new austerity package is 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 the pm seat though won't remain vacant for long with euro credit marial monti looking set to take the baton from berlusconi the public reaction so far has been mixed with some celebrating but it's going his fall while others are wary of the future our correspondent in italy. has the details. and i believe a service on the line now from from italy from rome the votes being paul sarah by both houses of parliament what should we expect next is this the beginning of the end of italy's woes. it's going to be beginning for the country that's going to need people expected to be sure it's going to be what if anything it will create you know.

the one paper forms that cause the next thing that is going to be what the decades to be the appointment of a caretaker government by pleasure and. i think. that he quickly and you think that it's an economist you'd like to be. a. commissioner. do you think they could take place. today and. they feel that there's one think that. he thinks that well i think we need to beat this thing. that we're going to need democratic big. and public support and you need it and we want it and i think that. because there is no question that it's going to be having

a government in place that i know that good i mean you know. thank you consul but the support i need i couldn't you couldn't could. not actually. go in there. and people don't want to. think about. spending. money. today that what they could got going in the future and you know we're going to talk about the one thing you know you can only go. if you let it come to an end you have to take the writing is literally going to cut out we will look at you i think credibility that we think. of getting it but you may. need people to face. you very painful to see what you really want with these politicians if you lead by example and cool i haven't seen. the opposite under but. you know it's going to be

needed i think you did lay. the quite a you know what everyone is looking at here if. anybody i mean did. you predict that they would you know you could come to you did you hear the social economic political nation you think it would bring. think about it because i did there's one thing to get a new government can play you're really going to need christine and what i can tell you not to get not just international. support for you because i think that what. we're getting local be successful with and i just develops from you 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.

but what we've seen recently in the year is there is some government. taking the decisive action that they need to take frankly not getting on top of. their elected governments in the difficult for democratic machinery to. simply to take out a government that's been 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 for 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. rather more effectively than ordinary democracy. and as the euro crisis continues to chip away at confidence in the

european union's leadership now 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 sells on 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 it and transcript ocracy 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. the pro quality occupy movement is quickly gathering pace in germany with almost twenty thousand people protesting right now in both the capital berlin and the

country's financial heartland of frankfurt protests as wave placards and locked arms and solidarity seeking to draw attention to rampant corporate greed in the increasing poverty of the masses occupy movement has also made significant steps in legitimizing itself having earned the support of two major political factions will do to them one of the pro equality attack in germany group told me alert earlier that 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 that here in germany germany is one of the countries that courses quite a lot of the trouble we have and europe now because of the way international competition is organized to germany is about you often on the winning side but that means that we export also poverty and joblessness for people and we 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 banks if you ask people here on the streets they agree with the protests and 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 perfect if how to go on if this crisis is going on further and it will. 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. by their accomplice dressed as a matter dog attempted to attract the 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 twenty twelve championships

hundreds of football hooligans run riot you can find out how the authorities come they're all available beautiful t. dot com. the world's political and economic heavyweights from the asia pacific nations descend upon a sunny hawaii this weekend that'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 economic trauma bodies are starting to take 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 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 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 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 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. 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 most decisions roots particularly those ways into the u.s. . 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. 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 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 as events unravel. for instant updates from the asia pacific summit in honolulu you can read all teas twitches streams one of the few right now of course. tweets that the aloha spirit overwhelms the gathering even on the cover agents are patrolling the beaches in the flowery shirts and flip flops there's also plenty more doughty's facebook and you tube pages. it's the. disease.

amid the financial woes of america and 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 much however is not being met with enthusiasm in the u.s. to use a drone or you send an assistant to the attitudes. ways of showing up with your own ways which you know me obama maybe one. year old geezer a few. moments ago i'm the boss and it's. a warmonger. change 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 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 on march twentieth 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 cheating this is no longer a time for us to sit back and say we're going to let them steal our jobs what we need to do is stop enriching china with our mani 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 woah woah whoa does it have to be us or them and is anybody

buying it the world is 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 that up but they get him in a business sense that in economics it's most countries to just work with china as any other country so you know i don't know where the feet comes from from the u.s. about china well there you have it it seems to china is the new kid on the economic block and it's up to the u.s. ammo us to see how they deal with reporting from washington and montana said oh i see. dr caroline 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 confront someone 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 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 are 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 will be very positive for social political relations. the arab league's voted to suspend syria from the organization until a peace plan is implemented to stop the bloodshed there member states have also been 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 cairo an overwhelming

majority of member states supported the move with only lebanon and syria itself voting against the director of the center for research on globalization we show chossudovsky told me earlier that he believes the league's move is an act of provocation orchestrated by washington. this is not a decision that. all the. decision. to just. war plans directed us against syria which already on the drawing board of the pentagon this is not a protest movement it is an armed insurrection immediately following the peace proposal of the arab league armed gunmen 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 decision are also complicit in supporting an insurgency an armed insurgency with a view to destabilizing syria as a nation states nato and the united states are preparing for a military campaign directed against syria on the humanitarian pretext while at the same time they have supported the other big suresh action which has created this this process of instability political correctness may have many stopping to think before opening their mouths these days but is it now going too far that's a question or healthiness better known as the resident and 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 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 holed up in political correctness where i think you've just got to realize specially a comedy just loosen up you know everyone is going to be offended by something and i'm just saying there's always going to be someone who looks for something to complain about my generation we don't really care we just laugh it's funny so it just depends if like generations accosting if you're talking to some elderly 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 math is not a pearl. it's refreshing to see somebody like chris christie from new jersey because 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. as more headline news from around the world and all world. iran is being rocked by a powerful explosion at an ammunition dump about forty kilometers outside of tehran with. least seventeen people reported killed and sixteen wounded two consecutive blast ripped through the site southwest of the capital shattering windows in nearby

buildings the munitions facility supplies the country's revolutionary guard the blast 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. the 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 we've been 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 a place bustling with tourists who come here to get their dose of relaxation under the sun but now this region is also attracting hundreds of thrill seekers. tested the waters. 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. 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 his skin 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 cow. it's evidence of the growing status of water sports here but i feel i won't be joining them any time soon. but neither would i be taking part in even more tricky kitesurfing here too they have been battling it out to prove their speed and agility surrogate has been crowned number one in russia. so there's 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 you provide good conditions for this sport 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 kite surfing 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. . special report on the top six floors of the pharmaceutical industry in america is coming away in about five minutes from now but in the meantime i'll be back up with a look at the headlines for you. here in moscow.

in canada and the u.s. today it is legal for you to use a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of this trying to figure out the most potent depend they are sponsored by the industry and most of the guys they don't claim it's a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god i'm a nobody with cancer in my five therefore i protect folks because the navy to ninety five percent of the cancers hurt people with the funny history of cancer the

pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing in a ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress. right to clean your gold. squandered money. what is. your new sixty square kilometers i mean why move on the list nations and those who are still surprisingly live i'm finding we're just. it's getting bad out here. but not saying hardly any birds squirrels you know.

you know i don't know what's going on here. on screen on our chief. lucia would be so much brighter if you knew about soon from files to crash in these . stocks on t.v. dot com.

good to have you with us this is. top stories italy prepares for the dawn of a post berlusconi era as it's part of the prison new austerity package intended as a last line of defense against collapsing confidence in its economy. the movement blossoms in germany as thousands of protesters flood the political and financial capitals of the country demanding the government rein in corporate and banking greed. the arab league decides to suspend and sanction syria in an effort to force assad to stop bloodshed in the country but the move sparks fears of a western backed repeat of the libyan scenario. of wonder i wonder and for travel it's turned 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 eurozone crisis. so those are our main stories of the moment here and more news coming.