barack obama reaffirms america's commitment to ratify the start nuclear weapons treaty and in talks with president medvedev on the sidelines of the asia pacific summit in japan. also this week leaders of the g twenty read to try and avoid deliberate currency devaluations an all out warfare. arrest of at least seven people in kosovo while charges of organ trafficking fuels theories of alleged organ failure by the kosovo liberation army during the war in the late ninety's. and a russian newspaper reveals the man who it claims exposed ten russian agents expelled from the u.s. this summer. giving

you today's top stories and a look back at the week that was here on r t barack obama has assured dmitri medvedev of his determination to see the senate ratify the start treaty nuclear cuts within the next few weeks the comments come at a meeting on the sidelines of the apec summit in japan tests are still your house more from yokohama. 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 at that time 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 the start treaty. during the lame duck session. or that this would reduce the nuclear long range missiles. 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 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 at the year two presidents discuss the ascension of russia to the world trade organization the bid of russia to join the w t o how 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 who lived up to all the agreements reached during my visit to washington i hope this process will continue and rush it will soon access the positive results are that of the start treaty ratification so it is very important that this is making headway making progress and the commitment is coming from the u.s. president on this matter. america's chief negotiator for the original start treaty in one nine hundred ninety one warns against letting the new deal whether richard burton says it's a crucial turning point and that not ratifying would send the wrong signal to the war. u.s. russian arms control is a critical part or critical component of dissuading other members of the international community to not go nuclear bomb and if we can't get a modest arms control agreement ratified aren't we giving talking points to

aquaman dennis shot in tehran what impact are we having on on pakistan on 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 considered the kind of fundamental security problem of our of our day which is the spread of nuclear weapons to fragile we and sometimes rogue states and potentially on to terrorists and finally i'll just simply say this i don't think frankly that the reset policy can survive the non ratification of start if we can't ratify this treaty we are going to send a signal of come on i believe of almost total incompetence to the rest of the

international community who was the fringe meetings between individual nations that seemed to see almost the progress at the apec summit the only other main result being a commitment to free trade and the final declaration the 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 won't help crisis recovery but then failed to adopt any action plan or he's an isa now it has more. the world at war the weapon currency. the fallout trade imbalance the world's paying i mean the world is paying the price for the asset bubbles that are being blown throughout the emerging markets and this high stakes battle for global exchanges it's china versus the u.s. on the western front the fed pumping six hundred billion bucks into the american economy the valuing the dollar while slamming china for not readily revaluing its

you want on the eastern front the chinese position is well you're depreciating the dollar watch and 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 and 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 sharply the group also agreed to develop early warning indicators to prevent economic turmoil but the question now. it's not 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 opinions 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 former president's memoirs detail everything from his views on invading iraq to justifying the use of torture plus. first going into a muslim village. i got beat up wire growing hatred of christians is the one thing

that israel's hard line muslims and jews seem to agree on the victims of violence tell 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 moratorium in the occupied palestinian territory washington's put on the table twenty stealth capable fighter jets worth three billion dollars and a pledge to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange of hope so for israel to halt construction in the west bank for three months with the u.s. promise not to ask for further prolong it palestinians are criticizing the plan saying the proposed trees will not apply to east jerusalem the recent round of u.s. brokered talks became stuck three weeks after they began after israel reaffirmed its commitment to continue building settlements in palestinian areas eva horo which is who is from a group that represents jewish settlements says obama is just trying to mend his reputation after his recent electoral losses. 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. there are editions of dog kosovo for years but now at least seven people have been charged with luring foreign nationals to sell their kidneys for transplant one suspect is linked to the kosovo liberation army which was accused of harvesting body parts from captured serbs during the war in the late ninety's r.t. sarah ferguson besta gates. 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 nineteen 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 causes. that focused on the private clinic medicare. the indictment relating to the. medical cases currently with the pursuit of this record. so we are 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 and misuse of public office there are also charges of wrong for use of the medical profession. although it's not yet officially being made public the indictment has been leaks the group are accused of removing the organs of people's poor they have been persuaded by the lure of money being offered around twenty thousand dollars for a kidney part of the leaked documents 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 they're accused of having performed illegal operations so we went to confront your

america about it we just tried to speak to america and they want to talk to us who are asking them about the to 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 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 cause of aids 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 sarah furthur r.t. because of a. you can find more on this horrific and long running story on our website our t. dot com also on lines and i. how looking shifty can get you stopped at security and israeli firm is developing a high scanning technology which it says is beyond foolproof. and it seemed to be popular love at first sight when he met prime minister vladimir putin the president with his ball gary and a sheep dog on a train trip to the country it joins a labrador and tiger he's been given in the past all that and more at dot com.

as with all good spy stories the saga of the ten russian agents expelled from the u.s. took an unexpected twist this week a russian newspaper claim they've been portrayed by their boss a man known as colonel sure because of his now apparently under protection from intelligence services. has the details. that 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 cool for allegedly headed the american department of russia's foreign intelligence service neither his first name or photograph have been found to journalists from the moscow based community newspaper who have 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 in all were given away just like all sell. their findings have been confirmed by the president on friday dmitry medvedev said he knew who the 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 not credible 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 that 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 anna chapman was deemed the russian james bond girl but did see flashes draw focus away from the . we'll super agent in the group mikail which in course 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 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 speak then to south america working as a photographer he eventually married and moved to the us changing his name to who won it saying he continues we denied to being a russian agent and to 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 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 this 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 full port so easily seemingly at the hands of one man you've got this going on r t moscow george w. bush broke his silence on his turbulent presidency this week his newly published memoirs even defend the most controversial decisions of his time in office and confessing to some of the blunders that sealed his reputation in the book decision points bush acknowledged as what he calls a sickening feeling that he authorized the u.s. invasion of iraq based on faulty intelligence by bush justifies the use of

waterboarding terror suspects as a legitimate form of interrogation that in his view was useful in breaking up terror plots former cia officer ray mcgovern believes that by justifying torture the bush 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 slaves. or late great or genocide all was always wrong lloyd george bush is saying is that some lawyer said he hired to give them the correct answer so you could go ahead and waterboard people who waterboarding being universally recognized everywhere but in the white house as torture is you don't get me to give 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 listened 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. commentary from former cia officer ray mcgovern britain saw its biggest show of anger against the massive cost the country faces to plug its dead this week tens of thousands of students descended on london against plans to triple their tuition they burn banners broke windows and threw objects at police more than fifty were arrested budget cuts coincided with a dispute over paying to run the european union which is in line to get even more cash remember states next year david campbell bannerman who's a member of the british british member of european parliament tells r t why he

thinks britain would be better off spending the money back home. 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 is 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 out so we can as boasted about this to put nine percent increases being great cut relative to six percent that's what the european parliament here wanted a six percent increase which is outrageous really but to be honest this is not true it hasn't actually been agreed it's now is cool does only by the actual chief negotiator here the negotiating involved the pala but as cool this two point nine percent claim as being dissolved and the president of the european union says it's an opinion not a decision so i mean to be honest we don't know where we are in 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 turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe the worst flooding in belgium for fifty years is devastated huge parts of the country and claim to lives there's been a month's worth of rain in the space of just two days with rivers overflowing in the central and western regions belgian prime minister says. doherty's are closely monitoring the situation though 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 bangladeshi nationalist party called for a day long nationwide strike demonstrations were triggered when authorities threatened to evict the opposition leader former home of almost thirty years. a retired british couple held for more than thirteen months have been released by

somali kidnappers although happy to be free they've spoken about ill treatment including beatings at the hands of their captors they say they've been sailing around the world when they were seized by pirates last year the ransom paid to secure their freedom was reportedly almost a million dollars. an explosion at a resort hotel in southeast mexico has killed six three among the dead are three canadian tourist fifteen others were injured investigators say the most likely cause was a build up 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 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 ots enough to drop off a package at his house thinking it had a candy inside his fifteen year old son opened it the pipe neatly killed him and then blew him into the kitchen. and 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 began 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 manchester 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 given the 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 who converted to christianity in recent years one hour as a fighter with arafat i hated christians just as much as i hated jews i was going on around your i'm looking for their own zone through our anger into their homes or putting 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. everything i had for this army because in the end this is my country but it's not what counts it's problems. about it each time i go home in uniform someone will call it me traitor and things like that it doesn't influence me. in recent months attacks against christians in christian science have increased at the beginning of november this hundred year old church was burned by right wing israelis who broke some of the windows and threw molotov cocktails and science it's no wonder that christians here are feeling under fire. team to resign them. for generations the u.s. has been used to the rest of the world looking up to it but americans know there

are problems at home and abroad that are causing that image to wane especially as other countries emerge online talk show host laurie harford ask people on the streets of new york which nation they think may be the top dog. in the united states still leading the world this week let's talk about the i don't think so right now things going on a lot of issues going on and living in europe for little. 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 that we are hard to take the jobs of americans so there is

a downward trend going on in america probably with all german from other countries are reporting coming in and. we need to do the same with 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 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. bottom line is will only know the true answer in hindsight and in many decades to come. with us here on our tears we continue our view of the week's top stories up next an interview with one of the men behind one of the rushes of biggest investment banks coming your way after that lines.

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