the digital guru how would international. every green. rock obama reaffirms america's commitment to ratifying the start nuclear weapons treaty in talks with president medvedev on the sidelines of the asia pacific summit in japan. plus this week leaders of the g twenty meeting trying to avoid deliberate currency devaluations an all out war there. the arrests of at least seven people in kosovo on charges of organ trafficking theories of alleged organ theft by the kosovo liberation army during the war in the late ninety's. and a russian newspaper reveals that. exposed ten russian agents expelled from the u.s. this summer.

it's five am in moscow giving you today's top stories in a look back at the week's headlines here on our t.v. our top story barack obama has reassured. his determination to see the senate ratify the start treaty on nuclear cuts within the next few weeks the comments came at a meeting on the sidelines of the apec summit in japan. has more from yokohama. 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 get this started tweeting. during the lame duck session. or already 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 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 no president obama has said that russia has the full support of the u.s. and he said actually said the russia belongs at w.v.u. he spoke with the russian side they said that they expected this to happen at the

earliest this spring two thousand and eleven. recently we've made serious progress in terms of russia's decision to the. this is an achievement by the american president and his team who lived up to all the agreements reached during my visit to washington and 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 the progress and the commitment is coming from the u.s. president on this matter. turning now to some further analysis that attempts to pass this treaty on the nuclear arms reduction the main u.s. diplomat on the issue believes the ratification process has dragged on too long and says it's now critical that it happens soon i believe there is zero chance that we can get to the negotiating table any time soon on tactical nuclear weapons unless we get this treaty ratified and entered into force it will be

a profound blow to the us russian relationship and will cause some difficulties in terms of advancing our national security agenda with with the russian federation there's been a very very strong effort to understand this treaty it's been many years since we've had a big strategic nuclear arms control treaty of this type before the senate there's been a strong due diligence what i'm saying is that body of information is there nothing has changed over the ensuing period while folks have been out for the election process it's time to take that body of material make the decisions that are necessary and move forward to a vote on the floor it was the fringe meetings between individual nations that seemed to see you know most of the progress at the apec summit the only other main result being a commitment to free trade in the final declaration the countries are agreed not to introduce any new trade barriers over the next three years it mirrors this week

earlier g twenty summit in seoul where leaders agreed that a currency war won't help crisis recovery but then fail to adopt any action plan or to use a nice and now way 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 us 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 nuns going to happen there is no interest coming from china or germany that's who are the 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 defense 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 the now i r t from seoul south korea the us had wanted to use the g twenty to pressure china but ended up having to explain its own actions instead that's what the leading global currency analyst tells r t the us was really looking for the g twenty to be a forum to continue to pressure china and to have you know more unified front against china and asian currencies current account surplus countries. from from the rest of the world and what it actually ended up turning into was that the u.s. had to go in there and do the tables were turned that the u.s. actually had to explain its own behavior to a whole host of countries and the chinese i think were pretty adept at turning this

around and there were a lot of other countries who didn't mind actually turning the tables a little bit on the u.s. and saying ok well why don't you guys explain what you're doing with with the fed before your country before you start kind of throwing stones at us. 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 to say about his tenure and. the former president's memoirs detail everything from his views on invading iraq to justifying the use of torture plus. russia gets its first ever formula one team find out how it's gearing up to get ahead of the field and take its place on the grid and. first though the u.s. is desperately trying to revive the stalled middle east peace talks by enticing israel to extend its construction moratorium in occupied palestinian territory washington's put on the table twenty stealth capable fighter jets were three billion dollars and a pledge to fight any international resolutions against israel in exchange it was

israel to halt construction in the west bank for three months with the u.s. promise not to ask to prolong it further palestinians are criticizing the plan saying the proposed freeze 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. who represents who is from a group representing jewish settlements says obama is just trying to mend his reputation after his recent electoral hammering. it's an interesting fact after obama's mid-term 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 offshore 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 allegations that have dogged 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 a link to the kosovo liberation army which was accused of taking body parts from captured serbs during the war in the late ninety's r.t. sarra further investigate. 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 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 cars are. 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 there are also charges of wrong for use of the medical profession although it's not yet officially been made public the indictment has been leaks the group are accused of removing the organs of people's

poor they have been persuaded by the lure of money being offered around twenty thousand dollars for a kidney part of the leaked documents. 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 is just next door to the place they're accused of having performed the illegal operations so we went to confront your america about it we just tried to speak to your 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 fears ago where that were shut down you can see the proximity is extremely close another of the men indicted in the medicals case has possible links to yellow house after a war crimes tribunal witness claimed he was at the house the new investigation

stares at painful memories for those who are still trying to discover the truth about what really happened in the yellow house case and where their missing family members are now. after the war me myself my husband and our three children were living in costa he went out one day and was taken away for questioning he never came back the scars of course of a past 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 happens cannot be allowed to remain buried sarah firth r.t. because of a. more on this horrific a long running story on our web site r t v dot com here's what's also online tend. to looking shifty can get you started security and it's really worth about a guy scanning technology and what it says is both for. giving up

a lot of our say but if a lot of your point was presented with this blog area and she thought it strange your visit to the country it joins the labrador and the tigers given in the past all that and more at our t.v. account. as with any good spy story the saga of the ten russian agents expelled from the u.s. took an unexpected twist this week a russian newspaper claimed they'd been betrayed by their boss the man known as colonel share but is now apparently under protection from the intelligence services artie's ever piskun off reports 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. the drama of

this whole situation is that the agents were turned in by their boss. he's been named as 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 more school beast community people who have held their own investigation clean he is behind blowing his colleagues cover in the united states . everyone we spoke to agreed that this was the biggest failure in the history of the foreign intelligence service some of the agents worked undercover for decades in all were given away just like. their findings have been confirmed by the president on friday the media me did have said he knew who the treater 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 thought colonel to back off russia to the united states just a few days before the meeting that if 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 corps 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 as 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 speak 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 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. 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 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 r g moscow or w. bush broke his silence out of turbulent presidency this week is no he published memoir a c.m. 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 acknowledges what he calls a sickening feeling that he authorized the u.s. invasion of iraq based on false intelligence but he justifies news of waterboarding terror suspects as a legitimate form of interrogation that in his view was useful in breaking up terror plots but former congressman tom andrews will use 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. having the same treatment given to them that george bush was authorizing given to to to those who 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 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 when the failure of the federal government to respond to that hurricane disaster when in fact you have a war against iraq a violation of international law an invasion that killed thousands of american soldiers over one hundred thousand iraqis all to go after weapons of mass

destruction that did not exist. commentary there from former u.s. congressman tom andrews. britain saw its biggest show of anger yet against the massive cuts the country faces to plug its dead this week tens of thousands of students descended on london against plans to triple their college fees they burned banners broke windows and hurled objects at the police more than fifty were arrested the harsh budget cuts coincided with a dispute over paying to run the european union which is in line to get even more cash from member states next year david campbell bannermen a british member of the european parliament tells r t why he things britain would be better off spending the money back home. when you look at where the money's going i mean the m.e.p. expenses account has gone up by eighty five percent that's for entertainment you're getting film prizes there's money going on the hunting is states and private golf clubs you know it's a huge waste of money there's no excuse for any increase in the e.u.

budget in fact it should be caught the common has 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 not cool does only by the actual chief negotiator here the negotiating involved the pala but as cool these two point nine percent claim as being designed this 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 at the budget could be far more than two point nine percent it could go up towards six percent in siri so we really are left in limbo here but there's no excuse for this kind of increase perspective there from british member of european parliament david campbell bannermen unwary britain's e.u. spending would be better spent turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the worst flooding in belgium for fifty years as

a 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 authorities are monitoring the situation though no state of emergency has so far been declared. hundreds of opposition supporters and police have clashed for the second day in the bangladeshi capital dhaka tear gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse the crowd after a bangladeshi nationalist party called for a day long nationwide strike demonstrations were triggered when authorities threaten to evict the opposition leader from our home of almost thirty years. retired british couple held for more than thirteen months has been released by their somali kidnappers although happy to be free they have spoken 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 release was reportedly almost a million dollars. and the explosion at

a resort hotel in southeast mexico has killed seven people dead five canadian tourists fifteen others were injured investigators say the most likely cause was a build up of natural gas under the hotel's lobby. generations the u.s. has considered itself an example for others to follow in our next hour we asked people in the u.s. where they think the real power now lie. this is america and everybody always looked up to us. but for how much longer are the resident gauges of pain in the streets of new york about the influence in today's. russia has been making a number of firsts in the formula one of late this season drew its first ever driver taking part the country will host its first ever grand prix in sochi in two thousand and fourteen and now they'll be a russian car competing to be the first past the checkered flag. issue race trying to make sure that we all should is still some won't. but that might not be the case

for much longer he has an bishops and aims hired by fisher will be the one. in the best case they should appoint but that was his family this was. watching but for now he's currently stuck in go karts. that's because no russian company has ever built a formula one car in fact the image of russian cars internationally he's quite the opposite. that is until now. enter a new russian comic. they're out to build super powerful super fast cars and now they've bought a stake in britain's virgin racing team they'll be helping to build the first f one machine when not sure i want it you know this because all i should ever do we started working with the virgin team as technical partners a year and a half ago at this point we've bought a significant part of this chain now this is going to be the first russian team

change and. in fact russia seems to have well and truly waived the start of flight on its formula one ambitions the prime minister hopped into a red no if one car this week and hit two hundred forty kilometers an hour and the ink's just drive on a deal to host formula one races in the southern city of sochi from two thousand and fourteen but despite all this promise russian races have a long way to go to realize around visions of the the mechanical bull. when idea of success of the unites the one to twelve team will have a russian driver but it's not easy it takes time to bring up a driver just like any athlete. who now mikhail will have to stay in the cellar for . it might seem rather menial for aspiring formula one drivers mikhail says his experience on the go kart track is crucial. for you from your lion or a full seven years old. visit to start the feel they were from start to feel the

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