it came on a fringe talks with dimitri medvedev the asia pacific summit which has just wrapped up in japan artes to australia is that. 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 had there reiterated 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 start tweeting. during the lame duck session. or already this would reduce the nuclear long range missiles of the two countries by thirty percent it and 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 cool european anti missile shield we've exchanged ideas as to what could be done here and we'll 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 two presidents discuss the ascension of russia to the world trade organization the bit of russia to join the w t o no president obama has said that russia has the full support of the u.s. and he said actually said the russia the longs example you spoke of 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 the. this is an achievement by the american president and his team. who lived up to all the green is reached during my visit to washington i hope this process will continue and rush it will soon access the. main topic on today's agenda for the two presidents and positively the positive results i thought of the start treaty ratification so it is very important that this is making ahead remaking the progress and the commitment is coming from the us a president on this matter. reporting that when america's chief negotiator for the original start treaty warns against letting the new deal with the richard but says it's a crucial turning point and that would not ratifying roth it would send the wrong signal to the world us 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 occupant in a shot in tehran what impact are we having on 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 we 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. it was the fringe meetings between individual nations which seem to seal most off the progress of the asia pacific summit the only other main result being a commitment to free trade all in the final declaration of the countries agreed not to and introduce any new trade barriers over the next three years it mirrors at this week's only g twenty summit in seoul where leaders agreed that a currency war health crisis recovering but then fail to adopt any action plan and he said no way has more. the world at 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 its you want on the eastern front the chinese position is well you're depreciating the dollar why should we really value the removal be the chinese currency which the us keeps on insisting 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 self-serving 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. 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 there now r t from seoul south korea and put some perspective on the days of high level talks if you do you know google he's the head of the franklin roosevelt foundation at moscow state university which focuses on american studies good to see you so the two major concurrent summits the g.

twenty and the apec but neither one can really be called fruitful what needs to be done to turn some insight he said to more of an action shot rather than just a talk shop well if we speak about some action to be taken you need to discuss what actions should be actions should be and certainly such meetings both of them helps help very much to understand the position of other states if you take a look see united states with their latest decision to. to use more money year to get the impulse to their economy about six hundred billion dollars certainly. can have some negative results on the economies and other currencies so not two to avoid currency wars and trade wars it is necessary to discuss this issue on the international level so both meetings create such

a wonderful opportunity for leaders to talk to each other and to coordinate their decisions which they will. meek in their own country they certainly seem to the g twenty summit in seoul just the other day that the main world leaders there did really focus on the issue of currency wars and seemed to agree to make some sort of progress for the future here but if i may let's talk about the asia pacific summit because some of the leaders there they seem to get more done by ignoring down into individual talks with each other why why do you think that is why. we all of the countries are dealing with such complicated issues and countries are so different if you take the pacific region you have small very small very very small countries and the you have such giants as china united states and russia so the problems facing quite different and again such meetings from my point of view they create the opportunities of both multilateral and by a literal talks which is

a very important for us to solve such and such complicated issues of economic development and overcoming economic crisis now one of the key developments at the apec summit in japan was when the american president obama said president we are committed to ratify the start treaty but are there any further obstacles to hurdle here to get this ratified because there does seem to be some sort of republican political posturing in capitol hill the moment yes certainly the obstacles are internal political obstacles in the united states mainly because just recently there were congressional elections which changed the political atmosphere and changed the situation here in the united states congress with the republican party gaining much more seats both in the chamber in the united states senate. chamber of representatives it means that all of them all of

the new elected congressman today has been criticized criticizing obama for. policy and that is why what president obama and his administration can do is to persuade congress to regard this issue and through defy the treaty during this so-called lame duck session of congress which starts the morrow on the fifteenth sold in november on the other hand this would be a precedent because such a major treaties which include issues of the. nuclear weapons never had been decided during the lame duck duck sessions of the american congress so yes there are obstacles but president obama pledged promised to push congress to make a decision just during the recent session so there are obstacles but there seems to be a genuine positive attitude when it comes to the hopeful actions of person but we're there and president obama you are going to wrap it up right there. from the

franklin roosevelt foundation at moscow state university yuri thank you very much. well there's been no shortage of opinions on george w. bush's presidency but in a few minutes we'll look at what the man himself has to say. confession and denials next president's memoirs detail his regret over invading iraq to justify torture methods and. also why this artists using a shock tactics through letting internet strangers vote with. the details are on the way here on our. well after years of official denial the e.u. is finally taking action over claims of organ trafficking in cars over at least seven people including a high ranking health official have been charged with luring foreign nationals to remove their kidneys for transplant one suspect is linked to the cause of liberation army which was accused of selling the body parts of captured serbs

during the yugoslav war cerf i think mr gates. it was a war with a legacy of atrocities among the more shocking claims the alleged murders and harvesting of the organs of serbian war prisoners by members of the cause of a liberation army it's alleged to have happened in a place that became known as the yellow house in one thousand nine hundred nineteen after the military technical agreement was signed q four 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 courts because of a lack of evidence now they it's her turn to the public attention in the wake of an investigation into another organ trafficking case in cars are very. focused on the

private clinic medical. the indictment relating to the. medical cases currently. with the pristina district court. we're waiting. confirmation hearing what we can say is that the two indictments were filed on fifteen twenty five october and there are five defendants charged with very various. organized crime illegal trafficking of organs misuse of public office there are also charges of wrong for use of the medical profession although it's not yet officially being made public the indictment has been leaks the group are accused of removing the organs of people's poor 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.

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 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 medical fears ago where that were shut down 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 stares at painful memories for those who are still trying to discover the truth about what really happened in the yellow house case where their missing family

members are now. after the war me myself my husband and our three children were living in casa who went out one day and was taken away for questioning he never came back the scars of course of a past still evident today and there are concerns the cause of a is becoming an easy breeding ground for organized crime those who still wonder how their family members suffered see the truth of what happens cannot be allowed to remain buried sarah firth r.t. cause of a. story for you online. dot com and here are a few other stories we're also right now how looking shifty as security and israeli firms developed techniques which are said to be. the very front seat of a boeing seven thirty seven. captain of how the world's most used passenger jets

were your boarding passes online at r.t. dot com. britain's sword's biggest show of. massive cuts the country faces to plug its debt this week tens of thousands of students descended on london plans to troubled college freeze. broke windows and police more than fifty were arrested the harsh budget cuts coincided with a dispute over paying to run your opinion which is in line to get even more money from the states next year david who's a british member of the european parliament told r.t. why he thinks britain would be better off spending the money back. 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 is stay private golf clubs you know it's a huge waste of money there's no excuse for any crease in the budget in fact it should be. posted about this to put 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 not it's called there's only us by the actual chief negotiator here they have. about half the power but he has called this three point nine percent claim as being dishonest and the president of european union says it's an opinion not a decision something to be honest we don't know where we are the budget could be far more than two point nine percent it could go up toward six percent in siri so we really are left in limbo here but there's no excuse for this kind of increase.

the moscow washington spy scandal took an unexpected turn this week when it was revealed that ten russian agents were sold out by their own boss a russian newspaper named him as colonel short of a cough who is now apparently under the protection of the f.b.i. you've got a piece going off takes up this story this summer spy story between the u.s. and russia just a few months after dropping out of headlines around the world the biggest spies 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 photographs have been found to journalists from the moscow beast committed news people who've held their own investigation clean he is behind it blown his colleagues cover in the united states. everyone we spoke to agreed that this was the biggest failure in the

history of the foreign intelligence service some of the agents worked undercover for decades in all were given away just like all sell. their findings have been confirmed by the president on friday dmitry medvedev said he knew who the treater was from the thursday of the scandal it was june when american authorities announced the captured ten people suspected of being russian secret agents all 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 and especially since the russian president's first official trip to the u.s. had just come to an end it's not kernel to back off russia to the united states just a few days before the meeting of if the visit and according to some reports are 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 rejected the job offer instead he turned the other way may 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. that it is true this is an amazing story it doesn't only have a trainer but a true hero as well so to 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 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 we denied being a russian agent until colonels are well presented secret documents that he then

revealed his true identity but intelligence experts say naming and shaming russian operatives was probably not in the prime target. 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 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 igor is going off the moscow. george w. bush broke his silence on is turbulent presidency this week his newly published memoir see him defend the most controversial decisions of his time in office and confessing to some of the blunders which sealed his reputation in his book decision

points bush took knowledge is what he calls a sickening feeling that he authorized the u.s. invasion of iraq based on false intelligence however bush justifies the use of waterboarding terror suspects as a legitimate form of interrogation which in his view was useful in breaking up terror plots but former congressman tom andrews believes authorizing torture was a tragic mistake that bush failed to realize. first of all it is illegal you can get an attorney to say anything you want but the fact of the matter is it is illegal secondly it violates international law it violates the geneva convention and thirdly it puts american soldiers at risk so that when they find themselves god forbid in an enemy's hands then you they are faced with the prospect of having the same treatment given to them that george bush was authorizing given to to to those who were the united states brought in the custody it was a tragic mistake and the fact that the president can't recognize that mistake is is

not surprising but but again unfortunate you know it's rather extraordinary for president bush was on national television last night here in the united states and he said that his lowest moment the lowest of the low as he described it was when a rap artist kenya west accused him of not caring about black people during the katrina debacle when the failure of the federal government to respond to that hurricane disaster when in fact you have a war against iraq a violation of international law an invasion that killed thousands of american soldiers over one hundred thousand iraqis all to go after weapons of mass destruction that did not exist. well for generations the u.s. has considered herself the example for others to follow in our next hour we ask people stateside where they think the real power now lies. this is america how

everybody always looked up to us but how much longer a resident gauger to what people think in new york and to see how much influence in america we hold in today's world. are russian artist whose wanted for inciting religious hatred is letting internet users give him a huge electric shocks in the name of freedom of speech every vote gives oleg map room at the jolt he insists it's not a stunt but a test of rotten rather today's societal values have never been to meet him and some of the images in his report are graphic. this happens every time one hundred people on the internet both elect modem r.t. to receive a massive electric jolt anyone can vote he'll do this every night for a week or until he's hospitalized i think you're born rich or so if this is a test of how society interprets freedom do they want to use it to save or to kill

me this is a lot about our society my remark he says his electric shock treatment is symbolic of what he calls the oppression of artists specifically says ship of ott vocal religious minorities. ten years ago he shot the radical film in which he was authentic we crucified. i'm not the sort of got seven inscription on his back. a prominent orthodox christian he thought that i was asian and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred i knew there was no position there people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment is all they feel for him no biggie he's crazy. at the moment mathematic did not wait for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile in bog area and on just return i paid a high price i am separated from my homeland but if i had gone to prison i would

have paid an even higher price tools people have tried to destroy me just maybe. we have laws to protect religious on the one hand and laws that protect individual's right to freedom of expression he was caught between the two but the link was accused of committing hate crimes that they think is wrong with you. since his crucifixion performance dozens of other artists have been fined and have their shows closed most after mass destruction by christian groups my remark he says he has no fear of death or thousands of responses for it no one should be driven to suicide by religious fanatics says well why are you giving people on the internet the power to decide your life and theirs for its ability for your death so as another it would be fun to see someone die suggest someone else a legacy fighting what seems to be a worthy aim now he didn't get injured today but if anything happens to him over

the next week everybody involved in this story will be a loser here or there are no artsy so fear garia and i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments. holidaymaker

who wouldn't dare to swim so deep. a tourist would be scared of such cold water. and would never die not with him in the arms me. but they are not too much so the are researchers. and few more some lambs then in deep water. coming to you live from moscow this is odd see the headlines now president obama assures russian leader to me treatment get a good record find the nuclear cuts treaty remains a top priority for the us it came during friends' cold between the two of the asia

pacific summit. an investigation into our cause of on the organ trafficking network is underway it's for the spotlight on the other fight the punk. and in other stories this week a russian newspaper reveals who it claims exposed the spies in the spy scandal between moscow and washington reporters say they were betrayed by their own boss. and the leaders of the world's richest economy agreed to evade accounting conflicts . to come up with detailed measures of the so-called global trade imbalance. while major business leaders were also at the g. twenty among them the head of one of russia's biggest investment banks and he had a chance to catch up with him.