he also accused israel of doing all it can to undermine the palestinian authority. >> hopes in the palestinian authorities were higher last year when abbas launched his bid for recognition of a palestinian state at the united nations. once it was obvious the attempt was doomed to failure, a sense of resignation took hold of the local people. we take a closer look now at life in the palestinian territories. >> bustling as always, but people here are losing hope. a minor economic upturn came and went, and the palestinian authorities -- authority's coffers are empty. >> there will be more protests soon. the situation has become intolerable. the palestinian government should do something for us. palestinians are weary and have no real opportunities. and the territories depend on international aid. their own economy is stifled by israeli sanctions, and there is little chance of growth. the lack of political progress frustrates palestinians. hopes were dashed last september when the united nations refused to give them full statehood. >> we are trying to bring hope that, trying to tell our people tha

since it does recognize the needs of the palestinian people through. and also through their membership in the school it's time for them to now recognize palestine as a state that it seems to be so all but the main opponents of this are israel and the united states for what reason i can only speculate if the land grabs that israel's answer to all of this if it can grab enough land then the problem defacto doesn't exist anymore well israel has been grabbing land from the palestinians ever since nine hundred forty eight and if one looks at the sad map of palestine you'll see from the. green line nine hundred forty eight borders now what is the enclave of which has very little contact with the west bank of them anyway and then you see the west bank and then you see the areas. and then you see the huge number of settlements all over and it continued land grab a new kind of question the viability of a state with some which occupation going on anyway i would think that. by gaining recognition of palestine as a state then becomes very obvious to any sense in i

since it does recognize the needs of the palestinian people through under. and and also through the membership of unesco it's time for them to now recognize palestine as a state and it seems to me bizarre that the main opponents of this are israel and the united states for what reason i can only speculate if the land grabs then israel's answer to all of this if it can grab enough land then the problem defacto doesn't exist anymore well israel has been grabbing land from the palestinians ever since nine hundred forty eight when you kind of question the viability of a state with some much occupation going on anyway i would think that by gaining recognition of palestine as a state then becomes very obvious to any sense in international law israel's continued colonise ation occupation is illegal particularly the current flashpoint is jerusalem with the development of two particular so immense in jerusalem but also the prevention of many palestinians returning to truce them when they go to the west bank and the expulsion of palestinians from their homes to make w

payers although the cost of living riots in the west bank the palestinian leaders desperate for calm what an anxious israel watches was signs of another uprising against the occupation. russia stands up for its energy giant gazprom saying the e.u. is trying to impose gas prices down moscow has passed the degree saying that anyone who has a problem with the company also have a problem with the government. the un warns against taking sides and soon come saying the rebels of the regime must share the blame for the bloodshed as western powers are again accused of turning a blind eye to rebel cities. and teachers will walk out of their classrooms in america in the beginning of the early school year and it's just like over pay and conditions that there's more american parents up to teach their children at home. it's six pm here in moscow you live with us on our do you thanks for joining us after the protests the political panic a flurry of meetings have been held among palestinian leaders jolted into action by a massive demonstrations which turned violent thousands who are furious at the r

membership for the palestinian authority but unlike at the u.n. the u.s. doesn't have a veto in the general assembly could it still do something to de rail this attachment well those two parts to that i think what the hope. is that the palestinian diplomatic initiative of the past couple of years has borne enormous fruit pretty well every country in latin america now recognizes palestine most african countries will take many salvation in southeast asian countries also recognize palestine this could be an overwhelming vote in the general assembly that doesn't grant money. to the. security forces will make it clear it will use its power of veto the security council and the british government's position is still i believe they're going to abstain on the a c. how you abstain for or against palestine i don't know but that's the position they're taking so i think what we'll get from this is a vote by the general assembly and from that some kind of in hearts to observe a status of the moment the palestinians do enjoy a degree of observer status within also u.n. o

so that it can continue the brutal oppression the killing the incarceration the torture of palestinians so that it can continue holding thousands of palestinian political prisoners so that it can destroy towns and villages so that it can keep people in gaza in this in this awful concentration camp and all the time all the while people talk about iran iran i think it's a bluff i think the whole iran thing is a bluff and a myth but. generally the israeli the state of israel knows how to use this very skillfully to its advantage so on the one hand nobody can talk about the palestinian issue because there's this great threat from iran on the other hand if israel doesn't get what it wants then you better watch out because we're going to attack if we don't get what we want and so attacking would actually mean they'd have to give up this wonderful political card and i don't think they would want to do this this is this is a very successful strategy that's allowed israel to accomplish quite a lot ok given giving if i go back to you how does netanyahu back down ok obama has said no use the ameri

chaos over the cost of living riots in the west bank leave palestinian leaders desperate for car while an anxious israel watches for signs of another uprising against their occupation. russia stands up for its energy giant gazprom saying the e.u. is trying to force the gas prices down moscow's past a decrease in that anyone who's got a problem with the company will also have a problem with the government. the u.n. warns against taking sides in the syrian conflict saying the rebels of the regime a share the blame for the bloodshed because western powers are again accused of turning a blind eye to rebel atrocities. and teachers walk out of american classrooms early in the school year as staff strike over pay and conditions that says more american parents ought to teach their children oh. if you're just joining us this is r.t. international with me kevin now in our top story now after the protests now the political panic a flurry of meetings have been held behind palestinian leaders jolted into action by massive demonstrations which turned violent thousands who are furious at the rising p

chaos over costs of living a rise in the west bank leave palestinian leaders desperate for calm while an anxious israel watches for signs of another uprising against the occupation. russia's stand off boys energy giant gazprom say the e.u. is trying to pull the gas prices down as possibly greece saying that anyone who has a problem with the company will also have a problem with the government. the un warns against taking sides in the syrian conflict save the rebels on the regime must share the blame for the bloodshed as western powers i gave accused of turning a blind eye to the rebel atrocities. and to just walk out of american classrooms early in the school year and stop strike over pay and conditions that says more american parents are teaching their children at home. thanks for joining us here on our t.v. we're live from moscow with me to say first after the protest the political panic a flurry of meetings have been held among palestinian leaders jolted into action by massive demonstrations which turned violent thousands who were furious at the rising prices of basic goods skimmer

ok so the cost of living riots in the west bank leave palestinian leaders desperate for calm while an anxious israel watches for signs of another uprising against that occupation. brings in for decades of stagnation says a top union leader blaming a botched a sturdy program for bulging more people into poverty. russia stands up for its energy giant gazprom saying be used trying to force gas prices down moscow's no passive decrease saying that anyone who's got a problem companies will also have a book. on the un was against taking sides in the syrian conflict saying the rebels and the regime a share the blame for the bloodshed as western powers are again accused of turning a blind eye to rebel atrocities. even if you just joined us has just turned eleven pm choose a night here now in moscow money is kevin and this is what our top story after the protests now comes the political panic in a flurry of meetings have been held among palestinian leaders jolted into work but massive demonstrations of the turn violent thousands who are furious at the rising prices of basic goods skirmished wit

the palestinian ministration seen its biggest public protests in his history demonstrate just smashed windows and clashed with police rally against rising living costs in the west bank for expert analysis of the story let's cross now to political analysis. in jerusalem thanks for being with us tonight protesters accuse the authorities say that the tide because they don't have the cash off the u.s. now countries failed to deliver probably state money knows the government there full the people the protests and should be so angry with. well people are angry because of course of the economy crisis and the better center tree the whole world has suffered of the economic crisis over the past couple of years but in the better syrian territories it had this crisis has been aggravating month after month year after year and in fact even the best businessmen on earth cannot go into prosperity as far as their business is concerned when the environment on the atmosphere does not allow for this investment to work and if we look at the best you know authority basically yes that is and get against pre

what he said with regard to the palestinian issue, the israeli/palestinian issue is not nearly as big a gaffe as the 47% which seems to reveal something new and startling. what he is saying here is pretty standard hard line republican talking points. what's strange, though, is that mitt romney the candidate has said something quite different. he's endorsed the two state solution and the republican platform endorses the two state solution. so he's now going to have to explain what does he think of the republican platform, what does he think of his own prior statements. >> he's also saying palestinians don't want peace, he's not making much of a difference between different groups of palestinians. he's painting with a pretty broad brush. what do you make of these comments? >> he said the palestinians who and he talked about violence. i don't know that that covers all palestinians, certainly that does cover hamas and that's one of the biggest problems we have, not having peace. bill clinton couldn't do it, george bush couldn't do it, barack obama couldn't do it. >> he says i look at the

ok also over the cost of living riots in the west bank palestinian leaders desperate for calm while an anxious israel watches for signs of another uprising against their occupation. russia stands up for its energy giant gazprom saying the e.u. is trying to force gas prices down moscow's pass a decree saying that anyone who's got a problem with a company would also have a problem with the government. the u.n. wants against taking sides in the syrian conflict saying the rebels and the regime a share the blame for the bloodshed that western powers are again accused of turning a blind eye to rebel of transfer to. britain for decades of stagnation says a top union leader blaming a botched austerity program for plunging more and more people into poverty. ten pm tuesday evening here in moscow this is r.t. coming to live with me kevin no in our top story after the protest now the political panic a flurry of meetings have been held among palestinian leaders today jolted into action by massive demonstrations that turned violent thousands to a furious at the rising prices of basic goods skirmishe

the thing is jerusalem is isolated from other palestinian territories palestinians from the west bank and gaza strip are not allowed to enter the city the only people who can get into a palestinians to live in the areas occupied in one hundred forty eight they can do that because they live there so it's only the people who live in jerusalem in the areas that i mentioned who can come to iraq. these are the people who protect it who coordinate action to preserve it but if these people stop going to iraq there will be no one left to protect it we are grateful to them for what they do in there to the us what do you think about israeli claims that the wall and checkpoints are there for security reasons. israel's claims that the wall was built for security reasons have nothing to do with reality this is not true because they do not observe the nine hundred sixty seven borders they have occupied a lot of palestinian territory in addition to those that were seized in one nine hundred forty eight secondly making all people feel like prisoners is not the way to solve security issues the way to

followed by palestinian -- palestinian president. on tomorrow's washington journal, maria bartiromo joins us. and we will talk to dr. marty makary about errors in u.s. hospitals. also in discussion with william wiatrowski. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 eastern. >> the first thing in our article is getting medicare costs under control. that is the number one priority and is the most untouchable thing. that will cause more trouble than any other problem we have fiscally in the united states. getting medicare costs under control is the number one thing. >> you say we also surcharge smokers and the obese for their coverage. >> i am the person who put that in the memo, but i did not have to fight very hard for it. this is something i ran in the washington post. instead of calling people obis, i refer to them as mega fatties. i was referred to as being insensitive, which i guess i probably am. this is another thing where everybody knows it to be true, and somebody has to pay for it. i did not say you have to bankrupt people,

fresno palestinian against the christians living today. nothing to do with boundaries with slander occupation but the very acceptance. >> spending 20 years on the issue with the zionists with no right to exist so this intolerance any community of people they call infidels. >> i have three questions if you can hear me. [laughter] what about iran are pakistan sells there know how to terrorists so it is not the state of iran who is attacking the terrorists? but the fourth state is orthodox. aren't atomic bombs altogether anachronistic of the next war will be cyberattack? thank you. >> i will answer only two of them with your permission. you are right to. nobody can guarantee of that technology will be used. of the big issue of the chemical weapons and syria. nobody can guarantee of the chemical weapon of technology will not go to lebanon it is a issue of concern for all of us. i read a lot about it in "time" magazine could israeli people have a strong democracy. we go to elections together and i sit in the parliament in the knesset we do not

he personifies the palestinian struggle for nationhood. for decades, he was the face of the palestinian cause, not only here but also on the international stage. but eight years after his death, little has been achieved and the prospect of a palestinian state is such a distant dream. in fact, many would argue the palestinian cause has actually lost ground. they believe the oslo accord signed by arafat nearly 20 years ago has brought them any closer to a two-stage solution. >> i think everyone is convinced the oslo accord is dead and can only be through international pressure. if it was at the palestinians and israelis, they would not achieve anything. >> there is no hope for oslo. it has been dead for a long time now, since 1993 we have talked about oslo but israel has destroyed oslo cents the year 2000 and destroyed the whole peace process. >> the chief of stuff -- of staff from up until two years ago believes it is time to -- the oslo accord. >> in the revolution in 1968 -- this was the slogan, one state democratic secular for everybody.

since it does recognize the needs of palestinian people through.and also through their membership in the school it's time for them to now recognize palestine has a state it seems to only be the main opponents of this are israel and the united states for what reason i can only speculate if the land grabs that israel's answer to all of this if it can grab enough land then the problem defacto doesn't exist anymore well israel has been grabbing land from the palestinians ever since nine hundred forty eight if one looks at the.

it could be a palestinian. it could be an israeli. >> after much long, hard thinking, ahmed's father reaches his decision. >> i agree to donate all of his organs, even the heart. >> it turns out that the recipient of ahmed's heart is an israeli girl the same age as him. >> when someone you care for is taken, if you just try to get retribution, you will be caught in a chain of hatred. there are other ways of fighting besides weapons. >> minora kamata researched his books by visiting the places where those events happened. nhk world has more. >> reporter: he's had his book translated into both arabic and hebrew. his hope is that it can spread ahmed's father's message, calling for an end to the cycle of hatred. first, he went to see ahmed's father to give him a copy of the book. this was the first time he had read the book about his son. >> i wrote the book because i felt ahmed's death ought to be a step towards peace. >> translator: i hope this book will do something to change our situation here. >> reporter: kam

on tuesday revived an issue that used to be front and center, israeli-palestinian peace.me minister netanyahu has been focusing on iran while talks with the palestinians stalled. this week, israel's minister of defense and former prime minister, the widely respected ehud barack refocused attention on the israel/palestine issue. he urged that israel withdraw settlements from the west bank, the home of 2.5 million palestinians. in the ideal order, he said, "it is better to reach an agreement with the palestinians, but if that does not happen, we must take practicaa separation." question,a renewed push for a peace agreement between israel and the palestinians in the cards? yes or no mort? >> i don't think there will be an agreement but i think what ehud barack is doing makes sense. it's what sharon did when he pulled them out of gaza and what the israelis originally did when they formed the state leaving the west bank for 2.5 million palestinians. so i do think there is going to have to be something. i think this is one approach because the palestinians are not prepared to n

>>> can israelis and palestinians lived in peace. it is possible. an increase healthy eating and pressure kids to do so. a preview of the south asian film festival. >>> welcome to the show. our first guest is uncalled a controversial issue in america. his beliefs about achieving real peace in the middle east include his objections to israel's occupation of the west bank. and he is a rabbi. rabbi michael lerner. i admit that i'm not part of it necessarily that i'm a little bit and aware of a lot of things going on in the middle east and it's easy to lose track. if you have to tell someone who is in a coma for the last 25 years or clinic become a two year-old. what is the problem there. at the cannot resolve things. >>> we have to side struggling with each other. both sides are connected to a particular historical narrative to says we have the wreck is victims and the other guy is evil other. and we want to make peace in the middle east the first thing to do is change that narrative to both sides can hear the other side story and recognizable and open

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

now the jewish state continues to expand settlements in the palestinian territories further deepening the impasse between the two communities and in a rather unexpected twist iran's condemnation of israel is actually playing into the hands of those who support the occupation of palestinian land. ports. was the call to prayer religious jews walk past a mosque in judaism's second holiest city the scene speaks volumes about the gap between two peoples living cheek by jowl forty five years ago the part of hebron the largest city in the west bank was returned to jewish control since then around six hundred jewish families have lived in the small enclave outnumbered vastly by palestinians they vow they will never be driven out despite the fact that jewish settlement in hebron is widely considered illegal under international law and so they justify their presence in part by looking for an enemy the fact that. there is a distinct target to get the jews out of have wrong is not a and and in and of itself it's a means to an end that being that they don't want to use in her own they don't want t

enemy with benefits iran is being used as an excuse for israeli settlers to occupy a palestinian who. is easy to. download the official location so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time any. all right it's a quarter past the hour here in moscow to the few minutes on the world updater for now though the european central bank has finally brought out the big guns it's announced it will be buying bonds from struggling eurozone nations to lower their boring costs however the bank's president stressed the government still need to keep performing and cutting deficits now this is not sitting well with the region's population with new cutbacks planned athens even saw judges and police walking out in protest a protester set up gallows to symbolize how their creditors are strangling the nation one policeman a coast guard official and a firefighter they all stood with their heads in a noose i mean time in madrid one hundred gathered outside the e.u. headquarters to protest wha

top the palestinian -- to be the palestinian state and go back to the 1967 lines. and in my book, i prevent a new paradigm. enough of the two-state solution. it doesn't work. we have tried it for the last 20 years. we haven't received any peace. we tried it with engagement from gaza, it didn't help us as well. and i think that in the long run there should be a three-state solution, not two-state solution. and when i speak about three-state solution, i speak about jordan, egypt and israel. i do not believe there should be a palestinian state in the land of sumeria because look what's happening today in gaza. what is becoming wing of iran. a wing of islamic radical forces. and you ask yourself, do you want to see the same happening in jerusalem? i do not. and in my book i have a lot of criticism regarding the current administration, but there are some good decisions. and the decision to eliminate osama bin laden, i think it was leadership in action when president obama decided to kill osama bin laden. and he did the right thing ordering the troops to do it. but 24 ho

treats palestinian children palestinian minors they talk about the opera treat of violence by soldiers when it comes to children and at the same time they say that very often the idea of deliberately targets children using them as human shields during its operations but these reports also going to say that even when children are not deliberately targeted they are not afforded any kind of protection when there is a shootout or any kind of military operation as you can witness from the testimonies that we've published and from my own experiences as a soldier i have to say that the main point here is that there is there is no real distinction when it comes to treatment between adults and children for example we were doing constant arrest appropriations throughout the west bank arresting i don't know how many people you know on a nightly basis in many of the people that we were arresting were either children or teenagers did the most occasions we didn't even know why they were being arrested in one of the radio parisian streets we had to basically invaded the palestinian town south of the