international news and comment live from moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day karen tara. italy is seeking to rush a critical austerity package through both houses of its parliament the nation's president has promised once the law is passed italy's pm silvio berlusconi will resign with his possible successor being a former e.u. commissioner our correspondent sara firth is in rome with more. a lot of the people a lot of the m.p.'s we've been speaking to the last couple of days they want to send a very clear message to the markets to the international community that they can take decisive action now at a very critical moment in its latest three now we saw that they posses reasonably easily to one hundred fifty six days to twelve and it's expected that similar things going to happen in the a final approval will be given in the lower house and that of course with them pave the way for the prime minister berlusconi to step aside as he vowed to do once safe

reforms had been passed and at that point his thought that the italian president will try to appoint new hairs and some sort of technocratic government will be formed so going to happen very quickly from what we've been hearing is that the emphasis really head now is on decisive action and the front runner this emerged recently is a man named mary muncie he's a former economic and he says they favor not just among politicians here but amongst you is a need this is what we've also seen the top spot in greece taken by a former e.c.b. official you've now got married monti possibly gehring out to take the top spot he served for me commissioner there is definitely concern amongst the public in these countries that what you're seeing now is an extension of processing since the show really that is what's happening again the m.p.'s that we're speaking to is saying that this technocratic government now is really good it just pushing through these harsh measures just getting them off the ground because they've been long promised

and have failed to materialize and that's really what's needed to be stay now from the eurozone leaders and of course it's labor the entire usa and future right now looking extremely uncertain but the public very concerned about the losses the credit say about whether the new governments are going to be acting in their country's interest here in its lay still to this very harsh reforms that not only have to be passed but they don't have to be influenced so is one thing to put in place these euro. who is going to appease brussels but quite another to gain that public support to be seen in the past and countries like greece a lawsuit probably to pull could really have a very significant impact in d.c. by no means it's lee getting to be out of the woods when the new government is formed it's expected to happen as early as saturday not out of the woods yet there's still a long way to go fund says that a very critical point in the. party sarah furthur reporting from the new greek prime minister lucas papademos has been sworn in as head of

a unity government make up of his new cabinet was also announced with a key position a finance minister unchanged mr pup of them says immediate task will be to implement yet more austerity measures in return for continued e.u. bailout payments the former european central bank vice president has vowed to do all he can to bring greece's finances under control and promise to keep the country in the euro zone and john laughlin the director of studies at the paris and situate of democracy and cooperation believes brussels has a skate much of the blame for the blocs debt crisis. these people who have taken power in greece and shortly to take power in italy have never been elected these are men who have made their entire careers through garnering important appointments and cases like the european commission or the european central bank and they have no democratic mandate at all and precisely what is so frightening about what is happening in not that as the european union and the euro enters its death agonies

because that's what i think it is is the way in which the european union really is showing and i say this without any exaggeration it's true nature as a dictatorship after all it is europe which has effectively commanded these two prime ministers to leave office and really you had to leave office the moment you suggested a referendum on the debt package and berlusconi had to leave office the moment he said that italians would become poorer under the euro so we're seeing really a very ugly development out of course the governments are responsible for the crisis but and there is a code responsible element and that is the euro itself they only need bailouts from the european union because they don't have the option of devaluation they don't have the option of managing their own economic and monetary affairs i am absolutely convinced that the euro project is at an end i can't say when it's going to break down but it is at an end yes there's been financial irresponsibility in greece and italy but the situation has been made worse well catastrophic by their membership

of the euro. as the eurozone debt crisis continues to threaten global financial security world leaders are gathering in hawaii for the annual image of pacific economic cooperation forum the weekend summit of the twenty one member apec focuses on establishing a. retreat zone but with the european crisis having a sharp impact on the u.s. in asia the euro is sure to become the center of discussion at the summit artes on us that's in our reports from honolulu. this is a very big gathering we're seeing twenty leaders from twenty want to qana means get together to try to tackle issues that they're faced with in the global economy and some analysts really draw the parallel and see this apec summit as a continuation of what was going on the 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 that make up the asia pacific but analysts are saying look you know this kind of decision that sort of looking into the future is not going to make 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 ahead for you in just a few minutes armed to the teeth syrian authorities are ringing the alarm bells over an increased amount of weapons being smuggled into the country to boost extremist factions fighting the regime. nato may have finished its bombing mission in libya but now there's a full scale western invasion energy corporations are queuing up to do business with the new government which is rewarding the military victory with lucrative oil and gas contracts artie's laura smith looks at how the harvest of war is being raped. first british bombs tourists apart now british

companies will get paid to put it back together libya is open for business and u.k. firms are being encouraged to join the gold rush relatively wealthy country with oil reserves and i expect that there will be opportunities for british. companies to get involved in the reconstruction of libya philip hammond is urging c.e.o.'s and sales directors to pack their suitcases and head to the north african country the u.k.'s bill for its part in the nato intervention in libya is estimated at just under five hundred million dollars but according to the u.k. department of trade and investment the value of contracts to rebuild libya in areas ranging from electricity and water supplies to health care and education could amount to three hundred billion dollars over the next ten years and the british

government will make sure it takes a leading role in that just as it did in the war and that's raising more questions about the u.k.'s motives in playing such a big role in the recent conflict john hillery of war on want says it has shades of post-war iraq when companies from countries involved in the allied invasion were awarded all the best gigs. journalist john pilger says there was evidence of battering before nato even got involved in a transitional council told the french way. they would give thirty five. the u.k. department for trade and investment already has staff on the ground in libya ready to welcome british companies. awarded contracts wanting to get in on the action or

oil firm shell and b.p. who shares rose on the news they were talking to the transitional government and generic firms arab and more mcdonald's are also reportedly keen both the latter refused to put up a spokesman when asked preferring instead to send basic statements which critics say is a new tactic to avoid defending their ethics it's better p.r. for them. any form of public discussion of why that around the world. so far the conflict in libya looks like an excellent investment half a billion dollars to oust a dictator with a return of three hundred billion in business contracts when it's all over now that humanitarian goals no longer need to be touted wall suddenly makes great business sense nor a smith forty london. to the united nations now where negotiations on palestine's

bed for full membership have ended in deadlock the fifteen member security council committee failed to reach agreement on the issue artie's policy player analyzes pull stunts chances of getting recognition palestinians have resigned themselves to the fact that it's unlikely they going to get the two thirds majority they need in the united nations security council for the statehood bid what this means is that they will not become full members of the united nations and the united states will not be forced to exercise its veto rights there are eight countries amongst the security council who have indicated that they will vote in favor of the palestinian bid these include russia china india south africa brazil levanon nigeria and gabon both the british and the french have announced that they will abstain from the vote they will abstain alongside portugal and bosnia while germany and colombia might either abstain or vote against it alongside the united states now this really

leaves the palestinians with two options the one is that they can still next week demand that the security council vote on the statehood bid this will force those countries who are not supporting it to publicly justify their position and the palestinians might go ahead with this although they know that they are not going to get that admission into the security council the other option and this seems likely is that they still take the bird to the general assembly what this will give them is upgraded observer status although they will not become full members of the international body this it seems a lot of pressure going on behind the scenes the palestinians have accused the united states of meddling and putting pressure on other countries not to support the statehood but you just need to look at the united kingdom as one example and here the foreign secretary william hague has said that it is to quote him tactical judgment why the u.k. is abstaining from this bid now the palace. were lying on the british to support

the bird and the foreign secretary has now been accused of being hypocritical and abdicating responsibility when you mention the you ness go admission to the palestinians immediately following that the united states canada and israel withdrew all stopped giving funding to the bodies so much so that you missed the has had to suspend temporarily its activities now that kind of pressure comes while israel continues to build settlements in occupied east jerusalem and the occupied territories so certainly while the palestinians a short time ago had a lot of euphoria that the international community would back they bid for statehood this kind of pressure going on behind the scenes seems to be paying off. some other stories making headlines from around the world kurdish militants have hijacked a turkish ferry carrying at least twenty passengers up the coast of the stuff authorities say four people thought to be members of the current separatist group p.k. k. took control of the vessel they have so far not made any demands and armed police

are at a nearby port. eight people have died in the helicopter crash in mexico city among the dead is mexico's interior minister francisco blake mora who was responsible for the government's war against drug cartels his deputy and a government spokesman were also killed in the crash of the president believes that on says more weather conditions may be to blame. thousands of people have been injured in a city in southern peru when a nine day long strike against mining in the region turned violent the city was left without electricity when its power station was set on fire by protesters more than eighteen thousand demonstrators are demanding that authorities declare the region as a mining free area saying that the activity pollutes rivers something the government strongly denies its. two people have been wounded after stepping on a land mine planted by syrian troops on the northern border with lebanon syrian authorities say it was mine to prevent illegal shipments of arms ammunition and military supplies which increased over the last few months meanwhile russia is

calling on the syrian opposition to stop aligning itself with extremist gangs which are smuggling weapons into the country and only triggering more violence middle east expert dr who says the west is playing a geo political game with syria. it's not that i believe in my opinion in libya not in studio we must witnessing it a bit as a matter of fact we can see a conflict now we have to understand the nature of this conflict i don't believe it's that evolution we saw a genuine revolution in tunisia in egypt a certain extent didn't in yemen and perhaps in body and but not in libya and syria now. this is a geo political conflict so there is an attack and an organized attack on syria there's no doubt in my mind now i had my doubts in the past few months but now i'm absolutely sure that syria is being targeted by. what i call an unholy alliance

and there is an unholy alliance between certain western powers on the one hand certain gulf states turkey and fundamentalist groups attacking the syrian regime not for democratic purposes but for geo political purposes. and i'll be back with a recap of our top headlines in just about thirteen minutes but first for those of you eager to come to the russian capital for business we have the ultimate guide is up next.

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in europe everything is already more or less standard so you have your. business you know russian you have to invent more or less something every day and this is my point of view the main difference between russia and europe so far. moving on and what other business locations or facilities are worth taking note of in moscow. for years there have been two main stock exchanges in the us the capital my sex and yes my sex the must go into bankruptcy exchange that opened in one thousand nine hundred is one of the largest stock exchanges in eastern europe. at the same time party yes the russian trading system is a stock market established in moscow in one thousand nine hundred five to consolidate regional trading companies into want to exchange recently a decision has been made to incorporate the two of them in a new headquarters just opened. for business. travel if you want to stay close to

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thank you for joining us have passed the hour here's a look at your headlines italy's senate passes the most severe austerity measure so far in an effort to stem the tide against spiraling debt and could destroy the economy and take the euro with a new package of economic belt tightening also paves the way for prime minister berlusconi to leave office something he promised to do if the legislation was voted in. and the effects of euro zone debt and looks set to play a major role at the asia pacific economic cooperation summit in hawaii the leaders from the twenty one biggest pacific rim economies pledged to foster strong economic growth as yet another recession looms over world markets. the u.n. security council is considering palestine's bid for full state recognition with a vote.