i'm sorry it was a big issue. the doctors are in hawaii that is trying to find a way to resuscitate the global economy so will they be able to find a cure and as the age of america reportedly comes to a close will there be room global pattern of. child abuse on almost every dimension she this is no longer a time for us this is the back and say we're going to let them steal our jobs and politicians are huffing and puffing negative rhetoric against china so as american leaders take some cheap shots at the so-called new rug rats we look at who else is afraid of the big bad china. the old they've lost their minds they've lost limbs and they've lost their time and they took the risks and they deserve it but somehow

it's just a generation after generation america keeps screwing it's about. fighting to survive as the u.s. honors veterans day america's heroes are returning from the front lines to a not so happy homecoming crippling unemployment homelessness and high suicide rate so whatever happened to no man left behind. last in the center of the fashion world to the center of the euro crisis italy dove headfirst into economic hardships so with berlusconi gone will the country be able to see that itself straight or is it just the next domino to topple the global crisis. good evening it is friday november eleventh eight pm in our studios here in washington d.c. i'm christine for now watching our team. i want to start out with the economy and

what seems to be a changing tide in the economy on a global scale you remember that old piece of advice go west young man and it seems that if you want to go where the growth is happening now you should instead say go east young man countries like china and india are growing rapidly as the rest of the world and especially the u.s. seems to be slowing down this is all being discussed this weekend at the asia pacific economic cooperation forum or apec in honolulu hawaii where leaders from twenty one countries will discuss things like free trade and green technology and of course the crisis in the eurozone well earlier i spoke to r.t. correspondent on the stasi a church she's in holland honolulu to hear how things are shaking out on the eve of this conference. christine you know this is a very big gathering we're seeing twenty leaders from twenty want to qana means get together to try to try to tackle issues that they're faced with in the global economy and as you pointed out one of their main priorities is working out you know

goofing trade boosting investments creating by the year twenty twenty your free trade zone and this is one of the biggest economic world groups comprising huge part of the world with fifty three percent of the world's g.d.p. certainly a lot to talk about in the realms of trade and things like that but we can't forget what's been going on this week last week this past few months talking about of course the crisis in the euro zone do you expect that that's going to sort of dominate the discussion there and shift the discussion away from perhaps what could have been the original agenda. well you know christine it's interesting some analysts really draw the parallel and see this apec summit as a continuation of what was going on the g. twenty certainly the euro crisis is something that's on the minds of leaders all over the world because everybody of course gets affected by what happens in europe and it's interesting to see that some are saying that yes although the apec summit

is focused on a free trade zone and lifting costumes for the countries that participate and that make up the asia pacific analysts are saying look you know this kind of decision that's sort of looking into the future is not going to meet global markets feel better because what they're expecting is a solution to the european debt crisis and this is of course something that's on the minds of leaders here and certainly going to be discussed on the sort of the sidelines of what is going to be taking place here i imagine as usual the u.s. will continue to press china on raising the value of its currency and he sends those talks are going to happen and that they'll get anywhere this time around. well that's certainly an issue that's constantly on the mind of the united states it's likely that this will be discussed but a lot of people are saying that the u.s. is really not in a position right now to be pushing china to do this barack obama tries to sort of men ties and create better relationships with countries in the asia pacific and china as one of the mean economies in that region people are saying that it's not

really the best time for the u.s. to continue pushing with this issue because of barack obama's trying to really improve his relationship he's actually dubbed himself the first pacific president now so certainly something that might be addressed but we're not expecting this to be one of the main issues for sure i want to switch the discussion a little bit on the you know a lot of leaders there and a lot of focus on east versus west economies but i want to ask you about a cultural differences there are some who see changes in the economy as somewhat tied to culture of different places americans say some are more concerned with things like fancy cars. and macs whereas people in south korea for example are more concerned with function or fashion and any talk there about cultural differences. well you know christine you point out an interesting issue really because cultural differences of course are something that impacts the

economy and that's what we've been seeing unravel in the last couple of years you know when the united states' sort of housing bubble popped because people were spending the money and not really thinking into the future meanwhile china in particular was taking care of economic growth you know they were focusing on developing the areas that they were lacking in and that's certainly something that we're seeing reflected in the country's economy people really you know the or work ethics and. the way people approach the work environment really reflects in the economy of the country so that's certainly something that's interesting and has been has been a an interesting kind of parallel to me between the united states and asian countries the difference in mentality has really reflected in what we're seeing in the economies and. of course this conference starts tomorrow just give us a little idea about what you're expecting the next few days how you're expecting them to play out. well you know it's really going to be a very busy weekend here in hawaii we know that apart from the sort of apec summit

gatherings and talks there's as many as twenty thousand people gathered here to hold all sorts of negotiations you know including bilateral meetings we're expecting a pretty interesting launch to take place between the russian president and barack obama where they're going to be discussing a lot of different issues including the united states plan for a european missile defense shield so you know definitely a lot of issues from trade to investments to better sort of economic climate stall to waste to trying to find ways to really tie it all together and very little time to do it so definitely we'll be bringing you are a lot of different updates on all sorts of issues that are going to be coming out from this effect gathering all right on this looks like it's very windy where you are. good luck with everything this weekend sounds like there is a lot to cover our own honest. and moving from the latest from apec to a deeper look into this tug of war already seems to be going on between the u.s. and china has shifted attitudes about china both in perception and action i don't

think you have to look further than the pentagon budget to see that part of that but we also wanted to see how this was manifesting itself among regular people so we sent our adriano who said oh out on the streets to talk to people and get a sense of their attitudes toward china. we. may want to. go to. the future you have to. say let's just get right down to it shall we should we be afraid of china. well what other place in washington d.c. is chinatown to find out i don't think we have to be afraid of china but i do think that we should be concerned well concerned might be the right word for it and

angelina isn't the only one a much twenty eleven b.b.c. poll shows that many in the west aren't exactly thrilled about china gaining more economic steam in the span of just five years negative attitudes towards china have skyrocketed with france germany italy a u.k. and the u.s. on happy at the thought of china nipping at their heels and for the u.s. nowhere is that clear and in the race to the white house china is on almost every dimension cheated this is no longer a time for us to sit back and say we're going to let them steal our jobs we need to do is stop enriching china with our money i want to be china i want to go to war with china and make america the most attractive place in the world to do business what. does it have to be us or them and isn't buying it the world's changing like the fact the fact that like china's economy is modernizing.

isn't there a reason why our economy is doing right now. and so it's maybe just a straw man. presidential candidates bring up but they get in the business since. most countries do just as any other country. yeah i don't know whether it comes from the us about china well there you have it it seems china is the new kid on the economic block and it's up to the us and the west to see how they deal with reporting from washington and are trying to set up our feet and earlier i spoke to caroline hellman professor of politics at occidental college she told me people in the u.s. may want to adjust their attitudes toward china and explain the times a little friendly rivalry isn't so bad take a listen i think that it is positive when we have another global competitor as they talked before about you know the united states basically having to play

nice with others because more people are are in the game i think that's positive but on an individual level no actually americans are getting benefiting tremendously from the cheap labor sometimes child labor and lower labor standards in china and wal-mart is basically walking into a retail chain for china so the notion that somehow this will be bad at the individual level seems a little absurd i mean you say caroline that americans are benefiting and i'm pretty sure you mean americans are benefiting because they can get goods for so cheap because of how cheap they cost to produce these goods on our great example i think but look around the country look at these abandoned factories and warehouses and you know manufacturing that used to exist here that doesn't anymore i mean that is you know people who produce these goods they simply say it's just much cheaper and much easier to produce in china how can we as a country reconcile that. well i think there's

a conflation of two things happening one is certainly the outsourcing which is happening all over the globe not just in china any place where there are more relaxed labor standards. environmental standards which is an issue that we as a country need to deal with because we do we are benefiting on the pain of of the less developed countries china included in that equation but beyond that we've also seen a shift from a manufacturing sector to a service sector economy so a lot of that loss came prior to china getting in the ring so i think some of that blame is misplaced but i think china becomes this very convenient target we need an enemy right the cold war is over terrorism doesn't provide a concrete enemy for the united states to confront so when we hear these republican competitors talking about china as an enemy i do think that it fills that notion of having something to oppose in order to buoy the resilience of nationalism and again i find i take issue with that nationalism and i don't think that china's growth

unfettered growth centrally at this point is all positive i'm concerned about the environment all i have it that is being read by the manufacturing standards i'm concerned about the quality of life of those living and producing those goods that that people are buying so cheaply and wal-mart and i do believe that we as a country the united states could make a major shift and how we treat other countries and outsourcing but that would require that the u.s. government step in and tell american corporations that they're going to have to put people over profits and i think that's a really hard thing for anyone at this point to say given how much we've elevated the corporation in the minds of americans i think that ties back to what you were saying in terms of the transfer over from a manufacturing economy to a service economy we talk about these big corporations it's not just that shift from manufacturing to service economy i think to and i think that is what you're getting at is people have been putting profits over people corporations have been rather and about doing the. most for the cheapest which i mean as

a business person i would say those people probably would think that's best but it really really has shifted what's going on here in america in terms of the middle class in terms of the inequality gap just getting wider and wider i mean a how do you do you do you think this will change in terms of policy or future laws for these big corporations to say you know what we're only going to make a few billion dollars instead of twenty billion dollars you know every month how do you do that how do you say that to these big corporations. you know and that's the million dollar question you've hit the nail on the head there in terms of we have actually i don't think it will shift that's the short answer because we actually have made it illegal for a publicly traded corporations to put anything above profit and we gave them personhood and then we said that money is free speech and so now they have unfettered access to the political arena i think what would have to happen is we would have to take back corporate personhood and we would have to make corporations

what they were prior to the mid eighty's hundreds where they could only exist if they serve the public interest now that would be a radical shift in our in our political economic system in the united states and one that right now benefits you know politicians get elected because of their corporate ties so i don't actually see the shifting anytime soon and that was caroline hellman professor of politics at occidental college. well among those feeling the strain of those jobs being sent overseas are veteran men and women who have served their country and upon getting out of the military find that instead of being met with open arms they're faced with unemployment and a whole new set of battles well today is better is day and as we remember those who gave their lives in service to this country we want to also remember those who made it home and still need support earlier i spoke to an iraq war veteran not the hole who is currently a senior fellow at the center for international policy i asked him to respond to the notion that veterans should be better off because of so many opportunities they

have i think g.i. bill an opportunity to go to college get an education and a degree to better compete with the rest of americans in the job market here's his take. i wish it was that simple you know you come home from war and you come home a changed man or changed woman so it is not a simple as when you guys back to come out of uniform put into solids and those turned out to be a normal citizen like everyone else we're looking at right now our vets coming home from iraq and afghanistan that's about a fifteen to thirty five percent rate of post-traumatic stress disorder we don't know what the rates of traumatic brain injury are right now but we believe they're high so it's just not a simple as sitting on the guys to college and it will be just like the guy you know your neighbors next door it just doesn't work that way certainly even a small things you know having trouble sleeping or sewing not to work on time i mean these are things that a lot of and for don't take into account you talk about post-traumatic stress disorder i think that it's really important to say these numbers and they're kind

of staggering actually according to the department of veterans affairs every single eighty minutes a veteran in this country commit suicide that's about eighteen that's friends a day that make it home and take their own lives when they get here the cult about this and why it's really important for those who are not associated with the military to understand if it happened if it's so troubling because we don't even know if that number is right so many of our vets from iraq and afghanistan are not even registered with the b.s.a. and i recall these are sixteen states require that you say cause of death suicide in terms of veterans exactly so that's an estimate that's we think is happening eight hundred a day we don't know the scary thing about it is that the war still going on the worst currents if you look at the research done on world war two korea vietnam vets you see onset for post-traumatic stress for those veterans oftentimes occurred up to eight ten twelve years after they returned home so the onset of this has that in

the same thing to we believe with traumatic brain injury which basically the amount of history guys are taking their protected armored vehicles thank god. they're coming home from stuff that their predecessors in fought in previous wars would not have survived but what happens is they take a tremendous shot in the head in those attacks which can be very late in terms of the onset of the injury so traumatic brain injury may be something that we see five ten fifteen years from now that we're not recording right now so it's very scary the scope of this and what maybe tom and it's so interesting i'm from san diego which arguably has you know some of the best weather in the country so a lot of veterans are there actually homeless veterans vietnam veterans are everywhere there are thousands of them so it's not just the two wars going on right now it's previous wars as well and let's talk a little bit about the future policy i mean here we are in washington and we think

about congress just about every lawmaker always wants to talk about how much the troops are supported but the reality is very few of these lawmakers actually are related to anyone who's ever served actually understand it talk about this and how that affects policies that are making you know there's a story usa today said that twenty two percent of members of congress have served in the military which is the lowest level since world war two and i think the that level as we've seen you go down with iraqi math and wars less than one percent of america has served in those wars and so what you see in congress the reflection of what the reality is in america i travel i visit universities and lecture and just up in holy cross the other night up in massachusetts and in a room full of students only the kids who were or t.c. knew anybody who had served in iraq or afghanistan if you're talking about their peers their peers are fighting in iraq or afghanistan while most of america is not participating if they're not affected by it you see that reflected in congress so i

think a lot of us would like to see more vets be involved for a couple reasons you go up to senate armed services committee hearing or house armed services committee hearing. what you see are just heads bobbing in agreement with internals so if you have more vets in there i believe you have more guys willing to you know raise the b.s. flag generals when they go in there and tell them how well the war is going how well things are occurring either in iraq or afghanistan it's been an ongoing problem for years just continual good news coming out of iraq and afghanistan when the reality is the alternative or the opposite in the other side of this is that who's going to protect these benefits as a former marine of mine losses both his legs in iraq and we are there is the very good from taking care of things you get excellent care right now you know the fate of this car so he could drive with his hands but in ten fifteen years from now is that program still going to be there or that be a victim of budget cuts just real quick now i know that yesterday i believe

a small portion of president obama's jobs bill was passed this was that part of the bill that gives veterans benefits will that change anything you know who knows who knows how much it actually works in terms of extending tax credits. but i think what will work is for the american public to realize that if you want to get frustrated that they're frustrated because in the run up to iraq war eighty some odd percent of americans for the war how many americans oppose the escalation of the war in afghanistan very few that was iraq war veteran and senior fellow at the center for international policy matthew home. of the number of veterans who make it home from the war zones and lose personal wars with themselves is skyrocketing right you have any way you look at it and let me talk a little bit about it with matthew hoh but i also spoke with a veteran who has an even more personal experience with us now farwell served as a soldier in the u.s. army from two thousand five thousand to ten and spent sixteen months deployed in afghanistan i asked him to tell us

a little more about the issue of that high suicide rate for veterans here's his personal story i think it's something you know if you try and you're in combat you struggle was. and my friend actually we're not sure whether it was suicide or an accidental overdose. but it certainly was so destructive and i mean i've had the same kind of impulses. you know just. the army really do some really serious study examining all causes and. last year you can find online on their website and their part of it is again the self selected group of people that join. i think it's coming back and feeling the strains of those fanatic stress disorder. you know being numb detached not feeling when people are on to writers' guild i think there's

a lot of things that go into that and again that's with veterans betsy just it isn't just but we yet know i have veterans operation enduring freedom of ration peretti freedom it's all veterans and it's also somewhat of a skewed statistic because it doesn't take into account you know things like single motor vehicle accidents or drug overdoses or alcohol related fatalities bed can often be masks for suicide so you know if i had a silver bullet for it in the pentagon trying to help it i want to read a part of something that you wrote this was printed in the new york times last month whatever the prediction i could handle it you write for a half years in the army including sixteen months as an infantry man in at eastern afghanistan provided plenty of skills with no legal application in the civilian world it was however under proper a sense for being homeless so no training in your five years as

a soldier in the army for an actual job but in terms of surviving on the streets they had help to talk a little bit about that experience of returning home from war and then shortly after coming home us. well sure. first i want to correct something i mean i do have job training my job just has no application in skilling world so. there's not many people looking to hire instrument or people who can carry machine gun but to answer your question. what it was like come on it's an odd experience to go to war and then return and i think it's a universal thing and i was couch surfing staying with friends and stable sheltered but i did spend you know probably about two three weeks streets or in the words. and i was afghanistan war veteran matt farwell. are always spoken for about possible plans to try to fix an ailing economy perhaps no place is more on shaky

ground today than italy where the senate just percent of the country's harshest austerity package yet prime minister silvio berlusconi has promised that once this law passes will resign but once he's gone he still leaves behind a badly damaged country with problems that have the potential to hurt so many other countries and economies as well are they correspondent sara firth is in rome right now and brings us a snapshot of some of the significant changes there and how people are handling. the italian bread he's really think he's going to draw. the line divest been expressways. the it's in fashion it's a country that economy why it's used to getting its best fit for. everything really it's leafy in its economy that meeting now become the latest country to be dragged

into this then to the eurozone quite the. italy has a strong economy and it probably could have. been far better than it is now italy could now face a similar states they've country talking to speak about is the bear out fighting one of the year is largest economies were not greece we are not greece because we have a lot of savings we are not greece because we have been very prudent in this recession we haven't done big deficits in this recession might not be greece that we can manage that soaring borrowing costs can this is lee and in this situation right now nobody is spending nobody spending in the all of europe consumers are not spending they are saving they are scared to death of what's going to happen meeting your is a little twitchy thing that we talk reform in a large part because they think growth in the country so you difficult. now to live

you closer to being able to bring about positive change we have had so many years of leadership that was not credible outside and very divisive inside i don't think it's only a new problem probably i mean there squired some support for saying that mr berlusconi was not able to deliver what he promised i think there might be a chance for somebody else will do better than berlusconi but that's not going to be enough we need support from europe otherwise everybody on its own and that's the scariest part of the situation and it's very right now the euro thing faces its biggest challenge yet it's unclear whether these ideals of a peaceful and culturally united europe to survive the failure to adapt and to find decisive leadership at this point and they've ideals could be left in ruins. and be sure to tune in to our team next week for a brand new line up it's a call to action protesters in california are banding together to support students

at u.c. berkeley this after a brutal crackdown on it at a peaceful gathering and they aren't the only ones coming together from coast to coast the occupy wall street movement is putting together protests in twelve major cities are key will be right there along with following them in this growing movement plus happy anniversary america ten years that millions of dollars later want to move a prison is still open for business this despite president obama's campaign promise to shut it down so will america's most expensive prison ever close shop we'll take a look back at guantanamo bay throughout the years and good moment be open for good but congress sure isn't it's a countdown to shutdown again that's right the u.s. government is on the verge of closing down if an agreement can't be reached over funding so as members on both sides of the aisle take shots at one another's credibility when will congress only get back to work those are just some of the

stories we have in store for you along with more news and in-depth interviews and is going to do it for now though on this veterans day but for more on the stories we covered that are to dot com slash usa or you tube dot com r.c. america you should also follow me on twitter at christine for as our thanks so much for watching. do you believe the repetition of. what a protest and nobody seems to know. that never pepper sprayed the face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic.