will tell us of the middle east quartet which consists of russia the us the un the united nations of course has really urged israel to extend its freeze on settlement construction in the west bank and gaza this is a very important milestone in the talks between israel and the palestinians because palestinian authorities officials have repeatedly said that the they believe that if one more houses build in the territory the talks that are always cheeky because they have been on and off and on and off for years and the talks that took place earlier this month have really been the first in a long period of time these talks will come to an end if israel doesn't extend this moratorium on settlement construction and of course the deadline is looming in september twenty six so just days ahead and the clock is ticking we'll have to wait and see how that whole situation develops but speaking of israel it's interesting that israeli officials are getting kind of ticked off by comments of former u.s. president bill clinton who has been suggesting in his comments that russians living in israel are

the middle east quartet trying to bring forward the peace process between israel and the palestinians. next a former u.s. presidential advisor speaks about dangerous times from the past and gives us his take on the modern day war on terror. has advised u.s. presidents for decades and served as the national security adviser under the carter administration he sits down now with r.t. dr brzezinski thank you so much for joining us we do appreciate this opportunity it's very nice to be with you it's been nine years sense nine eleven and there are still no signs of osama bin laden in your book the grand chessboard you write for america the chief geo political prize is eurasia america's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively it's preponderance on the eurasian continent is to staines is that why we're in afghanistan to sustain our global supremacy nowhere in afghanistan before because of nine eleven. nine eleven involved a horrendous crime against the american public and its cold for measures designed to make certain that that doesn't occur again. american role o

east quartet tried to bring forward the peace process between israel and the palestinians. and those were the headlines now former u.s. presidential adviser zbigniew of bridges he speaks about dangerous times from the past and gives his take on the modern day war on terror is interview is coming up next. has advised u.s. presidents for decades and served as the national security adviser under the carter administration he sits down now with r.t. dr brzezinski thank you so much for joining us we do appreciate this opportunity it's very nice to be with you it's been nine years sense nine eleven and there are still no signs of osama bin laden and your book the grand chessboard you write for america the chief geo political prize is eurasia america's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively it's preponderance on the eurasian continent is to staines is that why we're in afghanistan to sustain our global supremacy nowhere in afghanistan before because of nine eleven. nine eleven involved a horrendous crime against the american public and it's called for

east quartet tried to bring forward the peace process between israel and the palestinians. and those were the headlines now former u.s. presidential advisor zbigniew brzezinski speaks about dangerous times from the past and gives his take on modern day war on terror his interview is coming up next. he's advised u.s. presidents for decades and served as the national security adviser under the carter administration he sits down now with r.t. dr brzezinski thank you so much for joining us we do appreciate this opportunity it's very nice to be with you it's been nine years a sense nine eleven and there are still no signs of osama bin laden in your book the grand chessboard you write for america the chief geo political prize is eurasia america's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively it's preponderance on the eurasian continent is to staines. is that why we're in afghanistan to sustain our global supremacy nowhere in afghanistan before because of nine eleven and nine eleven involved a horrendous crime against the american public and its cold for mea

east quartet. well test the middle east peace peace quartet has urged israel to extend its freeze on the settlement construction in the west bank and gaza basically there is a moratorium existing a freeze that expand that expires at the end of the month september twenty sixth and with just days to go this is a very important issue whether or not this freeze will be extended because the palestinian people believe that this is an important a very big milestone in the direct talks between israel and the palestinians and this is something that is going to basically if not extended going to put an end to the talks between israel and the palestinians which of course have been taking place for the first time this month in as much as two years ok thank you very much for that was artie's on us to see a chill get up talking to us from new york and coming up later in the program summer lovers and summer fighters. simply fighting for find out how a vigilante group are saving young couples from violence and per

world leaders are in new york tackling poverty and hunger the middle east peace quartet calls upon israel to extend a freeze on settlement construction would bring you all the updates from new york they had in the program. and coming up in the business that the russians do make of seven dollars trying to get gold at least the new company on the london stock exchange with the details about twenty minutes time. you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program now to war top story russia will not supply its advanced air defense missile systems to iran the chief of staff of the russian armed forces says moscow shelved a plan because the missiles fall under the latest u.n. sanctions on iran would alter our lives to our kids are going to know for more how they're jaeger now moscow has an agreement with tehran on the delivery of these weapons so has that agreement been cancelled. well according to. the chief of staff the a forty seven decided not to supply nice fast three hundred missile defense systems since the fall directly under the latest set of the un

east quartet which consists of russia the u.s. the u.n. the united nations of course has really urged israel to extend its freeze. on settlement construction in the west bank and gaza this is a very important milestone in the talks between israel and the palestinians because palestinian authorities have repeatedly said that the they believe that if one more houses build in the territory the talks that are always shaky because they've been on and off and on and off for years and the talks that took place earlier this month have really been the first in a long period of time these talks will come to an end if israel doesn't extend this moratorium on settlement construction and of course the deadline is looming it's september twenty six so just days ahead and the clock is ticking we'll have to wait and see how that whole situation develops but speaking of israel it's interesting that israeli officials are getting kind of ticked off by comments of former u.s. president bill clinton who has been suggesting in his comments that russians

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east quartet in the process issues more than there are now but we don't know all the details we hope that they will inform us of the proceedings of another round has just been completed in jerusalem day earlier than met in sharm el sheikh as it's what i can tell you is the position of the quartet the position of the quartet is as follows. and the position of the u.n. which is based on the position of the arts it will list the number of the number of goals that we need to achieve in our talks the so-called parameters of the final status this is what this document defines and it speaks about two states clearly palestine and israel these two states will live side by side in peace in harmony together with all other neighbors they are a new auger. phrases no other formulas in the document in i always believe did our research early partners wanted to have talks without any preconditions and i hope this remains true. ok as far as the moscow conference is concerned yes we still believe these initiative is still relevant. and we hope it will play an important role to support the direct talks

holding talks on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly the middle east peace quartet which consists of russia the united states the european union and the united nations has urged israel to extend its freeze on settlement construction in the west bank and gaza palestinians have said that israel can forget about direct talks if this moratorium is not extended and with these to go before the deadline of the moratorium israel has already said it is refusing to extend this moratorium so now the clock is ticking and after being on and off and on and off again direct talks between the israelis and palestinians did not take place for as long as two years and actually took place for the first time in two years earlier this month now meanwhile the united nations millennium development goal summit has also been taking place back in the year two thousand world leaders have agreed on a set of eight targeted goals which they hope to meet by the year twenty fifteen and these include things like eradicating poverty and hunger in the world a very difficult task and so far results have been

summit and also in new york the middle east peace quartet met to when courage israelis and palestinians to commit to peace earlier an israeli security guard shot dead a palestinian man in east jerusalem sparking riots israeli police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters out of the sea you're talking about has more on the peace negotiations and all the issues facing politicians at the u.n. summit. holding talks on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly the middle east peace quartet which consists of russia the united states the european union and the united nations has israel to extend its freeze on settlement construction in the west bank and gaza palestinians have said that israel can forget about direct talks if this moratorium is not extended and with these to go before the deadline of the moratorium israel has already said it is refusing to extend this moratorium. so now the clock is ticking and after being on and off and on and off again direct talks between these rallies and palestinians did not take place for as long as two years and actually took place for the

east quartet tried to bring forward the peace process to ease role and the palestinians. and the peter lavelle explores the possibility of forcing a regime change in iran with washington's help that's in crosstalk. and you can. still. below in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle another drumbeat towards war are the u.s. in israel preparing an attack on iraq is to run a threat to its neighbors and the u.s. and what are iran's legitimate security interests. can. you discuss the possibility of a military strike against iran i'm joined by mohammad marandi and taran he's a professor at the university of taran in washington we go to william blum he's an author and historian and his latest book is killing hope u.s. military and cia interventions since world war two and in austin we have alan cooperman he's an associate professor at the l.b.j. school of public affairs at the university of texas and another member of our crosstalk team yelena hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect so you can jump in anytime you want alan if i could go to you first earlier in this

east quartet as well was really positive news from them. well uh positive or not we're going to have to wait and see but definitely we saw an outcome when these talks of the quartet were held between russia the u.s. the e.u. and the united nations basically the main outcome has been an urge to wards israel to extend its freeze on settlement construction in the west bank and gaza and the reason this is important is because this has been one of the main milestones in the talks between israelis and palestinians because the palestinian people have been seeing them that if settlement construction there continues israel can forget about dialogue and this is of course something that's absolutely essential to trying to improve the ties between the two sides because talks were all halted for as much as two years before that they were on and off and on and off again and for the first time earlier this month these release and palestinians had sat down together for direct negotiations and of course the entire international community hopes that these ta

in the sense that particularly now i've spent a lot of time out in the middle east as the quartet representative for the middle east peace process. so my take on what is happening with this xtremism within the world i think is slightly different, probably a little deeper than it was back then, which is not to say i think i would have made different decisions. but i think particularly when september 11th happened, you know, there was a tendency at that time to think this is a small group of extremists. we deal with them, we get rid of the regime that harbored them, life will be better. where as actually now i see this is a far deeper, with the roots right, right down into parts of society. and i think it's probably a far longer and bigger struggle. >> are you surprised at sort of the extremism in politics today? there is sort of an us versus them type attitude when you have the promotion, the book promotion in ireland. you had some disruption of your time there. you canceled a similar event in london. were you surprised by that? what does this tell us about politics today? >> the people that moun

east peace process the middle east peace quartet met and urged israel to extend its freeze on settlement construction in the west bank and gaza so that the direct talks between israel and the palestinians can continue so definitely a lot on the program and the u.n. general debate continues so we're going to have to wait and see what happens next the coverage coming out of courtesy of you in the team there in new york's appreciated thank you. she was so long tonight out. a web site today with the green party you know she wants a presidential candidate for the upcoming election because she's a victim to killing a kid is a child that small thing but do you think that should stop it doing what it wants to do you know maybe let us know the stuff. so what's your take on that story also take a look at this. the frenzy there is a very increase if he shows off his skateboarding skills to his parents i believe as the kids on the street would say gives him still. did very well what's more the master class a hottie don't call. up next a closer team take another road trip to bring you the very best o

in the sense that particularly now i've spent a lot of time out in the middle east as the quartet representative for the middle east peace process. so my take on what is happening with this extremism within the world i think is slightly different, probably a little deeper than it was back then, which is not to say i think i would have made different decisions. but i think particularly when september 11th happened, you know, there was a tendency at that time to think this is a small group of extremists. we deal with them, we get rid of the regime that harbored them, life will be better. where as actually now i see this is a far deeper, with the roots right, right down into parts of society. and i think it's probably a far longer and bigger struggle. >> are you surprised at sort of the extremism in politics today? there is sort of an us versus them type attitude when you have the promotion, the book promotion in ireland. you had some disruption of your time there. you canceled a similar event in london. were you surprised by that? what does this tell us about politics today? >> the people that mou

east quartet of the u.n., the u.s., the european union and russia. they met in new york, where blair is promoting his political memoir, "a journey." >> warner: tony blair, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure, margaret, thank you. >> warner: i want to talk about your book which is going to debut on number three on the "new york times" best seller list this sunday. first the news of the day. the middle east peace talks resuming. after these years of false starts and dashed expectations do you think these talks have any better chance of succeeding? >> yes, i do, in fact. and sometimes what happens in these processes, as with northern ireland, is that you can struggle for decades, not quite achieving it. and then it can come together. i think the reason it can come together here in the middle east is because we have a opportunity frankly with a region that is more concerned about iran really , that wants to take this poison that is generated by the israeli- palestine dispute out of the politics of the middle east. we've got to leaders and two people

. >> the international quartet of middle east peace negotiations is calling on israel to suspend building settlements. the palestinian president said he will walk away from direct peace talks if the construction of settlements resumes. indian officials insisted the facilities for the commonwealth games will be ready in time despite the collapse of the pedestrian bridge. the commonwealth games federation is demanding immediate action from the indian government. >> after months of delays over preparations, the biggest blow to the commonwealth games so far today, 27 workers injured after a pedestrian bridge collapsed. that came hours after scotland and new zealand expressed their disgust at the state of the athletes village. one manager described this as unfit for human habitation. >> some parts are not in habitable. it is hard to see how they can be turned around. they are just filthy. nobody would ever want to live in those conditions. >> this is what the athletes hope to see, completed apartments shown off to the media this month, but despite trying to send a message organizers face a rac

on the middle east which consists of u.s., russia, the european union and united nations. >> and what can we expect from the talks? >> the overwhelming view is that there will be no major progress. there is too big a divide between the two sides on a mountain of issues, including the settlements and borders for future palestinian state. it is thought that israel will resume settlement construction after the ten-month moratorium expires on september 26. the palestinians say they will walk out of the talks if that happens. >> translator: the israeli government holds full responsibility for the failure and the collapse of this negotiation. if it continues the expansion of settlements. >> the two sides also face internal problems. the islamic fundamentalist group hamas has always been a headache for abbas. the group has declared that it will continue terror attacks to sabotage the talks. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has to tread carefully with his government, which includes the far right and religious parties. making concessions could cause uproar, and destabilize his governm

one of those people is tony blair, the quartet's middle east envoy. >> it's an on-the-ground reality problem. if israel is not sure of its security, if it is not sure that anyone palestinian state will be properly governed, well governed, they're not going to allow what's happened in gaza to happen on the west bank. in gaza it's mannable, in west bank it's not. and that's why the program of change in palestine is so important because what he's really saying is look, i understand it, but what's more, for ordinary palestinians they want security, they want the rule of law, they want proper government. so irrespective of what israel wants, what i, the palestinian prime minister want and president abbas, the palestinian president want, is we want proper governance for us. >> rose: prime minister fayyad is in new york for the united nations general assembly and the clinton global initiative. i am pleased to have him back on this program. welcome. >> pleasure. thank you. >> rose: speaking of what tony blair just said and where you are, i'm looking an an executive summary from the world ban

he's continued in public service as the middle east envoy of quartet, that keeps him involved in the peace process. many have come to this program and talked about tony blair's decisions. here are two that showed the dramatic difference of opinion. one from the dramatist and late nobel laureate harold pinter and the other recently from writer christopher hitchens. >> i'm not anti-american. >> rose: that's the way it's perceived. they don't say anti-bush, they say anti-american. >> well, tell them they've got it wrong. >> rose: because i... that's part... >> an anti-bush, cheney, rumsfeld and all that lot. >> rose: and blair. >> and certainly blair. my god. you can say that again. >> rose: and you think they should be brought up, the four, the international court of justice. >> yes, i do. >> rose: and charged with? >> mass murder. clearly. the invasion of iraq was not brought about the death of as many people as nazi germany did or stalin or maw. >> rose: or even the dmer rouge. >> but how many people do we have to kill before you can be described as a mass murderer? i believe we... t

east peace process, coming from the state department assistant secretary for public affairs, p. j. crowley. secretary clinton spoke today with israeli prime minister netanyahu and the quartet, and we keep pushing for talks to continue, that is the latest from the state department, and in the meantime, this is all over a freeze on the israeli housing construction in the west bank which is set to expire, the palestinians threatening to walk out of the talk, if that happens and all five including the united states are scrambling now, to find an 11th hour compromise. we are live in jerusalem with more, at this hour. >> reporter: hi, julie. in the past few hours, palestinian gunmen opened fire and wounded two israeli citizens on the west bank, clearly, this was just another attempt by extremist to try and derail the peace talks, as for the jewish settlers on the west bank they say come sunrise, in about six hours in jerusalem they are going begin construction again on the west bank, of course, it is the settlement freeze that prevented all of the construction, that actually brought t