it s not showing an extension of all of that terrible selling in the last couple of days. what s happening? for the moment, it s not, christine. the europe peern markets an mar minutes ago. the markets you said in your introduction showed asian markets losing quite a bit overnight. some of those markets hitting lows we hadn t seen, in fact, since last year or even the year before that. nikkei should point out end of the day up to the tune of about a quarter of 1%. the stock market, same here in europe. losses earlier on to today s session. firmly in the green for the moment. we ll, of course, have to see how the united states market bets trading, sort of dictate the trend heading towards the end of the week, christine. one of the reasons everybody s so worried or perhaps elated, on a positive note, we had the 23 the g-20 meeting. economists saying there seems to be a growing debt between what economists and the market says it should be and what politicians can realisticy d
problem. translator: that the israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and u.n. resolutions and emphatically continues to intensify building settlements on the territory of the the state of of the future of state of palestine. like i mentioned just a short time from now delegates will hear from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he ll have some of the same points to hit as the president, president obama has hit. he may hit them own more strongly. will you see that live here again. we expect that at any moment. turning to our senior state department producer who is here with me. alise, what happens now? he s asking for statehood, he hand in the paperwork but how is this process expected to go? could go quickly but it could draw out for some time. it could. i think what president abbas is looking to do, get on a plane, go back to his people, claim victory that he went to the u.n. securi