killer resort is attracting growing numbers of daring water sports fans. it's a.t.m. in the russian capital you're watching r t joshie welcome to the program well leaders from the pacific region are gathering for a summit in sunny hawaii but the dark clouds of european financial turmoil thousands of miles away are likely to dominate proceedings the weekend gathering is focused on establishing a pacific wide free trade zone but the euro crisis and its implications are said to muddy the blue pacific waters well are going to joins us live now from honolulu. to see it well european problems are causing a headache all the way over there and then tell us more absolutely marina you're absolutely right basically even though the primary primary goals of the apec

summit are improving the trade relationship an economic relationship all the countries that make up the asia pacific because of the extent of the european financial crisis this is certainly a headache that's looming over leaders having gathered here and many are seeing this as sort of a continuation of the g twenty summit without the participation of the european states we are expecting the leaders gathered for the apec summit to send another push to send an extra message to the european countries to try to find to step up their attempts to improve the financial situation whereas now we have italy having replaced greece as the main threat of security there and this is something that certainly affecting the globe or mark a global markets affecting the global economy so this is an extra message important message that we're expecting to hear a lot of about here on the ground in the next few days to come. while your nominations are not the only ones that are likely to dominate the summit's and

we've already heard some political statements there so what can we expect on this front. well you know marina even though the top topic and the substance of the effect summit is usually traditionally economic issues certainly political issues are surfacing we've been hearing because of the situation in syria where anti-government clashes have been just really attracting so many headlines that we have heard from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton saying that the united states believes that the syrian president should step down take a listen to what she had to say regarding syria we discussed the ongoing and escalating violence perpetrated by the assad government against its own people our position is clear we are supporting peaceful transition assad has lost his legitimacy to rule and he should step down well russia on the other hand believes that it's important to take for negotiations

to take place and it says that it intends to help and kick starting those talks inside syria the russian foreign minister has spoken and said that he believes that it's the only responsible thing to do take a listen to what he said. some opposition groups particularly those made in turkey and the u.s. any calls for dialogue which just position can be me this is just we will continue to encourage field position to small constructive leads to and to show concern about their country and the syrian people for the stupid. well russia believes it's important to avoid the libyan scenario when it comes to syria but this is certainly not the only political issue that is being touched upon here on the ground we are expecting a meeting between the russian and u.s. presidents to take place where they're very likely to discuss the u.s. plans for a european missile defense shield as well as russia's accession to the world trade organization as well as really a range of other political issues so definitely

a lot on the agenda here in honolulu and we'll bring our viewers all the latest events in the rubble absolutely in a c thanks very much indeed for keeping a finger on the pulse there going to see it live from honolulu while we bring you more as a see just said from honolulu the day as the summit there on the pope to stay with us for that if you can. now italy could well come and new prime minister and government as early as saturday after a final vote on a stair it finalizes the exit of silvio berlusconi the most likely successor is a former your crap leading to some public concern that the influence of brussels will be at the very center of national politics are these are further reports from rome. the emphasis really head now is on decisive action and the front runner that's emerged recently is a man named mary muncie he's a former. and he says they've not just amongst politicians here but amongst you is

a need is what we've also seen the top spot in greece taken by former e.c.b. official there is definitely concern amongst the public in these countries that what you're seeing now is an extension of brussels in the sense issue really that is what's happening again the m.p.'s that we're speaking to is saying that this technocrat government now is really good at 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 seen now from the areas and leaders and of course not just italy but the entire usa its future right now looking extremely uncertain still there's very harsh reforms that not only have to be passed but they don't have to be influenced say is one thing to put in place these euro kratz who are going to appease brussels at the quite another to gain that public support we've seen in the past and countries like greece a lot of public support can really have a very significant impact in d.c. by no means it's lee going to be out of the woods if the when that new government

is formed it's expected to happen as early as saturday. reporting there the changes in italy and greece were instigated in brussels and show the e.u. stand and see towards dictatorship that's the view of john locke on the director of studies at a paris institute of democracy and cooperation. these people who have taken power in greece and shortly to take our initially have never been elected these are men who made their entire careers through garnering important appointments in places like the european commission or the european central bank initially they have no democratic mandate at all and precisely what is so frightening about what is unknown after 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'm 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 drew had to leave office the moment he

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 now in europe where people are being put in power because they serve the interests of the demands of the european union not because they have gone at any and electoral support in their home countries 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 it's precisely europe that has got them into this situation. as always max kaiser and stacy herbert offer their unique take on all the latest twists and turns of the dad crisis the focus is a report is coming your way next hour. every time the eurozone creates a dollar or a euro instead realize they create a hundred euros in naked short sell they'll never going to win that war but the fact is that the tail is wagging the economic and financial dark around the world

and we're totally powerless against it and transcript ocracy with unlimited credit zero percent interest rates with the central banks at their bidding and politicians just basically lying down a doing nothing about it so this is the new world order. israeli forces have clashed with palestinian activists protesting against the confiscation of land across the west bank protesters hurled rocks at israeli troops who responded with tear gas and water cannons over a dozen demonstrators are reported to have been injured the situation in the area has been even more tanks than usual following the palestinian bid for statehood and full membership at the un but the latest round of debate at the security council and a deadlock after members failed to reach agreement the u.s. has been strongly opposed to the recognition of palestine it has been wielding its

power leaving palestinians to question washington's commitment to two state solution in the middle east. the approach to the united nations is less about membership of palestine in the united nations and more of challenging the west in the ability to walk the walk over to speak paradigm what we're seeing is forty four years of the west specifically the united states making a case for two states but in the first real test of bringing about has failed to move it forward i believe that the us foreign policy as it relates to this issue has been hijacked by a prude israeli lobby inside us politics and i don't believe the united states is acting in its interests by ignoring this big which is exactly in line with what it has been calling for not only for forty four years but for twenty intense years of

need by now to will negotiate the palestinians have been given twenty years to negotiations with the israelis have come to the conclusion that they are not interested in the allowing a state to emerge in palestine so we've tried to. israel has completed its commitments to advance to the. through through his political survival he could not continue to sell to his people. and collapse peace process and i think that's what we. still have for you this hour here on r.t. two decades search for justice. under our war two hundred fifty thousand serbs and albanians were. the senior acoss of an official goes on trial for atrocities against serbs during the ninety's more we talked to a former navy officer says that walking is equally to blame for ethnic cleansing

plus. people were given a little crazy with being given a worry about every word they say. r.t. travels to the core of the big apple find out whether people there are tired of political correctness or find it a modern necessity. the u.n. atomic watchdog has released letters and satellite images that allegedly backed up its reports suggesting iran's nuclear program is military but to iran's chief fanboy to the agency dismissed the findings saying the presentation was based on material fabricated by the u.s. and its allies earlier of mahomet's a hammy from the university of southern california toller t. the i.a.e.a. report contains more politics than evidence. the tone of the reports of the agency has moved in a more decisively political direction for example. there as

a moderate abroad a day of former director never talked about united nations security council resolutions and only talked about the technical issues at hand the new the new reports by. a year brings out the political issues that france the evidence that it presents actually not very convincing a lot of it is a speculation the report itself uses the board's alleged everywhere in the uses the words who may be might possibly could have been things of that sort so in that sense the our. reports and tone have moved in a very decisively political direction which in my view actually has the credibility of i.a.e.a. because as a as i said the task of the agency is not to talk about political issues and leave them alone for united nations security council and the international community rather just talk about the technical issues. well remember you can always find more

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just. watching our team in an unprecedented case a senior cause of one politician has gone on trial in pristina for atrocities against serbian civilians during the cost of a war in the late ninety's even though he had been tried and acquitted by the hague war crimes tribunal that lead prosecution claims merely mark and eight other

military officers tortured and killed serbs at a time possible was under nato control christiane cars a former nato officer who was writing a book as an apology to the serbian people told r.t. the airlines should also be held responsible. in cost of war. we basically took charge of the whole security situation. under our walk two hundred fifty thousand serbs a normal bain's were ethnically cleansed from the territory of course of. so we went to war nato gave very harsh conditions. we basically gave them the option either receive balmain or you would have to accept unconditional. use of roads airports and. in order to facilitate the nato infrastructure so this was basically an occupation.

and. like any sovereign nation. yugoslavia bombing instead of accepting nato powers all over the territory. it's a common complaint across the world political correctness has gone too far so our laurie hartman has to central new york to ask people whether there's just too much you can talk about in public. a recent poll indicated that people are starting to feel like political correctness is having a negative effect on society how do you feel about it this week let's talk about that it's been carried overboard. people are getting a little crazy with being having to worry about every word they say whether it's actually politically correct or not well if you live in this country you should be politically correct because this is your country what does that mean that is so you

can have to censor what you say you should think about what you say you should you should take time to use the correct words before you say something that you don't mean us and i mean we've got a thing in england where comedians have been pulled off on political correctness where i think you've just got to realize specially with comedy just loosen up you know everyone's going to be offended by something and i just think there's always going to be someone who would look for something to complain about my generation we don't really we just laugh it's funny it just depends if like generations are crossing if you're talking to some elderly people then yeah you show some respect even if you know you don't completely think it's necessary it's different when you're young but when you start getting a bit older you realize this but sometimes what comes out of your math is not a pearl. it's refreshing to see somebody like chris christie from new jersey cause here that speaks his mind regardless of what the consequences are versus always being worried that people are going to think what the poll numbers show so you'd rather be offended and at least have the truth yes very much so whether or not you

feel like political correctness is having a negative effect on society the bottom line is it's probably just going to keep becoming more and more prevalent. thousands of women and the disputed region of kashmir have seen their husbands literally disappear leaving them to live with the loss of a loved one but even harder live in a society which sounds women left without a man to look after them and their children are to spray street or explains. this is how srinagar kashmir has been known for two decades gunfire and grenades becoming a familiar sight for the people living on this disputed land that is currently ruled by india but has also been claimed by neighboring pakistan but beyond the dealy pledge in the background of the conflict the women of kashmir have been silently suffering more than fifteen hundred in the area are estimated to be in

a limbo status known as half widows these women's husbands have disappeared leaving them in a male dominated society with little government protection because they cannot confirm whether their men are dead or alive though it has been seven years and we still don't know where he is i have small children i have to beg sometimes to feed them know that windows is a rival they don't even have warm clothes and shoes big i'm john lives in the mountains of srinagar with her five children she has been unable to hold down a steady job and had to take her eldest children out of school so they could go to work when her husband disappeared. we tried very hard to trace him down his brothers and my brothers would go to inquire about him and would get to both by the security forces. the indian government says that in the past two decades of the kashmir conflict between three and four thousand people have gone missing victims advocates groups say that number is really closer to eight thousand while the

indian government maintains that many of the people who have disappeared have actually joined the militants the other thought leave that thousands have been captured by indian security forces after their husbands go missing many halfway toes are abandoned by their in-laws most of these women were living on the property of their husbands families and surviving on ration cards provided in their husbands name they now struggle to maintain food and shelter to support their families because of social stigma many believe that is unacceptable to remarry or live with the male relit. who might be able to help. the things a woman shares with her husband can't be shared with her in-laws or other relatives she's like a living corpse so. most women say that it's the psychological and emotional trauma of not knowing where their loved one is that is the most unbearable it's mentally very disturbing it's an intense and incurable disease like cancer the woman who

suffers from it is always in a state of restlessness and panic they say they just want answers especially for their children who are constant reminders of their missing partners they were very small when their father go disappeared he couldn't stay away from his children even for a minute had he been alive he would have gone in these seven years if they had even given us his dead body we wouldn't be complaining. attempting to make sense to stay strong for what remains of their broken families preassure either our t. srinagar india. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world suspected kurdish militants have taken at least twenty people hostage on board the ferry near the turkish city of a sample the hijackers are reportedly armed with explosives turkish coast guard vessels are following the ferry and the authorities say the militants reason for hijacking the vehicle is unknown and for the moment they are only demanding fuel and food. to have a nice people were wounded when

a landmine exploded on the lebanon syria border opposition activists claim government troops laid mines in the area to prevent army defectors and opponents of president bashar asad fleeing however authorities say they're trying to stop illegal arms and weapons smuggling which soared in recent months. nearly forty people have been injured after anti mining protests turned violent and poor rule the clash happened as the nation's mining and agriculture minister refused to sign a pledge to ban mining in the region eight hundred thousand protesters came out to the plane that rivers are being polluted something the government strongly denies. well it's time now for our russia close of series and today we're heading the beach .

we're on the black sea which has long been a popular holiday resort for russians however the region is now becoming a hub for daring action watersports as tom barton discovered. slowly the old soviet resorts on russia's black sea coast are becoming centers for very modern water sports throughout the week hundreds of children and adults have been competing here in the black sea cup windsurfing trophy and it's hoped that with the right support this region could become a real center for water sports. it's the black sea cup in southern russia the waters full of jellyfish the sea full of waves and the wind whips the air with salty spray and that's just what everyone here has come for. children and adults have traveled from all over russia to show their skills and share in a growing water sports experience here anton is one of the best thing that he asked

my father when you write in your board at top speed your feelings so you have control of two forces of nature in your hands wind in water. he's currently number two in russia they skim the waves in european competitions the sport isn't cheap and he's short of financial backing to match that of his european and american competitors but he's hopeful for the black sea coast as a potential world class water sports center. this is a wonderful place with a great wind the infrastructure is ok but with some investment it could be good we had a freestyle competition here not long ago and we have hopes of hosting a world championship he'll be trying to win that championship i was just getting the hang of standing up i'm surrounded by hundreds of wind service of all ages bathing in the black sea cup it's evidence of the growing status of water sports but i won't be joining them any time soon. a need that would i be taking part in

even more tricky kitesurfing here too they had been battling it out to prove their speed and agility surrogate has been crowned number one in russia that. summer as a lot of adrenaline that's what it's all about tricks and a lot of adrenaline now it's easier but to master trick you have to full one hundred times the black sea provides good conditions for this book too. it's a difficult sport to muster with many of these young riders taking years to reach this standard just let us know we have a number of good spots for arriving this wonderful day and on the other side of the black sea here in russia the season is short so we don't have much practice time on the water but the advantage of russia is we can snow kite. again it's money that's the problem for most kitesurfing now whether it's on the way to joining the list of the lympics sports and that raises the profile of what is still a fledgling perceived russian. machine or do sport needs young people in ten years

i want to see hundreds of kids kiting here and then we'll be in good hands we'll have a future. the feature that will be played out here in the surgeon blue of the black sea told often are to. bring us up to date here in our brothers our website for more calm and i'll update you on the headlines very shortly stay with us.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories leaders of the biggest pacific rim economies meeting in why i pledge to prevent the european debt crisis from spreading to the region among other issues to dominate the gathering are establishing its effect wide free trade zone and tackling the syrian and iranian issue as. concerns grow at the expanding influence of brussels over e.u. member states as greece and now italy look to choose a prime minister is based on the support of europe not the people silvio berlusconi who is set to step down after the violence terry vote is likely to be replaced by former europe brad maher you monte. israeli forces clashed with palestinian activists protesting against the confiscation of land for joy.