italian parliament gives final approval to a sweeping new austerity initiative paving the way for silvio berlusconi's resignation the country strains to restore confidence in its filtering economy. the arab league decides to suspend and sanction syria in an effort to force assad to stop bloodshed in the country with a new sponsor fears of a western backed repeat of the libyan scenario. but wonderland for travelers turns into a hub for high profile discussions as the heads of the asia pacific nations gather in hawaii hoping to isolate themselves from the spreading euro zone crisis. and china's booming economy is now always met with open arms for the united states

sometimes praising the emerging superpower as a dangerous prospect our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day it's a lower house of parliament has given its final approval to a vast new austerity package it's hoped the move will steer the country away from the financial abyss it's been teetering on passing the tough cuts was a precondition under which prime minister silvio berlusconi agreed to step down a pm seat though won't remain vacant from now on with veteran euro craft verio monti looking set to take the baton from under scrutiny the public reaction so far is being mixed with some celebrating his fall while others are wary of the future our correspondent in italy. has the details.

i believe a service on the line from from italy from rome. or apart both houses of parliament what should we expect next is this the beginning of the end of each of these woes. personally i need to get to the country excuse me. take a peek. at what it. had . been like think. i would think you would be the appointment with a caretaker government but. probably. not i think what you. mean quickly and you think oh it's an economy like. condition. you know you have to trade off.

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but the court. didn't get it right. with a notice that when i was from italy thanks very much indeed our correspondents. peter mandelson the former british secretary of state says it's incredible that market pressure on greece and italy managed to oust their respective leaders when millions of protesters in those countries couldn't. well what we've seen recently in the year is there is some government. not taking the decisive action that they need to take frankly not getting on top of the events now their elected governments in the difficult for democratic machinery to. simply to take out a government this be democratically elected and actually what we've seen in the case i think of greece and italy we've seen the bond markets being able to achieve

what normal democratic means have not been able to do and that is to put those countries to get the governments they need at this particular time now i don't attach any value judgement to that it's merely an observation that in these circumstances we've seen. for a team rather more effectively than ordinary democracy. and as the euro crisis continues to chip away at confidence in the european union's leadership and x. and stacey had to cast their eyes over why speculators are so eager to see the crisis rage on because a report is coming your way at nine thirty pm g.m.t. here's what you can expect. every time the eurozone creates a dollar or a euro instead realize they create a hundred euros in naked short sellers are 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 entranced with unlimited credit with zero

percent interest rates with the central banks at their bidding and politicians just lying down and doing nothing about it so this is the new world order. the pro quality occupy movement is quickly gathering pace in germany with almost twenty thousand people protesting right now in both feet capital berlin and the country's financial heartland of frankfurt protests as wave placards of locked arms and solidarity seeking to draw attention to rampant corporate greed and the increasing poverty of the masses the german occupy movement has also made significant steps in legitimizing itself having earned the support of two major political factions one concert supermen of the pro quality attack in germany group told me learn earlier she believes berlin is partly responsible for europe's economic woes. it is needed to have protests and broad movements in all

european countries and we know they're tearing germany germany is one of the countries that courses quite a lot of the trouble we have in europe now because of the way international competition is organized germany is very often on the winning side but that means that we export also poverty and chaplain for people and three learned during the last years there it's very very soon tex players are forced to help to save the banks we learned in two thousand and eight what happened in such a very short time when billions of euros were given to the bags if you ask people here on the streets they agree with the protests they agree with other people of the occupy movement that it is needed to go out because everybody learns that democracy is in danger that in our country too there is no person active how to go on if this crisis is going on further and it's a real. and on our website r.t.

dot com you can find out how the occupy wall street demonstration was turned into performance art new york police detained to quell there by their accomplice dressed as a matter door attempted to attract the peace and attention. you can head online to see how this fight ended. was on the web site of the moment a huge test for polish police ahead of the upcoming puro twenty twelve championships hundreds of football hooligans run riot you can find out how the authorities can they're all available be a team of. the world's political and economic heavyweights from the asia pacific nations descend upon a sunny hawaii this weekend and it's

a storm clouds continue to build thousands of kilometers away over the eurozone forcing the apec leaders to find ways to protect their region from the e.u.'s economic trauma but he's honest takes a look at what's on the table in honolulu. basically even though the primary primary goals of the apec summit are improving the trade relationship i think anomic relationship of 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 that 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

topic and the substance of the effect summit is usually traditionally konami issues certainly political issues are surfacing we've been hearing because of the situation in syria where anti-government clashes have been really attracting that 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 an 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 two for negotiations to take place and it says that it intends to help him kick starting those talks inside syria the russian foreign minister has spoken and said that he believes that it's it's the only responsible thing to do some opposition groups so you can really do these monies in turkey and

the u.s. just calls for dialogue which just position can be needed just use we will continue to encourage field position to structures leads to and to show concern about this country and to see rain and snow snow the. 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 are 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 and those really a range of other political issues so definitely a lot on the agenda here in honolulu and will bring our viewers all the latest as events in or out. for instance operates from the asia pacific summit in honolulu you can read all of t.'s twitter streams but if you are right now of course from the sun a boy could tweets that the aloha spirit overwhelms the gathering even on the cover agents are patrolling the beaches in the flowery shirts and flipflops there's also

plenty more dollars he's facebook and youtube pages. to give. to these. amid the financial woes of america in europe investors are making a sharp turn to the east where china keeps on rising in the ranks on the global economic stage beijing's most however is not be met with enthusiasm in the u.s. these. assistance the attitudes. we shall not want your own ways which tell me obama maybe we can see

a sixteen. year old geezer. moment i'm the boss and. i'm going to get warmed up. it's the future you have to yikes ok let's just get right down to it shall we should we be afraid of china. well what a place in washington d.c. is chinatown to find out i don't think we have to be a parade 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 on march twentieth 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 the u.k. and the u.s.

on unhappy at the thought of china nipping at their heels and for the us nowhere is that clear that in the race to the white house china is on almost every dimension she this is no longer a time for us to sit back and say we're going to let them steal our jobs the world we need to do is stop enriching china with our money i want to beat china i want to go to war with china and make america the most attractive place in the world to do business woah woah whoa does it have to be us or them and is anybody buying it the world's changing you know so like the fact the fact that like china's economy is modernizing. isn't the reason why our economy is doing poorly right now. and so it's maybe just a straw man when. presidential candidates bring help but think of it in a business sense today economic sense was countries to just work with china as any other country so you know i don't know where he comes from from the u.s.

about china well there you have it it seems china is the new kid on the economic block and it's up to the u.s. and the west to see how they deal with reporting from washington and not trying to settle artsy. talk to carolyn hellman from occidental college in los angeles says washington feels the need to paint china as a new evil empire 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 confide so when we hear this republican competitors talking about china as an enemy i do think that that it fills that notion of having something to oppose in order to buoy the resilience of nationalism and again i think i take issue with that nationalism but at the same time i think it's good for the u.s. to have competitors it's never good for a global superpower to be the only one at the top of perceived because then they act with impunity and i believe at various points in u.s.

history we have seen the evidence of that i think having china in the mix would be very positive for social political relations. the arab league's voted to suspend syria from the organization into a peace plan is implemented to stop the bloodshed the member states of also being urged to withdraw their ambassadors from damascus and use economic and political sanctions the decision which has already received full backing and was praised by u.s. president barack obama came at an emergency session in colorado overwhelming majority of member states supported the move with a new level in yemen and syria itself voting against the director of the center for research on globalization michel chossudovsky told me earlier that he believes the league's move is an act of provocation orchestrated by washington. this is not the decision. of all the. decision. to just. war plans directed us against

syria which are already on the drawing board of the pentagon this is not a protest movement it is an armed insurrection and meet your plea following of the peace proposal longer arab league armed gunman which are al qaida affiliated entities paramilitary in to trigger a new round of civilian casualties it is not to say that the government of bashar al assad doesn't bear responsibility but we must understand that the very parties to this to this arab league the session are also complicit in supporting an insurgency and armed insurgency with a view to destabilize the syria as a nation states nato and the united states are preparing a war of military campaign directed against syria on the humanitarian pretext while

at the same time they have supported but all of this direction which has created this this process of instability political correctness may have many stopping to think before opening their mouths these days is it now going too far that's a question or how often it is the resident been putting to people in new york. a recent poll indicated that people are starting to feel like political correctness is having a negative effect them for society how do you feel about it this week let's talk about that being carried aboard. people who are getting a little crazy with 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 say you can't 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 called thing in england where comedians have been polled on political correctness well i think you've just got to realize specially a comedy just loosen up you know everyone's going to be offended by something and i just think there's always be someone who looks for something to complain about my generation we don't really care that we just laugh it's funny but it just depends if like generations accosting if you're talking smelly people then yeah the show some respect even if you know you don't completely think it's necessary it's different when you're younger but when you start getting a bit older you realize this but sometimes what comes out of your man is not a pearl. it's refreshing to see somebody like chris christie from new jersey because you're there 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 the you'd rather be dead in at least have a true yes very much so whether or not you feel like political correctness is

having a negative impact on society the bottom line is it's probably just going to keep becoming more and more prevalent. for small headline news from around the world and world update now iran is being rocked by a powerful explosion at an ammunition about forty kilometers outside of tehran with a. seventeen people reported killed and sixteen wounded two consecutive blast ripped through the site southwest of the capital shattering windows in nearby buildings emissions facility supplies the country's revolutionary guard and loss were ruled accidental but the exact cause remains unclear. the crippled fukushima nuclear plant in japan has opened its doors to journalists for the first time in eight months reporters had to wear fully protective clothing before being allowed in the plant suffered a series of meltdowns and explosions after being deluged by devastating tsunami in march it was the world's worst nuclear crisis since chernobyl. turkish prime

minister has visited the devastated region a van which has been struck by two earthquakes in a matter of weeks the latest on wednesday claimed the lives of more than thirty the body of a japanese aid worker has been returned home he was rescued alive from the rubble but died later in hospital two journalists were also among those killed in reporting on the previous quake which left six hundred dead and now it's time for a close up series as we put the spotlight on the many wonders of russia for you. we're on the black sea coast in itself the place bustling with tourists who come here to get their posts of relaxation under the sun but now this region is also attracting hundreds of thrill seekers what is told barton tested the waters. slowly the old soviet resorts on russia's black sea coast are becoming centers for very

modern water sports the route 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 a 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 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 his skin the waves in european competitions because 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 women of all ages behaving in the black sea. it's the evidence of the growing status of water sports but i won't be joining them any time soon. where neither 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. there's a lot of adrenaline that's what it's all about tricks and a lot of adrenaline now it's easier to master

a trick you have to full one hundred times the black sea provides good conditions for this war two it's a difficult sport to master with many of these young riders taking years to reach that standard. but that's 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 in the water or 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 surgeon blue of the biloxi tom watson r.t. . but

a special report on the toxic force of the pharmaceutical industry in america is coming away about five minutes from now but in the meantime i'll be back up with a look at the headlines for you at huff post they are here in moscow. in canada and the us today it is legal for you to give

a bubble bath on your baby it contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the shines is imo cooking different they are sponsored by things for it and most of the guys they don't place the call for coffee just today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month a month got a nobody with cancer in my five therefore i protect softs because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers hurts people with self funding history of cancer and pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. and members of congress. rajan clear goals. squandered morning.

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