it with impunity. well the question is why did the united states and the united kingdom go to the security council in the first place there would have been an additional legitimacy had the security council approved they're going to war they did not that is the way the charter was writ

nations. >> the state department issues an urgent warning to all

has become and bureaucratic system that we call a super national confederation of states between the legal point of view it has this tendency to turn into a federal state and says one of its sensual problems is not just an alliance of states anymore but a federation without legitimate basis it has new nation new european nation but nation's political relations within the union yet less democratic all the time in this situation we're losing what we call illegal state which is of the highest priority the euro two seem to be in big trouble what's going to happen to it. the euro will inevitably fail it was always clear that the euro project would not succeed already in one thousand nine hundred three i have processed the mass root lawsuit that was mostly against the introduction of the monetary union without the consent of the nations comprising the e.u. this euro is being used as a political lever to make the e.u.

shook up the primary calendar by announcing a move to january 31st leapfrogging the first in the nation stateslike iowa and new hampshire. we are in washington to explain what happens now. >> reporter: this really shook things up. florida knew the chaos it would cause and did it any way. now this changes everything. the republican national committee was hoping for iowa to kick off the primary season. here is what will likely happen instead. iowa will move to early january, new hampshire and nevada midmonth, south carolina later in the month and florida january 31st. here is why this matters. after the florida condition test it's about another four weeks until the next major primary in arizona and michigan and mitt romney is expected to do well in those. that makes florida especially critical for this guy, rick perry. if he doesn't do well in florida it's another four weeks before he has a good chance to pick up a win. don't forget there are three candidates who are said to still be seriously considering a run. chris christy, sarah palin and rudy giuliani. with the primary season kicking off af

economies and what legal it also says that next time the government will have to offer the nation first european state need cash injection meanwhile the italian senate approves the nascent fifty four million euro austerity package and even weeks of political bickering accompanied by strikes and protests. next the destiny of the year as the subject of heated debates will be to the bells cross talk. we'll. bring you the latest in science technology from. the future. and you can. see. the low welcome to cross non-crime peter lavelle is it time to write the obituary for the euro as the single currency reels from one crisis to the next europe's politicians appear to be powerless in the face of a monetary union that is proven to be dysfunctional what started out as a monetary crisis is now turned into a fiscal and political meltdown. came. across not the fate of the euro i'm joined by rodney shakespeare in london he's one of the founders of the global justice movement also in london we have daniel ben ami he is a journalist and author and in princeton we cross to andrew moravcsik he's professor of politics

nation states have to understand and will need to share certain dimensions of sovereignty to a central european entity. >> this scenario would not be painful for national parliaments, as their voters would not be affected. a different story for governments in office. >> a strong vested interest and strong feelings that this is part of the national history. the only way to make it work in the future is to have more power at the center. that is the only way by which monetary union can survive in the long term. >> weather the storm clouds over europe clear is ultimately in the hands of national governments. they must decide whether to vote for a national or european solution. >> that has been our look at wednesday's key ruling by germany's constitutional court, and its implications for the financial challenges facing the eurozone.

work is protected and that there is no attempt to slow down his work because he's sensitive when nation states with the united states in in rumania their work hasn't really started there was one investigation by a political group from the senate but the prosecutor has not started an investigation and i really hope that the office will now take the initiative and start and are rushing the situation and come up with a report now you're saying it's important that the investigation is not block it earlier you were expressing your concerns that there could be directives from higher up to to not give enough information how do you go about going about that hurdle knowing you're dealing with governments here is very difficult because of this notion that activities by the security agencies and their cooperation between themselves should be kept secret at all cost i think that is really the notion that we. we have now to start discussing because so many human rights violations have been committed under that notion and the time has come to establish a democratic control of the security agencies they shou

next year we're going to have agreement that will lead to a new member of the united nations an independent sovereign state of palestine living in peace with israel but one year later a different american position the palestinian move at the united nations is not going to create a state not in reality. not even in fact in effect in theory because the fundamental issues that divide the parties will remain to be resolved as palestinian leaders push to become a full member state at the united nations pro israel groups have been pushing to influence leaders in washington by congressman tim scott i would. and i have the greatest spiritual and political revival i've had more very long time thank you men's filed with the house ethics committee show that scott and his nephew took a twenty one thousand dollar trip to israel in august that wasn't alone in total eighty one congressman one pic of the entire house of representatives made a trip courtesy of the american israel education foundation a charitable arm of the american israel public affairs committee a powerful lobby a powerful opportunity for the israeli gov

parameters to define things like what do we mean when we say '67 borders and land swaps and what's a nation state for israel and palestinian which it doesn't do because we couldn't bridge all those different positions. however, we came very close to doing that and i think it's going to be far easier for us now once we get to the position of the two parties silting -- sitting down together, to help them bridge those gaps and realize that actually, in many ways, the basic elements of what we're trying to do here are pretty much clear and agreed. >> there's been a lot of criticism of the palestinians from the american side for bringing this to the united nations. but it has, at least, hasn't it, focused international opinion and attention on this issue? we have a quartet statement, for example. >> absolutely. i've said all the way through that one of the things the palestinians have done this week is focus everybody on the issue, which is important. and by the way, the position certainly from the quartettas, as stated, the palestinians have a right to come to the united nations and submit their appl

decided to phase out its nuclear powered business the collapse of the tie up could put on hold as a nation state stand its international reach. tehran have agreed to join to develop the world's largest untouched zinc lead to pulls it in central iran it will be run by russia's rostik and the loggy and the biggest private bank of iran b s i analysts estimates the project to be was up to one point two billion dollars however its implementation could be hampered as you bring in bank is subject to un sanctions. that sort of business news for you this hour for more stories you can always have to our website that's all t dot com slash business. in the faraway land where human life is ruled by nature. of planet earth is carefully preserved by the per. inch anonymous lie hidden in the deep permafrost. and for those who deal with them through stored times are still. wealthy british style scientists and. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two kinds a report. it's up to us down her

this a pathetic attack on the poor just to make extra money for the state and extra money for governor scott himself and the united nations knows how to get us all out of this global economic recession so why are europe of the united states not listening more on this since night still to. it looks like republicans in florida are suffering from a case of selective amnesia when it comes to the constitution that's right the party the touts its constitutional knowledge has no problem shredding up our nation's founding document when it comes to screwing over poor people last may governor of florida and health insurance fraudster rick scott signed a new law that requires welfare recipients in his state to undergo mandatory drug testing to continue receiving benefits not only that people have to pay thirty five bucks for their own drug tests and just so happens that a few years ago governor scott co-founded an urgent care medical center chain in florida that in a stores drug tests and will probably make big bucks thanks to this new law that he has championed and now if you sell us something to say about it they filed a lawsuit a

thank you very much. [ applause ] >> the president of the united states addressing the united nationsmbly, addressing a whole range of international issues, but the biggest single part of the speech involving the israeli-palestinian conflict, once again, saying the united states supports the creation of a palestinian state, a palestinian state living alongside israel, but that state should come about through negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians, not the president says through any shortcut that would end this conflict by a united nations resolution or some sort of statement. there's a lot to assess from what we just heard from the president, he's getting ready to have separate meetings with benjamin netanyahu. we'll watch the president begin to leave, we'll take a quick break, we'll assess an outstanding panel of experts who are all here in the cnn newsroom. the former assistant secretary of state, our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin and our senior political analyst david gergen. they're standing by, we'll be right back. and thought and said: free 'caus

in japan the at that time it was the private sector was over leveraged but there were all these nation states with credit ratings were in doubt and also you don't have a bull market in precious metals as you do today so people have other places to hide their money and they they don't necessarily put into sovereign countries so they're so are you saying the u.s. is worse than japan during the last decade and the ninety's oh yeah it's worse and it's not just the united states it's a global phenomenon now because you've had every time every time we had a recession economists and central bankers and everyone else met the depression or the recession by easing interest rates by doing counter-cyclical policies and now interest rates are already so low what else can be exactly so so low of us to talk about the liquidity trap point is each time they had a recession they eased money they eased money and it caused a build up of that and now we're at a point where the fed is has shot all its bullets the only think it left it was just monetize the money all right and eventually they will do that but in or

mountain which is always expecting a very difficult diplomatic development with the un the whole nation state so now israel has less one friend in the region in a very important and muslim country in nato member an e.u. applicant very important regional player that is now in last four years that for quite some time ukraine is grumbling over its gas bill again with a rout over the agreed price with russia threatening to end up in court kiev is having trouble paying but won't merge its nationalized energy firm with russia's gas problem to bring costs down the kremlin insists the contract cannot be revised unilaterally and will stand its ground or the reports. very harsh words are coming from both sides and right now the ukraine president viktor yanukovych is saying that his country is being humiliated in the course of negotiations over the gas price and also says that the ukraine might take this whole negotiation process into international court in stockholm to try to have the two thousand and nine gas deals revised moskos position is that it is ready to accept any legal action because it is co

when you do look at the countries that still have the death penalty the united states is one of the few developed nations that still has this as a form of punishment talk to me about that sort of international perspective about this well you're right the death penalty is is increasingly isolated i mean for the united states is increasingly isolated in its use of the death penalty. and the fact that it's southern states like georgia and texas that are leading in executions while the rest of the country is actually adults just as the statistics show is actually turning against the definitely so even in the united states there's there's the real question of which way we're going to follow the texas model or whether we're going to follow states like maryland who is a moratorium or new jersey and new york who have abolished the death penalty which way forward and clearly you know we have a strong feeling that we should abolish the death penalty it doesn't deter crime it kills innocent people it's cruel and unusual punishment it's a biased and racist in its application there are no rich people in the death pen

states of america. the palestinians should abandon this effort at the united nations. our allies should stand with the state of israel and real peace negotiations. that means the palestinians have return to the bargaining table. i thank you, mr. speaker and i thank you, mr. deutch. mr. deutch: equally important is what the administration has been doing leading up to that speech today in a way that the u.n. ambassador has continued to press our allies in a way that this administration has been clear throughout that if this movement goes forward, if the palestinians correspondent to go to the security council, that the united states will veto that resolution because it is not a way to achieve peace. i appreciate your sharing those thoughts with us. it is a great privilege for me now to turn over the floor and yield as much time as my friend will consume and perhaps we could have a bit of an exchange to one of the greatest defenders of the state of israel, one of the most outspoken members of this body when it comes to standing up for the safety and security for the state

nations. israel and united states oppose this move. the palestinians say that 20 years of negotiations have failed and they have no choice. >> the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has made the move that president obama failed to talk him out of, handing the secretary general his formal application for membership. the united states says they will veto the move. the palestinians were ecstatic watching the pictures from new york. for them, stayed ahead and and and to israeli occupation is long overdue and they believe that today's move will force change. in front of the u.n. general assembly, in front of the world government, the palestinian leader made his case. >> this is a moment of truth, our people are waiting to hear the answer. will it allow israel to continue their last occupation in the world? we are the last people to remain under occupation in the world. will they allow israel to be a state above the law and accountability? >> mahmoud abbas insists that the application offers a way out of years of bloodshed. israel sees it as a

old to do to go on to work through this process as the democratic process and each individual nation state deals with this because as we speak right now the german constitutional court is dealing with this issue. well at the european level the european union system has a reputation for being extremely bureaucratic and there all those gnomes in brussels who muck up the works but in fact it's extremely sleek. over the past year and a half it's been extraordinarily innovative creating new funds and creating new procedures and so on one reason is because the monetary system as opposed to other parts of the european union is in fact largely in the hands of the heads of state and government and the central bank which is a small group of people who can make decisions and they've actually been able to move quite quickly in the face of crisis so i'm not worried that they cannot do things technocratic lee i'm worried as my other colleagues are that they won't be able to do things politically so it's true that if the german constitutional court or the german blueness tog were to block something it wo

our nation, united states of america, deserves nothing less. i yield back. >> thank you mr. ruppesberger. he's been a great partner and supporter of this. it's how it's supposed to be. vice chair of the intelligence committee in the senate. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and it's good to be back on this side of the capitol as a member of the last joint endeavor. very pleased to be here today with my good friend and chairman senator feinstein and show the cooperative spirit and attitude that we have. congressman ruppesberger is right. we are working closely together to make sure we do the parallel oversight that needs to be done within the intelligence community. i, too, want to thank our witnesses for being here today, both of whom i have known for a very, very long time at a different capacity when they both worn the uniform of the united states of america, and both true heros of our country and director petraeus, particularly to you since this is your first hearing as a civilian to receive before this committee or this joint committee, we welcome you today, welcome

a director both the national state. i will never describe what happened in utah as a merkel.hat is something unexplained. we surpassed the budget. we tripled our rainy day fund. we created certainty in environment for growth. we must do the same things. thank you. my only job is the only one endorsed by the wall street journal and described by one conservative economists as the pro-growth proposal offered by a presidential candidates. the centerpiece is bold tax reform. our tax code has evolved. rather than tinker around, let's clean house. let's get rid of the loopholes. let's get rid of the deductions inherited the corporate welfare. let's use that to lower the rate across the board for businesses and individuals. we will create a tax code that simpler.r, simple i am telling you what does work based upon my own experience as governor. thank you. let's also get the regulatory monkey off the back of our job traders starting with the repeal of obamacare. let's free ourselves from opec's grasped by ending our addiction to foreign oil. let's expand free-trade for american produc

aggressively to this event there is the awareness that people here feeling extremely angry at these nation states a very tense situation a bit. further our correspondent in athens there let's go straight back to athens talk to george come true colors he's a lawyer and constitutional law professor in the city mr riggs ever so much agree on arts international and we've heard today the greek prime minister will promise to saying talking about your country's superhuman efforts to the do made but it sounds all very well and good but will he succeed at the end of the day in convincing the german chancellor that the vital for the should be released to think . well i am afraid. of measures just imposing to the people sacrifices without any point without any hope of success we are now at the second tier of these are scary for measures that there is people getting refused. rocket. is practically double want to. we have started this austerity measures at the same time. and at the same time we have a lot of burden to the poorest to the weakest parts of the population so i don't think that this kind of policy

nation after today the united states of america is a holy has force and imposes her will just as you see that she's able to impose her will on many bigger more powerful governments and nations but this in the long run will not benefit the united states of america today the relationships between the various nations of the world are not the termin by the force of missiles or weapon systems are determined by the people of those nations today we can hold a referendum in turkey and determine their opinion the hardest opinion of the turkish people against germany of the united states and at the end of the day it will of the people will prevail in syria in fact mr bashar al assad mr already gone very good relationships and they were good friends. it's interesting mr president they say they are. usually the same because us president barack obama when he spoke to the international community his criticism of iran was pretty much the same as it was the year before and pretty much similar to the criticism. george w. bush made against iran which continues to be seen so if you're on the united stat