there was a first talk at 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 i reiterated my commitment. to start for the. 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 it's beneficial for. right now we're working on a number of issues including the so-called european anti missile shield we've exchanged ideas as to what could be done here and will discuss this at the summit

apart from that we've been working together in a productive way and will continue to do so this being the apec summit trade and economy is a very important topic and the year two presidents discuss the ascension of russia to the world trade organization the bid of russia to join the w t oh no president obama has said that russia has the full support of the u.s. and he said actually said the russia belongs 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 do this is an achievement by the american president and his team who lived up to league remains reached during my visit to washington i hope this process will continue and brush it will soon access the. positive results are that of the start treaty ratification so it is very important that this is making ahead remaking. and a commitment is coming from the u.s.

president on this matter. america's chief negotiator for the original start treaty in one thousand nine hundred one warns against letting the new deal with her richard burton says it's a crucial turning point that would not ratify and not ratifying 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 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 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 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 i believe of almost total incompetence to the rest of the international community. it was the fringe meetings between individual nations that seemed to see a most of the progress at the asia pacific summit the only other main result being a commitment to free trade in the final declaration the countries are agreed and not to introduce any new trade barriers over the next three years it mirrors this week's earlier g twenty summit in the seoul where leaders agreed that a currency war won't help crisis recovery and then failed to adopt any action plan

parties and he said now it has more. the world after the war the weapon currency. the fallout trade imbalance the world's paying i mean the world is paying the price through the asset bubbles that are being blown throughout the emerging markets and this high stakes battle for global exchanges it's china versus the us on the western front the fed pumping six hundred billion bucks into the american economy the valuing the dollar while slamming china they're not readily revaluing it's 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 nuns 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 there's been no shortage of opinion on george w. bush's presidency but in a few minutes we'll look at what the man himself has to say about his tenure. confessions and denials the ex president's memoirs detail his regret over invading iraq justifying torture methods plus. first time going into muslim belief. i got beat up why a growing hatred of christians is the one thing israel's hardline muslims and jews agree on the victims of violence told their story in a few minutes. but first the u.s. is desperately trying to revive the stalled middle east peace talks by enticing israel to extend its construction more moratorium in occupied palestinian territories washington's put on the table twenty stealth fighter jets worth three

billion dollars and a pledge to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange it wants israel to halt construction in the west bank for three months with a us promise not to ask it to prolong further palestinians are criticizing the plan saying the proposed freeze would not apply to east jerusalem the recent round of u.s. brokered peace talks became stuck three weeks after they began after israel reaffirmed its could be. to continue building settlements in palestinian areas even our own from the group that represents the jewish settlements she says obama is trying to mend his reputation after his recent electoral hammering. it's an interesting fact after obama's midterm loss 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. was 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 their kidneys for a transplant one suspect is linked to the kosovo liberation army which was accused of selling body parts of capture and serbs during the kosovo war or two sarah for 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 close 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 two forces promise to secure the safety of all people living in kosovo regardless of their ethnicity but after the serbian forces left ninety percent of the kidnappings happened the

allegations were made in a book by former u.n. war crimes prosecutor carla del ponte say but the case never made it to cool its because of a lack of evidence now they it's returned to the public attention in the wake of an investigation into another organ trafficking case in kosovo. the team focused on the private clinic medicare. the documents relating to the. medical cases currently. with the pristina district court. so we're waiting. confirmation hearing what we can say is that the two indictments were filed on fifteenth of october and there are five defendants charged with very various. organized crime illegal trafficking of. misuse of public office they're also. wrong thought. 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 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 that those who've been indicted and have been working at medicaid before it closed and now working at private clinic medical just next door to the place are achieved of having performed the illegal operations so we went to confront your america. 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 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 stirs 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 she went out one day and was taken away for questioning he never came back the scars of cause of aids passed still evident today and there are concerns that cause a very is becoming an easy breeding ground for organized crime those who still wonder how their family members suffered see the truth of what happened cannot be allowed to remain buried sara furthur r.t. because of a. you can find more on that horrific a long running story on our web site r t dot com here's what's also online few

tonight. how looking shifty can get you stopped at security and israeli firms developed ice scanning techniques which it says are beyond food. and it seemed to be the first sight when vladimir putin was presented with this bold garion sheepdog on a trade mission to the country joins a labrador and a tiger that he's been given in the past all that and more just a click away at our t. dot com. has all good spy stories must the saga of the ten russian agents kicked out of the u.s. took an unexpected twist this week a russian newspaper claimed they'd been betrayed by their own boss a man known as colonel shed about all of this now apparently under protection from intelligence services or he's ever piskun off as more. that 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 based community news people who've held their own investigation claim he is behind blowing his colleagues cover in the united states. everyone we spoke to agreed that this was the biggest failure in the history of the foreign intelligence service some of the agents worked undercover for decades and all were given away just like all cell. their findings have been confirmed by the president on friday dmitry medvedev said he knew who the traitor was from the thursday of the scandal it was june when american authorities

announced the captured ten people suspected of being russian secret agents 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 colonel to back off russia to the united states just a few days before the meeting they give some visit and according to some reports of a few months before that he was offered a promotion at work which could have seen him subjected to a lie detector test and vet some believe he's why he we jetted the job offer instead he turned the other way by turning in his associates the media quickly found its favorite among the group of deported agents young rich and beautiful on a chapman was deemed the russian james bond girl but did the paparazzi flashes draw

focus away from the. real super agent in the group mikail was in court 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 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 spin then to south america working as a photographer he eventually married and moved to the us changing his name to juan lazaro it said he continues we denied being a russian agent until colonel presented secret documents that he then revealed his true identity but intelligence experts seen naming and shaming russian operatives was probably not the prime target. of this that. was probably us agent for a long time themselves 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 this 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 on moscow. george w. bush broke his silence on his 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 the book decision points bush acknowledges what he calls a quote second in 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 a former cia officer ray mcgovern believes that by justifying torture bush's white house got caught in

a web of lies. well number one it saved no lies that in itself is a big lie the proof is in the putting it creates more terrorists secondly it could ever be justified torture is one of those techniques or one of those things that is all was intrinsically wrong. just like slavery or like rape or genocide all was always wrong what george bush is saying is that some lawyers that he hired to give him the correct answer said you know you could go ahead and waterboard people waterboarding being universally recognized everywhere but in the white house as torture is you don't get meeting to disengage psychologically from a dependency such as on alcohol without help this business about the almighty intervening and his turning himself over to the almighty is cynical in the extreme

he needed professional help and when he listen to the almighty tell him to invade iraq well that's where it gets really ridiculous it's not the almighty that i know about. from former cia officer ray mcgovern speaking with us here on r t turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the worst flooding in belgium for fifty years as it devastated huge parts of the country and claimed two lives there's been a month's worth of rainfall in the space of just two days with rivers overflowing in central and western regions belgium's prime minister says authorities are closely monitoring the situation although no state of emergency has so far been declared. hundreds of opposition supporters and police clashed for the second day in the bangladeshi capital dhaka tear gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse protesters after the bangladesh nationalist party called for a day long nationwide strike demonstrations were triggered when authorities threatened to a vic the opposition leader from the home of almost thirty years. a retired british

couple held for more than thirteen months has been released by their somali kidnappers although happy to be free of you spoke about ill treatment including beatings at the hands of their captors they had been sailing around the world when they were seized by pirates last year the ransom paid to secure their freedom was for freedom was reportedly nearly a million dollars. an explosion at a resort hotel in southeast mexico has killed at least six people fifteen others have been injured investigators say the cause was most likely the buildup of natural gas under the hotel lobby. israel is plagued by religious conflict but it's not always between jews and muslims they appear to have united against what they see as a common threat targeting christians because of their faith as artie's policy reports the violence is on the rise. david ortiz lives dangerously

a christian pastor among religious jews in the west bank city of i will he's received dictates for trying to convert jews and muslims to his faith my first time going into a muslim village. i got beat up we were giving our bibles someone hated 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 in the blew him through the kitchen. made a hole. in this choice most of the thrusts were in this way but the back fire destroyed the refrigerator and everything back it took three years for israeli police to catch the perpetrator a religious jew jack titanfall who lived in a nearby israeli settlement he'd already killed two arabs places he's very proud. of he big out of favor but 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 manchester square and teach about jesus but all that ended after her house was nearly burned down i didn't feel like i belong to this nice anymore i feel like i'm 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 had to memorize. but abu sada ignores the threats he's one of a growing number of muslims whose converted to christianity in recent years one hour as a fighter with arafat i hated christians just as much as they hated jews i was

going on around your i'm looking for their own zone through anger into their homes or putting out their cars because i believed christians our spouses were 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. everything i have to do because in the end this is my country but it's not what counts it's probably. a little bit of each time i go home in uniform someone will call it me traitor things like that it doesn't influence speak. much in recent months attacks against christians in christian science have increased at the beginning of november this hundred year old church was burned by rightwing israelis who broke some of the windows and threw molotov cocktails inside it's no wonder that christians here are feeling under fire

. seem to be singing. for generations the us has been used to the rest of the world looking up to it but americans know there are deep problems at home and abroad that are causing that image to wane especially as other countries emerge online talk shows laurie harford asked people in new york which nation they think may be the 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 in living in europe for the world 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 were americans so there is a dollar trend going on murtha probably with all german from other countries who are ripping comment 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 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. stay with us as we continue wrapping up the week's top stories here on our team

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a major offensive for the army. its country became the symbol on the floor of the financial system. and the victory over nazi germany. the fall of. two thirty am in moscow good to have you with us and we look back at the week's news here on our team president obama reaffirms america's commitment to ratify the start nuclear weapons treaty and talks with president medvedev on the sidelines of

the asia pacific summit in japan obama also reiterated u.s. support for moscow's made to join the world trade organization. also this week leaders of the g twenty group of nations agreed to try and avoid deliberate currency devaluations but the sole summit failed to come up with detailed measures to sort out global trade imbalance. arrest suddenly. seven people in kosovo on charges of organ trafficking and fuel theories of alleged organised theft by the kosovo liberation army during the war in the late ninety's details of the case are due to be made public at the end of the month. when a russian newspaper appeals the man who it claims exposed ten russian agents expelled from the u.s. this summer they were reportedly betrayed by their own balls. major business leaders were also on hand at the g. twenty among them the head of one of russia's biggest investment banks caught up with him the interview was next thing.