and obama reiterated plans to slash their country's nuclear arsenals and enhance world security at the upcoming nato summit artie's correspondent tessa australia is in japan for us. there at the apec summit actually the talks between the russian president dmitry medvedev and a u.s. president barack obama happened on the sidelines it was the first talk of the a second day of the summit and yes at the top of the agenda on the table is the ratification of the new start treaty now a president obama has to raise at his commitment to the russian president that he is going to make sure that the treaty gets done at the lame duck session of the u.s. congress and he also said that he had communicated to the u.s. politicians that this is of the utmost of priority i reiterated my commitment to get this start. during the lame duck session. or that this would reduce the nuclear long range missiles of the two countries by

thirty percent it would allow the two countries to check on the stockpiles of each other two presidents brought this up today but they said that they will hammer out the details of the nato summit upcoming nato summit next week in lisbon we believe that russia nature of relations have improved its beneficial side right now we're working on a number of issues including the so-called european anti missile shield we've exchanged ideas as to what could be done here and will discuss this at the summit apart from that we've been working together in a productive way and will continue to do so this being the apec summit trade and economy is a very important topic and the year two presidents discuss the ascension of russia to the world trade organization the bit of russia to join the w t oh no president obama has said that russia has the full support of the u.s. and he said actually said the russia belongs to w. he spoke with the russian side they said that they expected this to happen at the earliest this spring two thousand and eleven. recently we've made serious progress

in terms of russia's decision to do this is an achievement by the american president and his team. who lived up to all the agreements reached during my visit to washington i hope this process will continue and brush it will soon access the. main topic on today's agenda for the two presidents as positively the positive results i thought of the start treaty ratification so it is very important that this is making headway making progress and a commitment is coming from the us a president on this matter. reporting that well not ratifying the start treaty would send the wrong signal to the world the opinion of america's chief negotiator for the full start treaty signed in one nine hundred ninety one u.s. russian arms control is a critical part or critical component of dissuading other members of the international community to not go nuclear. and if we can't get

a modest arms control agreement ratified are we giving talking points to ogmund in asia in tehran what impact are we having. on pakistan. on india and on other would be nuclear powers in the in the greater middle east it has to be viewed as a as a massive setback in what i consider to be the kind of fundamental security problem of our of our day which is the spread of nuclear weapons to fragile week and sometimes rogue states and potentially on to terrorists and finally i'll just simply say this i don't think frankly that the reset policy can survive the non ratification of start if we can't ratify this treaty we are going to send a signal of come on i believe of almost total incompetence to the rest of the

international community. the top priority for the pacific rim leaders at the apec summit in japan was that free trade in the final declaration the countries agreed not to introduce any new trade barriers for three years the leaders of twenty one economies also pledged to avoid protectionism which crept in following the recent financial crisis some countries have put aside differences in currency debates an issue much spoken about during the weeks of g twenty summit in seoul and the participants agreed to avoid deliberate devaluation as a means of boosting exports but analysts say the g twenty agreements one to binding and a solution is known europe as well to use and they said no way reports. the world after the war the weapon currency. the fallout trade imbalance the world's paying i mean the world is paying the price for the asset bubbles that

are being blown throughout the emerging markets and this high stakes battle for global exchanges it's china versus the u.s. on the western front the fed pumping six hundred billion bucks into the american economy the valuing the dollar while slamming china for not readily revaluing it you want on the eastern front the chinese position is well you're depreciating the dollar why should we really value the chinese currency which the us keeps on existing on so it's really a standoff one that smacks of double standards it's absolutely true that the united states of late has made don't mess to clean serving a policy that was shortsighted and that did not consider the rest of the world and this set up the sole summit but despite global outrage with u.s. fiscal policy they got more of a high level silent treatment than any kind of fight right now it's the world against the united states and in terms of an agreement to deal with the currency

war nun's going to happen there is no interest coming from china or germany the two other key players. to solve this problem not interested or protecting interest. and that was before the session even started obama might have guessed there would be no compromising china wasn't budging and germany an export giant defends its right not to surrender its strength by spending more abroad to appease u.s. calls to help economic recovery much of europe seems to be sitting back and watching how this will all play out no one is willing to budge on the fundamentals not china not germany not the united states most certainly the group also agreed to develop early warning indicators to prevent economic turmoil but the question now is that enough to prevent this cast class from getting out of control and he's now a r t from seoul south korea the us had wanted to use the g twenty to pressure

china but instead how to explain its own actions that's what leading global currency analyst asuna got our money told us here at. the us was really looking for the g twenty to be a forum to continue to pressure china and to have you know more unified front against china and asian currencies current account surplus countries. from from the rest of the world and what it actually ended up turning into was that the u.s. had to go in there and the tables were turned that the u.s. actually had to explain its own behavior to a whole host of countries and the chinese i think were pretty adept at turning this around and there were a lot of other countries who didn't mind actually turning the tables a little bit on the us and saying ok well why don't you guys explain what you're doing with with the fed before and your country before you start kind of throwing stones at us. coming up in around ten minutes time here on our t.v. setting an example. this is america how everybody always looked up to us it was not

america's destiny to look after the rest of the world and then. the resident got his opinion on the streets of new york. revolution or call for common sense we report on the u.k.'s biggest violent protests against rising tuition fees . well despite years of official denial because of a house finally taken action over claims of organ trafficking at least seven people have been charged with luring foreign nationals to the region and removing their organs for transplant one suspect is linked to the cause of our liberation army which was accused of selling the organs of captured serbs during the yugoslav war. it was a war with a legacy of atrocities among the most shocking claims the alleged murders and harvesting of the serbian war prisoners by members of the cause of

a liberation it's alleged to have happened in a place that became known as the yellow house in one thousand nine hundred nineteen the military technical agreement was signed q four and these two forces promise to secure the safety of all people living in kosovo regardless of their ethnicity but after the serbian forces left ninety percent of the kidnappings happened the allegations were made in a book by former u.n. war crimes prosecutor carla del ponte say but the case never made it to cool its because of a lack of evidence now they it's returned to the public attention in the wake of an investigation into another organ trafficking case in cost of. the prey focused on the private clinic medicare. relating to the. medical cases currently. with the pristina district court. we're waiting. confirmation hearing what we can say is that two indictments were

filed on fifteenth of october and there are five defendants charged with various. organized crime illegal trafficking. and misuse of public office they're also. wrong full use of the medical profession although it's not yes officially being made public the indictment has been leaks. group are accused of removing the organs of people so they have been persuaded by the lure of money being offered around twenty thousand dollars for a kidney part of the leaked documents. also reveals that many of these people were never paid r.t. discovered the two days he's been indicted and have been working at medicaid before it closed and now working at a private clinic your medicare is just next door to the place they're accused of

having performed the illegal operations so we went to confront your medicare about we just tried to speak to your america and they want to talk to us who are asking them about the two employees who are supposedly still working there despite having been involved in the medicare case for years ago where you can see the proximity is extremely close another of the men indicted in the medical case has possible links to yellow house after a war crimes tribunal witness claimed he was at the house the new investigation that painful memories for those who are still trying to discover the truth about what really happened in the yellow house case and where the missing family members are now. after the war me myself my husband and our three children were living in costa he went out one day and was taken away for questioning he never came back. this. is still evident today and there are concerns the close of day is becoming an

easy breeding ground for crime days he still wonder how their family members suffer say the truth of what happens cannot be allowed to remain buried. today. there are always more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com and here's a quick preview of what might catch your eye right now on israeli security firm has developed a system which can identify people by the way look at the world over details that can. also fasten your seatbelt he takes to the captain's passenger plane find out which switches do walk in the cockpit we'll take you there.

this week russian newspaper put a new twist on the summer spy scandal between moscow and washington according to the paper that ten people accused of being illegal russian agents were exposed by their own boss who is now reportedly under the protection of the f.b.i. . going off at the journalists who came up with this sensational tale. a summer spy story between the u.s. and russia just a few months after dropping out of headlines around the world the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war iraq is back over the drama of this whole situation is that the agents were turned in by their boss. he's been named as colonel suitable cool for allegedly headed the american department of russia's foreign intelligence service neither his first name or photograph have been found to journalists from the moscow based committed news people who've held their own investigation claim he is behind blowing his colleagues cover in the united states. everyone we spoke to agreed that this was the biggest failure in the

history of a foreign intelligence service some of the agents worked undercover for decades in all were given away just like all self yes their findings have been confirmed by the president on friday dmitry medvedev said he knew who the traitor was from the thursday of the scandal it was june when american authorities announced the captured ten people suspected of being russian secret agents or were found guilty by a u.s. court and deported in exchange for four men serving time in russia themselves convicted of being foreign spies it was never going to stay out of the news for long the story instantly made headlines especially since the russian president's first official trip to the us had just come to an end it's thought colonel to back off russia to the united states just a few days before the new community of some visit and according to some reports of a few months before that he was offered a promotion at work which could have seen him subjected to

a lie detector test and vet some believe is why he we jetted the job offer instead he turned the other way by turning in his associates the media quickly found its favorite among the group of deported agents young rich and beautiful on a chapman was deemed the russian james bond girl but did the paparazzi flashes draw focus away from the real super agent in the group me collision course was still in the shadows just as he had been for the past four decades. pretty that's what is true this is an amazing story it doesn't only have a trailer but a true hero as well so the two absolute opposites i'm talking about with some coffee and his fantastic story he left the soviet union in the one nine hundred sixty s. first to spain and then to south america working as a photographer he eventually married and moved to the us changing his name to one it said he continues lee denied being a russian agent until colonels are well caught presented secret documents that he

then revealed his true identity but intelligence experts seeing naming and shaming russian operatives was probably not the prime target. as that. was probably a us agent for a long time him self and i'm sure this whole story was instigated by the american secret service the two presidents are working to restart relations and some people are obviously against us the timing of the scandal was picked perfectly it puts another name in the frame for the russian intelligence service that's still trying to establish how a massive decades long secret operation could fall port so easily seemingly at the hands of one man you've got this going off to moscow. and there is still plenty head for you in the program here on r.t. in closing despite the birthplace for sample of the world's religion we investigate why christians are coming under increasing at times since.

this week the u.k. saw a massive protest over part of the plans to tackle its massive debt tens of thousands of students marched in london to plan a hike in fees the coalition governments move would raise the cost of education three fold protesters burned banners broke windows and hold objects police and more than fifty of them were arrested the harsh budget cuts coincide with the u.k. having to increase the money it pays to the european union next year david campbell bannerman british member of the european parliament told r.t. why he thinks increasing the e.u. budget is pointless. we've only been clear really in the last week what's happening with fees is a huge to change and of course the lib dems are liberal democrats who are part of the coalition government promised to get rid of through it all together so they been caught lying affectively and that's created a lot of anger but there's no excuse for this kind of violence on the streets of

london when you look at where the money's going i mean expenses account has gone up by eighty five percent that's for entertainment you're getting film prizes there's money going on hunting or stay private golf clubs you know it's a huge waste of money there's no excuse for any trees in the budget in fact it should be out there we can as boasted about this to provide nine percent increases being great cut relative to six percent that's what the european parliament here wanted a six percent increase which is outrageous really but to be honest this is not true it hasn't actually been agreed it's no it's called these only by the actual chief negotiator here the every team in basketball about. as call this three point nine percent claim as being dishonest and the president of european union says it's an opinion not a decision. we don't know where we are the budget could be far more than three point nine percent it could go up towards six percent in siri so we really are left

in limbo here but there's no excuse for this kind of increase. for many the u.s. has laid a path which it expects everybody else to follow however with the newly emerging powers on the world scene that may no longer be the case so if it's not america's destiny and lead the world to a better future then who says it lawry toughest also known as the resident went to gauge opinion on the streets of new york. in the united states still leading the world this week let's talk about that i don't think so right now he's going on a lot of issues going on living in europe for little. things seem to be going pretty good over there right now do you think it matters who is the leader in the world. to me personally no you have to look at china.

taiwan you know you look at any of the asian countries india look at their economies are booming i mean it's and here we are in a stagnant economy and we are hard to take the jobs of americans so there is a downward trend going to have somebody looking out for the world and that can be the chinese. india. did you think the united states is doing a good job for looking out for everyone well. i think. we're in trouble or we were told from other countries or were common and. we need to do the same we need to we need to rethink what we're doing is that a good thing or a bad thing. it's a bad thing for the americans and the british and the europeans it's a good thing for everybody else we're still doing good but maybe not as. but we're still a leader i think why does that matter. well this is america and everybody always

looked up to us so it's a matter of pride do you think things. so far far away from where we used to be in terms of at least economically that. i think find our way but right now anyone who has a better idea. whether or not you believe the u.s. is still leading the world the bottom line is will only know the true answer in hindsight and in many decades to come. this week george w. bush was back courting controversy after releasing his memoir sin which he said he had no regrets about invading iraq or personally authorizing torture in his book decision points claims iraq's weapons of mass destruction came as a shock to him but that he still believes the u.s. was right to invade on the interrogation of terror suspects he said he was

personally approved he did personally approve the use of simulated drowning because he believed that it helped prevent attacks and save lives but former cia officer ray mcgovern believes cruel methods can never be justified. well number one it saved no lie that in itself is a big lie the proof is in the pudding. torture creates more terrorists secondly it could never be justified torture is one of those techniques or one of those things that is all was intrinsically wrong just like slavery or like rape or genocide all was always wrong or george bush is saying is that some lawyer said he hired to give them the correct answer so you could go ahead and waterboard people waterboarding being universally recognized everywhere but in the white house as torture is you don't get to this disengage psychologically from

a dependency such as alcohol without help this business about the almighty intervening and his turning himself over to the almighty is cynical in the extreme he needed professional help and when he listen to the almighty tell him to invade iraq well that's where it gets really ridiculous it's not the almighty that i know about the middle east is a region divided by conflict but not only between israelis and palestinians christians living in the west buying say they're being targeted because of their religious views and as ati's paul asli reports the violent attacks against them are on the rise. david ortiz lives dangerously a christian pastor among religious jews in the west bank city of i will he's received dictates for trying to convert jews and muslims to his faith my first time

going into a muslim village i got beat up we were giving our bibles someone hated all teams enough to drop off a package at his house thinking it had candy inside his fifteen year old son opened it the pipe bomb neatly killed him and then blew him through the kitchen and made a hole. in this choice most of the throws were in this way but the backfire the story the refrigerant everything back it took three years for israeli police to catch the perpetrator a religious jew ject my towel who lived in a nearby israeli settlement he'd already killed two arabs and he says he's very proud and. he begun to favor but trying to kill us. across the west bank the story for palestinian christians is as bleak and the threat comes from both extremists jews and muslims bethlehem the believed birthplace of christ once boasted a population of eighty five percent christian today less than ten percent live here

this woman is afraid to show her face she used to go to manchester square and teach about jesus but all that ended after her house was nearly burned down i didn't feel like i belong to this nice anymore i feel like i'm strange or given the opportunity she says she wouldn't think twice about leaving the explosion of muslims. you know you feel you feel controlling everywhere every thing my granddaughter have to memorize. but tuss abu sada ignores the threats he's one of a growing number of muslims whose converted to christianity in recent years when i was a fighter with arafat i hated christians just as much as i hated jews i was going on around your and looking for their homes and through anger and to their homes or putting out their cars because i believed christians are spies. for christianity

can search alongside islam and judaism here these two palestinian brothers have no problem reconciling the christian faith with living in a jewish state they volunteered to join the country's army saying they feel as israeli as the jewish and arab counterparts. give everything i have because in the end this is my country but it's not without its problems. each time i go home in uniform someone will call me traitor and things like that it doesn't influence me. but in recent months attacks against christians and christian science have increased at the beginning of november this hundred year old church was burned by right wing israelis who go. some of the windows and threw molotov cocktails inside it's no wonder that christians here a feeling under fire forty three alex seem to be slim. and i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments stay with us. holidaymaker

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the summit of the world's richest nations in seoul ends with an agreement to stand back from waging cummings he wants. a suspected aldrin trafficking network under investigation in kosovo trick is concerned the region is becoming a major hub for organized crime. well next in our special report the checkered history of a place that's now a seat of democracy but which symbolized the defeat of nazi fascism sixty five years ago that's next right here on r.t. . berlin.