in hebron well inside the west bank live hundred and fifty thousand. palestinians and five hundred israeli settlers nowhere else is the hatred between palestinians and israelis more palpable than here the settlers have taken over central parts of hebron by palestinians are hindered from moving freely. checkpoints military installations concrete blocks and israeli soldiers are all knee press and. in hebron one finds the most extreme and aggressive israeli settlers there is no palestine everything is easy trail. arabs get out let. the settler children are protected by israeli soldiers and paris also new car of their young to talk to. the patriarch abraham is said to be buried in hebron the city is one of the holiest places in judaism in the. one must realize that hebron historically has always been a jewish city of king david founded his kingdom here in hebron you. want to fulfill our forefathers abraham isaac and jacob and their wives are old buried here in hebron peace so it has been in jewish place for thousands of years. was . the. no committee focus

they live in settlements scattered across the west bank and east jerusalem. most opposition is driven by fundamentalist religious views. israelis on the west bank are not ruling out that one day their home might be standing on sovereign palestinian territory. >> benny is a settler. he does not consider himself a fundamentalist, but he says a palestinian state would be a nightmare for him. >> no one would want to live in a palestinian state. >> he moved to the west bank and not for religious or ideological reasons, but because he can build a swimming pool there. it can cost 10 times as much. today, he regrets the move. >> the house isn't worth anything anymore. why? because the world will not allow israel to hang onto this land forever. >> those pulling the political strings are the fundamentalists. these days, they focus on one subject. the absolute sovereignty of the jews over the state of israel. >> the powers of evil threatened to declare a state and our government has to threatened to declare sovereignty over judea. >> he isn't the only one that spent wee

attempts to win a membership to the un general assembly with massive rallies all across the west bank looking at live pictures right here not see these are from ramallah just a day before president abbas presents the plan before the international body moscow has the bid saying. right to put their case forward the u.s. tries to hold that presentation claiming it will veto the move unless palestinians and israelis launch. has details on this for us from new york. the issue that remains at center stage for those attending the united nations general assembly is the issue of the palestinian campaign for a u.n. membership and statehood is something that the majority of the general assembly does support but it's something that the united states has been speaking out against that the u.s. has threatened to use its veto in the security council because no sides palestine or israel are ready to return to the negotiating table but foreign minister lavrov did say that it is within palestinians right to ask for u.n. membership and the united states should not get in the way of aspirations for any country because o

accept the palestinian bid for statehood and will for some of the struggles facing those living in the west bank. is monday september nineteenth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine friends out there watching our team well let's start off with a closer look at the economy this evening president obama earlier today laid out a plan that if passed would save the country more than three trillion dollars over the next decade this is on top of the one trillion dollars in spending cuts that the president already signed into law last month post debt ceiling debate now among the i. some const to medicare and medicaid changes to the entire tax code and letting the bush era tax cuts expire president obama today making the case once again that for the needed changes there needs to be a shared responsibility middle class families should pay higher taxes that millionaires and billionaires it is long that in the united states of america a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns fifty thousand dollars should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in fifty million dollars as expected whene

really mean the return of territory on the west bank and a new landlord for those who live there had we'll tell you how statehood is some people's livelihoods. you just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old don't tell the truth. to confess and i am a total get of i love rap and hip hop is a latin for. letters yesterday. i'm very aware of the world without you it's a place. to sleep. in seattle where there was a little work to bring just to sort of the world. i have a right to know what my government would you want to know what i. would characterize them as a terrorism. of american exceptionalism. the two. well the sixty sixth annual united nations general assembly is now underway and at this moment there is a scheduled meeting taking place between russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and secretary of state hillary clinton but you have already spoken over the phone and there expresses touch upon a few issues the arab spring the situation in libya but certainly at the center of their discussion and perhaps of the entire u.n. g.a. will be the palestinian bid to gain state

west bank. and arab east jerusalem. still today the palestinians live under military just really control. this is a film about forty stray list's who want an end to more than forty years of israeli occupation breaking the silence is a group of ex israeli soldiers who served during the second intifada in the occupied territories and today we work to try to expose the reality of occupation back home. we call a break in a size because you have to understand that what's going on in the occupied territories is like one of the biggest it was in israel. people just don't talk about it you don't come back home and see a money these are two houses we feel this that it just doesn't come over. that people back home people here in israel have no clue of what's going on there it's like there is there's a secret agreements between society and in the military. we know there's going on there but please don't bring about world you know we want to live our life without. without knowing what it takes to have a peaceful life. or here just to talk about what we did. because we feel this is the this is one of

could have acted as a trigger for a concern for not only egypt, but also for the people who lived on the west bank, who are seen as being brutally oppressed by the israeli government. >> taking you back to the scene when you were there this afternoon, we just going there as an interested bystander? >> i am involved, i was observing everything that was going on in cairo. i went there with a purpose. i wanted to observe and report and make sure that people understood what was happening there. it was not just blind faith, it wasn't the protesters to brought to violence to that meeting. they did tear down the wall, ultimately, it was the security forces who first brought violence to the situation. >> we are hearing that security services and there stood by for many hours while the protesters were attacking the israeli embassy. they did nothing to begin with. did you see much of that? >> that is correct. when i arrived, the gypsy army was on the scene. they were not doing -- and the egyptian army was on the same. they were not doing anything except monitoring the situation. there were starting to tear

lived around every settlement in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians who approach that on back red line will be shocked at michael's this is what has commissioned jesus so now there also has been intensive training sessions are security groups within the system and so they have been participating in girls on these people and is going safely in provided so i'm going to aids with water cannons as well as with tear gas canisters on saturday we saw the and largest protests in this country's history raise some two hundred thousand demonstrators took to the streets of ten cities here in tel aviv was one of the focal point a number of speakers a number of artists address the college a folk about making history they said really that this was a turning point in the history of this country what protesters have been demanding for the better part of two months is the social issue just as we did what they say is that the netanyahu government needs to be less focused on issues of security and focus on internal problems problems such as the high cost of living in this country and

people living in the west bank are rising up in a campaign for statehood ahead of the u.n. vote on palestine's fate at the end of september massive coordinated rallies are planned across the west bank the leaders of the demonstrations say they are determined to keep the peaceful even if israeli forces move in and try to stop the palestinians about to carry on until the achieve sovereignty and u.n. membership however washington says it will be to the bit if it's put to the un security council that's despite support expected for most other member states and such backing could provide crucial leverage for resolving the settlement issue with israel according to our. chief political commentator for the whole let's use paper . the fact that one hundred thirty or one hundred and forty members will raise their hands in favor of recognizing palestine as a sovereign state will mean a lot for for israel for you can patience for the settlements since even if the u.n. does not accept them as full member this one hundred thirty or one hundred forty countries will say the israeli occupied

thousand to nineteen ninety three now the number is six hundred thousand israeli jewish settlers live in the west bank and is too sudden it's a very first rating situation and i don't know how much the palestinian people can wait for the international community to intervene and put an end to this israeli aggression and occupation of the palestinian people right we have to leave it there i'm a climber i was sorry political science professor at gaza's ours our university thanks for your time. thank you. and of the friday vote many palestinians expressed their disappointment at president obama's commitment to veto the palestinian bid for statehood party's policy or attended a rally in tel aviv where israelis who backed the palestinian cause workout are. israeli intellectuals faces writers and several members of parliament have gathered here in tel aviv to express support for the palestinian bid for statehood it's very symbolic where we're standing because we're right opposite the building with that in one nine hundred forty eight the united nations granted israel independence and so what the speakers her

were direct talks with the israelis when israel's announcement that it will expand their lives in the west bank is giving the palestinians further down the neighbors want peace physical sciences daughter. in ramallah told r.t. israeli prime minister is the one stalling the process. mr netanyahu is nothing about the big liar he is he has nothing to offer he's just. can't provide empty words he is obsessed with a very fine i think kind of political ideology and he has really nothing to offer lately or in the end mr bass had reached that realisation after eighteen years of fruitless negotiation that these are a list particularly at this point under the under the leadership of netanyahu is unable to deliver anything and one evidence that supported this so this claim is yesterday's or actually today's. curation only part of the government building was supplements and there was a place so it's a government of settlers to deal with the question of peace because if the question of peace is to be correctly addressed then the question of settlements has to be also dealt with and apparently the current go

the line vanished when israel took control of the west bank in 1967, but it still controls people's lives. in theory, ashraf should stay on the old arab side of the line where he was born. >> it's so difficult. >> reporter: right now, you're illegal here? >> reporter: makes perfect sense. yet, the line, president obama and others have argued, should be the starting point for negotiations with mutually agree swaps of territory to define the new border. to drive in search of the line, though, is to find it's been blown away by the winds of history, shifted by the massive israeli-built security barrier, which the palestinians call a land grab, or buried under new roads linking israel's west bank settlements. this is for the israeli people. and the pence fens is between. >> reporter: it takes a geographer, like khalil toufakji to know where the line is now. >> reporter: here, it means a checkpoint designed to keep west bank arabs out of israel. yet, here it is a row of ignored overgrown barrels. essentially today it has no meaning at all. up in the north, where we started in barta'a, what peo

recognition for palestine from the un really need the return of territory on the west bank and a new landlord for those who live there ahead we'll tell you how statehood is affecting from people's livelihoods. if you just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i just tell the truth. i am an old ghetto and said i love rap and hip hop is a pretty good. he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the role without you split. it. into an american military. if you don't work out to bring justice or. i have a right to know what my government should like you want to know why i think taxes. well i would characterize obama as a charismatic. american exceptionalism. was sixty six then you all united nations general assembly is now underway and in just a few hours russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is scheduled to meet with secretary of state hillary clinton now the two have already spoken over the phone and are expected to touch upon the arab spring and the situation in libya but at the center of their discussion and perhaps the entire u.n.g.a. will be the palestinian bid to gain statehood recognition from

well i live here in the west bank things happen very fast had i come to you five minutes ago you would have seen masses of people gathering here on the street in the west bank settlement of it tomorrow but just a short time ago they started marching down the road they're made making their way to the palestinian city of nablus and we'll catch up with them in a short time but just to let you know that the mood here is very tense the the purpose of this march which is one of several that is happening right now in several israeli settlements across the west bank the goal is they say to show palestinians and the international community that this is the land of israel and that it doesn't matter they say what happens in the united nations in terms of the palestinian bid for statehood the settlers will not be going anywhere and we're talking here of roughly half a million people so the scene really is being set for some kind of violence and we're hearing reports coming from nablus which is the ultimate goal of this demonstration that palestinian police there are preparing for the eventuality o

have instead of two hundred thousand settlers we now have six hundred thousand settlers living in the occupied. west bank in occupied east jerusalem gaza is no longer just occupied it's now besieged and blockaded it's like a giant prison now since two thousand and seven so things have gotten dramatically worse for palestinians in the occupied territories for palestinian refugees the option of finding the right of return as a reality and not simply a piece of rhetoric is no closer but nothing in this move prevents any of that from happening it is a message to the rest of the world the us method is not working we need to do something different there's really rhetoric at least where it would probably better differ but i do have to ask. do you get the sense that. why why why now by now to the palestinians why not sit back as they have been and continue the negotiations along with. the arab spring all around the the region all around the neighborhood palestine's neighbors are rising up against fail democracy against dictatorship against monarchies that are out of touch with their population the palestinians a

later this month to live it claims it's trying to prevent bloodshed settlers in the west bank for self defense. is across developments there for us. in some quarters there is talk of a group into florida that some will say will be as bloody and as violent as the first two seculars of whom there is some four hundred thousand living in a land that has some two and a half million palestinians in the west bank are bracing themselves for violence as the israeli army and the israeli army and not for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation it calls operation some a c's and it's now in the final stages of putting the finishing touches in place to this end we're being told that they have the most hated a line around every settlement in the waistband and what this means is that palestinians who approach so that the on deck red line will be shot at by soldiers who have commissioned to do this so now there also has been intensive training in terms of security groups in the theorem and they have been participating in girls that are on these behind designing safety and pro

threatens to veto the bid on the grounds that israel hasn't approved the move us now across lives over five years in west bank as emotions there builds to a peak well paul what's the mood all where they are now and that we are so close to the statehood submission. well history in the making that's the case here in palestine as palestinians prepare for this historic but for statehood at the united nations tens of thousands of palestinians are expected later today here on the streets of ramallah and elsewhere across a whole waste bank there are huge stages that are being prepared with pay t.v. screens that will bore cost lives the speech of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas later today now this is a moment that's how this thing is has been preparing for yes when you talk to palestinians they say that this is the culmination of decades of struggle at the same time what we expect to happen tonight is that the palestinian president will give a speech at the united nations general assembly so too will be israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu abbas is going to go with his goods to the united nations securi

later this month to live it claims it's trying to prevent bloodshed arming settlers in the west bank for self-defense. across developments there. in some cultures there is a intercom order that they will be as bloody and as violent as the first two settlers of whom there is some three hundred thousand living in a land that has some two and a half million palestinians in the west bank all bracing themselves for violence as is the israeli army and the israeli police now for several months the israeli army has been preparing in an operation because operation some of the seeds and it's now in the final stages of putting the finishing touches in place to this end we're being told that they have the most hated he's resigned around if we remember in the west bank and what this means is that palestinians who approach further on that red line will be shot at by soldiers who has a mission to do this so now there also has been intensive training in terms of security groups with in these to commence they have been participating in the roles that the army's been undergoing its safety and provided

west bank but. we had such a big march for social justice for for against cost of living and i think it is that for israeli people to show that they are asking for justice period you know. for all the people living in this area. it's peace activists and social protest many that are speaking to us live from tel aviv. now the head of nato says the alliance is military intervention in libya will not end with the capture of colonel gadhafi on the front line rebel forces are waiting for the green light to crash one of the last remaining pockets of resistance by get out the supporters were able to go. towards the town of bani walid broken down but the country's interim government says there's still hope for a peaceful solution the national transitional council says two of the colonel sons who have been blocking the surrender of bani walid have now left the area and clear a number of. holed up in the town one hundred fifty kilometers from tripoli with a day early have been given until saturday to lay down arms more loyalists are making a stand in get out of his hometown of sirte and several other areas bu

gives its security forces permissions and fire in the west bank and have a palestinian march in support of a bid for statehood. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing russia says the un should immediately call on all sides in the syrian conflict to stop violence and start talking russia's foreign minister says president bashar lawsuit has already implemented reforms aimed at solving the conflict that's a view of iraq also admitted not all syrian opposition members wants to engage in talks with the government of caution against encouraging for testers to stay away from the go she ations last week the e.u. imposed an oil embargo against syria and warned of further steps if the five months president did stop but as i read a little school report sanctions seem more likely to affect the syrian people than the cordons. the deal is a master barber those small hughes shop was flourishing until it all ended the misnamed. new customers would come from this forest when the kilometers away from damascus with now the flow has come down along first came the unrest then the crackdown then the west's quickly stepped in with sanctions

the recognition of any feet palestinian state without the approval of israel mahmoud live audience member of the west bank says negotiations on towards a pile of one side has no interest in peace. have no the experience of the last nine years of their israelis are not serious in the go shooting with the palestinians they want to talk and build settlements they want to. carry on the. work. on the ground through mutual understanding between both sides between the israelis and between the palestinians but the united states is also an important element because the the aggrieved one. axis is blocking the peace process in the region and washington should stop its double standard policies it should also stop financing on all levels equipping is with the most of the people go up and the unions are really fed up they have been suffering for the last six vacates and more they want finally to achieve peace and that's why we are looking for palestinian statehood we are looking to establish a palestinian independence state alongside is the word of both peoples live in peace and harmony together. as a band of struggles