the popular resort is attracting growing numbers of daring water sports fans. in the russian capital you're watching r t with me raina joshua welcome to the program leaders from the asia pacific region are gathering for a summit in sunny hawai but the dark clouds of european financial turmoil thousands of miles away are likely to dominate proceedings while the we can gathering is focused on establishing a pacific wide free trade zone but the euro crisis and its implications are too muddy the blue pacific waters are just an associate you're going to reports from honolulu. basically even though the primary primary goals of the apec summit are improving the trade relationship and 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 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 even though the top of the 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 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 regarding syria we discuss 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 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 so more positions routes particularly in turkey and the u.s. . has done just position can be me this is just we will continue to encourage field position to constructive leads to and to show concern about this country and the syrian people of the state with russia believes its import. 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 as you're going to reporting there and when we bring you more from honolulu throughout the day as the some of the or unfold for that if you can. italy could welcome a 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 euro crap leading to some public concern that the influence of brussels will be at the very center of national politics 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 noticed among politicians here that 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 the concern amongst the public in these countries that what you're seeing now is an extension of brussels in the sofa surely 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 seen now from the year is a new leader of course not just italy but the entire usa and future right now looking extremely uncertain to still go 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 to be seen in the past and countries like greece that 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 and when that new government is formed it's expected to happen as early as saturday our first reporting there of

the changes in greece were instigated in brussels and show that you used tendency towards dictatorship that's the view of john locke one director of studies at the paris and secured of democracy and cooperation. these people who have taken power in greece and shortly to take hour in italy have never been elected these are men who have made their entire careers through garnering important appointments in places 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 now after it has 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 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 had become poor 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 done it 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 geyser and stacy here and offer their unique take on all the latest twists and turns of the debt crisis saga the full kaiser report is coming your way in less than half an hour. the eurozone creates a dollar or euro in stimulus they create a hundred euros and naked short sells they'll never going to win that war but the fact is that the tail is wagging the economic and financial dog around the world

and we're totally powerless against an entrance called takhar see with unlimited credit zero percent interest rates with the central banks at their bidding and politicians just basically lying down and doing nothing about it so this is the new world order. israeli forces have clashed with palestinian activists protesting against confiscation of land across the west bank protesters hurled rocks at israeli troops who responded with tear gas and water cannon over a dozen demonstrators are reported to have been injured the situation in the area has been even more chance 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 it in deadlock after members failed to reach agreement the u.s. has been strongly opposed to the recognition of palestine and has been removing its veto power leaving palestinians to question washington's commitment to

a two state solution in the middle east. the approach to the united nations is less about membership of problems in the united nations and more of challenging the worst in the ability to walk the walk over to speak. what we're seeing is forty four years of the worst specifically the united states making a case for two states but in the first real test the two speed tobacco has failed to move forward. i believe that the u.s. 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 new bilateral negotiations the palestinians having given twenty years to

negotiations with the israelis have come to the conclusion that they're not interested in allowing a state to emerge in palestine so we have tried negotiations israel has completely ignored its commitments so president abass basically is any a a a first for his political survival he cannot continue to sell to his people if and collapse peace process and i think that's why he took at the united nations. still ahead for you this hour a two decade search for just. two hundred fifty thousand. women official goes on trial for atrocities against serbs during the war we talk to a former nato officer says the block is equally to blame for ethnic cleansing. people. having to worry about every little word they say. travels to the core of

the big apple to find out whether people there are tired of political correctness or modern this. the u.n. atomic watchdog has released letters and satellite images that allegedly back up its reports suggesting iran's nuclear program as military aims. and void to the agency this mystifying saying the presentation was based on material fabricated by the u.s. and its allies earlier mahomet's me from the university of southern california told me that i 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 moderate abroad dative 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 of words alleged everywhere it uses the word coup 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. and remember you can always find more stories on our website including fighting the wall street bull the war police

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soil. market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to conjure reports. in an unprecedented case a senior cause of an politician has gone on trial in pristina for atrocities against serbian civilians during the cost of war in the late ninety's even though he had been tried and acquitted by the hague war crimes tribunal the e.u. led prosecution claims merely monch and eight other military officers tortured and killed serbs at a time consulate was under nato control christian carsey former nato officer was

writing a book as an apology to the serbian people told our team the alliance should also be held responsible. in cost of all. we basically took charge of the whole security situation. there are water two hundred fifty thousand serbs a normal beings were ethnically cleansed from the territory of course of. so we went to war nato gave very harsh conditions. we basically gave them to 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 or. like any sovereign nation. bombing instead of accepting

nato powers all over the territory it's a con complain across the world political correctness has gone too far so r.t. said laurie harshness to central new york to ask people whether there is just too much you can't 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 were getting a little crazy with being having to worry about every word they say whether it's actually politically correct or not 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 looks for something to complain about my generation we don't really we just laugh it's funny but 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 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 he 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 in 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 to live in a society which sounds women left without a man to the family to have a family explains. gun firing 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 bloodshed 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 no that windows arrived they don't even have warm clothes and shoes begum 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 else's children out of school so they could go to work when her husband disappeared 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 militancy others believe 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 husband's name

because of social stigma many believe that is unacceptable to remarry or live with a male relative who might be able to help 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 the woman who suffers from a ways 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 had he been alive he would have been 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 r t srinagar india. a south take a look at some other stories from around the world turkish commandos have stormed a hijacked ferry and shot a loan i jack or authorities say none of the eighteen passengers or crew members

were hurt the vessel was seized a few hours ago by a suspected kurdish militia near the turkish city of a stamboul the hijacker was reportedly armed with explosives but had only demanded food and fuel. a lebanese people were wanted 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 has soared in recent months. nearly forty people have been injured after anti mining protests turned violent in peru the class 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 complain that rivers are being polluted something the government strongly denies.

well time now for our russia closer series and today we are hitting the beach. we're on a 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 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 the growing water sports experience here and on is one of the best that. when you ride in your board at top speed your feelings saw you have control of two forces of nature in your hands wind in water. he's currently number two in russia and has 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 when service of all ages

bathing in the black sea cup it's evidence of the growing status of water sports here but i feel i won't be joining them any time soon. and neither would i be taking part in the 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. there's a lot of adrenaline that's what it's all about tricks and a lot of adrenaline now it's easier but the master trick you have to fully one hundred times the black sea provides good conditions for this book too. it's a difficult sport to master with many of these young riders taking years to reach this standard. 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 however 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 in russia. to sport needs young people in ten years i want to see hundreds of kids kiting here then we'll be in good hands we'll have a future. a future that will be played out here in the surging blue of the black sea to martin r.t. . and we are out today for more there is our website r.t. dot com stay with us i'll be back shortly with had once.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. here's a look at the top stories leaders are the biggest pacific grima connelly's meeting and why pledged to prevent the european debt crisis from spreading to the region among other issues to dominate the gathering are still listening and the civic wide free trade zone and tackling the syrian and iranian issue is. concerns grow at the expanding influence of brussels over each member states as greece and now italy look to choose prime ministers based on the support of europe not the people still of various county was said to step down after the vile austerity vote is likely to be replaced by former new york rath mario monti. an israeli forces clashed with palestinian activists protesting against the confiscation of land for joris.