grand victorian hotel gloria prince who turns out springs resort and spa tied to a hotel while she penned ambassador. to the westin toy the evergreen closer hotel in time to tell you learned this hotel to an ambassador like the hotel points pushchairs and how would print churchill the splendid hotel in touch with the hotel the touch of the future a good good how would international flood to achieve every green lol he told. made in china the apac and g. twenty summits leave the world with a feeling that the asian state is now in the driving seat of the global economy. with republicans in the u.s. congress urging spending cuts in every field education health care are likely

targets but not it seems to fans an imperial ambitions. hold for the homeless our team needs one doctor in moscow has made it her quest to help the less fortunate some of whom have no one else to turn to. this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh and welcome to the program the center stage of world economy and politics a shifting to the asia pacific region and that's the view of russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov he was speaking in china at a meeting of ministers of three merging powers russia india and china are part of a powerful blog known as bric which is hoping to change the economic landscape of the planet so who is already leaving the dominant powers of today behind artie's tests are still you know. from

a pile of ruins right after the second world war to an economic powerhouse second only to the us all of the span of a single lifetime major pan asia economic miracle. you think oh yeah but nowadays the land of the rising sun. rising discontent. down. the unemployment rate itself is around five percent but. the quality of the jokes play. out of you i think they have. even when companies hire new people they tend to the condition. without social security so the social benefits economic growth is on a standstill and export the engine of its economy are hurt by a soaring again pushing them to take their business elsewhere and in the short run we'll be doing you should we be increasing the prevention we will be increasingly

important parts for the buses by overseas he's referred to china also known as the factory of the world with a major chunk of every manufactured art of today either fully or partly made in china i'm here in the heart of the largest chinatown. there been four generations of chinese that moved to japan and they've been fitted greatly for the rise of this country economically but ironically the original country they had left has now overtaken their adoptive home to become the second largest economy in the world which means japan is now chasing the pack rather than leading it japan you're quite right still seeing you're stuck in the mud struggling to generate. growth beyond the u.s. so the sluggish. and i'm not sure either of those things are never going to change or many would say we're. this is

the beginning of china's era its economic clout is undeniable at the recently concluded g. twenty and apec summit barack obama repeatedly demanded that china lets the you want appreciate seeing below chinese currency is hurting u.s. exports chinese president hu jintao live and unmoved china gets the last word that's the new reality in asia if not the whole world. tests are cilia r.t.d. yokohama japan. while still planning to come this hour here in our team including. kind of the you know sun down as an imperialist power republicans seem eager to throw caligula's piles of dollars add us to fans mostly at the cost of social benefits. and a new wave of saying sorry an apology service opens a mosque anyone can pay to ride the wrongs of their relationships.

military assistance is what's on the table as the lebanese prime minister is coming to moscow saad hariri is expected to meet with his counterpart vladimir putin during the two day visit ahead of his trip r.t. talk to the lebanese premier on relations between the two countries as well as international issues such as russia's role in the middle east peace process watch the full interview in in an hour style here in r.t. but here's a preview. therefore i think russia could play a very important role but it is mean your friends in the arab world we need to use our relations with russia in order to communicate the arab stance and think through the international community because it is very unnerving to see that in just as done by israel to palestinians as well as to lebanon and syria we can no longer ignore that israel is trying to impose its own agenda it keeps using lands daily unfortunately the world is not doing anything about it literally relations with russia. very important to us we would like these relations to be economically

beneficial as well. like to find out how russia could assist lebanon and equipping their army and security forces in this respect we are going to. start russian friends. the republicans call to slash spending across the board seems to have gone down well with voters in the us midterm elections where the economy in ruins politicians say there will be cuts in education and health care but there is one multibillion dollar area that they won't touch with the u.s. debt in the trillions in the economy still in the toilet it's no surprise politicians in washington are calling for this solution it's across the board spending cuts and in fact it was the rallying cry heard around the cable channel talk on midterm election night air when you get right down to the details so charity may be here medicaid you kyra that is not what i say it looks a lot more clear that across the board cuts really exclude

a fifty eight percent chunk of the budget and i mean that's why it's time spending would you cut defense across the board as well as the most exact figure do you do not cut defense that how can politicians afford not to touch the six hundred billion dollars a year elephant in the discretionary room. that rises to over a trillion dollars depending on what you factor into what you're calling defense minutes a politician democratic or republican or a particular session of congress begins to we need to significantly cut spending there's an immediate outcry and those congressional districts that are impacted i am sure it's political and hey being a superpower doesn't come cheap it's a question of maintaining ready to have a capability to project force in other words it costs a lot of money to support this it's our empire we have an empire we have half a million of our troops in other people's countries all over. the world. maybe the

spending isn't that big of a deal when you put it like that sounds like a huge giant number of terms of us dollars but we have a fourteen trillion dollar economy but here is what else is quickly approaching fourteen trillion dollars the u.s. debt at the u.s. continues to demand spending almost as much on the fence as the rest of the world combined relies on other countries to pay for this countries like china to fund u.s. debt or another word to fund us to america storing all of these dollars in iraq and . afghanistan in japan and its bases around the world that's what the deficit is and that's what the u.s. isn't talking about at the federal american politicians would rather sidestep the issue i never cross the border or protect defense at the cost of programs americans count on such as social security some high profile players are drawing attention to what actually resembles reality comedians for one america is like a family that spends way more than they bring in and had to give up that big stupid

boat. and you know what america's stupid boat is it's our empire oh yeah and former budget director is a republican president. and the. son is an imperialist power and we can't have credit card imperialism we can't be the policemen of the world because we can't afford it we're going to cut defense drastically but with the will on capitol hill looking more like this if you do you do not cut defense and the president overseeing this astronomical defense driven debt what does this really mean for the country it means that mr obama is trying to turn the united states into a third world country just as george bush did and just as clinton did there's just as reagan did so there's been a constant movement of the united states to run up foreign debt without any ability to pay or even without any and ten. and when that credit card is maxed out that

tough talk we're hearing now that you're going to be following understand your feelings it is more a lister r t new york and eastern a members of nato will benefit from its partnership was russia the organ of the organization secretary-general has sat in an interview to a german newspaper anders fogh rasmussen also stated that russia nato cooperation is the best protection for alliances members and the secretary general was optimistic about joint work on missile defense and yours which will be a key issue at the nato summit in lisbon this week which russia will attend troitsky from the moscow state university of international relations as positive about russia nato joint project but says moscow should forget its other allies. i believe should the mention be retained in russia need to relations should russia formally become. all. defense many of these

issues will be sorted out by themselves given the level of mutual trust between the two and russia will increase significantly should they have a joint missile defense of course russia will need not compromise any of its existing. blocks of relationship such as to its. relationship with china russia will only become. to object to the world's most effective military the country's blogs. and i was from alaska see university of international relations there. well there are always more stories our website r.t. dot com but here is a quick preview of what might catch your eye. while forecasters predict the coldest winter russia has ever seen there is no sign of it yet but muscovites experiencing

record breaking warmth of amber days. to discover why horrific side of fads of the vietnam war still fell today with many saying no amount of us compensation can give them back their health although some more are to dot com. with thousands of people living rough in the streets of moscow the chief concern for them remains how to make it through each night but thanks to one only doctor help us at hand however xan thomas reports she battles with a chronic lack of funding to bring treatment to the city's poorest people. and as winter approaches in moscow hundreds of homeless people stand in line waiting for just a small bit of food. says well people come here to eat you see this food here and

eat some of it and take the risk to my kids i've got kids you know. sygate a copy of is just one of thousands of homeless in moscow simply trying to get by but i live under a railway platform that are like forty of us there are two openings so twenty people fit in one of them and twenty fifth in the other three have been living there for one year recognizing a need to drink and regularly sets up a makeshift clinic and distribution center near the pub the let's go to a train station in central moscow she has also started a blog to let people know the problems moscow's homeless face those who come to her for help simply call her doctor leaves that used to be that we help some people to . return home the priority here is people who are seriously sick with cancer and tb those who are beaten up if we can we find their relatives i also try to help those who have come out of prison all at once a week the homeless and the needy from all over moscow come here so that they can

get supplies of food and even medical treatment if needed but as is the case with many operations of this kind the supply just does not meet the demand. in summer will active shirts in the winter we don't have enough food because they need to stay warm in the winter which is impossible without food we need more room it would be good to have a place where they could stay at least when it's really cold though she faces a daunting task with limited resources those who know her say their lives are better because of dr lisa's influence one of the thoughts that when i met elizabeth in two thousand and six here i help anywhere i can we met when we were in difficult places in our lives her mother was sick and my daughter was also at the same hospital one of my daughters died in a car accident the other one barely made it she noticed me and asked what was wrong that's how we met everything i have now is thanks to her and while those who come

here for help understand the stakes in this when your daughter born i don't know what we would do with it this help were not for these charity organizations we will be done for them dr lisa's fear is that politicians with the power to make real changes just don't understand the problems well. i don't know why this issue is being ignored because these are active people who could be returned to normal life when it hospitals that could solve many problems related to prolong to deaths or chronic disease it's not just the patient himself who is handicapped but the people around him who are the caregivers also become emotionally handicapped they have nowhere to go for help a dilemma that gives dr lisa the inspiration to continue to help one person at a time sean thomas r.t. moscow. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and the african union says north and south sudan have agreed a framework to smooth out tensions a had

a vote on southern independence the parties have demmer kater they are disputed border sudanese citizens will have the right to live on either side registration for january's referendum has now begun the vote as part of a peace deal which and a long north south civil war several years ago. thirty one times continue for the australian airline quantas and other of its planes the stock of a boeing seven forty seven was forced to return to sydney when smoke started coming from its electrical systems in the cockpit the job o. was carrying two hundred twenty one people and heading to argentina when the problem arose over the pacific and this is the airline's fourth such incident this month the most serious was an explosion in the engine of one of its brand new a three hundred eighty s. and its fleet of super jumbos has been grounded ever since. french president nicolas sarkozy has pulled his cabinet but kept in place as prime minister and that's despite francois theone offering his resignation on saturday most other

cabinet members have lost their jobs though political expert says the move would have asked for say rather the move will give the president much greater support allowing him to implement his controversial staring measures. governments around the world are slashing their spending in order to stay afloat in these tricky economic times and social benefits are often first for the chop the future of the welfare state is up for debate in today's cross-talk ten minutes time here in. the well first. property lawyer in the u. the problem is that the government doesn't believe that we can afford it well peter can you afford it. i don't see why i don't it's a great decision about how you spread in public but in the welfare state is not another pay t.v. program which we can switch on and off it's part of a social contract it's part of our constitution the welfare state we're helpings making some people better off or a clear proof proving their welfare but we've got the same time around on welfare

state for those people are paying we're we're redistributing. now if you're in the doghouse with your loved one while you look at macs could be your get out of jail free card one russian entrepreneur has started up a new business and its unique product is apologizing on your behalf yeah be careful though as it could have the opposite effect to prove the file straw argues hapless fermented greaves want to find out more. for many asking for forgiveness is a daunting task but it doesn't have to be any war that's now a small beacon by the apology if you plucking up the courage to say to a loved one was not you know when it comes to apologies a person needs help so i think that it's a great idea to help people make peace with each other and the five letter word can

come in many shapes and sizes well now we have a list of the forms of apology that we offer clients the letter is envelopes that can be personalized by the customer we also send to get like cuddly toys balloons and flowers so his what they have on offer i'm in thirty roubles can get you a text apology if you want done in person you back around a thousand if that's not enough i don't really want to go the full hog or have to get it done in a comical fancy dress old fashion romantics may go at the prospect of paying a stranger to fix rocky relationships with those who use the service having seen its praises. i guess. i was the one who went to the agency it was two weeks after we had a fight and i was browsing the internet and there i saw an advertisement i used it because it was something new something interesting and all your likes and usual things and it seems to have done the trick is

a business concept that doesn't just help those looking for a new way to ask for forgiveness is also a last chance saloon for desperate lovers trying to mend broken bones rubble and i didn't realize that she was the one it became clear only when i last time i hope i can still fix this i couldn't think of anything on my own i read about this in the paper decided it was a sign and came here. there are however those who see the rise of such services as a warring trend in modern society to shun face to face contact in favor of the latest means of communication. in my opinion it demonstrates the tendency for people to shy away from expressing their feelings nowadays we communicate via the internet and mobile phone a lot and stay in sort of isolation from each other. but even with its detractors many who showed out for forgiveness from a stranger feel it's a minor price to pay but it helps reduce its longtime love as jake agrees.

coming out at ten am g.m.t. here on our network we take a trip to place geologists call name tours and they watch our special report of the kentucky potential or the far east of russia here's a preview. for you. are comfortable. just you know search engines. and scary cars. on the moon. craters. scorching soil. yeah are included. a photo with the wild lunar rover.

well seventy joins me now in the studio is. an evolving news for russia's insurance market marina it looks like the industry should be back at pre-crisis levels within months driven by life and motor insurance i'll have more a bit later on in the bulletin but fast russian roets is looking for a foreign partner to build a national high speed rail way network across russia several companies are showing interest in the project but invest as a second government guarantees seen admit that it reports. faster journeys with agree to comfort and service that's the aim of russian real ways project to build high speed transport across the country and should there has turned to the leaders in the sector for promoting project among future partners spain is one of the leaders in europe with its network to become the largest already in december of this year high speed rail or transport contributes two

points by percent to the country's g.d.p. with the sector better drink to go fifty percent even in trouble to two thousand and nine six hundred sixty kilometers in two and a half hours the target said but added today and it will want to cover more than ten thousand kilometers with high speed rails in a twenty year programme it's the responsibility of russian state to create the conditions moreover we think that they're based on the researches that we have. presented for the ministry of finance the minister of transportation minister of economy it is clearly showed that during the time of the construction there will be a ratio of different new industries that are going to be created in russia cost jobs and a lot of new services as well as saving time high speed real shoes the goal of economic development in russia's regions where importance will provide technology and expertise forming a joint venture with an attitude to subsidiary cost estimates exceeds forty billion

dollars but that could come down and that means that all. new high speed rail is a built to the same standards the rolling stock is built to the same standards and in theory you should be able to run a train anywhere in european network has been built standard. be very careful which standards it chooses if it wants to have a low cost railway for the future and you era of rail travel began in russia with area express linking moscow center to the airport and sub sun the first rapid train to st petersburg customers are convinced it only remains stewing over investors high speed trains are unlikely to pay back their construction costs before two thousand and fifty. nine when you doing business are cheap. russia hopes to completely go ca sions on entering the world trade organization and become a member and next year president medvedev top eight which made the announcement on sunday in yokohama in japan. we have already promised the stage of by the troll

to auction of stores to a truly goshi the timeframe no depends nor the participants of the talks aiming to join the w t o next year it's more of a technical question our experts and their counterparts in geneva say a report of the working group can be prepared by spring twenty eleven the question is will we have enough time for the admission that will likely take place in the autumn it is difficult to forecast in this case the insurance market will reach pre-crisis levels within months so far this year the market has grown by only five percent but the key drivers being life and motor insurance but in a question of are reports. that young charny and his company answered the russian insurance market only two years ago from the start of the financial downturn two years on some saturation of the economy have almost recovery to pre-crisis levels and among them the insurance market we have followed i am on the russian market so

. it's not going on the other market and based on that though we are strong because you got it in. russia in terms of market especially in the sector off of what insurance the fast growing life insurance business is sin expanding by almost twenty four percent this year x. three see the more good it will reach the pre-crisis levels of two thousand and eight within months one key driver is do nasty copper it action forecasts to each one point seven million next year another growth sector is buildings insurance in september president need to suggested the return of compulsory fine surance after this summer's devastating wildfires however this will take much longer than the government wants according to one of the can. leading insurers the general director of angus trask says negotiations along will take two years. you can see what we see now only talks on how to implement mandatory fire insurance in the country if we talk about insuring apartments it mostly means insuring liability but if you talk

about countryside houses in this deals more with property insurance the state hasn't made its decision yet i think talks will go on for at least two years it's clear that number one drive the recovery consumer confidence is crucial as the industry is to meet its potential my dinner which no business r.t. . now let's take a quick look at the equity markets asian stocks mixed on monday with tokyo's nikkei finishing up more than one percent higher it was supported by better than expected economic growth in the third quarter exporters rose helped by the young weakness against the u.s. dollar but in hong kong stocks are lower after gaining early in the session tech stocks are higher but the basic material sector is dragging. and here in moscow stocks are edging high in early trade banks and energy named to high on the r.t.s. apart from the just dipping into the red this out. of the top blue chip gainers on the my sex was back around one percent higher this hour. aims to

raise up to four hundred million dollars from its upcoming i.p.o. that's according to common use paper citing a source close to the matter the listing will take place next year with the board aiming to attract funds to develop its business in russia and the c.i.s. . p.t.b. is in talks to buy home credit bank from czech financial group p. p.f. the deal is estimated to be worth two billion dollars home credit and finance buying is the second biggest consumer loans operation in russia the p.f. group has reportedly decided to sell one hundred percent of the bank to be t.v. as well as its operations in by the us on kazakhstan the b. to b. has not officially confirmed the deal but experts say the assets could be very interesting to the russian bank. and that's all the business news for now but of course i'll be back with more if you next hour and you can always find those stories on our website that's r t dot com slash business.

culture is that so much knowledge among the feeling goes i think the muslims are going to really be right when the welfare state long lived the welfare state the system is broken and bankrupt with almost no one taking responsibility.