at the asia pacific summit which shows just wrapped up in japan. syria is there for us. there at the apec summit that will be 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 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 priority i reiterated my commitment to go to start tweeting. during the lame duck session. or order 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 in the nato summit upcoming nato summit next week in this but we believe that russia 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 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 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 belongs at w.v.u. 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 the this is an achievement by the american president and his team. he lived up to all the agreements reached during my visit to washington i hope this process will continue and bush it will soon access the. main topic in today's china for the two presidents positively positive results are that 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 president on this matter. of reporting well political list of. things any possible non ratification of nuclear cuts treaty would do serious damage to u.s. russia relations but he says there are other areas where the two could continue their reset if considers moves in advance and thinks them all terribly then i think there's a chance there will retain momentum and will develop on other

parts such as. missile defense or russia need to relations in other areas but of course both the process of discussing the new start in the new senate should it be necessary and of course the possible. rejection by the senate or the new start would deal very serious blow to us russian relationship. it was the fringe meetings between individual nations which seem to hold most of the progress of the asia pacific summit the only other main result being a commitment to free trade well in the final declaration the countries agreed not to introduce any new trade barriers over the next three years it mirrors this week so earlier a g twenty summit in seoul where leaders agreed that a currency war won't help crisis recovering but then fail to adopt any action plan and they said no reports. 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 of 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 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

there now r t from seoul south korea. while the us had wanted to use the g twenty to pressure china but had to explain its own actions instead that's what leading global currency analysts on the got our money told us here at r.t. 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 do 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 your currency before you start kind of throwing

stones at us. well there's been no shortage of opinions on george w. bush's presidency bird in a few minutes we'll look at what the man himself has to say about it freshens i'm going on the x. president's memoirs detail his regret over invading iraq but to justify torture methods also. going into a muslim village. i got beat up by a growing hatred of christians is the one thing israel's hardline muslims and jews of green on the victims of violence tell their story just a few moments. well after years of official denial finally taking action over claims of organ trafficking in cars of or 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 our liberation army which was accused of selling the body parts of captured serbs

during the yugoslav war saira further investigates. it was a war with a legacy of atrocities among the most 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 ninety nine after 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 it's 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 casa de. focused on the

private clinic medicaid. 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 all guns and misuse of public office there are also charges of wrong full use of the medical profession. although it's not yet officially been 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 seen by

a dirty 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 medical just next door to the place they're accused of having performed the illegal operations so we went to confront your america 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 peers ago where that were shut down you can see the proximity is extremely close another of the men indicted in the medicals 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 and 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 vase past a still evident today and there are concerns that 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 sara furthur r.t. cause of a. we're updating that story for you on line as well at dot com and here are a few other stories we're also on top of it right now on our web site power looking to get you stopped at security and israeli firms developed i'm scanning techniques which it says beyond full. also check into the very front seat of a boeing seven thirty seven as r.t. gives you

a captain's idea to or of how the world's most passenger jets what's your boarding passes online at r.t. dot com. the moscow washington spy scandal took an unexpected turn this week when it was revealed that the ten russian agents were sold out by their own boss a russian newspaper named him as colonel sharp a cough who is now apparently under the protection of the f.b.i. artes you got a piece going off takes up the 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 spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war iraq is back in the drama of this whole situation is that the agents were turned in by their boss. he's been

named as colonel suitable for allegedly headed the american department of russia's foreign intelligence service neither his first name or photograph they've been found to journalists from the moscow beast commuter science news people who've held their own investigation clean 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 the foreign intelligence service some of the agents worked undercover for decades in all were given away just like also. their findings had 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 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 thought kernel to back off russia to the united states just a few days before the meeting me that 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 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 but that's what he's through this is an amazing story it doesn't only have a trainer but a true hero as well who 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 and then just 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 kernels or work of 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. 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 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 to moscow. george w.

bush broke his silence on is toppling presidency this week is newly published memoir see him defend the most controversial decisions of this time in office and confessing to some of the blunders which sealed his reputation in the book decision points bush acknowledges 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 that 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're 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 what in the cost of 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 in 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. for generations the u.s. has been used to being having the rest of the world looking up to it but americans know there are deep problems at home and abroad which are causing that image to wane especially as other countries have much online talk show host laura huff an ist asked people in new york which nation they think is top dog. in the united states still leading the world this week let's talk about that i don't think so right now is 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. and. taiwan you know you can 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 for americans so there is a downward trend going on in america some by looking out for the world not going to the chinese. india did you think the united states is doing a good job for looking out for everyone well. i think we get involved things should be and. we're in trouble i mean we've all german from other countries are ripping comment 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 good. but we're still a leader i think so 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. we've gone. so far far

away from where we used to be in terms of at least economically that. i think we 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. live from moscow this is r.t. britain source a bigger show of yes against the massive cuts the country faces to plug its debt this week tens of thousands of students descended on london against plans to treble their college for use they burned banners broke windows. police more than fifty were arrested the harsh budget cuts come inside with a dispute over paying to run the european union which is in line to get even more

money from member states next year david campbell bannerman here's a british member of the european parliament told me why he thinks britain would be better off spending the money back at home. when you look at where the money's going i mean the m.e.p. expenses account has gone up by eighty five percent that's for entertainment you're getting film prizes there's money going on the hunting is stay centered 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 caught and has posted about this two point nine nine percent increase is being great card 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 is only by the actual chief negotiator here they have a. negotiating about half the power as call this three point nine percent claim as being designers 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 at the budget could be far more than two point nine percent it could go up towards six percent in theory so we really are left in limbo here but there's no excuse for this kind of increase . to make sure you're with r.t. in the next hour as we meet the electrifying artist making a painful point if you shock tactics by letting internet strangers vote with volumes i'll tell you why in the next hour. israel is plagued by religious conflict but it's not always between jews and muslims they appear to have a united against what they see as a common threat targeting christians because of their faith and as artie's polis fleer reports violence is on the rise thing david ortiz lives dangerously a christian pastor among religious jews in the west bank city of i will he's received death threats 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 ortiz enough to drop off a package at his house thinking it had a candy inside his fifteen year old son opened it the pipe bomb nearly killed him and then blew him through the kitchen and made a hole in the chest most of the thrusts were in this way but the back fire the steroid the refrigerant everything back it took three years for israeli police to catch the perpetrator a religious jew jack title who lived in a nearby israeli settlement he'd already killed two arabs and he says he's very proud. yes. he begun a favor by trying to cut off. 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 mantra square and teach about jesus but all that ended after her house was nearly burned down i didn't feel like i've been known to this nice anymore i feel like i'm staying to give an 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 i 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 wrong door and looking for their own zone through anger into their homes or

sorting out their cars because i believed christians are spies. but christianity can search alongside islam and judaism here these two palestinian brothers have no problem we consolingly 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. i'll give everything i have for this army because in the end this is my country but it's not without its problems. for the world and each time i go home in uniform someone will call it me traitor and things like that it doesn't influence me. but in recent months attacks against christians and christian sites have increased at the big. of november this hundred year old church was burned by white when his ravings who broke some of the windows and threw molotov cocktails inside it's no wonder that christians here a feeling under fire course the outlook seems to be slim. and i'll be back with the

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