it came on a fringe talks with dmitri medvedev the asia pacific summit which has just wrapped up in japan r.t.s. attacks are 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 had to reiterate 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 priority i reiterated my commitment to get this started 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 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 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 example you 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 this is an achievement by the american president and his team. who lived up to all the greens 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 and positively the positive results i thought of the start treaty ratification so it is very important that this is making a heavy making of progress and a commitment is coming from the us a president on this matter also used to saucily reporting that well america's chief negotiator for the original start treaty warns against letting the new deal with the richard bush says it's a crucial turning point and that not ratifying 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 augment in a shot 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 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 i believe of almost total incompetence to the rest of the

international community. well it was the fringe meetings between individual nations which seemed to seal most of the progress of the asia pacific summit the only other main result being a commitment to free trade in the final declaration that countries agreed not to introduce any new trade barriers over the next three years it mirrors this week's earlier g twenty summit in seoul where leaders agreed that a currency war would help crisis recovering but then fail to adopt any action plan and he said 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 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 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 quit. now is that enough to prevent this caste class from getting out of control and he's the now i r t from seoul south korea. 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 got about money told us here i don't see 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 and your country 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 has to say confessions and denials the president's memoirs detail his regret over and grading iraq to justify torture.

also why this artists using a shock tactics through letting internet strangers vote with if you tales are coming your way shortly here. after years of official denial e.u. is finally taking action over claims of organ trafficking in cause of 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 that was accused of selling the body parts of captured serbs during the yugoslav war r.t. served first reports. it was a war with a legacy of atrocity among the most shocking claims the alleged murders and harvesting of the serbian war prisoners by members of the cause of a liberation and 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 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. the t afraid focused on the private clinic medical. relating to the medical cases currently with the pristina district court. confirmation hearing what we can say is that the. fifteenth of october

and there are five defendants 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 yet officially being made public the indictment has been leaks the 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 that two days he'd been indicted and had been working at medicaid before it closed and now working at 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. we just tried to speak to your america and they want to talk to us we

were asking them about the two employees who are supposedly still working there despite having been involved in the medical case piers 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 the scars of course of its 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 suffer say the truth of what happened cannot be allowed to remain buried sarah firth r.t. cause of a. well we are updating that story for you online as well at r.t. dot com and here are a few other stories we're also on top of all right now. looking as shifty can get you stuck at security and israeli firms developed ice scanning techniques which should be you will. also check into the very front seat of a boeing seven thirty seven as our team gives us captains i tore apart the world's most famous of passenger jets for your boarding pass online at our dock. live from the russian capital this is r.t. 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 a 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 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 but 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 people who've held their 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 have been confirmed. and 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 especially since the russian president's first official trip to the u.s. had just come to an end it's thought colonel to back off russia to the united states just a few days before the meeting 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 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 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 welcome of presented secret documents that he then revealed his true identity but intelligence experts say naming and shaming

russian operatives was probably not the prime target. was probably a u.s. 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 you've got this going off to moscow. george w. bush broke his silence on his total and presidency this week is nearly a 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 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 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're faced with the prospect of having the same treatment given to them that george bush was the authorizing given to to to those who 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 in the failure of the federal government to respond to that horror came 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 the rest of the world looking up to them but americans know there are some deep problems at home and abroad which are causing that image to wane especially as other countries have much online talk show host to laurie 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 he's going on a lot of issues going on and living in europe for a little while and things seem to be going pretty good over there right now do you think it matters who's the leader in the world. to me personally no you have to look at china. and. 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 not going to be the chinese. or india did you think the united states is doing a good job for looking out for everyone well. i sometimes think we get involved

things. we're in trouble i mean we don't 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 and i think why does that matter. well this is america and everybody looked up to us so it's a matter of pride do you think. we've gone. so 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 well we know the true answer in hindsight and in many decades to come.

live from moscow this is r.t. britain so it's a bigger show of anger yet against the massive cuts the country faces to plug its debt this week tens of thousands of students descended on london against plans to triple their college fees they burned banners and broke windows and hold objects up 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 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 the hunting day private golf clubs you know it's

a huge waste of money there's no excuse for any budget in fact it should be. posted about this two point nine nine percent increase is 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 is only by the actual chief negotiator here the every team in the. about half of our liberty has called this three point nine percent claim as being dishonest and the present european union says it's a new year not at this season 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 theory so we really are left in limbo here but there's no excuse for this kind of increase. and time now to update you on some of the news making headlines around the world today the u.s. is offering israel a multi-billion dollar incentive package in return for

a ninety day freeze on building jewish settlements in occupied palestinian territory and the proposal includes stealth jets and promise to veto any anti israel resolutions by the un it's part of president obama's attempts to restart the u.s. sponsored peace talks palestinians though remain skeptical saying the freeze doesn't include construction in east jerusalem which it's insisting on as a precondition to further negotiations. and a british couple who had spent more than a year held hostage by somali pirates have been freed paul and rachel chandler were captured in october two thousand and nine while sailing in their yacht near the seychelles the pirates reportedly kept the couple locked separately for months demanding a four million pound ransom and stored around a quarter of that was paid to secure their release. but a russian artist who want to wanted rather to incite he's wanted to or inciting

religious hatred is now letting internet users give him a huge electric shocks in the name of freedom of speech every vote gives oleg a muslim matty a jolt now he insists it's not a stunt but a test of society's values have never been to meet him and some of the images in this report are graphic. this happens every time one hundred people on the internet both elect mother and mattie 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 so like this is a test of how society interprets freedom do they want to use it to save or to kill this is a lot about our society mother mattie says his electric shock treatment is symbolic of what he calls the oppression of artists specifically says ship of art by vocal religious minorities. ten years ago he shot the radical film in which he was

authentic we crucified. i'm not the son of god certain inscription on his back a prominent orthodox christian youth organization and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred and knew this was the position where people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment all a feel for him no biggie he's crazy. mathematic did not wait for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile and bulgaria you know. i paid a high price i am separated from my homeland but if i'd gone to prison i would have paid an even higher price those people have tried to destroy me just maybe do nothing in choice we have laws that protect religion on the one hand and laws that protect the individual's right to freedom of expression he was caught between the two but the link was accused of committing hate crimes that i think is wrong with

you. since his crucifixion performance dozens of other artists have been fined and have their shows close most after mass destruction by christian groups. matter mattie says he has no fear of death or thousands of responses for him because no one should be driven to suicide by religious fanatics says one why are you giving people on the internet the power to decide your life and theirs sponsibility 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 either there are no artsy sofia bulgaria. and on the way shortly we'll hear from the man behind one of russia's biggest investment banks who was at the g. twenty to hear his assessment of the summit and i'll be back with the headlines in

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leaders of the world's richest economies agreed to evade a currency conflict but the civil summit failed to come up with detailed measures to sort out the global trade imbalances. and investigation into a cause of an organ trafficking network is now underway it's bringing the spotlight on to other claims that hundreds of. removed guns sold during the yugoslav. russian newspaper reveals who it claims exposed the. spy scandal between moscow and washington reporters say they were betrayed by their own boss some. major business leaders were also at the g twenty. one of russia's biggest investment banks have a chance to catch up with him that's coming up next.