in the distance there, you can see the tomb of the former leader yasser arafat. reason this crowd is gathering is because today marks 50 years from the palestinian liberation movement. these torches have a lot of symbolism, it scenes that the palestinian resistance the flame of the palestinian resistance still burns. this is the beginning of that resistance movement, but casting a shadow over that is this failure at the united nations security council. i think the palestinian leadership believed that they would get those nine votes crucial to pass that resolution even though they always believed the u.s. would veto it. but they wanted that symbolic win, and that is something they did not get on this day. >> how much pressure is there on the president to actually accelerate efforts in the international arena to go beyond discussion and threats, and sign crucial documents and apply for membership to the international criminal court for example? >> indeed. in fact there's an awful lot of pressure on the palestinian president to do just that. in fact mr. abbas will b

demands of keeping them out, resist, have peaceful demonstrations that force israel to deal with yasser arafat before. let's have a peaceful civil disobedience where we force israel and the international community to deal for a real solution to the middle east problems. >> good to get your reaction. thank you. the 13-year combat mission of nato in afghanistan is officially ending at midnight on news year eve. a group of french soldiers handing responsibility to a turkish unit. the turks will remain in place to support afghan forces. fighting continues across the country. >> reporter: in 2007, nato had been in the joint for six years. nato troops walk a delicate line in a country suspicious of strangers. >> to show the locals that we're not here to hurt them or harm them. >> another part of the nato mission was to get rid of the poppy crops. the opium business employed more afghans than security forces. training the police became a focus for nato in 2010. while there are 375 forces there is a struggle. >> nearly 3500 nato forces have been killed. nato forces have been keeping track since 2005.

yasser arafat agreed to negotiate with israel because he lost his backing. look what's happening now. this cuba deal -- it didn't just come together for nothing. it is because cuba lost their venezuelan oil backer. i think we are just at the beginning of some really interesting and funky geopolitics. if this oil price stays down where it is, you are going to see stuff that you never dreamed of. there are a lot of leaders like the supreme leader in syria or putin. at $110 a barrel, they are sitting so pretty. they are geniuses. at $40 and $50 a barrel, they are going to be somewhere else. >> you want to see oil prices continue to decline even though it may thwart the development of alternative energies? >> i want to see oil prices decline and the energy taxes rise. >> i want to talk about the senate report because people raised the question of america's values and reputation and relevance. >> i came down -- when obama outlawed torture in 2009, i supported that. i thought i was very influenced by reading john mccain's speech in the senate. nobody knows more ab

barak tried to achieve and what ehud olmert tried to achieve -- they try to make the first with yasser arafat and the second with abu mazen. >> i am not going to go to it, but i am not going to give up trying again. and moreover, part of it has to do with psychology. we are not dealing with psychology at all. the fact that there is no discussion, no trust is adverse to their ability to reach an agreement. yesterday, i had a meeting with the leader of the sinn fein, and may i remind you, he was an outcast. he came to palestine and we had breakfast and i said, jerry, tell me what was the moment of truth when you guys moved, and he told me it was when they came to realize they would not achieve it in any other way. both sides. and also, there was a unique configuration of leaders, and one of them is bill clinton, who knew how to work on the psychology of the leaders and the people. this is part of it. and nobody is dealing with it. i spoke to all the mazen. i said, people say that even if i negotiate with you, you will never make peace with us, and he laughed and said, i am sure we can reach an

yasser arafat decided to negotiate with israel.y is this will have huge geopolitical implications for countries and peoples dependent on oil. what have we seen already this week? cuba. that thing was long in the works. you can bet the fact that cuba gets a hundred thousand barrels of oil a day from venezuela. venezuela was signaling we can't afford this much longer. had to have factored into raul castro's decision. i think we're just at the beginning of what i think is going to be a -- if prices stay here where we see oil prices have, i think we're at the beginning of a huge shift in the tectonic geopolitical plates of the world. i think the next place to look for is iran and how they react to this. >> i mean, last time it was good things for the united states. >> yeah. >> it led to all good paths. does it do the same thing this time around? or is there instability? >> joe mentioned something i'm a big believer in. we live in a time where the world has never been more interconnected and interdependent. >> you've been talking about