there at the apec summit actually the talks between the russian president dmitry medvedev and the 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 priority i reiterated my commitment. 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 of the nato summit upcoming nato summit next week in this but we

believe that russia should nature 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 bid 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 to w.q. 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. you 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 and positively the positive results i thought of the start treaty ratification so it is very important that this is making a habit of making a progress and a commitment is coming from the us a president on this matter has for us in our correspondent america's chief negotiator for the original stock treated ninety ninety one warns against letting the new deal with the region but says it is a crucial turning point now and that not ratify would send the wrong signal to the well 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 augmentin

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 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 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 the countries agreed not to introduce any new trade barriers over the next three years about mirrors this week's g. twenty summit in seoul where he disagreed that a currency war won't help since recovering but then the hail failed rather to adopt any action plan in this and now it's called outside of the story. 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 devaluing 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 and margin we revalue the removal of the chinese currency which the u.s. 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 barred. being 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 publish 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 clash from getting out of control and he's now a r t from seoul south korea. coming up there's been no shortage of opinions on george w. bush's presidency but in a few minutes on the program a look at the man himself but his tenure confessions and denials the next president's men was detail his regrets over invading iraq to justify all of that coming up for you tonight also. this artist using shock tactics through letting internet strangers into the vote with involves details of that story coming up to.

the u.s. is desperately trying to revive the stalled middle east peace talks by enticing israel to extend its construction moratorium moratorium on occupied palestinian territories washington's put on the table now twenty stealth fighter jets with three billion dollars pledged to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange it wants israel to hold construction of the west bank for three months with the u.s. promise not to us to prolong it further palestinians are criticizing the plan those saying the proposed freeze will not apply to east jerusalem the recent round of u.s. brokered peace talks became stuck three weeks after they began after israel reaffirmed his commitment to continuing building settlements in palestinian areas ever how those from the yes the council in jerusalem which represents jewish settlements she says obama is just trying to mend his reputation of the losing the midterms. it's an interesting fact after obama's midterm. where he sees that americans are very

upset with his domestic policy and it doesn't look like it's going to get better anytime soon then he's got to go off shore as it were and figure out how to make some kind of success of his of his regime of his presidency somewhere else and that's where we are right now after years of official denial the e.u. is finally taking action over claims of organ trafficking in kosovo at least seven people including a high ranking health official have been charged with luring foreign nationals to remove the kidneys for transplant one suspects linked to the cost of a liberation army which was accused of selling body parts of corruption of the yugoslav war. investigates for r.t. . 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 court 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 eighth of october and there are five defendants charged

with very various. organized crime illegal trafficking of organs misuse of public office they're 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 seen by a sea also reveals that many of these people. never paid r.t. discovered that those who have been indicted and have 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 illegal operations so we went to confront your medicare about it we just tried to speak to america and they don't 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 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 of aids past 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 sarah firth r.t. because of a. story on our home page as well updating it regularly for you and our team dot com tonight also a few others involved in full on a. fifty event you stopped and security and israeli firms developed a scanning techniques now which it says are beyond full proof you got a backstory there for instance. if you like airplanes this is a trait that checking the very front seat of a boeing seven three seven is our ticket here captain tour of how the world's most passenger jet works boarding pass online tonight but i'll take the call.

the moscow washington spy scandal talking unexpected turn this week when it was revealed that the ten russian agents were sold out by their own boss a russian newspaper stories colonel sharper coffin is now apparently under f.b.i. protection r.t.c. government cannot pick up a 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 spying 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. head of the american department of russia's foreign intelligence service neither his first name or a grant have been found to journalists from the moscow based commuter science news people who have held their own investigation clean he is behind it all in 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 cell. very 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 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 us had just come to an end it's not credible to back off russia to the united states just a few days before the meeting in aid of the 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 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 see flashes draw focus away from the real super agent in the group me coalition cause was still in the shadows just as he had been for the past four decades. that is true this is an amazing story it doesn't only have a trailer but a true hero as well as the two absolute opposites i'm talking about with some coffee and his fantastic story. he left the soviet union in the 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 we denied being a russian agent until colonels are well presented secret documents that he then revealed his true identity but intelligence experts seem naming and shaming russian

operatives was probably not in the prime target. because 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 r.t. moscow. george w. bush broke his silence on his turbulent presidency this week his newly published memoirs 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 but should knowledge is what he calls a sickening feeling when he authorized the u.s. invasion of iraq based on false intelligence bush justifies the use of

waterboarding terror suspects in the gypsum and form of interrogation which in his view was useful in breaking up terror plots the 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 into custody it was a tragic mistake and the fact that the president can't recognize that mistake 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 with the failure of the federal government to respond to the 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 the rest of the world looking up to it but americans know there are deep problems at home and abroad which is causing that image to wane right now especially as other countries of all night talk shows lower half and stars people in new york which nation they think is top dog.

is the united states still leading the world this week let's talk about that i don't think so right now things 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 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 that we are hard to take the jobs for americans so there is a downward trend going on in america has some by looking out for the world the chinese who else is there 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 should be and. we're in trouble probably with all german from other

countries who are open come in and. we need to do the same we need to we need to rethink what we're doing is it 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 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 think so i think so we've done such a such a far far away from where we used to be in terms of at least economically that. i think we'll find our way but right now anyone who has a better idea should step up. whether or not you believe the u.s. is still leading the world the bottom line is we'll only know the true answer in hindsight and in many. decades to come.

the big story from the week britain saw its biggest show of anger yet against the massive cuts the country faces of plug its debt this week tens of thousands of students descended on the against plans to treble their college fees they burnt banners broke windows and hurled objects of the police more than fifty were arrested the harsh budget cuts coincide with a dispute over paying to run the european union which is in line to get even more money from member states next year i spoke to david campbell bannerman he's a british member of the european parliament he told me why he thinks britain would be better off spending the money back home. when you look at where the money is 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 as states and private golf clubs you know it's a huge waste of money there's no excuse for any increase in the budget in fact it

should be coutts very common has boasted about this super 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 is only by the actual chief negotiator here the every piece of the parliament has called this two point nine percent claim as being dishonest and the present european union says it's an opinion not a decision so i mean 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 . and every most bizarre story of the week is next to a russian artist who's wanted for inciting religious hatreds letting internet users given huge electric shocks in the name of freedom of speech every vote gives all league mattie a jolt he says is not a stunt but

a test of society's values are to go god knows when to meet him and you might find some of the images in this report a little graphic. this happens every time one hundred people on the internet both elect modem mati 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 like this is a test of how sometimes he interprets freedom do they want to use it to save or to kill this is a lot about our society mario monti 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 he thought innovation and russia sued him for

inciting religious hatred and knew there was no position their people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment all they feel for him no beauty he's crazy. mathematic did not wait for a court decision and fled he's now living in exile and bulgaria. 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 those people have tried to destroy me just. we have laws to protect religious on the one hand and laws that protect individual's right to freedom of expression she was caught between the two but the work was accused of committing hate crimes that i think is wrong with you. since his crucifixion performance dozens of others have been fired and have their shows closed most of the 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 will be fun to see someone die suggest someone else a legacy fighting what seems to me were the aim now he didn't get injured today but if anything happens to him over the next week everybody involved in the story will be a loser if there are no artsy sofia bulgaria well running of the main stories of the week for you are recap them again in a few moments i'm kevin and thanks very much for being with our team this sunday night and fourteen.

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the official. touch from the. video. and. in the palm of your. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. this is. the weekend of so review of the week with me kevin owen and these the top stories that make the headlines president russia. remains a top priority for the united states during for. investigation

into the cost of an organ trafficking networks underway. hundreds of. russian newspaper reveals who it claims exposed. to. they were betrayed by their own bosses. and the leaders of the world's richest economies a great way to come see conflict solve. global trade. major business leaders are also at the g twenty summit among them the head of one of russia's biggest investment banks and i caught up with him. president.